What make King's work horror is not the subject matter so much but the style it is written in. His works are written to very suspenseful, even the one with no monsters. My point was I don't think you can define urban fantasy without talking about the themes and style it is written in.
Sorry, I had thought it was implicit in what I was writing that I was referring to fantasy books only when giving the definition, so didn't define what makes a book fantasy to begin with. That's a more complicated topic that I'd have to give some thought.
I'm not sure about categorizing Anne Rice's vampire books. I'd thought about it in the past, and had not really come to a satisfactory conclusion. I wouldn't call them fantasy. My local book store used to keep them in the horror section but that confused me too. Now there are so many copycat books of her subject matter that they seem a genre unto themselves, bordering on paranormal romance but not as formulaic.
Re: today's quick poll. What do you think of when you see "urban fantasy"?
- 14/06/2010 08:28:28 PM
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Unlike the poll, I do not think that The Dresden Files is urban fantasy.
- 14/06/2010 10:10:44 PM
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I always think of it as something fantastical taking place within a city setting.
- 15/06/2010 01:49:02 AM
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one of my favorite subgenres...
- 15/06/2010 08:14:27 AM
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I've read just the one book by de Lint, and thought it was great.
- 15/06/2010 01:33:24 PM
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wouldn't that make just about anything Stephen King wrote urban fantasy? *NM*
- 15/06/2010 07:44:33 PM
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Re: wouldn't that make just about anything Stephen King wrote urban fantasy?
- 16/06/2010 12:18:08 AM
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I agree and that was my point
- 16/06/2010 07:10:23 AM
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Re: I agree and that was my point
- 16/06/2010 07:32:49 AM
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