A KING’S LAMENT, by Audrey Elmerson   I am accosted by the past, a pain I can’t erase. Each time I look into a glass and see my haggard face   the cheeks and nose remind me of my father’s cruel laugh, the menacing tones when he declared the outcome of his wrath.   And when […]

SPILLING TEA WITH A HOUSEMAID OF WYVERN HALL,  by Gretchen Tessmer, art by Simon Walpole     go ahead and ask the mighty sky kings to spill the location of their secret passageways through cumulus castles adorned with spiral thermals moon chimes and suncatcher chandeliers but I fear they’ll not tell you anything jealous, proud […]

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 […]

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 […]