title: The Complete Pegana: All the Tales Pertaining to the Fabulous Realm of Pegana (Call of Cthulhu Fiction)
author: Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron Dunsany
description: Lord Dunsany is best known as a favorite of other writers--such as H.P. Lovecraft, who counted him second only to Edgar Allan Poe as an influence on his work. Lovecraft readers will be interested to know that two ideas Lovecraft got from Dunsany were (1) an artificial pantheon of gods and other entities (Dunsany's Pegana Mythos predates Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos) and (2) a cosmic vision of man as living on a tiny island of order amid a vast and chaotic universe. Perhaps, as <a href="/exec/obidos/Author=Joshi%2c%20S.T./${0}">S.T. Joshi</a> writes in the introduction to this collection, "It is now time to appreciate Dunsany in his own right as a master fantasist whose prodigal imagination was equaled by few, whose prose style was a model of affecting simplicity, and whose bold philosophical vision remains challenging to the present day." This edition includes the complete stories from <i>The Gods of Pegana</i> (1905) and <i>Time and the Gods</i> (1906), plus three other stories belonging to the Pegana cycle. <i>--Fiona Webster</i>
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  # The Gods of Pegana
  
  
  ## Lord Dunsany
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  **Published:** 1905  
  
  
  **Categorie(s):** Fiction, Fantasy, Short Stories  
  
  
  **Source:** http://www.gutenberg.org
  
  
  
  
  
  **About Lord Dunsany:**  
  
  
  Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (24
  
  
  July 1878 – 25 October 1957) was an Anglo-Irish writer and
  
  
  dramatist, notable for his work, mostly in fantasy, published under
  
  
  the name Lord Dunsany. More than eighty books of his work were
  
  
  published, and his oeuvre includes many hundreds of published short
  
  
  stories, as well as successful plays, novels and essays. Born to
  
  
  one of the oldest titles in the Irish peerage, Dunsany lived much
  
  
  of his life at perhaps Ireland's longest-inhabited home, Dunsany
  
  
  Castle near Tara, worked with W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory, received
  
  
  an honourary doctorate from Trinity College, was chess and
  
  
  pistol-shooting 