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EARLY PRAISE

"Swedish Cults is the ultimate classic of Nordic horror, comparable to what Clive Barker’s The Books of Blood was for English readers in the 1980s."
—Marko Hautala, Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author of The Black Tongue
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"Grandma’s going on a journey, and so will everyone who reads this volume of very strange short stories. Fager incorporates politics, war, revenge fairies, sea monsters, and porn, spanning cultures and centuries. Sometimes his world is real and relatable, and then it is suddenly strange and disorienting. A disturbing read from a writer accomplished in the art of minimalist fiction."
—Elizabeth Engstrom, author of When Darkness Loves Us and Black Ambrosia

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Swedish Cults
Anders Fager
​Translated by Henning Koch and Ian Lemke


Book Description

Forget everything you think you know about Sweden. In Anders Fager’s stories, Sweden is revealed as a place where dark and unimaginable things happen. Where deep in the woods bloody sacrifices are made to ancient and monstrous deities. Where two young people’s road trip to visit their grandmother takes a turn for the bizarre and nightmarish. Where a woman’s comfortable middle-class life is suddenly upended when her boyfriend develops a mysterious illness that leaves him with a constant erection and speaking in strange tongues. Where an avant garde artist discovers the veil that separates Stockholm from the shadowy city of Carcosa.

First published in Sweden in 2009, Swedish Cults
 has become an underground horror phenomenon in its native country and has also appeared in Italy and France, where its publisher described it as ‘Swedish Lovecraft on acid’. This first-ever English edition makes this cornerstone volume of modern Scandinavian horror available at long last to a wider audience.


BOOK DETAILS
ISBN: 
1954321562
ISBN-13: 978-1954321564

$29.99 US, 232 pp.
Case Laminate Hardcover
Published 2022
BOOK DETAILS
ISBN: 
1954321570
ISBN-13: 978-1954321571

$16.99 US, 232 pp.
Trade paper
Published 2022
Preorder now! Coming September 2022
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