On the eve of Halloween in 1938, Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater on the Air convinced America that Martians had landed and were actively destroying the planet.
Auditory Anthology presents the complete, legendary radio drama of H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds. Listen as this groundbreaking performance unfolds in real-time, delivered with such convincing realism that it sparked mass panic across the United States.
Experience the chilling, masterfully-told tale of alien invasion as it was meant to be heard, as a series of escalating news bulletins and terrified live reports that change from a curious scientific anomaly to a horrifying global crisis in under an hour.
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