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