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...
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...
OWAIN THE RED AT CASTELL DOLBADARN, by Nicole Rain Sellers, audio by Karen Bovenmyer, art by Simon Walpole OWAIN THE RED AT CASTELL DOLBADARN North Wales, 1275 AD The infant moon swells full again,...
While we at HFQ enjoy the cooler months, the 2019-2020 winter has been long and dark and cold, and we are glad that spring has finally sprung. Not only were the elements harsh, but we, along with just about...
HEART OF VENGEANCE, A Tale of Azatlán, by Gregory D. Mele, artwork by Justin Pfeil, audio by Karen Bovenmyer Jaakhár was in flames, the ancient palace-complex engulfed in a red, vengeful glow that gleamed...
THE WHISPERING HEALER, by Larisa Walk “What you want at this hour?” Anisia squinted at the man on her doorstep. He held a small bundle in his arms. The light from her oil lamp trembled in yellow...
DO NOT FEAR, FOR THE WORK WILL BE PURE, by Michael Johnstone, artwork by Karolína Wellartová, audio by Karen Bovenmyer. For all that his Rat Quarter Cycle conferred upon him deserved esteem in Elsidor,...
FORD, by Mary Soon Lee, artwork by Gary McCluskey Rain, wind, water, mud– men and horses slowed so that the two-day journey took three days, though they set out before...
THE DEMON IN THE JAR, by Cullen Groves, artwork by Miguel Santos Under the watchful old eyes of the Carian wizard Hydáspes Onto the black ship of Draba a single amphora they loaded, Painted with sigils...
The holidays are over and it is time to get down to business. The business of Heroic Fantasy Quarterly issue #43! We’ve got three stories, two poems, and art and audio for you. Check it out! Fiction...
LOW TIDE, by Conor DiViesti, Artwork by Carol Wellart It was the last week of the low tide and the foreman was waiting for him. Horace limped back to camp alone, dragging the empty crab net behind him as...