urban fantasy

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urban fantasy (countable and uncountable, plural urban fantasies)

(literature) A subgenre of fantasy which takes place a contemporary urban setting.
(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.