D.T. Griffith

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About D.T. Griffith
Fascinated by all things dark, gritty, and dystopian, D.T. Griffith lives on the periphery of the horror and dark fiction genres. Like all of his other art, his fiction and nonfiction writing draw inspiration from classic and modern works alike, spanning a full range of literary masters, surrealist painters, raw comedians, and punk rock.
He has worked as a professional designer, illustrator, and writer since the mid-1990s in the marketing, branding, and communication fields. Educated in fine arts and writing, and a professional in the corporate communication and eCommerce fields, he enjoys a keen passion for writing dark fiction, noir, and horror during his free time where his brain is permitted to explore its deviant side without retribution.
D.T. Griffith holds a BFA in fine arts and an MFA in creative and professional writing. He resides in his home state of Connecticut, USA with his incredibly talented and supportive wife, Melissa, and their pug, Pretzel.
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Blog postI’m excited yet humbled to announce the publication of A Silent Dystopia: Stories Of A Quiet Apocalypse. The book was released as an eBook on November 30, 2021. Print editions of the volume will be available in early 2022. This being my first foray into editing a themed anthology, A Silent Dystopia was a labor […]5 months ago Read more
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Blog postHere it is, my big editing project of 2020-2021 … A Silent Dystopia. A collection of ten stories set in the world of Dave Jeffery’s A Quiet Apocalypse featuring horror writers from across Europe and North America. This project has been my passion since its inception about a year ago and has kept me quite […]10 months ago Read more
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Blog postIt’s been two years since I posted about my book Plain being published. It’s received some wonderful reviews and you should check it out. This was an unusually long hiatus from this blog site. I remember spending a lot of time in its early days creating what I hoped was useful content for some readers […]11 months ago Read more
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Blog postI am excited to announce the publication of my latest book, Plain, from Demain Publishing as #20 in the Short Sharp Shocks! series. It’s available in Kindle format now with a print version on the way. Check out my interview with Dean Drinkel, editor of the SSS! series and founder of Demain here. About the […]3 years ago Read more
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Blog postThere’s a good chance you have heard about the Amazon Vine program and seen a reviewer with the Vine Voice badge. I wrote about Vine in a previous blog covering the Amazon.com, Inc. (“Amazon”) policy change for incentivized reviews. This time, I’m sharing the basics of Vine from a vendor’s point of view. What Is […]5 years ago Read more
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Blog postThe writing slump is ending. Too many medical fears – my wife’s recent close call after contracting a dangerous infection on top of everything else – and financial woes threw my motivation to write fiction into a tar pit. The fear that comes with uncertainty and morbidity takes a toll on anyone’s psyche and I was just another one of its recipients. […]5 years ago Read more
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Blog postIt’s been a while since I last posted. Most of the summer has passed by in what feels like an extended weekend. The good news is I have been hard at work back at my old job plus freelance writing for a few clients. Here is one of my recent posts…. How to Deal With […]6 years ago Read more
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Blog postI’m excited to share a new blog on eCommerce written for eComEngine. I have taken to writing more about eCommerce and digital marketing in recent months pulling from my professional experience in these areas. Entering this new territory as a writer is exciting, and going quite well. The introductory paragraphs of the new blog are shown below, please follow […]6 years ago Read more
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Blog postWhen you enter into agreements with freelance writers to develop content for your web presence, you will find early on that an open door for communication between writer and client is invaluable. A writer needs to understand your business, intentions, and audience to shape the material with the goal of creating great content that will perform well […]6 years ago Read more
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Blog postI was fortunate to participate in author Mark West’s King For A Year project – 52 reviews of Stephen King’s works throughout 2015. I revisited a favorite story of mine from King, the novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption. You can read it here – King For A Year: Rita Hayworth And Shawshank Redemption, reviewed by David T […]6 years ago Read more
Titles By D.T. Griffith
Two hundred years later, twenty-six modern day masters of the macabre bring The Bestiarum Vocabulum back from the ashes.
Full Table Of Contents:
A Is For Amonby Emile-Louis Tomas Jouvet
B Is For The Black Hound of Newgate by Jan Edwards
C Is For Chupacraba by Martin Roberts
D Is for Djinn by Lisa Jenkins
E Is For Ellerwoman by Peter Mark May
F Is For Fenrir by Raven Dane
G Is For Golem by Joe Mynhardt
H Is For Helicoprion by Rakie Keig
I is for Imp by D.T. Griffith
J Is For Jack In Irons by Mark West
K Is For Kappa by John Palisano
L is for Lamia by Amelia Mangan
M Is For Mara by Robert W. Walker
N Is for Nimerigar by Christine Dougherty
O Is For Onokentaura by Tim Dry
P Is For Púca by Nerine Dorman
Q Is For Qareen by Dean M. Drinkel
R Is For Rusalka by Christine Morgan
S Is For Succubae by Tej Turner
T Is For Tsul ‘Kalu by D.M. Youngquist
U Is For Ubume by Jason D. Brawn
V Is for Veltis by Lily Childs
W Is For Werewolf by Andy Taylor
X Is for XeXeu by Sandra Norval
Y Is For Yule Lads by Adrian Chamberlin
Z Is For Zulu Zombies by Barbie Wilde
HEaR TODaY … The disease known as MNG-U has staked its claim on humanity and broken the world forever. Most of those who survive have been robbed of their hearing, deafened in this quiet apocalypse. Around the globe, people do what they can to exist in the terrifying silence. Whether in isolation or in new communities, they must persevere amidst a changed and brutal landscape that is now barely recognisable as a world they once knew. Normality has new boundaries; the rules rewritten in the name of survival.
From the world of Dave Jeffery’s A QUIET APOCALYPSE come ten unique stories with one, ultimate vision …
To show what it takes to endure A Silent Dystopia...
