Chapter 1 New Historical Romance Fiction 1
1.Overview 1
2.Anthony Hope:The Prisoner of Zenda 2
3.Baroness Orczy:The Scarlet Pimpernel 12
4.John Jeffery Farnol:The Broad Highway 22
Chapter 2 Supernatural Horror Fiction 32
1.Overview 32
2.Bram Stoker:Dracula 33
3.Montague Rhodes James:Ghost Stories of an Antiquary 46
4.Algernon Blackwood:The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories 65
Chapter 3 New Speculative Science Fiction 84
1.Overview 84
2.Herbert George Wells:The First Man in the Moon 86
3.John Davys Beresford:The Hampdenshire Wonder 102
4.David Lindsay:A Voyage to Arcturus 113
Chapter 4 Espionage Fiction 132
1.Overview 132
2.Erskine Childers:The Riddle of the Sands 135
3.William Le Queux:The Czar's Spy 147
4.John Buchan:The Thirty-Nine Steps 162
Chapter 5 Pornographic Fiction 176
1.Overview 176
2.Elinor Glyn:Three Weeks 178
3.E.M.Hull:The Sheik 189
Chapter 6 New Magic Fantasy Fiction 214
1.Overview 214
2.Edith Nesbit:The Enchanted Castle 216
3.Eric Rucker Eddison:The Worm Ouroboros 233
4.Lord Dunsay:The King of Elfland's Daughter 249
Chapter 7 New Women's Fiction 257
1.Overview 257
2.Florence L.Barclay:The Rosary 258
3.Ethel Mary Dell:The Way of an Eagle 266
4.Ruby Mildred Ayres:The Second Honeymoon 277
Chapter 8 Magic Horror Fiction 294
1.Overview 294
2.Walter de la Mare:The Return 296
3.Sax Rohmer:Brood of the Witch-Queen 308
4.Jack Mann:Grey Shapes 319
Chapter 9 Golden Detective Fiction 336
1.Overview 336
2.Freeman Wills Crofts:The Cask 341
3.Dorothy L.Sayers:Whose Body 355
4.Agatha Christie:Murder on the Orient Express 368
Chapter 10 Heroic Fantasy Fiction 385
1.Overview 385
2.Charles Williams:The Greater Trumps 387
3.Terence Hanbury White:The Sword in the Stone 405
4.Clive Staples Lewis:The Lion,the Witch,and the Wardrobe 417
Chapter 11 Historical Love Fiction 428
1.Overview 428
2.Georgette Heyer:The Conqueror 429
3.Margaret Irwin:The Royal Flush 440
4.Barbara Cartland:The Sweet Enchantress 457
Chapter 12 Hard Science Fiction 468
1.Overview 468
2.William Olaf Stapledon:Last and First Men 470
3.John Wyndham:The Day of the Triffids 485
4.Arthur C.Clarke:2001:A Space Odyssey 501
Select Bibliography 516