One of the five sci-fi's I remember every single detail of from my earliest days as a fan       For the genre, I think it's considerably above average       The moor is nicely atmospheric       There's one of every character in the book the good guy, the bad guy, the local sheriff, the lovely damsel, her father the old professor, etc       The scene where we're looking for the first time through the window of the ship and the visitor peeks out from the other side is easily as good as the three-fingered-hand-on-the-shoulder in War of the Worlds       Nice character to the visitor, for whom, like Karloff's Frankenstein, we end up feeling some empathy