The Laundry Files

The Laundry Files is a series of novels and short stories by Charles Stross that center on a secret British government agency--The Laundry--dedicated to fighting Lovecraftian horrors. The series combines the science fiction elements of the Cthulhu Mythos with the British spy thriller genre, with a generous helping of bureaucratic office comedy.
In the world of the Laundry Files, there are two primary espionage groups dealing with the paranormal--the British Laundry and the United States' Black Chamber, the latter of which is secretly controlled by an extra-dimensional force known as the Many-Angled Ones. Among the eldritch entities in this multiverse are Nyarlathotep and Cthulhu. As humanity increases in number and computational power, the Many-Angled Ones will be able to filter through the universe's walls, an event the Laundry codenames CASE NIGHTMARE GREEN and spends much of its energy attempting to postpone and prepare for.
== Characters ==
* Bob Howard: The main character and narrator of most Laundry Files stories, Howard is an IT consultant recruited into the Laundry after stumbling onto one of the equations that open a pathway for dangerous extradimensional entities. The name he uses in the books is not his real name or his actual cover name, but a pseudonym used in his work diaries, derived from Robert E. Howard.
* Dominique "Mo" O'Brien: Bob's main love interest and later wife, she becomes an operative for the Laundry after being rescued by Bob from apocalyptic kidnappers. She wields a sentient violin made of bone once owned by "Erich Zahn" as a weapon of mass destruction.
* James Angleton: Bob's boss and a senior official at the Laundry, Angleton (a pseudonym taken from a famously paranoid historical CIA officer) is the vessel for a powerful glad-he's-on-our-side entity known as the Eater of Souls.
== Bibliography ==
* The Atrocity Archive (2004)
* "The Concrete Jungle" (2004)
* The Jennifer Morgue (2006)
* "Pimpf" (2006)
* "Down on the Farm" (2008)
* "Overtime" (2009)
* The Fuller Memorandum (2010)
* The Apocalypse Codex (2012)
* "Equoid" (2013)
* The Rhesus Chart (2014)
* The Annihilation Score (2015)
* The Nightmare Stacks (2016)
* The Delirium Brief (2017)
* The Labyrinth Index (2018)
* Dead Lies Dreaming (2020)
* Quantum of Nightmares (2022)
* Escape from Yokai Land (2022)
* Season of Skulls (2023)
Category:Charles Stross works
Category:Expanded Mythos Works
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