Horror anthology series The Terror officially returning for third season with Dan Stevens

AMC Networks announced that their horror anthology series The Terror will get a third season. Season three will consist of six episodes, which will debut on AMC and AMC+ in 2025.

The Terror: Devil in Silver is based on Victor LaValle’s hit horror novel The Devil in Silver. LaValle himself is co-executive producing and co-writing the series with Chris Cantwell (Halt and Catch Fire), and Karyn Kusama will direct the first two episodes, as well as co-executive produce. Kusama also directed Jennifer’s Body, The Invitation and two episodes of Showtime’s horror series Yellowjackets.

Also executive producing is Dan Stevens (Abigail, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, and the upcoming Cuckoo), who plays the lead role of Pepper. Pepper is an everyday working-class guy who is mistakenly committed to a mental institution called New Hyde Psychiatric Hospital, which is filled with “the people society would rather forget.”

The patients are difficult to get along with, the staff are keeping deadly secrets…and a terrifying creature roams the place at night, nearly killing Pepper on his first night in New Hyde. When other inmates confirm the monster’s existence, Pepper must come up with a plan to do whatever it takes to rid the place of it. Unfortunately, that also may mean facing his own personal demons.

Stevens describes The Terror: Devil in Silver as “a dark symphony of psychological horror and gripping drama”, a description that could also describe The Terror’s first two seasons.

The executive producing team also includes Ridley Scott and David W. Zucker of Scott Free Productions, Alexandra Milchan and Scott Lamber (Emjag Productions), Guymon Casady (Entertainment 360) and Brooke Kennedy.

What were the first two seasons of The Terror about?

Season one of The Terror made its focus two British Royal Navy polar explorer ships. HMS Erebus and HMS Terror were navigating unchartered waters in search of the Northwest Passage when they became trapped in the ice. The men aboard had to fight not only deadly weather, but also one another and an unnamed menace.

Season two, titled The Terror: Infamy was set in World War II United States. A Japanese shapeshifer known as bakemono “menaces a Japanese-American community from its home in Southern California to the internment camps to the war in the Pacific.”