[2] The book is a series of short stories linked by Dunsany's invented pantheon of deities who dwell in Pegāna.

In 1919 Dunsany told an American interviewer: "In The Gods of Pegāna I tried to account for the ocean and the moon.

[15] These home gods include: Trogool is the mysterious thing set at the very south pole of the cosmos, whose duty is to turn over the pages of a great book, in which history writes itself every day until the end of the world.

[citation needed] Aside from its various stand-alone editions, the complete text of the collection is included in the Ballantine Adult Fantasy collection Beyond the Fields We Know (1972), in The Complete Pegāna (1998), and in the Gollancz Fantasy Masterworks omnibus Time and the Gods (2000).

[17] In his New York Times review, John Corbin described Dunsany's debut collection as: an attempt to create an Olympus of his own and people it with an assemblage of deities, each with a personality and a power over human life acutely conceived and visualized ... To me, [the collection] is autobiography, and all the more self-revealing because it is profoundly unconscious.