The Terror by Dan Simmons
  Add to Wish List

Almost ready!

In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.

      Log in       Create account
Phone showing make the switch message

Limited-time offer

Get two free audiobooks!

Now’s a great time to shop indie. When you start a new one credit per month membership supporting local bookstores with promo code SWITCH, we’ll give you two bonus audiobook credits at sign-up.

Sign up today

The Terror

the novel that inspired the chilling BBC series
by Dan Simmons
Due to publisher restrictions, this audiobook is unavailable for purchase in your selected country.

Unavailable due to DRM restrictions

This audiobook is not for sale because it is not DRM-free (DRM stands for Digital Rights Management). Offering audiobooks with restricted digital rights is not consistent with our values. Learn more

Narrator Tom Sellwood

This audiobook uses AI narration.

We’re taking steps to make sure AI narration is transparent.

Learn more
Length 28 hours 26 minutes
Language English
  Add to Wish List

Almost ready!

In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.

      Log in       Create account

Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Terror by Dan Simmons, read by Tom Sellwood.

Stephen King hailed Dan Simmons' bestselling novel as 'a brilliant, massive combination of history and supernatural horror' and it's now a chilling 10-part AMC Original TV series from Ridley Scott.

The most advanced scientific enterprise ever mounted, 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 HMS Terror and Erebus have been trapped in the Arctic ice. Supplies of fuel and food are running low. Scurvy, starvation and even madness beging to take their toll. And yet the real threat isn’t from the constantly shifting, alien landscape, the flesh-numbing temperatures or being crushed by the unyielding, frozen ocean. No, the real threat is far more terrifying.

There is something out there in the frigid darkness. It stalks the ships and snatches men. It is a nameless thing. At once nowhere and everywhere, this terror has become the expedition’s nemesis . . .

‘Simmons has created a chilling supernatural novel . . . the horrific trials of their impending icy deaths are vividly brought to life.’ Daily Express

FictionHistorical FictionHorror

Winner of the Hugo, Nebula and Word Fantasy awards, DAN SIMMONS is the author of a number of acclaimed and bestselling novels across a range of genres - from suspense and science fiction to fantasy, horror and the supernatural. These include The Song of Kali, Darwin's Blade, Hyperion, Ilium, Olympos and The Terror, Drood, Black Hills and The Abominable. He lives in Colorado.
His website is www.dansimmons.com

Featured in this playlist...

Reads To Get You In The Halloween Spirit
Reads To Get You In The Halloween Spirit

Audiobook details

Author:

Narrator:
Tom Sellwood

ISBN:
9781473561540

Length:
28 hours 26 minutes

Language:
English

Publisher:
Transworld

Publication date:

Edition:
Unabridged

Phone showing make the switch message

Limited-time offer

Get two free audiobooks!

Now’s a great time to shop indie. When you start a new one credit per month membership supporting local bookstores with promo code SWITCH, we’ll give you two bonus audiobook credits at sign-up.

Sign up today

Reviews

A brilliant, massive combination of history and supernatural horror. Simmons has created a chilling supernatural novel . . . the horrific trials of their impending icy deaths are vividly brought to life. One of the most remarkable things I've read . . . nothing short of a masterpiece. It is a bona fide tour de force. A revelation . . . Simmons is a giant among novelists. Go out and buy this book . . . a fantastic achievement. Gripping, well-observed, and at times genuinely frightening. Dramatic and vivid . . . Simmons has given us a host of colourful, believable characters caught up in a driving, hell-bent narrative. The Terror is a tour de force. Meticulously researched and brilliantly imagined . . . a dramatic and mythic argument for how and why Franklin and his men met their demise . . . a compelling read. The best and most unusual historical novel I have read in years . . . a haunting, precisely imagined fictional solution to one of history's most disquieting mysteries . . . brilliantly executed. ??Dan Simmons is brilliant. Brilliant . . . Simmons takes this 19th-century tragedy and crafts an imaginative hybrid tale. It's a historical horror novel . . . the kind of rich epic that requires a touch of patience at the beginning but amply rewards the reader by the end. Expand reviews