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Congratulations to Shelley Lavigne “Devoted/Devoured” and Jordan Kurella “All Her Rows of Teeth“ for their 3LBE stories on the 2024 BSFA long list!

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Congratulations to Ann LeBlanc “Memories Held Against a Hungry Mouth“ and Jordan Kurella “All Her Rows of Teeth“ for their 3LBE stories on the 2024 Locus Recommended Reading List!

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Last day open for this reading period. Send that gritty beautiful lycanthropic fable of time ripping retribution, that heart crushing story of forbidden fungal desire at the end of worlds, that tale of a ragtag microscopic heist of magical bones from the inner ear of a tyrannical beast.

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We are now open to submissions with a raise in author pay, with so many thanks to our supporters. Cannot wait to read your terrifying unruly anomalous awesome fictions!

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We will be open for submissions January 1–15, and looking forward to reading your eerie wild unpredictable stories that fracture reality, the heart, and the void.

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“She licked her fingers clean upon exiting Notre-Dame Basilica. I thought she was lapping holy water—I did not have her memories then so I fantasized: her fingers pressed into the soaked sponge near the egress,” “Devoted/Devoured” by Shelley Lavigne Issue 43 www.3lobedmag.com/issue43/3lbe...

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“Night is not a substance. Substance implies surface, and night is a hollow distance. You cannot touch the night, and if it touches you, it does so carelessly,” “Kick the Can” by Jonathan Olfert Issue 43 www.3lobedmag.com/issue43/3lbe...

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“Spring transitioned out of crawl and into run at the top of the Martian ridge they’d been climbing. The ground was still littered with rocks of all sizes, but the flat terrain made running possible again.” “R is for Running” by E. Catherine Tobler Issue 43 www.3lobedmag.com/issue43/3lbe...

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“The library carpet was blood red. Crimson Anaglypta covered the walls, and the wingback armchairs were upholstered in oxblood leather. The bookcases held shelves of fine bindings clearly not intended for reading.” “Heartstone Lodge” by Timothy Granville www.3lobedmag.com/issue43/3lbe...

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3LBE Issue 43 debuts today with new short fiction of weird, wonder, and horror by Timothy Granville, @ect.bsky.social, @jonolfert.bsky.social, and @shelleylavigne.bsky.social. Read two stories online, buy the full ebook, or become a patron subscriber. www.3lobedmag.com/issue43/

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New issue drops tomorrow! Detail from front cover art. 📕🪼

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Welcome new followers, we are a fiction magazine of horror, weird, and wonder. We like stories that make you gasp alone by campfire on a lost moon while living shadows sing. We like tales from severed folklore, rabid gender, post colonial landscapes, and gardens of monstrous art. New issue 11/19.

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Yes, we believe in you and absolutely always want angry devastating queer dissenting fictions.

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New 3LBE bookmarks have arrived from printer, and Strega approves. Going out very soon to many KS backers.📕🐈‍⬛

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New stickers arrived: 3LBE logo, eerie bookshelf, and march of weird beasts. These are for KS add-on reward Adherence to Strangeness. Mailing out soon! 🐙👻📕🐉🦖🪼

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Welcome new followers, we hope you enjoy frightening strange fiction, and will stop by to read a few by our contributors.

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Late Pledges will be open for one more day, if you want to help us hit stretch goals and increase the number of stories we can publish in 2025. kck.st/4fJ9eMd

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Rew X is done with creepy neat sticker, bookmarks & coaster art and sent off to printer. So we’ll ship most rewards soon, except those with next year art. Also, late pledges are open for a few more days, if you want us to increase our fiction or grab some rewards, visit: kck.st/4fJ9eMd

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Late pledges are open, and if you support us on stretch goals we can double our dark fiction in 2025! Besides the first amazing dozen authors , an additional dozen are waiting to create terrifying bewildering tales that we want to read too—so let’s freaking go! kck.st/4fJ9eMd

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We’re not done! We’ve been granted Late Pledges on KS, so if you want to help us reach stretch goals, and publish even more dark fiction into the world, stop by and check out the rewards kck.st/4fJ9eMd

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Sadly we did not have KS late pledges configured correctly, but if you want to support us there are subscriptions, issues, books, and more via our web store, or become a patron.

