Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #69 is here to help you ease out of the burning heat of summer and into the smoldering heat of fall.  How will we accomplish this remarkable task?  Awesomely, as always!  We’ve got a Cimmerian-sized issue, with four works of fiction, three works of poetry,  and the next page of “Ancestors”.  We’ve […]

THE CHARIOT OF NARAM-ZAHUR by Dariel R. A. Quiogue, pending artwork by Miguel Santos and Simon Walpole The three travelers reached the oasis just as the molten copper orb of the sun touched the horizon, and the first evening winds stirred the dust after a breathless, molten metal day. But at the lip of the […]

A VOICE OF HORNETS, by Bryan Babb, pending artwork by Andrea Alemanno   1   “What makes steel so different from iron?” Nicolo asked, looking covetously at the blade dangling from Sigurd’s hip. “We’ve got an ironworker here who shoes our horses and makes nails for the boats, but we’ve got to wait for traders […]

THE TINKER’S COME TO FIX YOUR WARES, by Galen Gower, audio by Leeman Kessler     I squatted by the roadside, footsore and wind chapped, and tossed my fortune in the dusty hardpack. I read the omens of bone, tooth, and claw and today there are ill portents for me. The footbone of the coyote […]

CROSSING THE EYE OF SILENCE, by Dennis Mombauer, pending artwork by Miguel Santos, pending audio by Karen Menzel (oundtrack: Metaphysik by Kevin MacLeod)     The Eye of Silence stretched around them as an endless, ice-blue wasteland of water. Frost crackled in the air, turning Thekla’s breath to steam; otherwise, nothing moved. It was the […]