Contemporary fantasy, also known as modern fantasy or indigenous fantasy, is a subgenre of fantasy, set in the present day or, more accurately, the time period of the maker. [1]
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is a Japanese light novel series written by Kazuma Kamachi and illustrated by Kiyotaka Haimura, which has been published by ASCII Media Works under their Dengeki Bunko imprint since April 2004.
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A Fine and Private Place is a fantasy novel written by Peter S. Beagle, the first of his major fantasies.
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Alice Hoffman (born March 16, 1952) is an American novelist and young-adult and children's writer, best known for her 1995 novel Practical Magic, which was adapted for a 1998 film of the same name.
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American Gods (2001) is a novel by English author Neil Gaiman.
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Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
The brothers Arkady (Аркадий; 28 August 1925 – 12 October 1991) and Boris (Бори́с; 14 April 1933 – 19 November 2012) Strugatsky (Струга́цкий; alternate spellings: Strugatskiy, Strugatski, Strugatskii) were Soviet-Russian science fiction authors who collaborated through most of their careers.
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Artemis Fowl is a series of eight science fiction fantasy novels written by Irish author Eoin Colfer, featuring the criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl II.
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Azazel (Asimov)
Azazel is a character created by Isaac Asimov and featured in a series of fantasy short stories.
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is a Japanese light novel series written by Ryohgo Narita and illustrated by Katsumi Enami.
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Benedict Jacka (born 25 September 1980) is a British author, best known for his Alex Verus series.
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Bleach (manga)
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tite Kubo.
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The Buffyverse or Slayerverse is the shared fictional universe in which the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel are set.
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Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, broadcaster, lecturer, and Christian apologist.
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Charlaine Harris Schulz (born November 25, 1951) is an American New York Times bestselling author who has been writing mysteries for thirty years.
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Charles de Lint (born December 22, 1951) is a Canadian writer of Dutch origins.
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Charles Williams (British writer)
Charles Walter Stansby Williams (20 September 1886 – 15 May 1945) was a British poet, novelist, playwright, theologian, literary critic, and member of the Inklings.
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Charmed is an American supernatural fantasy drama television series created by Constance M. Burge and produced by Aaron Spelling and his production company Spelling Television, with Brad Kern serving as showrunner.
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China Tom Miéville (born 6 September 1972) is an English fantasy fiction author, comic writer, political activist and academic.
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (born Chitralekha Banerjee, July 29, 1956) is an Indian-American author, poet, and the Betty and Gene McDavid Professor of Writing at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program.
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Clive Barker (born 5 October 1952) is an English writer, film director, and visual artist.
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Consensus reality is that which is generally agreed to be reality, based on a consensus view.
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Constance M. Burge
Constance "Connie" M. Burge is the creator of the Charmed television series and short-lived ''Savannah'' series.
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Darker Than You Think
Darker Than You Think is a science fantasy novel by American writer Jack Williamson.
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Day Watch (novel)
Day Watch («Дневной Дозор») is a fantasy novel by Russian authors Sergey Lukyanenko and Vladimir Vasilyev.
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Dennis Yeats Wheatley (8 January 1897 – 10 November 1977) was an English writer whose prolific output of thrillers and occult novels made him one of the world's best-selling authors from the 1930s through the 1960s.
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Derek Landy (born 23 October 1974) is an Irish author and screenwriter, best known for the Skulduggery Pleasant series of young adult's books.
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is the fourth story arc of the Japanese manga series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, written and illustrated by Hirohiko Araki.
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Diane Duane (born May 18, 1952) is an American science fiction and fantasy author.
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, often shortened to DRRR!!, is a Japanese light novel series written by Ryohgo Narita, with illustrations by Suzuhito Yasuda, that has also been adapted into a Japanese anime series.
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Edith Nesbit (married name Edith Bland; 15 August 1858 – 4 May 1924) was an English author and poet; she published her books for children under the name of E. Nesbit.
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Edward McMaken Eager (June 20, 1911 – October 23, 1964) was an American lyricist, dramatist, and writer of children's fiction.
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Emma Bull
Emma Bull (born December 13, 1954) is an American science fiction and fantasy author.
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Eoin Colfer (born 14 May 1965) is an Irish author of children's books.
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Eric Kripke (born April 24, 1974) is an American television writer, director, and producer.
