"Spartacus" is a 2020 Scars Publications poetry and prose book with material from assorted writers and artists, as the December 2020 issue release of the literary magazine "Down in the Dirt" ( Since 2014 "Down in the Dirt" magazine is released every other month (and sometimes with bonus issues) as a 6"x9" perfect-bound paperback book, with not only it's usual ISSN# (print ISSN# 1554-9623 and Internet ISSN# 1554-9666), but also an ISBN#. Because of ISBN# releases, all issues now carry a title to accompany the new format, reflecting the writing inside the book as well as the cover design. Writers and artists included in this Scars Publications perfect-bound 6" x 9" ISBN# paperback book include Denny a stump, Alan Cohen, Alex Watt, Alison Ogilvie-Holme, Andrew C. Miller, Ayesha Perveen, Benjamin Davis, Dan Cuddy, Darren Clisch, Despy Boutris, Doug Hawley, Enobong Emmanuel, Fred Miller, Grace Nask, Iftekhar Sayeed, Ivan Klaric, James Bates, James Ware, Janet Kuypers, John F. McMullen, Kathleen Kempert, Michael Fitzgerald, P.C. Scheponik, Patrick T. Reardon, Richard K. Williams, Robert King, Steven G Merson, Sandip Saha, Susie Gharib, Suzanne S. Eaton, Terry J. Allen, Tom Ball, Travis Green, Wayne F. Burke, Yvonne Nguyen, Zach Murphy, Christopher Strople, Helen Bird, Isabel G. de Diego, Kyle Hemmings, and Radoslav Rochallyi.