1. Heroic Fantasy Quarterly&...

The long gloomy days of winter getting you down?  Eager to get out and back to adventure?  Our offerings will lift your spirits and enflame your blood!  We’ve got three original stories and a fantastic poem.  Drag your chair to the fire...

2. Heroic Fantasy Quarterly&...

HFQ senior editor Adrian Simmons has been filling in the edge of the wilderness hexmap and the encounter locations in the urban settings.  From such dangerous locales we have brough you the best  S&S fiction and poetry—well worth the...

3. Heroic Fantasy Quarterly&...

August!  The hammer of the year has dropped on us here at HFQ.  But such solar savagery shirks us not a shred in our search to bring you great S&S fiction and poetry!  We’ve got three stories, two poems, audio, an ongoing graphic...

4. DRAGON TEARS (PART 1)

DRAGON TEARS, by Caleb Williams, pending artwork by Simon Walpole   An elbow struck my side and woke me from an alchemical slumber. My limbs were bound to the mast of some ragged naval vessel. A boy held tight to the rigging. “Sorry....

5. THE CURSE OF BLOODBONE IS...

THE CURSE OF BLOODBONE ISLAND, by Adrian Cole, artwork by Miguel Santos A tale of Elak’s Atlantis Prologue   Under the watchful eye of the Atlantean moon, the Arrow, a sleek privateer craft, was at rest at the quayside of the small...

Heroic Fantasy Quarterly–Q59

The long gloomy days of winter getting you down?  Eager to get out and back to adventure?  Our offerings will lift your spirits and enflame your blood!  We’ve got three original stories and a fantastic poem. ...

THE DREAMS FROM THE BARROW

THE DREAMS FROM THE BARROW,  By Harry Piper, artwork by Miguel Santos   They came to me like this – As a young child I had gone roaming through the forest one summer afternoon – we’d finished...

AXANDRJO THE SILVERNOSED VAGABOND

AXANDRJO THE SILVERNOSED VAGABOND, by C.D. Crabtree, artwork by Andrea Alemanno     Axandrjo of the Silver Nose often wore a disguise when traveling the slantwise length of the Shining Isles. His...

THE IRON SERPENT

THE IRON SERPENT, by H R Laurence   ‘You’ve fought bravely, fellow,’ said the corsair chief. A string of shrivelled human ears dangled from his neck and the shaft of his bloody hatchet...

DOORWAYS

DOORWAYS, by Jennifer Crow, art by Simon Walpole     Touch the wood, rough with age and peeling paint. Sun has poured its afternoon heat into the grain, the brass knocker hot enough to sear flesh....

Heroic Fantasy Quarterly–Q58

HFQ senior editor Adrian Simmons has been filling in the edge of the wilderness hexmap and the encounter locations in the urban settings.  From such dangerous locales we have brough you the best  S&S...

DRAGON TEARS (PART 2)

DRAGON TEARS PART 2, by Caleb Williams, Artwork by Gary McClusky Larohd du Masiim was a scribe of Varushe trained from his youth in calligraphy and blood magic, now an exile after his affair with princess...

ISLE OF THE THOUSAND-EYED STRANGLER

ISLE OF THE THOUSAND-EYED STRANGLER, by Dariel R. A. Quiogue   Set in a fantastical version of the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean, the Perfumed Isles are home to prince-turned-reiver, Pandara, who...

THE THIRD WAY

THE THRID WAY, by Darrell Schweitzer   So we rode, by magic, across the wide ocean as if over a dusty plain, into the burning lands, into the country of sunset near the world’s edge; we rode, the...

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