Terror
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Terror is a state of fear, an overwhelming sense of imminent danger.
Terror may also refer to:
- In popular culture
- The Terror (1963 film), a 1963 horror film directed by Roger Corman
- The Terror (novel), a 2007 novel by Dan Simmons
- Terror (band), an American hardcore punk band from California
- "Terror", a song by My Ruin from their 1999 album Speak and Destroy
- In comics
- Terror (New England Comics), a supervillain from The Tick comic books, cartoon, and live-action TV series
- Terror Inc., a 1992 Marvel Comics series
- Terror (Marvel Comics), the fictional Marvel Comics character of the 1940's
- In history
- Reign of Terror, a period of extreme violence, 1793 - 1794, during the French Revolution
- The last weeks of the Reign of Terror are sometimes referred to as the "Red Terror" or "Great Terror"; see below for other uses of those terms.
- Red Terror, a campaign of repression and violence by Bolsheviks in Soviet Russia 1918 - 1922
- White Terror, acts of violence by reactionary groups as part of a counter-revolution
- The White Terror (France), two similar movements against the French Revolution 1794 - 1795
- Great Terror, another name for the Great Purge, campaigns of repression and persecution in the Soviet Union during the late 1930s
- In naval ships
- Spanish destroyer Terror, a ship that fought in the Spanish-American War
- HMS Terror (disambiguation), nine ships of the Royal Navy
- USS Terror (disambiguation), three ships of the United States Navy
- Other uses
- Green terror, a tropical freshwater fish
- Night terror, a sleep disorder
- Mount Terror (disambiguation), two mountains