Abstract Mystery novel is an indispensable part in novel literature. In recent years, there have been lots of writers who began writing mystery novels, most of which were influenced by Western mystery novels, especially those written by Edgar Allan Poe, an American master of mystery novels. However, by virtue of the differences of Chinese and Western culture and historical backgrounds and other causes, Chinese mystery novel and Edgar Allan Poe's mystery works’ differences are obvious to be seen. This article will combine part of Poe’s creative concept to discuss the differences between them---Edgar Allan Poe’s and Cai Jun who is famous for his mystery novels in China, from several aspects, such as religions involved in creating, the images used in the suspense novels and some writing skills, in order to find some new ideas for the future development of Chinese suspense novels, which would inject fresh blood into China’s literacy creation.59074

Keywords: Edgar Allan Poe; Cai Jun; mystery novels

摘要悬疑小说是小说文学中不可或缺的部分。最近几年中国现代悬疑小说掀起了一股热潮，而现代中国悬疑小说中不免受到西方悬疑小说的影响，尤其是受美国悬疑大师埃德加·爱伦·坡悬疑作品的影响。但由于中西方文化和历史背景的不同以及其他方面的原因，中国悬疑小说与爱伦坡的作品差异也是显而易见的。本文结合爱伦坡的部分创作理念，从悬疑小说创作中涉及的宗教、所使用的意象、创作时技巧等几个方面探讨爱伦坡的悬疑作品与中国悬疑小说（以蔡骏为代表的悬疑小说为主）之间的差异，为未来中国悬疑小说的发展提供一些新思路，给中国的文学创作注入新鲜的血液。

毕业论文关键词：埃德加·爱伦·坡；蔡骏；悬疑小说

1. Introduction1

2. Literature Review2

2.1 The Definition of Mystery Novels......2

2.2 Edgar Allan Poe’s Major Mystery Work.3

2.3 Cai Jun’s Major Mystery Works.........4

3. Edgar Allan Poe’s Mystery Works’ Influence on Chinese Mystery Works...........................................................5

3.1 The Unity of Effect of Edgar Allan Poe..5

3.2 The Influence of Using Images...6

4. Differences between Chinese and Western Mystery Novels .............7

4.1 Religious Differences..7

4.2 The Used Images Differences.9

4.3 Writing Skills’ Differences11

5. Conclusion..13

Works Cited...15

1. Introduction 

     Some people say that the year of 2000 is the start of Chinese mystery literature, and the year of 2005 is the year of real mystery novel in China. After ten years of development, mystery fiction has become an indispensable part of entertainment in our daily life.源[自*优尔^`论\文'网·www.youerw.com/

     Today's horror mystery fictions are mostly network literature, like Cai Jun, Zhang Muye, with the pen name of Tian Xia Ba Chang, Xu Lei whose pen name is Nan Pai San Shu and so on. These writers are all firstly publishing their works on the Internet, and then appreciated by a number of netizens, finally making a big success overnight. 

     After analyzing these mystery novels carefully, you will find few of them are not influenced by the western mystery fictions. In terms of development trend, Chinese mystery fictions are majoring in imitating western horror mystery fictions, in the terms of character set, the structure of the story, or in the plot development, and even in image representative. And one of the most breakthroughs is a series of novels about grave, which involves many story featuring strong Chinese culture color, when it comes to the whole set up from the story and the plot, these novels still keep the trace of western horror mystery novel (Tian Yongling, 2011:221). But current Chinese mystery novels focus on some works belong to Chinese local literature, which is gratifying for our Chinese readers.