Henrique Alvim Corrêa's Martian Red Weed Spreads, War of the Worlds 1906

Created in 1906 for the landmark Belgian illustrated edition of H.G. Wells' 'La Guerre des Mondes,' this pen-and-ink drawing by Henrique Alvim Corrêa captures the alien red weed creeping across a devastated English landscape. At a time when Wells' 1898 novel was reshaping public imagination about extraterrestrial invasion, Corrêa's organic, tentacular vegetation sprawls menacingly toward smoldering ruins, conveying biological conquest as chillingly as any mechanical tripod.