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...
The long gloomy days of winter getting you down? Eager to get out and back to adventure? Our offerings will lift your spirits and enflame your blood! We’ve got three original stories and a fantastic poem. Drag your chair to the fire...
HFQ senior editor Adrian Simmons has been filling in the edge of the wilderness hexmap and the encounter locations in the urban settings. From such dangerous locales we have brough you the best S&S fiction and poetry—well worth the...
August! The hammer of the year has dropped on us here at HFQ. But such solar savagery shirks us not a shred in our search to bring you great S&S fiction and poetry! We’ve got three stories, two poems, audio, an ongoing graphic...
DRAGON TEARS, by Caleb Williams, pending artwork by Simon Walpole An elbow struck my side and woke me from an alchemical slumber. My limbs were bound to the mast of some ragged naval vessel. A boy held tight to the rigging. “Sorry....
August! The hammer of the year has dropped on us here at HFQ. But such solar savagery shirks us not a shred in our search to bring you great S&S fiction and poetry! We’ve got three stories, two poems,...
DUEL, by R. M. Gulaya, artwork by Lilith Graves This was a magnificent place to spill blood. The clearing here was not a natural thing, but rather a scar, blasted out of the thick pine...
DRAGON TEARS, by Caleb Williams, pending artwork by Simon Walpole An elbow struck my side and woke me from an alchemical slumber. My limbs were bound to the mast of some ragged naval vessel. A boy held...
THE CURSE OF BLOODBONE ISLAND, by Adrian Cole, artwork by Miguel Santos A tale of Elak’s Atlantis Prologue Under the watchful eye of the Atlantean moon, the Arrow, a sleek privateer craft, was at rest...
THE CANDLE-MAKER AND HER KNIGHTS QUESTING, by Kelly Peach, with audio by The Bard The candle-maker wears a silken gown Of blackest ink and broidered gibbous moons And shiver sta rs. The candles,...
SHY DAISIES, by Gretchen Tessmer, with artwork by Andrea Alemanno She’s muttering to herself oh, clasp these hands together before we’re all done in— keep them steady keep them still...
The Portrait of the Bold Captain, by Deborah L. Davitt, artwork by Karolína Wellartová Every portrait is a lesson in what the portrayed wishes you to see take this one hanging here, the bold and...
May has arrived and with it Heroic Fantasy Quarterly issue #56, and oh we’ve got such sights to show you! We bring you three stories, two poems, with art and The Bard returning to do audio. We’ve got news...
RED-AUTMN SEEKS HIS FATHER’S BONES, By Jonathan Olfert, art by Miguel Santos At forty winters, Red-Autumn climbed into the forbidden tomb with an old man’s carefulness, clumsy in the dark....