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! 📚👽🖤

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...! blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth...

"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...

This is so cute!!

😭✨🌌 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!

"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...

Thank you to @apexmag.bsky.social for this gorgeous copy of ECO24 edited by @marissavu.bsky.social 🌺 Excited to dig into this one!

Love this! The rest of me is tired but my hands get restless this time of year and this looks fun ✂️

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! 🎁🐐 www.patreon.com/apexbookcomp...

"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-...

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!

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! 🧵

My love for chunky, 8K+ word stories that absolutely wreck the @apexmag.bsky.social issue word counts has become sort of an inside joke among the Apex team. Each time I fall in love with another, I despair about how I'll make it fit, but I always do! Here are a few of my favs:

"Smoke bloomed and obscured silver, bone, and the four trinkets. I heard whispers calling for me. The girl’s hand tightened around mine. So could she." 🏜️🐎🔥 New fiction today by Christine Beres: "Horse and Rider" Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

No matter the temperature, our ecofiction anthology is always in full bloom ❄️🌸 Don't forget to grab a copy of ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION this holiday season at www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco..., and bring some new life to your bookshelf! 📚

"Smoke bloomed and obscured silver, bone, and the four trinkets. I heard whispers calling for me. The girl’s hand tightened around mine. So could she." 🏜️🐎🔥 New fiction today by Christine Beres: "Horse and Rider" Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

Shifting the @apexmag.bsky.social flash schedule a bit - responses will be forthcoming in the next few days. Letting our readers have a break for the holidays, and going forward more time for reading each month.

8k minions just in time for Christmas!! Thank you all for being such an amazing group and for supporting all the weird stuff we make! 🖤 Please look forward to so much more strange surreal, shocking, beautiful fiction, and may the cult of Apex grow even stronger in 2026 🕯️🕯️🩸👽🩸🕯️🕯️

Deeply honoured by the shout out. Read this story to have a bad time. #indiehorror #booksky #shortstory

Hey fellow SUB-terraneans! 🪱🕳️🌱 Don't make mountains out of molehills — it's EASY to SUB-scribe to Apex Magazine through Patreon or our site! Get every issue delivered right to your inbox, or to any rock you live under! 🪨📬 👽 www.apexbookcompany.com/products/ape... 👽 www.patreon.com/apexbookcomp...

"My husband says my mask is beautiful." 🎭💍 New short fiction today by @horlockwarlock.bsky.social: "Involuntary Self" Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

My first professionally published story is available to read now at Apex Magazine! It's less than 1000 words--what do you have to lose? Thank you to everyone who reads and comments. Your support means so much to me.

At this point, I've reread this story three times. I love every sentence of it. Word choices. Polysyndeton. Off-page visuals and sounds. Subtle hints. Theme. One of my favorite reads of 2025 by @rj-sterling.bsky.social.

Many thanks to @gnofhorror.com for featuring this little essay o mine about grandmothers and cellars!

The call for ice cream hid a descent into a chilling, secret world. Ivy Grimes explores the horror in her grandmother’s basement & the fiction it inspired. A masterclass in eerie memory. gnofhorror.com/ivy-grimes-t... #Horror #IvyGrimes

"I loved both of my grandmothers, but I never fully knew them. [...] I was the one who was afraid to look in the dark places. Of them, of myself, of everyone." 🌌 Wonderful new feature article by CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR author @ivygrimes.bsky.social for @gnofhorror.com! ⬇️

"The wide ring of brambles holds the typical detritus of youth—beer bottles, soggy magazines, nicotine pouches. At the center is God." 🚬🚲 New fiction today by @rj-sterling.bsky.social: "Cassandra and the Changeling" Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

Nominations for ECO25 are OPEN 🌍🌱✨ We look forward to reading your best 2025 ecofiction! Get the full details in our blog post announcement below ⬇️ Full guidelines: apexbookcompany.moksha.io/publication/... Submission Portal: apexbookcompany.moksha.io/publication/...

