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The Terror

The Terror

the novel that inspired the chilling BBC series

by Dan Simmons
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/03/2008

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The men on board Her Britannic Majesty's Ships Terror and Erebus had every expectation of triumph. They were part of Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition - as scientifically advanced an enterprise as had ever set forth - and theirs were the first steam-driven vessels to go in search of the fabled North-West Passage.But the ships have now been trapped in the Arctic ice for nearly two years. Coal and provisions are running low. Yet the real threat isn't the constantly shifting landscape of white or the flesh-numbing temperatures, dwindling supplies or the vessels being slowly crushed by the unyielding grip of the frozen ocean.No, the real threat is far more terrifying. There is something out there that haunts the frigid darkness, which stalks the ships, snatching one man at a time - mutilating, devouring. A nameless thing, at once nowhere and everywhere, this terror has become the expedition's nemesis.When Franklin meets a terrible death, it falls to Captain Francis Crozier of HMS Terror to take command and lead the remaining crew on a last, desperate attempt to flee south across the ice. With them travels an Eskimo woman who cannot speak. She may be the key to survival - or the harbinger of their deaths. And as scurvy, starvation and madness take their toll, as the Terror on the ice become evermore bold, Crozier and his men begin to fear there is no escape...
ISBN:
9780553818208
9780553818208
Category:
Horror & ghost stories
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-03-2008
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
944
Dimensions (mm):
198x127x41mm
Weight:
0.63kg
Dan Simmons

Winner of the Hugo, Nebula and Word Fantasy awards, Dan Simmons is the author of a number of acclaimed and bestselling novels across a range of genres from suspense and science fiction to fantasy, horror and the supernatural.

These include The Song of Kali, Darwin's Blade, Hyperion, Ilium, Olympos and The Terror, Drood, Black Hills and The Abominable. He lives in Colorado.

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