Subtitled 'Religion and Myth in the Western Kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon Britain', Malcolm Quarrie's Masters' thesis was expanded into this 360 page book and published in 1924 by the Oxford University Press.

It is a study of the Gods of Anglo-Saxon England, primarily those Celtic, Roman, Sumerian and other Gods worshipped between 50BC and 650AD in the West of England. It concentrates on a fertility Goddess called Shub-Niggurath, who Quarrie claims was worshipped in various forms and under various names by in England by Celts, Romans and Saxons throughout antiquity.

Most scholars who have discussed her believe Shub-Niggurath to be an aspect of the mother-goddess Brigid, but Quarrie attempts to trace her origins, and believes her worship originated in Assyria and moved West through Europe to Gaul and from there to England. Worshippers of 'The Goat With a Thousand Young' had a very fierce reputation. In England her worship was centred in the Forest of Dean and the towns of Gloucester, Bath, Cirencester and Brichester.

Professor JRR Tolkien of Pembroke College, Oxford gave a copy of this book to Andrew Saunders, who has since read it.