When his peg leg keeps breaking, he realises I Will Only Slow You Down and decides to Face Death with Dignity. Blanky loses first his heel, then the rest of his leg in encounters with the Terror.Animal Motif: Hickey is constantly compared to a rat.Not that Hickey minds his final moments are spent insisting he is a god who controls the world around him.

And I Must Scream: Hickey’s ultimate fate, frozen to death and staring into nothingness, surrounded by death, as even the Tuunbaq refuses to kill him.In real life, Inuit oral testimony reports finding the corpse of a dead man with very long teeth locked within the main cabin of one of the ships (since identified to be HMS Erebus). Ambiguously Human: The corpse with rodent-like teeth that Crozier finds on board the wreck of HMS Terror, lying in his bunk.Agony of the Feet: Goodsir’s toes are removed a few at a time by Hickey for refusing to do his bidding.It's a particularly big deal for Crozier and Fitzjames as captains who abandoned their vessels, their naval careers are, appropriately, dead in the water. Abandon Ship: As in Real Life, the crew has to abandon the ships after they get stuck in the ice.Not to be confused with the 1963 horror film directed by Roger Corman. The first episode premiered March 26, 2018. It was adapted as a ten-part TV miniseries by AMC, starring Jared Harris as Captain Crozier, Ciaran Hinds as Captain Franklin, and Tobias Menzies as Commander Fitzjames, with Ridley Scott executive producing. There is also a mysterious, seemingly mute Inuit woman the explorers christen 'Lady Silence', who may or may not know something about the monster that is stalking the expedition. In Real Life, the explorers died of starvation and scurvy, while in this novel they also have a mysterious man-eating monster to contend with. The Terror is a 2006 Historical Fiction/Supernatural Horror novel written by Dan Simmons, detailing the Franklin Expedition, the doomed 1845 voyage by the ships HMS Terror and HMS Erebus to explore the Northwest Passage.

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