The Terror
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2007 novel fictionalizing Franklin's lost Arctic expedition
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The Terror
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The Terror is a 2007 novel by American author Dan Simmons. It fictionalizes Captain Sir John Franklin's 1845 to 1848 expedition aboard HMS Erebus and HMS Terror in search of the Northwest Passage. As the expedition faces starvation, illness, mutiny and cannibalism, its crew is pursued through the Arctic by a monster. The novel was nominated for the British Fantasy Award in 2008 and adapted as a 2018 AMC television series.
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- Author
- Dan Simmons
- Subject
- Franklin's lost Arctic expedition
- Television adaptation
- AMC, 2018
Sources and credits
Sources and credits
- Article
- The Terror (novel) (English Wikipedia)
- Wikidata
- Q1991597
- Text
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