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...
DUEL, by R. M. Gulaya, artwork by Lilith Graves This was a magnificent place to spill blood. The clearing here was not a natural thing, but rather a scar, blasted out of the thick pine...
DRAGON TEARS, by Caleb Williams, pending artwork by Simon Walpole An elbow struck my side and woke me from an alchemical slumber. My limbs were bound to the mast of some ragged naval vessel. A boy held...
THE CURSE OF BLOODBONE ISLAND, by Adrian Cole, artwork by Miguel Santos A tale of Elak’s Atlantis Prologue Under the watchful eye of the Atlantean moon, the Arrow, a sleek privateer craft, was at rest...
THE CANDLE-MAKER AND HER KNIGHTS QUESTING, by Kelly Peach, with audio by The Bard The candle-maker wears a silken gown Of blackest ink and broidered gibbous moons And shiver sta rs. The candles,...
SHY DAISIES, by Gretchen Tessmer, with artwork by Andrea Alemanno She’s muttering to herself oh, clasp these hands together before we’re all done in— keep them steady keep them still...
The Portrait of the Bold Captain, by Deborah L. Davitt, artwork by Karolína Wellartová Every portrait is a lesson in what the portrayed wishes you to see take this one hanging here, the bold and...
May has arrived and with it Heroic Fantasy Quarterly issue #56, and oh we’ve got such sights to show you! We bring you three stories, two poems, with art and The Bard returning to do audio. We’ve got news...
RED-AUTMN SEEKS HIS FATHER’S BONES, By Jonathan Olfert, art by Miguel Santos At forty winters, Red-Autumn climbed into the forbidden tomb with an old man’s carefulness, clumsy in the dark....
THE BLADE’S BARGAIN, by Robert Luke Wilkins, with audio by The Bard Savander and the First Blades screamed out from the line of date-palms and swept into the oasis on camel-back, past the...