The Terror is an American supernatural horror drama anthology television series developed for AMC. The series is named after Dan Simmons's 2007 novel. The first season was developed by David Kajganich and is a fictionalized account of Captain Sir John Franklin's lost expedition to the Arctic from 1845 to 1848. The second season was co-created by Alexander Woo and Max Borenstein and is mostly set in an American-run Japanese internment camp during World War II. The third season follows Pepper, a man who is wrongfully committed to psychiatric hospital, where he must deal with adversarial patients and doctors.
The first season begins with the Royal Navy's polar explorer ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror. The second season takes place on the west coast of the United States during World War II. The third season follows Pepper, a working class moving man who finds himself wrongfully committed to New Hyde Psychiatric Hospital.