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Apex Magazine and Book Company
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All Kinds of Weird 👽 literary magazine and indie book company publishing strange, surreal, shocking, and beautiful scifi & horror. 100% organic, no AI 🚫
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Apex Book Company and Violet Lichen are thrilled to reveal the cover of @ivygrimes.bsky.social's Russian fairytale-inspired folk horror, THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR! 🌌 Out February 18th, available for preorder now at www.apexbookcompany.com!

Cover Art: Jack Hillside

Cover Design: Silent Q Design
A book cover of an isolated cottage beneath a night sky full of Northern lights and a full moon. Text reads: "A Folk Horror Novella: The Cellar Below the Cellar. Ivy Grimes"
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Only a few more days to grab your preorder of ECO24 at discount! Counting down to release day on the 18ths 👀🌿🤲
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The three first lines of our first three stories 🌿🌍

ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION releases November 18th! Featuring 23 stellar ecofiction tales by some of today's greatest sci-fi/fantasy authors.

Preorder before the 18th for 30% off HERE: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...
"In the Field." Shelly Jones. “The professor pulls down a shoebox of cassette tapes from the bookcase.” "The Water Runner." Eugen Bacon. “Their sex gave the whale-bone unit and its thatched roof of albatross wings a sweet musty odor like a ripened durian fruit.” "Ama's Jungle." K-Ming Chang. “We had never seen the color green.” "Don't miss the world's first ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION. Preorders now open!
November 14, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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CLOSING TONIGHT
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The Apex Book Company submission window closes TONIGHT at midnight EST! 🪟📚

Submissions sent after this time will be deleted, so make sure to send us your strange, surreal, beautiful work before the deadline!

Read our submission guidelines and submit HERE: www.apexbookcompany.com/pages/submis...
"Apex Book Company Submissions CLOSE TODAY! November 14th, 12 AM EST"
November 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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I was lucky enough to read an early copy of @ivygrimes.bsky.social's The Cellar Below the Cellar, which I absolutely loved! Link to my review here!
R.L. Summerling's review of The Cellar Below the Cellar
5/5: The Cellar Below the Cellar is about Jane and her story of self discovery. Stranded during an unprecedented weather event, she finds herself with the unappealing prospect of living with her domin...
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November 12, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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The Apex Book Company submission window closes TONIGHT at midnight EST! 🪟📚

Submissions sent after this time will be deleted, so make sure to send us your strange, surreal, beautiful work before the deadline!

Read our submission guidelines and submit HERE: www.apexbookcompany.com/pages/submis...
"Apex Book Company Submissions CLOSE TODAY! November 14th, 12 AM EST"
November 14, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Hey cool cats! Did you miss our flash fiction announcement last week? 👅🐈

November's flash fiction theme is CAT GOT YOUR TONGUE. The theme can be literal (a cat and a tongue) OR the metaphorical meaning of the saying. You have TWO WEEKS LEFT to submit!

www.patreon.com/posts/novemb...
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November 14, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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📺🌀 ARE YOU RECEIVING US? 🌀📺

We're sending you a SUBliminal reminder to SUBscribe to Apex Magazine! Receive a full year of spine-tingling fiction delivered right to your inbox via our website or Patreon! 📥👽

Patreon: www.patreon.com/apexbookcomp...

Website: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/ape...
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November 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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I could not be more thrilled to have a drabble out with Apex Magazine today!

"Don't Hide From the Mirror" is a dark trans story of masks and second skins, and it's free to read now:

www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
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"Gaze into it instead." 🪞🎭

New drabble fiction today by @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social: "Don't Hide From the Mirror"

Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
"Don't Hide From the Mirror by Nico Martinez Nocito. Apex Magazine, Issue 151."
November 13, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Don't get left out in the cold! ❄️🪟📚

There's just a few days left to submit your strange, surreal, beautiful novellas to the Apex Book Company open reading period before our submission window closes on the 14th!
Read our submission guidelines and submit HERE: www.apexbookcompany.com/pages/submis...
"Apex Boom Company Submissions CLOSING SOON! November 14th"
November 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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"Gaze into it instead." 🪞🎭

New drabble fiction today by @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social: "Don't Hide From the Mirror"

Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
"Don't Hide From the Mirror by Nico Martinez Nocito. Apex Magazine, Issue 151."
November 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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The three first lines of our first three stories 🌿🌍

ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION releases November 18th! Featuring 23 stellar ecofiction tales by some of today's greatest sci-fi/fantasy authors.

