Shoggoth's Old Peculiar

"Shoggoth's Old Peculiar" is a satirical Cthulhu Mythos story by British author Neil Gaiman. It first appeared in print in 1998 in The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy, edited by Mike Ashley for Carroll & Graf. That year, it was nominated for the World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction 1999 World Fantasy Award nominations and winners at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.
==Synopsis==
American tourist Benjamin Lassiter is walking the coastline of the United Kingdom when he comes across an unusual little village called Innsmouth. A night spent drinking with two locals - who claim to be cultists of Cthulhu - ends with Lassiter witnessing something horrific beneath the waters of the harbour before passing out in a field.
Unable to locate the town, he makes his way to the next village over, but despite questioning the locals, can find no evidence that such a place as Innsmouth exists. He promptly heads back to America on the next flight he can find, where he lives out his life under a cloud of intangible fear of whatever it was he saw beneath the waters of Britain.
==Publication History==
Since its first appearance, "Shoggoth's Old Peculiar" has been reprinted in nearly a dozen different publications over several editions. It has also been translated into Dutch, French, and Portuguese "Shoggoth's Old Peculiar" publication history at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.
==Trivia==
*The story takes its name from the beer which Lassiter and the cultists drink together, Shoggoth's Old Peculiar.
==External Links==
* "Shoggoth's Old Peculiar" read by the author at the Lovecraft eZine
==References==
Category:Neil Gaiman works
Category:Expanded Mythos Works