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4903947 No.4903947[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

Any good novels that merge elements of fantasy with the horrors of what actually happened in medieval times?

>> No.4903958

Holy Grail Trilogy - Bernard Cornwell

>> No.4904003

Guy Gavriel Kay

>> No.4904142

Bump because I'd like something like this too. Specifically the Spanish Inquisition (I have already read Melmoth The Wanderer).

>> No.4904155

I was thinking Cornwell, too, but it's been poasted.

>> No.4904712

Melmoth

>> No.4904728

>>4903947
>merge elements of fantasy with the horrors of what actually happened in medieval times?

The Bible.

>> No.4904737

Umberto Eco's Baudolino has some fantastic/magical realism elements, but I wouldn't put it into either genre