Fantasy literature that is parodic, lighthearted, wacky, snarky, or just plain buffoonish. Notable practitioners include Douglas Adams, Jasper Fforde, Esther Friesner, Tom Holt, Walter Moers, Christopher Moore, John Moore, and Terry Pratchett.
Subtrope of Comic Literature. Also see Fantastic Comedy.
Works in this genre:
- The 13 Clocks
- Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
- Adventures of a Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom series
- The Adventures of Samurai Cat series
- Alcatraz Series
- The Alchemaster's Apprentice
- Almost Night
- Anonymous Rex series
- Antipaladin Blues
- A Symphony of Eternity
- Atharon
- The Bad Unicorn Trilogy
- "Bandits in Your Grocer's Freezer"
- Barry Trotter
- Behind The Curtains
- Betsy the Vampire Queen series
- The Billibub Baddings Mysteries
- Bloodsucking Fiends series
- Bored of the Rings
- Bridge of Birds
- Castle Perilous series
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- Chicks in Chainmail
- Chronicles of the Misplaced Prince series
- The City of Dreaming Books
- Chasing the Moon
- Coyote Blue
- Dark Lord of Derkholm
- The Dark Profit Saga
- Dirk Gently series
- A Dirty Job
- Discworld series
- Divine Misfortune
- The Dragon Hoard
- Dragon-in-Distress
- The Dragon Knight series
- Dragon Queen
- Dragon Slayers' Academy series
- Each Little Universe
- Early Riser
- Eccentric Circles
- Ella Enchanted
- Enchanted, Inc. series
- Expecting Someone Taller
- The Exploits of Ebenezum trilogy
- Fabled Hearts series
- A Fable of Tonight series
- Fairest
- Falcon Quinn series
- Falling Sideways
- Family Bites
- A Fantasy Attraction
- Fluke, or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings
- Flying Dutch
- Forest Kingdom series
- GameWorld trilogy
- Georgina Kincaid series
- Goblins (2007) (also a comic in the other sense)
- The Gone-Away World
- Good Omens
- Grailblazers
- Groosham Grange series
- Grunts!
- Hairy Potheadand The Marijuana Stone
- Harold Shea series
- Heavens Hell
- Heroics for Beginners
- Hex Hall series
- How to Train Your Dragon series
- In the Company of Ogres
- The Intercontinental Union of Disgusting Characters
- Iron Druid Chronicles
- Jason Cosmo series
- Jim Springman and the Realm Of Glory
- Joe's World
- J.W. Wells & Co. series
- The Kingdoms of Evil
- Knight Life Series
- KonoSuba series
- Lafayette O'Leary series
- The Last Dragonslayer
- Legends & Lattes
- Letters Back to Ancient China
- Lil i Put
- Leven Thumps series
- The Light Princess
- Magic Kingdom of Landover series
- Mogworld
- Muddle Earth
- My Dark and Fearsome Queen series
- Myth Adventures series
- A Nameless Witch
- The Night of Wishes
- Nomes Trilogy
- Nursery Crime series
- Once Upon a Marigold
- One for the Morning Glory
- Practical Demonkeeping
- The Phantom Tollbooth
- The Priest, the Scientist, and the Meteor
- Prince Charming
- The Princess Bride
- Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon
- River of Dancing Gods series
- Rumo & His Miraculous Adventures
- Rune Soldier Louie series
- The Saga Of Billy
- Sebastian Darke series
- Secret Histories series
- Sir Apropos of Nothing series
- Skulduggery Pleasant series
- Slayers series
- Smoke and Shadows trilogy
- SnarfQuest
- Spellsinger series
- Spells, Swords, & Stealth
- Split Heirs
- Tales From The Year Between
- The Echo Chronicles
- The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror
- The Supervillainy Saga
- Tales From Verania
- The Tome of Bill series
- Too Many Curses
- The Tough Guide to Fantasyland
- The Unhandsome Prince
- The United States of Monsters
- Thraxas series
- Thursday Next series
- Unicorn Western
- U Realms Live
- Vainqueur The Dragon
- Vampire High series
- Villains by Necessity
- The Wanderings of Wuntvor trilogy
- Warlock of Gramarye series
- We Are Not All Made Of Colour
- Who Censored Roger Rabbit? and sequels
- Who's Afraid of Beowulf?
- Wild Ride
- The Wingfeather Saga
- The Witch Watch
- A Wizard in Rhyme series
- The Wizard, The Witch, and Two Girls from Jersey
- Wiz Biz series
- The Worst Witch series
- Xanth series
- Zeus Is Dead: A Monstrously Inconvenient Adventure
