“The last three worshippers of, for lack of a better name, kwelh₁, had agreed to gather at the 18th Street IRT station, a subway stop long since abandoned, impossible to enter from the surface, but…” “When You Sit by a Window, Look Out” by Nick Mamatas Issue 48 www.3lobedmag.com/issue48/3lbe...

“What’s hard for us modern viewers to understand is exactly how filthy our forebears were. Not out of laziness or stupidity, but from the sheer privilege of living in that trough between Miasms running from 1950 to 2025.” “Olden” by Nisi Shawl Issue 48 www.3lobedmag.com/issue48/3lbe...

“If Lady Night catches me, it’ll mean much worse than death. She’ll punish me like she did my father, stretching out his skin to make herself a living umbrella, and she’ll say she doled out an honor.” “Lady Night’s Menagerie” by Rachael K. Jones Issue 48 www.3lobedmag.com/issue48/3lbe...

3LBE Issue 48 debuts today with new short fiction of weird, wonder, and horror by Rachael K. Jones, Nisi Shawl, Nick Mamatas, Ai Jiang, Cody Goodfellow, and Lavie Tidhar. Read three stories online, buy the full ebook, or become a patron subscriber. www.3lobedmag.com/issue48/

New issue coming in one week…

Excited that new merch came in, so we’re shipping out rewards to Kickstarter backers, including: 3LBE shirts, hoodies, anthologies, art prints, stickers, metal pins, drink coasters, and more. Raven dog managing the scene.

Submissions are now closed for this reading period. A big thank you to all who sent. We received 1,167 stories, are already sending responses, reading more each day.

We are open to submissions from today until end-of-day May 15th, and look forward to reading your weird unsettling tumultuous seductive stories.

It’s release day for 3LBE VOLUME XI print anthology! Featuring 18 stories by Thomas Ha, Ruth Joffre, Joe Koch, Eugenia Triantafyllou, A.C. Wise, E. Catherine Tobler, Brian Evenson, Nadia Bulkin, Premee Mohamed, and many more, with 29 new illustrations. Order now! www.3lobedmag.com/store.html

Order today because 3LBE VOLUME XI is coming tomorrow! www.3lobedmag.com/store.html

Pre-orders are open for 3LBE VOLUME XI print anthology with 18 stories by Thomas Ha, Ruth Joffre, Joe Koch, Eugenia Triantafyllou, A.C. Wise, E. Catherine Tobler, Brian Evenson, Nadia Bulkin, Premee Mohamed, and more, with 29 new illustrations. www.3lobedmag.com/store.html

Alongside the 18 tales of weird, wonder, and horror, 3LBE VOLUME XI will feature 29 new illustrations. Reserve your copy today! www.3lobedmag.com/store.html

Cover reveal for 3LBE VOLUME XI print anthology. Coming April 14 with 18 stories by Thomas Ha, Ruth Joffre, Joe Koch, Eugenia Triantafyllou, A.C. Wise, E. Catherine Tobler, Brian Evenson, Nadia Bulkin, Premee Mohamed, and many more, with 29 new illustrations. Pre-order now! 3lobedmag.com/store.html

“They like my new book! Really, really like it... A truly unsettling and unforgettable narrative, they called me. A masterpiece. My novel. Bold letters and all.” “book club for bots” by Clay McLeod Chapman Issue 47 www.3lobedmag.com/issue47/3lbe...

“I was never very reliable, in life or in this hell where I now reside. Everything bled together in weird fragments of space, time, and memory, but death never really surprised me.” “Someday, The Rules Were (Mostly) Clear” by Maxwell I. Gold Issue 47 www.3lobedmag.com/issue47/3lbe...

“This is like a collage of sound: static, birds chirping, random bleeps and bloops, the screech of what sounds very much like a fax machine. Very veiled voices, one that’s sometimes screaming…” “The Show is in the Basement” by Keith Rosson Issue 47 www.3lobedmag.com/issue47/3lbe...

The second half of Issue 47 is live today. Stop by and read stories by Keith Rosson, Maxwell I. Gold, and Clay McLeod Chapman. Buy the full ebook or become a patron subscriber. www.3lobedmag.com/issue47/

“She was drawn to the silvery white of the moonveil cap, fingered the pale blue luminescence of its gills. It was soft and silky, almost ethereal. She touched it to her tongue and…” “Kindredhood in Medieval Tongues” by Eugen Bacon Issue 47 www.3lobedmag.com/issue47/3lbe...

“Giving up hope was the hard part. The uncertainty of what comes after hope is dead? That’s been harder. That is when the delusions began. The lies of the mind. They come easily to Downstairs Tara in the dark of the basement.” “Our Darkness to Take” by Hailey Piper www.3lobedmag.com/issue47/3lbe...

“By the time the survivor half-scrambled, half-swam into the cove, every inch of her was battered and scraped. Twice she’d been knocked off her feet by the waves, barely catching herself…” “The Final Safest Place” by Wendy N. Wagner Issue 47 www.3lobedmag.com/issue47/3lbe...

3LBE Issue 47 debuts today with new short fiction of weird, wonder, and horror by Wendy N. Wagner, Hailey Piper, Eugen Bacon, Keith Rosson, Maxwell I. Gold, and Clay McLeod Chapman. Read three stories online, buy the full ebook, or become a patron subscriber. www.3lobedmag.com/issue47/

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!

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