Roger Luckhurst
@theprofrog.bsky.social
academic/freelance writer, on Gothic, Science Fiction. Next up: Graveyards: A History of Living with the Dead (October 2025).
Long lost Mighty Boosh joke:
‘I told you not to mess with the occult!’
‘Really? I thought it was good for your digestion.’
‘No, that’s Yakult.’
‘I told you not to mess with the occult!’
‘Really? I thought it was good for your digestion.’
‘No, that’s Yakult.’
November 11, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Long lost Mighty Boosh joke:
‘I told you not to mess with the occult!’
‘Really? I thought it was good for your digestion.’
‘No, that’s Yakult.’
‘I told you not to mess with the occult!’
‘Really? I thought it was good for your digestion.’
‘No, that’s Yakult.’
Still no apology for Celia Imrie's fart. Completely disgusted.
November 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Still no apology for Celia Imrie's fart. Completely disgusted.
This morning's best autoreply so far, sadly not from Vampire Quarterly, however: 'You have already been uninvited.'
November 10, 2025 at 9:10 AM
This morning's best autoreply so far, sadly not from Vampire Quarterly, however: 'You have already been uninvited.'
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Hoy a las 16:00 estaré de nuevo en el #Festival42, esta vez charlando sobre fantástico oscuro con @franceshardinge.bsky.social , @benaaronovitch.bsky.social , @theprofrog.bsky.social y @gradyhendrix.bsky.social . Se puede ver en streaming también.
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Fantàstic, gòtic i terror pop, amb Frances Hardinge, Ben Aaronovitch, Roger Luckhurst i Grady Hendrix
Què tenen en comú un historiador del gòtic, un autor de terror pop, una escriptora de fantasia obscura i un hibridador de gèneres exguionista de Doctor Who? Més del que sembla! Tots escriuen i pensen ...
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November 7, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Hoy a las 16:00 estaré de nuevo en el #Festival42, esta vez charlando sobre fantástico oscuro con @franceshardinge.bsky.social , @benaaronovitch.bsky.social , @theprofrog.bsky.social y @gradyhendrix.bsky.social . Se puede ver en streaming también.
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I pressed the button on this AIPhone in the elevator and a voice told me I was Montgomery Clift and that the telephone was invented by Carthusian monks in the 11th century
November 6, 2025 at 7:39 AM
I pressed the button on this AIPhone in the elevator and a voice told me I was Montgomery Clift and that the telephone was invented by Carthusian monks in the 11th century
Airport waiting lounge logic: it’s now 12 noon, you can legitimately commence shovelling lunch even though breakfast was 3 hours ago.
November 5, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Airport waiting lounge logic: it’s now 12 noon, you can legitimately commence shovelling lunch even though breakfast was 3 hours ago.
Fantastic clash: what if Academic Board just read some Heidegger?
November 4, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Fantastic clash: what if Academic Board just read some Heidegger?
Gearing up for a couple of sessions at #Festival42BCN later this week, around Spanish edition of the Graveyards book!
Festival 42 | Ajuntament de Barcelona
From November 5 to 9, the lobby of Fabra i Coats will be filled with books during the 42 Festival of Fantastic Genres.
www.barcelona.cat
November 4, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Gearing up for a couple of sessions at #Festival42BCN later this week, around Spanish edition of the Graveyards book!
Reposted by Roger Luckhurst
@theprofrog.bsky.social examines a human history of burial rituals and how we honor the dead.
The Ancient Burial Rituals That Have Shaped How We Treat Our Dead
In 1907, Robert Hertz, a French sociologist of religion, published an influential essay called “A Contribution to the Study of the Collective Representation of Death.” He argued that in most human …
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October 31, 2025 at 7:01 PM
@theprofrog.bsky.social examines a human history of burial rituals and how we honor the dead.
Reposted by Roger Luckhurst
"In working on this project, I developed a kind of double vision – reading the signs of the metropolis for the necropolis that is always hidden inside it."
Be sure to check out Graveyards author @theprofrog.bsky.social's new essay: press.princeton.edu/ideas/scratc...
#ReadUP #History #Halloween
Be sure to check out Graveyards author @theprofrog.bsky.social's new essay: press.princeton.edu/ideas/scratc...
#ReadUP #History #Halloween
Scratching the surface
Death confronts us all as the ultimate rupture and mystery at the very heart of life. That existential challenge has been met, it turns out, of an almost infinite variety of customs and rituals.
press.princeton.edu
October 31, 2025 at 2:54 PM
"In working on this project, I developed a kind of double vision – reading the signs of the metropolis for the necropolis that is always hidden inside it."
