urban fantasy

English

Noun

urban fantasy (countable and uncountable, plural urban fantasies)

1. (literature) A subgenre of fantasy which takes place a contemporary urban setting.
2. (literature) An individual work in this genre.
   • 2012, Andrea Lunsford, Lisa Ede, Beverly J. Moss, Carole Clark Papper, Everyone's an Author, New York, N.Y., London: W. W. Norton and Company, →ISBN, page 666:

     More recently, Amanda Hocking, author of young adult paranormal romance and urban fantasies, self-published nine of her own novels, several of which made the New York Times best-seller list.

References

• Jesse Sheidlower, editor (2001–2025), “urban fantasy, n.”, in Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction.

Further reading

• Urban fantasy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia