"Shoggoths in Bloom" is a science fiction novelette by Elizabeth Bear, originally published in the March 2008 issue of the American magazine Asimov's Science Fiction, and subsequently republished in Bear's 2012 collection Shoggoths in Bloom.
[1] In 1938, Paul Harding is a black college professor who has come to a coastal Maine village to study the wild shoggoths.
As news reports of Kristallnacht appear in the background, Harding discovers the unexpected truth about shoggoths, and is faced with a difficult decision.
"Shoggoths" was the winner of the 2009 Hugo Award for Best Novelette.
[2] Tor.com called it a "stand-out".