Having completed “Spear and Fang”, we are proud to present Miguel Santos’ original tale “Ancestors”   _______________________________________ Miguel Santos is a freelance illustrator and maker of Comics living in Portugal.  His artwork has appeared in numerous issues of Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, as well as in the Heroic Fantasy Quarterly Best-of Volume 2.  More of his […]

Summer?  Already?  Time the Avenger will not be stopped, nor will Heroic Fantasy Quarterly!  Behold issue #68, comin’ atcha with three stories and two poems, plus our standard cargo of outstanding artwork (that cargo is on the way!).   Fiction Contents The Devil in the Detials, by Rev. Joe Kelly, Conor Dubh O’Brien, while Black […]

THE DEVIL IN THE DETAILS, by Rev. Joe Kelly   The bare back room of the manor house was pungent with old dust, sweat, tobacco smoke, the sour reek of spilled ale. Sir Lawrence, his eyes glittering with greed in the flicker of the single lamp, awaited Conor Dubh O’Brien at the far end of […]

HUNTRESS OF THE HIGH TRAILS, by Robert Rhodes, pending artwork by Karolína Wellartová The shadow from Valeriya’s arrow, staked into the dirt of the trail, at last reached the coin she’d placed behind it. Enough time had passed. She shook her head. Matviy was late. Above her overlook on the Imperial Ridge’s eastern slope, the […]

THE HEAD OF SPURIUS HALFHEART, by H.R. Laurence, pending art by Caterina Gerbasi     “Yorris,” said Todric. “Is that not Spurius Halfheart the sellsword?” “He is also a horse-thief, and an indifferent pander of second-rate – oh,” said Yorris, following his companion’s gesture to the public gibbet which loomed like an iron bramble over […]