Established in 2021, APOCALYPSE CONFIDENTIAL is a web magazine of edgy extrapolations, fringe fascinations, occult obsessions, risky ruminations, and aberrant associations. We are a literary journal obsessed with the underworld, both demonological and criminological – the collision of crooks in coats wielding machine guns and creeps in cloaks wielding jagged daggers. We are fascinated by the way parapolitics is to history and current events as urban exploration is to architecture. We are turned on by the synthesis of low lives and high strangeness. We excavate the Carcosan aspect of modern life. We are a home for dime-store Dostoevskys and ten-dollar Thompsons. We have been variously described as a psyop sleaze rag, a psychotronic survey of the pyrotechnic insanitarium, and a hypebeast health-goth apparel brand masquerading as a cyber-medievalist woodcut Metal Gear Solid fanzine.
Some of our particular interests are schlock/sleazoid cinema (Giallo flicks, Mondo flicks, splatter flicks, Slasher flicks, Skin flicks, drive-in flicks, Grindhouse flicks), silent-film sorcery, Hollywood Babylon, lost continents, ancient apocalypses, psychogeography, shipwrecks, Rankin/Bass arcana, Looney Tunes as the gesamtkunstwerk of the Twentieth Century, Gothic fiction, pulp fiction, pulp esoterica, Westerns, the hidden history of [your] hometown, liminal spaces, subliminal phrases, libidinal forces, splatterpunk, Cyberpunk, nostalgia/old wounds, Hasbro hermeticism, Lovecraft -as-filtered-through-Stuart Gordon-and-Brian Yuzna, the works of James Ellroy and Theodore Roszak, smoke-filled back rooms etc.
MASTHEADJacob Everett is the editor-in-chief and publisher. He is working on a pair of novellas about the Titanic, and a book-length essay about psychogeography and slasher cinema. He believes that by including this in his bio, he will begin working on them.
Rachael Haigh, our director of operations, is originally from Southern California, but now is subletting at Baba Yaga's house.
Books editor Jacob Stovall was born in Chicago but raised in Massachusetts and Tennessee. He has recently moved back to Chicago. His work can be found online and in print.
R. Khosrowshahi, our essays editor, once had her sights set on politics and visionary radicalism. Her rhetoric was too complicated to appeal to the ordinary voter, so she failed. Now she writes speculative fiction where tyrants win.
Vincent Gonzalez is our technologist. Find more of his work at https://vincentgonzalez.com
Lake Markham, our marketing and development coordinator, is a dude from Tennessee who likes reading and writing about the asymmetrical spread of information, secret societies, and alienated price signals. His work has been featured in Expat Press and Zero Readers, and around Chicago at Lumber Studios, Quimby's, and The Understudy Books. His novel Lo Siento is available from APOCALYPSE CONFIDENTIAL PRESS.
Born in a log cabin in 1853, Max Thrax rose from steerhand to gladhand to President. Now he works as supervising editor of APOCALYPSE CONFIDENTIAL. His novel God is a Killer is available from APOCALYPSE CONFIDENTIAL PRESS.
Our creative director, Robert Voyvodic, is a digital artist preoccupied with deep politics and the transjective. He does that in Toronto.
Fiction editor Conor Hultman lives in New York, New York.
Fiction editor Gwen Hilton is a writer in Chicago. Her books can be purchased from Expat Press. Her writing can be read at APOCALYPSE CONFIDENTIAL, Don’t Submit!, Expat Press, Witch Craft Mag and other publications. She believes in fiction.
Tully K is a malcontent from Portland, OR, where he is contributing editor. You can find him saying stupid things on Twitter @ripcitythug.