| 摘要 | 第1-6页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第6-8页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第8-19页 |
| ·Stephen King and His Novels | 第8-10页 |
| ·Life of Stephen King | 第10-13页 |
| ·Stephen King's Great Popularity | 第13-15页 |
| ·The Settings for Terror in King's Novels:Thinner and Desperation | 第15-17页 |
| ·A Discussion about the Questions around the Reasons of Terror | 第17-19页 |
| Chapter Two the Methods on Criticizing King's Novels | 第19-28页 |
| ·A Brief Introduction to Gothic Fiction | 第19-21页 |
| ·American Gothic Literature Tradition | 第21-24页 |
| ·The History of Orientalism | 第24-26页 |
| ·The Fact about Cultural Hegemony | 第26页 |
| ·Post-colonialism on Criticizing King's Novels | 第26-28页 |
| Chapter Three Stephen King's Gothic Fiction | 第28-33页 |
| ·Stephen King's Unique Style of Gothic Fiction | 第28-30页 |
| ·Criticism on King's novels | 第30-33页 |
| Chapter Four Horror Elements in the Two Novels | 第33-40页 |
| ·A Brief Introduction to Thinner | 第33-35页 |
| ·A Brief Introduction to Desperation | 第35-37页 |
| ·Facts about the Two Novels | 第37-40页 |
| Chapter Five the Root of Terror | 第40-56页 |
| ·Orientalism and King's Novels | 第40-42页 |
| ·Orientalism and Its Tradition | 第42-45页 |
| ·The Other and the Terror | 第45-52页 |
| ·the Real Terror behind Orientalism | 第52-56页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第56-59页 |
| Bibliography | 第59-61页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第61页 |
