Astounding Hero Tales is a fiction anthology edited by James Lowder and published by Hero Games in March 2007.^[1]

• "Death was silent" (Lester Dent)
• "The mask of Kukulcan" (Will Murray)
• "Two-fisted crookback" (Steve Melisi)
• "Wolf train west" (William Messner-Loebs)
• "Godmother" (Steve Eller)
• "Missing pages" (Richard Dansky)
• "Running thunder" (John Helfers)
• "Playback" (Patricia Lee Macomber)
• "A lost city of the jungle" (Darrell Schweitzer)
• "It came from the swamp" (Ed Greenwood)
• "Slide home" (David Niall Wilson)
• "Out west" (John Pelan)
• "Bandit gold" (Thomas M. Reid)
• "Kiss me deadly" (Robert Weinberg)
• "The forgotten man" (Robin D. Laws)
• "House of shadows" (Hugh B. Cave)

Astounding Hero Tales won the 2007 Origins Award for Best Fiction Publication of the Year.^[2]

The anthology was reviewed by Scott Connors in Weird Tales, March-April 2008, and Jackson Kuhl in Black Gate, Summer 2008.^[1]