Be sure to check out Graveyards author @theprofrog.bsky.social's new essay: press.princeton.edu/ideas/scratc...
#ReadUP #History #Halloween
Be sure to check out Graveyards author @theprofrog.bsky.social's new essay: press.princeton.edu/ideas/scratc...
#ReadUP #History #Halloween
I did this interview with the lovely Mark Lynch for WICN Public Radio. Gotta love your NPR stations, people! Happy Halloween.
Roger Luckhurst - 90.5 WICN Public Radio
On this episode of Inquiry, we head to the graveyard. Our guest is ROGER LUCKHURST. He is Professor of Nineteenth-Century Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London. His new book is a historica...
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October 31, 2025 at 9:08 AM
I did this interview with the lovely Mark Lynch for WICN Public Radio. Gotta love your NPR stations, people! Happy Halloween.
The life of the mind: one minute you're grappling with Kant's divisions on the deduction of pure aesthetical judgments, the next minute you're absently smearing crumbs of raspberry muffin into your cardigan.
October 29, 2025 at 12:11 PM
The life of the mind: one minute you're grappling with Kant's divisions on the deduction of pure aesthetical judgments, the next minute you're absently smearing crumbs of raspberry muffin into your cardigan.
Always a sucker for haunted tower blocks and motorway service stations — a lovely coherent collection, this
October 27, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Always a sucker for haunted tower blocks and motorway service stations — a lovely coherent collection, this
I’m still waiting for the news to go less racist but it doesn’t seem to be happening and I’m running out of the Three Bean Salad podcast back catalogue and what am I supposed to do then?
October 27, 2025 at 9:52 AM
I’m still waiting for the news to go less racist but it doesn’t seem to be happening and I’m running out of the Three Bean Salad podcast back catalogue and what am I supposed to do then?
Sunday evening, checking out Monday morning
October 26, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Sunday evening, checking out Monday morning
Spanish edition in the wild
October 25, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Spanish edition in the wild
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It's less than a week till #Halloween !
Get in the spooky mood with these reading ideas for the gothest of seasons - starting with #Gothic by @theprofrog.bsky.social introducing the reader to the Gothic #aesthetics from architecture to #folklore & #monsters & concepts from around the globe
Get in the spooky mood with these reading ideas for the gothest of seasons - starting with #Gothic by @theprofrog.bsky.social introducing the reader to the Gothic #aesthetics from architecture to #folklore & #monsters & concepts from around the globe
October 25, 2025 at 8:00 AM
It's less than a week till #Halloween !
Get in the spooky mood with these reading ideas for the gothest of seasons - starting with #Gothic by @theprofrog.bsky.social introducing the reader to the Gothic #aesthetics from architecture to #folklore & #monsters & concepts from around the globe
Get in the spooky mood with these reading ideas for the gothest of seasons - starting with #Gothic by @theprofrog.bsky.social introducing the reader to the Gothic #aesthetics from architecture to #folklore & #monsters & concepts from around the globe
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After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results:
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
October 22, 2025 at 7:55 AM
After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results:
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
Wrote this piece for Unseen Histories website as intro to the Graveyards book but also with extra material that didn’t make it into the book about the storied St Pancras Old Church burial ground
Meet me at the Cemetery Gates - Unseen Histories
Roger Luckhurst, the author of the book, Graveyards, takes us back to St Pancras Old Church.
www.unseenhistories.com
October 21, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Wrote this piece for Unseen Histories website as intro to the Graveyards book but also with extra material that didn’t make it into the book about the storied St Pancras Old Church burial ground
Email: tell us about your upcoming contribution to Academic Mental Health.
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October 20, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Email: tell us about your upcoming contribution to Academic Mental Health.
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🎶 Cos tonight we’re gonna party like it’s 2021 🎶
October 20, 2025 at 8:28 AM
🎶 Cos tonight we’re gonna party like it’s 2021 🎶
Rare and damning photo of the heads of the German Red Army Faction, the political wing of the provisional IRA and FARC
October 19, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Rare and damning photo of the heads of the German Red Army Faction, the political wing of the provisional IRA and FARC
Christ, not again
October 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Christ, not again
Wise people in the Wellcome bookshop!
October 16, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Wise people in the Wellcome bookshop!
Lunch in the old school Italian they use now and then, completely unchanged, for Jackson Lamb’s meetings with spooks in Slow Horses.
October 16, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Lunch in the old school Italian they use now and then, completely unchanged, for Jackson Lamb’s meetings with spooks in Slow Horses.