Questions tagged [urban-fantasy]
Urban fantasy is a sub-genre of fantasy where a plot including fantastic and/or supernatural elements has an urban setting, generally a contemporary city.
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Yellow King inspired book with an Art Dealer
About 10 years ago (2015) I read a book that was likely new at the time. It was a horror-inflected contemporary fantasy about an art dealer that dabbles in the occult and gets sucked into another ...
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A discussion in a bar where one of the participants turned out to be none but the greek god Hermes
I read this Fantasy short story at least 40 years ago in a collection that was probably already quite old.
It is about a discussion between rather drunk people in a bar, telling tall tales. The tales ...
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Urban Fantasy book where a man (warlock?) is hired by a precognitive to protect them against a man with a tattoo on their wrist [duplicate]
I read this somewhere in the 2023-2025 range, I think as either an electronic audiobook or an ebook. I was reminded of it when providing some details for another urban fantasy story id question here, ...
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Searching for an elven sword in New York City
I read a fantasy novel twenty or thirty years ago (and of course, it may have been printed well before that).
The backstory is that the Elven realm has been shattered by civil war, but that a peace ...
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Book/book series including siblings (possibly twins; boy and girl) fighting various creatures from the 2010's
I read a series of books in middle school (around 2015-2019), not sure if that's when they were published, but they were middle school level. They were fiction/fantasy books with creepy themes and ...
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A novel about imps (or aliens ?) who misunderstand the phrase "to blow a raspberry"
I read this novel more than 20 years ago, probably in a paperback. But it might be much older.
I'm not sure whether it is urban Fantasy or SF.
The novel takes place essentially in our world, but where ...
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Novel where the female protagonist (vampire?) drops out of a plane in flight, and lands in swamplands. Gets to a rundown motel, and realizes trouble
I remember this as a novel that I read somewhere around 5-10 years ago (probably 2015-2020). The female protagonist is in a plane and, for some reason, needs to jump out of it (I don't remember if it ...
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Urban fantasy about drug/alcohol addicted psychic private detective
I read a two book series of urban fantasy in the late 90's or early 00's. The books were small and the covers were either old time mystery types or with photographs.
The private detective had ...
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A fantasy novel, a thriller with time paradox, emails travel back and forth in time
Just like the one here, I read this fantasy novel not so long ago, maybe only 5 or 6 years
Again I am positive I read it in French, in a paperback of one of the pocket French editions (which ...
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A fantasy novel (probably originally in French) where a room in a basement is an uncontrollable time machine
I read this fantasy novel not so long ago, maybe only 5 or 6 years (late in my "pre-Covid" first existence).
I am positive I read it in French, because it was a paperback of one of the ...
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A shortish novel about a child raised in a cemetery by ghosts and a strange character who sleeps during the day
I read this rather shortish Fantasy novel about 10 years ago, in French, in a paperback that was not quite new. But it might well have been a translation. Indeed, IIRC, it takes place in London, so it ...
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Office worker finds an extra elevator - takes him to a parallel universe with a startling difference
I think I read this in an old F&SF magazine (pre-2000 - that's old now (sorry)). An office worker becomes obsessed with how many elevator shafts are in his building because he realizes that when ...
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Urban cultivation manhua where the main character jumps from a window to join his friends
I'm trying to identify this manhua. I only remember the first chapter. The main character (MC) wakes up in his old room, and then his "girl" and her friends call out to him from outside ...
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Fantasy-mystery/paranormal unfinished book series with ghosts as major plot point
I'm trying to find a book series that I read around 3-4 years ago, about a group of friends who deal with ghosts and are trying to fight a villain who has some kind of a weapon that could harm the ...
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Book about a dystopian world where people plug into a server with headsets and have silver swirls around their eyes being special
I read this book when I was really young so I can’t be sure about all the details, but it was around 2014 when I read it. The cover was white, I think, with silver or black swirls around an eye
It was ...
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