Anders Fager is a Swedish game designer and horror writer.
Born in Stockholm, eighteen year old Fager joined ventyrspel in
1982 to travel around the country demonstrating Sweden's first
role-playing game, Drakar & Demoner, a game that at the time was
compared to "improvised radio theatre". Fager wrote
Spindelkonungens pyramid, the first role-playing game adventure
published in Swedish. He also co-designed board games for the
ventyrsspel label, such as L tzen and Monstret som slukade
Stockholm.
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 Dagens Nyheter 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 James Ellroy took on
H.P. Lovecraft". Set in present-day Sweden, his interconnected
stories form a modern part of the Cthulhu mythos with entities such
as Dagon, Hastur and Nyarlathotep making appearances. Fager's
fictional world, known as "The Cult's World", has been made into a
role playing game and a graphic novel and his stories are currently
being worked into the swedish edition of role playing game Call of
Cthulhu. Fager has also been published in Finland, Italy and
France.
In the 2010s he has written role-playing supplements for such games
as Kult, Twilight- 2000, Call of Cthulhu Tales from the Loop and
the new release of Chock, originally a Swedish translation of the
RPG Chill. In 2020 his short story "Backstairs" was published by US
publisher Valancourt Books. In early 2021 it was announced that
Fager and artist Peter Bergting's graphic novel "The Crows" would
be published by Dark Horse Comics.
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