Anthologies, literally meaning "garlands" or "collections of flowers", are collections of literary works, which originally used to be of poems. In paranormal romance anthologies, the term is used to categorize collections of shorter works.

Audiobooks are recordings that are primarily the recordings of the spoken word as opposed to the music recordings. Paranormal romance audiobooks are not a 'type' of a romance book but an independent entity in their own right.

Authors are the people who write a book and hence have a right on it known as their copyright. Paranormal romance authors by that token are the narrators of paranormal stories in the genre of romance. The popular ones of them command a very grand and an

Contemporary Paranormal romance has shifted its interest from ghosts and spirits to aliens and the future of mankind traveling through time back and/or forth, and hence accordingly changed its locales from cemetries to space and space crafts.

Erotica comes from the Greek Eros meaning desire. The literature that deals with the most basic of all desire on earth, i.e., the lovemaking, is called erotica. Paranormal romance erotica concerns the emotional side of the sensuous sexuality.

Fantasy, futuristic and ghost paranormal romance is a very popular sub-genre of paranormal romance, in which a normal person develops an emotional and/or sexual attachment with the fantastic, the futuristic and/or the ghostly one.

The paranormal genre is Gothic in its spirit and nature. All paranormal phenomena is beyond the range of scientific explanation. So it has an element of suspense coming from the mystery that the gothic paranormal romance envelops it in.

Historical paranormal romances, as the name suggests, take up their content either from the pages of history or its cousin, the legend. At times the two are intermixed in varying proportions too.

Often public libraries make it a point have a stock of large print or large font versions of books including large print paranormal romances, along with versions written in Braille.

Multicultural paranormal romances depict a romance bridging the gap that separates a culture from another. Certainly multiculturism is not considered to be a normal thing as far as coming so close as converts into having a romance between the two.

Regency refers to the royalty and the regency paranormal romances, by the token, will refer to a romance between a member of royalty and a person from the normal masses.

Religious paranormal romances have something in them that is beyond normal at the level of religion. Now, what shapes a religion is a debatable topic, and is a subject of much dispute in the field of theology.

In a romantic suspense an intrigue or a mystery is to be solved by the characters who have a romance going on between them, and it is this intrigue only that turns the romance into a romantic suspense paranormal romance.

As their name suggests, paranormal romance series are not stand-alone novels. Some authors prefer as well as specialize in writing several interconnected books, ranging from trilogies to long-running series, so that they can stay longer with characters.

Time travel paranormal romances are semi-scientific and more often pseudo-scientific romances. In most, the heroine comes from the present and travels into her past to meet the hero in full body and soul.

Vampires lie closest to what paranormal romance stands for; hence vampires paranormal romances make a big chunk of the genre.

Nowhere else did paranormal romances grow up and develop as much as they did in the Western culture, especially in the English literature. Hence western paranormal romances are known as yet another sub-genre in them.

e-Anthologies, literally meaning "garlands" or "collections of flowers", are collections of literary works, which originally used to be of poems. In paranormal romance e-anthologies, the term is used to categorize collections of shorter works.

e-Contemporary paranormal romance has shifted its interest from ghosts and spirits to aliens and the future of mankind traveling through time back and/or forth, and hence accordingly changed its locales from cemetries to space and space crafts.

e-Fantasy, e-futuristic and e-ghost paranormal romance is a very popular sub-genre of e-paranormal romance, in which a normal person develops an emotional and/or sexual attachment with the fantastic, the futuristic and/or the ghostly one.

e-Historical paranormal romances, as the name suggests, take up their content either from the pages of history or its cousin, the legend. At times the two are intermixed in varying proportions too.

In an e-romantic suspense an intrigue or a mystery is to be solved by the characters who have a romance going on between them, and it is this intrigue only that turns the romance into an e-romantic suspense paranormal romance.