Theme: Historical Events in Fiction

This concerns the portrayal of real world historical events in fantastic fiction. For fictional portrayals of historic figures see Real-Life People in Fiction. For worlds that depict what might happen if key events in history had had different outcomes see Alternate History. This concerns the actual depiction of historical events – for stories where fantastical elements are introduced into general historical settings see Historical Fantasy.

These may include everything from time travellers visiting past events or even inadvertently bringing them about or how immortals that were present at these. Others may reveal that historic events such as the Kennedy assassination had a secret history that may involve aliens or the supernatural, or that Abraham Lincoln was secretly a vampire hunter.

Other may simply offer highly fantastical tellings of historical events such as 300 (2007) or the deliberately ridiculous adventures of Asterix and Obelix in the Roman era. We have also had horror movie tellings of the stories of Rasputin and Countess Bathory.