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Emil Erich Kästner (23 February 1899 – 29 July 1974) was a German author, poet, screenwriter and satirist, known primarily for his humorous, socially astute poems and for children's books including Emil and the Detectives.
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Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
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Faerie Tale
Faerie Tale is a supernatural thriller, falling within the subgenre of contemporary fantasy, by American writer Raymond E. Feist, first published in 1988.
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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (film)
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is a 2016 fantasy film directed by David Yates.
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Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction set in a fictional universe, often without any locations, events, or people referencing the real world.
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is a Japanese visual novel developed by Type-Moon, which was originally released as an adult game for Windows.
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Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods, With a Few Desert and Mountain Beasts
Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods, With a Few Desert and Mountain Beasts is a 1910 fantasy field guide by William Thomas Cox (1878–1961), Minnesota's first State Forester and Commissioner of Conservation, with illustrations by Coert du Bois (1881–1960; US Consul and forester) and Latin classifications by George Bishop Sudworth (1862–1927; Chief Dendrologist of the Forest Service.) The text is a noteworthy resource on folklore, as a century after its initial publication Fearsome Creatures remains one of the principal sources on legendary creatures of the United States and Canada.
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Fictional universe
A fictional universe is a self-consistent setting with events, and often other elements, that differ from the real world.
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Francesca Lia Block
Weetzie Bat.
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Freda Warrington is a British author, known for her epic fantasy, vampire and supernatural novels.
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Genre is any form or type of communication in any mode (written, spoken, digital, artistic, etc.) with socially-agreed upon conventions developed over time.
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Georgina Kincaid
The Georgina Kincaid series is a collection of six urban fantasy novels written by Richelle Mead.
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Golden Wind (manga)
, also known as Vento Aureo, is the fifth story arc of the Japanese manga series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, written and illustrated by Hirohiko Araki.
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Guy Gavriel Kay (born November 7, 1954) is a Canadian writer of fantasy fiction.
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Herbert George Wells.
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Harry Potter is a series of fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling.
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is a two-part stage play written by Jack Thorne based on an original new story by Thorne, J. K. Rowling and John Tiffany.
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Hendrik Willem van Loon (January 14, 1882 – March 11, 1944) was a Dutch-American historian, journalist, and award-winning children's book author.
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High fantasy or epic fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy, defined either by the epic nature of its setting or by the epic stature of its characters, themes, or plot.
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is a Japanese manga artist.
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His Dark Materials is an epic trilogy of fantasy novels by Philip Pullman consisting of Northern Lights (1995) (published as The Golden Compass in North America), The Subtle Knife (1997), and The Amber Spyglass (2000).
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History (from Greek ἱστορία, historia, meaning "inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation") is the study of the past as it is described in written documents.
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Horror is a genre of speculative fiction which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten, scare, disgust, or startle its readers or viewers by inducing feelings of horror and terror.
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Imajica
Imajica is a fantasy novel by British author Clive Barker.
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Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University.
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Joanne Rowling, ("rolling";Rowling, J.K. (16 February 2007).. Accio Quote (accio-quote.org). Retrieved 28 April 2008. born 31 July 1965), writing under the pen names J. K. Rowling and Robert Galbraith, is a British novelist, philanthropist, film and television producer and screenwriter best known for writing the Harry Potter fantasy series.
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John Stewart Williamson (April 29, 1908 – November 10, 2006), who wrote as Jack Williamson, was an American science fiction writer, often called the "Dean of Science Fiction" after the death of Robert Heinlein in 1988.
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Jenna Black
Jennifer Black is an American author of paranormal romance novels, urban fantasy, and young adult fantasy novels.
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Jim Butcher (born October 26, 1971) is an American author,iago is the online pseudonym of Fred Hicks, webmaster for and co-author of the Dresden Files RPG.
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John Crowley
John Crowley (born December 1, 1942) is an American author of fantasy, science fiction and mainstream fiction.
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is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hirohiko Araki.
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is a seinen manga series written and illustrated by Hirohiko Araki, and is the eighth part of the larger JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series.
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Josepha Sherman
Josepha Sherman (December 12, 1946 – August 23, 2012) was an American author, folklorist, and anthologist.
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Joseph Hill Whedon (born June 23, 1964) is an American screenwriter, director, producer, comic book writer, and composer.
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Kazuma Kamachi
is a pseudonymous Japanese author with over 50 light novel volumes published.
