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Apex Publications, LLC

1. Short [5040 words]A Prelude to Penemue by Sara M. Harvey [Dark Fantasy/Fantasy]
2. Mid-Length [36487 words]The Convent of the Pure by Sara M. Harvey [Dark Fantasy/Fantasy]
3. Very Long [150295 words]I Remember the Future: The Award-Nominated Stories of Michael A. Burstein by Michael A. Burstein [Science Fiction/Historical Fiction]
4. Mid-Length [29845 words]Orgy of Souls by Maurice Broaddus & Wrath James White [Horror/Dark Fantasy]
5. Long [76497 words]Mama's Boy and Other Dark Tales by Fran Friel [Horror/Dark Fantasy]
6. Long [67257 words]The Next Fix by Matt Wallace [Science Fiction/Horror]
7. Long [68943 words]Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest #12 by Apex Authors [Science Fiction/Horror]
8. Long [71091 words]Unwelcome Bodies by Jennifer Pelland [Science Fiction/Dark Fantasy]
9. Long [51292 words]Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest #11 by Apex Authors [Science Fiction/Horror]
10. Mid-Length [38385 words]Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest #10 by Apex Authors [Science Fiction/Horror]
  1. Long [68943 words]Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest #12 by Apex Authors [Science Fiction/Horror]
2. Very Long [150295 words]I Remember the Future: The Award-Nominated Stories of Michael A. Burstein by Michael A. Burstein [Science Fiction/Historical Fiction]
3. Long [71091 words]Unwelcome Bodies by Jennifer Pelland [Science Fiction/Dark Fantasy]
4. Short [5040 words]A Prelude to Penemue by Sara M. Harvey [Dark Fantasy/Fantasy]
5. Long [51292 words]Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest #11 by Apex Authors [Science Fiction/Horror]
6. Long [67257 words]The Next Fix by Matt Wallace [Science Fiction/Horror]
7. Long [76497 words]Mama's Boy and Other Dark Tales by Fran Friel [Horror/Dark Fantasy]
8. Long [77098 words]The Apex Book of World SF by Lavie Tidhar [Science Fiction/Dark Fantasy]
9. Long [60817 words]Harlan County Horrors by Mari Adkins [Horror/Dark Fantasy]
10. Long [50585 words]Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest #9 by Apex Authors [Science Fiction/Horror]
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1 A Prelude to Penemue [MultiFormat]
by Sara M. Harvey
  Secrets and illusions abound in a decaying convent wrapped in dark magic and scented with blood. (Published: 2009)

Words: 5040 - Reading Time: 14-20 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy/Fantasy
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2 Apex Magazine Issue 14 [MultiFormat]
by Terra LeMay, Peter Atwood
  Apex Magazine is the official zine of Apex Publications Short Fiction "Artifact" by Peter Atwood "Schr�dinger's Pussy" by Terra LeMay "Here We Are, Falling Through Shadows" (reprint) by Jason Sanford "Those Below" (reprint) by Jeremy C. Shipp "End of the Line: A Puzzle" (reprint) by Susannah Mandel Poetry "Going Woodo" by Colleen Kimsey "Wisdom" by Lydia Ondrusek "Eclipse" by Robert Borski (Published: 2010)

Words: 18925 - Reading Time: 54-75 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Fantasy
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3 Apex Magazine Issue 17 [MultiFormat]
by Apex Authors
  Original Fiction: "Still Life (A Sexagesimal Fairy Tale)" by Ian Tregillis "The Girl Who Had Six Fingers" by Brenda Stokes Barron Reprint: "Citizen Komarova Finds Love" by Ekaterina Sedia (originally appeared in Exotic Gothic 3) Poetry: "Love's Ecology" by Rose Lemberg "Anything So Utterly Destroyed" by Elizabeth McClellan (Published: 2010)

Words: 14562 - Reading Time: 41-58 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Dark Fantasy
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4 Apex Magazine Issue 18 [MultiFormat]
by Apex Authors
  The 18th installment of our science fiction and fantasy publication Apex Magazine highlights six talented Arab and Muslim writers. When you purchase this issue you will read stories about mysterious organic books, vampires, and deprecated software. Esteemed Apex Magazine fiction editor Catherynne M. Valente stated on her blog that this themed issue "?will show how Islam is as much a part of the human experience as any other faith or story system that writers of the fantastic draw from." Read a... more info>> (Published: 2010)

Words: 14472 - Reading Time: 41-57 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Dark Fantasy
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5 Apex Magazine Issue 19 [MultiFormat]
by Apex Authors
  Fiction: "Radishes" by Nick Wolven "Pale, and from a Sea-Wave Rising" by C.S.E. Cooney "At the Core" by Erzebet YellowBoy Poetry: "Flourless Devil's Food" by Shweta Narayan "Cancelled Flight" by W.C. Roberts (Published: 2010)

