and one that perhaps caused the most confusion and mass hysteria was The War of the Worlds. On Oct. 30, 1938, CBS Radio aired a dramatic interpretation of the 1898 novel of the same name by H.G ...

On October 30, 1938, Orson Welles gave the nation a Halloween scare with his radio broadcast of an adaptation of H.G. Wells' 1898 novel, The War of the Worlds.

Many Americans could not fathom that some people heard War of the Worlds and actually believed that Martians had landed in New Jersey. Over 12,000 articles were published about War of the Worlds ...

There are at least five well-known versions of War of the Worlds still in circulation (the novel, Orson Welles’ 1938 broadcast, a musical version by Jeff Wayne from 1978, the 1953 and 2005 big ...

Learn more about the story of The War of the Worlds: Siberia in this trailer for the upcoming action-adventure game inspired by H.G. Wells’ classic science fiction novel.

A. Brad Schwartz is the author of Broadcast Hysteria: Orson Welles's War of the Worlds and the Art of Fake News. A graduate of the University of Michigan, he cowrote a 2013 episode of the PBS ...