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Kelley Armstrong (born 14 December 1968) is a Canadian writer, primarily of fantasy novels since 2001.
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King Rat (Miéville novel)
King Rat is an urban fantasy novel by British writer China Miéville, published in 1998.
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John Smith III (born May 13, 1980), commonly known as L. J., which stands for "Little John", is a former American football tight end in the National Football League (NFL).
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Last Watch
Last Watch («Последний Дозор», also known as Final Watch) is a fantasy novel by Russian writer Sergey Lukyanenko.
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Lev Grossman (born June 26, 1969 in Concord, Massachusetts) is an American novelist and journalist, most notable as the author of the Magicians trilogy: The Magicians (2009), The Magician King (2011), and The Magician's Land (2014).
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Lisa Goldstein
Lisa Goldstein (born November 21, 1953) is a fantasy and science fiction writer whose work has been nominated for Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy Awards.
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List of genres
This is a list of genres of literature and entertainment, excluding genres in the visual arts.
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List of religious ideas in science fiction
Science fiction will sometimes address the topic of religion.
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Literary fiction is fiction that is regarded as having literary merit, as distinguished from most commercial or "genre" fiction.
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Little, Big
Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament is a modern fantasy novel by John Crowley, published in 1981.
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Louise Erdrich
Louise Erdrich (born Karen Louise Erdrich, June 7, 1954) is an American author, writer of novels, poetry, and children's books featuring Native American characters and settings.
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Low fantasy or intrusion fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy fiction where magical events intrude on an otherwise normal world.
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Magical realism, magic realism, or marvelous realism is a genre of narrative fiction and, more broadly, art (literature, painting, film, theatre, etc.) that, while encompassing a range of subtly different concepts, expresses a primarily realistic view of the real world while also adding or revealing magical elements.
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Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard
Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard is a trilogy of fantasy novels written by American author Rick Riordan and published by Disney-Hyperion.
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Mary Norton (author)
Mary Norton, or Kathleen Mary Norton née Pearson (10 December 1903 – 29 August 1992), was an English author of children's books.
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Mary Poppins is a series of eight children's books written by P. L. Travers and published over the period 1934 to 1988.
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Mercedes Lackey
Mercedes Ritchie Lackey (born June 24, 1950) is an American writer of fantasy novels.
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Midori Snyder
Midori Snyder is an American writer of fantasy, mythic fiction, and nonfiction on myth and folklore.
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Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (p; – 10 March 1940) was a Russian writer, medical doctor and playwright active in the first half of the 20th century.
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Mistress of Spices
The Mistress of Spices, (1997), set in contemporary Oakland, California, is a novel by Indian American writer and University of Houston Creative Writing Program professor Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.
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Monday Begins on Saturday
Monday Begins on Saturday (Понедельник начинается в субботу) is a 1965 science fiction / science fantasy novel by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky with illustrations by Yevgeniy Migunov.
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Monogatari (series)
is the general name for a series of Japanese light novels written by Japanese novelist Nisio Isin and illustrated by Taiwanese illustrator Vofan.
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Moscow (a) is the capital and most populous city of Russia, with 13.2 million residents within the city limits and 17.1 million within the urban area.
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Mythic fiction
Mythic fiction is literature that is rooted in, inspired by, or that in some way draws from the tropes, themes and symbolism of myth, legend, folklore, and fairy tales.
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Natasha Mostert
Natasha Mostert is a South African author and screenwriter presently living in London.
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Nazi Germany is the common English name for the period in German history from 1933 to 1945, when Germany was under the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler through the Nazi Party (NSDAP).
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Neil Richard MacKinnon GaimanBorn as Neil Richard Gaiman, with "MacKinnon" added on the occasion of his marriage to Amanda Palmer.
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Neverwhere is an urban fantasy television series by Neil Gaiman that first aired in 1996 on BBC Two.
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Night Watch (Lukyanenko novel)
Night Watch («Ночной Дозор») is the first fantasy novel by the Russian author Sergei Lukyanenko to feature his fictional world of the Others.
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, stylized NisiOisiN to emphasize the palindrome, is the pen name of a Japanese novelist and manga writer.
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Norse mythology is the body of myths of the North Germanic people stemming from Norse paganism and continuing after the Christianization of Scandinavia and into the Scandinavian folklore of the modern period.
