Warwick Goble's War of the Worlds: Survivor Encounters a Feral Man, 1897

A haunted survivor gestures skyward while a half-naked, feral figure crouches in the marshy undergrowth behind him. This brooding illustration by Warwick Goble captures the psychological collapse of civilization in H.G. Wells' Martian invasion epic. The murky tonal rendering evokes desolation and primal regression — humanity stripped bare by catastrophe. The standing figure's upward gaze suggests desperation or wonder, while the crouching man embodies the savage state to which mankind has been reduced under alien conquest.