THE SINGING HARP, by Colleen Anderson, with audio by the author. Once the greatest musical implement passed from gods to Taliesen strings each representing the harmony of the spheres singing a melody that drew angels near   Taliesen passed on to Avalon as mystical bards ever do the harp fell into the hands of giants […]

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, […]

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 […]