@TheProfRog

Writer, academic + freelance. Gothic, SF, lit + film. Recent book: Gothic (2021). *Graveyards: A History of Living with the Dead* coming soon.

 London
bbk.ac.uk/eh/staff/LuckhurstRoger
Joined May 2010
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now over at theprofrog.bsky.social
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Stupid computer thing I couldn’t fix, and had to hire a young guy who sorted it in minutes. He also said: ‘I really recommend you install a niece or similar somewhere nearby: that’s what most of my old clients do.’
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Weather forecast this morning: pathetic fallacy, increasing steadily
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Back in the 70s, my mum would make ‘bang toffee’ for Bonfire Night. Was this a northern thing (they were from Huddersfield/ Bradford/Manchester area), or a weird family made up thing? No one left to ask now…
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Back from giving a talk in Denmark where a group of local volunteer peeps get funded by the govt to promote small scale cultural events in public libraries. Imagine! Crazy Danes!
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Hooch and Misogyny at a Gentlemen’s Guesthouse was the initial title for Boris Johnson’s memoir
The Jewish Chronicle
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The Empusium review: ‘hooch and misogyny at a gentlemen’s guesthouse’ buff.ly/4fksjU8
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Such a gift for book sellers right now
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I am off to Kolding in Denmark, where, pleasingly, the temperature is middling.
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Investigating haunted houses with The Ghost Club - @TheProfRog - ft.com/content/8986be33-be1b… via @ft

Investigating haunted houses with The Ghost Club

For more than 150 years club members have visited historic mansions, village cottages and suburban council houses in the hope that they can throw light on strange goings-on

ft.com
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Thanks to the lovely folk @unbounders, who sent me an emergency Halloween care package this week!
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Now I can’t use my work office at all, my last teaching prep is done in cafes — this has its pluses and minuses, often arriving in the same slice
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I dunno there’s something off about Robert Jenrick but I just can’t put my finger on it.
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That uneasy feeling you get when you ask what the film being shot in your street is, and they say Conjuring 4.
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Weekend FT, today!
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Maybe some sort of voluntary labour? We could offer to send Boris Johnson to work on the cane fields, for instance
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