Shoggoths are enormous fictional species in the Cthulhu Mythos. The size of a subway train, they look like gigantic amoebas made of tar, with glowing eyes floating on the surface. Before native life arose on Earth, the Elder Things created the Shoggoths as living construction equipment; being amorphous, they could take on any shape their controllers desired, making them very versatile. However, the mindless Shoggoths eventually gained intelligence, and rebelled against their creators.
The Shoggoths are terrible things to behold. Even the Mad Arab, Abdul Alhazred, writer of the Necronomicon, was terrified of the mere thought that they might have existed on Earth.