something just arrived on the solar winds 👀✨

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

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 Cover Reveal! 🌕 Many thanks to everyone involved in the creation of this auroralicious cover for The Cellar Below The Cellar...out February 2026

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

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...

If you love Weird but don't have this anthology by @michaelwehunt.bsky.social on your shelf or keep a tattered copy in your back pocket or gift copies to all your Weird-fic friends then WHAT ARE YOU DOING

Cover reveal sneak peak!! 🕯️👁️ ~ THE CELLAR ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ BELOW ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ THE CELLAR by the incomparable Ivy Grimes Release date: Feb 18, 2026

As night falls and the sky begins to dance, something looms over the dark horizon... 🌕🏚️🌌 Full cover reveal of THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR by @ivygrimes.bsky.social coming Monday!

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...

"...now more than ever, it seems important to celebrate ecofiction and listen to the artists telling our collective story about this fragile ecosystem we call Earth." 🌍📚 Wonderful interview with @mynachang.bsky.social and @marissavu.bsky.social!

New editor interview with @marissavu.bsky.social about Violet Lichen Books and the upcoming anthology ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION!

Everyone go to this so I can live vicariously through you. Tell Louis and Kay I love them.

I just read "A Seder in Siberia" at the start of the week. So good!! If you're in NYC, you should definitely check this event out and if you're a read of good taste anywhere, you should snag ECO24!

wait holy shit. look at that mammoth.

Visit SIBERIA and give your kids a holiday they'll NEVER forget! ❄️🦣 We're so excited to have @louisevans.bsky.social's “A Seder in Siberia” in ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION. Preorder this natural wonder of a book BEFORE NOVEMBER 18TH and get 30% OFF at www.apexbookcompany.com! 🌿🍄💸

"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" Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

NYC #horror readers, assemble!

come through NYC!

Visit THE MANGROVE DAUGHTERS — Where the trees are always waiting to welcome you home! 🌿🌊 We're thrilled to feature @emlinden.bsky.social's short ecofiction "Mangrove Daughter" in ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION, out November 18th!

Visit THE MANGROVE DAUGHTERS — Where the trees are always waiting to welcome you home! 🌿🌊 We're thrilled to feature @emlinden.bsky.social's short ecofiction "Mangrove Daughter" in ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION, out November 18th!

who do I know who's gonna be in NYC on November 18th???

have you RSVP'd for the ECO24 launch party yet?? Join @kayv.bsky.social and @louisevans.bsky.social, authors of ECO24 featured short stories "Pig House" and "A Seder in Siberia," for a live reading, reception, and signing at Lofty Pigeon Books! This event is FREE to attend; RSVP below! ⬇️

ICYMI 🔮 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!

"'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: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

We're celebrating @michaelwehunt.bsky.social'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!

ICYMI 🌟 Lofty Pigeon Books is hosting a ✨FREE✨ ECO24 launch party with @louisevans.bsky.social and @kayv.bsky.social on Nov. 18th @ 6:30! Enjoy a night of readings, book signings, a Q&A and reception! Seats are limited! Reserve your spot at the event link below ⬇️ www.eventbrite.com/e/louis-evan...

If you’re in the NYC area, go show some love!! Honored to have a story in the anthology with such talented people 💚💚💚

ICYMI 🌟 Lofty Pigeon Books is hosting a ✨FREE✨ ECO24 launch party with @louisevans.bsky.social and @kayv.bsky.social on Nov. 18th @ 6:30! Enjoy a night of readings, book signings, a Q&A and reception! Seats are limited! Reserve your spot at the event link below ⬇️ www.eventbrite.com/e/louis-evan...

The Apex Book Company submission window is now open! 📚✍️ We're looking for surreal stories with unknowable horror, lush prose, and unique POVs. Please email your cover letter and manuscript to [email protected]. Full submission details: www.apexbookcompany.com/pages/submis...

Great review: "If you're looking to read a horror novella with heart—and many, many teeth—then We Who Hunt Alexanders is the book for you. While it may not solve the world's problems, it nevertheless provides an excellent catharsis for those who wish for justice." 1/2 imaginatlas.ca/catch-of-the...

