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Aegri Somnia
Aegri Somnia translated literally means "a sick man's dreams." Loosely, it can mean "troubled dreams." The first twelve Apex Featured Writers were tasked with writing the darkest, scariest short fiction their twisted minds could create using the theme of "aegri somnia."
The Details:
Short horror fiction anthology, with twelve stories
Each story is between 2500 and 7500 words in length
The first 250 copies preordered and purchased will be signed by the twelve contributors, the cover artist, and the editor
Aegri Somnia contributors: Cherie Priest, Scott Nicholson, Steven Savile, Lavie Tidhar, Christopher Rowe, Mari Adkins, Rhonda Eudaly, Angeline Hawkes-Craig, Nancy Fulda, Jennifer Pelland, Eugie Foster, Bryn Sparks.
The cover art was done by the talented Michael Bielaczyc of Aradani Studios. Justin Stewart did the lettering design.
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An elite repository for new and seasoned authors with an other-worldly interest in the unquestioned and slightly bizarre parts of the universe. We specialize in dark sci-fi short fiction, book reviews, and genre interviews.
Issue 12
New fiction from Brian Keene, Cherie Priest, Paul Jessup, Lavie Tidhar, Steven Shrewsbury, and more.
Features the thrilling conclusion of Geoffrey Girard's CAIN XP11 series.
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Issue 11
Featuring work from Gary A. Braunbeck, Stefani Nellen, Dan Keohane, Samuel Tinianow, Sara King, Geoffrey Girard, Jennifer Pelland, and Alethea Kontis.
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Issue 10
Fiction:
“Bad Sushi” – Cherie Priest
“Daydreams” – Lavie Tidhar
“Memory of the Knacker’s Yard” – Ian Creasey
“Pigs and Feaches” – Patrice Sarath
“Cain Xp11 (Part 2): The Henry Lee Lucas Memorial Highway” – Geoffrey Girard
“Monument” – Nancy Fulda
Non-Fiction:
Interview with Cherie Priest
Interview with William F. Nolan
“Route 666 – The Road to WHC 07” – Essay by Alethea Kontis
Cover art by Walter Simon
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Issue 9
Fiction
“The Sum of His Parts” – Kevin J. Anderson
“The End of Crazy” – Katherine Sparrow
“The Gunslinger of Chelem” – Lavie Tidhar
“Locked In” – Mary Robinette Kowal
“Projector” – Daniel LeMoal
“At the 24-Hour” – William F. Nolan
“Pyramus and Thisbe” – Jeremy Adam Smith
“Sufficently Advanced” – Bev Vincent
“Don’t Show Your Teeth” – Rob D. Smith
“Cain XP11: The Voice of Thy Brother’s Blood (Part 1)” – Geoffrey Girard
“Poppet’s Left Impression” – Brandy Schwan
Parting Shot: “Sonorous” – Paul Abbamondi
Nonfiction
“Unspeakable Horrors: The Legacy of Darkness in the Visual Arts of Western Culture” – Deb Taber
“Kill Me Then” – Alethea Kontis
Interviews
Kevin J. Anderson
Liz Williams
All art in this issue was created by Paul and Mike Bielaczyc of Aradani Studios.
128 pages
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Issue 8
Fiction
Madness Blows the Winds of History - Tom Piccirilli
Blood Baby - Jennifer Pelland
A Place of Snow Angels - Matt Wallace
Genesis Six - Shane Jiraiya Cummings
The Death Singer - John Rosenman
Mommy, Daddy, and Mollie - William F. Nolan
Last Chance Morning - Timothy Waldron Semple
Babble - MM Buckner
Temporal Spiders, Spatial Webs - Lavie Tidhar
Incarnations of Immortality: Temple Part IV (Conclusion) - Steven Savile
Parting Shot: Worlds - Aaron Gudmunson
Nonfiction
Strange and Fearful Imaginations: Rediscovering the Terror of Baron de la Motte Fouque - Dr. Amy H. Sturgis
Blood Oath, Take One - Alethea Kontis
Interviews
Tom Piccirilli
Kelly Link
Cover Art
Nicole Cardiff
128 pages
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Issue 7
Table of Contents:
Fiction:
"Grass Land" - Michael Laimo
"Children at Play" - Joshua Steiner
"How to Raise a Human" - Deb Taber
"Promise Them Aught" - Marlissa Campbell
"The Tow" - James Reilly
"Kissing Cousins" - Neil Ayres
"That Old Sandlands Fever" - Douglas F. Warrick
"Doxies" - Brandon Alspaugh
"The Death of Self: Temple III" - Steven Savile
"The Minotaur's Rabbit" - Beth Wodzinski
Poetry:
"Crypt Keeper's Curse is a Muse" - Brandy Schwan
Non-Fiction:
"Much Ado About Driving" - Alethea Kontis
"Androids and Other Undead" - Lavie Tidhar
Cover art by Sandro Castelli
128 pages
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Issue 2
Issue 2 features James P. Hogan, Ken Rand, Lavie Tidhar, K.A. Patterson, Ren Holton, Bryn Sparks, Athena Workman, Jon Hansen, Jonathan Moeller, James R. Cain, Peter Hagelslag, William Lengeman III, Erin Gold, Gill Ainsworth, Conrad McHollister , Jason Sizemore, Justin Stewart, Christine Cartwright, Dalmatius Frau, Angela Jobe, Stephanie Rodriguez, and Michael King.
