Expanded Unoffical Bibliography for Urban Fantasy HERO

[yamamura]

Hi all, it is time again to add our books, movies, comics and TV to the list that exist in Urban Fantasy HERO! Once the list is populated enough I will place a copy under the HERO Product thread for the book (which I will do so for Ulitmate Mentalist too). So please post and I will add. As always any entry already in the Urban Fantasy HERO will not be added to this list.

Comics


Books
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross
Cabal by Clive Barker
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Diana Tregarde Investigation by Mercedes Lackey
Elves on the Road Series by Mercedes Lackey
Gossamer Axe by Gael Baudino
'Healer', the Repairman Jack stuff, and the Nightworld stuff by F Paul Wilson
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Lord of Light and This Immortal by Roger Zelazny
Mage & Mage II by Matt Wanger
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny
Nightside Series by Simon R. Green
Prom Nights From Hell Anthology
Tea With A Black Dragon by RA MacAvoy


Non-Fiction


Movie
Blade
Highlander
Lost Boys
Nightbreed
Nightwatch/Daywatch
Nomads

RPGs
Heaven and Earth
Little Fears
Witchcraft

Television
3x3 Eyes
Blade
Bleach
Brimstone
Forever Knight
Gargoyles
Ghost Sweeper Mikami
Hellsing
Highlander
Hyper Police
Night Stalker
Phantom Quest Corp.
Silent Mobius
Supernatural
Witch Hunter Robin
Witchblade

Anybody has any more and if anybody have an issue with anything I added let me know. I am a pretty reasonable fellow

[Sean Waters]

Roger Zelazny: Amber series. Well, quite a lot of RZ, actually

I don't know if this fits exactly, but stuff like Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Angel and even the Twighlight movie probably make it in as, worryingly, do the Harry Potter books and movies

[Steve Long]

I would not consider Amber to be Urban Fantasy, though I freely admit I haven't read all of it.

Harry Potter certainly has some elements of Urban Fantasy, but it's a sort of odd duck that doesn't entirely fit within the subgenre.

Buffy, Angel, and Twilight are all unquestionably Urban Fantasy as it's defined in the book.

[Korvar]

Harry Potter certainly has some elements of Urban Fantasy, but it's a sort of odd duck that doesn't entirely fit within the subgenre.

I think Harry Potter would be Urban Fantasy if they didn't spend all their time at school You could certainly do Urban Fantasy in that world. Harry Potter: the Later Years

[Sean Waters]

Underworld, the Day Watch/Night Watch and Blade movies.

Damn vampires. They get into everything. Oh -that reminds me - Lost Boys.

Harry Dresden books and TV series.

X-Files, obviously (is there a genre that doesn't fit into?)

Pushing Daisies?

Comics have to include Hellblazer (also a film, of course), and possibly Hellraiser (the Clive Barker books and films)

Books include almost anything by Neil Gaiman, not least Neverwhere and American Gods.

Lovecraft, possibly

Back to Zelazny with Lord of Light (favourite book ever) and This Immortal, perhaps.

F Paul Wilson, 'Healer' and the Repairman Jack stuff, and the Nightworld stuff.

Humour from Terry Pratchett - Good Omens, maybe even quite a bit of Discworld: it is certainly fantasy and much of it is in an urban setting.

[mvoncannon]

I think Harry Potter would be Urban Fantasy if they didn't spend all their time at school You could certainly do Urban Fantasy in that world. Harry Potter: the Later Years

Hey! You stole my idea.

[Gunstar]

<snip>Harry Dresden books and TV series.<snip>

Dresden Files [Jim Butcher] and The Nightside series [Simon R. Green] are some of the best urban fantasy.

[Eosin]

TV: Charmed, Brimstone, Witchblade, Gargoyles (animated)
Movies: Hellrazor (most Clive Barker), Nightwatch/Daywatch, Wanted


Possibly: 4400, Millennium, First Wave -- all have powered beings but probably more of a Sci-fi slant. Ditto with Babylon 5 and the Technomages.

RPGs
White Wolf: pretty much everything they produce except the Rome stuff.
Unknown Armies
Witchcraft
Delta Green [alien horror versus dark champions]

[Greywind]

Mercedes Lackey's Elves on the Road universe.

[Korvar]

Underworld, the Day Watch/Night Watch and Blade movies.

And indeed the Blade TV series.

[Akiva]

Just about anything written by Ligotti if you want to blend a little horror into your urban fantasy.

Winterlong by Elizabeth Hand is the perfect example of post-apocalyptic urban fantasy.

And, although I didn't read it fully, Perdido Street Station by China Mieville tackles Urban Fantasy from the opposite direction.

As for RPGs, there's Tribe 8 which falls in line somewhere between Winterlong and Perdido Street Station.

I'd also throw Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow in there. If read with an eye for it, it's pretty much an epic fantasy adventure with various magical sects (the Pavlovians), items (Rocket 00000), creatures (the giant solenoid), and is itself written with a mystical structure. It also happens to be my favorite American novel.

[yamamura]

I will get to this list later this weekend until then keep them coming.

[yamamura]

I have removed Golden Compass and His Dark Materials, while they are fantasy, they don't quite have the Urban feeling to them.

[csyphrett]

I suggest Kolchak the Night Stalker for TV, Several books by King such as Bag of Bones, Duma Key, Cycle of the Werewolf, The Talisman, The Drood books by Simon Green, Operation Chaos by Poul Anderson.

Amber might not fit, but other books by Zelazny would like Jack of Shadows, Chasing Darkness, Lord Demon, A Night in the Lonesome October, Roadmarks.

Most any pulp occult detective like Jules De Grandin, or John Thunstone.

Several short lived television series like Tru Calling, Wonderfalls, Joan of Arc, Moonlight, Forever Knight, Werewolf.

Things like Ghost Whisperer or Medium might be on the edge since I don't know the cause of the psychic power described.
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[Susano]

Let's see... I think the following will fit:
Ghost Sweeper Mikami
3x3 Eyes
Hyper Police
Hellsing

These might be extreme examples:
Silent Mobius
Sakura Wars