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!
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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!
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.
www.3lobedmag.com/issue42
www.amazon.com/Best-Horror-...
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
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.
“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...
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
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.
“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...
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
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.
“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...
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.
24 hours remain on late pledges. Help us hit our stretch goal and unlock another issue of 3LBE in 2026! kck.st/4mIkEm1
Submissions are closed for this reading session. Thanks to everyone who sent a story, we’ll respond within the next 30 days.
Late pledges are open for 3 more days. Help us hit our first Stretch Goal to fund an extra issue of 3LBE in 2026. More stories, more nightmares! kck.st/4mIkEm1
A few days left to reach our first Stretch Goal with $1K more, which would give us all another issue in 2026. We’ve added more rewards, and an easy way to get add-ons. For the glory of monsters and dreams! kck.st/4mIkEm1
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A few days left to reach with $1k more and Stretch Goal #1, which would add another issue to 2026. We’ve added more rewards, and an easy way to get add-ons. For the glory of monsters and dreams! kck.st/4mIkEm1
If we reach Stretch Goal #1, we can add another issue to 3LBE 2026, and open another submission window. More and more stories! Plus there are a few new rewards. kck.st/4mIkEm1
Submissions are open until Sept 16, 12AM Pacific time. Send us your most frightening, strange, surprising tale!
Late pledges are open for one week. If we reach our first stretch goal +$1326, we get to add more stories and another issue next year! The stories of monsters and heartbreak are waiting for us… kck.st/4mIkEm1
We’ve reached our goal! A colossal thanks to everyone who’s backed us and shared. Your support makes this all possible. Thank you!
Late pledges are up for one week with new rewards, and we hope to hit stretch goals so we can add even more issues and stories next year.
3 hours left! Stretch goals will add more issues to 2026, more stories that terrify, beguile, and astound. We can read them all under the covers with a flashlight! kck.st/4mIkEm1
12 hours remain, and stretch goals are waiting. What if 3LBE went from thricely to quarterly issues, or six issues, or twelve? Every stretch goal we reach adds more issues to 2026. Help us bring all the stories alive! kck.st/4mIkEm1
The covers of 8 issues of 3LBE magazine, along with the 3LBE masthead.
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