Happy Halloween!
Happy Halloween!
On the evening of 30 October in 1938 occurred something which it is difficult to believe could happen these days. It was the evening that CBS aired Orson Welles’ adaptation of H. G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds and which brought short-lived panic to some American homes.
Published in 1898, Wells’ The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel describing the invasion of London and the southern counties by alien creatures who set out to destroy life on earth. At the time












