So far, so creepy.***I don't know much about Collins, but the biographical detail of Dickens is excellent, and pleasurable reading.***It's a huge book, and it's taking me forever, and it is sheer pleasure, every minute.I'm really thinking that I should read the Mystery of Edwin Drood though.***The pleasure ebbed. By halfway through it was dragging, and the end just kind of petered out. Not as marvelous as The Terror. Perhaps there just wasn't enough room in the lives of Dickens and Collins to keep up the fiction?