The Terrors of Ice and Darkness (German: Die Schrecken des Eises und der Finsternis) is a 1984 novel by the Austrian writer Christoph Ransmayr.

[1] Publishers Weekly wrote: "This aggressively intelligent narrative transforms the polar regions into unusually fertile ground.

"[2] Geoffrey Moorhouse wrote in The New York Times: "Were it not for the invented character of Mazzini there would be no justification for categorizing Mr. Ransmayr's book as a novel at all.

... As a result, this is to some extent a book of information about difficult travel in one of the bleakest places on earth."

The critic wrote that the book also is "about a number of psychological factors inseparable from quests", and "most important of all, the novelist strips away the spurious glamour that usually attaches itself to the idea of hard traveling.