Publisher's Synopsis
It was an ordinary night in October of 1938 until a news bulletin interrupted the dance music onCBSradio–aliens were invading the United States!
Meghan McCarthy’s hilariousAliens Are Coming!tells the true story of the Halloween radio prank that duped much of the country into believing that Martians had invaded. The book uses excerpts from the actualWar of the Worldsradio broadcast and includes information about the importance of radios in the 1930s (before the time of televisions and computers) as well as facts about Orson Welles and H. G. Wells, author of the novel on which the broadcast was based.
