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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 30/09/2026

22 hours remaining! Our first stretch goal adds another issue next year. Let’s read all the stories together! kck.st/4x4r1oz

headshots of Gemma Amor, Gemma Files, A.T. Greenblatt, Shane Hawk, Jordan Kurella, Arkady Martine, Sam J. Miller, Suzan Palumbo, Sarah Read, Eden Royce, A.D. Sui, Michael Wehunt, Kelsea Yu, along with the 3LBE masthead

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 29/09/2026

46 hours left! If we reach our stretch goal it adds another issue next year. More stories, more fiction for your eyes and ears! More monsters under your bed. kck.st/4x4r1oz

Three weird monsters along with the number 46, and the 3LBE masthead

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 29/09/2026

Handmade reward! The first finished piece of the hardwood letter opener is complete. Designed as a reward for this fundraiser and handmade from maple, walnut, padauk, and purpleheart. You can choose it as an add-on. kck.st/4x4r1oz

A letter opener with wood blade, handle, and insets, along with the 3LBE masthead.

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 24/09/2026

New backer rewards added in the form of story critiques and custom artwork (all done by a human!). With just 6 days left to reach our goal, all or nothing, help us fund another year of great fiction in 2027. kck.st/4x4r1oz

Three surreal artworks along with the 3LBE masthead

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 23/09/2026

We are very excited about the authors already writing stories for next year. Help us meet our funding goal and let’s read them together! 74% there and only 7 days left! Back us here kck.st/4x4r1oz

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 22/09/2026

We’ve reached 73% with 8 days to go! The future seems more and more possible with your help, with everyone together. Let’s build a monster to fight against the darkness. Listen to new stories around the campfire. Back us here kck.st/4x4r1oz

A watercolor flame along with the 3LBE masthead

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 21/09/2026

So grateful to all of our backers so far who’ve brought us to 61% of our goal with 9 days to go. But if we don’t reach our goal in time, we don’t receive any funds. We can do it! Back us now for a subscription, t-shirt, books, handmade rewards. Great stories await! kck.st/4x4r1oz

A stacked bar graph shows 61% along with two weird creatures and the 3LBE masthead

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 19/09/2026

We’ve just passed the halfway point to funding, with 11 days to go. Many thanks to all the backers and sharers so far. We are very excited for all the stories to come next year, let’s read them together! Back us here kck.st/4x4r1oz

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 18/09/2026

We won’t get any funds if we don’t reach our goal in the next 12 days. For the love of horror, fantasy, and science fiction—back us so we can bring you more stories in 2027! kck.st/4x4r1oz

A bar chart showing 42%, along with the 3LBE masthead

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 17/09/2026

Support us because you love to read genre fiction and we love to publish it! We have it all: ghostpunk, mushroom rotica, cozy doom, monster dance, carnivorous hair, sad professor, weremollusc, cosmic mess, yarn slasher, liminal faces, bad algebra. kck.st/4x4r1oz

A parade of weird creatures along with the 3LBE masthead

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 15/09/2026

The only place to get the exclusive 3LBE t-shirt or hoodie is our Kickstarter—happening right now! Support us publishing another year of weird, wonder, and horror stories, and wear the apparel with a bevy of strange beasts. (Warning: This garment comes unexorcised.) kck.st/4x4r1oz

A black t-shirt with dozens of weird creatures along with the 3LBE masthead

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 13/09/2026

Support us for 2027 with a 1-year subscription. Or a lifetime subscription for all future issues until the great collapse. Or travel into the past with back issues—which will not reach as far… but we won’t stop you if you want to keep going and see some live ammonites swimming about. kck.st/4x4r1oz

The covers of 8 issues of 3LBE magazine; along with the 3LBE masthead.

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 10/09/2026

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/4x4r1oz

A metal pin of the 3LBE icon with three burning eyes reading a book, and a metal pin with many strange faces in the dark of a crescent moon, along with the 3LBE icon and details from cover graphics.

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 09/09/2026

Several of our KS rewards feature artwork by Rew X. Perhaps there’s a space on your wall yearning for the cover of 3LBE Issue 42, or the wide print of 3LBE Volume VIII. Or maybe you long for an original painting yet to be created. Support us and get some haunted art too! kck.st/4x4r1oz

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 08/09/2026

We’ve published dark fiction for 27 years, and don’t want to stop any time soon. We believe stories can inspire growth, change perspectives, and are essential components of every culture. If you agree, support our Kickstarter for another year of great tales. kck.st/4x4r1oz

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 07/09/2026

If your reading pile is anything like ours, you need lots of bookmarks! Pledge to support us and grab some handmade bookmark rewards with monsters burned in via pyrography. kck.st/4x4r1oz

Wood bookmarks with strange creatures burned onto them, along with the 3LBE masthead

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 05/09/2026

Support us at the appropriate tier and we’ll send an autographed book to your doorstep. Bring it inside and read some every night to shape your nightmares! kck.st/4x4r1oz

Covers of ten books along with the 3LBE masthead:

The Atlas of Hell: Stories (Midworld Press edition) by Nathan Ballingrud
Rose/House by Arkady Martine
Tales from Cabin 23: The Sinking House by Darcie Little Badger
Psychopomp & Circumstance by Eden Royce
Crone by Keith Rosson
Japanese Gothic (UK edition) by Kylie Lee Baker
Bound Feet and Demon Song by Kelsea Yu
The Atropine Tree by Sarah Read

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 05/09/2026

We are thrilled that our campaign earned the Kickstarter “Project We Love” badge. Stop by and support us creating another year of new frightening and strange stories! kck.st/4x4r1oz

