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You Should Come With Me Now
M. John Harrison is a cartographer of the liminal; his work sits at the boundaries between genres – horror and science fiction, fantasy and travel writing – just as his stories traverse the no man’s land between the spatial and the spiritual.
The New Uncanny
14 leading authors have here been challenged to write fresh fictional interpretations of what the uncanny might mean in the 21st century, to update Freud’s famous checklist of what gives us the creeps, and to give the hulking canon of uncanny fiction a shot in the arm, a shock to the neck-bolts...
The New Abject
A sequel to Comma‘s award-winning horror anthology The New Uncanny. Featuring specially commissioned stories inspired by Julia Kristeva’s theory of the abject.
Resist: Stories of Uprising
The paperback edition of our popular anthology exploring 20 key moments of British protest history, from Boudica to Grenfell.
Recent Releases
The Cuckoo Cage
Short stories by British authors inspired by the ‘superheroes’ of British protest history, from Ned Ludd to Captain Swing, and scurge of the Romans, Cassivel-launus, to 90s anti-roads protestor Swampy.
Safely Gathered In
The debut collection by Lancashire-based short story author Sarah Schofield establishes a new and exciting voice in Northern fiction.
The American Way
Covering US foreign policy from 1945 to the present day, an anthology of specially commissioned stories by authors from across the globe addressing America's history of intervention.
The Book of Barcelona
In this new addition to Comma's Reading the City series, ten stories about Barcelona by ten of its most prominent authors are translated from both Catalan and Spanish into English for the first time.
Take a peek at some of Comma's forthcoming titles.
Bestselling
Refugee Tales
Fourteen stories exploring real life refugee experiences, told in the style of the Canterbury Tales
The Iraqi Christ
From legends of the desert to horrors of the forest, Blasim’s stories blend the fantastic with the everyday, the surreal with the all-too-real.
Palestine + 100
Palestine + 100 poses a question to contemporary Palestinian writers: what might your home city look like in the year 2048 – exactly 100 years after Nakba, the displacement of more than 700,000 people after the Israeli War of Independence?
In Another Country: Selected Stories
Gathering together stories from over two decades of writing, this selection demonstrates why Constantine has been hailed as ‘perhaps the finest of contemporary writers in this form’. Featuring the story that inspired the motion picture, 45 Years.
Reading The City
Celebrating the best short stories from cities in the UK and from around the world.
BBC Short Story Award
Now in its thirteenth year, the Award is one of the most prestigious for a single short story.
