South African gothic horror about inheritance, memory, and what refuses to stay buried.


Exciting News!
Poisoned Fruit, the haunting new gothic folk horror novel by Cailynn Brawffe, releases on 10 May 2026. A sequel to Madness in Bloom, this dark, feminist horror explores generational trauma, maternal control, and inherited identity within the decaying walls of Prescott Manor.
Lush, atmospheric, and mythically unsettling, Poisoned Fruit is a story of feminine rage, transformation, and the terrifying legacy that blooms in blood.

The Next Chapter of the Prescott Legacy
In Poisoned Fruit, the legacy of Prescott Estate tightens its grip as Donna struggles to separate memory from inheritance inside the sterile walls of a psychiatric hospital where something impossible keeps growing through the floor. As grief, control, and maternal echoes coil around her, the past refuses burial and the body becomes a battleground for identity. Haunting, claustrophobic, and steeped in generational trauma, this sequel to Madness in Bloom reveals a lineage where love curdles into possession and every attempt at healing feeds the roots beneath the house.


