If you didn't know before, you know now: June 13th through the 20th is National Hermit Week! I'm bummed that I hadn't discovered this holiday until now, because what a perfect way to escape the summer heat. Stay indoors, relish that air conditioning... And maybe, just maybe, pick up a few books to read to keep you company? Apex is ready to celebrate all-things-comfy and homey with some of our recommended titles!
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The Map of Lost Places compiled by Sheree Renée Thomas & Lesley Conner
If you're going to stay indoors, why not order a book that can take you... Anywhere? Travel to all manners of strange and haunted places, without ever getting out of bed. From arcades on a boardwalk to a forest hidden deep in Pennsylvania, the opportunities to explore are endless. Ready to get lost?
"Filled with showstoppers and unique gems, The Map of Lost Places is a horror collection that creeps, crawls, and makes you think. A fantastic read!" —Mary G. Thompson, author of One Level Down
Pick up your copy today in ebook or paperback!
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ChloroPhilia by Cristina Jurado
See, you're staying inside because it's hot, and in Cristina Jurado's ChloroPhilia, the people of the Cloister are staying inside because of an endless storm ravaging the earth. Same difference, right? Travel into the future and see what humanity can become, and think about what you could become, too... Someday.
"ChloroPhillia —an unsettling, enticing novella about evolution in overdrive—is Cristina Jurado's most recent work in English. Like her collection Alphaland, which came out in English in 2018 and then was reissued in 2023, ChloroPhilia offers readers Jurado's unique vision of the world, in which the bizarre and grotesque erupts into the mundane world." —Strange Horizons
Pick up your copy today in ebook or paperback!
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The Lost Level by Brian Keene
What's better than traveling to new places or into the future from your favorite chair? Why, traveling to another dimension from your favorite chair! Enter The Lost Level and find a realm where dinosaurs, robots, cowboys, and lizard-people battle to survive. And if you enjoy this book, you have a whole series waiting for you!
"One look at the cover art from Kirsi Salonen and you have a pretty good idea where Brian Keene's The Lost Level is going to take you. This homage to Edgar Rice Burroughs, Sid and Marty Kroft, Joe R. Lansdale, H.G. Wells, and others takes you to places that can only be reached through the imagination." —Frank Errington
Pick up your copy today in ebook or paperback!
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You can go and touch grass another day. Until then, enjoy National Hermit Week!