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Thank you again, KS backers! Be sure to finish the survey, which verifies your payment and info for rewards. We’ll send out some digital rewards immediately after.

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Thank you to everyone who backed 3LBE, and helped share the news! We can’t wait to bring you more dark fiction in 2025. Backer surveys going out as soon as payments are done, and more news soon. Also, our latest submission window closes at midnight tomorrow.

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13 hours left to hit stretch goals and unlock more issues of 3LBE magazine in 2025, and more strange beautiful haunted fiction. www.kickstarter.com/projects/asf...

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With 24 hours remaining, hitting stretch goals can double the number of stories we publish in 2025. Let’s visit together the monstrous graveyards, memory boglands, asteroid caverns, forest cathedrals, ghostly tundras, carnivorous cities. www.kickstarter.com/projects/asf...

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A parade of strange beings told us there could be even more dark fiction in 2025, they said twelve more writers have great stories locked away in their brains, and only we can free them. Help us reach stretch goals in the next 40 hours! www.kickstarter.com/projects/asf...

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Stretch Goals: more authors in 3LBE 2025! So we can all read new stories by: Brian Evenson, Maxwell I. Gold, Ruth Joffre, Avra Margariti, Katie McIvor, Sunny Moraine, Tiffany Morris, Cat Rambo, Simo Srinivas, Molly Tanzer, Eugenia Triantafyllou, K. S. Walker 🖌 www.kickstarter.com/projects/asf...

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💯 We’re 100% funded, thank you to all our backers! Next up: STRETCH GOALS to make 2025 an even bigger year for dark fiction! 👻

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97.3% funded, 70 hours left! For the love of speculative fiction, weird fiction, horror stories, dark fantasy, fantastique, magical realism, slipstream, gothic, science fiction, everypunk—back us so we can bring you more stories in 2025! www.kickstarter.com/projects/asf...

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96.4% funded, 3 days left! You feel the hairs on your neck rise to meet the specter floating behind, the tap of curious insects at the window, the moonlight riddled by its veil as it reaches through you to turn the page, reveal the rest of the story… www.kickstarter.com/projects/asf...

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90% funded, 4 days left! Thanks to 152 backers thus far, we’re close to funding 3LBE 2025, full of stories so strange dark frightening unpredictable wild dazzling queer noncompliant sinister and joyous that you will hide or dance with each reading. www.kickstarter.com/projects/asf...

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If you enjoy fiction which presents beautiful vicious places you would trade a life to inhabit, discovers new creatures you cannot quite see or turn away from, greets they who tear a hole in your heart with a kiss, creates a nightmare that follows you all day. Back us and bring these stories alive!

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80% funding goal, 6 days left! We’ve added a new reward: autographed books by Tiffany Morris, Maxwell I. Gold, and Sunny Moraine. If you enjoy these authors, help us reach the first stretch goal and we’ll have a new story by each of them, & many more! www.kickstarter.com/projects/asf...

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We have such sights to show you! Very excited for 2025, but we must reach funding goal in 1 week. Incredible authors already writing new stories of relentless monsters, uncanny places, terrifying discoveries. A dozen more authors if we hit the first stretch goal. www.kickstarter.com/projects/asf...

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Thank you 125 backers so far! We’re hovering at 75% funded and the clock is ticking. New reward: The Diabolist’s Library by Molly Tanzer, autographed 3-book set of historical dark fantasy novels about demons, magic, sisterhood, and defiance. www.kickstarter.com/projects/asf...

