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Magazine of speculative fiction; stories of horror, wonder, and the weird since 1999.

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine@3lobedmag· 29d

3LBE Issue 48 debuts today with new short fiction of weird, wonder, and horror by Rachael K. Jones, Nisi Shawl, Nick Mamatas, Ai Jiang, Cody Goodfellow, and Lavie Tidhar. Read three stories online, buy the full ebook, or become a patron subscriber. www.3lobedmag.com/issue48/

3LBE Issue 48 cover featuring a strange haunting figure whose cloak is comprised of many complex colorful shapes and faces.

Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine@3lobedmag· Jul 7

New issue coming in one week…

Detail of 3LBE Issue 48, artwork by Rew X shows some weird small ghosts in a rising cloud against a distressed background.

Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine@3lobedmag· Jun 8

Excited that new merch came in, so we’re shipping out rewards to Kickstarter backers, including: 3LBE shirts, hoodies, anthologies, art prints, stickers, metal pins, drink coasters, and more. Raven dog managing the scene.

A series of packages on a table with a dog lying underneath.

Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine@3lobedmag· Apr 14

It’s release day for 3LBE VOLUME XI print anthology! Featuring 18 stories by Thomas Ha, Ruth Joffre, Joe Koch, Eugenia Triantafyllou, A.C. Wise, E. Catherine Tobler, Brian Evenson, Nadia Bulkin, Premee Mohamed, and many more, with 29 new illustrations. Order now! www.3lobedmag.com/store.html

Cover of 3LBE Volume XI with a colorful illustration of various odd creatures alongside a list of contributors Thomas Ha · Ruth Joffre · Steve Toase · Aliya Whiteley · Joe Koch · Eugenia Triantafyllou · Christi Nogle · Octavia Cade · A.C. Wise · Mari Ness · E. Catherine Tobler · Avra Margariti · K.S. Walker · Brian Evenson · Nadia Bulkin · Corey Farrenkopf · Premee Mohamed · Katie McIvor

Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine@3lobedmag· Apr 13

Order today because 3LBE VOLUME XI is coming tomorrow! www.3lobedmag.com/store.html

Detail of 3LBE VOLUME XI featuring a closeup of a giant crow with many eyes, a blue figure with multiple arms and fungi growing from their body, a red crocodile-like head, and a long flying beast with a curly tongue.

Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine@3lobedmag· Apr 9

Pre-orders are open for 3LBE VOLUME XI print anthology with 18 stories by Thomas Ha, Ruth Joffre, Joe Koch, Eugenia Triantafyllou, A.C. Wise, E. Catherine Tobler, Brian Evenson, Nadia Bulkin, Premee Mohamed, and more, with 29 new illustrations. www.3lobedmag.com/store.html

Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine@3lobedmag· Apr 6

Alongside the 18 tales of weird, wonder, and horror, 3LBE VOLUME XI will feature 29 new illustrations. Reserve your copy today! www.3lobedmag.com/store.html

A serious of BW watercolor illustrations including figures with teeth, a creepy old well, a figure washing up on a shore, three faces with long sharp teeth, and an old rocking chair.

The cover of 3LBE Volume XI featuring many strange creatures.

Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine@3lobedmag· Mar 31

Cover reveal for 3LBE VOLUME XI print anthology. Coming April 14 with 18 stories by Thomas Ha, Ruth Joffre, Joe Koch, Eugenia Triantafyllou, A.C. Wise, E. Catherine Tobler, Brian Evenson, Nadia Bulkin, Premee Mohamed, and many more, with 29 new illustrations. Pre-order now! 3lobedmag.com/store.html

A colorful illustration of various creatures including a giant crow with many eyes, a blue figure with multiple arms and fungi growing from their body, a red crocodile-like head, a fox, something with a crescent head, and a long flying beast with a curly tongue.

Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine@3lobedmag· Mar 17

3LBE Issue 47 debuts today with new short fiction of weird, wonder, and horror by Wendy N. Wagner, Hailey Piper, Eugen Bacon, Keith Rosson, Maxwell I. Gold, and Clay McLeod Chapman. Read three stories online, buy the full ebook, or become a patron subscriber. www.3lobedmag.com/issue47/

3LBE Issue 47 cover featuring a very toothsome monster erupting from a boy’s mouth, as several more glowing eyed children emerge from smoke.

Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine@3lobedmag· Dec 4

This is our award eligibility post for 2025. We published 18 short stories this year, and love every one of them. We hope you gave them a read, were suitably haunted, and will give each one consideration. And maybe the magazine too.

