In this God-forsaken world of snow and shadows the cold has gnawed us to the bone.

The ship is long ago abandoned to the ice, a bitter sign of our failure.

What are we now?

Remnants of a crew, remnants of men.

If only some evil abomination would come thundering out of the

blizzard and save us from ourselves. Save us from the meal we are about to eat. My gut aches, not with hunger now, but with the thought of it.

In the pot lies, I cannot bring myself to say it. In the port is...

Oh, hi there.

Sorry to interrupt the captain's recipe, but you'll have to listen to After Dark

to get the rest of the story of HMS Terror. What's After Dark, I hear you say.

Well, it is a new podcast from history hit, all about the history of myths, misdeeds, and the paranormal.

I'm Madie Pelling. And I'm Anthony Delaney. And on after dark, there'll be murderer plenty.

There'll be ghosts galore.

There'll be a whole world of weirdness.

Everything from Victorian England's most prolific arsenic poisoner

to the secrets of Loch Ness.

Now, Maddie and I are historians by training,

but we are also drawn to the boundaries between the known world

and what hides in the dark.

So why you hear Anthony, what is it about the world of the spooky in the dark that actually attracts you?

For me personally, I think what drew me to this side of history was growing up in the Irish countryside,

where just across the field from our house, there was this abandoned old church,

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