Fictional history

Fictional history may refer to:
 * Alternate history, a subgenre of speculative fiction
 * Counterfactual history, a form of historiography
 * Backstory, events preceding the plot of a story
 * Origin story, the backstory of how a character became a protagonist or antagonist
 * Historical fiction, a literary genre
 * Pseudohistory, a form of pseudoscholarship