Edited by:
D.T. Griffith
Stories by:
J.A. Sullivan; Stephanie Ellis; A.S. MacKenzie; Kev Harrison; Raven Dane; Morgan K. Tanner; John Palisano; David Youngquist; Steve Stred; Tom & Dave Jeffery
Afterword by Chris Kelso
Cover art by Roberto Segate
Cover design by Adrian Baldwin
Authors
Jeff Strand
Sèphera Girón
Rick Pickman
Rachel Towns
Kristi Petersen Schoonover
Brenda Knutson
Michael Bailey
Jack Horne
David J. West
Eric S. Grizzle
Aaron J. French
D.T. Griffith
Erik Williams
Abbie Bernstein
Matt Kurtz
Misty Dahl
Fawn
Jezzy Wolfe
Dean M. Drinkel
Mike D. McCarty
Twenty-six dark fiction authors from around the world each take a letter and use their unique voices to weave magical stories of horror and the fantastic.
The Truth, at last…speaks!
The first in a collection of anthologies to be published by Western Legends throughout 2013 under the banner “Tres Librorum Prohibitorum”.
A lexicon of demons full-to-bursting with great writers (some new, some award nominated, some award winning) from all around the world.
But the Demonologia is something more.
Much more in fact than the sum of its parts.
A French nobleman from the 15th Century.
Gilles de Montmorency-Laval, Baron de Rais, who was a serial killer and heavily into the occult.
At his trial in 1438, it was said that de Rais had sought out individuals who were purported to summon demons. These summoning words were put into a Grimoire fashioned from human skin and which was commonly known as the Demonologia Biblica. A book which mysteriously vanished after de Rais’ execution but which is often talked about in ‘Dark Circles’. Imagine the power one could wield with such a weapon!
Though who knows – maybe it never existed in the first place and was just a figment of someone’s warped imagination...I guess we may never know...
...so until that book is found, turn the page and immerse yourself in the unique demonic worlds these twenty-six authors have created for you...
...get thee behind me, demon...
Authors include:
Barbie Wilde, William Meikle, Jan Edwards, John Palisano, Tracie McBride, D.T. Griffith, Kate Jonez, Simon Kurt Unsworth, Raven Dane, Jonathan Green, Lily Childs, Daniel I. Russell, Christine Dougherty, Mark West, Magen Cubed, Colleen Anderson, Emile-Louis Tomas Jouvet, Dave Jeffery, Nerine Dorman, Adrian Chamberlin, Sean Sweeney, Andy Taylor, Sam Stone, Dean M. Drinkel, Sandra Norval, Nicholas Vince
The grey wolves howled and scratched at our doors until we let them in. We fed them, tamed them and made them our companions. For millennia they were hunters at our side. We evolved together and survived with each other. We built myths and religions on their backs. From lycans to dog-headed gods like anubis. Yet we were always the master, they the servant. That is until recently when evolution has played a horrifying trick. Now our roles are reversed. but some of us are fighting back. The story of the mankind is far from over and the story of the new dog masters has only just begun. Though one thing is certain... Man's best friend has become Mankind's worst enemy.
(with a cover by Adrian Baldwin)
Writing about Plain, the author David T. Griffith said: “Plain started out as a four-page story in which I challenged myself to make a ridiculously mundane character fascinating. I wanted something more than a slice of life short story, so I added the voices Essy hears to create an unhealthy catalyst to her story. A traumatic event in her past that she orchestrated helped establish her psychological and confidence issues and serve as the driving force at the core of the story. It all grew from there.”
(cover by Adrian Baldwin)
And The Band Played On - by Nerine Dorman
Anja is obliged to spend a terrifying night in an apartment which has been turned into a morbid monument to the Titanic…
Choices In The Dark - by Robert Walker
How wise is it to make decisions when you don't have all the facts? Like when a ship is on a collision course with an iceberg or a man on a collision course with a provocative woman…
The Jasper Scarab - by D.T. Griffith
A survivor of the Titanic disaster possesses an ancient Egyptian artefact, how is it connected to a series of tragic events…?
The Briny Deep - by Kyle Rader
The labyrinthine rooms of the great vessel contain an apocalyptic terror – one of which is marked by scrawled sigils of an ancient evil…
Le Laboratoire des Hallucinations - by Dean M Drinkel
Richardson, an English journalist, is seduced by both a beautiful woman and the mysterious Doctor Papper. What lies behind the door to Stateroom Sixteen…?
Maiden Voyage by Sylvia Shults
Germany dominates a world in which the US never fought in the Great War and where the Titanic docked at New York carrying death in her hold: a plague that decimated the eastern seaboard…
The R.M.S. Titanic continues to captivate more than a hundred years since its doomed voyage of 1912.
History has never been so...imaginative…
The answers to both questions can be found in these incredible stories, by thirteen new masters of the macabre, writing at the top of their game.
Discover tales about Achluophobia (fear of the dark), Ecophobia (fear of one’s home), Keraunophobia (fear of thunder and lightning), Ombrophobia (fear of rain), Trichinophobia (fear of poisoning), Ygrophobia (fear of water) and Zelophobia (fear of jealousy) amongst many others.
Compiled and edited by Dean M. Drinkel, the authors
of Phobophobias are:
Christopher Beck, Adrian Chamberlin, Lily Childs, Mike Chinn, Raven Dane, Nerine Dorman, Christine Dougherty, Tim Dry, Jan Edwards, John Gilbert, D.T. Griffith, Lisa Jenkins, Emile-Louis Tomas Jouvet, Rakie Keig, Amelia Mangan, Peter Mark May, Christine Morgan, John Palisano, Daniel I. Russell, Phil Sloman, Sam Stone, Andrew Taylor, Mark West, Barbie Wilde & D.M. Youngquist.