Books by Roger (Birkbeck Luckhurst

Alien, that legendary fusion of science fiction and horror, was born out of a terrible monster movie script called Star Beast. Tracing the constellation of talents that came together to produce the film, this book explores how and why this interstellar slasher movie, this old dark house in space, came to coil itself around our darkest imaginings.

Stanley Kubrick hailed The Shining as 'the scariest horror film of all time' before its release in 1980.

Outlines the origins of the concept of trauma across psychiatric, legal and cultural-political sources from the 1860s to the coining of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in 1980. This book covers a diverse range of cultural works, including writers such as Toni Morrison, Stephen King and W G Sebald.