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...
Summer? Already? Time the Avenger will not be stopped, nor will Heroic Fantasy Quarterly! Behold issue #68, comin’ atcha with three stories and two poems, plus our standard cargo of outstanding artwork (that cargo is on the way!)....
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...
FOUND ON THE WATER, by Martha Wells (originally published at her Patreon), with artwork by Simon Walpole The last thing Jai wanted to wake up to was Kiev leaning over her, saying, “We found...
TRAIL OF ASHES, by Caleb Williams ‘Fire… fire!’ The carriage rattling over the earthen bridge and the scalding image of fire jarred Keedran from a troubled sleep. He hardly slept at all anymore. The...
CHILDREN OF THE STONE, by Ann K. Schwader, with artwork by Miguel Santos We have not always been this planet’s masters, though humankind denies it. Other blood than ours heaped earthen...
Winter is in full swing and Heroic Fantasy Quarterly has tales and poems to warm your blood- We interrupt this editorial to point out that Heroic Fantasy Quarterly is eligible for Hugo Nomination, as a...
SERVANT OF THE BLACK WIND, by Gregory Mele I. The attack came at dawn. It was not the time of day that caught the defenders unprepared, it was that it had come at all. The necropolis of Koltopec was...
TYMASS BY RING-LIGHT, by Mike Adamson Verily it be that, unknownst to the prevailing wisdom, the Gods and Fates shall move in concert and all that is undone shall be remade. From black despair shall come the...
THE MERIT ONE GOLD PIECE, by Dave D’Alessio He was an old man of perhaps fifty years, and his four teeth stank of cardamom. “Beatricsh iss me daughter,” he said. “She’ss not a witch.” “She failed the...
THE GATEKEEPER, by Marlane Quade Cook Beat by beat, footsteps echoed on the stones that carved a path through the meandering hills of the wasteland. Swirls of mist dispersed at the traveller’s approach....
BARDIC DREAMS, by Deborah Guzzi Bold warriors and women, shield mates, sat wrapped in the darkness, sheltered between knees warmed by their lovers and heat of kettle fire. A bard regaled with...