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The Arachnoid Chronicles - A terrifying creature horror guaranteed to keep readers up all night: Books 1 to 3
The
Entomologist at the Royal Entomological Society, Aaron Pike is tasked with locating Professor Philip Jackson, a renowned arachnologist, who has gone missing.
Jackson is needed to help investigate a spate of black widow attacks in London. Reluctantly, Aaron takes young assistant Adele with him to Jackson’s home, which has been left derelict for some time. After visiting Jackson’s lab, Aaron finds out that Jackson hasn’t been seen in months. With the help of Jackson’s former assistant, Celia, Aaron and Adele unearth a shocking secret, experiments that Jackson and disgraced geneticist, Jonas Eckstein, have been conducting in secret on exotic spiders.
Recently widowed urban photographer Zoe Hardcastle visits Abney Park Cemetery where she is bitten by a black widow spider. After a lengthy spell in hospital, Zoe is amazed to find that she is in exceptional shape. Her body is changing, growing stronger. And while she grows in strength, so does her desire to have a baby.
Aaron’s investigation leads him to Aldwych Station, an abandoned subway beneath the streets of London, where he comes face-to-face with pure terror. Nothing could prepare him for what he encounters in the tunnels below—the home of The Widow.
The
Having narrowly escaped death at the hands of Zoe Hardcastle, The Widow, Entomologist, Aaron Pike, is seconded to Colonel Eric Trantor’s research team, based at The Ark, a vast underground military complex. Aaron knows that he will only see the light of day again when the arachnoids pose no threat to humanity.
Meanwhile, football mad ten-year-old Kyle Fisher is bitten by a huntsman spider while playing on Clapham Common. When he goes into anaphylactic shock, his mother, Helen, calls for an ambulance. A few minutes after the paramedics arrive, a helicopter lands in the park, and soldiers take Kyle away, leaving Helen with no clue as to where they’re taking him. Luckily, one of the parents watching the football game is a human rights lawyer and helps Helen locate her son.
Kyle Fisher is not the only infected patient at The Ark. Jenna Martin, who had a one-night stand with Professor Philip Jackson, is also being studied, and paying the price for her indiscretion, imprisoned in the facility while her body is changing. No one will tell Jenna what is happening to her, or Kyle.
Aaron, Colonel Trantor, and other researchers have to work together to find out more about the arachnoids before Zoe Hardcastle’s two missing children can procreate, increasing the risk of an explosive epidemic.
The
Part human, part wolf spider, one hundred percent predator!
After being infected by arachnoids in a London subway, Captain Marcus Callow and his unit are on compassionate leave after the killing of one of their team. Part of the clean-up crew at the farm where Kyle Fisher (The Hunter) met his fate, Marcus’ unit have been debriefed on what to expect following infection, but instead of handing themselves in, they choose to use what little time they have left to spend with their loved ones.
Private Wyatt Vermeulen, however, has different ideas. He knows how powerful he is after he chooses to embrace the infection, trying to persuade the rest of his unit to join him in dining on mere humans. Following vivid dreams in a sewer, Wyatt knows he has a to retrieve and protect a very special egg.
Humans rarely fare well against arachnoids, but no one has gone up against a psychotic human-Wolf Spider with a taste for human flesh before.
Entomologist at the Royal Entomological Society, Aaron Pike is tasked with locating Professor Philip Jackson, a renowned arachnologist, who has gone missing.
Jackson is needed to help investigate a spate of black widow attacks in London. Reluctantly, Aaron takes young assistant Adele with him to Jackson’s home, which has been left derelict for some time. After visiting Jackson’s lab, Aaron finds out that Jackson hasn’t been seen in months. With the help of Jackson’s former assistant, Celia, Aaron and Adele unearth a shocking secret, experiments that Jackson and disgraced geneticist, Jonas Eckstein, have been conducting in secret on exotic spiders.
Recently widowed urban photographer Zoe Hardcastle visits Abney Park Cemetery where she is bitten by a black widow spider. After a lengthy spell in hospital, Zoe is amazed to find that she is in exceptional shape. Her body is changing, growing stronger. And while she grows in strength, so does her desire to have a baby.
Aaron’s investigation leads him to Aldwych Station, an abandoned subway beneath the streets of London, where he comes face-to-face with pure terror. Nothing could prepare him for what he encounters in the tunnels below—the home of The Widow.
The
Having narrowly escaped death at the hands of Zoe Hardcastle, The Widow, Entomologist, Aaron Pike, is seconded to Colonel Eric Trantor’s research team, based at The Ark, a vast underground military complex. Aaron knows that he will only see the light of day again when the arachnoids pose no threat to humanity.
Meanwhile, football mad ten-year-old Kyle Fisher is bitten by a huntsman spider while playing on Clapham Common. When he goes into anaphylactic shock, his mother, Helen, calls for an ambulance. A few minutes after the paramedics arrive, a helicopter lands in the park, and soldiers take Kyle away, leaving Helen with no clue as to where they’re taking him. Luckily, one of the parents watching the football game is a human rights lawyer and helps Helen locate her son.
Kyle Fisher is not the only infected patient at The Ark. Jenna Martin, who had a one-night stand with Professor Philip Jackson, is also being studied, and paying the price for her indiscretion, imprisoned in the facility while her body is changing. No one will tell Jenna what is happening to her, or Kyle.
Aaron, Colonel Trantor, and other researchers have to work together to find out more about the arachnoids before Zoe Hardcastle’s two missing children can procreate, increasing the risk of an explosive epidemic.
The
Part human, part wolf spider, one hundred percent predator!
After being infected by arachnoids in a London subway, Captain Marcus Callow and his unit are on compassionate leave after the killing of one of their team. Part of the clean-up crew at the farm where Kyle Fisher (The Hunter) met his fate, Marcus’ unit have been debriefed on what to expect following infection, but instead of handing themselves in, they choose to use what little time they have left to spend with their loved ones.
Private Wyatt Vermeulen, however, has different ideas. He knows how powerful he is after he chooses to embrace the infection, trying to persuade the rest of his unit to join him in dining on mere humans. Following vivid dreams in a sewer, Wyatt knows he has a to retrieve and protect a very special egg.
Humans rarely fare well against arachnoids, but no one has gone up against a psychotic human-Wolf Spider with a taste for human flesh before.
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Published July 4, 2025
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D.C. Brockwell
25 books25 followersD C Brockwell lives in Burgess Hill, West Sussex, with his wife, Beks and rescue cat, Olivia. He works as a dental technician for Elite Dental Studios in the day, and writes crime/horror/action and adventure/romance stories in the evenings and weekends. After completing his dental technicians’ course at Lambeth College in March 2018, he sat down and started taking his writing more seriously, completing five first drafts of novels in a year.
A graduate of criminology and criminal justice studies at the University of Portsmouth, he has always had an interest in crime, specifically abnormal psychology. It was while studying criminology that he penned his first (unpublished) novel, which, he says, will never see the light of day.
He self-published his first romance novel, The Southern Belles in July 2019, under his pseudonym, Katie Simpkins, a name both he and Beks chose together.
His first crime novel is a contemporary and gritty crime drama.
A graduate of criminology and criminal justice studies at the University of Portsmouth, he has always had an interest in crime, specifically abnormal psychology. It was while studying criminology that he penned his first (unpublished) novel, which, he says, will never see the light of day.
He self-published his first romance novel, The Southern Belles in July 2019, under his pseudonym, Katie Simpkins, a name both he and Beks chose together.
His first crime novel is a contemporary and gritty crime drama.
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