It is a great book
FYI you can get many of those books here on MR. Go to the top of the page and go to ebooks. You want LRF/BBEb format. They're much better than those on Gutenberg IMHO, since they've been carefully cleaned up.
And if you liked War of the Worlds, you should check out The Island of Doctor Moreau by Wells also. Totally creeped me out!