**Roger Luckhurst's *many books include Gothic: An Illustrated History (Princeton) and Zombies: A Cultural History *. He has written for the Financial Times, The Guardian, and the London Review of Books and is a regular contributor for the BBC. He is the Geoffrey Tillotson Chair of Nineteenth-Centur...

**Roger Luckhurst's *many books include Gothic: An Illustrated History (Princeton) and Zombies: A Cultural History *. He has written for the Financial Times, The Guardian, and the London Review of Books and is a regular contributor for the BBC. He is the Geoffrey Tillotson Chair of Nineteenth-Century Studies at Birkbeck, University of London.