Notes from the Crawl Room: A Collection of Philosophical Horrors

Notes from the Crawl Room employs the lens and methods of horror writing to critique the excesses and absurdities of philosophy. Each story reveals disastrous and de-humanising effects of philosophies that are separated from real, lived experience (e.g. the absurdity of arguing over a sentence in Kant while the world burns around us). From a Kafkaesque exploration of administrative absurdities to the horrors of discursive violence, white supremacy and the living spectres of patriarchy, A.M. Moskovitz doesn't shy away from addressing the complex aspects of our lives. In addition to offering often humourous critiques of philosophy, these works are also, somewhat ironically, pieces of philosophy themselves. Each story seeks to move a subject area forward offering the reader the capacity to think through ideas in a weirder and more open way than traditional philosophy usually allows.

An antidote to philosophy that seeks to close down and shut off the imaginative potential of human thought, Notes from the Crawl Room revels in the unsettling and creative potential of stories for revealing what thinking philosophically might really mean.

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)