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!)....
Happy February! After being trapped in our lair due to incredibly cold and snowy weather, we have emerged to find a world gone quite mad. We’re here to anchor your sanity and give you respite with tales of adventure! What we bring you...
Happy November! The cycle of the year turns and the last grasping claws of summer finally have released their grasp. So fill your grasping hands with issue #66 of Heroic Fantasy Quarterly! We bring you three stores, two poems, art and...
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...
BRIDE-PRICE PAYED TWICE, A TALE OF THE AZATLÁN, by Gregory Mele My grandson is in trouble again, eh? Pele complaining you spend too much time staring out to sea, dreaming? Pah! Then he should not have named you Akkelu. I named your...
FIFTEEN THINGS TO MAKE A SOLDIER MISERABLE, by Aidan Redwing, artwork by Miguel Santos A shortage of pipe weed. Rotating to the frontline. Being informed by your commanding officer...
DEATH’S HUNGER, by Bader M. Alsadeqi, artwork by Gary McClusky A soldier sent to do battle, Now a survivor still standing. Cold of heart and soul was I, As the rest of my brethren lay dying. ...
Yes, yes, the issue is late. In our defense, there was outdoor adventuring, and the World Fantasy Convention, and a case of Covid-19, and a case of food poisoning. Plus, our wizard was pulled into a chasm...
THE STONEMAN’S CURSE, by Tom Jolly, pending artwork by Miguel Santos Markus wasn’t sure if it was an imp or a gnome driving the gigantic worm down the road toward him, but neither the rider nor...
The Flame and the Bottle, by Howard Andrew Jones, audio by Leeman Kessler I The woman was disconsolate with weeping. Surely the whole of the neighborhood heard her wailing from within the walls of her...
SWARM TIME ON MARUZAR, by Dariel R. A. Quiogue Of the seven who had attempted to escape the mines of Sommathar through the fabled Ancients’ Way, only Lakann came out to see Maruzar’s gold-banded night...
THE RIDER IN DARKNESS, by Phil Emery, with audio by the author Clouds shamble ‘cross the death-pale morn, Mist writhes about the plain, Brooding low in ravening dawn Portending...
HUGIN AND MUNIN AND ODIN’S EYE, by Colleen Anderson, with audio by the author Ravens always follow their whims independent thinkers given to hijinks wayward flights to their fancy ...
Life has intruded on the schedules of the HFQ editorial staff and we’ve struggled, burning the midnight illuminated candles, threading the catacombs for the proper funerary cerements to grind into the finest...