Chapter 1 Scandal Fiction 1
1．Overview 1
2．Aphra Behn:Oroonoko;or,The Royal Slave 4
3．Mary Delarivier Manley:New Atalantis 24
4．Eliza Haywood:The Fortunate Foundlings 37
Chapter 2 Gothic Fiction 48
1．Overview 48
2．Horace Walpole:The Castle of Otranto 51
3．Ann Radcliffe:The Mysteries of Udolpho 72
4．Matthew Gregory Lewis:The Monk 92
Chapter 3 Scientific Horror Fiction 121
1．Overview 121
2．Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley:Frankenstein,or The Modern Prometheus 123
3．Jane Webb Loudon:The Mummy!Or a Tale of the Twenty-Second Century 135
Chapter 4 Historical Romance Fiction 148
1．Overview 148
2．G.P.R.James:The King's Highway 150
3．Edward Bulwer-Lytton:The Last Days of Pompeii 164
4．William Harrison Ainsworth:Windsor Castle 174
Chapter 5 Women's Fiction 195
1．Overview 195
2．Charlotte Mary Yonge:The Heir of Redclyffe 197
3．Rhoda Broughton:Cometh Up As a Flower 214
4．Florence Marryat:Love's Conflict 228
Chapter 6 Sensation Fiction 239
1．Overview 239
2．Wilkie Collins:The Woman in White 241
3．Ellen Wood:East Lynne,or,The Earl's Daughter 262
4．Mary Elizabeth Braddon:Lady Audley's Secret 280
Chapter 7 Classic Detective Fiction 304
1．Overview 304
2．Fergus Wright Hume:The Mystery of a Hansom Cab 307
3．Arthur Conan Doyle:The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 320
4．Arthur George Morrison:Martin Hewitt,Investigator 349
5．Charles Grant Allen:An African Millionaire 372
Chapter 8 Speculative Science Fiction 391
1．Overview 391
2．George Tomkyns Chesney:The Battle of Dorking 393
3．William Henry Hudson:A Crystal Age 402
4．George Chetwynd Griffith:The Angel of the Revolution 414
Chapter 9 Magic Fantasy Fiction 427
1．Overview 427
2．George MacDonald:At the Back of the North Wind 429
3 Henry Rider Haggard:She 450
4．William Morris:The Wood Beyond the World 466
Chapter 10 Ghost Fiction 480
1．Overview 480
2．William Gilbert:The Last Lords of Gardonal 482
3．Arthur Machen:The Great God Pan 498
4．Clemence Housman:The Were-Wolf 511
Select Bibliography 524