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P. L. Travers
Pamela Lyndon Travers, OBE (born Helen Lyndon Goff; 9 August 1899 – 23 April 1996) was an Australian-born British writer who spent most of her career in England.
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P. N. Elrod
Patricia Nead Elrod is an American novelist specializing in urban fantasy.
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Parallel universes in fiction
A parallel universe is a hypothetical self-contained reality co-existing with one's own.
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Percy Jackson & the Olympians, often shortened to Percy Jackson, is a pentalogy of fantasy adventure novels written by American author Rick Riordan, and the first book series in the Camp Half-Blood Chronicles.
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Peter Soyer Beagle (born April 20, 1939) is an American novelist and screenwriter, especially fantasy fiction.
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Philip Pullman CBE, FRSL (born 19 October 1946) is an English novelist.
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Practical Magic is a 1998 American romantic comedy film based on the 1995 novel of the same name by Alice Hoffman.
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Puck of Pook's Hill
Puck of Pook's Hill is a fantasy book by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1906, containing a series of short stories set in different periods of English history.
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Raymond E. Feist (born Raymond Elias Gonzales III; 1945) is an American fantasy fiction author who wrote The Riftwar Cycle, a series of novels and short stories.
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Richard Bowes
Richard Bowes also known as Rick Bowes (born 1944) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy.
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Richard Kadrey
Richard Kadrey is a San Francisco-based novelist, freelance writer, and photographer.
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Richelle Mead (born November 12, 1976) is a bestselling American fantasy author.
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Richard Russell Riordan Jr. (born June 5, 1964), is an American author.
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Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, musician and travel writer.
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Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)The Times, (London) 18 January 1936, p. 12 was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.
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Ryōgo Narita
(born May 30, 1980) is a Japanese light novelist and manga writer.
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A secret history (or shadow history) is a revisionist interpretation of either fictional or real history which is claimed to have been deliberately suppressed, forgotten, or ignored by established scholars.
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Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (20 November 1858 – 16 March 1940) was a Swedish author and teacher.
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Sergei Lukyanenko
Sergei Vasilievich Lukyanenko (Серге́й Васи́льевич Лукья́ненко,; born 11 April 1968) is a Russian science fiction and fantasy author, writing in Russian.
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Skulduggery Pleasant is a series of fantasy novels written by Irish author Derek Landy.
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is the third story arc of the Japanese manga series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, written and illustrated by Hirohiko Araki.
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Stella Benson
Stella Benson (6 January 1892 – 7 December 1933) was an English feminist, novelist, poet, and travel writer.
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Stephenie Meyer (née Morgan;; born December 24, 1973) is an American novelist and film producer, best known for her vampire romance series Twilight.
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is the sixth story arc of the Japanese manga series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, written and illustrated by Hirohiko Araki.
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Supernatural (U.S. TV series)
Supernatural is an American dark fantasy television series created by Eric Kripke.
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Supernatural fiction
Supernatural fiction or supernaturalist fiction is a genre of speculative fiction exploiting or requiring as plot devices or themes some contradictions of the commonplace natural world and materialist assumptions about it.
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Susan Mary Cooper (born 23 May 1935) is an English author of children's books.
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Tanya Huff
Tanya Sue Huff (born 1957) is a Canadian fantasy author.
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Terri Windling (born December 3, 1958 in Fort Dix, New Jersey) is an American editor, artist, essayist, and the author of books for both children and adults.
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Terence Dean "Terry" Brooks (born January 8, 1944) is an American writer of fantasy fiction.
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Tetralogy
A tetralogy (from Greek τετρα- tetra-, "four" and -λογία -logia, "discourse") is a compound work that is made up of four distinct works.
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That Hideous Strength
That Hideous Strength (subtitled A Modern Fairy-Tale for Grown-Ups) is a 1945 novel by C. S. Lewis, the final book in Lewis's theological science fiction Space Trilogy.
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The 35th of May, or Conrad's Ride to the South Seas
The 35th of May, or Conrad's Ride to the South Seas (Der 35. Mai oder Konrad reitet in die Südsee in German, its original language) is a novel by Erich Kästner, first published in 1931.
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The Borrowers is a children's fantasy novel by the English author Mary Norton, published by Dent in 1952.
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The Bottle Imp is an 1891 short story by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson usually found in the short story collection Island Nights' Entertainments.
