 Gahan Wilson praised "The Gods of Pegāna" as "a wonderfully sustained exercise in totally ironic fantasy which may never be beaten.Speaking in a highly original mix of King James Bible English, Yeatsian syntax, and Scheherazadian imagery, [Dunsany] introduces us to a wonderfully sinister Valhalla populated with mad, spectacularly cruel and wonderfully silly gods ... whose only genuine amusement appears to derive from the inventive damage they inflict upon their misbegotten worshippers".E.