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Three-Lobed Burning Eye speculative fiction magazine publishes weird, wonder, and horror.

30/01/2024

3LBE Volume IX features 40 new interior illustrations for the 25 stories. Grab your copy today…

22/12/2023

The newest VOLUME IX of 3LBE is out. Assembling five anthologies together makes a giant plant cyborg possessed by a ghost that shoots thorn missiles from its arms.

05/12/2023

3LBE Volume IX is out today, with 25 stories by Chris Kelso & Brian Evenson, E. Catherine Tobler, Steve Rasnic Tem, Kelly Lagor, Simo Srinivas, Katie McIvor, Ruth Joffre, Michael Kelly, & many more; plus 40 new illustrations.

04/12/2023

Awards nomination season is upon us, and we hope you will think of the 3LBE stories in 2023. All issues are available at our site, or for ebook purchase. Thanks to our authors for such strange and frightening tales!

01/12/2023

“This city is unlike any other. Cut it open and you'll find neither an inner spiral of a nautilus shell, nor a sprawling mycelium maze. The internal structure of this city betrays no trace of natural growth, carries no scars of a trial-and-error pathway taken by other cities.”

“The Many Names of Eels”
by Laila Amado
Issue 40

27/11/2023

“You will remember that we trudged up the overgrown slope, away from the burned-out burger van and jagged remains of chalets and portacabins, and passed through what you later described as the loneliest playground in England.”

“The Scarisbrick Intuition”
by Ashley Stokes
Issue 40

24/11/2023

“True as the river, there were ghost brides in other villages. Her mother had made this clear, said it was tradition, an honor. Mi knew she’d never see these other girls. Trains no longer ran, and the bicycle paths quickly became overgrown with new and mutated plants.”

“In Her Dreams, the River”
by A. Y. Lu
Issue 40

22/11/2023

Cover reveal! and pre-orders are now open for 3LBE Volume IX print anthology (issues 33–37) with 25 stories by Chris Kelso & Brian Evenson, E. Catherine Tobler, Steve Rasnic Tem, Thomas Ha, Corey Farrenkopf, Ruth Joffre, Joe Koch, & many more; plus 40 new illustrations.

20/11/2023

“Every morning iridescent screams echoed around the streets of the Willsea housing estate. No one really knew where the peacocks had come from. They’d been roaming the gardens of the Willsea longer than I’d been alive.”

“Iridescent Screams”
by Steve Toase
Issue 40

14/11/2023

Issue 40 debuts today with new short fiction of weird, wonder, and horror from Steve Toase, A. Y. Lu, Ashley Stokes, and Laila Amado. Read the first two stories online this week, buy the full ebook issue, or become a patron subscriber.

28/10/2023

The next issue of 3LBE will be released Tuesday, November 14th, featuring new stories of weird, wonder, and horror.

02/10/2023

We have read and responded to submissions through September 28. If you have not heard back, please query via the website.

17/08/2023

3LBE Volume VIII anthology (2021) featuring 24 stories from issues 29–32, and 41 new illustrations. Including tales by Kristi DeMeester, Vajra Chandrasekera, Steve Toase, Kali Wallace, Christi Nogle, E. Catherine Tobler, and more. 📕 Order from our website. And look for Volume IX before end of year.

11/08/2023

“There was once a girl who got up for a glass of water sometime around 5:00. She kept time by the dark blue morning seeping in through the bathroom’s frosted glass. The girl was a woman, a woman named Doe, and she lived alone except for the Whisper.”

“Out(r)age”
by Amelia Gorman
Issue 39

07/08/2023

“We have a space carved out of the world just for us. It’s an apartment in the city, a cabin in the woods, a basement in the suburbs. It’s big or small, tidy or dilapidated, but it is ours; and the important part is it rubs rough on the edges of your world.”

“It Comes Through Us”
by Koji A. Dae
Issue 39

04/08/2023

“Suffocation — T’quan wading seas of tiny fairies, flicking them out his bush, raking them into jars with his afro pick. Ingesting them like he’s ingested so much of Haven, swallowed rules and responsibilities. Choked on bland, bitter taste.”

“The Sticky-Sweet Path”
by J. L. Jones
Issue 39

02/08/2023

“They came at night—a great pilgrimage of arthropods. They poured in from faucets, electrical outlets, light fixtures. They squirmed through hairline fractures in the walls, making their way from the dark hidden places of the cottage and coming together, at last, finding one another, at last, in the crib.”

“A Song for the Centipedes”
by Neal Auch
Issue 39

31/07/2023

Issue 39 debuts today with new short fiction of weird, wonder, and horror from Neal Auch, J. L. Jones, Koji A. Dae, and Amelia Gorman. Read the first two stories online this week or buy the full ebook issue.

06/04/2023

“They were tied up together from the start: Dottie and that other place. That other place, that other eye. Charles didn’t like to think of it as a third eye, though that’s what it was. It wasn’t in his forehead, wasn’t in the center of his face at all.”

“One Eye Opened in That Other Place”
by Christi Nogle
Issue 38

04/04/2023

“Mariah came late to the woods, wobbling into the weak firelight on her newest legs. Bared by her jean shorts, each long tan thigh was ringed with a fine, crimped seam like an empanada.”

“Exquisite Corpses”
by A.M. Guay
Issue 38

03/04/2023

“When my Dad went missing I returned to Slakeby. The letter had been written in scrawl, no way to recognize who had contacted me, but I had no reason to doubt its authenticity.”

“The Heart Beats Green and Grey”
by Steve Toase
Issue 38

31/03/2023

“‘Never look at a flame for so long that it becomes beautiful.’ I was taught that mantra as a child in school, and again as a cadet in the fire academy, but I heard it from my father first.”

“Lest You Be Swept Away”
by Lauren Ring
Issue 38

28/03/2023

Issue 38 debuts today with new short fiction of weird, wonder, and horror from Lauren Ring, Steve Toase, A.M. Guay, Christi Nogle. Read the first two stories online this week or buy the full ebook issue.

27/03/2023

Tomorrow…

24/03/2023

The (first half of) Issue 38 is coming next week on Tuesday, March 28 with new stories of weird, wonder, and horror. Become a Fervent Haunter of Secret Laboratories (Level 3 patron) with a subscription and receive the full issue a day early in ebook format.

17/02/2023

Please be assured that we did not intend any hidden meaning in yesterday’s photo post. We did not notice at first how a few of the letters displayed, and apologize profusely for even the slightest hint to awful ideology. We appreciate all the likes and shares, and apologize for any harm. Here is a replacement post.

10/01/2023

We publish three issues each year—but what if there were more? With more stories? You can help by becoming a Patron. From $1/mo, to subscriber tier, to higher tiers with exclusive extras.

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