Words: 17860 - Reading Time: 51-71 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Fantasy
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6 Apex Magazine, Issue 16 [MultiFormat]
by Peter M. Ball, An Owomoyela, Gemma Files
  Dark SF, horror, and dark fantasy from popular writers of the genre. "L'esprit de L'escalier" By Peter M. Ball "Portage" By An Owomoyela "each thing i show you is a piece of my death" By Gemma Files and Stephen J. Barringer POETRY --�-- "The Chorus of Dead Girls" By JoSelle Vanderhooft "Ghosha" By Shweta Narayan (Published: 2010)

Words: 17819 - Reading Time: 50-71 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Dark Fantasy
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7 Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest #10 [MultiFormat]
by Apex Authors
  Brings & binds & offers up an international collection of science-horror from the dark corners of the world. The glossy cover, essays, and genre interviews add leavening to the brew, but make no mistake: Apex Digest straddles the genre world with one foot in blood and the other in the future. (Published: 2007)

Words: 38385 - Reading Time: 109-153 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Horror
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8 Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest #11 [MultiFormat]
by Apex Authors
  Brings & binds & offers up an international collection of science-horror from the dark corners of the world. The glossy cover, essays, and genre interviews add leavening to the brew, but make no mistake: Apex Digest straddles the genre world with one foot in blood and the other in the future. (Published: 2007)

Words: 51292 - Reading Time: 146-205 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Horror
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9 Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest #12 [MultiFormat]
by Apex Authors
  Fiction: "Death Comes For All"--Brian Keene and Steven L. Shrewsbury; "The Heavy"--Cherie Priest; "To Know How to See"--Michael West; "I Can't Look at the City"--Jim Stewart; "PostFlesh"--Paul Jessup; "Covenant"--Lavie Tidhar; "Broken Strand"--Maurice Broaddus; "Feverish Solutions"--Ryck Neube; "Clementine"--Joy Marchand; "Solomon's Bad Luck"--Brandy Schwan; "Cain XP11 (Conclusion): The Wicked King"--Geoffrey Girard; "Curve Balls in the Rift"--Durand Welsh; Parting Shot--"Dear Diary"--Sara Genge... more info>> (Published: 2008)

Words: 68943 - Reading Time: 196-275 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Horror
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10 Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest #9 [MultiFormat]
by Apex Authors
  Brings & binds & offers up an international collection of science-horror from the dark corners of the world. The glossy cover, essays, and genre interviews add leavening to the brew, but make no mistake: Apex Digest straddles the genre world with one foot in blood and the other in the future. (Published: 2007)

Words: 50585 - Reading Time: 144-202 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Horror
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11 Apexology: Horror [MultiFormat]
by Jason Sizemore
  APEXOLOGY:Horror 1. The study of literature-based artifacts left by the authors and editors of Apex Publications, particularly dark or horrific stories. 2. An anthology of horror containing disturbing, dark imagery and twisted fiction. Contained within are twenty-one stories to showcase the unique talents that Apex has published and employed in the past five years. Apexology: Horror contains work from two Campbell Award winners, a Hollywood screenwriter, a NYT Bestselling Author, Nebula and Hug... more info>> (Published: 2010)

Words: 102735 - Reading Time: 293-410 min.
Category: Horror/Dark Fantasy
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12 Close Encounters of the Urban Kind [MultiFormat]
by Jennifer Brozek
  We've all heard the stories of what happens to those who go to lovers' lane and of the folly of flashing your lights at another car at night. We all know someone who knows someone that survived a meeting with Bloody Mary and another who picked up a hitchhiker that then disappeared. And we all know these stories aren't true. They're just urban legends. Right? Wrong. Sometimes the stories we hear are true. Often they're more than they seem. These are the urban legends with alien explanations and t... more info>> (Published: 2010)

Words: 91783 - Reading Time: 262-367 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Horror
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13 Dark Faith [MultiFormat]
by Jerry Gordon, Maurice Broaddus
  The destructiveness of passion, both earthly and supernatural, makes cities bleed and souls burn across worlds, through endless time. Experience the spiritual side of the zombie apocalypse in ""The Days of Flaming Motorcycles"" and transcend both hell and nirvana in ""Zen and the Art of Gordon Dratch's Damnation."" Look into ""The Mad Eyes of the Heron King"" to find the beautiful brutality written in the moment of epiphany or ""Go and Tell it On the Mountain,"" where Jesus Christ awaits your la... more info>> (Published: 2010)

Words: 119784 - Reading Time: 342-479 min.
Category: Horror/Fantasy
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14 Descended From Darkness: Apex Magazine Vol. I [MultiFormat]
by Jason Sizemore, Gill Ainsworth
  Contains the following dark SF stories from the online zine Apex Magazine: "Post Apocalypse"--James Walton Langolf "These Days"--Katherine Sparrow "In the Seams"--Andrew C. Porter "The Nature of Blood"--George Mann "Scenting the Dark"--Mary Robinette Kowal "The Limb Knitter"--Steven Francis Murphy "I Know an Old Lady"--Nathan Rosen "Blakenjel"--Lavie Tidhar "Behold: Skowt!"--Jason Heller "A Splash of Color"--William T. Vandemark "A Night at the Empire"--Joy Marchand "Organ Nell"--Jennifer Pellan... more info>> (Published: 2009)

