Warwick Goble's 'War of the Worlds' — Fleeing the Martian Tripods, 1897

A desperate human figure lurches forward in blind panic across a blasted, alien-shadowed landscape. This haunting ink-wash illustration by Warwick Goble captures the raw terror of H.G. Wells' Martian invasion — the narrator's stumbling flight rendered in loose, expressionistic brushwork. The diagonal composition conveys breathless momentum, with skeletal alien vegetation dotting the scorched earth and an ominous dark silhouette looming overhead. One of the earliest visual interpretations of Wells' landmark science fiction novel.