With the second season of The Terror now in production, the series has moved to add another genre favourite to its ranks.

Courtesy of Bloody Disgusting, The Hitcher’s C. Thomas Howell has joined The Terror: Infamy in a to-be-confirmed role.

In the second year of the Ridley Scott-developed series, Howell joins a cast that features George Takei, Kiki Sukezane, Miki Ishikawa, Cristina Rodlo, Yuki Morita and Shingo Usami.

With True Blood’s Alexander Woo serving as showrunner, the early word on The Terror’s second season reads:

Set during World War II, the second of follows a series of bizarre deaths that haunt a Japanese-American community and a young man’s journey to understand and combat the malevolent entity responsible.

The ten-episode The Terror: Infamy is due to premiere later this year.