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

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

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.

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 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.

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

3LBE Magazine - book club for bots by Clay McLeod Chapman They like my new book! Really, really like it... A truly unsettling and unforgettable narrative, they called me. A masterpiece. My novel. Bold letters and all.

“They like my new book! Really, really like it... A truly unsettling and unforgettable narrative, they called me. A masterpiece. My novel. Bold letters and all.”

“book club for bots”
by Clay McLeod Chapman
Issue 47
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3LBE Magazine - Someday, The Rules Were (Mostly Clear) by Maxwell I. Gold I was never very reliable, in life or in this hell where I now reside. Everything bled together in weird fragments of space, time, and memory, but death never really surprised me. Sometimes I became t...

“I was never very reliable, in life or in this hell where I now reside. Everything bled together in weird fragments of space, time, and memory, but death never really surprised me.”

“Someday, The Rules Were (Mostly) Clear”
by Maxwell I. Gold
Issue 47
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The Show is in the Basement by Keith Rosson This is like a collage of sound: static, birds chirping, random bleeps and bloops, the screech of what sounds very much like a fax machine. Very veiled voices, one that's sometimes screaming, but it's...

“This is like a collage of sound: static, birds chirping, random bleeps and bloops, the screech of what sounds very much like a fax machine. Very veiled voices, one that’s sometimes screaming…”

“The Show is in the Basement”
by Keith Rosson
Issue 47
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3LBE Magazine - Issue 47: Contents A magazine of speculative fiction, horror, fantasy, and science fiction. Issue 47 features stories by Wendy N. Wagner, Hailey Piper, Eugen Bacon, Keith Rosson, Maxwell I. Gold, and Clay McLeod Chapman...

The second half of Issue 47 is live today. Stop by and read stories by Keith Rosson, Maxwell I. Gold, and Clay McLeod Chapman. Buy the full ebook or become a patron subscriber. www.3lobedmag.com/issue47/

3LBE Magazine - Kindredhood in Medieval Tongues by Eugen Bacon She was drawn to the silvery white of the moonveil cap, fingered the pale blue luminescence of its gills. It was soft and silky, almost ethereal. She touched it...

“She was drawn to the silvery white of the moonveil cap, fingered the pale blue luminescence of its gills. It was soft and silky, almost ethereal. She touched it to her tongue and…”

“Kindredhood in Medieval Tongues”
by Eugen Bacon
Issue 47
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3LBE Magazine - Our Darkness to Take by Hailey Piper Giving up hope was the hard part. The uncertainty of what comes after hope is dead? That's been harder. That is when the delusions began. The lies of the mind.

“Giving up hope was the hard part. The uncertainty of what comes after hope is dead? That’s been harder. That is when the delusions began. The lies of the mind. They come easily to Downstairs Tara in the dark of the basement.”

“Our Darkness to Take”
by Hailey Piper
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3LBE Magazine - The Final Safest Place by Wendy N. Wagner By the time the survivor half-scrambled, half-swam into the cove, every inch of her was battered and scraped. Twice she'd been knocked off her feet by the waves, barely catching herself before...

“By the time the survivor half-scrambled, half-swam into the cove, every inch of her was battered and scraped. Twice she’d been knocked off her feet by the waves, barely catching herself…”

“The Final Safest Place”
by Wendy N. Wagner
Issue 47
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3LBE Issue 47 cover featuring a very toothsome monster erupting from a boy’s mouth, as several more glowing eyed children emerge from smoke.

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/

If you’re reading for awards, we hope you’ll consider the 18 stories we published in 2025, all free on the website. And the magazine too. Read all the things and be well!

3LBE Magazine - The Heart Is Hungry Above All Things by Avra Margariti Our brother raises us on sugar-frosted corn flakes and lullabies from forgotten centuries. He raises us with storybooks of a time when giants walked the earth...

We love seeing Avra Margariti’s story “The Heart is Hungry Above All Things” (3LBE Issue 45) in the Locus 2025 Recommended Reading List among all the other great pieces. You can read it here www.3lobedmag.com/issue45/3lbe...

Excited to see two stories from 3LBE on the recommended list in The Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 17, edited by Ellen Datlow. Be sure to read “Daring Again to Say Goodbye” by Nkone Chaka and “All Her Rows of Teeth” by Jordan Kurella.

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Our apologies that the submission opening did not go as scheduled, but we are now open until mid-day Jan 16. We look forward to reading all your strange frightening unexpected stories!

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

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.

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.

“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
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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.

“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
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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.

“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
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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.

“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
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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.

“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
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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.

“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
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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.

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/

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

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

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

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.

Thank you again to all KS backers! Be sure to complete your survey in the pledge manager. Add on a book or shirt or stickers. We are sending out some rewards. www.kickstarter.com/projects/asf...

A colossal thank you to all of our backers for helping us meet our goal! We are already working on 2026 and very excited to share another year of strange fiction. Backer surveys are going out now.

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)

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

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

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Submissions are closed for this reading session. Thanks to everyone who sent a story, we’ll respond within the next 30 days.