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.

Lady Tremaine
This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me (Maggie the Undying, #1)
Wolf Worm
Daughter of Egypt
Innamorata (The House of Teeth, #1)
The Fox and the Devil
The Geomagician
The Book of Fallen Leaves (The Autumn Empire, #1)
Aicha
The Beheading Game
The Fortune Tellers of Rue Daru
Sweetbitter Song
A Widow's Charm
Entwined (The Entwined Duology, #1)
The Quarter Queen
Babel
The Everlasting
Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter
The Rose Bargain (The Rose Bargain, #1)
The Poet Empress
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
The Thorn Queen (The Rose Bargain, #2)
The Sirens
The Devils (The Devils, #1)
Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery
Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)
The Amalfi Curse
The Familiar
Cleopatra
The Book of Lost Hours
The Terror by Dan SimmonsThe Woman in Black by Susan         HillThe Little Stranger by Sarah WatersThe Hunger by Alma KatsuMexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Best Historical Horror Novels
133 books — 82 voters
My Lady Jane by Cynthia HandWitchfall by Victoria LambMary, Bloody Mary by Carolyn MeyerBeware, Princess Elizabeth by Carolyn MeyerElizabeth I by Kathryn Lasky
YA & Middle Grade Tudor Fiction
131 books — 51 voters

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Name of the Wind by Patrick RothfussThe Eye of the World by Robert JordanMistborn by Brandon Sanderson
Fantasy Books Written for Adults
1,324 books — 1,635 voters
Blackhearts by Nicole CastromanBloody Jack by L.A. MeyerDaughter of the Pirate King by Tricia LevensellerDaughter of the Siren Queen by Tricia LevensellerCurse of the Blue Tattoo by L.A. Meyer
YA & Middle Grade Pirates
111 books — 52 voters

Beyond Australia by Lee ForrestOutlander by Diana GabaldonThe Phantom of the Opera by Gaston LerouxWhen Secrets Bloom by Patricia  FurstenbergSing Me Forgotten by Jessica S. Olson
Historical Fantasy Genre Books
93 books — 79 voters
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleThe Phantom Tollbooth by Norton JusterJames and the Giant Peach by Roald DahlThe Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan AikenA Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
Children's Fantasy of the 1960s
87 books — 38 voters

Babel
His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
The Familiar
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)
The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1)
Half a Soul (Regency Faerie Tales, #1)
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy, #1)
The Song of Achilles
Circe

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