Summer sizzles across the plains and Heroic Fantasy Quarterly sizzles across the internet like Smeagol after a double gainer into the Cracks of Doom.  We bring you four stories, three poems, artwork and triple, triple, TRIPLE! audio! Dig in! Fiction Contents Bride-Price Paid Twice, by Gregory Mele.   Revenge simmers and boils over in this story […]

THE GOLDEN GOAT CAPER, by Mark Finn, audio by the author, art by Simon Walpole   When we last saw Larsen and co. (back in HFQ #50, The Carnival Job) they were posing as a traveling carnival as a cover story for their nocturnal criminal endeavors. Four years later, they’ve picked up some new talent […]

SEA HENGE, by Phil Emery, audio by the author, artwork by Miguel Santos   The ship sailed north around the coast. North was where the war of tempests was to be fought. What exactly that meant was anyone’s guess – the crew on the ship had no notion, but they were only seamen, not sorcerers, […]

A KNOWLEDGE SHARPER THAN FLINT- pt 2, by Adrian Simmons, art by Simon Walpole Selu, a shaman of the First Tribe, following a vision from the spirit world, travels with Kiptum, a hunter of the Red Wasp Clan seeks, a man who is not a man.  Together they travel to the Seer Folk, where they […]

HOW TO SAVE THE DYNASTY, by Mary Soon Lee, Artwork by Andrea Alemmano How to Save the Dynasty        Set out brush, paper, inkstone.      Record the lineage of the dragon.   Rinse one river dragon in melted snow; remove ribs and lungs, then truss.   Roast at low heat over phoenix ashes, basting […]