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Beauty & Dynamite by Alethea Kontis
Once upon a time, a young girl walked into a world of wonder and delight. But that's not where this story starts.
The young woman she became published a nationally recognized children's book and edited a star-filled collection of stories to benefit the tsunami relief effort. But that's not where this story ends.
Meet Alethea Kontis, a self-proclaimed Genre Chick whose life is an adventure that tears through these pages like a hurricane. Carrot-a-day cancer cures and Murphy as a guardian angel (yes, that Murphy, the guy with all those irritating laws) are just a part of the daily routine for the Incredible Whirlwind of Beauty and Dynamite, the force of nature masquerading in human form.
Through essays, poetry, and commentary from family, friends, and famous authors alike, a world of Blood Oaths and road trips, broken hearts and mended cars, comes alive with the strength of one woman's conviction that the world is there to be befriended.
You have now been introduced. Let your adventure begin.
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Catacombs and Photographs by Brandy Schwan
The Grim Trixter is back, this time with a limited edition chapbook collection of more than 30 hauntingly evocative poems that explore everything from nursery rhymes to modern serial killers.
Print run is limited 100 copies, signed by the author and featuring cover art by Lindsay Archer.
Special introduction by Richard Doetsch, author of The Thieves of Heaven and The Thieves of Faith (Dell Books).
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Gratia Placenti edited by Jason Sizemore and Gill Ainsworth
Table of Contents -
"Translatio" - Geoffrey Girard
"Follow the Canary" - Athena Workman
"Crasher" - Debbie Kuhn
"Some Glue Never Dries" - David Niall Wilson
"The Cutting Room" - Shane Jiraiya Cummings
"Bright Red Razors" - Teri Jacobs
"Party Makers" - Adrienne Jones
"Them's Good Eats" - JA Konrath
"Something Wet" - James Reilly
"Popup Killer" - Bev Vincent
"Only Spirits Cry" - R. Thomas Riley
"The Listening" - Neil Ayres
"Tomorrow and Tomorrow" - Mary Robinette Kowal
Introduction by Jason Sizemore
Cover art by Paul Bielaczyc
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Grim Trixter by Brandy Schwan
Schwan’s unique writing style, mixed with dark and evocative imagery, has helped gain her many fans, including such noted horror authors such as Kealan Patrick Burke, Weston Ochse, Michael Laimo, and Brian Knight.
With cover art from noted illustrator Gary Yap (The Simpsons, King of the Hill) and an introduction from the multiple Stoker nominated novelist Michael Laimo, Grim Trixter is a collection you don’t want to miss.
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Hebrew Punk by Lavie Tidhar
Popular short fiction writer Lavie Tidhar gathers some of his best work in one collection. Stories that are infused with centuries of tradition and painted with Hebrew mythology. We meet the Tzaddik as he faces off against a vengeful angel intent on sending the Fallen to hell. The shapeshifting Rat fights lycanthropic Nazis. The Rabbi takes us on a thoughtful and amusing journey into the possibilities of a Jewish state in the heart of Africa. Finally, all three protagonists appear in an old-fashioned caper story that will leave you breathless.
Table of Contents
"The Heist"
"Transylvania Mission"
"Uganda"
"The Dope Fiend"
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I Remember the Future: The Award-Nominated Stories of Michael A. Burstein
Our latest signed title is now available for ordering. I Remember the Future: The Award-Nominated Stories of Michael A. Burstein is a collection of Michael's Hugo and Nebula-award nominated short fiction, novelettes, and novellas. Included in the collection are two new stories and an introduction by legendary Analog editor Stanley Schmidt.
