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.

We Who Will Die (Empire of Blood, #1)
Dark Sisters
Dawn of the Firebird
Something Wicked (Idle Reputations, #1)
The Heroic Legends Series - Solomon Kane: The Lair of the Mari Lwyd
I, Medusa
Fallen City (Fallen City Duology, #1)
The Moorwitch
As Many Souls as Stars
The Sacred Space Between
The Wolf and His King
The Devil in Oxford (Ruby Vaughn, #3)
Gilded in Vengeance
The Great Work
The Cathedral of Lost Souls (The Hecate Cavendish, #2)
Babel
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
The Everlasting
The Devils (The Devils, #1)
Tea & Alchemy
The Rose Bargain (The Rose Bargain, #1)
Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery
I, Medusa
The Sirens
Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)
The Familiar
The Amalfi Curse
Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales (Emily Wilde, #3)
The Bewitching
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
156 books — 63 voters

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
128 books — 77 voters
Fourth Wing by Rebecca YarrosHell Bent by Leigh BardugoWitch King by Martha WellsThe Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon ChakrabortyTress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson
Most Anticipated Adult Fantasy, 2023
421 books — 357 voters

The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie OhThe Poppy War by R.F. KuangThe Ghost Bride by Yangsze ChooEon by Alison GoodmanThe Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo
Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Fantasy.
224 books — 29 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
97 books — 100 voters

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

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