Roger Luckhurst

Roger Luckhurst is the editor of Lovecraft’s Classic Horror Tales (Oxford University Press, 2013). He teaches literature at the University of London and was visiting professor at Columbia University in 2016.


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Trouble in Lovecraft Country

Matt Ruff’s novel Lovecraft Country drops into the world of science-fiction and horror publishing at an interesting time. The fandom around this culture is arcane and probably irremediably nerdy to outsiders, but even “mundanes” (non-fans) must have registered something of the huge boom in Lovecraftian horror that has plumed out through film, TV, and videogames […]