for me this read more like a comedy with a gothic castle setting. so many things happened with this perfectly comedic timing of what i would only describe as what todays sitcoms use. 
some dramatic or tragic happens only for the next paragraph to have something happen that made absolute no logical sense or was just utterly absurd and to strange the anything but a try a humor. 

is that gothic? 
mhm.

i don’t know. 

i don’t really see the gothic themes that we today see as gothic in this other than that it’s set in a castle and parts in a church. 
does that make it gothic?

not for me but what do i know? 

it wasn’t a bad read either way. 
not my favorite classic but it’s an entertaining one non the less.