Escape from Yokai Land
novella 2022 The Laundry Files
Record
| First published | 2022 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novella |
| Canon status | |
| Reader rating | 3.91 (2,001 ratings, collected 2026-10-28) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781250805706 |
Synopsis
Promoted to take over the projects of his late boss James Angleton, Bob Howard inherits responsibility for the wards that seal off magical sites outside the United Kingdom, which sends him to Tokyo on a liaison mission with the Miyamoto Group, Japan's equivalent of the Laundry. Partnered with Dr Yoko Suzuki of the group's department of apocryphal organisms, he is nominally there to police minor yokai, the Japanese spirits growing more active as the stars come right. The real reason he has been brought in is far worse: a hellmouth beneath a theme park and a terrifying version of a famous cartoon character. The story explains why Bob is absent from Britain during the events of The Nightmare Stacks.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Laundry Files
- Series: The Laundry Files core; position 15 of 15 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Charles Stross
Notes
- Novella (announced as Escape from Puroland), set at the same time as The Nightmare Stacks; some editions number it in the main sequence, but as a companion novella it is Expanded.
- From the series record (The Laundry Files): The main sequence about the Laundry, Britain's secret occult intelligence agency, from Bob Howard's first field mission to the agency's end.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series The Laundry Files: position 13 of 15: previous The Labyrinth Index (2018) · next A Conventional Boy (2025)
Sources
- Wikipedia: The Laundry Files
- Wikipedia: Charles Stross bibliography
- Reader ratings: Laundry Files series page
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