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Have you ever wanted to have scurvy? If so, go read The Terror and cross scurvy off the list of impairment of normal physiological functions you’ve been dreaming regarding test-driving.

Holy cow. I don’t read much horror anymore. Back in high school when I loved to think of myself as dark and tormented, I read not one thing but lurid tales of great bleakness, but thankfully that phase passed.

But then Dan Simmons, one of my bestloved authors, wrote a big fat scary book that I had to try out. And as it happens, it was the scariest book I think I’ve ever read.

When The Terror begins, an arctic exploration crew aboard the H.M.S. Terror has already been trapped in the ice for two years. This is the era of Shackleton’s Endurance voyage. People were apparently nuts for the arctic. But as rough as Shackleton’s voyage was, the crew of The Terror are in for a bad time. They are running out of food, and assorted of the men are running out of sanity. (The malevolent lunatic dwarf in this book is worth the price alone.)

Worse, something out on the ice keeps clawing up the sides of the steel ship and snatching the men. A weird eskimo-esque woman wanders in out of nowhere, and all hell begins to break loose.

I find very few books indescribable. Blood Meridian might be the only legitimately indescribable book out there, but The Terror unquestionably has it is own weird, icy charm. You feel cold. You feel scared. This is a book that comprehends Dread. You’ll thank your lucky stars that you haven’t been trapped in the arctic for two years with not one thing but the Northern Lights to see by.

There is a set-piece with regards to halfway through that I will never forget. It involves a masquerade ball, a working cognition of Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death, and a lot of fire.

This is a masterful book. Good or bad, on each single page, you are sentiment precisely what Simmons wants you to be feeling. More than horror, more than a thriller, more than any review may do justice to, The Terror is one of the most unforgettable books I have read in numerous time.

Enjoy!

Terro

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Kills All Common Household Ants
Terro® Ant Killer !! now comes as an easy-to-use, pre-filled liquid ant bait. Ants will enter, feed and return to the nest where they will pass on the Terro® to the rest of the colony.

The same proven Terro liquid formulation, in a convenient, pre-filled bait station. The patented design does away with handling of chemicals and prevents drying out.

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319 of 322 humans found the following review helpful.
like a kegger for ants
By Rocco
After a discouraging and hindering week with Raid and Hotshot ant baits (in the end, i opened them conservatively and the bait cakes were utterly untouched!), I tracked down this product at a select Walgreens. We cracked two traps and it was like free beer and pizza for ants. I in truth enjoyed observing them line up to imbibe deeply the rich toxic borate brew. And then scurry, nay stagger, back to their nest to part their plunder with their unsuspecting siblings and the mother queen. Yes, drink my friends. Drink deeply.

176 of 180 persons found the following review helpful.
Little Jonestowns for Ants
By Boom
It’s not cyanide-laced grape Flavor Aid, but this stuff is like liquid crack to ants. No more foggers to turn your house into a Bhopal disaster. Now you may pretend to be the Jim Jones of the ant world.

Word to the wise: read the directions. Obviously, the humans who ranked this product with one star can’t read. This product does not kill on contact or immediately. It destroys the ants’ digestive scheme so it takes a little time. This is good because ants pass feed amongst each other. By the time ants start out dropping dead, the whole colony has had the Flavor Aid. This means the queen and the baby ants get the Jimmy-juice, too. All to the tune of Danzig’s “Last Caress.”

Heck, you’ll be happier than Che Guevara killing masses of innocent persons in the name of the Proletariat. You’ll be chanting, “El Che Vive,” and before you know it you’ll be immortalized on little red ant shirts by moron ant kids who have no clue you killed innocent ant women and ant children for little more than “getting on your toothbrush” or “walking around aimlessly by my sink.”

PS: It is also a outstanding way to figure out where the heck they’re coming from. Then after they’re all destroyed, you may seal up the spot with numerous caulk or duct tape.

62 of 62 humans found the following review helpful.
The only ant baits that actually work
By Martin Anderson
I live in Southern California, and whenever it gets genuinely hot or it rains, ants invade our house. I’ve tried each brand of ant bait and these are the only ones that the ants actually take. Every other brand that I’ve tried, the ants just walk right around the bait. With this one, they get started eating it within one hour and by three hours, there are assorted lines of ants taking the bait. Within 24 hours, they’re all gone.

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