Roger Luckhurst
@theprofrog.bsky.social
academic/freelance writer, on Gothic, Science Fiction. Next up: Graveyards: A History of Living with the Dead (October 2025).
Just saw a screening of Kazakh Scary Tales, which is 20% Twin Peaks, 25% Von Trier’s The Kingdom, 5% Mighty Boosh and 50% nasty Kazakh folk tale horror — what’s not to like?!
November 27, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Just saw a screening of Kazakh Scary Tales, which is 20% Twin Peaks, 25% Von Trier’s The Kingdom, 5% Mighty Boosh and 50% nasty Kazakh folk tale horror — what’s not to like?!
Here is your Wednesday lunchtime/shouty budget emergency fluffy kitten
November 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Here is your Wednesday lunchtime/shouty budget emergency fluffy kitten
Proof that campuses continue to be radically divided, even as holiday season approaches
November 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Proof that campuses continue to be radically divided, even as holiday season approaches
Here is your Tuesday afternoon emergency fluffy kitten
November 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Here is your Tuesday afternoon emergency fluffy kitten
Here is your Monday morning emergency fluffy kitten
November 24, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Here is your Monday morning emergency fluffy kitten
Never seen this image of Trotsky in Stalin’s office before
November 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Never seen this image of Trotsky in Stalin’s office before
At the end of a dream this morning I woke up as I said, in Patrick Bateman’s voice: ‘I need to return Kazuo Ishiguro’s video tapes’
November 22, 2025 at 8:57 AM
At the end of a dream this morning I woke up as I said, in Patrick Bateman’s voice: ‘I need to return Kazuo Ishiguro’s video tapes’
I made the mistake of looking myself up on Amazon and the algorithm immediately posted me some suggestions of things I might also like
November 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I made the mistake of looking myself up on Amazon and the algorithm immediately posted me some suggestions of things I might also like
Good piece. Hard to remember the absolute shower of shits that were culture secretaries under the Tories, who left the library to sink under attack because all populists hate cultural institutions
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Good piece. Hard to remember the absolute shower of shits that were culture secretaries under the Tories, who left the library to sink under attack because all populists hate cultural institutions
Home Office, just now
November 17, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Home Office, just now
This is what happens if you leave the To Do list out of the fridge over the weekend
November 17, 2025 at 8:16 AM
This is what happens if you leave the To Do list out of the fridge over the weekend
Many film-makers must be haunted by that line in ep 2 of Mr Scorsese when he remembers that after a screening of Boxcar Bertha John Cassavetes pulled him in for a hug and said ‘What are you doing? You’ve just spent a year of your life making shit!’ This came to mind watching The Running Man today.
November 16, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Many film-makers must be haunted by that line in ep 2 of Mr Scorsese when he remembers that after a screening of Boxcar Bertha John Cassavetes pulled him in for a hug and said ‘What are you doing? You’ve just spent a year of your life making shit!’ This came to mind watching The Running Man today.
Next Saturday!
The Haunted Landscape: Ghosts, Magic and Lore - Conway Hall
Whose claws are scratching at the church door? What’s that ghost tumbling over the moor? Who’s that figure cut into the earth? What can I do to lift this curse? Join us for a legendary trip through th...
www.conwayhall.org.uk
November 16, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Next Saturday!
Categories include: Most Insensitive Friday Afternoon email about ‘Downsizing Staff Resource’; Most Preposterously Inappropriate Online Wellbeing Provision; Best All-Staff Reply Email Meltdown; the Golden Boot for Best foot-in-mouth Communication. Good luck everyone!
We can’t wait for tonight’s #THEAwards! Are you on your way to Edinburgh, or getting your glad rags on? Maybe you’re following from home? Show us how you’ll be cheering on your team tonight...
a woman in a gold dress is standing in an elevator with her hands on her hips and says or maybe this
ALT: a woman in a gold dress is standing in an elevator with her hands on her hips and says or maybe this
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November 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Categories include: Most Insensitive Friday Afternoon email about ‘Downsizing Staff Resource’; Most Preposterously Inappropriate Online Wellbeing Provision; Best All-Staff Reply Email Meltdown; the Golden Boot for Best foot-in-mouth Communication. Good luck everyone!
Broadcasting House, just now
November 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Broadcasting House, just now
Someone has finally unlocked the perfect combination of words to guarantee I will immediately say yes to a request. This is niche, but for future reference, the question was: 'Would you be interested in talking to a group of Norwegian architectural students about corridors?'
November 12, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Someone has finally unlocked the perfect combination of words to guarantee I will immediately say yes to a request. This is niche, but for future reference, the question was: 'Would you be interested in talking to a group of Norwegian architectural students about corridors?'
Here is today’s emergency fluffy kitten
November 12, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Here is today’s emergency fluffy kitten
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?