Crawlers by Iain Rob Wright
English | 2025 | Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Something deadly has just been delivered.
When pest controller Nick Grieves and his wife Samantha are called to sleepy Seadale’s dockyard in the dead of night, they expect a rat infestation, or maybe an unclaimed exotic pet. But what they find instead is a nightmare from another continent: a terrifying and unnatural creature with a hunger that can’t be contained.
As a terifying crisis quickly spreads throughout the UK, a small band of survivors must fight not only to stay alive, but to prevent the country from being consumed in an eight-legged apocalypse. Along the way, not everyone will make it, but being human means refusing to give up—even when you’re outnumbered ten-thousand to one.
The food chain is about to change…
On January 21, 2012, according to the Mayan Calendar, the world was supposed to end. It didn’t. But on that day, 113 mysterious manuscripts were discovered around the world, each one written in blood by an unknown author. After several dozen unexplained deaths befell the finders of said manuscripts, a decision was made to lock them up for good in a secret vault beneath the Vatican. It is said that anyone who reads the stories will die, and as such they are now referred to as ‘The Cursed Manuscripts.’
In December 2020, new manuscripts started turning up around the world. ‘Bad luck’ was one of them.
MANUSCRIPT ID: 8/24-08 (BAD LUCK).
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Manuscript 8.24-08, discovered January 2018 in Bolivia by rural pig farmer, Inti Torres Varguez, who found it half buried in the soil. Somehow the written pages were miraculously okay, but eight days later Inti was found trampled to death by his livestock and half-eaten by swarming insects. The following text was was written in a notebook beneath his bed, which is strange as Inti was unable to read and write.
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