Historical fantasy is a literary genre that incorporates fantasy elements such as magic to a historical context that we could describe as more realistic. His stories, although they belong to the world of fiction, may have plots set in biblical times, classical antiquity or based on mythology or legends of history, among others. The limit is the imagination and these seven soap operas that reimagine history prove it.
Ring Shout: Our songDjeli Clark
The Ku Klux runs amok instilling fear, spreading hate and with a plan that could unleash hell on Earth. Fortunately, Maryse Boudreaux has a magical sword and a purpose. When she doesn’t defy prohibition by smuggling whiskey, she fights that monstrous army alongside her fellow fighters. They are: Chef, a Harlem Hellfighter, and Sadie, a foul-mouthed marksman. When something terrible begins to cook in Georgia, the resistance decides that this war must end once and for all. Can Maryse take down the Klan before her hatred consumes the world? a book that is a thrilling dark historical fantasy that puts a supernatural spin on the Ku Klux Klan’s reign of terror.
Ring Shout: Our song
outsiderDiana Gabaldon
Just after the Second World War, a young couple is finally reunited to spend their holidays in Scotland. Walking alone one afternoon, Claire approaches an ancient stone circle and falls into a strange trance. Upon coming to, she finds that the modern world has disappeared and the Scotland of 1734 surrounds her, with its belligerent and superstitious clans, rough men and women, sometimes violent, but with a capacity to live and to love as Claire had never experienced in her previous life. Haunted by memories of her, Claire will have to choose between the security of the future she left behind and the exciting uncertainty of the past she now inhabits.
Outlander (Outlander Saga 1)
the terracotta womanZen Cho
Dealing with topics like corruption and female empowerment in the context of fascinating asian mythology and legends, the terracotta woman combines satire and hope. In the tenth court of hell, spirits who are rich enough can bribe the officials of the underworld and thus be spared from terrible torments and feared reincarnation. Who wants to reincarnate being able to enjoy eternal comfort and riches? Siew Tsin, reluctantly married to the richest man in hell, is a woman with no expectations or future interests. Until her husband brings home a new wife… Yonghua is an artificial woman made of terracotta, and her mere existence will turn the underworld upside down.
HalloweenGraham Hancock
Tenochtitlán, 1519. Moctezuma reigns over an empire that is feared and hated by the rest of the aboriginal nations of the region, forced to deliver young people for the bloody sacrifices with which they pay tribute to the god of war. The power of the Aztec empire seems invincible but the rebellion is slowly forming, aided by rumors that light-skinned men with beards and weapons as strange as they are deadly are approaching the city. Tozi is a fourteen-year-old girl with strange supernatural powers who has been imprisoned by the Aztecs and is waiting in a cell for her turn to be sacrificed. Coyotl is a six-year-old boy and fellow captive. Pepillo is a young man preparing to embark on an expedition to Mexico from the Spanish colony of Cuba. The three will converge in this epic story that narrates the clash of two empires and the conquest of Mexico, from the hand of one of the most acclaimed authors of the genre.
The nights of the witch (The God of War 1)
Jonathan Strange and Mr NorrellSusanna Clarke
Between the fine social comedy of Jane Austen and the dark universe of Tolkien, Susanna Clarke has managed to create an imaginary world of enormous beauty and mystery. In the early 19th century, the exploits of the Raven King, the greatest of all wizards of the Middle Ages, live on in memory and legend, but the practice of magic has been completely forgotten in England. Until the day the elusive Mr. Norrell of Hurtfew Abbey makes the stones of York Minster speak. The news of the return of magic spreads like wildfire and Mr. Norrell, convinced that he must put his arts at the service of the government in the war against Napoleon, moves to London. There he meets young Jonathan Strange, a brilliant and willful wizard, and after overcoming some misgivings, agrees to take him in as his disciple. A prodigious mix of fantasy and history, in which magicians coexist with real characters and which poses an alternative history of England.
JONATHAN STRANGE AND MR. NORRE (Pocket Salamander)
The Invisible Life of Addie LarueV. E. Schwab
After making a pact with the devil, Addie gives her soul in exchange for immortality. However, she will also have to pay with the possibility of being remembered. Addie leaves her small hometown in 18th century France and begins a journey that takes her around the world, as she learns to live a life where no one remembers her and everything she owns is lost or broken. For three hundred years, she will be nothing more than the muse of numerous artists throughout history and she will have to learn to fall in love anew each day and to be forgotten the next morning. But one day, in a second-hand bookstore in Manhattan, Addie meets someone who, for the first time, remembers her. Will this be the end point of Addie LaRue’s life? Or are they just ellipses?
The Invisible Life of Addie Larue (Umbriel narrative)
Clarice’s storyGemma Herrero Virto
All the countries of Europe have been falling under Nazi rule. Although the defeat of the allies seems inevitable, there are still brave who resist without knowing that an even greater threat awaits them: The Ahnenerbea nazi occult organization who tries to help Hitler win the war through black magic and the use of ancient objects of power. Clarice Cooper, a witch with the gift of communicating with the dead, is recruited against her will by Alfred Mitchell, a British MI6 lieutenant who has been entrusted with a mission: to found a group of people with extraordinary psychic abilities capable of confronting the almighty Ahnenerbe. This is the story of a group of men and women who fight in the shadows to combat the darkness.
Clarice’s Story: OpenMind Division
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