{"product_id":"the-monster-capital-9781910974469","title":"The Monster, Capital","description":"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 Thing: 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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ra Page\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Comma Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/02\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Modern Horror\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781910974469","brand":"Comma Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47081294921865,"sku":"9781910974469","price":20.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_5d5b28c6-6204-4489-a8d9-9eee6cebe415.jpg?v=1782239118","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-monster-capital-9781910974469","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}