While Byron is keen to develop an argument on Gothic from the works of authors like H. G. Wells, in her analysis, the texts are as much gothic horror as they are science fiction. In this paper I will be expanding on Byron’s essay by illustrating how in Wells’s War of the Worlds, machinic hybrids form part of the Gothic landscape, and how these narratives map, or specifically ‘graft’, the disciplines of architecture and geography unto each other. Further, the paper attempts to satirise contemporary invasion narratives through a recasting of Wells’s War of the Worlds. The paper concludes with a discussion on territorial thinking, and what it terms capricious imaginaries - or false mappings.