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
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
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeDaughter of the Forest by Juliet MarillierHis Majesty's Dragon by Naomi NovikThe Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel KaySon of the Shadows by Juliet Marillier
Best Historical Fantasy
334 books — 287 voters

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
215 books — 187 voters

The Night Circus by Erin MorgensternJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeThe Prestige by Christopher PriestWhen Secrets Bloom by Patricia  FurstenbergThe Magician's Lie by Greer Macallister
Magicians in Historical Fiction
54 books — 64 voters
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie OhThe Poppy War by R.F. KuangIron Widow by Xiran Jay ZhaoThe Ghost Bride by Yangsze ChooEon by Alison Goodman
Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Fantasy.
229 books — 32 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

Related News

Time travelers, gather ’round!   If you’re in the market for a temporary reprieve from our current era of history—perfectly...
Sara Pascoe
The summer sun bowing out threw slashes of colour between the buildings. London looked big, empty, and lonely. She stood in the doorway, like a cat trying to make up its mind.
Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

K.  Ritz
This evening I spied her in the back orchard. I decided to sacrifice one of my better old shirts and carried it out to her. The weather’s been warm of late. Buds on the apple trees are ready to burst. Usually by this time of the year, at that time of day, the back orchard is full of screaming children. Damut’s boys were the only two. They were on the terrace below her, running through the slanted sunlight, chasing each other around tree trunks. She stood above them, like a merlin watching rabbit ...more
K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

More quotes...
Alma Alexander Fans A place to find out about news and reviews and publication dates and new releases and all of tha…more
4 members, last active 5 years ago
The Fables of the Disabled Two girls hanging out, finding more books to read, and reading to each other over the phone. We …more
2 members, last active 2 years ago
Read, Reading, Planning to Read and More Discussion of books and related matters, generally paranormal/urban fantasy but contemporary/his…more
339 members, last active a day ago
The hopeless romantic girls We are going to be discussing romance books basically, so if you are up for it, join us! :D
1 member, last active one year ago