Victorians where the ones who could see to the 'abandonment of a conventional religious society' (http://writersinspire.org/content/introduction-victorian-gothic - paragraph 4) meaning they where more open to a possibility that there was something else out there.
When looking at the 'supernatural' in the Victorian era it meant different things, an unexplained phenomena was intriguing to people.
One of the most popular things to get into, in Europe and America was spiritualism, as it was the belief that the dead can communicate with the living. This 'unknown' still fascinates people to this day.
Science then started to play a big part, metal science, anthropology and human behaviour studies; this also started to merge into fiction writing, Gothic Literature.
Helpful Links:
http://www.nines.org/exhibits/DickensFatherChristmas
http://writersinspire.org/content/introduction-victorian-gothic
http://www.victorianweb.org/victorian/religion/spirit.html
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