Fantastique

What is distinctive about the fantastique is the intrusion of supernatural phenomena into an otherwise realist narrative. It evokes phenomena which are not only left unexplained but which are inexplicable from the reader's point of view. In this respect, the fantastique is somewhere between fantasy, where the supernatural is accepted and entirely reasonable in the imaginary world of a non-realist narrative, and magic realism, where apparently supernatural phenomena are explained and accepted as normal. Instead, characters in a work of fantastique are, just like the readers, unwilling to accept ...more

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two (Harry Potter, #8)
New Moon (The Twilight Saga, #2)
A Winter's Promise (The Mirror Visitor, #1)
Eclipse (The Twilight Saga, #3)
Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, #4)
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Dracula
Fitz-James O'Brien
He hoped and feared,' continued Solon, in a low. mournful voice; 'but at times he was very miserable, because he did not think it possible that so much happiness was reserved for him as the love of this beautiful, innocent girl. At night, when he was in bed, and all the world was dreaming, he lay awake looking up at the old books against the walls, thinking how he could bring about the charming of her heart. One night, when he was thinking of this, he suddenly found himself in a beautiful countr ...more
Fitz James O'Brien, Terror by Gaslight: More Victorian Tales of Terror

Roger Caillois
The fantastic is always a break in the acknowledged order, an irruption of the inadmissible within the changeless everyday legality
Roger Caillois, Au coeur du fantastique

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