Notes from the Crawl Room

Adam Ferner has worked in academic philosophy in France and the UK. He is author of Organisms and Personal Identity (2016), Think Differently: Open your mind. Philosophy for Modern Life: 20 Thought-Provoking Lessons (2018), How to Disagree: Negotiate difference in a divided world.: 20 thought-provoking lessons (with Darren Chetty, 2019), Philosophy: A Crash Course: Become An Instant Expert (with Zara Bain and Nadia Mehdi, 2019) and Philosophical Empires (with Chris Meyns, 2020). Adam is also Associate Editor of the Forum Essays, and founding member of the Changelings fiction collective. His horror series 'Campus Rumpus' was published in The Philosopher's Magazine. Katherine Angel is a writer and Lecturer in Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London. She is author of Unmastered: A Book on Desire, Most Difficult to Tell (2012) and Daddy Issues (2019)

Introductory Essay: Uroborotic Horror by Susan K. Lang

1. The Ring of Gyges
2. Cousin Vincent
3. By which we learn that “Snow is white”
4. Empty Man I: The German Logician (1902)
5. The Gravesend Institute
6. A Response to C.D. Baird’s Reading of the Pitwell Phenomenon
7. Empty Man II: Theodore (1999)
8. Bare Substrata
9. such brittle bodies
10. Empty Man III: Marcia (2010)
11. The Locked Room
12. Campus Rumpus I–V
13. The Master’s Delight
14. Cloakroom, 1984
15. Empty Man IV: Abbie (2018)
16. Mycorrhizae
17. A Manifesto for Horror As Critique of Analytic Philosophy

Appendix I: Recurring Characters
Appendix II: Quotations
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