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All Kinds of Weird 👽 literary magazine and book company publishing strange, surreal, shocking, beautiful sff & horror. 100% organic, no AI 🚫

🛸 https://www.apexbookcompany.com/
🍄 Submit to ECO25: https://apexbookcompany.moksha.io/publication/8/guidelines
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"We float to the surface, and we see that there is more to the world than the ocean. We see stars." 🐙🌌🌟

Preorders for @reasie.bsky.social's cephalopod sci-fi MULTITUDE are LIVE! ✨ Plus a preorder exclusive: all paperback preorders include a cephalopod keychain designed by artist @stillroom.art!
Multitude
Preorder and save 30%! Plus, a preorder exclusive: every paperback preorder will also receive a cephalopod-themed keychain! Release Date 4/28/26 We float to the surface, and we see that there is more ...
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"We float to the surface, and we see that there is more to the world than the ocean. We see stars." 🐙🌌🌟

Preorders for @reasie.bsky.social's cephalopod sci-fi MULTITUDE are LIVE! ✨ Plus a preorder exclusive: all paperback preorders include a cephalopod keychain designed by artist @stillroom.art!
Multitude
Preorder and save 30%! Plus, a preorder exclusive: every paperback preorder will also receive a cephalopod-themed keychain! Release Date 4/28/26 We float to the surface, and we see that there is more ...
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January 6, 2026 at 4:17 PM
"We float to the surface, and we see that there is more to the world than the ocean. We see stars." 🐙🌌🌟

Preorders for @reasie.bsky.social's cephalopod sci-fi MULTITUDE are LIVE! ✨ Plus a preorder exclusive: all paperback preorders include a cephalopod keychain designed by artist @stillroom.art!
Multitude
Preorder and save 30%! Plus, a preorder exclusive: every paperback preorder will also receive a cephalopod-themed keychain! Release Date 4/28/26 We float to the surface, and we see that there is more ...
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January 6, 2026 at 4:17 PM
📢 REMINDER FOR WRITERS: If you submitted during our fall open window in 2025, you do NOT need to resubmit! Our slush readers are working through submissions as quickly as possible (we received over 2.1K short stories!) and will notify you once your story has been read. Thank you!! 🖤👽
Our short fiction submission portals are OPEN! 👽🍄✨

We're currently seeking speculative ecofiction published within the last year for our upcoming anthology ECO25, and short speculative fiction for Apex Magazine! Link to guidelines and submissions below ⬇️

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January 5, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Our short fiction submission portals are OPEN! 👽🍄✨

We're currently seeking speculative ecofiction published within the last year for our upcoming anthology ECO25, and short speculative fiction for Apex Magazine! Link to guidelines and submissions below ⬇️

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January 5, 2026 at 4:58 PM
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Tots recommends you read @apexmag.bsky.social (and support them if you can!) but he also recommends you have a tiger with you because sometimes stories are scary!!!!
January 2, 2026 at 2:36 PM
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Just finished reading www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco... from @apexmag.bsky.social and am blown away

Mesmerizing stories expertly curated by @marissavu.bsky.social

Including a story by the talented @jjlofflin.bsky.social

Make this your first new #book of the year! You'll thank me!
ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction
"A triumph. 23 stellar tales offering creative and varied takes on the book's themes. Every entry is equal parts thought-provoking, insightful, and impactful." —Publishers Weekly Starred Review A must...
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January 1, 2026 at 10:49 PM
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CHLOROPHILIA, an intriguing story about evolution in overdrive from @apexmag.bsky.social

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ChloroPhilia by Cristina Jurado, translated by Sue Burke
ChloroPhilia offers readers Jurado’s unique vision of the world, in which the bizarre and grotesque erupts into the mundane world.
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December 31, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Lovely review for "ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecoficton" 💚💚💚
"The most effective stories, for me, came under the theme of social commentary on novel solutions to environmental decline. These stories ask: who bears the brunt of these innovations, and who gets to carry on as before?"
"ECO24 is a moving and thought-provoking collection featuring some of my favourite themes in speculative fiction." 🌱🌍

Wonderful review from Dr. Alice Violett for ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction!

Read it here: www.draliceviolett.com/eco24-edited...
Review: ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction, edited by Marissa van Uden
Thoughtful book reviews
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December 30, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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ATTN EDITORS & AUTHORS: If you published original short SF/F/H this year that engages with themes of nature, climate & animals (pets included!), send it our way for consideration in The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction ✨
We also accept collections & anthos (stories are considered individually).
December 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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My trans horror drabble "Don't Hide From the Mirror" was published in @apexmag.bsky.social!

