urban fantasies
Magical metropolitan fiction
Urban fantasies are works of fiction that blend fantasy elements—magic, mythical creatures, supernatural powers—with contemporary city settings.
Unlike high fantasy's medieval worlds, urban fantasy grounds the impossible in recognizable modern life: vampires in Manhattan, werewolves in Chicago, witches navigating subway systems.
She writes urban fantasies set in a noir version of Los Angeles.
- skyscraperVery tall urban building
- dreamscapeImagined realm during sleep
- noirHard-boiled film genre
- leather jacketGarment of tanned animal skin
- metropolisLarge important city
vampires · cityscape · back alley · realms · magical realism · gritty · secret societies · hidden world · contemporary · spellbound · paranormal romance · witches · underworld · secret history · antihero · fae · werewolves · shapeshifters
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Fiction in invented worlds
epic fantasy · sword and sorcery · medieval fantasy · heroic fantasy · portal fantasy
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