WAR OF THE WORLDS (Full Audiobook): The Alien Invasion Horror Classic by H.G. Wells

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Darren Marlar

History, True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 355 minutes

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The full-length, unabridged audiobook narrated by Weird Darkness host, Darren Marlar. | No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that intelligent life beyond Earth was watching us. Studying us. Envying us. When massive cylinders fell from the sky and buried themselves in the English countryside, curious crowds gathered to witness what they thought was a meteorite. But when those cylinders unscrewed from within, what emerged would shatter humanity's place at the top of the evolutionary ladder. Towering tripods. Heat rays that incinerated everything in their path. And an enemy more advanced, more ruthless, and more alien than anyone could have imagined. H.G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds" – the story that invented the alien invasion. This is the complete, unabridged audiobook that asks one terrifying question: What happens when humanity becomes the hunted?

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
BOOK ONE: THE COMING OF THE MARTIANS:
00:00:00.000 = (I) The Eve of the War
00:14:16.405 = (II) The Falling Star
00:22:00.836 = (III) On Horsell Common
00:27:45.677 = (IV) The Cylinder Opens
00:34:17.623 = (V) The Heat-Ray
00:42:57.421 = (VI) The Heat-Ray In The Chobham Road
00:47:48.714 = (VII) How I Reached Home
00:55:46.271 = (VIII) Friday Night
01:01:29.924 = (IX) The Fighting Begins
01:12:31.580 = (X) In The Storm
01:24:39.457 = (XI) At The Window
01:36:56.366 = (XII) What I Saw of the Destruction of Weybridge and Shepperton
01:58:51.158 = (XIII) How I Fell In With The Curate
02:10:01.190 = (XIV) In London
02:31:21.494 = (XV) What Had Happened In Surrey
02:48:02.610 = (XVI) The Exodus From London
03:12:02.239 = (XVII) The “Thunder Child”
BOOK TWO: THE EARTH UNDER THE MARTIANS
03:31:49.519 = (I) Under Foot
03:47:18.026 = (II) What We Saw From The Ruined House
04:07:38.626 = (III) The Days of Imprisonment
04:19:10.254 = (IV) The Death of the Curate
04:28:53.956 = (V) The Stillness
04:34:49.349 = (VI) The Work of Fifteen Days
04:42:30.209 = (VII) The Man on Putney Hill
05:16:03.135 = (VIII) Dead London
05:34:44.711 = (IX) Wreckage
05:45:53.821 = (X) Epilogue

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ABOUT WEIRD DARKNESS: Weird Darkness is a true crime and paranormal podcast narrated by professional award-winning voice actor, Darren Marlar. Seven days per week, Weird Darkness focuses on all thing strange and macabre such as haunted locations, unsolved mysteries, true ghost stories, supernatural manifestations, urban legends, unsolved or cold case murders, conspiracy theories, and more. On Thursdays, this scary stories podcast features horror fiction along with the occasional creepypasta. Weird Darkness has been named one of the “Best 20 Storytellers in Podcasting” by Podcast Business Journal. Listeners have described the show as a cross between “Coast to Coast” with Art Bell, “The Twilight Zone” with Rod Serling, “Unsolved Mysteries” with Robert Stack, and “In Search Of” with Leonard Nimoy.DISCLAIMER: Ads heard during the podcast that are not in my voice are placed by third party agencies outside of my control and should not imply an endorsement by Weird Darkness or myself. *** Stories and content in Weird Darkness can be disturbing for some listeners and intended for mature audiences only. Parental discretion is strongly advised.
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0:00.0	When police officer Matt Klein returns to the quiet coastal town of Marshport, he hopes
0:08.7	for a fresh start with his family.
0:11.4	But a series of brutal, inexplicable deaths begins to unravel the town.
0:16.7	At the center of it all is an ancient evil bound to a seemingly harmless gift of an antique advent calendar,
0:23.8	a relic, counting down to the night when the light of Christmas goes out.
0:28.4	As the days slip by, strange voices whisper through the walls, people go mad, and reality itself starts to crack.
0:37.7	The deeper Matt digs, the closer he comes to facing an evil that has been waiting for him for years.
0:44.7	Now with his wife and sons in peril and the final door of the calendar looming, Matt must confront the truth.
0:51.7	Some traditions were never meant to be completed. 24 days, 24 doors, all leading to one unholy Christmas Eve. Advent of Evil, a 24-episode horror event on Weird Darkness beginning December 1st,
1:13.3	or get the entire novel at Weirddarkness.com slash advent of evil.
1:20.1	The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
1:22.9	Book 1. The Coming of the Martians Chapter 1 The Coming of the Martians
1:27.6	Chapter 1. The Eve of the War
1:32.1	No one would have believed, in the last years of the 19th century, that this world was being
1:40.6	watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's, and yet as mortal
1:46.0	as his own. That as men busied themselves about their various concerns, they were scrutinized
1:51.7	and studied. Perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinize the transient
1:57.4	creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
2:06.8	With infinite complacency, men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs,
2:10.0	serene in their assurance of their empire over matter.
2:14.5	It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same.
2:18.7	No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space and sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible,
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