History is replete with examples of media-created scares and panics. This book presents more than three dozen studies of media scares from the 17th century to t

On the evening of October 30, 1938, radio listeners across the United States heard a startling report of a meteor strike in the New Jersey countryside. With sir

An American Library Association Notable Book: In rural Ohio in 1938, twelve-year-old Willie Bea prepares for Halloween—and an alien invasion! Halloween is Wil

This is the inside story of what really happened when Americans heard "War of the Worlds" and reacted to what they thought was a Martian menace.

The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells, first serialised in 1897 by Pearson's Magazine in the UK and by Cosmopolitan mag