Roger Luckhurst is a British writer and academic. He is professor in modern and contemporary literature in the Department of English, Theatre, and Creative Writing at

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and was distinguished visiting professor at

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in 2016. He works on Victorian literature,

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, Gothic and weird fiction, trauma studies, and speculative/science fiction. Luckhurst is notable for his introductions and editorships to the

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series volumes -- ''Late Victorian Gothic Tales,'' ''

Dracula ''Dracula'' is a novel by Bram Stoker, published in 1897. As an epistolary novel, the narrative is related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles. It has no single protagonist, but opens with solicitor Jonathan Harker taki ...

'', ''

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ''Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'' is a 1886 Gothic novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. It follows Gabriel John Utterson, a London-based legal practitioner who investigates a series of strange occurrences between his old ...

The Portrait of a Lady ''The Portrait of a Lady'' is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in ''The Atlantic Monthly'' and '' Macmillan's Magazine'' in 1880–81 and then as a book in 1881. It is one of James's most popular novels and is regarded by cr ...

,'' H.P. Lovecraft's ''Classic Horror Tales, King Solomon’s Mines,'' and '' The Time Machine --'' and for his books on J. G. Ballard (1997), ''The Invention of Telepathy'' (2002), ''Science Fiction'' (2005) ''The Trauma Question'' (2008), ''The Mummy’s Curse: The True Story of a Dark Fantasy'' (Oxford University Press, 2012), and ''Zombies: A Cultural History'' (Reaktion Press, 2015). He has also written two books for the British Film Institute classic film series on ''The Shining'' and ''Alien''. Luckhurst has written pieces for ''The Guardian'' and features for the film journal ''Sight and Sound'' and wrote and presented the BBC Radio 4 documentary about mummy curses in 2012. He has been an occasional film reviewer and commentator for the radio programmes ''Front Row'' and ''Free Thinking''.

Publications

*''The Angle Between Two Walls: The Fiction of J. G. Ballard'' (1997) *''The Invention of Telepathy, 1870-1901'' (2002) *''Science Fiction'' (2005) *''The Trauma Question'' (2008) *''The Mummy's Curse: The True History of a Dark Fantasy'' (2012) *''Zombies: A Cultural History'' (2015) *''Gothic: An Illustrated History'' (2021)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Luckhurst, Roger Living people British academics of English literature Year of birth missing (living people) Alumni of the University of Hull Alumni of the University of Sussex Academics of Birkbeck, University of London Columbia University faculty British editors