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Monster Capital: Tales of Capitalist Unease
Edited by Ra Page & David Sue
Matthew Holness, Christine Poulson, Sanjida Kay, Brontë Schiltz , Ian Carrington, Luan Goldie, Adam Marek, Andy Hedgecock, Xan Brooks, Jess Glaisher, Kiare Ladner, Sarah Schofield & Lillian Weezer.
There is something monstrous about capital, something alive and creeping about it. It’s been compared to a parasite, a vampire, a zombie-maker; one that transforms human lives into dead labour, and marshals all creative, free-thinking individuality into the long trudge that is work, money-making, aspiration. The philosopher Mark Fisher famously compared capital to the alien in John Carpenter’s The an ‘infinitely plastic entity capable of metabolising and absorbing anything with which it comes into contact.’ For the latest book in its acclaimed horror series, Comma has invited ten authors to explore this emergent, monstrous property of capital through supernatural and surreal means. Thus, we see characters disappearing into algorithm-driven spending addictions, property development spreading like a virus across cityscapes leaving buildings empty and people homeless, and citizens so addicted to the ‘news drug’ that promises everything is about to change that nothing does. We may think of capitalism as the ghost in the machine, driving things forward. But what happens when we become the ghosts?
Matthew Holness, Christine Poulson, Sanjida Kay, Brontë Schiltz , Ian Carrington, Luan Goldie, Adam Marek, Andy Hedgecock, Xan Brooks, Jess Glaisher, Kiare Ladner, Sarah Schofield & Lillian Weezer.
There is something monstrous about capital, something alive and creeping about it. It’s been compared to a parasite, a vampire, a zombie-maker; one that transforms human lives into dead labour, and marshals all creative, free-thinking individuality into the long trudge that is work, money-making, aspiration. The philosopher Mark Fisher famously compared capital to the alien in John Carpenter’s The an ‘infinitely plastic entity capable of metabolising and absorbing anything with which it comes into contact.’ For the latest book in its acclaimed horror series, Comma has invited ten authors to explore this emergent, monstrous property of capital through supernatural and surreal means. Thus, we see characters disappearing into algorithm-driven spending addictions, property development spreading like a virus across cityscapes leaving buildings empty and people homeless, and citizens so addicted to the ‘news drug’ that promises everything is about to change that nothing does. We may think of capitalism as the ghost in the machine, driving things forward. But what happens when we become the ghosts?
239 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 18, 2026
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Sarah Schofield
23 books53 followersSolo is Sarah Schofield's debut novel. She enjoys life in Bend, Oregon with her husband and two children. When she is not working on her next novel, she is relaxing in the great outdoors, reading books, and cleaning food off the ceiling. To learn more about Sarah, visit her website at www.SarahSchofieldBooks.com.
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June 13, 2026My review of this excellent anthology features in the June 2026 issue of Locus
June 3, 2026
Meat and Silent Partner are two of the best short stories I've read in AGES. Love the conceit, darkly funny execution, bang bang bang
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