Henrique Alvim Corrêa's War of the Worlds 1906 — Martian Oversees Captive

Startlingly intimate for an alien invasion narrative, this 1906 pen-and-ink illustration by Henrique Alvim Corrêa depicts not a grand battle but a quiet, bureaucratic horror: a seated figure intently reviewing documents or maps at a desk while a disembodied Martian head peers up from a pit or vessel nearby. The juxtaposition of mundane clerical activity with the grotesque alien presence captures Wells's unsettling vision of human subjugation rendered disturbingly routine.