I do like seeing the occasional classic tale pulled out and dusted off. (Like "The Cask of Amontillado" a while back.) Like others, I especially dug the scientific spiritualism, especially since that's a mindset I've been making use of for my next novel.
But oh, dear lord -- if an adjective is good enough to use once, surely it's good enough to use twelve or sixteen times! I'm pretty sure I've got my RDA of the word "hooning" for, oh, the next three years.