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Don't Hide From the Mirror
Gaze into it instead. Watch your skin peel back in tantalizing, translucent strips. It won’t hurt, I promise. Your eyes will sting...
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December 30, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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The Fifth Horseman
When the echo of other hoof beats fades away, I dismount.
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December 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Happy new year, Apex minions! 🎉👽🖤

The team is back in action and diving headfirst into 2026. Get ready for exciting news and updates on upcoming novellas (Weird Girl folk horror! Sci-fi space cephalopods!) and the reopening of Apex Magazine submissions and flash fiction 📚 Prepare for Takeoff! 🛸🌌🪩
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January 5, 2026 at 4:30 PM
The holiday season has passed, but now you can give the gift of Apex all year round! 🎁🛸

For any magazine subscription or book order on our website, you now have the option to send it as a gift to your loved ones. Help the world get weirder and share more Apex with your fellow readers! 📚👽🖤
Apex Magazine - One Year
Pick up a one-year subscription to Apex Magazine. Have amazing, diverse science fiction, fantasy, and horror short stories delivered directly to your inbox. Our genre magazine also includes interviews...
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December 26, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Fam heads up on a call for submissions: please share with a Black Horror writer who you know would eat this up. Look at that dream editing duo: @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social and @chesyaburke.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥 Deadline January 14th, 2026...!
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Black Horror | Call for Submissions
We are very excited to announce a new call for submissions which is now open!
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December 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
"ECO24 is a moving and thought-provoking collection featuring some of my favourite themes in speculative fiction." 🌱🌍

Wonderful review from Dr. Alice Violett for ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction!

Read it here: www.draliceviolett.com/eco24-edited...
Review: ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction, edited by Marissa van Uden
Thoughtful book reviews
www.draliceviolett.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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This is so cute!!
Enjoy a celestial take on a vintage paper garland 🎄 our paper chain templates feature artists' depictions of the Northern lights across history, From 19th century Arctic expeditions to Medieval atmospheric phenomena 🪢🌙✂️

Download the templates and instructions here: drive.google.com/file/d/1ahFZ...
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December 18, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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😭✨🌌 I'm so in love with these beautiful winter-solstice paper garlands!
Inspired by Ivy Grimes' "The Cellar Below the Cellar," designed by the brilliant Ori Whipple, and perfect for your tree, your bookshelves, or your best festive hat. Print, tape and drape!
Enjoy a celestial take on a vintage paper garland 🎄 our paper chain templates feature artists' depictions of the Northern lights across history, From 19th century Arctic expeditions to Medieval atmospheric phenomena 🪢🌙✂️

Download the templates and instructions here: drive.google.com/file/d/1ahFZ...
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Alt: An assembly line of sheep in green Santa hats assemble a pile of colorful paper chain garlands
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December 18, 2025 at 9:10 PM
"It’s easy to be swept along by the everyday, but this is a story about wondering what lies above and below everything." 🔮

Wonderful interview with CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR author @ivygrimes.bsky.social and @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social! 🪐🏜️📚

Read it here: spacecowboybooks.com/new-book-spo...
New Book Spotlight – The Cellar Below the Cellar by Ivy Grimes – Space Cowboy Books
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December 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Thank you to @apexmag.bsky.social for this gorgeous copy of ECO24 edited by @marissavu.bsky.social 🌺 Excited to dig into this one!
December 18, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Love this! The rest of me is tired but my hands get restless this time of year and this looks fun ✂️
There's a new holiday to celebrate this year! ❄️🌌

We're kicking off our countdown to @ivygrimes.bsky.social's folk horror novella THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR with a collection of printable DIY papercrafts! Get into the cozy, screen-free Cellar Solstice spirit and check out the first craft below! 🧵
December 18, 2025 at 6:09 PM
What's that sound on the roof? Oh, it's just Father Krampus leaving gifts for our Patrons! 👹🎄

Give yourself the gift of Apex and join our Patreon! Participate in flash fiction theme polls, get access to our secret discord, read exclusive short stories, and more! 🎁🐐

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December 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
"Real noir is not about what something looks like, and more about the underlying pattern of people repeatedly succumbing to their atavistic impulses." 🌃🥃

New nonfiction today by @premeemohamed.com: "More than Lighting: Speculative Noir"

Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
December 18, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Thanks to the wizard at Apex who made this beautiful paper garland template with pictures from the Northern lights! To print and snip and festify.

Craft time!
Enjoy a celestial take on a vintage paper garland 🎄 our paper chain templates feature artists' depictions of the Northern lights across history, From 19th century Arctic expeditions to Medieval atmospheric phenomena 🪢🌙✂️

Download the templates and instructions here: drive.google.com/file/d/1ahFZ...
a group of sheep wearing party hats are sitting at a table
Alt: An assembly line of sheep in green Santa hats assemble a pile of colorful paper chain garlands
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December 18, 2025 at 12:45 PM
There's a new holiday to celebrate this year! ❄️🌌

We're kicking off our countdown to @ivygrimes.bsky.social's folk horror novella THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR with a collection of printable DIY papercrafts! Get into the cozy, screen-free Cellar Solstice spirit and check out the first craft below! 🧵
December 17, 2025 at 7:33 PM