Life has intruded on the schedules of the HFQ editorial staff and we’ve struggled, burning the midnight illuminated candles, threading the catacombs for the proper funerary cerements to grind into the finest inks to transcribe tales and poems of a singular vintage.  We emerge from the depths and into the blinding light of August with […]

CROWN OF AZT’NYR, by Mike Adamson, with art by Miguel Santos   Each Age shall know its hero. When times demand, unbeknownst to the man or woman whose stout heart shall be chosen, valour shall be demanded, and answered in full. When night would do battle with day, a mighty hand shall be raised in […]

THE WAKING GODS, by D.H. Rowe, with art by Simon Walpole   The jungle island of Iakala pierced the ocean. At its highest point a colossal structure rose above the canopy. The native people of the island called this the Tomb of the Giant Kings, as it was said to house the remains of the […]

THE PATH OF TWO ENTWINED, A TALE OF AZATLÁN, by Gregory Mele   Tehanuwak, the Land of Obsidian and Bronze, is a sweeping vista of ancient city-states in misty highlands and steaming jungles of the deep south to the vast grasslands and burning deserts of unmapped north. At this vast land’s heart lay the Three […]

THE SINGING HARP, by Colleen Anderson, with audio by the author. Once the greatest musical implement passed from gods to Taliesen strings each representing the harmony of the spheres singing a melody that drew angels near   Taliesen passed on to Avalon as mystical bards ever do the harp fell into the hands of giants […]