• Contemporary fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy set in the present day. It is perhaps most popular for its subgenre, urban fantasy. Several authors note...
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    Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction involving magical elements, typically set in a fantasy world and usually inspired by mythology or folklore. The...
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  • formulae of fantasy stories. Stableford also suggests that supernatural horror set primarily in the real world is a form of "contemporary fantasy", whereas...
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  • Urban fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy, placing supernatural elements in an approximation of a contemporary urban setting. The combination provides the...
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    values. Another important subgenre of fantasy films that has become more popular in recent years is contemporary fantasy. Such films feature magical effects...
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  • Low fantasy, or intrusion fantasy, is a subgenre of fantasy fiction in which magical events intrude on an otherwise-normal world. The term thus contrasts...
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    fantasy in general; the preponderance of epic fantasy in the genre has made them fantasy commonplaces. They are less typical of contemporary fantasy,...
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    people being unaware of it. In this, it has a close similarity to contemporary fantasy. This commonly overlaps with the secret history trope. Alternatively...
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  • fantasy Contemporary fantasy Dark fantasy Fantasy of manners Heroic fantasy Magic realism Mythic Paranormal fantasy Shenmo fantasy Superhero fantasy Sword...
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  • A class of fantasies set in contemporary times and blending some characteristics of fantasies of manners with the subgenre urban fantasy has been dubbed...
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  • Greenwitch (category 1974 fantasy novels)
    Greenwitch is a contemporary fantasy novel by Susan Cooper, published by Atheneum Press in 1974. It is the third entry in the five book Dark Is Rising...
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  • Subgenres include: General contemporary romance Contemporary romantic suspense Christian romance Contemporary fantasy romance Contemporary paranormal romance...
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  • subgenres include: Comic fantasy: Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, My Babysitter's A Vampire Contemporary fantasy: Buffy the Vampire...
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    A fantasy world or fictional world is a world created for fictional media, such as literature, film or games. Typical fantasy worlds feature magical abilities...
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  • Work 2016 Douban Annual Reading List – Top 1 Fantasy Genre 2017 Douban Annual Reading List – Top 1 Fantasy Genre 2016-2017 Network Committee of China Literary...
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    fantasy and the terms are sometimes used interchangeably, but mythic fiction also includes contemporary works in non-urban settings. Romantic fantasy...
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    This catch-all genre includes, but is not limited to, science fiction, fantasy, horror, slipstream, magical realism, superhero fiction, alternate history...
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  • generating a work that is also, based on setting, a high fantasy, historical fantasy, or contemporary fantasy. Authors who have worked with the genre include such...
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    Best-selling book series of contemporary times exist in genres related to horror fiction, such as the werewolf fiction urban fantasy Kitty Norville books by...
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  • song with contemporary R&B and dance-pop genres within its composition, which blends elements of funk music, hip hop, and bubblegum pop. "Fantasy" moves...
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    Harry Potter (category Contemporary fantasy novels)
    into the genre of fantasy literature, and qualify as a type of fantasy called "urban fantasy", "contemporary fantasy", or "low fantasy". They are mainly...
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  • The Library at Mount Char (category American fantasy novels)
    The Library at Mount Char is a contemporary fantasy/horror novel written by Scott Hawkins. It is his first novel. Carolyn had lived with eleven "siblings"...
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  • The Onion Girl (category Contemporary fantasy novels)
    The Onion Girl is a 2001 contemporary urban fantasy novel by Canadian writer Charles De Lint, which takes place in the Newford universe. It is the first...
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  • Twilight (novel series) (category Contemporary fantasy novels)
    Twilight is a series of four fantasy romance novels, two companion novels, and one novella written by American author Stephenie Meyer. Released annually...
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  • Justine Musk (category Canadian fantasy writers)
    subsequently settled in California. Wilson is the author of the contemporary fantasy novel BloodAngel, published in 2005 by the Roc Books imprint of Penguin...
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  • Shadow of Night (category Contemporary fantasy novels)
    Shadow of Night is a 2012 historical-fantasy novel by American scholar Deborah Harkness, the second book in the All Souls trilogy. As the sequel to the...
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  • A Discovery of Witches (category Contemporary fantasy novels)
    A Discovery of Witches is a 2011 historical-fantasy novel and the debut novel by American scholar Deborah Harkness. It follows Diana Bishop, a history...
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    A sexual fantasy or erotic fantasy is an autoerotic mental image or pattern of thought that stirs a person's sexuality and can create or enhance sexual...
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  • ISBN 0-8057-7514-5. Prieto-Pablos, Juan A. (Spring 1991). "The Ambivalent Hero of Contemporary Fantasy and Science Fiction". Extrapolation. 32 (1). The University of Texas...
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  • Modern fantasy may refer to: Contemporary fantasy, works of fantasy that are set in the time period they are written Urban fantasy, works of contemporary fantasy...
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