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...
Winter is in full swing here at our rocky stronghold, and we’ve gathered tales and poems to get through the remaining long months until spring. We bring you two magnificent tales and three outstanding poems, plus artwork and maps!...
Fall has finally arrived, bringing a break in the relentless summer heat, and the release of issue #62. We tromp through the fallen leaves bearing three stories, two poems, art and audio! Get a fire lit to ward off the growing long...
**9/14/24 update– We’ve uploaded page 12 of Gary McClusky’s comic “Spear and Fang” based on the Robert E. Howard story of the same name. Check it out here!** Summer is in full swing in our neck of the...
A remarkable milestone—issue #60! For this special occasion we bring you works by the S&S scions James Enge, Howard Andrew Jones, and up-and-comer Gregory Mele. We bring you poetry from award winners Jennifer Crow and Ann...
JUMBLE, by Mary Soon Lee, art by Gary McCluskey Twilight. Two men on the snow. Tsung’s thoughts jumbled, snow below him, above him, branches thickened by white. King Xau bent over him, blood trickling...
Well-met and welcome to Heroic Fantasy Quarterly Issue #42! The weather here has finally cooled down and HFQ turns up the heat with four stories and two poems and accompanying illustrations. Without further...
A NIGHT IN THE LIBRARY, by Robert Zoltan 1 In the city of Merth, in a dimly lit bedchamber of a mansion on Silverhand Lane, Kora Dervan stared at her reflection that stared at her reflection that stared at...
ECHO OF THE SIREN “Have you a death wish?” my son Telemachus asked, exasperated. “You are the only mortal to hear the song of the Sirens and live. Why in the gods’ names would...
[WE WHO ARE ABOUT TO DIE, by Michael W. Cho, artwork by Robert Zoltan Libyssa was always like this. Wrapped in his famed red cloak, Chylon strode down the abandoned streets of the town, coming from his...
FELLSCORPE AND THE WISHING WELL, by Katherine Quevedo, art by Simon Walpole They’d make fun of me, they would. For this stupid shiny coin I roll between my fingers, glinting against my dark leather...
THE BOOK OF RUINS, by Jennifer Crow Some ruins are not meant for rebuilding: jumbled stones with crumbling corners, a slope of gravel that once bore the face of god,...
THE CAVE OF GLOWING SKULLS, by Gary Every A small stream exits the cave at the mouth tumbling and cascading down the cliff before plopping onto the sand and seeping softly into the sea. The...
August has arrived and with it comes Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #41. We bring tales of adventure and action, from mythic history to the American West to remote islands of South America, and our poetry delves...