Warwick Goble's Martian-Haunted Survivor, War of the Worlds 1897

Like Henrique Alvim Corrêa's similarly harrowing Belgian illustrations for the same H.G. Wells novel, Goble's monochromatic pen-and-ink work captures raw human desperation rather than spectacle. A bearded, disheveled man staggers under the weight of salvaged equipment or supplies, his posture broken and exhausted, clothing ragged — a survivor of the Martian invasion reduced to scavenging. The sepia-toned vignette style, fading at the edges, evokes journalistic immediacy, grounding Wells's cosmic horror in recognizable human suffering.