<p>In 'Nightmare Abbey', Thomas Love Peacock crafts a sharply satirical gothic novel that weaves through the gloomy corridors of its titular setting with both wry humor and a touch of the macabre. The narrative follows the despondent protagonist, Scythrop Glowry, in his lugubrious Lincolnshire mansion, as he grapples with the pangs of a failed romance and the lofty pursuit of utopian reform, channeling the zeitgeist of Romantic melancholy. Peacoc...