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 wait!  We’ve got finale of Caleb Williams’ “Dragon Tears”, new south-seas adventures, and have unearthed a […]

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 tale, an update on our workshop and the kickstarter for best-of 4.  […]

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. Captain orders.” Across the sea, royal ships from Alma’Riha shot fireworks across […]

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 port of Ulumar, far from the main sea lanes of the young Empire. […]

May has arrived and with it Heroic Fantasy Quarterly issue #56, and oh we’ve got such sights to show you!  We bring you three stories, two poems, with art and The Bard returning to do audio.  We’ve got news on our first-ever comic, and news on both our upcoming kickstarter and our first-ever S&S writing […]