1. Heroic Fantasy Quarterly-...

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...

2. Heroic Fantasy Quarterly&...

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...

3. Heroic Fantasy Quarterly&...

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...

4. BRIDE-PRICE PAYED TWICE

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...

5. Heroic Fantasy Quarterly&...

As the spring rains bring forth flowers, so does Heroic Fantasy Quarterly bring forth the best adventure fiction and poetry!  We’ve got four stories, two poems, with artwork and audio for your enjoyment.  Behold! Fiction Contents Daughter...

THE CARNIVAL JOB

THE CARNIVAL JOB, by Mark Finn, artwork by Miguel Santos   The city-state of Alvara (also called Highgate) wasn’t known for its hospitality, nor its charity. For the past several hundred years, swords...

FATHER-OF-RIVERS, A TALE OF AZATLÁN

FATHER-OF-RIVERS, A TALE OF AZATLÁN, by Gregory Mele, artwork by Justin Pfiel.   Rain fell. As it had yesterday, as it would tomorrow. “At least it’s a warm rain,” Kabil said with a wry grin, slipping...

THE ORB OF SEMERKHET (SATHANO THE WANDER...

THE ORB OF SEMERKHET, OR SATHANO THE WANDERER, by Jeremy Farkas, artwork by Gary McClusky     In the Hall of Semerkhet, darkness ruled as it had for many thousands of years. It was an inky...

SHAFT TOMB

SHAFT TOMB, by Ann K. Schwader     In far Saqqara, countless faithful wait Upon their earthly gods who fared ahead As Westerners beyond the judgment gate, Emerging justified. These patient dead...

HOW THE ROSE PRINCES CAME TO LIFE

HOW THE ROSE PRINCES CAME TO LIFE, by Elizabeth R. McClellan, artwork by Andrea Alamona       Witching is about knowing. Though we keep cats, a mouse with a message has amnesty unquestioned by...

THE BOWSPRIT MERMAID AND THE STEMHEAD DR...

THE BOWSPRIT MERMAID AND THE STEMHEAD DRAGON, by Katherine Quevedo, artwork by Simon Walpole     From wooden mouths above the deep, From oaken tongues upon the swell, When figureheads arouse from...

Heroic Fantasy Quarterly–Q49

As we drift into the 20th month of the Dark Year 2020, your editors have taken time out from force-feeding Jörmungandr his own tail, to bring you the 49th issue of Heroic Fantasy Quarterly.  What you need? ...

A SONG OF PICTISH KINGS

A SONG OF PICTISH KINGS,  by Adrian Cole, artwork by Andrea Alemanno and Gary McClusky In Cyrena, northernmost and greatest state of the continent of Atlantis, change has come like a tidal wave in the night....

OLD GHOSTS

OLD GHOSTS, A TALE OF AZATLÁN by Gregory D. Mele, art by Justin Pfeil   It is not hard to kill a man. A thrust up, under the ribs; a hard blow to the thin bones of the temple or the base of the skull; a...

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