History Main / HistoricalFantasy

* NeilGaiman's ''{{Stardust}}'' is a borderline example, since most of the action takes place outside of historical England.

There can be some overlap with AlternateHistory if the fantastic elements are shown to have actually changed history as we know it. See also HistoricalFiction.

* Paul Kearney's ''Macht Trilogy''. The first novel, ''The Ten Thousand '' retells Xenophon's ''Anabasis.''; the remaining novels, ''Corvus'' and ''Kings of Morning'', loosely follow the life of AlexanderTheGreat.

* {{Guy Gavriel Kay}} is a specialist of the variant, with ''{{Tigana}}'' an obvious stand in for Renaissance era Italy, ''{{The Lions of Al-Rassan}}'' for Spain at the time of the Reconquistada, ''TheSarantineMosaic'' for Byzantium, ''A Song for Arbonne'' for France at the time of the Albigenoise Crusade.

* ''{{Highlander}}''

* Paul Kearney's ''Macht Trilogy''. The first novel, ''The Ten Thousand '' retells Xenophon's ''Anabasis.''; the remaining novels, ''Corvus'' and ''Kings of Morning", loosely follow the life of AlexanderTheGreat.

* ''TheMagicianAndMrsQuent'' and ''TheHouseOnDurrowStreet'': a somewhat barefaced hodgepodge of JaneAusten, CharlesDickens, HenryJames, JaneEyre, and a couple other 19th century British greats, set in a parallel universe with a really odd sun cycle where magic provides a rationale for some of the gender roles that century is famous for. Clearly evoking the kind of RegencyEngland fantasy Susannah Clarke achieved, but with considerably less subtlety, grace, or prose style.

* ''Onimusha'' follows a semi-historical person (Hidemitsu Samanosuke Akechi is based on a real person, but very loosely) in games one and three, and a heavily fictionalized Jubei Yagyu in the second. Nobunaga was obviously real, although not fueled by demons in real life.

* {{Guy Gavriel Kay}} is a specialist of the variant, with ''{{Tigana}}'' an obvious stand in for Renaissance era Italy, ''{{The Lions of Al-Rassan}}'' for Spain at the time of the Reconquistada, The ''Sarantine Mosaic'' for Byzantium, ''A Song for Arbonne'' for France at the time of the Albigenoise Crusade.

* It's probable that least a large percentage of TheBible could be said to just be HistoricalFantasy mixed with VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory. Ditto for most established Holy Texts, actually. YourMileageMayVary on this, obviously.

* ''ShadowHearts'', around WorldWarI. You even get to recruit Princess Anastasia Romanov as a party member.

* MercedesLackey and EricFlint wrote the novels ''Shadow of the Lion'' and ''This Rough Magic'', which are set in [[CityOfCanals Venice]] in the 1530's but contain [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demons]], elemental spirits, and FunctionalMagic.

A sub genre of SpeculativeFiction, Historical Fantasy is similar to UrbanFantasy, except the setting will be a time and place in the past rather than modern times.

* ''Samurai Champloo'' has some minor fantastical elements, like the existence of ki. Zombies, however, are most likely [[MushroomSamba mushroom-induced hallucinations]].

* Samurai Champloo has some minor fantastical elements, like the existence of ki. Zombies, however, are mostly like [[MushroomSamba mushroom-induced hallucinations]].

* I'm not sure if it counts but SamuraiChamploo was relatively plausible well no so much plausible as [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal beatboxing breakdancing and baseball]] exsist. Than Muegen started fighting a shaolin monk ok normal enough. Then the shot a chi attack at him. Oh hey look Zombies.

* On that note, ''InuYasha'' qualifies as well, since it's Meiji-era Japan but with demons and magic, and yet the timeline appears to be unchanged.

* ''AbrahamLincoln:VampireHunter''

** Acurate prophecies and omens are fairly common in "realist" fiction, and frequently are not considered fantastical elements. After all, lots of people in the [[RealLife real world]] believes those things to be true.