Graphic with there cover designs that reads: Three-Lobed Burning Eye 2025 Award Eligibility, Short Fiction and lists the following:

Issue 44
“Old Wells” by Thomas Ha
“First Ascent” by Ruth Joffre
“The Ballad of Easy Deaths” by Steve Toase
“The Thing That Ate Itself” by Aliya Whiteley
“Homicidal Maps” by Joe Koch
“The Bathers” by Eugenia Triantafyllou
Issue 45
“The Interior” by Christi Nogle
“The Barrens” by Octavia Cade
“Her Shadow, Nailed to the Floor” by A.C. Wise
“Without Sunsets or Snow” by Mari Ness
“Nacre” by E. Catherine Tobler
“The Heart is Hungry Above All Things” by Avra Margariti
Issue 46
“Belly Full of Eyes” by K.S. Walker
“The Subject” by Brian Evenson
“Untitled #5” by Nadia Bulkin
“For When the Night is Behind You…” by Corey Farrenkopf
“Songs Never Sung” by Premee Mohamed
“The Somnambulist” by Katie McIvor

Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine@3lobedmag· Nov 21

“It was supposed to be a simple job. I fly into Edinburgh and get the gun from a contact in the Grassmarket. All smooth. I check into my hotel near the mark’s flat and spend a couple hours scoping out the area.” “The Somnambulist” by Katie McIvor Issue 46 www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/3lbe...

3LBE Issue 46 cover (featuring an antlered beast, a hooded being with a bloody axe, and several small creatures in the glare of a dusty sun) along with text of the quote.

Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine@3lobedmag· Nov 20

“It only ever spoke to me once and that was to say Do not sleep too deeply. Said upon departure, an aside tossed over its shoulder like salt. I paid little attention; I was staring at the thing it had given me...” “Songs Never Sung” by Premee Mohamed Issue 46 www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/3lbe...

Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine@3lobedmag· Nov 19

“We stood in front of the video game store for the midnight release of Castles Underground III. The crowd wore different homemade versions of the crimson armor…” “For When the Night is Behind You and the Depths are Ahead” by Corey Farrenkopf Issue 46 www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/3lbe...

Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine@3lobedmag· Nov 14

“The other girls in Alexandra’s fourth-grade class got Paradise Barbies and tickets to Disney On Ice for their birthdays, but Alexandra got a tulpa. Well, no, not a tulpa. Her mother called it a “thoughtform” but those were…” “Untitled #5” by Nadia Bulkin Issue 46 www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/3lbe...

Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine@3lobedmag· Nov 13

“We had been assured that before sleep the subject always placed his phone on the bedside table, resting it upright in the charging cradle—which was ideal for our purposes since it meant we could make use not only of the microphone…” “The Subject” by Brian Evenson www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/3lbe...

3LBE Issue 46 cover (featuring an antlered beast, hooded being with a bloody axe, and several small creatures in the glare of a dusty sun) along with text of the quote.

Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine@3lobedmag· Nov 12

“The entire house is dark, dark dark. There is nowhere we may not be. With the curtains pulled tight and the doors swelled shut we frolic, we thrive, we swell. The empty house, a shell we have expanded to fill.” “Belly Full of Eyes” by K.S. Walker Issue 46 www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/3lbe...

Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine@3lobedmag· Nov 11

3LBE Issue 46 debuts today with new original short fiction of weird, wonder, and horror by K.S. Walker, Brian Evenson, Nadia Bulkin, Corey Farrenkopf, Premee Mohamed, and Katie McIvor. Read three stories online, buy the full ebook, or become a patron subscriber. www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/

3LBE Issue 46 cover featuring a beast with bloody antlers, a hooded figure with a bloody axe, and several small creatures in the glare of a dusty sun.

Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine@3lobedmag· Nov 7

New issue coming soon to your nightmares on Tuesday, November 11th…

Detail of 3LBE Issue 46, artwork by Rew X shows a small dogbird creature with a faerie in its beak.

Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine@3lobedmag· Oct 28

After a few weeks of design, artwork for new 3LBE bookmarks and stickers and postcards are off to the printer. We’ll start shipping these out in mid-November to our glorious backers.

A closeup of pencil sketches for bookmarks, mostly featuring monsters.

Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine@3lobedmag· Sep 17

New autographed books for late pledge rewards! Less than 24 hours left to grab these, and help us hit stretch goal and unlock another issue. kck.st/4mIkEm1

The Nga’phandileh Whisperer by Eugen Bacon (Sept 2025)
NOVIC (tpb novelette) by Eugen Bacon (Sept 2025)
Coffin Moon by Keith Rosson (Sept 2025)
The Siege of Burning Grass by Premee Mohamed
Dark Sisters by Kristi DeMeester (Dec 2025)
A Game in Yellow by Hailey Piper (tpb) (Aug 2025)

What Kind of Mother by Clay Chapman McCleod
Red Skies in the Morning by Nadia Bulkin (tpb)
Dead Girls Don’t Dream by Nino Cipri
Constellations of Ruin by Andrew S. Fuller (tpb)
Haunted Ecologies by Corey Farrenkopf (tpb)
A Palace Near the Wind by Ai Jiang
The Haunting of Velkwood by Gwendolyn Kiste
Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions by John Langan (tpb)
We Are Always Tender with Our Dead by Eric LaRocca
Countess by Suzan Palumbo
All the Fabulous Beasts by Priya Sharma
Girl in the Creek by Wendy N. Wagner
The October Film Haunt by Michael Wehunt (Sept 2025)

Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine@3lobedmag· Sep 17

24 hours remain on late pledges. Help us hit our stretch goal and unlock another issue of 3LBE in 2026! kck.st/4mIkEm1

A parade of strange monsters marches through a colorful fire, along with the 3LBE masthead.

Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine@3lobedmag· Sep 10

24 hours left to reach our stretch goals! With each one we will add more fiction and more issues to the 2026 schedule. We know the stories are out there, let’s bring them in… to our eyeballs and brains and dreams. kck.st/4mIkEm1

The covers of 8 issues of 3LBE magazine, along with the 3LBE masthead.

Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine@3lobedmag· Sep 9

We have just created a new KS package reward that is 3LBE Subscription + T-shirt! (For those who could not add-on a physical reward to digital reward, which is quite silly, imho)

A black t-shirt featuring a parade of strange monsters, along with and 3LBE masthead.

Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine@3lobedmag· Sep 9

72% of our funding goal with only 45 hours left. We need your support now to publish another year of stories that are strange terrifying numinous inspiring queer heartening subversive unexpected intrepid. kck.st/4mIkEm1

A parade of strange creatures, along with the 3LBE icon and cover artwork.

Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine@3lobedmag· Sep 8

A great weekend of support, and only 70 hours left to reach our goal! Let’s visit together the stories of garden planets, sorrow caverns, carnivorous malls, jungle cathedrals, endless basements, whispering tundras, fungus skyscrapers. kck.st/4mIkEm1

A shadowy forest with pinpoints eyes staring back at you, along with the 3LBE icon and cover artwork.

Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine@3lobedmag· Sep 7

We need your support in the next 3 days, before the fall of eternal night. Help us breathe new stories that keep us alive, each word and phrase building the monster’s body, the one who rends and tears and protects us from darkness. kck.st/4mIkEm1

A strange creature lurks upright in the colorful darkness, along with the 3LBE icon and cover artwork.

Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine@3lobedmag· Sep 6

We won’t get any funds if we don’t reach our goal in the next 4 days. For the love of speculative fiction, horror stories, weird fiction, dark fantasy, magical realism, fantastique, slipstream, science fiction, alltopias, everypunk—back us so we can bring you more stories in 2026! kck.st/4mIkEm1

The words “54% funded, only 4 days left” against a distressed background, along with the 3LBE icon and cover artwork.

Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine@3lobedmag· Sep 5

We’re halfway to our goal, and only 5 days left! Please support us now for 2026 so we can read new stories by Eugen Bacon, Clay McLeod Chapman, Ai Jiang, Gwendolyn Kiste, John Langan, Premee Mohamed, Hailey Piper, Keith Rosson, Nisi Shawl, Molly Tanzer, Wendy N. Wagner, and more. kck.st/4mIkEm1

The faces of 13 authors listed above, along with the 3LBE icon and cover artwork.

Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine@3lobedmag· Sep 4

Please share this far and wide! We need your support this week to continue publishing a pro paying magazine of horror fantasy dark science weird speculative fiction. With six days left, join our parade of 96 backers so far! kck.st/4mIkEm1

A procession of strange creatures marches against a colorful background along with the 3LBE icon and details from cover graphics.

Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine@3lobedmag· Aug 31

We need your support! Back us now at any reward tier, and add on a 3LBE lapel pin. Or join the Coterie of Nightmares tier and receive an exclusive pin. (We are not responsible for any secret societies developing from this emblem.) kck.st/4mIkEm1