Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine
@3lobedmag.com
Magazine of speculative fiction; stories of horror, wonder, and the weird since 1999. https://3lobedmag.com
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.
December 4, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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.
“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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“The Somnambulist”
by Katie McIvor
Issue 46
www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/3lbe...
November 21, 2025 at 6:19 PM
“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...
“The Somnambulist”
by Katie McIvor
Issue 46
www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/3lbe...
“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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“Songs Never Sung”
by Premee Mohamed
Issue 46
www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/3lbe...
November 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM
“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...
“Songs Never Sung”
by Premee Mohamed
Issue 46
www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/3lbe...
“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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“For When the Night is Behind You and the Depths are Ahead”
by Corey Farrenkopf
Issue 46
www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/3lbe...
November 19, 2025 at 6:24 PM
“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...
“For When the Night is Behind You and the Depths are Ahead”
by Corey Farrenkopf
Issue 46
www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/3lbe...
“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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“Untitled #5”
by Nadia Bulkin
Issue 46
www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/3lbe...
November 14, 2025 at 6:19 PM
“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...
“Untitled #5”
by Nadia Bulkin
Issue 46
www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/3lbe...
“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...
“The Subject”
by Brian Evenson
www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/3lbe...
November 13, 2025 at 7:01 PM
“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...
“The Subject”
by Brian Evenson
www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/3lbe...
“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...
“Belly Full of Eyes”
by K.S. Walker
Issue 46
www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/3lbe...
November 12, 2025 at 6:29 PM
“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...
“Belly Full of Eyes”
by K.S. Walker
Issue 46
www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/3lbe...
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/
November 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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/
New issue coming soon to your nightmares on Tuesday, November 11th…
November 7, 2025 at 10:43 PM
New issue coming soon to your nightmares on Tuesday, November 11th…
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.
October 28, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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.
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
September 17, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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
24 hours remain on late pledges. Help us hit our stretch goal and unlock another issue of 3LBE in 2026! kck.st/4mIkEm1
September 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
24 hours remain on late pledges. Help us hit our stretch goal and unlock another issue of 3LBE in 2026! kck.st/4mIkEm1
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
September 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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
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)
(For those who could not add-on a physical reward to digital reward, which is quite silly, imho)
September 9, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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)
(For those who could not add-on a physical reward to digital reward, which is quite silly, imho)
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
September 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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 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
September 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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
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
September 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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
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
September 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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
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
September 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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
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
September 4, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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
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
August 31, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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
We’ve added more authors to 2026! Pledge to support us so we can all read new fiction by: Clay McLeod Chapman, Kristi DeMeester, AI Jiang, Rachael K. Jones, Gwendolyn Kiste, John Langan, Premee Mohamed, Hailey Piper, Keith Rosson, Nisi Shawl, Molly Tanzer, and Wendy N. Wagner. kck.st/4mIkEm1
August 26, 2025 at 5:55 PM
We’ve added more authors to 2026! Pledge to support us so we can all read new fiction by: Clay McLeod Chapman, Kristi DeMeester, AI Jiang, Rachael K. Jones, Gwendolyn Kiste, John Langan, Premee Mohamed, Hailey Piper, Keith Rosson, Nisi Shawl, Molly Tanzer, and Wendy N. Wagner. kck.st/4mIkEm1
It’s hard to believe we’ve been publishing horror, fantasy, and science fiction for 25 years. Support us in our journey for another 25! We have great stories planned, and more on the way. Let’s read them together! kck.st/4mIkEm1
August 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
It’s hard to believe we’ve been publishing horror, fantasy, and science fiction for 25 years. Support us in our journey for another 25! We have great stories planned, and more on the way. Let’s read them together! kck.st/4mIkEm1
Support our Kickstarter for 2026 with a 1-year subscription, or a lifetime subscription for all future issues until the cosmic unfolding. Or travel into the past with back issues… maybe just keep going that way and see some dinosaurs. kck.st/4mIkEm1
August 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Support our Kickstarter for 2026 with a 1-year subscription, or a lifetime subscription for all future issues until the cosmic unfolding. Or travel into the past with back issues… maybe just keep going that way and see some dinosaurs. kck.st/4mIkEm1
Back us for another year of dark stories, and grab some rewards in the add-ons. We have a 3LBE metal pin for your lapel, drink coasters, bookmarks, stickers, and books of 3LBE VOLUME VI–X print anthologies. kck.st/4mIkEm1
August 23, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Back us for another year of dark stories, and grab some rewards in the add-ons. We have a 3LBE metal pin for your lapel, drink coasters, bookmarks, stickers, and books of 3LBE VOLUME VI–X print anthologies. kck.st/4mIkEm1