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We will be open for story submissions May 1–16, and look forward to reading that frightening wondrous tale you’ve been hiding away in the shadows.

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Today is the last day to vote in the Locus Poll. Don't forget to vote for your favorite novel, story, editor, artist, etc. For the first time 3LBE has a few stories on there!

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Cover reveal & pre-orders open for 3LBE VOL. X print anthology! 24 stories by E. Catherine Tobler, Steve Rasnic Tem, Jordan Kurella, Nick Mamatas, Avra Margariti, Steve Toase, Koji A. Day, Ann LeBlanc, Richard Thomas, Christi Nogle, & more, +42 new illustrations. 3lobedmag.com/store.html

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Something is coming…

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We’ve added audio of Joe Koch’s haunting story “Homicidal Maps” to the latest issue—a great reading by Ria Hill www.3lobedmag.com/issue44/3lbe...

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“Have you ever noticed a group of older women having fun, completely indifferent to everyone around them? Have you seen them being unapologetically themselves, doing their thing, despite what people might think?” “The Bathers” by Eugenia Triantafyllou Issue 44 www.3lobedmag.com/issue44/3lbe...

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“The man wasn’t a man but rather a plastic cape in the shape of a man. The cape was unusual. The plastic it was made of had an alligator or crocodile texture, whichever you’d see on expensive shoes, but fake.” “Homicidal Maps” by Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog Issue 44 www.3lobedmag.com/issue44/3lbe...

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“Dear P Sayling, You have tested positive for Cryptoidus. This disease is caused by an internal parasite that can affect many parts of the body without causing symptoms or implications of illness.” “The Thing That Ate Itself” by Aliya Whiteley Issue 44 www.3lobedmag.com/issue44/3lbe...

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“The envelope contains a keyring with two keys, two hundred dollar bills that smelt of petrol and a watch, the glass cracked like a motorway atlas. I stare at them for three hours…” “The Ballad of Easy Deaths” by Steve Toase Issue 44 www.3lobedmag.com/issue44/3lbe...

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“Lita was two months behind on rent when she saw the poster on a jobs board. $5,000,000 grand prize! Winner takes all! What caught her attention was not the shiny gold numbers printed in metallic ink but the dark silhouette of the…” “First Ascent” by Ruth Joffre www.3lobedmag.com/issue44/3lbe...

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“In the mountains behind our home, there were old wells. I would hunt for them in the summers when I was young, maybe too young, to be out there on my own. On slow and sweaty afternoons, I’d mark sedges and oakways as the borders of…” “Old Wells” by Thomas Ha www.3lobedmag.com/issue44/3lbe...

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3LBE Issue 44 debuts today with new original short fiction of weird, wonder, and horror by Thomas Ha, Ruth Joffre, Steve Toase, Aliya Whiteley, Joe Koch, and Eugenia Triantafyllou. Read 3 stories online, buy the full ebook, or become a patron subscriber. www.3lobedmag.com/issue44/

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New issue drops tomorrow with the 2 of 6 new tales of weird, wonder, and horror! 📖 Subscribe directly or through patreon and get the full issue delivered today.

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Coming soon! The next issue of 3LBE magazine will be released next Tuesday, March 18th, featuring 6 new original stories of weird, wonder, and horror by authors who always stir the imagination.

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This awards season, we hope you will consider the short stories, magazine, and editor of Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine. 3 issues with 12 original stories in 2024.

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New things coming this way. Look for the next issue of 3LBE on March 18.

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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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