Collected Swedish Cults is the collected name for the original omnibus of the Lovecraftian horror stories of Anders Fager. Originally published as Svenska kulter (Swedish Cults), Interspecies Liaisons (Artöverskridande förbindelser) and Svenska kulter (Du kan inte leva).
The stories deal with various ancient cults active in Sweden, with the exception of one which takes place in Norway. They share universe with Fager's trilogy The Case Cornelia Karlsson.
Tropes in the short stories:
- All Girls Want Bad Boys: Played straight with Sofie, but averted with Nadine who notices something is seriously wrong with Daniel when he gets rough in bed.
- Alliance with an Abomination: Sofie who is the Custodae of the Black Goat.
- Been There, Shaped History: In The Dying Man's Wishes baron Carl Gustaf Armfeldt's army is destroyed by Itakkva.
- Body Horror: Forever Happy on Östermalm has this with Daniel in combination with And I Must Scream, courtesy of Kalim's Body Surf.
- Cosmic Horror Story: The Furies of Borås, When Death Came to Bodskär, The Dying Man's Wishes and The Queen in Yellow.
- Depraved Bisexual: Kalim.
- Eldritch Abomination: Shub-Niggurath & Itakkva.
- Enfant Terrible: Liam in Playing with Liam who ends up feeding a drunk to a monster living in a rabbit burrow next to his daycare center.
- Evil Old Folks: The retirees at the Tross.
- Expy: Miss Witt is based on Anna Odell.
- Fish People: Malin Månson is some sort of fish person. Also the inhabitants of Bodskär in When Death Came to Bodskär.
- Go Mad from the Revelation: Mattias Larsson's fate in When Death Came to Bodskär.
- Human Sacrifice: The plot of The Furies of Borås.
- I'm a Humanitarian: The furies of Borås eat their victim in unison with the Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young.
- Keeper of Forbidden Knowledge: Ingemar Fredman.
- Mother of a Thousand Young: The furies of Borås are in league with Shub-Niggurath, the Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young.
- Really 700 Years Old: Ingemar Fredman has been alive since the 17th century.
- Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: In The Furies of Borås, the "Meat" has been given viagra by a friend which makes him unfit as a sacrifice and leaves the furies to the mercy of their dark god.
