There is a locked room. You have the key, if only your mind could recall where you hid it. Your mind is a locked room as well, and the possessor of its key lurks behind you. The key is a knife. This blade-wielding shadow doesn’t care if the locked room inside your head opens or becomes another dead end; it only does what the knife instructs, but then again, so do you.
Welcome to a night-world of secrecy and savagery, of hidden passageways and locked rooms, of broken mirrors and broken minds, a world where the truth is made visible only in the glint of a razor blade before it is obscured by a slick of blood. Tread carefully, for you are in the world of
CLOAK & DAGGER
Serving as guest handler for this black-gloved blackbag operation is Nick Greer, writer, editor, designer, and publishing mastermind behind Double Negative. He is also the author of the upcoming Post Larva / House of the Painted Wolf, a pastiche and deconstruction of the giallo genre, making him the ideal accomplice for this Christmas special for the whole family, if your family name is Argento, Bava, or Fulci.
Please send submissions to contact@apocalypse-confidential.com as a Word or Google doc for written submissions and .jpgs or .pngs for visual submissions, with how you’d like to be credited, a short bio in third person, and any links for promotion (blog, portfolio, etc.). Include your Twitter handle if you wish to be tagged. Please limit fiction submissions to around 4k words. This special presentation is open in all categories. Simultaneous submissions discouraged. Please include “CLOAK & DAGGER” in the subject line of your email.
Deadline: December 7.
Publication date: December 21.
Artwork by Robert Voyvodic.