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...
THE DOLMEN, by Michael Tilbury Countless times were we berated and warned not to go near that hill where stands the great dolmen yet we, so young, stole away on a fine summer’s day and came upon...
Heroic Fantasy Quarterly helped get 2017 off to a good start, and we continue the trend with issue 32. Three stories, two poems, bonus artwork, and a bonus story! But before we get to the meat of issue 32, we...
THE DEATHS OF ALL WE ARE, by Liz Colter Waking before dawn, I shift under the blankets that lie heavy on me; or is it soil covering me, nesting me deep and safe? The stone floor beneath the rushes...
SERAPH, by Ian McHugh There was another frost the next morning, and snow starting to fall. “It should be getting warmer,” said Galya, following her mother to the seraph’s chamber...
THE ENEMY’S TRUE NAME, by Mark Silcox I caught sight of the three Blue Mages ascending the slope while they were still more than an hour away. The mist of their breath drifted upward as their...
HARD CROSSING AT LUHINMOV FORD, by Adrian Simmons 1. Cawella Five-Tongues inspected her two spotted horses while the armies waited for the decision of the kings. The horses remained calm,...
NIGHTFOREST, by Andrew Stockton There are parts of forests, As there are parts of minds, In which it is foolish to tread. The horseman, strangely attired, a traveller’s smell, not knowing this land,...
THE NORTHMAN’S DAUGHTER, by Joshua Hampton Ever since my hair could take a braid, my dah showed me of swords and shields and spears sharp as dragons’ tails, of skin that tears and bones that snap...
Well, the Skelos Chicken Fried Cthulhu anthology fought the good fight, but in the end didn’t make it. Ah, but what gives victory its sweetness but the bitterness of defeat? May we point out that, if...