In the UK a neogothic wasn't even a thing when the first horror novels were made 1765 (Palladian style was all the rage)
around 1870 "high gothic" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Victorian_Gothic was the equivalent of glass and steel construction for us, or possible more like Bauhaus, a homage to an earlier age, but with a modern twist.
In the UK a neogothic wasn't even a thing when the first horror novels were made 1765 (Palladian style was all the rage)
around 1870 "high gothic" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Victorian_Gothic was the equivalent of glass and steel construction for us, or possible more like Bauhaus, a homage to an earlier age, but with a modern twist.
either way, it was uber modern.