Warwick Goble – War of the Worlds: Woman Flees Martian Attack, 1897

At the peak of late-Victorian anxieties about imperial overreach and colonial karma, H.G. Wells imagined the invaders becoming the invaded. This haunting pen-and-ink vignette captures a terrified Edwardian woman fleeing in full skirts as a horse-drawn cart races behind her through billowing smoke — the chaos of Martian invasion rendered in elegant, journalistic urgency. Warwick Goble's loose, expressive linework conveys civilian panic without showing the alien threat directly, making the horror entirely human.