Book description
Bob Howard is an IT specialist and field agent for the Laundry, the branch of Her Majesty's secret service that deals with occult threats.
Overworked and underpaid, Bob is used to his two jobs overflowing from a strict nine to five and, since his wife Mo has a very similarâŚ
Why read it?
1 author picked The Fuller Memorandum as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
As a horror writer, I have a thick skin for horror writing. Charles Stross is one of the few authors whose darkest work still chills me when I read it. Heâs also one of the most purely enjoyable self-confessed inheritors of Lovecraftâs mantleâteasing and subverting it constantly, while effortlessly tipping readers from chuckles to shivers. His humour only reinforces the horror. I rate The Fuller Memorandum highest in his Laundry Files series of sardonic occult espionageârich in slightly reframed historical detail, compulsive as any thriller, quietly chilling in its implications.
From Paul's list on modern Lovecraftian horror.
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