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Acknowledgement
Chapter One Introduction
1.1 The transformation of people's attitude about history of literature
1.2 Theoretic base of this thesis
1.3 Definition of popular horror fiction
1.4 Inscapes of popular horror fiction
1.5 Cultural functions of popular horror literature
1.5.1 It reflects the development of the society
1.5.2 It provides an easy method to relax and to break away from the real world temporarily
1.5.3 It has certain moralizing effect
1.6 Differences between popular horror fiction and serious horror fiction
1.7 Five Schools of American popular horror fiction
Chapter Two The Origin of American Popular Horror Fiction
2.1 Cultural background of the origin
2.2 Literary origin of American popular horror fiction
2.2.1 The formation of Gothic fiction
2.2.2 Definition and characteristics
2.2.3 Romantic Gothic fiction
2.2.4 Be Americanized
2.3 Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810)
2.3.1 Life and death of Brown
2.3.2 Analysis about Brown's best fiction
2.3.3 Other achievements of Brown
Chapter Three Supernatural Horror Fiction
3.1 The formation of supernatural horror fiction
3.1.1Ghoststory
3.1.2 Definition
3.2 Traits of supernatural horror fiction
3.3 Difference between supematural horror fictions and Poe's works
3.4 Two representatives of supernatural horror fiction
3.4.1 Ambrose Bierce (1824-1914)
3.4.2 Robert William Chambers (1865-1933)
Chapter Four Cthulhu Horror Fiction
4.1 Social background
4.2 Literary origin, definition and characteristics
4.3 Howard Philips Lovecraft
4.3.1 Life and death of Howard Philips Lovecraft
4.3.2 Analysis of The Call of Cthulhu
Chapter Five Reality Horror Fiction
5.1 Social background
5.2 Ideologies that influenced reality horror fiction
5.3 Cultural background
5.4 Literary atmosphere that gestated reality horror fiction
5.5 Definition
5.6 Richard Matheson (1926-)
5.6.1 A brief introduction of Richard Matheson
5.6.2 Analysis about Matheson's traits
Chapter Six Social Horror Fiction
6.1 Social background
6.2 Cultural background and representative Stephen King
6.3 Definition and traits
6.4 Stephen King (1947-)
6.4.1 A brief introduction of Stephen King
6.4.2 Analysis of King's works and his characteristics
Chapter Seven Conclusion
Bibliography
Appendix
