#11 in Horror
The Terror
- 771
- Pages
- about 14 h
- Reading time
- Series 2018
- On screen
- Bob Morane award for best foreign novel
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About the book
The Terror is a 2007 novel by American author Dan Simmons. It is a fictionalized account of Captain Sir John Franklin's lost expedition, on HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, to the Arctic, in 1845–1848, to locate the Northwest Passage. In the novel, while Franklin and his crew are plagued by starvation and illness, and forced to contend with mutiny and cannibalism, they are stalked across the bleak Arctic landscape by a monster.
On screen
This book has been adapted for the screen once.
- SeriesThe TerrorIMDb
Adaptation data: Wikidata · On screen →
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.1 across 395 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 73% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Horror average of 7.5. That is how 8.1 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.6 | 22 | 6% |
| Hardcover | 8.1 | 373 | 94% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Terror?
It has 771 pages — longer than 83% of the ranked books in Horror.
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