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The Terror

by Dan Simmons
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The "masterfully chilling" novel that inspired the hit AMC series (Entertainment Weekly). 
The men on board the HMS Terror — part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage — are entering a second summer in the Arctic Circle without a thaw, stranded in a nightmarish landscape of encroaching ice and darkness. Endlessly cold, they struggle to survive with poisonous rations, a dwindling coal supply, and ships buckling in the grip of crushing ice. But their real enemy is even more terrifying. There is something out there in the frigid darkness: an unseen predator stalking their ship, a monstrous terror clawing to get in.
“The best and most unusual historical novel I have read in years.” —Katherine A. Powers, Boston Globe
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Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
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Kindle Book

  • ISBN: 9780316137492
  • Release date: March 8, 2007

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9780316003889
  • Release date: March 8, 2007

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9780316003889
  • File size: 2572 KB
  • Release date: March 8, 2007
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subjects

Fiction Literature Thriller Historical Fiction

Languages

English

Levels

Lexile® Measure:1290
Text Difficulty:10-12

The "masterfully chilling" novel that inspired the hit AMC series (Entertainment Weekly). 
The men on board the HMS Terror — part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage — are entering a second summer in the Arctic Circle without a thaw, stranded in a nightmarish landscape of encroaching ice and darkness. Endlessly cold, they struggle to survive with poisonous rations, a dwindling coal supply, and ships buckling in the grip of crushing ice. But their real enemy is even more terrifying. There is something out there in the frigid darkness: an unseen predator stalking their ship, a monstrous terror clawing to get in.
“The best and most unusual historical novel I have read in years.” —Katherine A. Powers, Boston Globe
Expand title description text
Fiction Literature Thriller Historical Fiction