Fantasy is a broad genre of fiction, and low fantasy might be one of its most slippery corners. The term can describe anything from stories where magic barely exists — like Game of Thrones — to tales in which the supernatural quietly intrudes on an otherwise recognizable world, akin to Pan’s Labyrinth. Unlike high fantasy, which often transports readers to entirely invented worlds with their own mythologies, low fantasy finds the extraordinary lurking just beneath the surface of the familiar.