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The Gods of Pegāna

Lord Dunsany

First published 1905
Series Pegāna
Publisher Elkin Mathews
Format Hardcover
Type Collection
Cover art Sidney H. Sime
Pages viii+94
Price 5/-

  • First printing. No copyright date is given. Printer credit is "The Riverside Press Limited, Edinburgh".
  • The title page reads, in full: "THE GODS OF PEGĀNA / BY LORD DUNSANY / WITH ILLUSTRATIONS IN PHOTOGRAVURE BY S. H. SIME / LONDON / ELKIN MATHEWS, VIGO STREET / 1905"
  • Month of publication is from Joshi & Schweitzer's ''Lord Dunsany: A Bibliography'' (1993).
  • There is no table of contents.
  • "Pegāna" is printed with a macron everywhere except three places (presumably errors): The caption of the frontispiece, and the title headings of the first story and "The Deeds of Mung".
  • Artwork is printed on unnumbered plates. The page numbers given are for the page that the image faces. The frontispiece, "Pegāna", is facing the title page (iii).
  • Transient copy seen was without a dustjacket. Pale grey boards with cream fabric spine. Front imprinted with the title and a drawing based on a detail from Sidney H. Sime's illustration "The Dreams of Māna-Yood-Sushāī"

No ISBN on record — searching by title and author.

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 The Gods of Pegāna Lord Dunsany Short Story
2 Of Skarl the Drummer Lord Dunsany Short Story
4 Of the Making of the Worlds Lord Dunsany Short Story
7 Of the Game of the Gods Lord Dunsany Short Story
9 The Chaunt of the Gods Lord Dunsany Short Story
10 The Sayings of Kib (Sender of Life in All the Worlds) Lord Dunsany Short Story
11 Concerning Sish (The Destroyer of Hours) Lord Dunsany Short Story
14 The Sayings of Slid (Whose Soul Is in the Sea) Lord Dunsany Short Story
18 The Deeds of Mung (Lord of All Deaths Between Pegāna and the Rim) Lord Dunsany Short Story
21 The Chaunt of the Priests Lord Dunsany Short Story
22 The Sayings of Limpang-Tung (The God of Mirth and of Melodious Minstrels) Lord Dunsany Short Story
26 Of Yoharneth-Lahai (The God of Little Dreams and Fancies) Lord Dunsany Short Story
28 Of Roon, the God of Going, and the Thousand Home Gods Lord Dunsany Short Story
34 The Revolt of the Home Gods Lord Dunsany Short Story
38 Of Dorozhand (Whose Eyes Regard the End) Lord Dunsany Short Story
42 The Eye in the Waste Lord Dunsany Short Story
45 Of the Thing That Is Neither God Nor Beast Lord Dunsany Short Story
50 Yonath the Prophet Lord Dunsany Short Story
52 Yug the Prophet Lord Dunsany Short Story
53 Alhireth-Hotep the Prophet Lord Dunsany Short Story
54 Kabok the Prophet Lord Dunsany Short Story
57 Of the Calamity that Befel Yūn-Ilāra by the Sea, and of the Building of the Tower of the Ending of Days Lord Dunsany Short Story
61 Of How the Gods Whelmed Sidith Lord Dunsany Short Story
66 Of How Imbaun Became High Prophet in Aradec of All the Gods Save One Lord Dunsany Short Story
71 Of How Imbaun Met Zodrak Lord Dunsany Short Story
75 Pegāna Lord Dunsany Short Story
81 The Sayings of Imbaun Lord Dunsany Short Story
84 Of How Imbaun Spake of Death to the King Lord Dunsany Short Story
86 Of Ood Lord Dunsany Short Story
88 The River Lord Dunsany Short Story
92 The Bird of Doom and the End Lord Dunsany Short Story

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
The Gods of Pegāna Cover 1911 The Pegana Press Hardcover Collection 94
The Gods of Pegāna Cover 1916 John W. Luce & Company Hardcover Collection 99
The Gods of Pegāna Cover 2010 Borgo Press / Wildside Press Trade Paperback Collection 108