In Fiction
The 2008 novel Arctic Drift uses the Terror and the Erebus as part of the plot as well as the establishing backstory.
Terror features heavily in Dan Simmons's 2007 novel The Terror.
The Franklin expedition provides a back-story in Margaret Atwood's short story The Age of Lead.
The Terror and the Erebus are featured in the Doctor Who Audio Drama story Terror of the Arctic.
The Terror and the Erebus are mentioned, in the context of Captain Ross’s expedition, by Captain Nemo in Jules Verne’s 20000 Leagues Under the Sea on background to establish the difficulty of attaining the South Pole, while Captain Nemo stands upon its fictional summit.
The Terror and the Erebus are mentioned in Joseph Conrad's novel "Heart of Darkness".
Read more about this topic: HMS Terror (1813)
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“The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where human perception begins. He appeals through the senses, and you cannot appeal to the senses with abstractions.”
—Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)
“A fiction about soft or easy deaths ... is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.”
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