wellntruly:

“They were walking inland, walking the mainland—the nunamariq—‘the real land’. They were a raggedy bunch and their clothing was not well made. Their skins were black and the meat above their teeth was gone; their eyes were gaunt. Were they tuurngait—spirits—or what?” (Towtongie quoted in Eber 2008, xi)

0.5 pages into The Spectral Arctic: A History of Dreams and Ghosts in Polar Exploration and already captivated by a version of The Terror where instead of being hunted by the tuunbaq, the Europeans become the tuunbaq—in the original Inuit tuurngait definition of unbodied “killing” spirits. Because the thematic echo! The white men as the uncanny presence adrift in this land, becoming their own horror, yesss