Introduction: Terror in Philosophy, Politics, and Literature; 1. The Terror of Thinking in The Unnamable; 2. The Beginning (Again) and Ending (Again) of Terror in Texts for Nothing; 3. The Writing of How It Is in the Paratactic Delay of Terror; 4. The Terror of Passivity in Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, and Worstward Ho; Coda: Literature at the Turning Point of Terror.