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Welcome to the LitCharts study guide on Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Mexican Gothic. Created by the original team behind SparkNotes, LitCharts are the world's best literature guides.
Inspiration. The town of El Triunfo is based on the real-life town Real del Monte, which Silvia Moreno-Garcia visited a few years before writing the novel.
A Villainous Name. The name of the novel’s chief antagonist, Howard Doyle, is a fusion of H.P. Lovecraft’s first name and Arthur Conan Doyle’s last name. Moreno-Garcia noted several stories in each author’s body of work that contained racist elements, so she chose to name her villain after them.