The article examines AMC’s anthology horror series *The Terror*, highlighting Ridley Scott’s influence and its blend of psychological fear, historical tragedy and supernatural allegory. It focuses particularly on how the show transforms real episodes of suffering into atmospheric survival horror, making isolation, prejudice and human hubris as threatening as its monsters.

Season 1 dramatises the doomed 1845 Franklin expedition, in which HMS *Terror* and HMS *Erebus* became trapped in Arctic ice, while adding the Inuit spirit Tuunbaq to the crews’ starvation, exposure and possible cannibalism. Season 2, *Infamy*, shifts to Japanese American internment during the Second World War, following a family persecuted by both state-sanctioned racism and a vengeful ghost after Executive Order 9066; the article stresses that the historical trauma remains more significant than the supernatural elements.