Read the opening lines of Thomas Love Peacock's Gothic parody Nightmnare Abbey. What do you think this introduction coveys about Peacocks opinlon about Gothic novels?

There's a dark lantern of the spirit,
Whlch none see by but those who bear It,
That makes them in the dark see visions
And hag themselves with apparitions,
Find racks for thelr own minds, and vaunt
of their own misery and want.
-BUTLER