The Terror (2018–2025) – Fear Is a Cold That Never Thaws.

History remembers the facts. Horror remembers the feelings.

The Terror is a chilling anthology horror series that ran from 2018 to 2025, blending historical drama with supernatural dread. Each season delivers a haunting standalone narrative based on real events, reimagined through the lens of psychological horror, folklore, and cultural trauma. With slow-burning tension, masterful atmosphere, and deeply human characters, The Terror turns history itself into the monster.

Based on the true story of the doomed Franklin Expedition in the 1840s, this season follows two British naval ships trapped in the Arctic ice while searching for the Northwest Passage. Freezing, starving, and desperate, the crews not only face mutiny, disease, and isolation—but also a terrifying predator stalking them across the frozen wasteland. Equal parts survival story and mythic nightmare, the season explores the thin line between man and monster when nature stops forgiving.

Set during World War II in Japanese-American internment camps, Infamy shifts focus to California and the Pacific Theater, where a series of gruesome deaths are linked to a yōkai—a shape-shifting spirit from Japanese folklore. It’s a story about heritage, identity, and the terror that follows a people already being erased by their own government. The ghost is real, but so is the racism—and together, they poison everything.

Following the show's anthology format, later seasons (expanded through 2025) explore a variety of time periods and horrors, including:

• Season 3 (2021): The Hollow Earth – Set during the Cold War, American scientists uncover an underground city beneath Antarctica… and something far older than mankind.

• Season 4 (2023): The Ghosts of Warsaw – In post-WWII Poland, a resistance cell takes shelter in an abandoned SS bunker—but it isn’t empty.

• Season 5 (2025): Empire of Ashes – Set in 3rd-century Rome during the plague and the fall of the Empire, paranoia spreads faster than disease, and an ancient cult promises salvation—at a terrible cost.

Each season of The Terror is a study in what fear does to people when hope disappears: how it turns leaders into tyrants, allies into threats, and ordinary people into survivors—or monsters.