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This subject contains information from the Expanded Cthulhu Mythos, and not based on H.P. Lovecraft's works directly. Toth is a colossal burrowing arthropodal horror which appeared in William Browning Spencer's short story "Usurped".

Toth is served by humans, such as the one in the story in which it appears, which can send insectoid creatures, the size of normal insects, to sting or bite victims. Once bitten by one of Toth's insecfoit servants, a person is slowly possessed by its evil alien intelligence.

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