Doktor Tko

At any rate, whether we expect another invasion or not, our views of the human future must be greatly modified by these events. We have ...

  There were few people in the train, and I was in no mood for casual conversation. I got a compartment to myself, and sat with folded a...

But before the dawn my courage returned, and while the stars were still in the sky I turned once more towards Regent's Park. I misse...

As I drew nearer I perceived he was dressed in clothes as dusty and filthy as my own; he looked, indeed, as though he had been dragged th...

After sunset I struggled on along the road towards Putney, where I think the Heat-Ray must have been used for some reason. And in the ga...

Now I stood on a mound of smashed brickwork, clay, and gravel, over which spread a multitude of red cactus-shaped plants, knee-high, with...

The tentacle was now some way, two yards or more, in the room, and twisting and turning, with queer sudden movements, this way and that. ...

I put out my hand and felt the meat chopper hanging to the wall. In a flash I was after him. I was fierce with fear. Before he was half...

As I looked, the handling-machine, with a faint and musical clinking, extended, telescopic fashion, a tentacle that had been a moment bef...

The cylinder was already opened in the centre of the pit, and on the farther edge of the pit, amid the smashed and gravel-heaped shrubber...

He used no Heat-Ray to destroy them, but picked them up one by one. Apparently he tossed them into the great metallic carrier which proj...

A douche of spray blinded my brother for a moment. When his eyes were clear again he saw the monster had passed and was rushing landward...

For the main road was a boiling stream of people, a torrent of human beings rushing northward, one pressing on another. A great bank of ...

Each of the Martians, standing in the great crescent I have described, had discharged, by means of the gunlike tube he carried, a huge ca...

I have read, in another account of these events, that on Sunday morning "all London was electrified by the news from Woking." A...

I do not clearly remember the arrival of the curate, so that probably I dozed. I became aware of him as a seated figure in soot-smudged ...

Quickly, one after the other, one, two, three, four of the armoured Martians appeared, far away over the little trees, across the flat me...

In one night the valley had become a valley of ashes. The fires had dwindled now. Where flames had been there were now streamers of smo...

And this Thing I saw! How can I describe it? A monstrous tripod, higher than many houses, striding over the young pine trees, and smash...

Even as I beheld this a lurid green glare lit the road about me and showed the distant woods towards Addlestone. I felt a tug at the rei...