Publishers, editors, authors, send us your favorite speculative ecofiction published this year. This is going to be another bouquet of truly stellar ecofiction ✨🌿🦋

LOOK AT THIS STUNNER ECO24 PHOTO! Always fun to see this book creeping around in the wild, but this shot is 🔥🔥🔥 (And thank you Sasha for the Sasha Brown Awards, greatest honor of my life and now I can't make fun of you for at least 6-8 days 🥹)

ECO24 IS HERRRRRRE I think this from @apexmag.bsky.social is the most important anthology of the year, and @marissavu.bsky.social is the editor of the year. There, I said it. There's a clarity of vision happening here (and quality) that's unparalleled.

"@shereereneethomas.bsky.social and @lesleyconner.bsky.social have put together a solid group of stories that focus on place in very different ways, and the level of talent they brought together makes this a very worthy journey." 🗺️🔍✨ Thank you @locusmag.bsky.social and @gabino.bsky.social!

This story is written with the precision of a scalpel and it takes no prisoners when it comes to the revelation. Perhaps you want to read a non-linear story about heat and the chill of a ghost against your skin. by @cjtavares.bsky.social in @apexmag.bsky.social

"Most of my paintings take a while to come to life—they exist in my mind until the right time comes." 💭🎨 New interview today by Bradley Powers: "Interview with Artist @natasailincic.bsky.social" Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

"Most of my paintings take a while to come to life—they exist in my mind until the right time comes." 💭🎨 New interview today by Bradley Powers: "Interview with Artist @natasailincic.bsky.social" Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

An original and imaginative take on a story old as time. I read it on my lunch break and kept forgetting to eat. It’s that good. I want to write like this when I grow up.

We can all relate

I'm literally just a girl with a basement full of demon jars and I'm not going to apologize for that 💅🍓🫙✨ Satisfy your craving for scrumptious surreal horror and check out THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR by @ivygrimes.bsky.social, available for preorder now! 🌌 www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...

Awesome pull quote.

Particularly affecting is interplay of fantastical and science fictional stories, showing just how broadly ecofiction speaks to our present moment. Kaleidoscopic in its approach. This series is going to be a fantastic annual addition to the thriving ecosystem of short fiction anthologies!!

Timely and transcendent. I've had a marvelous time recently with ECO24, collecting some of the finest ecofiction of the last year. A chance to reflect on the anxieties of a changing world, and to consider possibilities for transformation and alternative paths. A critical collection for our time!!

NOW OPEN FOR NOMINATIONS If you published speculative ecofiction this year, we'd love to consider it for ECO25 💚🌿🐾🐚🦋🌿💚

I've been waiting for this @japrenticewrites.bsky.social story to go public on @apexmag.bsky.social so I can share it, shaping our own stories: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

Doomed lover stories often feel like clockwork: the man does this, the lady does this, and out pops doom like a cuckoo in a clock. @japrenticewrites.bsky.social shows you the mechanism of that story and then does something wonderful with it.

"'Ah, I see,' I said, for I had seen this Story before. 'You are Doomed Lovers. I shall wait then. I will take you soon enough.'" 🐈‍⬛❤️‍🔥 New short fiction by @japrenticewrites.bsky.social: "The Horrible Conceit of Death and Night" Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

Nominations for ECO25 are OPEN 🌍🌱✨ We look forward to reading your best 2025 ecofiction! Get the full details in our blog post announcement below ⬇️ Full guidelines: apexbookcompany.moksha.io/publication/... Submission Portal: apexbookcompany.moksha.io/publication/...

Reminder that Apex Magazine is closed to submissions for the month of December! We look forward to reopening in the new year and reading more of your strange, surreal, shocking, beautiful fiction 🖤👽

"The overarching theme that emerges is one of community—that sometimes just “putting up with one another” is a profound and constant act of faith." 🤝🌌 Thank you to @thefantasyhive.bsky.social for your excellent review of @ivygrimes.bsky.social's CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR!

"ECO24: The Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction is a strong collection with no misses that will leave you spellbound by the beautiful and terrible forces of nature." 🌩️ Thank you to Magdalena Nitchi and ImaginAtlas for your review of ECO24! 💜🍄 imaginatlas.ca/catch-of-the...