Loved Madness in Bloom? Here’s What to Read (and Watch) Next

If Madness in Bloom left your spine tingling and your heart heavy, you’re not alone.

Set in the strange, haunted town of Greystone, this story of grief, inheritance, and botanical horror doesn’t let go—it creeps, blooms, and burrows. Donna Prescott’s struggle against her mother’s lingering presence (and something darker entwined in the garden) asks the terrifying question: what if the thing you inherit is haunted?

🪦 If you’ve finished Madness in Bloom and still feel like something’s watching from the wisteria, fear not—I’ve gathered some unsettling stories that share its eerie DNA. Think haunted houses, maternal hauntings, slow-burn folklore, and ghosts that don’t knock before entering.

📚 Frightful Reads to Feed the Bloom

🖤 The Silent Companions – Laura Purcell

A Victorian widow uncovers sinister wooden figures and disturbing diary entries in a crumbling estate. Is it grief, madness, or something far worse?

Why you’ll love it: Gothic dread, maternal madness, and an oppressive atmosphere that wraps around you like dust-laced velvet.

🌿 The Death of Jane Lawrence – Caitlin Starling

Think Rebecca meets body horror. A marriage of convenience turns into a descent into psychological—and possibly supernatural—terror.

Why you’ll love it: Twisted romance, creepy old houses, and surgical horror that gets under your skin.

👁️ The Family Plot – Cherie Priest

A salvage crew takes on a decaying estate, but the ghosts don’t want to leave. A modern southern gothic tale full of secrets, coffins, and haunted family ties.

Why you’ll love it: An abandoned mansion, a haunted family business, and secrets that refuse to stay buried. Sound familiar?

🎥 Sinister Screens: Films for Madness in Bloom Fans

🏚️ Relic (2020)

A mother, daughter, and grandmother navigate a decaying family home and something sinister that feeds on memory and decay.

Why you’ll love it: It’s a slow-burn psychological horror with a beating heart—and a rotting house at its core.

💀 The Innocents (1961)

A governess begins to suspect the children in her care—and the estate itself—are haunted by the past. Based on The Turn of the Screw.

Why you’ll love it: Subtle chills, ambiguous ghosts, and tension that creeps like ivy on old stone.

🌙 Marrowbone (2017)

Siblings hide the death of their mother in a gothic manor to stay together—but something evil is in the house.

Why you’ll love it: Family secrets, haunting legacies, and a twist you won’t see coming.

Let’s Chat: What’s Your Bloom?

If you’ve read or watched any of these, I want to hear about it! What eerie story made your skin crawl in the best way? And if you haven’t yet read Madness in Bloom… what are you waiting for?

📖 Read it. Breathe it in. But be careful where you plant it.