Line #17 Creator/AndersFager


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4	Anders Fager (born 1964) is a former Swedish Army officer and game designer turned horror writer. He is sometimes compared to [[Creator/JohnAjvideLindqvist John Ajvide Lindqvist]], another Swedish author who writes about the super natural invading modern day Sweden, through Fager's work is often equally bleak it's also less sentimental and more pulpy.
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6	In the 80's he worked with Äventyrspel, traveling Sweden to demonstrate ''Drakar & Demoner'' as well as wrote ''Spindelkonungens pyramid'', the first RPG in Swedish. In the 90's he left the game industry to become an officer in the Swedish army.
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8	His first published work was the 2009 short story collection ''Swedish Cults'' (''Svenska kulter'') which received rave reviews. He also returned to [=RPGs=] and has co-written Swedish releases of ''[[TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu Call of Cthulhu]]'', ''[[TabletopGame/TalesFromTheLoop Tales from the Loop]]'' and ''Chock'', a Swedish spin-off from ''TabletopGame/Chill''. Between 2012 and 2019 re released a trilogy of horror novels eventually called ''The Case Cornelia Karlsson'' about a disturbed woman promising her soul to Nyarlathotep.
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10	His table of works is somewhat muddied. Foreign releases of his short stories has often created their own collections, unlike the Swedish releases. His short stories were originally released as ''Svenska kulter'' (''Swedish Cults''), ''Interspecies Liaisons'' (''Artöverskridande förbindelser'') and ''You can not live'' (''Du kan inte leva'') and later collected as ''[[Literature/CollectedSwedishCults Collected Swedish Cults]]'' (''Samlade Svenska Kulter'').
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12	!!Works by Ander Fager
13	* ''[[Literature/CollectedSwedishCults Collected Swedish Cults]]'' (2011)
14	* ''[[Literature/TheCaseCorneliaKarlsson I Saw Her Today at the Reception]]'' (2012) - The first part of ''The Case Cornelia Karlsson''-trilogy
15	* ''The Evil Substitute'' (2014) - A children's book told in rhymes.
16	* ''[[Literature/TheCaseCorneliaKarlsson A Man of Wealth and Taste]]'' (2014) - The second part of ''The Case Cornelia Karlsson''-trilogy
17	* ''Kaknäs' last tape'' (2011) - A short story collection based on the Swedish RPG Mutant.
18	* ''Dirty Black Summer'' (2016) - A graphic novel based on the story ''The Furies of Borås'' from ''Collected Swedish Cults''.
19	* ''Eve's First Week Being Dead'' (2017) - Audiobook exclusive about a middle age woman becoming a vampire.
20	* ''For the Love of Goddess'' (2017) - A fantasy novel
21	* ''[[Literature/TheCaseCorneliaKarlsson War! Children!]]'' (2019) - The final part of ''The Case Cornelia Karlsson''-trilogy
22	* ''The Crows'' (2020) - A original graphic novel
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25	!!Tropes:
26	* AuthorAppeal: [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]], Stockholm, the 80's and 90's, the Swedish Empire, the military and sex. Lots of sex.
27	* CreatorProvincialism: Most of his stories takes place in and around Stockholm. Regardless of period.
28	* CosmicHorrorStory: Most of his work is firmly in the territory of Lovecraftian Horror.
29	* TheVerse: Much of ''Collected Swedish Cults'' takes place in the same universe as well as the same universe as ''The Case Cornelia Karlsson''-trilogy.

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