In total, there are 15 stories in the collection. It will be released as a hardback and paperback. If you want a signed copy of the hardback, email me and we'll make sure you get signed copies.
Trader Paperback
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Mama's Boy and Other Dark Tales by Fran Friel
2008 Black Quill Award Winner
Reader's Choice Award Best Dark Genre Fiction Collection
Features a special introduction by Gary Braunbeck.
Table of Contents
"Beach of Dreams"
"Gravy"
"Mashed"
"The Sea Orphan"
"Orange and Golden"
"Under the Dryer"
"Close Shave"
"Connected at the Hip"
"Special Prayers"
"Widow"
"Spider Love"
"Fine Print"
"Black Sleep"
"Mama's Boy"
The Bram Stoker Award-nominated novella "Mama's Boy" is the cornerstone of this 14-story collection from author Fran Friel and Apex Publications. A man whose mother's demented love for him has turned him from an innocent boy to a serial killer to a near-comatose mental patient opens his world to a psychologist determined to reach him as a way of dealing with her own mother's battle with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. But is she helping, or is there more damage to be done?
In "Mashed," a son's simple request for potatoes with his birthday dinner opens up a world of past fears and childhood torments for his mother, while the flash fiction story "Close Shave" presents a horrifically funny solution to an everyday women's issue.
From mother and son to broader family ties, Friel explores the bonds of human connection into every dark turn. The humorous yet wickedly creepy "Under the Dryer" begins as a tale told by the family dog and ends in a bloodbath; "Special Prayers," perhaps the most disturbing offering in the collection, exposes a family secret of abuse and power; and the tragically soft and beautiful "Orange and Golden" explores the purest form of the human-animal bond as the sun sets on a natural disaster.
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The Monster Within Idea by R. Thomas Riley
The monsters lurk in everyone: monsters of greed, of guilt, of the pleasure found in pain, of the pain found when pleasure dies. Carefully disguised, the monsters can sit down beside you or take up residence within you at the slightest twist of fate. Will you try to stop them? Will you want to?
This collection of 18 stories from R. Thomas Riley deftly explores the monsters born of the human mind. "Attrition" offers a future prison system that frees only those who repent sincerely—but what can an inmate do if he finds that sincerity is not really the key? "Twin Thieves" and "Tautology" throw a devilish spin on relationships gone wrong, while "The Lesser Evil" twists the abuses of race and power into a gritty, noirish nightmare of the choices a man must make to protect a lesser man and a greater good. In "Touching God," a young man's past catches up to him when worlds bleed into each other and the past crosses into present, bringing back the abuse he once escaped and the brother who wasn't so lucky.
Sacrifice, selfishness, and the worst of good intentions: all combine in The Monster Within Idea. From vampires and aliens to hit women and Wild Bill Hickock, Riley gives a subtle psychological turn to dark science fiction and horror. Let the monsters walk the paths of your mind. The idea is already within.
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The Next Fix by Matt Wallace
If there is a party at the end of the universe, Matt Wallace's The Next Fix will be the drug of choice.
Two-time Parsec Award-winning author teams with Apex Publications for a new collection of 12 short stories and one novella.
With characters as gritty as Sam Spade but as real as your next-door neighbor, The Next Fix cooks up a cocktail of futuristic trips that range from haunting to comedic to don't-turn-out-the-lights.
From Wallace's introduction to The Next Fix:
You’re in my own little chimerical sphere now, but I’m no different than you. I don’t shoot, snort, or roll, but I’m my own kind of fiend with my own kind of jones. You can simplify it, call it a fiction addiction. It’s much more than that. Part of it’s that whole “art is not a mirror, it’s a hammer” thing. It’s powerful.
Wallace's quest for the next great high of the imagination takes the reader through the cannibalistic noir of "The End of Flesh," the haunting beauty of endless seekers in "The Losting Corridor," and on an action packed ride-along with offworld postal workers in "Another Man's Run."
If you like a chaser of tech with your horror, humor with your darkness, and beauty with your grit, The Next Fix is your next high.
Table of Contents
"Absolution, Insured"
"Delve"
"The Losting Corridor"
"No World For Warriors"
"Another Man's Run"
"The Last Frequency"
"Mercury's Magnitude"
"A Place of Snow Angels"
"Akropolis"
"My Caroline"
"Killing Jars"
"Old Tricks"
"The End of Flesh"
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Orgy of Souls by Wrath James White and Maurice Broaddus
Twenty for one.
