"WAR OF THE WORLDS" by H.G. Wells, FULL LENGTH NOVEL | #MidnightInTheMacabre
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No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that intelligent life beyond Earth was watching us. Studying us. Envying us. When massive cylinders fell from the sky and buried themselves in the English countryside, curious crowds gathered to witness what they thought was a meteorite. But when those cylinders unscrewed from within, what emerged would shatter humanity's place at the top of the evolutionary ladder. Towering tripods. Heat rays that incinerated everything in their path. And an enemy more advanced, more ruthless, and more alien than anyone could have imagined. H.G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds" – the story that invented the alien invasion. This is the complete, unabridged audiobook that asks one terrifying question: What happens when humanity becomes the hunted?
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… BOOK ONE: THE COMING OF THE MARTIANS: 00:00:00.000 = (I) The Eve of the War 00:14:36.309 = (II) The Falling Star 00:22:20.796 = (III) On Horsell Common 00:28:05.548 = (IV) The Cylinder Opens 00:34:37.378 = (V) The Heat-Ray 00:43:17.408 = (VI) The Heat-Ray In The Chobham Road 00:48:08.844 = (VII) How I Reached Home 00:56:06.177 = (VIII) Friday Night 01:01:49.835 = (IX) The Fighting Begins 01:12:51.970 = (X) In The Storm 01:24:59.356 = (XI) At The Window 01:37:15.932 = (XII) What I Saw of the Destruction of Weybridge and Shepperton 01:59:11.314 = (XIII) How I Fell In With The Curate 02:10:21.092 = (XIV) In London 02:31:41.490 = (XV) What Had Happened In Surrey 02:48:22.548 = (XVI) The Exodus From London 03:12:22.190 = (XVII) The “Thunder Child”
BOOK TWO: THE EARTH UNDER THE MARTIANS 03:32:09.436 = (I) Under Foot 03:47:37.924 = (II) What We Saw From The Ruined House 04:07:58.378= (III) The Days of Imprisonment 04:19:30.274 = (IV) The Death of the Curate 04:29:13.940 = (V) The Stillness 04:35:09.227 = (VI) The Work of Fifteen Days 04:42:50.226 = (VII) The Man on Putney Hill 05:16:23.121 = (VIII) Dead London 05:35:04.696 = (IX) Wreckage 05:46:13.832 = (X) Epilogue SOURCES and RESOURCES: “War of the Worlds” by H.G. Wells (Public Domain) WeirdDarkness® | Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness | Midnight In The Macabre (MITM)
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