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Urban Contemporary Fantasy
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August 2005
Compiled by Hillary Theyer,
of Torrance Public Library (CA), from contributions by the members of Fiction_L.
(To use this list in your library, book club, etc., please include the following credit line: "Compiled by the subscribers of the Fiction_L mailing list." This list may not be used for commercial purposes.)
- Adams, Douglas - Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul
- (Norse gods in modern London)
- Brust, Steven - Gypsy
- (Police procedural, Ohio, Hungarian folklore/magic)
- Bull, Emma - War for the Oaks
- (Fairie courts in modern Minneapolis)
- Butcher, Jim - Dresden Files
- (professional wizard in Chicago)
- Caine, Rachel - Weather Warden series
- (Djinn who control the weather)
- Card, Orson Scott - Magic Street
- (Fairie changling born in Baldwin Hills, CA)
- Carroll, Jonathan
- (many different, compared to Neil Gaiman in reviews)
- Crowley, John - Little, Big
- (Fairie)
- Dean, Pamela - Tam Lin, Juniper Gentian & Rosemary
- (Fairie, from English ballad)
- De Lint, Charles - Newford series or others
- (modern city with Fairie residents)
- Gaiman, Neil - American Gods, Neverwhere, Anansi Boys
- (old and new gods fight, mythic creatures in subterranean London)
- Galenorn, Yasmine - Emerald O'Brien series
- (Chinese magic)
- Garnett, Richard - Twilight of the Gods
- (short stories, Greek mythology)
- Goldstein, Lisa - Dark Cities Underground, Walking the Labyrinth
- (modern San Francisco, woman descended from magic folk)
- Hoffman, Alice - Practical Magic
- (magical sisters)
- Hamilton, Laurel K. - Meredith Gentry series
- (Fairie P.I. in Los Angeles)
- Harris, Charlaine - Southern Vampire series
- (Louisiana waitress reads minds, meets vampire)
- Harrison, Kim - Dead Witch Walking
- (Cincinnati bounty hunter/witch)
- Herbert, James - Once
- (stroke patient returns to fantasy of childhood to fight evil, horror)
- Hoffman, Nina Kiriki - any title
- (supernatural stories)
- Holt, Tom - Expecting Someone Taller
- (modern England, Wagnerian myth)
- Huff, Tanya - Keeper's Chronicles
- (person and cat are keepers of the universe, take charge of B&B with a ghost, hell in the basement)
- King, Stephen and Peter Straub - The Talisman
- (boy journeys across U.S. and other realm)
- Lackey, Mercedes - SERRated Edge series, or Bedlam's Bard series, Sacred Ground
- (good and bad elves)
- Lackey, Mercedes with Roberta Gellis - This Scepter'd Isle
- (Elves meddle in Henry VIII court over fate of Queen Elizabeth)
- Lindholm, Megan - Wizard of the Pigeons
- (everyone with magic ability is a street person)
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- Martinez, A. Lee - Gil's All Fright Diner
- (werewolf and vampire are hired to rid a diner of zombies)
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- McKinley, Robin - Sunshine
- (daughter of sorcerer protects world from vampires)
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- Mieville, China - Looking for Jake, King Rat, others
- (demon haunted London, pied piper retold)
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- Millar, Martin - The Good Fairies of New York
- (punk rock fairies)
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- Murphy, C.E. - Urban Shaman
- (female Seattle mechanic/cop uses Shamanic powers)
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- Petaja, Emil - any
- Powers, Tim - Last Call
- (son of Las Vegas gambler has to fight for his soul)
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- Scarborough, Elizabeth - Fairy Godmother series
- (Seattle social worker gets a fairy godmother)
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- Shetterly, Will (and various others) - Borderlands series
- (punk elf gangs in Bordertown)
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- Spencer, Wen - Ukiah Oregon series
- (tracker/P.I. raised by wolves)
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- Stemple, Adam - Singer of Souls
- (recovering heroin addict can see land of Fairie in Scotland)
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- Swendsen, Shanna - Enchanted, Inc.
- (girl in NYC gets job at sorcery shop)
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- Tuttle, Lisa - The Mysteries
- (people vanish to the land of the sidhe, Celtic folklore)
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