Explanation: Wells calls it "The Thing" to give readers the impression that it's almost too terrible to name or describe.
"...came the Thing they were sending to us, the Thing that was to bring so much struggle and calamity and death to the earth."
The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells.
it is one of the earliest stories to describe a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race. The novel is narrated in the first person point of view.
