TOC: “The Book of Apex: Volume 3” Edited by Catherynne M. Valente

Apex has sent along the table of contents for the upcoming anthology The Book of Apex: Volume 3 edited by by Catherynne M. Valente.

Here’s the book description:

You’ll encounter strange, compelling magics interwoven within a haunted book made of vegetation, cities that come to life and go to war, and surreal suburban nightmares played out through the eyes of children. The Book of Apex: Volume 3 contains work by Seanan McGuire, Saladin Ahmed, Theodora Goss, Forrest Aguirre, Cat Rambo, Ian Tregillis, Annalee Newitz, Peter M. Ball, and many other masters of the short form.

Here’s the table of contents…

1. “To the Mistress of the Labyrinth Give Honey” by Heather McDougal
2. “I Am Thinking of You in the Spaces Between” by Shira Lipkin
3. “Frank” by Betsy Phillips
4. “Namasté Prime” by Grá Linnaea
5. “The Whispered Thing” by Zach Lynott
6. “The Tiger Hunt” by Rabbit Seagraves
7. “The Neighborly Thing to Do” by T.J. Weyler
8. “The Widow and the Xir” by Indrapramit Das
9. “Your Cities” by Anaea Lay
10. “The Doves of Hartleigh Garden” by Kathryn Weaver
11. “Recipe Collecting in the Asteroid Belt” by Jeremy R. Butler
12. “Twilight of the Eco-Terrorist” by Annalee Newitz
13. “Biba Jibun” by Eugie Foster
14. “The Eater” by Michael J. Deluca
15. “The Dust and the Red” by Darin Bradley
16. “The Speaking Bone” by Kat Howard
17. “Close Your Eyes” by Cat Rambo
18. “Langknech and Tzi-Tzi in the Land of the Mad” by Forrest Aguirre
19. “The Itaewon Eschatology” by Douglas F. Warrick
20. “The Tolling of Pavlov’s Bells” by Seanan McGuire
21. “Pale, and from a Sea-Wave Rising” by C.S.E. Cooney
22. “Radishes” by Nick Wolven
23. “The Faithful Soldier, Prompted” by Saladin Ahmed
24. “50 Fatwas for the Virtuous Vampire” by Pamela Taylor
25. “The Green Book” by Amal El-Mohtar
26. “Still Life (A Sexagesimal Fairy Tale)” by Ian Tregillis
27. “The Girl Who Had Six Fingers” by Brenda Stokes Barron
28. “L’esprit de L’escalier” by Peter M. Ball
29. “Portage” by An Owomoyela
30. “FOUR IS ME! WITH SQUEEEEEE! (AND LOLER)” by Nick Mamatas
31. “Fair Ladies” by Theodora Goss