The Terror: where to start reading

After Season 1, in the books you are

at The Terror.

the first season adapts Dan Simmons's novel across its run.

The first season adapts Dan Simmons's 2007 novel, a fictionalised account of the lost Franklin Arctic expedition, across its full run. This is the season with a book to read. A viewer who finished it has seen the whole of that story.

📖 Start reading at The Terror by Dan Simmons (the novel behind season one)

🔒Spoiler-safe, only what the show already showed you.

Get the book

Season 1 draws on this book. Read the full story:

The Terror

Dan Simmons

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Faithful here

The show stays close to the book here, with nothing major changed, cut, or invented.

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The Terror is an anthology: each season is a stand-alone story with a different cast. Only season one adapts Dan Simmons's 2007 novel The Terror. Season two (Infamy) is an original story with no source novel, and season three (Devil in Silver) adapts a different author's book, Victor LaValle's 2012 novel. So there is a book to read for season one, and a separate, unrelated book for season three, but nothing to read for season two.