It is a genre of imaginative fiction involving magic and adventure, especially in a setting other than the real world.

It dramatizes the wonders of technology, and resembles heroic fantasy where magic is substituted with technology.

These stories explored themes related to death, demons, evil spirits, and the afterlife.

It is fiction which attempts to portray the world as it is.

Stories that focus on a puzzling crime, situation, or circumstance that needs to be solved.