Historical Fantasy

Historical fantasy is a subgenre of historical fiction that incorporates fantastic elements (such as magic) into the narrative. There is much crossover with other subgenres of fantasy; those classes as Arthurian, Celtic, or Dark Ages could just as easily be placed in Historical Fantasy. Stories fitting this classification generally take place prior to the 20th century.

The Unicorn Hunters
This Immortal Heart
Muñeca
It Came from Neverland
The Shrouded Queen
Tillinghast
A Prince Among Pirates
Queenswood
Their Will Undone
The Tinder Box
Letters from the Last Apothecary (Tressport Magic, #1)
This Blade of Ours (This Monster of Mine, #2)
The League of Dangerous Young Ladies (Deluxe Edition)
Six Savage Thrones (Queens of Elben, #2)
Emmawyn and Her Dragoneer: an Emma fantasy retelling (The Dragoneers of Kinella Book 2)
Babel
The Everlasting
The Poet Empress
The Devils (The Devils, #1)
I, Medusa
The Sirens
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
The Rose Bargain (The Rose Bargain, #1)
Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter
The Thorn Queen (The Rose Bargain, #2)
Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery
Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)
The Familiar
The Unicorn Hunters
The Amalfi Curse
Babel
His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
The Familiar
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
The Night Circus
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1)
Half a Soul (Regency Faerie Tales, #1)
The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy, #1)
The Song of Achilles
Circe

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