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 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 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 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 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 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 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…

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.

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

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

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 just met our funding goal! Thank you times infinity to the backers of the last 30 minutes, and everyone in the last 28 days. There will be 3LBE 2026! 🖤🐙 📖 There’s still time for stretch goals, which will add more issues and more stories.

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)

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

Thank you everyone who supported and shared our fundraiser today, raising it to 62%. Only 3 days left, we can get there!

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 really appreciate everyone sharing about our fundraiser, it’s helping us climb. Not much time left, and the stories are waiting to be told—we need your support!

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

It’s Friday night, what you up to? Washing your diaphanous wings for a midnight trip, sharpening your incisors to make sculpture from enemy bone, rehearsing dance that conjures the hungry ones, planning the subterranean cathedral heist? Tossing coin at a three-lobed burning eye? 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

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 have such sights to show you! Very excited for 2026, but we must reach our funding goal in one week to do so. Incredible authors already writing new stories of relentless monsters, uncanny places, terrifying discoveries. Thank you, 90 backers so far! kck.st/4mIkEm1

Our magazine has a long title, but we love short fiction, it’s all we publish. Stories that stir zeal and doom in a cauldron. Stories that build skeletons of flying vampiric cities. Stories that travel in time through echoes of secret songs. Help us keep doing this! kck.st/4mIkEm1

Lots of discussion lately about increased interest in short fiction, and we love that. We have 25 years of horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction stories for you to read. And we would love to do 25 more, if you can help. kck.st/4mIkEm1

We are currently open to submissions September 1–15 via the Moksha system. Send the story that scares you, changes you, beguiles you. We are hungry and waiting.

We like stories that lurk in the dark closet before you pull the chain, whisper behind the garage in an animal voice, swim in the attic insulation above your dreaming head, invite you past city limits to places unchanged, drink your soft trappings and place you in the old gloom.

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

Eugen Bacon has joined us for a new story next year! Brian Evenson has added some limited edition rewards! We need your help for 2026: kck.st/4mIkEm1

Our writers absolutely deserve pro payment, 2025 is the first year we could do it. Now we need your help so every issue and every story happens next year. A bevy of awesome authors have already signed on. Only 11 days left, all or nothing, let’s do this! kck.st/4mIkEm1

We love stories that kick at the helmets of cruelty, roar at the cries of intolerance, dance in the joy of the unusual! We love weird unpredictable wild dazzling queer noncompliant loud tales that celebrate the strange! Always have and want more! Let’s do 25 more years of this! kck.st/4mIkEm1

We like stories that plant swaying forests in your dream, crawl over the table with breath of cinnamon and longing, swing a moon into a nasty god’s eye, ignite your voice as chaos rages down the avenue of love, change a body with their slow sorcery of one word at a time. Let’s do more kck.st/4mIkEm1

Today we are halfway done with the campaign, but only one-quarter of the way to our goal. It’s all or nothing. Please share, and any amount you can help is very appreciated. Horror and weird fiction are good for us. kck.st/4mIkEm1

Great rewards await! Who wouldn’t want their name in a Ai Jiang story, career advice from Michael Wehunt, pick a monster for John Langan, or mixtape by Keith Lasson? Who among us would not want a story critique by Molly Tanzer, A.D. Sui, or Corey Farrenkopf? Back us for 2026! 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