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 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 the […]

DREAMS OF STARS, by J.D. Harlock, pending art by Simon Walpole   Lord, I can see only smog and fire when I sleep and dream of stars for this airship can soar no higher than the fumes of these cursed tars   oh, what a sorrowful sight to behold thick soot has festered in the […]