#the terror novel

[jeyneofpoole]

finished reading the terror the final hundred pages had me overcome with so many waves of pure revulsion that i kept having to close the book and take laps around my room. dan simmons you are NOT seeing the pearly gates!!!!!!!

[camembertlythere]

Reading The Terror and just reached this hysterical passage re: The Creature

'It can't climb the mainmast, thought Blanky. [...] At least it can't climb the mainmast. Nothing that size can climb. No white bear --if it is a white bear-- has experience climbing.

The thing began climbing the attenuated mainmast.'

[mab1905]

I’m listening to an audio book of DS’s The Terror Bc I need something to keep me awake while I work on a project, and I stg I have to take a break and pace around my house every so often because something in the book will be so fucking egregious that I have to shake the urge to hunt down Simmons and strangle him.

I assume this is a fairly standard reading experience for this book.

[haredjarris]

if the les misérables book is called "the brick", the terror book should be called "the berg".

[leadandblood]

"Rosy-cheeked lisping pet poodle Fitzjames" oh my god😭 stop slandering the poor man like that. I mean you're right, but-

[apollolewis]

I started playing The pale beyond. This might be what actually gets me to finish The Terror. I got that book like about a year ago and I haven’t gotten that far into it. Arctic ship crash fiction is a weird rabbithole to fall down but I am falling.

[beetleandfox]

I love how unsanitized The Terror feels. Like there’s grime everywhere. You can tell those men smell bad. When they do surgery you can hear the bone being cut, when they get sick they look genuinely ill. The main character’s actor even has pockmarks, he LOOKS like he could be from the 1800s! And idk, I think it’s cool that we’re so aware of the characters’ carnal desires. They’re hungry, thirsty, freezing, etc, and it is so obvious that they have a body with needs!!

I think this also accounts for how horny the show feels, even though everyone is bundled up 90% of the time and there are no real romantic subplots. Besides the fact that it’s a very carnal show, it just has the intimacy and grime of true horniness. Is this thing on

[cashmere-caveman]

this is what really happened to the franklin expedition btw

[happypeachsludgeflower]

How awful do you have to be for Heaven to nickname you “the three tumors” when Feng Xin and Mu Qing are around constantly destroying the capital while everyone laughs about it??

Ling Wen, Shi Wudu, and Pei Ming. What did you do??

[marykyou08]

Yanderes Doodles

hello! hellooo! I hope they are well! Today I bring you some doodles of the crazy "lovers" that is, the types of yandere-type visual novels and the truth is I didn't have a reason to draw them, I just did it and I hope you like them Σ(°△°|||)︴

[weirdlookindog]

Terrors Of Dracula Vol.1 #4 - Eerie Publications, August 1979.

Front cover art uncredited. Back cover by Oscar Novelle.

[smashpages]

Out this week: Rocket and Groot: Tales of Terror (Graphix, $8.99): 

Amanda Deibert is back for another all-ages Rocket and Groot tale, this time working with artist Leo Trinidad. In this volume, the duo find themselves trapped in the forest with a mysterious cloaked figure, and the only way they can leave is tell a really spooky story.

See what else is arriving at your local comic shop this week.

[eel-art]

Fun facts about Tristan:

-He can look down an object's path through time and use that object as a grounding tool to time travel.

-He sometimes coughs up green slime.

-He befriends a creature he coughs up with the green slime.

-He's terrible at first dates.

-He has anxiety.

You can read the first few chapters of Hunger Beauty Terror Magic here!

[antiqua-lugar]

the problem with the terror (2018) is that it rewires your brain and gives you enough brainrot to make you look at the terror (2007) with the same hubris of a victorian british explorer thinking that I will find the northwestern passage, actually

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

W.A. Ballinger - Drums of the Dark Gods - Five Star - 1967

[killyourrdarlingss]

@queenoftheimps

So, here we go! this is written from Goodsir's POV as one of his journal entries.

I think it's so neat that Crozier is so untrusting of the mutiny crew in this... I also feel terrible for Goodsir in this book, he's trying his best and is struggling so bad😭😭

It's pages 587-588 btw if the images aren't coming through well 🫶

Edit : PLEASE no book spoilers in tags/comments !! I haven't finished the book yet lol ❤️