Anders Fager Explained

Anders Fager Johansson
Birth Date:3 March 1964
Birth Place:Stockholm
Occupation:Novelist
Notableworks:Svenska Kulter
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Anders Fager Johansson (born 1964) is a Swedish game designer and horror writer.

Career

Born in Stockholm, eighteen year old Fager joined Äventyrspel in 1982 to travel around the country demonstrating Sweden's first role-playing game, Drakar & Demoner, a game that at the time was compared to "improvised radio theatre". Fager wrote , the first role-playing game adventure published in Swedish.[1] [2] He also co-designed board games for the Äventyrsspel label, such as [3] and .[4] [5]

After among other things an army career, Fager made his debut as a writer in 2009 with the short story collection Swedish Cults (Svenska kulter) that received a most favourable review in Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter[6] and launched Fager's career as full-time writer. Fager writes modern urban horror in a style he has repeatedly described as ”what would happen if James Ellroy took on H.P. Lovecraft”. Set in present-day Sweden, his interconnected stories form a modern part of the Cthulhu mythos with entities such as Dagon, Hastur and Nyarlathotep making appearances. Fager's fictional world, known as "The Cult's World", has been made into a role playing game and a graphic novel and his stories has been worked into the Swedish edition of role playing game Call of Cthulhu. Fager has been published in Finland, Italy and France.[7]

In the 2010s he has written role-playing supplements for such games as Kult, , Call of Cthulhu, Tales from the Loop and the new release of Chock, originally a Swedish translation of the RPG Chill.[5] In 2020 his short story "Backstairs" was published by US publisher Valancourt Books.[8] In 2022 Fager and artist Peter Bergting's graphic novel The Crows was published by Dark Horse Comics.[9] and "Swedish Cults" published in the USA by Valancourt Books.[10]

Awards

Bibliography

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Fria Ligan | Anders Fager.
  2. News: Drakar och demoner flyger igen. Svenska Dagbladet. 14 February 2016. Daun. Christian.
  3. Web site: Lützen.
  4. Web site: Monstret som slukade Stockholm.
  5. Web site: Works.
  6. News: Thente. Jonas. Anders Fager: "Svenska kulter". Dagens Nyheter. AB Dagens Nyheter. 24 May 2015. sv. 17 March 2010.
  7. Web site: Sélection Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire 2015 meilleure nouvelle étrangère. Mirobole Editions. fr. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20151112111849/http://www.mirobole-editions.com/slideshow-1-1/. 12 Nov 2015.
  8. 1255879889460355073. Valancourt_B. Anders Fager's Lovecraftian stories have proven a hit with Swedish readers. In "Backstairs", set in circa 1900 Stoc… . 30 April 2020.
  9. Web site: The Crows HC :: Profile :: Dark Horse Comics.
  10. Web site: Swedish Cults.
  11. Web site: Novellpris. Catahya. 24 May 2015. sv. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150525114833if_/http://catahya.net/om-catahya/novellpris/. 25 May 2015.
  12. Web site: Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire 2015. Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire. 24 May 2015. fr. https://web.archive.org/web/20150520002959/http://gpi.noosfere.org/2015.php. 20 May 2015. dead.
  13. Web site: Last Dance With Shub-Niggurath: Anders Fager's 'Furies From Boras'. tor.com. 1 June 2016. Pillsworth. Anne M.. Emrys. Ruthanna. 24 May 2015. en.
  14. Web site: Account Temporary on Hold. 19 October 2020.
  15. Web site: Europa Universalis IV: What If? The Anthology of Alternate History. Paradox Interactive. en. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150916025404/https://www.paradoxplaza.com/europa-universalis-anthology. 16 Sep 2015.
  16. Web site: "Faraday" by Anders Fager, Full Story. Red Moon Roleplaying. en. 7 Dec 2018.

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