Ugh I have read so many classic novels written in old fashioned English and loved them. Jane Eyre, Little Women, Dracula, Shakespeare, Edgar Allen Poe...I have never before read one that I couldn't understand. 
 Seriously COULD NOT UNDERSTAND. I know it was a ghost story hidden in all that purple prose Elizabethan type language, but I had to read paragraphs twice to understand what was going on and it jumped around, there was almost NO dialogue... 
 I don't believe reading should be that hard. When I get a headache from reading three pages and it takes me a week to get half way through a book, and I am not sure I even understood that half? Yeah it's too much for me so...nope...this was not for me...