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