Amazing Stories, August 1927 — page 8: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

The WAR of the WORLDS By 1.G. Wells ‘Author of “Under the Knife,” “The Time Machine,” ete. Those who have never seen a living Martian can scarcely imag- the incessant quivering of this mouth, tho Gorgon groups of ino the strange horror of their appearance. The peculiar V- tentacles,—abovo all, the extraordinary intensity of the im- absped mouth with its pointed upper Lp, the absence of brow mense eyes—culminated fm an effect of nausea. Evon at this ridges, the absonco of a chin beneath the wodge-like lower lip, first glimpse, we were overcome with disgust and dread. 422 ‘ COnmicOolkxs.COnn