[EveningStar]

ping

[Boogieman]

Reminiscent of Japanese tentacle erotica (yes there is such a thing!)

[Sicon]

Now I know where they got the idea for the "Striders" in Half-Life 2...

[SES1066]

Ummm, Japanese Hentai anybody?

"Martian Gets the Girl"

Marvin, you NAUGHTY monster, you!

[Covenantor]

yah....but this guy is real.

[Rodamala]

I actually came across an excellent webpage a few months back when I was looking for old artwork associated with War of the Worlds. I probably used the image in a post on FR. A google search will turn up that page if anyone is interested... same artwork and MORE, from just about every printing of the novel.

[cld51860]

I would not say “terrifying,” but certainly creepy, and worthy of the story.

[Mariner]

Very, very similar to the Tom Cruz movie version.

Seems that version is closest to the original composition.

[SamAdams76]

I guess "terrifying" is a relative term. Perhaps those images were terrifying 100 years ago. But today they seem rather cartoonish.

Back in 1975, I remember being terrified by the movie "Jaws". I did not go into the ocean for years afterwards and even today, I still think about sharks when I get more than knee deep in ocean water.

Watched that movie on TV with my kids a few years back and they were laughing at it. They thought the special effects were cheesy and found it hard to believe that millions of people were once freaked out about it.

[SES1066]

Anybody have / listen to Jeff Wayne's "War of the Worlds" in music with the late Richard Burton voice acting as narrator & "The Journalist"? I have it and will now listen to it again as it is quite good.