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...
WHEN THE LEGIONS WENT, by David Barber Outside, the wolf-howl and the dark. Around the fire Old Alba tells the tale of how he got this very blade from the last of the Rome-men in the days of his youth,...
THE NECROMANCER, by Ngo Binh Anh Khoa The sun was lost in arrows pouring down As raucous cannons boomed incessantly, Barbaric cries would far and wide resound Amid the field drowned in a blazing...
Happy May, June, and July! HFQ issue #36 is here to bring you adventure all through the summer. And what adventure we have for you! Three stories, three poems, and three new pieces of artwork. &&...
MORE BLOOD THAN BONE, by E.K. Wagner Haukfin, classification unknown: This sea-faring creature is of gigantic proportions, easily matching the length and girth of the Ngimbian ships which stalk the...
THE LADY AND THE DWARF, by Rebecca Brinker Once, in a forest, there lived not seven but one dwarf. He was a hard industrious man who had an affinity for the earth and a talent for finding ore. It did not...
CANVAS TEARS, by Steve Rodgers As the smells of roasting human flesh weaved through the Grand Suuk market, Amis began to entertain new doubts about his strategy. From atop an auction platform, the idea...
THE GREAT BEAR GOD, by Gary Every The Siberian shaman sings and prays at this ancient place where the rocks wear faces. The river cascades across the rows of stones, many of the boulders...
CHASE OF THE BLUE BLOOD, S.K. Naus Torrid black clouds blistered along the heavens, Their bellies exploding with cold hard rain. Majesta’s cloak billowed around her and the horse she was riding...
WHAT YOU’VE BECOME, by Gretchen Tessmer if wishes were horses? more like rooks and herons kings and beggar men— made weak by yellow-haze sloth sipped at the pond of mud-slick weeds and greed all...