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...

SUFFER THE WITCH

SUFFER THE WITCH, by Joe Kelly, Artwork by Karolína Wellartová His brother’s blood and brains splashed across the floor as he fell, the short-bladed hacking sword clattering away from the nerveless hand...

JACK O’WRAITHS: BELLS BEYOND THE S...

JACK O’ WRAITHS:  BELLS BEYOND THE SHORE, by Phil Emery, Audio by the author and pending artwork by Andrea Alemanno       It was a bright, saltfresh sort’ve afternoon when Jack made...

A CURSE TO ARCHERY

A CURSE TO ARCHERY, by Aidan Redwing I am but a weapon in the hands of tyranny No choice but to march To the orders they decree Does the target blame the arrow Or the hand that plucked the string? Does the...

HOMEWARD

HOMEWARD, by Scott T. Hutchison, pending Audio by Karen Menzel     We muscle against wayward powers raging against us, pull our oars–this time into a soul-stealing quiet of vapors. Navigation...

Heroic Fantasy Quarterly–Q61

**9/14/24 update– We’ve uploaded page 12 of Gary McClusky’s comic “Spear and Fang” based on the Robert E. Howard story of the same name.  Check  it out here!** Summer is in full...

THE WAILING KEEP

THE WAILING KEEP, by Tim Hanlon, artwork by Miguel Santos Foscari the Gate-Keep swung from the straw pallet in the corner of his room and stood. Naked, he limped to the door and opened it to the tumult around...

THE PHYSICIAN’S TALE

THE PHYSICIAN’S TALE, by Jonathan Duckworth, artwork by Gary McClusky   ONE   JORGOS Jorgos of Kandreva could barely move his fingers, partly from the unseasonable cold, partly from fear. The...

THE SCEPTER OF ARAM NAZHAR

THE SCEPTER OF ARAM NAZHAR, by Dariel R. A. Quiogue, artwork by Simon Walpole There is nothing like a beautiful day at sea to assuage an old man’s misery. I sat on my usual perch at the prow, watching the...

THE LATEST ATTEMPT

THE LATEST ATTEMPT, by Devan Barlow, artwork by Miguel Santos   One vial of tears gathered from the milliner in the town’s least-haunted shop   I must have my memories back, please let this be...

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