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入土不安（“域外聊斋”书系）
(us) Ernest Hemingway Waiting Selected And Edited By Liu Wenrong
Thriller novels (horrorstory) are a type of novel that originated in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Regardless of the subject matter, as long as the novelist intends to create a thriller effect, his works can be classified into this category. In summary, there are three main categories of themes in thriller novels: first, horrific events in real life, such as murders and disasters; second, supernatural mysterious events, such as haunted ghosts and raging demons; third, uncontrollable psychological events, such as endless rhapsody and inexplicable anxiety. Generally speaking, European and American thrillers in the 19th century mostly used the first and second categories of themes, while the "modern thrillers" of the 20th century mostly used the third category of themes. In other words, Europeans and Americans in the 19th century were mostly frightened by the "terribleness of the world", while Europeans and Americans in the twentieth century were more frightened by the "strangeness of themselves". The fourteen thrillers selected in this book are all written by famous writers and are arranged roughly in chronological order, which is enough to outline the evolution of European and American thrillers over the past two hundred years. The short thriller "Uneasy in the Burial" of the same name was written by the famous French novelist Zola and published in 1884.
Thriller novels (horrorstory) are a type of novel that originated in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Regardless of the subject matter, as long as the novelist intends to create a thriller effect, his works can be classified into this category. In summary, there are three main categories of themes in thriller novels: first, horrific events in real life, such as murders and disasters; second, supernatural mysterious events, such as haunted ghosts and raging demons; third, uncontrollable psychological events, such as endless rhapsody and inexplicable anxiety. Generally speaking, European and American thrillers in the 19th century mostly used the first and second categories of themes, while the "modern thrillers" of the 20th century mostly used the third category of themes. In other words, Europeans and Americans in the 19th century were mostly frightened by the "terribleness of the world", while Europeans and Americans in the twentieth century were more frightened by the "strangeness of themselves". The fourteen thrillers selected in this book are all written by famous writers and are arranged roughly in chronological order, which is enough to outline the evolution of European and American thrillers over the past two hundred years. The short thriller "Uneasy in the Burial" of the same name was written by the famous French novelist Zola and published in 1884.