Twenty souls for his brother's life is a price that seductively beautiful Samson is willing to pay. Twenty souls drenched in blood, powdered with cocaine and more than one kind of ecstasy. A fair trade for the life of a brother. A fair trade for the life of a priest. And everyone he meets seems so willing to give theirs away.
Samuel's faith often wavers. Diagnosed with HIV and in rapid decline, he hides his disillusionment in the rituals of the priesthood. But when Samson brings him the first blood-signed contract for a young woman's immortal soul, the steamy world of high fashion male models and the quiet decay of a sickly priest begin to writhe against the realities of life, death, and otherworldly power.
Brotherly love is a deadly seduction, beauty a dangerous game. Come worship in the brutal temple of Orgy of Souls. Your faith will never be the same again.
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Prime by Nate Kenyon
When simulated interactions are an essential part of life, a programming glitch can be devastating, especially for the company that controls the sims.
William Bellow is an experienced bug hunter who comes as close as any human to the anticipated Transformation that links man to machine. As he digs into the problems surrounding New London’s most advanced programming, the nature of his own memories and the events of his past are called into question. Desperate manipulations and complex deceptions take him from the corporate towers to the underground resistance as Bellow’s work quickly escalates into a fight for his life in both the physical and virtual worlds.
Kenyon’s fast-paced, twisting thriller tracks Bellow’s progress forward through the case and backward through his own questionable past. Scheduled for release in summer 2009, Prime is a must-read for fans of Richard K. Morgan, Neal Stephenson, and Philip K. Dick.
Cover art by Katja Faith
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Taste of Tenderloin by Gene O'Neil
Eight stories of dark science fiction and fantasy weave a path through the underbelly of San Francisco’s most notorious district in Taste of Tenderloin by Gene O’Neill. Best known for his strong sense of place and uniquely vibrant characters, O’Neill brings the gritty underside of the city to life with eight interwoven stories of broken lives, missed dreams, and all that can go wrong with both reality and fantasy among the down and out. The city itself opens wide to swallow all comers with the temptation of its secrets and sins, while O’Neill brings dignity and humanity to a set of characters often overlooked in both society and fiction.
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Temple: Incarnations by Steven Savile
A man awakens in a filthy bedroom with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. Seeing an old Gideon bible on a nightstand, he finds a name to call his own – Temple. This is the story of Temple’s quest for identity and purpose in a dying, decaying world.
By turns heartbreaking, enlightening, and surreal, British fantasist Steven Savile has created a story that T.M. Wright describes as “a story about Death written by a man who has clearly consorted with devils.”
This novella comprises the four part Temple series published in Apex Digest issues five through eight, with a special introduction from T.M. Wright and an afterword from the author.
Only 100 hardcovers were produced, each numbered, and signed by Steven Savile, T.M. Wright, and cover/interior artist Judi Davidson. An unsigned, unlimited trade paperback version is also available.
Available as a hardcover or a trade paperback
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Unwelcome Bodies by Jennifer Pelland
Pain. Pleasure. The sensation of touch…we feel everything through our skin, that delicate membrane separating “I” from “other,” protecting the very essence of self.
Until it breaks. Or changes. Or burns.
What would you do if you were the one called on to save humanity, and the price you had to pay was becoming something other than human? Or if healing your body meant losing the only person you’ve ever loved?
Wander through worlds where a woman craves even a poisonous touch…a man’s deformities become a society’s fashion…genetic regeneration keeps the fires of Hell away…and painted lovers risk everything to break the boundaries of their caste system down.
Separate your mind from your flesh and come in. Welcome…
Table of Contents
“For the Plague Thereof Was Exceeding Great”
“Big Sister/Little Sister”
“Immortal Sin”
“Flood”
“The Call”
“Captive Girl”
“Last Bus”
“The Last Stand of the Elephant Man”
“Songs of Lament”
“Firebird”
“Brushstrokes”
Story Notes
Afterword
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Webs of Discord by Jason Sizemore
Love.
That emotional pox hardwired into the souls of humanity. To know true love is bliss.
To watch it unravel and torment the lives of others, the greatest pleasure.
Jason Sizemore (2006 Bram Stoker Award finalist) releases his first collection of stories delighting in the darker side of everyone’s favorite emotional pox…Webs of Discord
This collection contains five stories:
“Bright Lights”
“The Haunting of Hollis Higgins”
“Milton, Christmas Fairy”
“Breaking Up Is Hard to Do”
“The XX Agent”
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