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

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, '' 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. He also co-designed board games for the ''Äventyrsspel'' label, such as ' and '. 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 ''

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'' 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

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took on H.P. Lovecraft”. Set in present-day Sweden, his interconnected stories form a modern part of the

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with entities such as

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and

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making appearances. Fager's fictional world, known as "The Cult's World", has been made into a

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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. In the 2010s he has written role-playing supplements for such games as ''Kult'', ''

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'', ''Call of Cthulhu'', ''Tales from the Loop'' and the new release of ''Chock'', originally a Swedish translation of the RPG ''

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''. In 2020 his short story "Backstairs" was published by US publisher

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Books. In 2022 Fager and artist

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's graphic novel ''The Crows'' was be published by

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. and "Swedish Cults" published in the USA by

Books.

Awards

* Catahyapriset 2009, for the short story "Mormors resa" (Grandmother's Journey) * Nominated twice for the French Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire, for "Les furies de Borås" and "

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" * Nominated for the "Augustpriset" in 2020, for "The Crows".

Bibliography

* ''Swedish Cults'' (2009, ''Svenska kulter'') * ''Collected Swedish Cults'' (2011; ''Samlade svenska kulter'' – An omnibus featuring the short stories from ''Swedish Cults'' as well as "Interspecies Liaisons" and "You can not live") * ''I Saw Her Today at the Reception'' (2012, ''Jag såg henne idag i receptionen'') * ''Under the bridge at Arcole'' (2014, - Short story in

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's anthology

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'') * ''The Evil Substitute'' (2014, ''Den elaka vikarien'', children's book with Daniel Thollin) * ''A Man of Wealth and Taste'' (2014, ''En man av stil och smak'') * ''Kaknäs' last tape'' (2015, ''Kaknäs sista band'') * ''Dirty Black Summer'' (2016, ''Smutsig svart sommar'', graphic novel adopted from ''The Furies from Borås'') * ''Eve's First Week Being Dead'' (2017, ''Evas första vecka som död'', audiobook) * ''For the Love of Goddess'' (2017, ''För Gudinnan'', novel) * ''Faraday'' - audionovel. For the

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game Kult. * ''War! Children!'' (2019, ''Krig! Barn!'', novel) * ''The Crows'' (2020, ''Kråkorna'', graphic novel with Peter Bergting) * ''Kraken'' (2021, easy reading) * ''The Octopus and the japanese sailoor'' (2022, "Bjäckfisken och den japanske sjömannen", novel.)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fager, Anders 1964 births Living people Swedish horror writers