Last couple days to send in your queries! 👀

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!! 🎃🪦🍬 How are you celebrating the holiday this year? We're celebrating with...a DEADline! ☠️ You have until 12 AM TONIGHT to submit your flash fiction! October's theme was FOLKLORE. Be sure to submit before the clock strikes midnight! 🕰️ www.patreon.com/posts/octobe...

The Apex Magazine Kickstarter is officially OVER! We successfully funded four new issues of Apex Magazine! 🎉🎉🎉 Thank you to all of our backers, authors, and supporters for donating your funds, time and attention to our campaign. Apex wouldn't be what it is without all of you 🖤👽 SEE YOU IN 2026! 🍾

want to buy my ENTIRE DIGITAL CATALOG? well you can do that AND benefit Apex! It's an add-on!

"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 @genni.bsky.social: "The Water Runner" Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

Our Kickstarter ends in just 24 HOURS! This is your LAST CHANCE to shop our catalogue of new ebooks, author critiques, and exclusive merch before it's gone for good. Check the 🧵 to see our full selection! Thank you all for supporting another year of Apex. 🖤👽 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

"They found her at the start of the first spring rains." 🌧️🍃 New fiction today by @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social: "Come Here, Ofelia" Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

have you RSVP'd for the ECO24 launch party yet?? Join @kayv.bsky.social and @louisevans.bsky.social, authors of ECO24 featured short stories "Pig House" and "A Seder in Siberia," for a live reading, reception, and signing at Lofty Pigeon Books! This event is FREE to attend; RSVP below! ⬇️

Looking for short story ideas? Get inspired with our WIRED collaboration! (NOTE: not a real collab, I wish, @ WIRED call us 👀) There's just TWO DAYS LEFT to submit your flash fiction! October's theme is FOLKLORE. You have until midnight on Halloween to submit! 🎃🪦 www.patreon.com/posts/octobe...

Just under 2 days left in the @apexmag.bsky.social Kickstarter. While the magazine's four issues for 2026 are funded, if they get $4,000 more we get to read an additional unpublished authors issue of Apex Magazine! I've donated and hope others will do the same. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Apex Book Company is opening submissions for sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and genre-blend novel and novellas MONDAY, November 3rd at 10 AM EST! 👽📚 Bookmark our submissions page and check back Nov. 3rd for further details and access to our submission portal: www.apexbookcompany.com/pages/submis...

YOU'RE INVITED to an ECO24 launch party! 🥂🎉 Join authors @louisevans.bsky.social and Kay Vaindal at Lofty Pigeon Books on Nov. 18th for reading, conversation, and signings to celebrate ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction! Reserve your spot; RSVP below!⬇️ www.eventbrite.com/e/louis-evan...

Be sure to preorder while it's still around 13 dollars (not including shipping)! You will save just over five dollars, the cost of a jug of salsa.

Looking for short story ideas? Get inspired with our WIRED collaboration! (NOTE: not a real collab, I wish, @ WIRED call us 👀) There's just TWO DAYS LEFT to submit your flash fiction! October's theme is FOLKLORE. You have until midnight on Halloween to submit! 🎃🪦 www.patreon.com/posts/octobe...

Awesome short fiction in @apexmag.bsky.social! It incorporates several of my interests: ghosts, ceiling fans, red dye #40, etc

Are you remembering to stretch? With 53 hours to go as of this post, @apexmag.bsky.social has lots of stretch goals yet to unlock. Like a 5th issue dedicated to previously unpublished authors, since Apex loves to support those debuts. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Let's reach that stretch goal!!! 💪👽🎉 I'd love to judge another drabble contest. It's always so much fun to read what everyone comes up with. 😁💙

Have I mentioned I have a story in Apex? It starts with a dead girl, but it gets a bit more.... complicated than that. Gnarly body horror, pregnancy, blood, etc.

Can't wait to read it! Congrats, @reasie.bsky.social!!!