The Fantastic is a literary and cinematic genre characterised by the appearance of supernatural and unexplained phenomenons in a daily and realistic surroundings.
Unlike the Fantasy, the characters of a fantastic story don’t understand nor accept this supernatural intrusion in their every day’s life.
Matching words : Fantasy, Science fiction
Exemples :
- Dracula, by Bram Stoker
- Frankenstein, by Mary W. Shelley
- Le Horlas, French short story by Guy de Maupassant
- The Call of Cthulhu, de H. P. Lovecraft
- The movies of the Underworld series