The Illuminati also turn up in two spoofs of the gothic genre, which both also reference Horrid Mysteries, Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen and Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock. ![]() The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction wrote that readers had a "scandalous vogue for German tales of the Illuminati." The role of the Illuminati in Horrid Mysteries, as in Montague Summers' introduction to a later reprint of it. Gothic literature had had a particular interest in the theme of the Illuminati.
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