Genres and Subgenres of Fiction
1. Adventure: The main character of the story travel to distant places
and the story reveals the difficulties faced by protagonist in his
journey.
2. Superhero fiction: Characterizes superhero fighting against
criminals
3. Comedy: A story intended to make readers laugh. Many funny
events are incorporated in the story. The subgenres of comedy
creative writing includes:
4. Action Comedy: A combination of action and humor
5. Black comedy: Tragic events or situations represented in comical
way.
6. Horror Comedy: Combination of horror and humor
7. Slapstick: Physical actions incorporated into the story. These actions
humorous and non- violent
8. Romantic Comedy: Simple and light hearted comedy love story
which characterizes two protagonists who are in love
9. Parody: Humorous imitation of writer, character, situation, or artist
10.
Dramedy: Serious drama in combination with comedy
11.
Anarchic comedy: Revealing misbehavior or wild human with
help of comedy
12.
Science fiction comedy: Humorous story involving scientific
elements.
13.
Fantasy: Story involving magical powers and supernatural
forces.
14.
Fairy Tales: Stories most like by kids. It consists of magical
characters
15.
Contemporary fantasy: Real world fantasies revolving in
modern world.
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Dark Fantasy: Fantasy stories with imaginary horror elements
17.
Young Adult fantasy: Protagonists is young who deals with
adventure in his upcoming life.
18.
Mythological fantasy: Mythological elements weaved into
fantasy story.
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Arthurian Fantasy: Fantasy based on King Arthur
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Comic Fantasy: Fantasy tales which contains humorous
elements
21.
Epic fantasy: Tales of “Good” vs. “Evil” where protagonists
save others from villain
22.
High Fantasy: Fantasy which can never be true. It can be of
two types:
Enormous fantasy world which has no relation to real world
Struggle between Good and Evil for earth
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Magic fantasy: Story revolves around consequences of magic
done
24.
Science fantasy: Combination of science and fiction elements
25.
Sword and Sorcery: Protagonists battle with use of sword.
26.
Fables: Involves animals and creature speaking as humans to
tell truth
27.
Historical: Stories and events that took place in past. This may
involve real characters along author developed characters.
28.
Traditional History: Historical event told straightforward by
author.
29.
Multi-period Epics: Focusing on one place and showing how it
is changingover years.
30.
Sagas: Series of incidents or story carried over families and
generations.
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Western History: Traditional stories that takes place in West
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Historical Mysteries: Combination of history and mystery
fiction.
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Romantic History: Love stories that took place in history
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Adventure history: Travel and adventure of Historical
protagonists
35.
Thriller: Ways in which Historical protagonists save himself
from danger
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Literary: Contemporary events depicted in strong thoughts to
make reader change their outlook about life
37.
Christian History: Specially focusing Christians theme
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Time-Slip: Unhappiness and difficulties faced by protagonists
during travel across time
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Alternate History: Imaginary history developed by author
40.
Historical Fantasy: Combination of history and fantasy genres
41.
Counterfactual history: Exploring the outcome of the events
which did not happen in between the actual historical events. It
basically tells the reformation of history due to these imaginative
events.
42.
Horror: Story that contains suspense, shock, and violence to
frighten and scare readers.
43.
Ghost Story: Story of spirits of the dead in living human
44.
Monster Story: Story involves scary creatures or mutants that
harm people.
45.
Giant Monster: Story consisting of giant monsters which
destroy buildings
46.
Slasher: Antagonist is a serial killer or has personality disorder
who harms protagonist and kills other characters in the story
47.
Survival horror: How a protagonists save from scary and
horrified situations and creatures
48.
Mystery: Protagonist id trapped in mystery situations where he
cannot find a solution initially and gradually control the situation.
49.
Caper : Antagonist plan crime and the real criminal is not
guessed by the reader till the end
50.
Cozy: Set in small villages where a woman is a criminal and
protagonists gather evidences to prove female antagonists against
the law
51.
Doctor Detective: Doctors are involved in solving murders
52.
Furry Sleuth: An animal such as cat or a dog is principal
investigator of the crime
53.
Handicapped mystery: Story involves a physically challenged
person who overcomes the challenges to solve the crime
54.
Legal: Protagonist is a lawyer and solves the mystery case
55.
Private Detective: Number of private investigators is
protagonists who are involved in solving the mystery
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Romantic mystery: Romance along with murders and
investigations
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Supernatural mystery: Crime or murder conducted by
supernatural power
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Whodunit: Investigator present at the place of the murder
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Science Fiction: Imaginative science elements and
technologies.
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Hard Science: More emphasis on scientific ideas than
characters
61.
Light Science Fiction: More focus on characters and their
emotions and less emphasis on technology and law
62.
Social Science Fiction: More emphasis on human interaction
in society and less emphasis on technology and space
63.
Apocalyptic fiction: Imagination of World at the end or after
the world ends.
64.
Cyberpunk: Imagination of future High technology computers,
sci-fi, hackers, and computer hybrids
65.
First contact: Interaction of humans with aliens
66.
Space opera: Protagonist fighting with aliens, robots, or other
space creatures