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📺 Channel 13's Creature Feature, live in your terminal
📺 "Good evening, creatures of the night, and welcome to the Channel 13 Creature Feature. I'm your host, Count Cathode, broadcasting from beyond the static."
Terminal of Terror brings the classic Universal monsters, creatures from world folklore, the cryptids people swear they have seen, the great literary monsters, the beasts of Greek myth and the first monsters ever filmed to your terminal. Meet 55 monsters in six packs, learn the real history behind them (where the legends began, who played them on screen, and which "facts" Hollywood simply made up), then prove what you know in the Midnight Quiz and fill your crypt.
[!WARNING]
Viewer discretion is advised. Side effects may include knowing far too much about 1930s makeup artists, a sudden distrust of huts with chicken legs, and correcting your friends about silver bullets.
📅 Tonight's Programme
🔮 Summon it
On macOS or Linux, install it with Homebrew (brew upgrade picks up new releases):
brew install hungovercoders/tap/terminal-of-terror
On Windows, or without Homebrew, download it from the latest release: there are builds for Linux, macOS and Windows, on Intel and ARM. Unpack it and put terminal-of-terror somewhere on your PATH.
# e.g. Linux on Intel/AMD, version 1.1.0
tar xzf terminal-of-terror_1.1.0_linux_amd64.tar.gz
sudo mv terminal-of-terror /usr/local/bin/
# e.g. Windows on Intel/AMD: unpack, then add the folder to your PATH
Expand-Archive terminal-of-terror_1.1.0_windows_amd64.zip "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\terminal-of-terror"
[!NOTE]
On macOS, the downloaded binary isn't signed, so the first run may be blocked. Run xattr -d com.apple.quarantine terminal-of-terror to let it through. Homebrew does this for you.
Or, with Go 1.25+, install it into $(go env GOPATH)/bin, which needs to be on your PATH:
go install github.com/hungovercoders/terminal-of-terror@latest
Or build it from source:
git clone https://github.com/hungovercoders/terminal-of-terror.git
cd terminal-of-terror
go build -o terminal-of-terror
Check it worked with terminal-of-terror --version.
Tab completion and man pages. Homebrew installs both. Otherwise, completion for monster names, pack ids and every flag comes from the binary:
source <(terminal-of-terror completion bash) # or: terminal-of-terror completion zsh|fish|powershell
terminal-of-terror monster dra<TAB> # dracula Dracula
Put that line in your shell's startup file to keep it, and terminal-of-terror completion --help has the per-shell details. The release archives carry the same scripts under completions/ and a man page per command under man/ (man -l man/terminal-of-terror.1).
🌙 Your first night
terminal-of-terror monster # tune in to the Creature Feature
terminal-of-terror quiz # test yourself in the Midnight Quiz
terminal-of-terror tonight # see tonight's double bill
terminal-of-terror countdown # how many nights until Halloween?
terminal-of-terror random --daily # the Fact of the Night
[!TIP]
Add terminal-of-terror random --daily to your ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc and every new terminal opens with the Fact of the Night.
🧛 The Creature Feature
terminal-of-terror monster
Count Cathode opens the broadcast through a wall of TV static, then hands you the keys to the vault. Every monster has its own colours and a page full of sections:
This is the beginning of the README. Read the rest at the original. Read the full README ↗
