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[[caption-width-right:350:Where {{mad scien|tist}}ce and {{fairy tale}}s meet.]]

Gaslamp fantasy, also called gas''light'' fantasy, is {{Steampunk}}'s magical cousin. It's a subgenre of fantasy (and more specifically of HistoricalFantasy) with a setting that is clearly recognizable as the real-world 19th or very early 20th century (or a reasonable analogue thereof). That's the {{Regency|England}} period and the {{Victorian|Britain}} and [[TheEdwardianEra Edwardian]] eras, if the work's set in England, which it usually, though not necessarily, is. VictorianLondon is especially popular. It may be identical to the real world with a {{Masquerade}}, or it may be a full-on AlternateHistory where magic exists openly and has affected the course of events. Gaslamp fantasy often draws on [[IndexOfGothicHorrorTropes gothic horror tropes]], and is sometimes seen as a sort of {{Reconstruction}} or revival of the genre.

The key difference between gaslamp fantasy and {{Steampunk}} is that {{Steampunk}} focuses on alternate developments in technology (and need not have any magic at all), while gaslamp fantasy focuses on supernatural elements (and need not have any technology that didn't actually exist). Yet, the two can overlap, especially with {{Magitek}}.

The term was coined to describe the comic ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'', but has since come into wider use, and is sometimes retroactively applied to the more fantastical works of GothicHorror. ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' was called that because its creators had never heard the term "Steampunk" before, but also because it was focused on more than just advanced steam power, and was not a dystopian-type [[PunkPunk "Punk"]] work, despite having similar aesthetics, and is heavy on [[MadScientist mad science]].

For similar genres with more modern settings, see UrbanFantasy and GothicPunk. Not to be confused with {{Gaslighting}}.

For tropes common to these works, check out the SteampunkIndex.

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!!Examples:

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[[folder: Anime and Manga ]]

* ''HowlsMovingCastle''
* ''PandoraHearts'', which has elements of this and utilizes many GothicHorror tropes.
* ''The Earl and the Fairy''.
* The ''What a Beautiful...'' series, including ''Souten no Celenaria'', ''VisualNovel/SekienNoInganock'', ''VisualNovel/ShikkokuNoSharnoth'', ''Hikari no Valusia'', and ''Shiei no Sona-nyl''

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[[folder: Comic Books ]]

* ''TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen''

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[[folder: Film ]]

* ''Film/VanHelsing''
* ''Film/{{Stardust}}''

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[[folder: Literature ]]

* ''HisDarkMaterials'' By Phillip Pullman. A multi-universe spanning trilogy. The first book, "Northern Lights," is set in a alternate Victorian-era Northern Europe. Its most prominent features are the Gothic elements (innocence lost, evil churches) and the daemons (souls) that are part of every human's personality.
* ''TheLawsOfMagic'' by Michael Pryor is set in a pseudo-British nation around the beginning of WWI where magic is a science and ''Snark'' abounds.
* ''TheParasolProtectorate'' takes place in VictorianBritain.
* ''Literature/SorceryAndCecelia'' and its sequels, by Patricia Wrede and Caroline Stevermer, are epistolary novels set in a Regency England where magic is part of everyday life.
* ''JonathanStrangeAndMrNorrell'' is about the last two practicing magicians in Georgian England (also, [[TheFairFolk fairies]]).
* ''TheNativeStar'' is fantasy set in America in the 1800s.
* ''Literature/TheTalesOfAlvinMaker'' series by OrsonScottCard is America-based 1800s fantasy as well.
* ''Literature/ShadesOfMilkAndHoney''
* The GemmaDoyle trilogy centers around a group of young Victorian ladies who get caught up in a secret magical conspiracy.
* Mercedes Lackey's ''ElementalMasters'' series is about mages in Post-Victorian England. The stories are loosely based on FairyTales.
* The ''Literature/LordDarcy'' stories are technically set in the 1960s, but due to magic, society and technology seem to be closer to the Edwardian era.
* ''InfernalDevices'' is set an alternate Victorian London that contains elements of a Masquerade: things such as magic, demons, werewolves, vampires, etc. wander around in the open - but only people with The Sight can see them.
* Naomi Novik's {{Temeraire}} series follows the adventures of a British captain in His Majesty's Dragon Corps during the Napoleonic Wars.
* ''Literature/TheStrangelyBeautifulSeries'' is set in VictorianBritain and involves a magical backstory where Hades murders Persephone's lover, a phoenix.
* The ''Literature/OldKingdom'' series. The eponymous kingdom is more of a medieval fantasy culture, but their southern neighbor Ancelstierre has early 20th-century technology and culture along with the bits of magic that leak in from the Old Kingdom.
* ''Literature/MosesTheChroniclesOfHarrietTubman'' has SteamPunk machines created by weaving magic with technology.
* ''Literature/DoctrineOfLabyrinths'' has elements ranging from Georgian to Edwardian, though much of the atmosphere of Mélusine proper is based in Dickensian London. Actual gas lighting shows up in the final book of the quadrilogy.

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[[folder: Tabletop RPG ]]

* ''CastleFalkenstein''. Set during the Victorian era. Has magicians, the Faerie, dwarves, dragons etc.
* ''VictorianaRPG''
* ''UnhallowedMetropolis'', set in a future dystopian version of Victorian London.
* ''[[http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=23334 Broken Gears]]'' (CURS Publishing) is {{Postapocalyptic}} Gaslamp Fantasy -- "a game of animistic steampunk". It's about a {{Magitek}} AlternateUniverse where Devil-possessed Difference Engine rebelled after WWII, was nuked, and ''all'' electrical appliances got bedeviled. Which makes mass production harder, so most folk fall back to [[ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld zeppelins]], salamander-powered muskets, crossbows and rapiers.
* ''GURPS Goblins'': Victorian London as populated by stereotypical fantasy green-skinned goblins.
* ''Rippers'' is about late Victorian monster hunters.

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[[folder: Video Games ]]

* The ''{{Thief}}'' games
* ''ArcanumOfSteamworksAndMagickObscura''
* ''FinalFantasyVI'', trope namer for {{Magitek}}
* ''{{Nostalgia}}''

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[[folder: Web Comics ]]

* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' is steampunk combined with fantasy. Most of the weird stuff can be explained by weird technology, but magic-like elements remain. The river Dyne (an apparently natural spring the waters of which make the drinker a mad genius, though in most cases it's instantly lethal), "Constructs" made from corpses ala-{{Frankenstein}}, Jägermonsters (human volunteers converted into colorful and near-immortal SuperSoldier humanoids), multiple cases of BrainUploading, and the [[GeniusLoci castle Heterodyne's]] seemingly telekinetic ability to move chunks of itself. To say nothing of [[ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder the Spark]] itself.
* ''ThePhoenixRequiem'' is set in a fantastical analogue to Victorian England -- one that worships spirits and is beset by omnicidal shades made of cremated ashes.
* ''NextTownOver'' is a mix between this, WeirdWest, and CattlePunk. The two main characters are a BountyHunter who is skilled in a type of cybernetics and the pyropathic outlaw she is hunting down.

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[[folder: Web Original ]]

* ''EchoBazaar'' is set in a Victorian London ruled by a shadowy cabal of nonhuman entities and full of things like devils, golems, and talking rats.

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