3: The Way of Salmon Moon: A Paleolithic Mythology

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.

PRE-ORDER, published November 30, 2026.

The acclaimed author of the “mastery of mythology” (Independent Book Review) and the Fantasy Book of the Year (Independent Press) The Plain of Pillars returns with a horror fantasy novel that weaves the Irish Mythology of An Bradán Feasa into a chilling paleolithic epic of love and loss, gender and form, blending Irish Mythology with Ovid’s Metamorphoses where a man and a horse fight monsters at the beginning of the world.

A provoking and lyrical journey through the stars of the Irish sacred Wheel of The Year, The Way of Salmon Moon is 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?