Preorder before the 18th for 30% off HERE: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...
"In the Field." Shelly Jones. “The professor pulls down a shoebox of cassette tapes from the bookcase.” "The Water Runner." Eugen Bacon. “Their sex gave the whale-bone unit and its thatched roof of albatross wings a sweet musty odor like a ripened durian fruit.” "Ama's Jungle." K-Ming Chang. “We had never seen the color green.” "Don't miss the world's first ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION. Preorders now open!
November 13, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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📺🌀 ARE YOU RECEIVING US? 🌀📺

We're sending you a SUBliminal reminder to SUBscribe to Apex Magazine! Receive a full year of spine-tingling fiction delivered right to your inbox via our website or Patreon! 📥👽

Patreon: www.patreon.com/apexbookcomp...

Website: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/ape...
a black and white drawing of a television with static on it
Alt: A black and white drawing of an old-fashioned antennae TV. The static fills the screen, and drips onto the floor.
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November 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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When the cover of Violet Lichen's next novella is so beautiful that even the sky tries to match it 👀🌌🔭
Thank you to Apex member @stillroom.art for the photos! Did you get to see any auroras last night? We'd love to see your pics!
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November 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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"She said she’d get me a pad and an Advil and it would be over in a few days.

'But what—hichichic—about— hichichic—the bones?'" 🦷🩸

New fiction today by Jarune Uwujaren: "FAQ on My Vagina Dentata"

Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
"FAQ on My Vagina Dentata by Jarune Uwujaren. Apex Magazine, Issue 151."
November 11, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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I am deeply fond of rooms underneath rooms.
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ICYMI 🔮 we're thrilled to unveil the stunning cover of @ivygrimes.bsky.social's upcoming novella THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR, with art by @jackhillside.bsky.social and design by Silent Q Design! Preorders are available now until February 18th! 🌟

www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...
apexmag.bsky.social Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 4d
Apex Book Company and Violet Lichen are thrilled to reveal the cover of @ivygrimes.bsky.social's Russian fairytale-inspired folk horror, THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR! 🌌 Out February 18th, available for preorder now at www.apexbookcompany.com!

Cover Art: Jack Hillside

Cover Design: Silent Q Design
November 11, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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ICYM the ICYMI
apexmag.bsky.social Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 3d
ICYMI 🔮 we're thrilled to unveil the stunning cover of @ivygrimes.bsky.social's upcoming novella THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR, with art by @jackhillside.bsky.social and design by Silent Q Design! Preorders are available now until February 18th! 🌟

www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...
apexmag.bsky.social Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 4d
Apex Book Company and Violet Lichen are thrilled to reveal the cover of @ivygrimes.bsky.social's Russian fairytale-inspired folk horror, THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR! 🌌 Out February 18th, available for preorder now at www.apexbookcompany.com!

Cover Art: Jack Hillside

Cover Design: Silent Q Design
November 11, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Thank you to @davidagranoff.bsky.social for the review of ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION 💜🍄

We're just ONE WEEK away from release! Don't forget to order your copy on November 18th, or preorder today for 30% off! 💸

www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...
“I did not realize that there is enough sci-fi and horror on the theme of ecology to fill a year’s best anthology, but it is better than that. ECO24 is filled to the brim with powerful and entertaining stories. A must read." -David Agranoff, author of The Last Night to Kill Nazis and cohost of The (Philip K. Dick) Dickheads Podcast
November 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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ICYMI 🔮 we're thrilled to unveil the stunning cover of @ivygrimes.bsky.social's upcoming novella THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR, with art by @jackhillside.bsky.social and design by Silent Q Design! Preorders are available now until February 18th! 🌟

www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...
apexmag.bsky.social Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 4d
Apex Book Company and Violet Lichen are thrilled to reveal the cover of @ivygrimes.bsky.social's Russian fairytale-inspired folk horror, THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR! 🌌 Out February 18th, available for preorder now at www.apexbookcompany.com!

