The Black Goat

"The Black Goat" is a short Cthulhu Mythos story by American author Ron Shiflet.
==Synopsis==
A man lost on the back roads of rural Texas stumbles across The Black Goat, outwardly nothing more than a small-town bar, but in actuality a sacrificial temple to the Outer God Shub-Niggurath. Once the celebrations begin to get underway, the man realises his peril and manages to escape the slaughter inside, but the surrounding landscape has changed during his visit, and no longer offers any chance of survival.
==Characters==
*Randy Boyd, a man paying a visit to an old friend.
*Shub-Niggurath, the Black Goat of the Woods, a dark god.
==Publication History==
"The Black Goat" was first published in Lovecraft's Disciples #1 in December 2005, and appeared in the collection of Shiflet's own work They Thrive in Darkness: Mythos and Madness in 2018.
==Trivia==
*The friend who Boyd was on his way to visit was Robert Ballard, the main character from the short story "When in Leng...", another of Ron Shiflet's works.
Category:Ron Shiflet works
Category:Expanded Mythos Works