Fantasy genres

fictional story typically featuring folkloric fantasy characters and magic

thumb|Illustration "The Whirlwind Seizes the Wreath" (from the story "The Fairy Aurora")

genre of anime and manga

subgenre of fantasy

'''''' ( , ) is a genre of Chinese fiction and low fantasy concerning the adventures of martial artists in ancient China. Although is traditionally a form of historical fantasy literature, its popularity has caused it to be adapted for such diverse art forms as Chinese opera, manhua, television dramas, films, donghua, and video games. It forms part of popular culture in many Chinese-speaking communities around the world. Although they are commonly described as a subgenre of martial arts movies, according to Hong Kong film director, producer, and movie writer Ronny Yu, wuxia movies are not to b

sub-genre of fantasy fiction defined by a fantastical setting

Kaiju (from , ), or giant movie monster, are terms used in film and media for monsters, and the like, of enormous size, mainly belonging to a designated genre, known as kaiju movies, or giant monster movies, where they are usually depicted attacking major cities, and battling either the military or other creatures, mixing creature features with the disaster film genre, but also often involving science fiction. Examples include famous movie monsters like King Kong, Godzilla and Gamera, cult classics like The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, It Came from Beneath the Sea, Them!

thumb|This poster for Goliath and the Barbarians (1959) by [[Carlo Campogalliani illustrates many people's expectations from films of this genre.]] Sword-and-sandal, also known as peplum (: pepla), is a subgenre of largely Italian-made historical, mythological, or biblical epic films mostly set in the Greco-Roman antiquity or the Middle Ages. These films attempted to emulate the big-budget Hollywood historical epics of the time, such as Samson and Delilah (1949), Quo Vadis (1951), The Robe (1953), The Ten Commandments (1956), Ben-Hur (1959), Spartacus (1960), and Cleopatra (1963). These films

is a subgenre of Japanese high fantasy fiction that revolves around a person or people who are transported to and have to survive in another world. In the new world, the person usually gains formidable powers or some other importance that they did not have in the previous world. The transition between worlds may occur through death and reincarnation or through summoning by an object, god, or person in the alternate world. A common setting is a medieval-like world populated with humans, humanoids, and monsters. In a reverse isekai, a person from another world is transported to Earth.

literary genre

science fiction genre

genre of fantasy fiction

subgenre of speculative fiction originating in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

genre of fiction featuring supernatural elements

fantasy subgenre using elements and conventions of the chivalric romance genre

genre of fiction, subgenre of fantasy

Xianxia () is a genre of Chinese fantasy heavily inspired by Chinese mythology and influenced by philosophies of Taoism, Chan Buddhism, Confucianism, Chinese martial arts, classical Chinese medicine, Chinese folk religion, Chinese alchemy, and other classical elements of Chinese culture, It is also closely related to the wuxia and shenmo genre, as it developed as a subgenre of wuxia and simultaneously as a subgenre of shenmo before branching out to become a distinct martial arts genre by the late 19th century. It is often considered akin to other high fantasy genres such as the sword and sorce

subgenre of the fantasy or science fiction genre that involves the discovery of an unknown Earth civilization

genre of fiction

thumb|Omegaverse supposes the existence of a dominance hierarchy among humans, similar to [[wolves and other canids in fiction.]] Omegaverse, also known as A/B/O or α/β/Ω (an abbreviation for "alpha/beta/omega"), is a subgenre of speculative erotic fiction. The genre supposes the existence of a dominance hierarchy among humans as similar to that associated in popular myth with wolves and other canids that is composed of dominant "alphas," neutral "betas," and submissive "omegas." In the Omegaverse, this hierarchy determines how people interact with one another in romantic, erotic and sexual co

Fantastique is a French term for a literary and cinematic genre and mode that is characterized by the intrusion of supernatural elements into the realistic framework of a story, accompanied by uncertainty about their existence. The concept comes from the French literary and critical tradition, and is distinguished from the word "fantastic", which is associated with the broader term of fantasy in the English literary tradition. According to the literary theorist Tzvetan Todorov (Introduction à la littérature fantastique), the fantastique is distinguished from the marvellous by the hesitation it

LitRPG, short for literary role-playing game, is a literary genre combining the conventions of computer RPGs with science-fiction and fantasy novels. The term was introduced in 2013. In LitRPG, game-like elements form an essential part of the story, and visible RPG statistics (for example strength, intelligence, damage) are a significant part of the reading experience. This distinguishes the genre from novels that tie in with a game, like those set in the world of Dungeons & Dragons; books that are actual games, such as the choose-your-own-adventure Fighting Fantasy type of publication; or gam

subgenre of fantasy fiction defined by a "mundane" setting

genre of fiction, that refers to phenomena that are forever outside the realm of scientific explanation, such as god, the afterlife, and the soul

literary genre

speculative fiction genre

subgenre of fantasy

subgenre of fantasy tale

subgenre of science fiction, sometimes with elements of science fantasy

sub-genre of both romantic fiction and speculative fiction

subgenre of Chinese fantasy fiction

literary genre

thumb|The term "grimdark" was inspired by Warhammer 40,000.

fantasy (genre) set in the afterlife, one kind of posthumous fantasy

fiction based on myth and legend

fantasy literature for children

sub-genre

genre of fiction that refers to the idea that there are certain phenomena that are outside the realm of scientific understanding but could potentially be explained by science one day