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...
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....
THE BLADE’S BARGAIN, by Robert Luke Wilkins, with audio by The Bard Savander and the First Blades screamed out from the line of date-palms and swept into the oasis on camel-back, past the...
PAGAN FIRES, by Rev. Joe Kelly, artwork by Karolína Wellartová 1 The peaceful still of the mire burst apart with the pounding splashes of panic-winged feet. Small furry animals scrambled for...
THE UNBITTEN FRUIT, written and read by Oliver Smith In the desert’s empty heart, it whispered, “I am the wind who wore smooth the tomb. Yet, still fair Aždaja, whom you loved and who loved thee, came...
THE GOBBLER RAID, by Aidan Redwing, pending artwork by Simon Walpole Pit-pat, pit-pat fall the raindrops from a grey moonless sky. Clink-clank, clink-clank from the mine shaft, the Gobblers creep...
We are happy to present Gary McClusky’s take on Robert E. Howard’s first published story “Spear and Fang”. Originally published in Weird Tales in 1925. We make no secret of our love of prehistory so we had...
February, named after the Roman festival of purification ‘Februa’. Have we finally purified ourselves of the year 2020? Let’s hope so! We here at Heroic Fantasy Quarterly are attempting to purify...
EVERYDAY SOMETHING TRIES TO KILL ME, by Todd Honeycutt, artwork by Andrea Alemanno Timo had left the Queen’s court three weeks ago, too long for such a simple errand. “Bring me a giant’s eye,” the...
JACK O’ WRAITHS, by Phil Emery, with audio by the author, artwork by Karolína Wellartová Jack stretched out beneath the afternoon sun and chewed a stem of wheat and drifted back to Nell’s...