The First Gods of the Isles

Twenty Tales of Ancient Evil Beneath the British Isles

By: Adrian Cave

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Before there were churches. Before there were kings. Before there were names.
There were the first gods.
Across the British Isles lie ancient places older than memory — stone circles raised to unknown powers, burial mounds sealed with dread, moors that whisper in forgotten tongues, and forests that do not welcome trespassers. The land remembers what humanity has tried to forget.
In The First Gods of the Isles, Adrian Cave delivers twenty chilling tales of folk horror and ancient evil rooted deep in Britain’s sacred and cursed ground. Archaeologists unearth what should have remained buried. Pilgrims vanish along tidal causeways. Standing stones shift beneath a solstice sky. And something vast and patient waits beneath hill and fen.
Each story explores a different Old Place — where prehistoric rites, buried kings, and nameless deities stir once more.
For readers who love atmospheric dread, creeping unease, and the terrifying idea that the past is never truly past, this collection offers twenty journeys into landscapes where the gods were here first… and may never have left.
The land is older than faith.
And it is still hungry.