The Terror
Subtitle: A Novel
By: Maps by Jeffrey L. Ward
Publisher: Bantam Books; Random House
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 944
ISBN-13: 9780553818208
Copyright date: 2007
Subjects: Fiction, action & adventure; Fiction, horror
First sentence: Captain Crozier comes up on deck to find his ship under attack by celestial ghosts.
Description: As advanced an enterprise as had ever set forth, Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition in search of the fabled North-West Passage had every expectation of triumph.

But for almost two years his ships *Terror* and *Erebus* have been trapped in the Arctic ice. Coal and provisions are running low. Yet the real threat isn't from the constantly shifting landscape, the flesh-numbing temperatures or the vessels being slowly crush by the unyielding, frozen ocean.

No, the real threat is far more terrifying. There is something out there in the frigid darkness, stalking the ships, snatching men — mutilating, devouring. A nameless thing, at once nowhere and everywhere, *this* terror has become the expedition's nemesis.

When Franklin meets a terrible death, it falls to Captain Francis Crozier of HMS *Terror* to take command and lead the surviving crew on a last, desperate attempt to escape south. As scurvy, starvation and madness take their toll, so the terror on the ice become ever more bold . . .
Notes: Acclaim for *The Terror*: Pages 1-3, a collection of blurbs. 
Maps: Pages 8-9, featuring maps titled "Sir John Franklin Arctic Expedition to Force the Northwest Passage" and "Detail of King William (Is)land".
Epigraph: Page 11, A passage from [*Moby Dick*][1] (1851) by [Herman Melville][2].
Author's Acknowledgements: Pages 937-939.
Bantam Books advertisements: Pages 941-944.

[1]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102749W
[2]: https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL29497A
Table of contents: title: Title Page
pagenum: 5; title: Copyright
pagenum: 6; title: Dedication
pagenum: 7; title: Maps
pagenum: 8; title: Epigraph
pagenum: 11; title: The Terror
pagenum: 13; label: Chapter 1
title: Crozier
pagenum: 15; label: Chapter 2
title: Franklin
pagenum: 30; label: Chapter 3
title: Crozier
pagenum: 48; label: Chapter 4
title: Goodsir
pagenum: 68; label: Chapter 5
title: Crozier
pagenum: 76; label: Chapter 6
title: Goodsir
pagenum: 85; label: Chapter 7
title: Franklin
pagenum: 95; label: Chapter 8
title: Crozier
pagenum: 115; label: Chapter 9
title: Franklin
pagenum: 128; label: Chapter 10
title: Goodsir
pagenum: 142; label: Chapter 11
title: Crozier
pagenum: 153; label: Chapter 12
title: Goodsir
pagenum: 166; label: Chapter 13
title: Franklin
pagenum: 181; label: Chapter 14
title: Goodsir
pagenum: 196; label: Chapter 15
title: Franklin
pagenum: 210; label: Chapter 16
title: Crozier
pagenum: 235; label: Chapter 17
title: Irving
pagenum: 271; label: Chapter 18
title: Goodsir
pagenum: 290; label: Chapter 19
title: Crozier
pagenum: 299; label: Chapter 20
title: Blanky
pagenum: 313; label: Chapter 21
title: Blanky
pagenum: 321; label: Chapter 22
title: Irving
pagenum: 351; label: Chapter 23
title: Hickey
pagenum: 370; label: Chapter 24
title: Crozier
pagenum: 380; label: Chapter 25
title: Crozier
pagenum: 400; label: Chapter 26
title: Goodsir
pagenum: 419; label: Chapter 27
title: Crozier
pagenum: 429; label: Chapter 28
title: Peglar
pagenum: 451; label: Chapter 29
title: Irving
pagenum: 471; label: Chapter 30
title: Crozier
pagenum: 487; label: Chapter 31
title: Goodsir
pagenum: 508; label: Chapter 32
title: Crozier
pagenum: 527; label: Chapter 33
title: Goodsir
pagenum: 543; label: Chapter 34
title: Crozier
pagenum: 558; label: Chapter 35
title: Irving
pagenum: 573; label: Chapter 36
title: Crozier
pagenum: 579; label: Chapter 37
title: Irving
pagenum: 590; label: Chapter 38
title: Crozier
pagenum: 607; label: Chapter 39
title: Goodsir
pagenum: 618; label: Chapter 40
title: Peglar
pagenum: 623; label: Chapter 41
title: Crozier
pagenum: 631; label: Chapter 42
title: Peglar
pagenum: 641; label: Chapter 43
title: Crozier
pagenum: 648; label: Chapter 44
title: Goodsir
pagenum: 658; label: Chapter 45
title: Blanky
pagenum: 667; label: Chapter 46
title: Crozier
pagenum: 683; label: Chapter 47
title: Peglar
pagenum: 694; label: Chapter 48
title: Goodsir
pagenum: 708; label: Chapter 49
title: Crozier
pagenum: 727; label: Chapter 50
title: Bridgens
pagenum: 741; label: Chapter 51
title: Crozier
pagenum: 750; label: Chapter 52
title: Goodsir
pagenum: 768; label: Chapter 53
title: Golding
pagenum: 778; label: Chapter 54
title: Des Voeux
pagenum: 795; label: Chapter 55
title: Goodsir
pagenum: 804; label: Chapter 56
title: Jopson
pagenum: 807; label: Chapter 57
title: Hickey
pagenum: 814; label: Chapter 58
title: Goodsir
pagenum: 822; label: Chapter 59
title: Hickey
pagenum: 830; label: Chapter 60
title: Crozier
pagenum: 838; label: Chapter 61
title: Crozier
pagenum: 842; label: Chapter 62
title: Crozier
pagenum: 858; label: Chapter 63
title: Crozier
pagenum: 873; label: Chapter 64
title: Crozier
pagenum: 889; label: Chapter 65
title: Crozier
pagenum: 893; label: Chapter 66
pagenum: 908; label: Chapter 67
title: Taliriktug
pagenum: 913; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 937