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)
These Immortal Truths (Peaches & Honey, #1)
Six Savage Thrones (Queens of Elben, #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
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeSoulless by Gail CarrigerStardust by Neil GaimanThe Golem and the Jinni by Helene WeckerThe Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Gaslamp Fantasy
221 books — 193 voters
Empress of All Seasons by Emiko JeanRed Winter by Annette MarieShadow of the Fox by Julie KagawaKamisama Kiss, Vol. 1 by Julietta SuzukiImmortal Fire by Annette Marie
Fiction Novels Featuring Yokai
107 books — 107 voters

The Dark Is Rising by Susan CooperMrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'BrienWatership Down by Richard  AdamsThe Grey King by Susan CooperGreenwitch by Susan Cooper
Children's Fantasy of the 1970s
160 books — 66 voters
Death of an Officer by Mark   EllisMy Lady Jane by Cynthia HandWitchfall by Victoria LambMary, Bloody Mary by Carolyn MeyerBeware, Princess Elizabeth by Carolyn Meyer
YA & Middle Grade Tudor Fiction
136 books — 67 voters

A Matter of Magic by Patricia C. WredeLove, Lies and Spies by Cindy AnsteyThe Season by Sarah MacLeanBewitching Season by Marissa DoyleSorcery & Cecelia by Patricia C. Wrede
Young Adult Regency
125 books — 53 voters

Babel
His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
The Familiar
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
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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