Terror

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The men on board Her Britannic Majestys Ships Terror & Erebus had every expectation of triumph. They were part of Sir John Franklins 1845 expedition
- as scientifically advanced an enterprise as had ever set forth
- & theirs were the first steam-driven vessels to go in search of the fabled North-West Passage. But the ships have now been trapped in the Arctic ice for nearly two years. Coal & provisions are running low. Yet the real threat isnt the constantly shifting landscape of white or the flesh-numbing temperatures dwindling supplies or the vessels being slowly crushed by the unyielding grip of the frozen ocean. No the real threat is far more terrifying. There is something out there that haunts the frigid darkness which stalks the ships snatching one man at a time
- mutilating devouring. A nameless thing at once nowhere & everywhere this terror has become the expeditions nemesis. When Franklin meets a terrible death it falls to Captain Francis Crozier of HMS Terror to take command & lead the remaining crew on a last desperate attempt to flee south across the ice. With them travels an Eskimo woman who cannot speak. She may be the key to survival
- or the harbinger of their deaths. & as scurvy starvation & madness take their toll as the Terror on the ice become evermore bold Crozier & his men begin to fear there is no escape...