the following introductory essays also appear at the beginning of issues #1, #2, #3, and #4

Adam Golaski, Horror Fiction Editor
#1_Horror Fiction Misconceptions
#2_Sum More Equal Than Other
#3_No Contest
#4 (A response to Douglas E. Winter's essay "The Pathos of Genre")

Jeff Paris, Science Fiction Editor
#1_Learning From Science Fiction
#2_The Neglected Commonalities
#3_Childlike
#4 Named But Not Defined