The Terror : A Novel (Paperback)

from TheTwoDs

Based on John Franklin's ill-fated 1840s expedition to the Arctic seeking to find the fabled Northwest Passage, Dan Simmons imagines a supernatural element that helped determine the outcome of the mysterious disappearance of the ships and crew. Until recently, little has been found of the expedit...

from mikemillertime

Based on a true story of Arctic expedition by England in the 1840s, The Terror is a suspenseful thriller and adventure story. This revisionist take on John Franklin's exploration now has elements of the supernatural, as a mysterious creature stalks the crew, a rival as dangerous as the inhumanly ...

from Eric_J._Guignard

REVIEWED: The Terro WRITTEN BY: Dan Simmons PUBLISHED: 2009 Up until the ending, this book was flawless. Not to take anything away from the ending - it was okay - but just not as powerful as the rest of this book. And when I say powerful, I mean my-heart-was-racing-and-I-could-not-put-this-down s...

from localpeanut

There's a morbid running joke in the story that Francis Crozier, the Captain of the HMS Terror, favors the Book of Leviathan in the Bible . . . for his sermons. But there's no such Book; Leviathan is a book by Thomas Hobbes, an English philsopher who writes that it is the natural condition of man...

from PAPatrick

It's actually called "THE Terror" and it refers to one of the ships lost in the ill-fated Franklin expedition, a Victorian-age expedition to find the Northwest Passage. No one knows what actually happened to the men on both ships (the other was called The Erebus--moral of that story is get happie...