The Terror

By Dan Simmons

Categories: Literature & Fiction

The Terror is a 2007 novel by Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion and Carrion Comfort. It was adapted into a 2018 AMC television series produced by Ridley Scott. The novel retells the real 1845 Franklin expedition, in which two British ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, were trapped in Arctic ice while searching for the Northwest Passage. As the crews face starvation, scurvy, cold, and mutiny, they are also stalked across the ice by a monstrous creature.

Recommended by 1 person

• Stephen King: “A brilliant, massive combination of history and supernatural horror. Being marooned in arctic ice with nothing to eat but your shoes (or — gulp — a helping of shipmate stew) is bad enough; the unseen white monster stalking the nights is worse.”