Urban Fantasy

Urban fantasy is a genre where the story is largely set within an urban environment. This can be in the past, present or future as long as the story is set within a city.

It can be considered a polar opposite to High Fantasy, which is set in an entirely fictional world.

Noted Series

Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files

Mike Shevdon's The Courts of the Feyre

Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London

Books Reviewed

American Gods
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Angel Souls and Devil Hearts
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Bigfoot Loose and Fin Fancy Free
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Blackbirds
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Blood Rites
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Bloodshot
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Book of Secrets
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Broken Homes
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Changes
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City of Dreams & Nightmare
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Day Shift
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Dead Beat
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Dead Harvest
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Dead Things
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Death Masks
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Death Most Definite
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Death's Disciples
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Deaths Sweet Embrace
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Dreams and Shadows
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Earthquake Weather
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Fool Moon
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Foxglove Summer
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Ghost Story
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God rest ye merry Gentlepig
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Gods and Monsters: Unclean Spirits
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Grave Peril
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Hard Spell
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Hellbent
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King Maker
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King’s Justice
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London Falling
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Midnight Crossroad
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Moon Over Soho
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Night Shift
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No Hero
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Premonitions
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Red Glove
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Red Moon
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Restoration
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Rivers of London
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Sandman Slim
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Serial Killers Incorporated
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Sixty One Nails
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Small Favour
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
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Splintered
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Storm Front
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Strangeness and Charm
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Summer Knight
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The Blue Blazes
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The Dirty Streets of Heaven
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The Edge of Reason
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The Eighth Court
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The Graveyard Book
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The Janus Cycle
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The Road to Bedlam
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The World House
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Turn Coat
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Vegas Knights
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Waking Nightmares
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Waking the Witch
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Whispers Underground
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White Night
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Zoo City
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Mongrels
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A City Dreaming
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The Hanging Tree
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Relics
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Blade Bound
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The Furthest Station
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Smoke Eaters
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A Blade so Black
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Hallowdene
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This Book is Full of Spiders
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
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Lies Sleeping
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Batman: The Killing Joke
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Batman: The Court of Owls
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The City of Lost Fortunes
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All My Colors
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Magic for Liars
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Dark Ink
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The Manifestations of Sherlock Holmes
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Bystander 27
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Captain Moxley and the Embers of the Empire
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Judderman
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Hard Time
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Night Terrors
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All the Murmuring Bones
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Shadow Service Volume 1
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Rabbits
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The Beautiful Ones
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Monkey Around 
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The Cottingley Cuckoo
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Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses
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Bleeding Hearts
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The 13th Witch
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The Liar of Red Valley
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A Master of Djinn
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A Marvellous Light
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Certain Dark Things
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Swashbucklers
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Shadow Service Volume 2: Mission Infernal
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American Dreams Issues 1-5
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Sherlock Holmes and Count Dracula
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The House of Sorrowing Stars
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Constance Verity Saves the World
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Constance Verity Destroys the Universe
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The Shadow Glass
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Hounded
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Hexed
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Hammered
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The Ballad of Perilous Graves
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Signal to Noise
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The Generation Killer
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Cackle
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The Hollows
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Sherlock Holmes and Mr Hyde
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Burrowed
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Reluctant Immortals
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Perilous Times
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Scarlet
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Bang Bang Bodhisattva
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Amongst Our Weapons
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The Curious Affair of the Missing Mummies
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A Market of Dreams and Destiny
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The Lonely Lands
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Promise
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The Kindness
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The Undetectables
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Saturnalia
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The Death of Sir Martin Malprelate
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A Stroke of the Pen
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My Brothers Keeper
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Boneshops & Bonedust
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The Dead Take the A Train
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One Eye Opened In That Other Place
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The Principle Moments
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Sherlock Holmes and Dorian Gray
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