Swedish cults / Anders Fager ; translated by Ian Lemke and Henning Koch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fager, Anders, 1964- author.

Contributor:

Lemke, Ian, translator.

Koch, Henning, 1962- translator.

Standardized Title:

Svenska kulter. English

Language:

English

Swedish

Subjects (All):

Sweden--Fiction.

Sweden.

Horror tales, Swedish.

Genre:

Horror fiction.

Short stories.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

229 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Valancourt Books edition.

Place of Publication:

Richmond, Virginia : Valancourt Books, 2022.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

The furies from Boras

Fragment I

Grandma's journey

Fragment II

The broken man's wish

Fragment III

Happy forever on Östermalm

Fragment IV

Miss Witt's great work.

Notes:

"Originally published in Swedish as Svenska kulter in 2009"--Title page verso.

ISBN:

9781954321571

1954321570

9781954321564

1954321562

OCLC:

1319828857

Publisher Number:

99992531857