Dan Hörning is a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 historical fantasy

Historical fantasy

Historical fantasy is a sub-genre of fantasy and related to historical fiction, which makes use of specific elements of real world history. It is used as an umbrella term for the sword and sorcery genre and sometimes, if fantasy is involved, the sword-and-sandal genre too...

 author. His publishing house is Neogames

Neogames

Neogames is a Swedish role-playing game publisher situated in Gothenburg. They were after the re-creation of Target Games the largest RPG publisher in the country. Neogames control the fantasy RPG license Eon, a role-playing game set in a fairly standard fantasy setting with elves, dwarves and...

, and up to now he has published four novels: Svärdsspel i Hadarlon (2000; in English: Sword Games in Hardalon), Stormens vandrare (2006; in English: The Wanderer of Storm), Nemea (2007) and Lasermannen (2009; in English: The Laser Man). .

Stormens vandrare is a first volume in his Mörkret-trilogy (in English: Darkness), which two following volumes Ljusets vandrare (in English: The Wanderer of Light) and Drömmens vandrare (in English: The Wanderer of Dream) haven't been lanched yet.

Hörning is a graduate master of science in computer engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology

Royal Institute of Technology

The Royal Institute of Technology is a university in Stockholm, Sweden. KTH was founded in 1827 as Sweden's first polytechnic and is one of Scandinavia's largest institutions of higher education in technology. KTH accounts for one-third of Sweden’s technical research and engineering education...

, who works in the French Hi-media-corporation. In his free time, Hörning enjoys MMA, role playing games, travelling and studying of languages and he has been known also as an enthusiastic fan of a Swedish-Norwegian fantasy writer Margit Sandemo

Margit Sandemo

Margit Sandemo is a Norwegian-Swedish historical fantasy author. She has been the best-selling author in the Nordic Countries since the 1980s, when her novel series of 47 books, The Legend of the Ice People, was published...

. Hörning is the admin and founder of the popular Isfolket & Margitsandemo forum. The subject of that forum is Sagan om Isfolket, a 47-volume historical series of novels by Margit Sandemo

Margit Sandemo

Margit Sandemo is a Norwegian-Swedish historical fantasy author. She has been the best-selling author in the Nordic Countries since the 1980s, when her novel series of 47 books, The Legend of the Ice People, was published...

. That forum is also used for discussions in Swedish about Dan's books.

Dan Hörning used to be quite the accomplished Magic the Gathering-player in his day. He won the Swedish Championship in 1995 using a red-green Blood Moon deck.