Apex Magazine

How Horror Made Me More Empathetic

Recently, a New Republic article entitled “What It Says About You if You Enjoy Horror Movies” caused a lot of controversy and angered many horror aficionados and creators, including myself....

How Horror Made Me More Empathetic

Recently, a New Republic article entitled “What It Says About You if You Enjoy Horror Movies” caused a lot of controversy and angered many horror aficionados and creators, including myself....

Building Book Events to Build Community in SFF

Like almost everyone else who moves to New York City, I came here to live out a dream. I am a long-time fan of fantasy and science fiction, and it...

Building Book Events to Build Community in SFF

Like almost everyone else who moves to New York City, I came here to live out a dream. I am a long-time fan of fantasy and science fiction, and it...

Eye-based Paternity Testing & Other Human Genetics Myths

In 2001, scientists announced an incredible accomplishment: they had completed the sequence of the human genome. The complete instruction book for making a human being spans 24 chromosomes and is...

Eye-based Paternity Testing & Other Human Genetics Myths

In 2001, scientists announced an incredible accomplishment: they had completed the sequence of the human genome. The complete instruction book for making a human being spans 24 chromosomes and is...

Never Enough Farmers! Class and Writing Fantasy Novels

It always starts in a bar. The barmaid (always buxom) has been serving beer since the church bells rang, precisely at five. Inside, the minstrel has been playing his lute,...

Never Enough Farmers! Class and Writing Fantasy Novels

It always starts in a bar. The barmaid (always buxom) has been serving beer since the church bells rang, precisely at five. Inside, the minstrel has been playing his lute,...

A Whole New World

I knew I loved horror before I knew I was gay. Oh, I knew I was…different from an early age, but I had no real concept of sexuality until I...

A Whole New World

I knew I loved horror before I knew I was gay. Oh, I knew I was…different from an early age, but I had no real concept of sexuality until I...

Supposedly True (but Probably Not, and That’s OK) Weird Tales

I’m a skeptic. If you tell me a story about a ghost or that time you saw Bigfoot, my instinctive reaction is to look at the evidence and figure out...

Supposedly True (but Probably Not, and That’s OK) Weird Tales

I’m a skeptic. If you tell me a story about a ghost or that time you saw Bigfoot, my instinctive reaction is to look at the evidence and figure out...

The Other: HP Lovecraft, Alien, & Ghost Stories: Monstrifications of Dunbar’s Number

Our social lives are fraught with peril over the question of who belongs and who doesn’t. What’s the difference between becoming a friend and getting friendzoned? Is it love or...

The Other: HP Lovecraft, Alien, & Ghost Stories: Monstrifications of Dunbar’s...

Our social lives are fraught with peril over the question of who belongs and who doesn’t. What’s the difference between becoming a friend and getting friendzoned? Is it love or...