H.G. Wells' novel “War of the Worlds” is effective in creating fear, but the radio broadcast had more effect in creating fear of the unknown. Listening to the peoples screams such as, “keep back!” all together at once gave fear more of an essence. When you read aloud to yourself, you see it as one person saying it, all together sounds more fearful because of the number of people. The panic in their voices also makes the fear have more effect: “Just a minute, something is happening!” When you read, sometimes you tend to read in your own voice, hearing someone else speak gives a different point of view. As for it being different, there are little to no direct quotations because the audio is different than the reading. (I read what was provided