From the series: The Hidden Corridor - The Darkwell Files

CREATION: A Darkwell Files Investigation (The Hidden Corridor - The Darkwell Files Book 1)

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Some creations are never meant to be understood.

When a classified incident is quietly removed from circulation, what remains is not a full account but a reconstruction—assembled from restricted documents, suppressed footage, and reports altered after the fact. The decisions recorded here were never intended to be read together. Taken as a whole, they reveal a process that continued long after it should have stopped.

At the centre of the file is Victor Darkwell, a specialist brought in to assess and contain a situation already drifting beyond its original purpose. Each step appears reasonable. Each escalation is authorised by procedure. Responsibility is shared, diluted, and ultimately displaced.

What was created was not meant to survive.
What followed was not meant to be remembered.

CREATION is the first novel in The Darkwell Files, an adult literary horror series examining how institutions legitimise harm, how ordinary people become complicit without malice, and how systems protect themselves by rewriting their own failures.

This record was never meant to be released.
Once opened, it cannot be closed.

CREATION is the first novel in The Darkwell Files—a series of recovered investigations into institutional failure, procedural violence, and the cost of responsibility shared too widely to be owned.

This work is a piece of original fiction. Names, characters, organisations, and events are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is coincidental.

This novel is inspired by themes and public-domain source material associated with Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (first published 1818). This is a transformative work of fiction and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to any film studio, publisher, or copyrighted adaptation.

The Darkwell Files and The Hidden Corridor are original fictional concepts created by the author.

Artificial intelligence tools were used in a supporting role during the development of this work. All creative direction, narrative decisions, and final responsibility remain with the author.

First published in 2025.