”Some roses grow backward — into the hand that waters them.”

Thorn is the confession of Mara Venn, a botanical sculptor living alone in a glass-walled house on the salt marshes of North Essex. She cultivates “vengeance flora” — hybrid roses that bloom in response to human adrenaline. When a drifter named Corin breaks into her greenhouse, he doesn’t steal. He stays.

What follows is a taut, queasy dance of submission and husbandry. Corin claims he wants to be her “living trellis.” Mara agrees — on one condition: he must allow her to graft a dormant, carnivorous vine (the Rosa spinosissima animae) into his cervical spine. The procedure takes three days. The novel follows the 40 nights after, as Corin slowly learns that blooming is not liberation — it is a slower form of burial.

Exclusive to this collection: A new afterword by botanical horror scholar Dr. Lianne Truss, detailing the real-life “vampire vine” experiments in 19th-century Java that inspired the novel’s climax.

“Thorn is a wound you read with your fingers. Old Bernald’s Ponygirl is a wound that reads you back. Together, they form a single, unbearable, gorgeous pressure on the throat of literary horror.” — Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

“This collection does not ask ‘what would you endure?’ It asks ‘what would you become — if becoming felt like rest?’ I have never been so unsettled by tenderness.” — Premee Mohamed, The Annual Migration of Clouds

Final line of the collection (from the new Quine afterword):

“Bernald used to say: ‘A ponygirl doesn’t run away from the cart. She runs because of the cart. The question is not freedom. The question is — what kind of pull do you answer to?’”

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Thorn: The Old Bernald’s Ponygirl Collection is a limited, exclusive anthology of dark literary fiction that pulls back the curtain on one of the most enigmatic figures in underground equestrian–psychological drama: Old Bernald. For decades, rumors have swirled about Bernald’s isolated estate, his unconventional “stable,” and the women who vanish into his world of silk, harnesses, and silent devotion. This collection finally gathers the lost transcripts, confessional letters, and third-hand accounts into a single, uncensored volume.