MANAGARM, by Jennifer Crow, Art by Caterina Gerbasi     Moon-wolf snuffles at Ygdrasil’s roots, scent of god and oracle rune-scratched in the air. How long has this beast chased its quarry across worlds and endless skies? Since the beginning of the last end, it would tell if it spoke like men, but instead it […]

DRAGONS, by Anna Remennik, Art by Karolína Wellartová   taxonomy: The smaller land-bound drakes have vestigial wings and are not true-breed dragons. And the serpents of seas and lakes are amphibious, unrelated, indeed not dragons at all. But the vast true wyrms, six-limbed and armored ventrally in scales, are classified as dragons. For these terms, see dragons, […]

FENRIR, by Adam Stemple, Artwork by Miguel Santos   Let the moon slide down your throat, nephew. Pale light and cold stone, it is the last thing you will taste before me. And I am no savory morsel, no feast for a king. Not even your subjects (scavengers, mongrels, curs) would care for this banquet. […]

As we stand on the edge of summer, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly brings you a full issue of adventure and action, with four stories, three poems, art and audio (with more on the way)! Fiction Contents Carpe Caput, by Evan Dicken with artwork by Pen Anders, and audio by Karen Menzel.  Nastazo Balicosta, warrior/wlwyer  of the […]

CARPE CAPUT, by Evan Dicken, with artwork by Pen Anders, Audio by Karen Menzel, Music by Kevin MacLeod     Nastazo Balicosta was thinking of dinner when his client tried to strangle him. This shouldn’t have been wholly unexpected–the woman had murdered six city guards. Still, she was securely restrained, and it was Nastazo’s last […]