Aside from the editors, there are no credits in this magazine, so I can't tell you who drew what. Even the GCD page only lists artists - there's no record of who wrote the various stories. I find this difficult, though it's a thing that happens all the time in literary studies. We can't always know who wrote a particular piece, though contemporary digital humanists have algorithms they can run on a text that will tell us if it shares enough similarities with known writers to potentially be a lost work of some sort. The other side, however, is that very often a piece has no pedigree and no clues as to its provenance.
What got me about this magazine was the second story, entitled "Shadow of Evil." It's not that the story was necessarily a good one - it was middling, like most of the stuff in this magazine - but that it was printed completely in the wrong order, a fact I only realized as I was finishing it. I sometimes find that reprints will cut out a page or two, or revamp them, in order to fit a new publishing medium. This story is a reprint, but the revamp seems to have simply been to print it in the wrong order. *sigh*
And I can't get work as an editor.
More to follow.
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