Well-met and welcome to Heroic Fantasy Quarterly Issue #42! The weather here has finally cooled down and HFQ turns up the heat with four stories and two poems and accompanying illustrations.  Without further delay, let’s get into it!   Fiction Contents A Night in the Library, by Robert Zoltan, with artwork by Robert Zoltan. The […]

A NIGHT IN THE LIBRARY, by Robert Zoltan 1  In the city of Merth, in a dimly lit bedchamber of a mansion on Silverhand Lane, Kora Dervan stared at her reflection that stared at her reflection that stared at her reflection… She sat in a corner between two mirrors that created an infinite number of […]

ECHO OF THE SIREN   “Have you a death wish?” my son Telemachus asked, exasperated. “You are the only mortal to hear the song of the Sirens and live. Why in the gods’ names would you go back there?” Next to him, Penelope stood silently, her smoldering eyes and clenched mouth showing pain and disappointment. […]

FELLSCORPE AND THE WISHING WELL, by Katherine Quevedo, art by Simon Walpole They’d make fun of me, they would.  For this stupid shiny coin I roll between my fingers, glinting against my dark leather gloves as it flips across my knuckles.  And for the bright, polished stones arranged in a neat circle in front of […]

THE BOOK OF RUINS, by Jennifer Crow   Some ruins are not meant for rebuilding: jumbled stones with crumbling corners, a slope of gravel that once bore the face of god, the lake of unknown depth from which a lone bell