If it was the way Dunsany sings the world into being—the hush while Skarl drums so that Mana-Yood-Sushai may sleep, the lineages of Kib, Mung, and Sish—that captivated you, you’ll love how the Ainur sing Arda into existence in the “Ainulindalë.” Like Pegāna’s gods, Tolkien’s Valar and Maiar (Manwë, Varda, Melkor) feel both numinous and personal, and the nested chronicle of ages mirrors the mythic, scripture-like cadence you enjoyed in The Gods of Pegāna.

If the prayers, warnings, and divine decrees of Pegāna—Mung stalking mortals, Sish measuring out their hours—hooked you, Jemisin’s tale of enslaved gods will thrill you. In The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, Yeine Darr enters Sky and is drawn into the dangerous orbit of Nahadoth (Night), Itempas (Day), and the absent Enefa. The way worship, taboo, and prophecy shape human politics echoes the theological texture you enjoyed when Dunsany’s deities toyed with mortals’ destinies.

If you relished Dunsany’s jeweled sentences—the litanies about not waking Mana-Yood-Sushai, the hymns to distant gods like Yoharneth-Lahai—Eddison’s high style will feel like home. The Worm Ouroboros revels in sumptuous, archaic diction as Lord Juss and his companions contend with King Gorice of Witchland. The rhetoric has that same ceremonial lift and ritual cadence that made The Gods of Pegāna feel like a sacred book from another world.

If the linked micro-myths of Pegāna—each a small, glimmering parable about Skarl, Mung, or Sish—enchanted you, Invisible Cities offers a similarly prismatic experience. In brief set pieces framed by Marco Polo and Kublai Khan, each city reads like a fable that refracts memory, desire, and time, building a cosmos by accumulation just as Dunsany’s vignettes assemble the theology of Pegāna.

If you were drawn to the allegorical pulse of The Gods of Pegāna—stories where Mung and Sish embody death and time, and waking Mana would unmake creation—Borges’s metaphysical fictions will resonate. “The Library of Babel,” “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius,” and “The Circular Ruins” turn ideas into beings and worlds, using symbols to probe reality much like Dunsany’s divine parables probe the architecture of existence.