A collection of short stories linked by Dunsany's invented pantheon of deities who dwell in Pegāna. Stories are: Of Skarl the Drummer; Of the Making of the Worlds; Of the Game of the Gods; The Chaunt of the Gods; The Sayings of Kib; Concerning Sish; The Sayings of Slid; The Deeds of Mung; The Chaunt of the Priests; The Sayings of Limpang-Tung; Of Yoharneth-Lahai; Of Roon, the God of Going, and the Thousand Home Gods; The Revolt of the Home Gods; Of Dorozhand; The Eye in the Waste; Of The Thing That Is Neither God Nor Beast; Yonath the Prophet; Yug the Prophet; Alhireth-Hotep the Prophet; Kabok the Prophet; Of the Calamity that Befel Yun-Ilara by the Sea, and of the Building of the Tower of the Ending of Days; Of How the Gods Whelmed Sidith; Of How Imbaun Became High Prophet in Aradec of All the Gods Save One; Of How Imbaun Met Zodrak; Pegana; The Sayings of Imbaun; Of How Imbaun Spake of Death to the King; Of Ood; The River; and, The Bird of Doom and the End.