Roger Luckhurst
@theprofrog.bsky.social
academic/freelance writer, on Gothic, Science Fiction. Next up: Graveyards: A History of Living with the Dead (October 2025).
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
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
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
Broadcasting House, just now
November 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Broadcasting House, just now
Here is today’s emergency fluffy kitten
November 12, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Here is today’s emergency fluffy kitten
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
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?
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
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
🎶 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.
Publication day today for this, with short stories by Alison Moore, Wyl Menmuir, CD Rose and others — including my short story ‘You’!
October 13, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Publication day today for this, with short stories by Alison Moore, Wyl Menmuir, CD Rose and others — including my short story ‘You’!
Pilgrimage, back in 2017
October 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Pilgrimage, back in 2017
AI decides what research to fund; AI does the research; AI reads it; another AI assesses it for REF. Meanwhile the humans sod off to the beach or lie around in their pants watching Celebrity Traitors all day
October 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
AI decides what research to fund; AI does the research; AI reads it; another AI assesses it for REF. Meanwhile the humans sod off to the beach or lie around in their pants watching Celebrity Traitors all day
Today’s gravestone: ‘The Kiss of Death’, Poblenou Cemetery, Barcelona
October 10, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Today’s gravestone: ‘The Kiss of Death’, Poblenou Cemetery, Barcelona