paranormal romance
Ghostly love stories
Paranormal romance is a fiction genre combining romantic relationships with supernatural elements—vampires, werewolves, ghosts, shapeshifters, or psychic abilities.
The romance drives the plot while the paranormal setting provides conflict and heightened stakes: She devoured paranormal romance novels about forbidden love between humans and immortals.
The genre exploded in popularity in the early 2000s.
- werewolfShapeshifting wolf-person
- supernaturalBeyond natural explanation
- demonMalevolent supernatural being
- shapeshiftersEntities altering their appearance
- supernatural creaturesEntities beyond natural explanation
fantasy · love triangles · witches · fallen angels · necromancy · forbidden love · enemies to lovers · ghost · erotic · vampire · bloodlust · bodice ripper · slow burn · immortality · sensuality · mythological creatures · soulmates · Dracula
- booksnovel, textbooks, study guides, book, paperback
- fictionfiction, novel, novels, novella, novellas
- genresaction, comedy, detective fiction, fantasy, horror
- romancelove story, amor, love, boyfriend, courting
- book worlddystopian fiction, young adult fiction, fantasy novels, graphic novels, memoir
- fiction genresfiction, fantasy, novel, horror, thrillers
paranormal romancerealistic fiction
Invented yet plausible storytelling
contemporary romance · social realism · literary fiction · literary realism · realist novel
paranormal romancecosmic horror
Fear of vast, unknowable forces
hard science fiction · grimdark · survival horror · horror · military fiction
paranormal, romance, normal, normed, norming, normative, normalcy, normalize, normalized