Editorial

APEX MAGAZINE

Strange. Surreal. Shocking. Beautiful.

APEX MAGAZINE

Strange. Surreal. Shocking. Beautiful.

Editorials from our editor-in-chief

ByLesley Conner

Musings from Maryland

We’re closing out 2024 with an absolutely brutal issue. Manipulation, coercion, emotional and physical abuse, this issue has it all—including the end of the world.

ByLesley Conner

Musings from Maryland

I realize these stories are more than just weird. They’re about families and relationships and the things that we will do for the people who we love.

ByLesley Conner

Musings from Maryland

This issue we bring you four original short stories that are dark and weird and have a strangely literary feel.

ByLesley Conner

Musings from Maryland

Welcome to Apex Magazine issue 144.

ByLesley Conner

The cover of a magazine with the title'missing from maryland'.

Musings from Maryland

I’ve been calling this issue the plant body-horror issue for a while now around the Apex offices. Stories filled with rich dirt and growing things and gardens and pain.

ByLesley Conner

Musings from Maryland

We’re kicking off 2024 with tales that are unsettling and creepy.

ByLesley Conner

Musings from Maryland

This issue is full of stories that refuse to settle. They are loud and weird and dare to take you to places you didn’t know existed, let alone that you wanted to go.

ByLesley Conner

Musings from Maryland

Welcome to Apex Magazine issue 140! While working on this issue, I slowly came to think of it as the Apex ASMR issue.

ByLesley Conner

a cover for apex magazine featuring a woman with a butterfly on her face.

Musings from Maryland

Welcome to Apex Magazine issue 139. This issue is full of messy relationships and difficult feelings.