Lord Dunsany created his own mythology and it is stunning. Our world is the dream of MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI who is kept asleep by the drumming of Skarl, but when he finally wakes our world will end a new world will begin. In the meantime the gods play a game in which Kib creates new things and Mung brings them to an end. "The Eye in the Waste" and "The Revolt of the Home Gods" are my favorites in the collection.