Forms of literature Non-fiction Weird fantasy

Horror
Non-fiction Lovecraftian horror
See also: Literary genre Autobiography Weird menace
Biography Science fiction (for more
Oral literary genres Diaries and Journals details see Science fiction
Essay genres and related topics
Oral literature Literary criticism Cyberpunk
Oral poetry Memoir Hard science fiction
Epic poetry Outdoor literature Space opera
Legend Spiritual autobiography Supernatural fiction
Mythology Travel literature Sensation novel
Ballad Slave narrative
Folktale Thriller
Oral Narrative Conspiracy fiction
Oral History Legal thriller
Fiction genres Spy fiction/Political thriller
Urban legend
Techno-thriller
Fiction Western fiction
Written literary genres Adventure novel
Airport novels
Main Comedy
articles: Poetry and Prose Parody
Children's literature Satire
Constrained writing Crime fiction
Erotic literature Detective fiction
Poetry (see that article for an Hardboiled
extensive list of subgenres and Whodunit
types) Newgate novel
Aubade Erotica
Clerihew Fable
Epic Fairy tale
Grook form of Family saga
short aphoristic poem Frame story
invented by the Danish poet Gothic
and scientist Piet Hein, who Southern Gothic
wrote over 7,000 of them. Historical fiction
Haiku Inspirational fiction
Lied Invasion literature
Limerick a kind of a witty, Mystery
humorous, or nonsense Philosophical literature
poem,[3] especially one in five- Inspirational fiction (religious
line anapestic or amphibrachi literature)
c meter with a strict rhyme Psychological novel
scheme (aabba), which is Psychological thriller
sometimes obscene with Romance (heroic literature)
humorous intent. Romance
Lyric Historical romance
Ode Regency romance
Rhapsody Inspirational romance
Song Paranormal romance
Sonnet Saga
Speculative poetry Speculative fiction
Prison literature Alternate history
Rhymed prose Fantasy (for more details
Saj' see Fantasy subgenres, fantasy
Maqama literature)
Fu (literature) Epic fantasy
Rayok Science fantasy
Steampunk
Urban fantasy