Feeding their inspirations into a computer, they become obsessed with their story, dreaming up links between the Templars and just about every occult manifestation throughout history, and predicting that culmination of the Templars' scheme to take over the world is close at hand. As a lark, the three decide to invent a history of the occult tying a variety of phenomena to the mysterious machinations of the Order. The narrator, Casaubon, an expert on the medieval Knights Templars, and two editors working in a branch of a vanity press publishing house in Milan, are told about a purported coded message revealing a secret plan set in motion by the Knights Templars centuries ago when the society was forced underground. This complex psychological thriller chronicles the development of a literary joke that plunges its perpetrators into deadly peril. If a copy (often unread) of The Name of the Rose on the coffee table was a badge of intellectual superiority in 1983, Eco's second novel-also an intellectual blockbuster-should prove more accessible.
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