Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, and/or setting. Fantasy is generally distinguished from science fiction and horror by the expectation that it steers clear of technological and macabre themes, respectively, though there is a great deal of overlap between the three (collectively known as speculative fiction or science fiction/fantasy)

In its broadest sense, fantasy comprises works by many writers, artists, filmmakers, and musicians, from ancient myths and legends to many recent works embraced by a wide audience today, including
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A Touch of Chaos (Hades x Persephone Saga, #4)
The Prisoner’s Throne (The Stolen Heir Duology, #2)
The Emperor and the Endless Palace
Sunbringer (Fallen Gods, #2)
The Morningside
The Day Tripper
A Feather So Black (Fair Folk, #1)
If the Tide Turns
Three Kinds of Lucky (The Shadow Age #1)
Floating Hotel
Song of the Huntress
The Last Bloodcarver
What Monstrous Gods
A Cursed Son
The Hedgewitch of Foxhall
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    Tress of the Emerald Sea (The Cosmere, #28)
    How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories (The Folk of the Air, #3.5)
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    Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
    Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
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    William Shakespeare
    Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Tu ...more
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    John Rogers
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