Terror(s) or The Terror may refer to:

Politics

  • Terrorism, the use of violence against non-combatants to achieve political or ideological aims
  • Terror (politics), a policy of political repression and violence
  • Reign of Terror, commonly known as The Terror, a period of violence (1793–1794) after the onset of the French Revolution
  • The Terror (Karlovo massacre), a massacre of Bulgarian civilians in Karlovo, followed by police and legal repression in the second half of 1878
  • The Great Purge in the 1930s Soviet Union is also known as the "Great Terror" or "The Terror"

Emotions

  • An extreme form of fear, the emotional response to a threat or danger
  • Angst, a form of anxiety or fear described in existentialist philosophy
  • Anxiety, a sense of dread
  • Panic, a sudden overwhelming fear

Arts, entertainment and media

Fictional entities

  • Terror (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics character
  • Terror (New England Comics), a supervillain
  • Terror, a land/sea/airship in Jules Verne's novel Master of the World

Film

  • The Terror (1917 film), an American silent film
  • The Terror (1920 film), an American western film starring Tom Mix
  • Terror (1924 film), a French film starring Pearl White
  • The Terror (1926 film), an American western film
  • The Terror (1928 film), an American horror film directed by Roy Del Ruth
  • The Terror (1938 film), a British crime film
  • The Terror (1963 film), an American horror film directed by Roger Corman
  • Terror (1977 film), a Danish horror film
  • Terror (1978 film), a British horror film
  • (T)ERROR (2015), an American documentary
  • Terror (2016 film), an Indian film

Music

  • Terror (band), a band from California
  • Terror (demo), a 1994 demo tape by thrash metal band Evildead
  • Terrors (EP), a 2001 D'espairsRay EP
  • Terror (album), a 2004 album by Loudness
  • The Terror (album), a 2013 album by The Flaming Lips
  • "Terror", a song by Susumu Hirasawa from Detonator Orgun 2
  • "Terror", a song by Mac DeMarco from his 2025 album Guitar
  • "Terror", a song by My Ruin from Speak and Destroy
  • "T-Error", a song by Die Ärzte from Geräusch
  • "Terrifying" (song), a song by the Rolling Stones from their 1989 album Steel Wheels

Television

  • Terror (TV series), a Viceland documentary series
  • "Terror" (Bottom), an episode of the British sitcom Bottom
  • "Terrors", a 2011 episode of Young Justice
  • The Terror (TV series), a 2018 AMC-TV series based on Dan Simmons' 2007 novel
  • The Terror: Infamy, season 2 of the AMC-TV series The Terror

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

  • Terror Illustrated, a 1950s magazine
  • Terror Inc., a 1990s comic book series
  • The Terror (novel), a 2007 novel by Dan Simmons
  • The Terror (play), by the British writer Edgar Wallace

Places

  • Mount Terror (Antarctica)
  • Mount Terror (Washington), United States

Vessels

  • HMS Terror, several ships of the Royal Navy
  • Spanish destroyer Terror, a ship that fought in the Spanish–American War
  • USS Terror, several ships of the U.S. Navy
  • Terror (boat), a British sailboat used to transport oysters ashore from larger vessels, built c. 1890

Sports

  • Houston Thunderbears, an Arena Football League team originally called the Texas Terror
  • Tampa Bay Terror, a defunct indoor soccer team based in Tampa Bay, Florida, U.S.

Other uses

  • Horror and terror, literary and psychological concepts, especially in Gothic literature
  • Terror, a rapper featured on the album My World, My Way

See also

  • Red Terror (disambiguation)
  • White Terror (disambiguation)
  • Terroir, the influence of local growing conditions on the taste of wine or other food or drink