The radio broadcast was more effective in creating fear of the unknown than the novel itself. Though the novel went into extensive detail of the vile alien that crawled out of that pit, the broadcast went further, and used voices and sound effects to make it seem as if it was occurring at that very moment. In fact, it was so successful in creating the element of fear that those who listened to it genuinely believed it was a warning for an alien invasion. Although H.G Wells' version of War of Worlds captured the best overall description of the alien, which invoked its own sense of fear, he relied solely on the alien itself to create fear of the unknown rather than introduce other elements. Orson Welles, however, used the advantage he had of