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Old 05-31-2016, 11:43 AM   #13
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Originally Posted by Froide View Post
I recommend taking a page from the applicable genres the major bookstores, reviewers, and Worldcat used to classify the Vampire Chronicles (e.g., Interview With the Vampire):
  • Primary genre: horror.
  • Secondary genres: sci-fi (or sci-fi & fantasy, if the latter applies), historical fiction, fiction & literature
  • Tertiary genres: paranormal, supernatural
Just because some website is wrong, is no reason to go with it. Interview With a Vampire is NOT SF. Not in any way. I would not even call it paranormal. Paranormal deals with ghosts.

I would call it horror, fiction, literature, supernatural, and maybe fantasy.
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