#anders fager

The Crows HC (2022)

Swedish Cults by Anders Fager

What it is? A collection of Lovecraftian short stories, taking place in Sweden, weaving together Lovecraft’s mythos with Swedish myth and history. Minus the misogyny and racism, and with a lot of sex.

A group of teenage girls in rural Sweden makes sacrifices to an ancient, and terrifying deity.

Two young immigrants travel from Sweden to Balkan to fetch their grandmother. None of them quite human.

In a cellar a group of magicians tries to raise the dead.

In the early 18th century, a dying man raises a storm, and something else, to avenge himself on the army who has destroyed his life.

A young couple suddenly gets very rich and successful, just like that. Too good to be true? Of course. The price is terrible.

An avant-garde artist finds her way to Carcosa, with a little help, and starts to plan an art installation like no other.

And a little more. Most notable Fredman, eternally a elderly man with a kindly manner, who is very, very evil.

This short story collection is the first of three, and several characters return in more than one story. In fact, eventually the reader will realize that most of them are connected, and part of a larger story. Fager has also written a trilogy of novels that takes place in the same universe, and where several characters from the short stories return.

Fager is one of my favourite horror authors, and I’m very glad his books are finally translated to English. He is, however, already translated to French and Italian. I’m particularly fond of Fredman, and the short stories I like best are the ones taking place in historical times.

Trigger warnings include violence, murder, non-con and graphic descriptions of sexual acts.

The Crows, a new horror graphic novel by Anders Fager and Peter Bergting, arrives from Dark Horse this week.

Writer Anders Fager and artist Peter Bergting’s The Crows is getting an English translation from Dark Horse Comics. 

Kim inherits an old family house in rural Sweden and finds the home full of notes everywhere; reminders and drawings of "monsters that still haunt the house and the land on which it sits. But the monsters aren’t just outside; they’re in Kim’s head, in the traumatic memories of an unsettling upbringing. What lurks in the corners of the house originates in the corners of the mind.” (Dark Horse Comics)

The Crows releases to comic shops on April 13, 2022, and bookstores on April 26, 2022.

La Reine en Jaune (recueil de nouvelles), lorsque l’on rencontre un disciple d’HP Lovecraft, on ne peut résister…

Cette semaine c’est lecture horrifique, ça vous dit ? Voici ma critique du recueil de nouvelles d’Anders Fager qui porte le nom énigmatique de La Reine en Jaune 🙂 Une œuvre que j’avais vu passer plusieurs fois dans mes recherches et j’avoue que le fait qu’il soit mentionné que Fager retravaille à sa façon l’univers Lovecraftien, c’était tout de même motivant :p

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so last week-end I went off-grid with Her and also to Kauhucon , the third horror con in Helsinki. Kauhu is horror in finnish.

It was set in library on rikhardinkatu and we only went on sunday as I only got there after-work and after seeing Shazam! with my son on friday and on saturday we went on Her godchilds birthday party. 

Yes both me and Her are godparents to several kids even though we are atheists. I guess the actual parents thought more of the ways of OLD GODS or Mario Puzo’s view of world.

Anyways there was lecture on location in horror by finnish author Marko Hautala

that gave some ideas.

Due to illness of another Guest of honor we got to listen to Anders Fager  a swedish author

yes he is a very good speaker and so unearthly the camera focuses to the backs of women’s heads in attempt of self-preservation.

A very pleasant guy who signed my copy of Pohjoiset kultit (Svenska kulter) with quite nice rendition of Cthulhu.

Then there was lecture on said Cthulhu and Mythos by Lauri Lattu

no, it was quite not that coherent the image makes it out to be. Rather it was excited and informed display that showed also the sides of Lovecraft that were not that appealing too. 

the doggo approved too

I got loads of horrorbooks (and prior to that a medieval black metal vampire gore comic, Realms of the Damned Sigil Draconis) and also a new part of my interior decoration

Yes, a skull of a fox. Call him Konrad the dead fox. I tried to explain Konrad would be a good add in the dog’s attire too, you know as an pre-emptive warning. Bit like my necklace of human teeth.

Oddly She did not warm to the idea. Either that is.