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
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ART
- LOOKING AT ME LOOKING AT YOU by Amanda Gostomski
- MONDO GIALLO by Corinne Halbert
- SHOCK TREATMENT by Elwy Malin
- THE VALLEY OF UNREAL by Joel Jensen Heath
ESSAY
- PARASADISM: ON DARIO ARGENTO’S DEEP RED by Donovan Reyes
FICTION
- BLOODSTAINED DREAMS OF VITTORIA by Matthew Kinlin
- DARKNESS GATHERS HER LAMBS by Zachery Brasier
- DON’T THINK TWICE WHEN THAT BLADE BLINKS BACK AT YOU by Cesar Felipe
- THE HOUSE WITHOUT A FACE by Mads Gobbo
- INTERMEZZO by Saint Nick
- ON YOUR BELLY YOU SHALL CRAWL by Arbogast
- POST-GIALLO by Oli Johns
- RED HANDS HAVE GREEN THUMBS by Dawson Alexander Wohler
POETRY
- “KILLER IN THE DARK” – “WAX” – “BLEAT” by Kelby Losack
- “MY LIFE WITH THE BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO” AND TWO MORE POEMS by Damon Hubbs
- ON FORTUNO OMBRA by C. Rees
Artwork by Robert Voyvodic