Enter the dreaming time in this book, where pages transmit the natural law of Mother Earth to the reader. This book will add 50 pounds to your shelf when you've finished. It's dense and nutritive. The perfect Paleolithic journey of man and horse over breakfast. Many satisfying breakfasts.
From the Award-winning Rimwalker series
"A feral retelling of Irish Mythology," (Independent Book Review) that "belongs on the shelf beside Cormac McCarthy and Robin Wall Kimmerer," (IndieReader) The Way of Salmon Moon is a darkly beautiful elegy and retelling of the Irish An Bradán Feasa that bends literary horror into a Paleolithic saga between a man and a horse that will delight fans of Stephen Graham Jones, Cormac McCarthy, and Clive Barker.
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3: The Way of Salmon Moon: A Paleolithic Horror
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A darkly beautiful elegy and retelling of the Irish An Bradán Feasa that bends literary horror into a Paleolithic saga between a man and a horse from the award-winning author of the “mastery of mythology” (Independent Book Review) and the Fantasy Book of the Year (Independent Press) The Plain of Pillars.
PRE-ORDER, published November 30, 2026.
The Way of Salmon Moon is a Paleolithic literary horror novel of a man named Cairbre, who finds himself at the end of his people with a horse that is more than she seems and a heart rife with stories that are trying to kill him. Hunted by invaders who sup on warm wet flesh, together they cross the Rim of the World and enter a menacing and often dreamlike journey into a land where rivers fight like gods and spirits dance like wolves and violence strikes as suddenly as silence, a land where ceremony is paid for in blood, dreams too.
The Way of Salmon Moon is Irish Mythology’s An Bradán Feasa interwoven with Ovid’s Metamorphoses in all its chilling brutality and beauty presenting a provoking and lyrical journey through the stars of the Irish sacred wheel of the year. It 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 cosmic nexus and creation’s unsettled faculties, asking what does it mean to migrate, to take too much, for a shape to be made new in form?
"A hauntingly beautiful story [that] belongs on the shelf beside Cormac McCarthy and Robin Wall Kimmerer. Written with a poetic intensity that resonates [and] weaves trauma, healing, and heritage into beauty…it is a mythology of connection—to elders, to the spiritual world, to nature, and to the self. It's a story of healing and medicine, of a human being learning from animals and adapting to a new world. It’s an absolute gem." — IndieReader
"A lyrical and transportive epic drawing deeply on Irish mythology, The Way of Salmon Moon weav[es] a melodic tapestry of language…mysticism…and chaotic beauty. This is not a novel to be passively observed, but a sprawling, visceral history…a uniquely transformative work of mythic fantasy, which unpacks the concept of creation in all its forms.” — Independent Review of Books
“The Way of Salmon Moon is not a beach read. The worldbuilding isn’t a prop. It’s a full cosmology, one where weather, hunger, language, ceremony, blood, and animal bodies all belong to the same biosphere. It’s immersive and alive with ceremony…a strange, violent devotional, a feral retelling of Irish myth. The high, chanting, mythic register [of the] prose feels less like narration and more like someone ranting beside a fire while the world is ending. It reads like ritual. The [paleolithic] land…is a corporeal character in Griffith’s hands. Snow presses against the body. Rivers have will. The Moon and Sun aren’t just objects in the sky but presences with names, moods, and individual obligations. The dead don’t vanish, and animals aren’t some-kind of symbols waiting for humans to interpret them. They’re kin. They’re witnesses, teachers, threats, and sometimes all of those at once. Griffith requires the reader to enter that worldview instead of simply watching it from the outside.” — Independent Book Review
"Fierce, unusual, deeply rooted. A brutal Paleolithic novel about grief, kinship, language, and the duty of carrying memory forward…that moves like a story told beside a fire, half remembered by the body and half carried by the stars. Griffith’s prose is dense and ceremonial, full of images that feel dug out of soil, snow, hide, bone, and river mud…a mythology about how stories, when carried with enough devotion, can become a way home." — Literary Titan.
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a paleolithic horror novel
“An absolute gem, a hauntingly beautiful story [that] belongs on the shelf beside Cormac McCarthy and Robin Wall Kimmerer.”
— IndieReader
a paleolithic horror novel
“For readers who like Stephen Graham Jones’s mythic violence, Cormac McCarthy’s brutal lyricism, or Clive Barker’s flesh-and-spirit horror. The prose feels less like narration and more like someone ranting beside a fire while the world is ending. It reads like ritual.”
— Independent Book Review
a paleolithic horror novel
"The Way of Salmon Moon is a brutal Paleolithic novel...that moves like a story told beside a fire, half remembered by the body and half carried by the stars."
— Literary Titan
a paleolithic horror novel
"A uniquely transformative work of mythic horror."
— Independent Review of Books
Industry Reviews
“A hauntingly beautiful story [that] belongs on the shelf beside Cormac McCarthy and Robin Wall Kimmerer. An absolute gem.” — IndieReader
“A melodic tapestry, lyrical, sprawling, visceral, a uniquely transformative work of mythic horror." — Independent Review of Books
"Fierce, unusual, deeply rooted. A brutal Paleolithic novel…that moves like a story told beside a fire, half remembered by the body and half carried by the stars." — Literary Titan
“Immersive and alive with ceremony…a full cosmology, a strange, violent devotional, a feral retelling of Irish myth [with] high, chanting, mythic prose that feels less like narration and more like someone ranting beside a fire while the world is ending.” — Independent Book Review
The Rimwalker Series
Series Literary awards
2025 Independent Publishers GOLD Award, Best in Fantasy.
2025 National Indie Excellence Finalist in Fiction.
2025 Pencraft Award of Literary Excellence in Fiction.
Award-Winning Series Reviews
