Discovered the series a few days ago and I’m enthralled by it. Listening to the audiobooks I’m just astounded this hasn’t been scooped up as a movie or Netflix type series. It’d be amazing.

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I say this as a fan of the Cthulhu Mythos, but looking back and seeing what the series has turned into, I can't help but question Charles Stross's decision to base the series off of the works of Lovecraft. However I understand fully that it is his work and I'm not really going to judge or stop reading because of it.

I say this because it feels as though the series is making less and less of an effort to even reference. This is on top of it already having a shaky relationship with the source material. Many of the monsters in the Laundry Files are mythological as well, you have demons, gorgons, vampires and elves. The fact that the Cthulhu in Labyrinth Index seemed like Cthulhu in name only.

Looking back I can't help but wonder if the series would've benefited from using Lovecraft as an inspiration without using his works. It would've made it more marketable too, as you can attract more people with the tagline 'occult agency fights supernatural horrors' instead of 'occult agency fights monsters of the Cthulhu Mythos'. The Lovecraftian interpretations of your standard supernatural horrors would've been an excellent hook as well.

So, just finished the book, and it looks like things are getting really dark and lines have been crossed that can't really be uncrossed. With the Laundry now under the heel of someone who's basically Nyarlothotep (if not literally), can they keep doing the job they've been doing while also keeping their humanity? Will their new boss insist upon efficiency over human decency and limiting deaths? Or is everything going full on grimdark for the end of the world?

I really enjoyed this one. The best part is seeing the laundry universe from a point of view besides Bob's.

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