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The Laundry Files

The Laundry Files is a series of novels by British writer Charles Stross. They mix the genres of Lovecraftian horror, spy thriller, science fiction, and workplace humour. Their main character for the first five novels is "Bob Howard" (a pseudonym taken for security purposes), a one-time I.T. consultant turned occult field agent. Howard is recruited to…

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Author
Charles Stross
Genre
see article
Publisher
various
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Media type
Print (hardback & paperback) Audiobook E-book

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The Laundry Files

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related to Escape from Yokai Land · 31
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related to The Nightmare Stacks · 30
The Laundry Files → Agent First, Alex, Alex Schwartz, April, Asylum, British, Cassie, Civil, Earth, Elven King, Elves, Immigration, It, Laundry, Laundry Files, Leeds, Liars, March, Nationality Act, On
related to Dead Lies Dreaming · 29
The Laundry Files → After, Dead Lies Dreaming, December, Deliverator, Doc Depression, Elder God, Elder God Nyarlathotep, Evelyn, Evelyn Starkey, Everyman's London, Game Boy, Imp, Instead, It, Laundry Files, More, New Management, October, Peter Pan, Prime Minister Fabian Everyman
related to The Labyrinth Index · 29
The Laundry Files → America, Baroness Karnstein, Black Chamber, CASE NIGHTMARE GREEN, Cthulhu, Government, House, It, Laundry Files, Laundry's UK, Laundry-engineered, Lords, Lovecraftian, Mhari, Mhari Murphy, Nyarlathotep, October, President, Prime Minister, Prime Minister Fabian Everyman
related to The Delirium Brief · 23
The Laundry Files → According, After, Bob Howard, Brexit, Britain, Elves, It, July, June, Laundry, Laundry Files, May, Nyarlathotep, Prime Minister, Raymond Schiller, Stross, The, The Apocalypse Codex, The Delirium Brief, The Fuller Memorandum
related to A Conventional Boy · 21
The Laundry Files → As, Camp Sunshine, Conventional Boy, Decades, Derek, Derek Reilly, Dragons, Dungeons, During, England, Eventually, He, In, It, January, Laundry, Laundry Files, Satanic, The Delirium Brief, What Derek
related to External links · 21
The Laundry Files → Bond Vs, Charles Stross, Charles StrossDown, Conventional Boy, Crib Sheet, Cthulhu, Dead Lies Dreaming, Escape From Yokai Land, Farm, Nightmares, Quantum, Season, Skulls, The Annihilation Score, The Apocalypse Codex, The Delirium Brief, The Fuller Memorandum, The Labyrinth Index, The Nightmare Stacks, The Rhesus Chart
related to Audiobook versions · 7
The Laundry Files → Audiobook, Bianca Amato, Caroline Guthrie, Elle Newlands, Gideon Emery, Jack Hawkins, Laundry Files
related to The Regicide Report · 7
The Laundry Files → February-May, It, January, Laundry Files, March-May, The, The Regicide Report
Author · 1
The Laundry Files → Charles Stross

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The Laundry FilesAuthorCharles Stross1.00infobox
The Laundry FilesCountryUnited Kingdom1.00infobox
The Laundry FilesGenresee article1.00infobox
The Laundry FilesLanguageEnglish1.00infobox
The Laundry FilesMedia typePrint (hardback & paperback) Audiobook E-book1.00infobox
The Laundry FilesPublished28 May 2004 – present (first short story 2002)1.00infobox
The Laundry FilesPublishervarious1.00infobox
The Laundry Filesis aseries of novels by British writer Charles Stross0.90text
a Gashadokuro made from former monarchsinstance ofget caught in the backwash from the plans0.80text
come to terms with the effects the previous books have had on theminstance ofget caught in the backwash from the plans0.80text
The Laundry Filesrelated to A Conventional BoyConventional Boy0.60section
The Laundry Filesrelated to A Conventional BoyLaundry Files0.60section

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