Apex Books & Zine

11/10/2025

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! 🌼🩸

https://www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco24-the-years-best-speculative-ecofiction

11/10/2025

Apex Book Company and Violet Lichen are thrilled to reveal the cover of Ivy Grimes's Russian fairytale-inspired folk horror, THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR! 🌌 Out February 18th, available for preorder now at https://www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the-cellar-below-the-cellar!

Cover Art: Jack Hillside

Cover Design: Silent Q Design

11/07/2025

As night falls and the sky begins to dance, something looms over the dark horizon... 🌕🏚️🌌

Full cover reveal of Violet Lichen's first horror novella THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR by Ivy Grimes coming Monday!

11/06/2025

"Through this shared heritage, the Western’s influence in literature and entertainment proves as boundless as the frontiers it first depicted." 🏜️🦂

New nonfiction today by Michael Knost: "Dust, Stars, and Shadows: How Western Genre Literature Helped Shape Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror"

Read it here: https://www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-magazine/post/dust-stars-and-shadows-how-western-genre-literature-helped-shape-fantasy-science-fiction-and-horror

11/05/2025

Visit SIBERIA'S WHITE WOOLLY MAMMOTHS and give your kids a holiday they'll NEVER forget! ❄️🦣

We're so excited to have Louis Evans's ecofiction “A Seder in Siberia” in ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION.

Join him and Kay Vaindal at Lofty Pigeon Books on November 18th for a FREE launch party to celebrate ECO24, including live readings and a talk with the authors!

RSVP HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/louis-evans-and-kay-vaindal-launch-eco24-tickets-1853598596299

Want to snag this natural wonder of a book? Preorder ECO24 BEFORE NOVEMBER 18TH and get 30% OFF at https://www.apexbookcompany.com! 🌿🍄💸

11/04/2025

In case you missed it...🔮

Violet Lichen's first fiction novella, THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR, is available for preorder at a 30% discount! A surreal folk horror inspired by Russian fairytales, solar storms, and the secrets we keep buried underground 🌌☀️ Cover reveal coming soon!

Preorder HERE: https://www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the-cellar-below-the-cellar

11/04/2025

"'My brother was diagnosed with the same pulmonary fibrosis as I, posthumously, after his lungs erupted through his ribs in a forest of sprouting bamboo.'" 🫁🎋

New fiction today from Rebecca Johnson: "Code Green"

Read it here: https://www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-magazine/post/code-green

11/03/2025

We're celebrating Michael Wehunt's new novel THE OCTOBER FILM HAUNT with a limited time sale!

Read the celebrated anthology GREENER PASTURES, featuring the short story which inspired the novel, "October Film Haunt: Under the House" for just $10! Available only until November 30th!

We celebrate Michael Wehunt's new novel The October Film Haunt (based on the Greener Pasture's story "October Film Haunt: Under the House" by offering his collection Greener Pastures for $10! Available only until November 30th! They say there are always greener pastures. These horror and dark fantas...

11/03/2025

ICYMI 🌟 Lofty Pigeon Books is hosting a ✨FREE✨ ECO24 launch party with Louis Evans and Kay Vaindal, authors of featured short stories “A Seder in Siberia” and “Pig House,” on Nov. 18th at 6:30! Enjoy a night of readings, book signings, a Q&A, and reception to celebrate the launch of ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction 🌿🍄

Seats are limited! Reserve your spot at the event link below ⬇️

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/louis-evans-and-kay-vaindal-launch-eco24-tickets-1853598596299

11/03/2025

The Apex Book Company submission window is now open! 📚✍️

We're looking for surreal, dreamlike novels and novellas with unknowable horror, POVs that push the boundaries of "human" characters, and a fresh twist on new and classic monsters!

Please email your cover letter and manuscript to [email protected].

Full submission instructions: https://www.apexbookcompany.com/pages/submissions

10/31/2025

The Apex Magazine Kickstarter is officially OVER! We successfully funded four new issues of Apex Magazine! 🎉🎉🎉

On behalf of the entire Apex team, thank you to all of the backers, authors, and readers for donating your funds, time, and attention to our Kickstarter. Your enthusiasm and unwavering support is what allows us to keep doing what we do best. We can't wait to bring you another year of strange, surreal, shocking, beautiful fiction 🖤👽

SEE YOU IN 2026! 🍾

10/30/2025

"It was one of the many fossil houses of dry bones and cured scales that served generations, and still stood in clusters in Old Dodoma, a land of dryness that was once an ocean." 🦴🐟

New ECO24 excerpt by Eugen Bacon: "The Water Runner"

Read it here: https://www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-magazine/post/excerpt-from-eco24-the-years-best-speculative-ecofiction-%E2%80%94-the-water-runner-by-eugen-bacon