Time to see what’s freaking out Charlie Stross this month! A CONVENTIONAL BOY is about D&D, so your guess is as good as mine. Presumably… never mind. That thought is unkind of me.
Sorry: it’s the usual problem. Charles Stross is an excellent writer who gets frightened over things that don’t particularly scare me. It really makes it hard to contemplate his books as horror, sometimes.
#commissionearned
Wait… did Stross intend the entirety of The Laundry to be.. horror?
Always struck me as more “sh*t happens, we deal with it” with supernatural beings and a nihilism that was always a bit nails-on-blackboard.
Plainly, he needed to see some much worse things in his formative years….
Mew