Cover Art: Jack Hillside

Cover Design: Silent Q Design
A book cover of an isolated cottage beneath a night sky full of Northern lights and a full moon. Text reads: "A Folk Horror Novella: The Cellar Below the Cellar. Ivy Grimes"
November 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Our ECO anthology series isn't the only thing taking root this year! 🌱

We're sprinkling wildflower seed packets across select bookstores and libraries to celebrate ECO24's release in just 8 days! Don't worry, the flowers aren't carnivorous...probably! 🌼🩸

www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...
A wildflower seed packet with a vintage floral design. Text reads "ECO24 Seed Store"
November 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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"She said she’d get me a pad and an Advil and it would be over in a few days.

'But what—hichichic—about— hichichic—the bones?'" 🦷🩸

New fiction today by Jarune Uwujaren: "FAQ on My Vagina Dentata"

Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
"FAQ on My Vagina Dentata by Jarune Uwujaren. Apex Magazine, Issue 151."
November 11, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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something just arrived on the solar winds 👀✨
apexmag.bsky.social Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 4d
Apex Book Company and Violet Lichen are thrilled to reveal the cover of @ivygrimes.bsky.social's Russian fairytale-inspired folk horror, THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR! 🌌 Out February 18th, available for preorder now at www.apexbookcompany.com!

Cover Art: Jack Hillside

Cover Design: Silent Q Design
A book cover of an isolated cottage beneath a night sky full of Northern lights and a full moon. Text reads: "A Folk Horror Novella: The Cellar Below the Cellar. Ivy Grimes"
November 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Apex Book Company and Violet Lichen are thrilled to reveal the cover of @ivygrimes.bsky.social's Russian fairytale-inspired folk horror, THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR! 🌌 Out February 18th, available for preorder now at www.apexbookcompany.com!

Cover Art: Jack Hillside

Cover Design: Silent Q Design
A book cover of an isolated cottage beneath a night sky full of Northern lights and a full moon. Text reads: "A Folk Horror Novella: The Cellar Below the Cellar. Ivy Grimes"
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
apexmag.bsky.social
Our ECO anthology series isn't the only thing taking root this year! 🌱

We're sprinkling wildflower seed packets across select bookstores and libraries to celebrate ECO24's release in just 8 days! Don't worry, the flowers aren't carnivorous...probably! 🌼🩸

www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...
A wildflower seed packet with a vintage floral design. Text reads "ECO24 Seed Store"
November 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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A Cover Reveal! 🌕

Many thanks to everyone involved in the creation of this auroralicious cover for The Cellar Below The Cellar...out February 2026
apexmag.bsky.social Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 4d
Apex Book Company and Violet Lichen are thrilled to reveal the cover of @ivygrimes.bsky.social's Russian fairytale-inspired folk horror, THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR! 🌌 Out February 18th, available for preorder now at www.apexbookcompany.com!

Cover Art: Jack Hillside

Cover Design: Silent Q Design
A book cover of an isolated cottage beneath a night sky full of Northern lights and a full moon. Text reads: "A Folk Horror Novella: The Cellar Below the Cellar. Ivy Grimes"
November 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
apexmag.bsky.social
Apex Book Company and Violet Lichen are thrilled to reveal the cover of @ivygrimes.bsky.social's Russian fairytale-inspired folk horror, THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR! 🌌 Out February 18th, available for preorder now at www.apexbookcompany.com!

Cover Art: Jack Hillside

Cover Design: Silent Q Design
A book cover of an isolated cottage beneath a night sky full of Northern lights and a full moon. Text reads: "A Folk Horror Novella: The Cellar Below the Cellar. Ivy Grimes"
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Everyone, quiet! 🤫 It's time to announce November's flash fiction theme!

This month's theme is...CAT GOT YOUR TONGUE! 👅🐱 The theme can be literal (a cat and a tongue) OR the metaphorical meaning of the saying (incapable of communication). Deadline is Nov. 30th!

www.patreon.com/posts/novemb...
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November 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM