The Terror
What You Need To Know About The Terror:
● The Terror is a horror anthology series that blends a historical event with a fictional, supernatural twist.
● First launching in 2018, each season takes on a new story, with a fresh cast of characters and new horrors to survive.
● Across all three seasons, The Terror has boasted an all-star cast including Jared Harris, Tobias Menzies, George Takei and Dan Stevens.
● Season three, subtitled Devil in Silver, is making its UK premiere exclusive to Sky Atlantic and NOW on August 23rd
What is The Terror about?
The Terror is a supernatural horror series that blends fact with fiction to create something far more chilling.
As an anthology series, each season tells a different, complete story with a different cast of characters – taking a historical event and implanting a supernatural element into a story. As such, it should be taken as fiction, although its launch point is something from reality.
Season one, titled simply The Terror, tells the story of Captain Sir John Franklin and the men on board the Royal Navy's polar explorer ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, which were lost during an expedition to the Arctic between 1845 to 1948. The series imagines what happened to the crew when the ships become stuck in the ice, with resources running low and a fight against the elements began.
Season two, titled The Terror: Infamy, is set in California during World War II, where a mythological entity known as bakemono starts tormenting a community of Japanese American survivors.
Season three, The Terror: Devil in Silver, follows a man who is wrongfully committed to a psychiatric hospital as he fights for his freedom against the patients and doctors who work there – but encounters supernatural beings along the way.
First launching in 2018, The Terror has been widely critically praised, winning Best Television Series at the Satellite Awards in 2019.
How many seasons of The Terror are there?
The Terror has run for three seasons to date.
The Terror ran for 10 hour-long episodes, as did the second season The Terror: Infamy.
The Terror: Devil In Silver runs for a shortened six-episode season – bringing the total episode count to 26.
Who stars in The Terror?
As an anthology series, the cast of The Terror changes every season as a new story is told. Each season is made up of an ensemble cast.
The main cast of The Terror is:
● Jared Harris (Chernobyl, Mad Men) as Captain Francis Crozier
● Tobias Menzies (Outlander, The Crown) as Commander James Fitzjames
● Paul Ready (Motherland, Utopia) as Assistant Surgeon Harry Goodsir
● Adam Nagaitis (The Responder, The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon) as Cornelius Hickey
● Ian Hart (Shetland, The Mosquito Coast) as Ice Master Thomas Blanky
● Nive Nielsen (Washington Black, The North Water) as Lady Silence
● Ciarán Hinds (The Dry, Kin) as Captain Sir John Franklin
● Christos Lawton (The Enfield Poltergeist, Believe Me) as Lieutenant George Hodgson
● Matthew McNulty (After The Flood, The Bay) as Commander Edward Little
The main cast of The Terror: Infamy is:
● Derek Mio (Greek, All Rise) as Chester Nakayama/Taizo Tanabe
● Kiki Sukezane (Heroes: Reborn, Lost in Space) as Yuko Tanabe
● Cristina Rodlo (Halo, 68 Whiskey) as Luz Ojeda
● Shingo Usami (Unbroken, Invasion) as Henry Nakayama
● Naoko Mori (Torchwood, Absolutely Fabulous) as Asako Nakayama
● Miki Ishikawa (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, HIT) as Amy Yoshida
● George Takei (Star Trek, Heroes) as Nobuhiro Yamato
The main cast of The Terror: Devil In Silver is:
● Dan Stevens as Peter "Pepper" Coffin
● Michael Aronov as "Huey"
● Marin Ireland as "Dewey"
● Philip Ettinger as "Louie"
● Hampton Fluker as Scotch Tape
● John Benjamin Hickey as Dr. Walter
● Judith Light as Dorry
● Aasif Mandvi as Dr. Anand
● CCH Pounder as Miss Chris
● Stephen Root as Dr. Laurence Badger
● Chinaza Uche as Kofi Osei
● Hayward Leach as Anthony
What is the age rating of The Terror?
The Terror’s episodes vary in range between 12, 15 and 18 – so please ensure you’re aware ahead of watching.
All three ratings deem the show unsuitable for children, with some more extreme episodes only suitable for young adult and mature audiences.
This is due to the show containing:
● Mild scenes of a sexual nature
● Minor nudity - no full frontal
● Graphic violence including gun violence, murder, and body mutilation
● Presence of blood, gore and graphic injury
● Minor use of profanity
● Emotionally and physically intense scenes some may find disturbing
● Scenes involving child death some may find upsetting
● Supernatural threat
● Themes of intense peril or threat
How to watch The Terror
All episodes of The Terror will be available from August 23rd 2026 on Sky Atlantic in the UK
They will also be available to watch on our streaming service, NOW.
The series airs on AMC in the US.