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Gaslamp fantasy, also called gas''light'' fantasy, is [[Steampunk]]'s magical cousin. It's a subgenre of fantasy (and more specifically of [[Historical Fantasy]]) with a setting that is clearly recognizable as the real-world 19th or very early 20th century (or a reasonable analogue thereof). That's the [[Regency England|Regency period]] and the [[Victorian Britain|Victorian]] and [[The Edwardian Era|Edwardian]] eras, if the work's set in England, which it usually, though not necessarily, is. [[Victorian London]] is especially popular. It may be identical to the real world with a [[Masquerade]], or it may be a full-on [[Alternate History]] where magic exists openly and has affected the course of events. Gaslamp fantasy often draws on [[Gothic Horror Tropes]], and is sometimes seen as a sort of [[Reconstruction]] or revival of the genre.