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 BOOK OF RUINS

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

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...

Heroic Fantasy Quarterly–Q41

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...

KAMAZOTZ

KAMAZOTZ, by Greg Mele, artwork by Justin Pfeil   I. Bronze helm glittering in the new day glow of the risen sun, the man plunged from atop the truncated tower’s sloping walls like a spear hurled by an...

THEN, STARS

THEN, STARS, by Michael Meyerhofer, Art by Simon Walpole   I know nobody cares about a squire’s dying words, but Eli Ben-Sodr insists it matters, and he’ll write down whatever I say just as I...

A FISTFUL OF SPELLS

A FISTFUL OF SPELLS, A Spellslinger Story, by Zach Chapman, artwork by Ben Terdik   I threw the two Striga bodies on Sheriff Hickman’s desk, knocking over a dozen half-empty potion bottles. Glass...

SWORDS

SWORDS, by Colleen Anderson     Torn from the earth with hard edged tools biting into its mother’s belly hammered, chiseled, pulverized until it no longer recalls its long slumber A sword...

THE LAST TALE

The Last Tale, by Jennifer Crow   The last tale you told ended in a forest: dark, foreboding, full of shadows and hungry beasts. The scent of pine, the crunch of dead oak leaves beneath your feet,...

THE SONG OF BLACK MOUNTAIN

THE SONG OF BLACK MOUNTAIN, by Darrell Schweitzer, artwork by Gary McCluskey   I will make the song of the Black Mountain. Hear how it begins: It was because dragons still lingered above the peak of the...

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