Roger Luckhurst
@theprofrog
academic/freelance writer, on Gothic, Horror film, Science Fiction. Latest: Graveyards: A History of Living with the Dead (2025). Now writing a taxonomy of the undead.
looks like a great job, but what if Professor Moriarty was your line manager?
Spot of research on Emanuel Klein, the Austrian-Jewish doctor who became the prototype of the heartless vivisectionist in English popular culture in the 1870s. He seems quite cuddly here tho'
Somehow it’s very pleasing that the Descent into the Abyss has a protective barrier in the Kapoor exhibition
He’s stepping down to open a cheese emporium in Frinton-on-Sea after developing an unexpected passion for yarg
Farrenkopf’s 2001 study of Spengler. It’s possible that phase of Caesarism might have arrived by now
Let’s hope they don’t know about the 4000 holes in Blackburn, Lancashire
This photo has the same inconsolable sadness vibe of the solo Keanu Reeves on a park bench shot
“I know, Mr Burnham, it is an unusual room to sign your nomination papers, but Keir was very keen for you to see all the rooms available to a PM. Please, after you.”
Excellent early typo from the Guardian, surely a front runner for Burnham’s new nickname
“One day, my sweet child, all the wide open vistas of social media will be yours”
Always awesome to be involved in projects so big and heavy you can plausibly choose the hardback as a weapon for a duel
I particularly like that Amazon is advertising the release of M. John Harrison's 'The End of Everything' as 'arriving 3 days before father's day.' The ideal gift if you want to communicate a sense of queasy, mystifying post-apocalypticism in your familial relationships.
Of course, a loft conversion adds £80k to the value of yer actual cardboard box
Nice to see The Times carrying hard-hitting, deeply researched coverage of the crisis of the humanities in universities rn
Did graveyard talk in York then entirely randomly stumbled across this on way back