The Best of Helios Quarterly Magazine

The Best of Helios Quarterly Magazine celebrates three years of diverse speculative fiction from around the world! Helios Quarterly Magazine is a horror, science fiction, and fantasy quarterly periodical launched in 2016. This anthology features fifteen of the best short stories published in Helios Quarterly Magazine Volume 1, Issue 1 through Helios Quarterly Magazine Volume 3, Issue 4.




Siblings cursed by the moon brave the Tanzanian wilds. Irrevocably altered by climate change, a lone man alludes sharks and marshpunks in near-future Boston. The Greek gods of old descend on a yacht in the middle of the sea. You emerge as the second Adam on a strange new world. After surviving the collapse of an interstellar mine, a haunted woman clings to her sanity. A young woman with an affinity towards animals encounters seven female warriors on horseback. The Flock answers the call of their new blood-thirsty Master.




While terraforming Mars, a couple butts heads and blasts away outlaws. As invaders descend from the sky, native inhabitants of an alien world struggle to survive. Shot from the sky, a gryphon rider's memories flash before his eyes. On the brink of death, an elderly woman awaits a visit from the Skeleton Man. The birth of a marked child forces a painful choice. In an alternate universe, a New Yorker answers the call of a desperate woman trying to get back to Earth. When a man seeks revenge using Voodoo magic, he falls victim to unintended consequences. The laws of gravity are upended as a lone heroine takes on a cult leader named Isaac.