Dewi Griffiths – författare

Here, between 'O agor fy llygaid i weled...' and 'Mae drws trugaredd heb ei gau', we find some of the most famous lines and verses of Welsh hymnology, i.e. the work of Morgan Rhys, one of the great hymnwriters of Carmarthenshire.

Blood Eagle is a horror novel drawing on ancient Norse Myth and Russian legend, set on a remote Irish island in the late 1960s.Light house men save a young woman washed ashore in a storm. But the young woman is not what she seems. Soon they and the islanders are faced with the young woman''s supernatural pursuers. They are trapped inside the lighthouse with an ancient evil, while outside wait the most feared warriors in history – a thousand years older: a thousand years more deadlyBlood Eagle is a horror novel set in the second half of the twentieth century. It draws together mythical beings from Scandinavia and Russia. These opposing dark forces have been locked together in an eternal quest for vengeance, culminating in a blood soaked struggle for immortality. Blood Eagle is the first novel in the series exploring the tales of these Ghost Warriors who haunt the seas.

"Two Religions: Two Brothers. One Ancient Tradition".Three Wells: a remote English village, steeped in traditions passed down for countless generations. The return of a man, John Stone, taken from there as a child sets in motion a battle between Paganism and Christianity. He is the last of the true Druids, the priests of the old religion, on a mission to raise a long forgotten god, Lugh, from a hidden well beneath the village. John''s guilt ridden brother, Alan, has become the village Vicar. Their childhood friend Bob Farmer has become an internationally renown academic, whilst his sister Jane has stayed in Three Wells to become the village school mistress. The return of John and Bob sets in motion the chain of events foreseen in prophecies of the druid Merlin, culminating at the annual Well Dressing, a traditional ceremony dedicated to thanking God for deliverance from the plague. This final Well Dressing will see John pitting the villagers of Three Wells against the newcomers who have come there to live... and die.Folk Devil is The Wicker Man meets A Nightmare on Elm Street. A contemporary Celtic British horror novel.Folk Devil is set in the Peak District - the very centre of England and is based on Celtic British Myths and History and is a part of Dewi Griffiths'' Borderland Creative Universe as are his other novels Black Valley and Witch Sight.

Modern day lovers are manipulated by the ghosts of the doomed previous inhabitants of an isolated Welsh cottage. As history repeats itself, they must fight to avoid meeting the same tragic fate. Carole takes her dying father back to his home village in the mountains of mid Wales, for a last holiday. The old man is haunted by the ghost of Ifan, a puritanical sea captain, a malignant force. Following her father''s death, Carole uses her inheritance to buy a remote traditional cottage outside the village, which was home to Ifan. The cottage has a bad history; the previous owner, Mr. Phillips killed himself there.Carole''s boyfriend Peter is shocked by the state of the cottage. During their first night at the cottage, Carole and Peter are possessed by the ghosts of the former inhabitants – the violent Ifan and his wife Mari, the local white witch. Peter returns to London and under Ifan''s malignant influence and his life goes to hell.Carole stays at the cottage and under Mari''s influence seduces a local boy Geraint as Mari had seduced a young lad when Ifan was away at sea.History repeats itself as Peter plots the death of his unfaithful partner as Ifan and Mr. Phillips had done in the past.Carole realises that she is being haunted and sets about solving the mystery of the cottage. But will she be able to avert history repeating itself once more?If you can''t shake off your ghosts, you''re dead too…

Black Valley is The Wicker Man meets Silent Hill: a dark fantasy novel drawing on ancient Celtic Myth and grounded in post-industrial North Wales.1918: The Manager of a Welsh slate quarry at Cwm Du (Black Valley) pushes ahead with plans to open up a new slate face in a natural cavern in the mountains, despite the protests of his workers and the wise woman of the village, the Druidess Myfanwy. The resulting explosion not only unleashes underground water to flood the quarry killing hundreds of quarrymen, it also brings with it the ancient race from the Otherworld below: Gwyllion. To save the world from the wrath of the Gwyllion and the pestilence they carry, Myfanwy seals Cwm Du from the outside world: Cwm Du becomes a forgotten lost valley shrouded in myth, guarded by her daughter, Becca, the new Druidess.2020: a hundred years later: Becca''s only female descendant, Laura, is bequeathed a cottage in the village of Cwm Du, beside the now flooded quarry. Laura travels to the cottage with her boyfriend Jimmy. Laura and Jimmy enter Cwm Du to find a place where the Gwyllion are suddenly returning, threatening the inhabitants and the outside world. Laura''s unexpected role is to become the next Druidess, but can she do so and save the world when the Gwyllion are at her door? "Nothing can hold back the Otherworld: Except You"

Witch Sight: Modern City – Ancient VengeanceSince before history, before Mankind ruled the world, older ancient gods roamed the earth. On the east coast of Ireland a warrior creature, The Shannow ruled supreme and was worshipped as a god. But with the coming of the Celtic Saints The Shannow was driven underground to the Otherworld, the realm beneath our own. There The Shannow resided with all else which is no longer welcome in our world – the older races, The Dead and the other Old Gods.Since that time, those with the Witch Sight, the ability to see the beings of the Otherworld, have learned how to communicate with The Shannow. In Ireland those with the witch sight are a family of women, known as The Morrigan, and over time The Morgains. Over centuries they have called on The Shannow to avenge the deaths of innocents in the cruel world above.Today in Dublin, Sarah Morgain, the last of her family, reads the Tarot to tourists. When her childhood friend Mary''s son is murdered by a gang of drug dealers, Sarah Morgain raises The Shannow to avenge his death. Witch Sight is a dark fantasy drawing together the myths and supernatural inheritances of the Celtic nations, set in contemporary Dublin.Witch Sight tells a dark story of the arcane practices which is still alive in this modern metropolis.The mythology of Witch Sight is based on the Borderland Mythology, underpinning in a number of our projects at Garland Stone, including Borderland, Black Valley and Folk Devil.