AuthorChapter 4
The cylinder opens and the Martians appear
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1 On Horsell Common at sunset, a crowd rings the sand-pit while more hurry up the road
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2 On the sandy road at sunset, a frightened village boy runs past the narrator.
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3 With the lid off, the narrator looks over the crater lip into a black circular opening
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4 A thin grey tentacle coils up from the cylinder and reaches for the narrator
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5 A grey, bear-sized mass hauls itself out of the cylinder, glistening like wet leather
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6 The first Martian rises from the cylinder and fixes two immense dark eyes on the onlooker
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7 An extreme close-up of the narrator's face as he locks eyes with the first Martian.
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8 As the first Martian drops into the pit, a second rises in the cylinder's black mouth
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9 The shop assistant claws over the sand-heap against the low sun as the narrator watches
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10 From the Chobham road, a broken ring of onlookers crouches, staring at low heaps of sand
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