Not a bad book, per se, but felt like a definite downgrade after the first book in this series. In particular, the pacing felt a little odd -- the second chapter feels like a headlong rush through the Gothic authors of the period (Dickens! Wilde! Bronte! Stoker!) while the rest of the book takes a more leisurely wander through topics such as ghosts and spirituality in the Victorian age. The final chapter is an analysis of Gothic criticism which feels a bit, I don't know, too 'meta'.