Based on the novel by Dan Simmons, The Terror tells the harrowing story of John Franklin’s real-life 1840s expedition to find the Northwest Passage. No one knows exactly what happened to the famous lost expedition, and so Simmons runs wild with speculation. The novel first begins as a seemingly straightforward account, as Franklin’s ships the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror get bogged down in ice. With the ships stranded in the Arctic thousands of miles from home, the story becomes a harrowing tale of survival. But soon we learn that the stranded crew have more to worry about than the brutal Arctic conditions. Someone – or something – lurks out there on the ice. And it appears to be hungry.
