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''The Atrocity Archives'' is a book by British author Charles Stross, published in 2004. It includes the short novel ''The Atrocity Archive'' (originally serialised in ''Spectrum SF'') and ''The Concrete Jungle'', which won the 2005 Hugo Award for Best Novella. The stories are Lovecraftian spy thrillers involving a secret history of the 20th century, although they are not set in Lovecraft's universe.〔http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/08/interview-1.html#comment-56968〕 Horror elements such as the Nazis using higher mathematics to open "gates" to other dimensions are combined with humorous elements satirising bureaucracy. The protagonist of both stories is a computer expert calling himself "Bob Oliver Francis Howard" (a pseudonym, or "craft name", as a person's real name can be used against him—a common feature of systems of magic, or, alternately, a "work name" as used by covert espionage agents) who has been conscripted into a secret British occult intelligence organisation, "The Laundry". (Although the pseudonym matches the author of the original Conan the Barbarian stories, it is more likely to be a reference to the "Bastard Operator From Hell" which matches the protagonist's nominal systems administration job and his attitude towards field work.) A sequel entitled ''The Jennifer Morgue'', patterned after the James Bond movies, was released in November in 2006. A third book, ''The Fuller Memorandum'', was released in July 2010, followed by ''The Apocalypse Codex'' in July 2012. A fifth book, ''The Rhesus Chart'', was released in July 2014. Stross's earlier story "A Colder War" also mixes elements of Lovecraft and espionage, and is sometimes mistaken as a tie-in with the Bob Howard stories; however, the fictional background and assumptions are different. ==Reception== ''Publishers Weekly'' was somewhat mixed in their review saying "though the characters all tend to sound the same, and Stross resorts to lengthy summary explanations to dispel confusion, the world he creates is wonderful fun." ''The Washington Post'' called it "a bizarre yet effective yoking of the spy and horror genres." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Atrocity Archives」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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