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Closer and closer to our goal, help us fund 3LBE in 9 days! New reward: YOUR NAME in a new story by Simo Srinivas, Cat Rambo, or Richard Thomas. Will you be haunted by a witch, transformed into a weremadillo, or hurled into the maw of lost gods? www.kickstarter.com/projects/asf...

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Incredible weekend with so much support, thank you! The goal is in sight, let’s keep going!! The Etched with Dark Flame reward is a limited set of pyrography wood bookmarks, each featuring an original monster burn-etched by cover artist Rew X, each set is unique. www.kickstarter.com/projects/asf...

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We are grateful every day for the sharing and support, our goal is drawing closer! We’ve added new rewards: story critiques by authors & editors: Corey Farrenkopf, Ruth Joffre, Joe Koch, E. Catherine Tobler, K.S. Walker. Give your fiction some seasoned eyeballs! www.kickstarter.com/projects/asf...

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Thank you to all backers so far! We’ve reached 100 backers, and passed the 50% mark. Our readership is growing with many new followers. We’re excited for 2025 full of haunted beautiful strange fiction, some writers lined up, more to announce, & submissions open. www.kickstarter.com/projects/asf...

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Welcome new followers, we need you support! Back us at any reward tier, and add-on a 3LBE lapel pin. Or join the new Coterie of Nightmares tier and receive an exclusive pin. (We are not responsible for any secret societies developing from this emblem.) www.kickstarter.com/projects/asf...

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We’ve added new backer rewards! A limited amount of ebooks by Richard Thomas, Steve Toase, and Avra Margariti. Pledge at this tier and also receive a one-year subscription to 3LBE, plus your name on the supporters’ list. www.kickstarter.com/projects/asf...

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We’ve been publishing SF/F/H fiction for 25 years, and right now we need YOUR support to continue. To keep issues free, raise author pay, publish more stories in 2025, grow and spread like beautiful fungal spore. We added new rewards today, and every pledge helps! www.kickstarter.com/projects/asf...

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So many new followers since yesterday, welcome! Let’s get to 50% (or more!) funded by tomorrow and we’ll announce more authors with new stories, and more great rewards! 3LBE magazines needs your support to tell more stories and pay writers at pro rates and grow. www.kickstarter.com/projects/asf...

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Back us at the Library of Screams tier for a full set of 3LBE ebook back issues. Or at the Library of the Future tier for all upcoming issues until the Sun dies. Perhaps you want it all with Library of Eternity for all issues past and forever. www.kickstarter.com/projects/asf...

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Several of our KS rewards feature art by Rew X. Perhaps there’s a space on your wall calling for the cover of 3LBE issue 37, or the wide print of 3LBE Volume VII. Or maybe you long for an original digital painting yet to be created. www.kickstarter.com/projects/asf...

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No matter what level you support 3LBE 2025, you can add on extra rewards including an ebook, lapel pin, a set of stickers, or coasters. Or pledge because you believe in what we’re doing. www.kickstarter.com/projects/asf...

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Support us at the Sustainer of Dreams tier and receive: postcards of 2025 issues cover art, a 3LBE bookmark, a one-year subscription, your name on the supporters’ list, and so many thanks you’ll need a protection spell. www.kickstarter.com/projects/asf...

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In one week, 50 intrepid backers brought us to 30% funded. 👻 Help us reach our goal and unlock stretch goals: more author critiques, books, an exclusive lapel pin, unfathomable beautiful vistas of forgotten dimensions—well, those will come with the stories. www.kickstarter.com/projects/asf...

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Today the 3LBE 2025 campaign is selected as a KS “Project We Love”. Readers love the stories we publish, and we want to reach those readers of horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction who haven’t found us yet. Help support 3LBE and spread the word! www.kickstarter.com/projects/asf...

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Support us at the Tome of Other Worlds tier and receive: a copy of the next print anthology Volume X, a 1-year subscription, your name on the list of print supporters, eternal glory in the radiance of new star. We cannot guarantee the last one, but working on it. www.kickstarter.com/projects/asf...

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