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Swedish Cults (Valancourt International)
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Forget everything you think you know about Sweden. Anders Fager's stories reveal his native land as a place where dark and unimaginable things happen. Where deep in the woods grisly sacrifices are made to ancient and monstrous deities during blood-drenched orgies. 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. Readers raved about Anders Fager's entry in the multi-award-nominated The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories, and now Valancourt is pleased to present the first-ever complete English translation of the author's first collection, already an underground phenomenon in Sweden, France, and Italy and a cornerstone of modern Scandinavian horror.
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Fager excels at juxtaposing comfortable middle-class stability with visceral, nightmarish intrusion. The collection’s strength lies in its atmospheric density, turning Swedish woods and Stockholm streets into sites of sacrificial horror and cosmic revelation. While some tales lean heavily on body horror and sexual transgression, others explore the fragile veil between reality and the shadowy city of Carcosa. This variety ensures a broad appeal within the weird fiction genre. The prose is evocative and disturbing, catering to readers who prefer slow-burn psychological terror over jump scares. It stands as a vital introduction to Scandinavian horror for English-speaking audiences.
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