diff --git a/lxml-stubs/etree.pyi b/lxml-stubs/etree.pyi
index 78535e4..4cf8622 100644
--- a/lxml-stubs/etree.pyi
+++ b/lxml-stubs/etree.pyi
@@ -496,8 +496,11 @@ def parse(
     source: _FileSource, parser: XMLParser = ..., base_url: _AnyStr = ...
 ) -> _ElementTree: ...
 def fromstring(
-    text: _AnyStr, parser: XMLParser = ..., *, base_url: _AnyStr = ...
-) -> _Element: ...
+    text: _AnyStr,
+    parser: Union[XMLParser, HTMLParser] = ...,
+    *,
+    base_url: _AnyStr = ...,
+) -> Optional[_Element]: ...
 @overload
 def tostring(
     element_or_tree: _ElementOrTree,
diff --git a/test-data/test-etree.yml b/test-data/test-etree.yml
index f0e68ac..4959252 100644
--- a/test-data/test-etree.yml
+++ b/test-data/test-etree.yml
@@ -3,7 +3,15 @@
     main: |
         from lxml import etree
         document = etree.fromstring("<doc></doc>")
-        reveal_type(document)  # N: Revealed type is "lxml.etree._Element"
+        reveal_type(document)  # N: Revealed type is "Union[lxml.etree._Element, None]"
+
+-   case: etree_from_empty_string_with_parser_recovery_returns_none
+    disable_cache: true
+    main: |
+        from lxml import etree
+        parser = etree.HTMLParser(recover=True)
+        document = etree.fromstring("", parser)
+        reveal_type(document)  # N: Revealed type is "Union[lxml.etree._Element, None]"
 
 -   case: etree_element_find
     disable_cache: true