Words: 96419 - Reading Time: 275-385 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Horror
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15 Harlan County Horrors [MultiFormat]
by Mari Adkins
  In the black heart of coal country, malevolent spirits and unearthly creatures slip from the shadows into the minds and hearts of men. Young women, twisted by pain, call for love and revenge by the light of the moon. A dead dog by the side of the road is more than it seems. In Harlan County, Kentucky, the supernatural and the mundane mingle in the depths of the earth, filling the mines with powerful forces that draw people down and corrupt from within. Uncover family legacies of evil in Stephani... more info>> (Published: 2009)

Words: 60817 - Reading Time: 173-243 min.
Category: Horror/Dark Fantasy
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16 HebrewPunk [MultiFormat]
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-fash... more info>> (Published: 2007)

Words: 40148 - Reading Time: 114-160 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy/Suspense/Thriller
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17 I Remember the Future: The Award-Nominated Stories of Michael A. Burstein [MultiFormat]
by Michael A. Burstein
  A familiar name to readers of the popular science fiction magazine Analog, Michael A. Burstein's straightforward storytelling melds classic and modern science fiction in accessible stories that focus on human interactions in speculative situations. Brought together for the first time in one collection, thirteen of Burstein's stories that made Hugo, Nebula, and other award ballots are presented with new afterwords by the author. (Published: 2008)

Words: 150295 - Reading Time: 429-601 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Historical Fiction
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18 Mama's Boy and Other Dark Tales [MultiFormat]
by Fran Friel
  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 s... more info>> (Published: 2008) Bram Stoker Award Nominee

Words: 76497 - Reading Time: 218-305 min.
Category: Horror/Dark Fantasy
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19 Orgy of Souls [MultiFormat]
by Maurice Broaddus, Wrath James White
  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 ... more info>> (Published: 2008)

Words: 29845 - Reading Time: 85-119 min.
Category: Horror/Dark Fantasy
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20 The Apex Book of World SF [MultiFormat]
by Lavie Tidhar
  The world of speculative fiction is expansive; it covers more than one country, one continent, one culture. Collected here are sixteen stories penned by authors from Thailand, the Philippines, China, Israel, Pakistan, Serbia, Croatia, Malaysia, and other countries across the globe. Each one tells a tale breathtakingly vast and varied, whether caught in the ghosts of the past or entangled in a postmodern age. Among the spirits, technology, and deep recesses of the human mind, stories abound. Kite... more info>> (Published: 2009)

Words: 77098 - Reading Time: 220-308 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Dark Fantasy
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21 The Changed [MultiFormat]
by B.J. Burrow
  It's not the end of the world--it's just zombies. Chris is an ordinary guy with a boring job, a perfect fianc�, and plans for a happy, if predictable, future. But when the dead stop dying and become, instead, simply "changed," ordinary isn't so comforting anymore. Wandering stray animals suddenly develop a taste for flesh and brains, and while most of the human zombies might be harmless, can anyone really be sure? With the help of a morning show shock-jock who has recently turned into a zombie... more info>> (Published: 2009)

Words: 66672 - Reading Time: 190-266 min.
Category: Horror/Humor
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22 The Convent of the Pure [MultiFormat]
by Sara M. Harvey
  Secrets and illusions abound in a decaying convent wrapped in dark magic and scented with blood. Portia came to the convent with the ghost of Imogen, the lover she failed to protect in life. Now, the spell casting caste wants to make sure that neither she nor her spirit ever leave. Portia's ignorance of her own power may be even more deadly than those who conspire against her as she fights to fulfill her sworn duty to protect humankind in a battle against dark illusions and painful realities. St... more info>> (Published: 2009)

Words: 36487 - Reading Time: 104-145 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy/Fantasy
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23 The Labyrinth of the Dead [MultiFormat]
by Sara M. Harvey
  Imogen is all that matters. After rescuing her lover from the forces that trapped her in The Convent of the Pure, Portia Gyony has lost Imogen once again to the darkness that surrounds them. The only way to reunite is to walk through the shadow-worlds of the dead and bring Imogen back to the body that awaits her--a journey no nephilim was meant to take. Still seeking out the boundaries of her own power, Portia descends into a realm where all trade is in souls and the machinations of the world ... more info>> (Published: 2010)

Words: 43914 - Reading Time: 125-175 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy/Science Fiction
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24 The Next Fix [MultiFormat]
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 chime... more info>>

Words: 67257 - Reading Time: 192-269 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Horror
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25 Unwelcome Bodies [MultiFormat]
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 ... more info>> (Published: 2008)

Words: 71091 - Reading Time: 203-284 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Dark Fantasy
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