Happy news, S&S fans! Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #69 is out and it is one of our most ambitious issues yet.

We’ve got four stories and three poems, three audio works, the next two pages of Miguel Santos’ comic Ancestors and more art than you can shake a broadsword at!

Fiction

The beholder feasts its eyes upon it:

The Chariot of Naram-Zahur, Dariel R. A. Quiogue, artwork by Simon Walpole and Gary McCluskey.  Three fugitives from the city of Bel-Ezor risk travelling on the night of the eclipse of the two moons Zahur and Yashtar.  On such a night, the veil between worlds, between the present and the past, is stretched thin and dangers explode from every dune!  A fantastic tale of adventure, escapes, and intrigues.

A Voice of Hornets, by Bryan Babb, artwork by Andrea Alemanno.  Sigurd the Norman has come to the seaside town of Safi to test his mettle against the demon troubling them.  But what lurks out in the depths is like no demon or creature he’s ever heard of.  He places his faith in the Lord and his own cunning, hoping that the creature is not doing the same.  Babb is bringing something new to the table!

Tinker’s Come to Fix Your Wares, by Galen Gower, audio by Leeman Kessler.  The tinker—nobody’s fool—reads the signs before entering a new town, and forewarned and forearmed he ventures in, discovering a nearly empty city and within it a great mystery is unleashed.

Crossing the Eye of Silence, by Dennis Mombauer, artwork by Miguel Santos, audio by Karen Menzel.  Trapped at sea in the Eye of Silence, Thekla and her companions must thread a dangerous path in both this world and the world of the past, and the inexplicable overalap between the two.  Weird fiction?  We got it!  “Crossing the Eye of Silence” takes place in the same world as Dennis’ tale “Thokmay”.

Poetry

To Daze the Sea, by Daniel Kelly, artwork by Karolína Wellartová, audio by The Bard.  A warrior monk ventures down from the holy mountain on a quest to daze the sea, and damn…what a poem!

A King’s Lament, by Audrey Elmerson.  Being a prince with many brothers is a special kind of hell, one which must be plumbed to its depths if one is to ever escape.

Spilling Tea With a Housemaid of Wyvern Hall, by Gretchen Tessmer, with artwork by Simon Walpole.  Servants often know more than their masters would ever guess.

Comic

We’ve got pages 3 and 4 of Miguel Santos’ “Ancestors“!

 

Check out all of our musings at our editorial and dive in!