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Roger Luckhurst

@theprofrog.bsky.social

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academic/freelance writer, on Gothic, Science Fiction. Next up: Graveyards: A History of Living with the Dead (October 2025).

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 5h

Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 6h

God,I’m terrible at properly annotating my photo files, so this is either a recent shot from the Mars rover or the audience assembling at Manchester Central for Kemi Badenoch’s speech

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 23h

Rob Hell and Emu

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 1d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 1d

Accurate plot summary, at least, but does contain spoilers

Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 1d

Overheard in hipster caff: “He’s 45, but he’s still very active.”

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Unseen Histories @unseenhistories.com · 1d

From the Caspian Sea to Burma, the Regency to U Boats; our history book picks for the month ahead. With new books from
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New History Books for October 2025 - Unseen Histories

Our picks of a range of vibrant new history books that will be released over the month ahead.

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 1d

The first burial, Père Lachaise, Paris, 1804

Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 1d

Churchyard in Aldeburgh, Suffolk 2020

Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 1d

October 2021, the time in Brompton Cemetery where I came across a pile of coffins and only slowly realised they were film props

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 1d

Just back from my 2-3.30pm stint as French Prime Minister, most people not back from lunch so couldn’t get much done malheureusement

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 2d

Mortsafes in Greyfriars, Edinburgh, designed to prevent bodysnatchers

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 3d

Assistens Cemetery, Copenhagen

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 4d

Not sure about the brother — there was a great exhibition about the city in 1945 this summer, ranging from Jaspers coming back for the chancellorship to a snapshot of Marlene Dietrich on the castle battlements in army gear!

Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 4d

In Heidelberg, disenchanted…

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 4d

This is a fascinating book!

Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 4d

@theprofrog.bsky.social calls John Blair’s Killing the Dead “authoritative and compelling” in the October issue of @historytoday.com. Learn more about this “fascinating history” here: hubs.ly/Q03M4M2F0.

Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World by John Blair

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 5d

Morning acupuncture session on my achy tennis elbow, but I do wonder if they’re taking it a bit far

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 6d

Wise man!

Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 6d

That's my reading sorted for a bit, thanks to @theprofrog.bsky.social. The graveyard is certainly a great subject!

A picture of me with Roger Luckhurst's book, Graveyards

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 6d

He’s quoting Object-Oriented Ontology now?

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 6d

Lovely to see you Malcolm!

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 7d

Agreed! Hard to describe but they have put an actual shallow grave on the cover!

Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 7d

Publication day is October 2nd tomorrow. Launch tonight for the first day of the London Month of the Dead at Highgate Cemetery!

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 8d

Starmer looks confidently to the future

Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 9d

Woke myself up before 6am from a dream where I was arguing with a man sitting next to me on an aircraft about the relative merits of the early poetry of Thom Gunn #thuglife

Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 11d

Is it okay to just not like PTAs use of film grammar very much? One Battle is okay, actually, but only because he stops ramming cameras in people’s faces so much, sometimes for some minutes at a time