Award-Winning, LIVING Books
"Griffith revitalizes ancient folkloric traditions, weav[ing] a powerful critique of colonization, apathy, and individualism, and demonstrates a mastery of mythology.”
– INDEPENDENT BOOK REVIEW
Rimwalker: Book I
Fantasy retelling of the Irish Mythology of the Cath Maige Tuired
the Irish battle-saga between the Tuatha Dé Dannan and the Fomorians. The Plain of Pillars has been called "a mastery of mythology" (Independent Review) and "a form of resistance against colonization and cultural extinction" (Kirkus Reviews) that "weaves a vibrant tapestry of hope, resilience, and magik" (Literary Titan).
From the yellowing mane of a horse and the deep roots of mugwort's silver lace is born a boy who can sing like Sun, who can restore the boundless colors beyond bondage. But to do that, he has to kill the Mountain. And there the journey begins and ends...
Independent Publishers GOLD Award, Best in Fantasy.
PenCraft 1st Place in Fiction.
National Indie Excellence Finalist in Fiction.
Robinia Press, 250 pages.
Rimwalker: Book II
Irish Mythology blood-splattered by Shakespeare's Hamlet
in this post-apocalyptic literary horror following themes of grief, identity, and power in a cataclysmic theatre where a crippled father and a little red fox fights monsters at the end of the world.
A provoking and lyrically-abstract meditation on grief and hope and the monstrous tides of love, Daniel Firth Griffith summons from the deep past and the portended future a bold and evocative story with stunning prose and deep emotional rigor. A blend of the weird, the blunt, and the tender,Bloodless We Go Buriedoffers, with uncanny and chilling clarity, the precise portrait of the Cauldron of our rebirth, asking what does it mean to be reborn when the world is already burning?
Robinia Press, 350 pages.
Rimwalker: Book III
Irish Mythology meets Ovid’s Metamorphoses
in all its chilling brutality and beauty in this Paleolithic horror novel and fantasy retelling of the Irish An Bradán Feasa, or the mythology of The Salmon of Knowledge.
A provoking and lyrical journey through the stars of the Irish sacred Wheel of The Year,The Way of Salmon Moonis a story about the price of love and the fluidity of being, told with bold and primordial prose. A blend of the weird, the crass, the germinal, and the tender, Griffith’s tale offers, with uncanny and chilling clarity, the portrait of the Irish Creation Story and its themes of cosmic nexus and creation’s unsettled faculties, asking what does it mean for a shape to be made new in form?
Robinia Press, 650 pages.
The Rimwalker Series
The Rimwalker Series, or sin bandâ-kerdetis natus, is an award-winning trilogy of mythological, literary horror, and fantasy companion novels that explores Irish Mythology’s deepest wail-strains, from the battle-sage of the Cath Maige Turied to the Irish Creation Story of An Bradán Feasa, weaving Irish Myth with horror and Celtic stories with Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
Praised for its lyrical and dark prose, the Rimwalker presents an new eco-mythology to currach of our times, holding themes of colonialism, animism, grief and its apathy, and sacred geography. It holds our ancient Insular Celtic stories in a two-way dreamwalking: running back with the long—ago peoples in order to write a new way forward.
“A captivating retelling of Celtic mythology… a form of resistance against colonization and cultural extinction. Griffith keeps this folkloric tale alive and vibrant.”
– Kirkus Reviews
Published Articles, Stories, and Essays
While not a full list of published materials, the below are highlights or snapshots in time from the past 5 years.
May, 2024: Climate, Kincentric Rewilding, and The Color of Clouds, Resilience.org
March, 2024: The Keeper, The Tiller, The Question, Front Porch Republic
December, 2023: Shakespeare, Sonnets, and Stewardship: Why Ecological Problems Require Poetry, Resilience.org
May, 2023:‘Regenerative’ Agriculture is Disunifying, and that is Okay, Resilience.org
September, 2019: How to Grow a Blueberry Guild in a Temperate Climate Successfully, Permaculture Research Institute
July, 2019: Minerals and Natural Instincts, Permaculture Research Institute
July, 2019: Adaptive Epigenetics by Rewilding Livestock, Permaculture Research Institute
Irish fantasy retelling of the Cath Maige Turied.
Illustrated by Scarlett Butters.
Irish Mythology blood—splattered by Shakespeare’s Hamlet and post apocalyptic literary horror.
Illustrate by Scarlett Butters.
Irish Mythology meets Ovid’s Metamorphoses in all its chilling brutality and beauty in this Paleolithic horror novel and fantasy retelling of the Irish An Bradán Feasa
Illusrated by Scarlett Butters.
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