The Terror is a novel by American author Dan Simmons and is set in and around the famous search for the North West passage by Sir John Franklin in 1846-1849. The real Franklin mission became legendary because the full facts of the mission are still unknown but the Royal Navy funded mission to find a path over the top of Canada to the Pacific ocean became a story of mystery and loss. Franklin sailed in 1846 and nothing was ever heard of again until his wife forced the Navy to send out a ship to search for her husband in 1850 but they failed to find Franklin or his ships. Franklin sailed with two ships, the flag ship Erebus and the Terror, both were reinforced ...  Read the complete review

It is 1847; Captain Francis Crozier, master of the vessel known as The Terror, is part of an expedition lead by Sir John Franklin that left in 1845 to discover the North-West Passage through the Arctic Circle and into Canada. But both ships that make up the expedition have become trapped in the ice several miles apart, The Terror and the Erebus both, and food is slowly becoming in short supply. As is coal to heat the ships and provide hot water. This is their second winter stuck in the middle of god-for-saken nowhere and now something has begun to hunt them; emerging from out the snow and ice blizzards to take them out one man at a time leaving bodies in it's wake, ...  Read the complete review