A painting depicting the Black Goat in Ed Skudder's home.
The Black Goat is an ancient deity belonging to the immensely powerful Horrorterrors. Its symbol consists of three goat heads attached at the neck with horns pointed outward to form a circular shape.
Overview[]
It is seemingly worshiped by the Cult that follows Mae during the time she spent in Possum Springs. It is supposedly the reason for Mae's strange dreams.
The Black Goat resided at the bottom of the pit, known as "The Hole At the End of Everything". It gave the cultists a dark offering: it would keep the town alive and prosperous, but in return, they had to sacrifice people to the pit for the Black Goat to consume.
The Black Goat supposedly resides within a hole deep down into the abandoned mines near Possum Springs. It is mentioned by the cloaked figures in the cult, who appear to worship it, that it does not speak but instead sings. The cultists explain to Mae and the Mystery Kids that Mae was one of the few to hear the Black Goat sing. The Black Goat is also believed to have given Mae her strange dream-like powers of clairvoyance and had given Eide his ability to walk through walls.
Appearance[]
Like the vast majority of its race, the Black Goat's form is completely unbearable to witness by mortal eyes. Though according to the Doctor, one of the very few individuals that can endure their horrific appearance, the Black Goat appears as an extraterrestrial, sanity-shaking immense cloudy mass and tissue with tentacles, hooves, eyes, fanged mouths and other deformities protruding from every surface.