The Terror is an anthology series that has shifted with time and place, but always brought horrific experiences to light on the screen. Now, audiences are getting a new one with The Terror Devil in Silver. AMC+ and Shudder revealed the trailer and key art for the newest installment of the lauded horror anthology. The Terror: Devil in Silver will debut Thursday, May 7, 2026, on AMC+ and Shudder, with new episodes airing weekly.
The six-episode limited series is executive produced by Ridley Scott, writers and showrunners Chris Cantwell (Halt and Catch Fire) and Victor LaValle (The Changeling), author of the novel on which the season is based, and Karyn Kusama (The Invitation), who directs the first two episodes.
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Previous seasons of The Terror focused on a British naval expedition stuck in the ice while searching for the Northwest Passage and haunting events in a Japanese internment camp in the US during World War II. Now, it’s adapting The Devil in Silver: A Novel by LaValle.
About the second season, we said, “The Terror: Infamy is not only a beautiful horror series but an amazing emotional experience. While the bulk of this review has focused on the history shown in this season finale, the reality is that Chester’s fight with the yūrei Yuko is just as important and weighted emotionally. The season uses Chester’s struggle to investigate ideas of identity, family, and belonging. Additionally, Yuko’s story, the lies her sister told her to have her sent the United States in her place, the way the community mistreated her upon having Chester, we empathize with her.”
What is The Terror Devil in Silver about?
Dan Stevens (Abigail, Downton Abbey), who also serves as executive producer, is leading the cast as Pepper – a working-class moving man who, through a combination of bad luck and a bad temper, finds himself wrongfully committed to New Hyde Psychiatric Hospital – an institution filled with those society would rather forget.
There, he must contend with patients working against him, doctors harboring grim secrets, and perhaps even the Devil himself. As Pepper navigates a hellscape where nothing is as it seems, he finds that the only path to freedom is to face the entity which thrives on the suffering within New Hyde’s walls – but doing so may prove that the worst demons of all live inside him.
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The Terror Devil In Silver Cast
- Dan Stevens (Abigail, Downton Abbey)
- Judith Light (Before, Out of My Mind)
- Aasif Mandvi (Evil, This Way Up)
- Hampton Fluker (Shades of Blue, Instant Family)
- CCH Pounder (Rustin, NCIS: New Orleans)
- b (WeCrashed, You)
- Chinaza Uche (Silo, A Good Person)
- Stephen Root (Barry, Heads of State)
- Hayward Leach (Tom Swift, Love Life)
- John Benjamin Hickey (The Big C, Lilly)
- Michael Aronov (The Americans, Operation Finale)
- Philip Ettinger (First Reformed, I Know This Much Is True)
- Marin Ireland (Sneaky Pete, Glass Chin)
What is the release date?
The Terror: Devil in Silver will debut Thursday, May 7, 2026 on AMC+ and Shudder, with new episodes airing weekly. The series will also air on AMC later this year, though a release date has been given for that time.
