The Land of Laughs is a low fantasy novel by American writer Jonathan Carroll.

The novel was notably reprinted by Orion Books in 2000 as volume 9 of their Fantasy Masterworks series.

However, they find an uncanny resemblance between the town of Galen and its inhabitants, and the literary world of their idol.

Equally disturbing is Thomas's role as biographer: he appears to create reality by his writing, and begins to question the motives of Anna and the inhabitants of Galen.

[2] Science fiction historian Darrell Schweitzer wrote "to my mind, the best horror novel of recent years was Jonathan Carroll's The Land of Laughs.