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Three people stand in a shadowy tunnel, confronted by enormous, menacing mutant toads. The central figure wields a machete and flashlight, while the others appear uneasy. Bold yellow and red text displays the product name Beneath the Lost Level by Brian Keene, with Aaron Pace featured amidst chilling danger hidden in the darkness.

Book cover for ECO25: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction, edited by Marissa Van Uden, showcasing surreal, glowing blue and purple plants set against a dark background—ideal for readers who enjoy nature-inspired science fiction and fantasy short stories.

Book cover for Plague Birds: The Red Day Edition, a dark sci-fi novel, shows a red-haired woman blending into smoky red visuals with bold title text and a dramatic, otherworldly background.

A simple black alien head silhouette with two slanted yellow-green eyes on a white circular background.

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Apex Magazine Issue 155

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Beneath the Lost Level

Brian Keene

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ECO25: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction

Marissa van Uden

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Plague Birds: The Red Day Edition

Jason Sanford

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Lavie Tidhar, Cris Jurado, and Mahvesh Murad

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Brian Keene and Steven L. Shrewsbury

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Brian Keene

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Author spotlight

Damien Angelica Walters

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Damien Angelica Walters is the author of The Dead Girls Club, Cry Your Way Home, Paper Tigers, and Sing Me Your Scars. Her short fiction has been nominated twice for a Bram Stoker Award, reprinted in Best Horror of the Year, The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, and The Year’s Best Weird Fiction, and published in various anthologies and magazines, including the Shirley Jackson Award Finalists Autumn Cthulhu and The Madness of Dr. Caligari, World Fantasy Award Finalist Cassilda's Song, Apex Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, and Black Static. She lives in Maryland with her husband and a rescued pit bull named Ripley. Find her on Instagram @dawalters or at http://damienangelicawalters.com.

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