As we drift into the 20th month of the Dark Year 2020, your editors have taken time out from force-feeding Jörmungandr his own tail, to bring you the 49th issue of Heroic Fantasy Quarterly.  What you need?  We’ve got it!  What you want?  We supply it!  An inexplicable need for double Scythian action?  We fulfil […]

A SONG OF PICTISH KINGS,  by Adrian Cole, artwork by Andrea Alemanno and Gary McClusky In Cyrena, northernmost and greatest state of the continent of Atlantis, change has come like a tidal wave in the night. The evil power of Karkora, the Pallid One, has been broken, and a new king sits the Dragon Throne […]

OLD GHOSTS, A TALE OF AZATLÁN by Gregory D. Mele, art by Justin Pfeil   It is not hard to kill a man. A thrust up, under the ribs; a hard blow to the thin bones of the temple or the base of the skull; a deep cut to the neck or the inside of […]

THE PASS, by Nick Mazolillo, art by Andrea Alemanno   Strand wasn’t afraid of what lay on the other side of the rope bridge. The opposite side of the canyon was a constant wall of fog. No one ever came from the veiled end of the crossing, and all those Strand and his father allowed […]

RECOMPENSE, by Gerri Leen, art by Karolína Wellartová     Golden mare No rope shall hold you Now that you have Run your last battle I will take your killer’s horse— A lacking replacement But willing with the right touch— As our enemy bleeds out From a hundred small wounds A lingering death As compensation For […]