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The Chronicles of Narnia is a series of seven fantasy novels by C. S. Lewis.
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The Dark Is Rising Sequence
The Dark Is Rising is a series of five contemporary fantasy novels for older children and young adults, written by the English author Susan Cooper and published 1965 to 1977.
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The Dresden Files is a series of contemporary fantasy/mystery novels written by American author Jim Butcher.
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The Enchanted Castle is a children's fantasy novel by Edith Nesbit first published in 1907.
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The Heroes of Olympus
The Heroes of Olympus is a pentalogy of fantasy-adventure novels written by American author Rick Riordan.
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The Kane Chronicles
The Kane Chronicles is a trilogy of adventure and Egyptian mythological fiction books written by American author Rick Riordan.
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is a fantasy novel for children by C. S. Lewis, published by Geoffrey Bles in 1950.
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The Magic City (novel)
The Magic City is a children's book by Edith Nesbit, first published in 1910.
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The Magic World
The Magic World is an influential collection of twelve short stories by E. Nesbit.
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The Magician's Nephew
The Magician's Nephew is a high fantasy novel for children by C. S. Lewis, published by Bodley Head in 1955.
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The Magicians (Grossman novel)
The Magicians is a new adult fantasy novel by the American author Lev Grossman, published in 2009 by Viking Press.
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The Man Who Could Work Miracles
The Man Who Could Work Miracles is a black-and-white 1936 British fantasy-comedy film directed by the German-born American director Lothar Mendes.
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The Master and Margarita (Ма́стер и Маргари́та) is a novel by Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov, written in the Soviet Union between 1928 and 1940 during Stalin's regime.
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The Sea Lady
The Sea Lady is a fantasy novel written by H. G. Wells that has some of the aspects of a fable.
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The Southern Vampire Mysteries
The Southern Vampire Mysteries, also known as The True Blood Novels and The Sookie Stackhouse Novels, is a series of books written by bestselling author Charlaine Harris.
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The Vampire Diaries is an American supernatural drama television series developed by Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec, based on the popular book series of the same name written by L. J. Smith.
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The Vampire Diaries (novel series)
The Vampire Diaries is a young adult vampire horror series of novels created by Alloy Entertainment (book packager).
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The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (orig. Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige, Nils Holgersson's wonderful journey across Sweden) is a work of fiction by the Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf.
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The Wonderful Visit
The Wonderful Visit is an 1895 novel by H. G. Wells.
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The Wood Wife
The Wood Wife by Terri Windling was published by Tor Books in 1996, and won the Mythopoeic Award for Novel of the Year.
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Tim Powers
Timothy Thomas "Tim" Powers (born February 29, 1952) is an American science fiction and fantasy author.
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Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale
Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale is a young-adult fantasy novel written by Holly Black.
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Tom Deitz
Thomas Franklin Deitz (January 17, 1952 – April 27, 2009) was an American fantasy novelist, professor, and artist from Georgia.
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True Blood is an American dark fantasy horror television series produced and created by Alan Ball and based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries, a series of novels by Charlaine Harris.
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Twilight (novel series)
Twilight is a series of four vampire-themed fantasy romance novels by American author Stephenie Meyer.
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Twilight Watch
Twilight Watch («Сумеречный Дозор», also known as Dusk Watch) is a fantasy novel by Russian writer Sergey Lukyanenko published in 2008.
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is a Japanese game company, best known for their visual novels, co-founded by author Kinoko Nasu and illustrator Takashi Takeuchi.
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Urban fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy in which the narrative has an urban setting.
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Van Loon's Lives
Van Loon's Lives is a book by the Dutch-American writer Hendrik Willem van Loon published in 1942.
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W.I.T.C.H. is an Italian fantasy comic series written by Elisabetta Gnone, Alessandro Barbucci, and Barbara Canepa.
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War for the Oaks
War for the Oaks (1987) is a fantasy novel by American writer Emma Bull.
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Weaveworld is a 1987 dark fantasy novel by Clive Barker.
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Jadis is the main antagonist of The Magician's Nephew and of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in C. S. Lewis's series, The Chronicles of Narnia.
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World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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Young Wizards
Young Wizards is a series of novels by Diane Duane.
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Ysabel is a fantasy novel by Canadian author Guy Gavriel Kay.
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is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshihiro Togashi.
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Contemporary Fantasy, Modern fantasy.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_fantasy