If the title alone gives you a shiver of dark curiosity, you’re in the right place. This isn’t your grandmother’s horse story. This is literary folklore stripped raw—a collection that blends the gothic grit of Wuthering Heights with the unsettling tenderness of Angela Carter.
Have you read Thorn, Old Bernald’s Ponygirl ? Did Thorn choose the stable, or was she always trying to leave? Let me know in the comments. I’ll be the one still staring at the moor at dusk. #GothicFiction #ShortStoryCollection #ThornOldBernaldsPonygirl #FolkHorror #BookReview #LiteraryFiction Novel Collection Thorn Old Bernald S Ponygirl
But to read this collection literally is to miss the point. If the title alone gives you a shiver
At its surface, the collection weaves together interconnected tales about a mysterious, half-wild figure known only as Thorn. She is the “ponygirl” of the title—bound not by literal reins, but by the fierce, complicated ownership of Old Bernald, a reclusive horse trader on the edge of a crumbling moor. Have you read Thorn, Old Bernald’s Ponygirl
If the title alone gives you a shiver of dark curiosity, you’re in the right place. This isn’t your grandmother’s horse story. This is literary folklore stripped raw—a collection that blends the gothic grit of Wuthering Heights with the unsettling tenderness of Angela Carter.
Have you read Thorn, Old Bernald’s Ponygirl ? Did Thorn choose the stable, or was she always trying to leave? Let me know in the comments. I’ll be the one still staring at the moor at dusk. #GothicFiction #ShortStoryCollection #ThornOldBernaldsPonygirl #FolkHorror #BookReview #LiteraryFiction
But to read this collection literally is to miss the point.
At its surface, the collection weaves together interconnected tales about a mysterious, half-wild figure known only as Thorn. She is the “ponygirl” of the title—bound not by literal reins, but by the fierce, complicated ownership of Old Bernald, a reclusive horse trader on the edge of a crumbling moor.