I'm quite curious to see what you'll make of it, given your knowledge of the period and its literature. I think you'll probably spot a lot more little things, of a literary or historical nature, than I did (like any references to Henry James. There are many to Wells's stuff, and many to Stoker, so presumably...). Hopefully there's not too much socio-cultural stuff that will spoil your fun. I didn't notice too much, but my knowledge comes a lot from other novels, so I'm no expert. The only little thing is that I found the characters less class conscious than I see usually (perhaps because there's no one above the middle-class in there)..

I'm guessing a bit about the "horribly wrong" (and I suspect it's not something we should go into much before you read it) but I think he may have avoided the traps you feared he might fall into.