Difference Between Preternatural, Supernatural, and Paranormal?
I rather liked this article explaining the difference between the different fantasy genres. What do you think ?
Originally posted on DaphneShadows:
While working on my
defining the fiction genres series
, a thought occurred to me.
What is the difference between preternatural, supernatural, and paranormal? And do they differ enough to actually matter when referring to what genre book you write?
Then I stumbled into an (awesome/heaven) secondhand bookstore which categorizes books under the following categories: fiction, romance, horror, science fiction/fantasy, and paranormal.
I know for a fact that Barnes and Noble has now changed their store again and their genres (that I pay attention to) go as follows: science fiction/fantasy, fiction/literature, and romance. They don’t factor in horror or paranormal as their own genres. Horror is under fiction, while paranormal is under fantasy/science fiction.
So yeah, that didn’t help.
I figured I didn’t know what to figure. So, naturally, I Googled it. And guess what? No one has a one correct answer, but tons of people have their own opinions…
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