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 04/09/2026

Support us because you love to read genre fiction! Ghost stories, folk horror, weird fiction, monster tales, cosmic horror, apocalyptic, gothic, dark fantasy, historical, mystery, eco-horror, weird western, magic realism, space horror, body horror, cozy, fantastique, slipstream. kck.st/4x4r1oz

3LBE masthead with a list of horror subgenres

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 03/09/2026

We’ve created a swarm of rewards for our gracious backers. Whether you want a lifetime subscription, original artwork, story critique, lapel pin, or just believe in bringing new weird fiction to life, we hope you’ll support 3LBE magazine for 2027. kck.st/4x4r1oz

T-shirt, stickers, book, bookmarks, postcard, coaster with weird monsters on them along with the 3LBE masthead

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 02/09/2026

Help fund 3LBE magazine for 2027 on Kickstarter and we’ll all get to read new stories by these amazing authors… and more on the way! 🖌 A.T. Greenblatt, Shane Hawk, Jordan Kurella, Arkady Martine, Sam J. Miller, Sarah Read, Eden Royce, A.D. Sui, Michael Wehunt, Kelsea Yu 🖌 kck.st/4x4r1oz

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 27/08/2026

Help us create another year of weird, frightening, astonishing tales! Fundraiser coming this Tuesday. Get notified on launch: www.kickstarter.com/projects/asf...

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 14/07/2026

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/

3LBE Issue 48 cover featuring a strange haunting figure whose cloak is comprised of many complex colorful shapes and faces.

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 08/06/2026

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.

A series of packages on a table with a dog lying underneath.

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 14/04/2026

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

Cover of 3LBE Volume XI with a colorful illustration of various odd creatures alongside a list of contributors Thomas Ha · Ruth Joffre · Steve Toase · Aliya Whiteley · Joe Koch · Eugenia Triantafyllou · Christi Nogle · Octavia Cade · A.C. Wise · Mari Ness · E. Catherine Tobler · Avra Margariti · K.S. Walker · Brian Evenson · Nadia Bulkin · Corey Farrenkopf · Premee Mohamed · Katie McIvor

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 13/04/2026

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

Detail of 3LBE VOLUME XI featuring a closeup of a giant crow with many eyes, a blue figure with multiple arms and fungi growing from their body, a red crocodile-like head, and a long flying beast with a curly tongue.

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 09/04/2026

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

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 06/04/2026

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

A serious of BW watercolor illustrations including figures with teeth, a creepy old well, a figure washing up on a shore, three faces with long sharp teeth, and an old rocking chair.

The cover of 3LBE Volume XI featuring many strange creatures.

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 31/03/2026

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

A colorful illustration of various creatures including a giant crow with many eyes, a blue figure with multiple arms and fungi growing from their body, a red crocodile-like head, a fox, something with a crescent head, and a long flying beast with a curly tongue.

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 17/03/2026

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/

3LBE Issue 47 cover featuring a very toothsome monster erupting from a boy’s mouth, as several more glowing eyed children emerge from smoke.

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 04/12/2025

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.

Graphic with there cover designs that reads: Three-Lobed Burning Eye 2025 Award Eligibility, Short Fiction and lists the following:

Issue 44
“Old Wells” by Thomas Ha
“First Ascent” by Ruth Joffre
“The Ballad of Easy Deaths” by Steve Toase
“The Thing That Ate Itself” by Aliya Whiteley
“Homicidal Maps” by Joe Koch
“The Bathers” by Eugenia Triantafyllou
Issue 45
“The Interior” by Christi Nogle
“The Barrens” by Octavia Cade
“Her Shadow, Nailed to the Floor” by A.C. Wise
“Without Sunsets or Snow” by Mari Ness
“Nacre” by E. Catherine Tobler
“The Heart is Hungry Above All Things” by Avra Margariti
Issue 46
“Belly Full of Eyes” by K.S. Walker
“The Subject” by Brian Evenson
“Untitled #5” by Nadia Bulkin
“For When the Night is Behind You…” by Corey Farrenkopf
“Songs Never Sung” by Premee Mohamed
“The Somnambulist” by Katie McIvor

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 21/11/2025

“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...

3LBE Issue 46 cover (featuring an antlered beast, a hooded being with a bloody axe, and several small creatures in the glare of a dusty sun) along with text of the quote.

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 20/11/2025

“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...

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 19/11/2025

“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...

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 14/11/2025

“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...

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 13/11/2025

“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...

3LBE Issue 46 cover (featuring an antlered beast, hooded being with a bloody axe, and several small creatures in the glare of a dusty sun) along with text of the quote.

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 12/11/2025

“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...

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 11/11/2025

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/

3LBE Issue 46 cover featuring a beast with bloody antlers, a hooded figure with a bloody axe, and several small creatures in the glare of a dusty sun.

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 07/11/2025

New issue coming soon to your nightmares on Tuesday, November 11th…

Detail of 3LBE Issue 46, artwork by Rew X shows a small dogbird creature with a faerie in its beak.

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 28/10/2025

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.

A closeup of pencil sketches for bookmarks, mostly featuring monsters.

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 17/09/2025

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

The Nga’phandileh Whisperer by Eugen Bacon (Sept 2025)
NOVIC (tpb novelette) by Eugen Bacon (Sept 2025)
Coffin Moon by Keith Rosson (Sept 2025)
The Siege of Burning Grass by Premee Mohamed
Dark Sisters by Kristi DeMeester (Dec 2025)
A Game in Yellow by Hailey Piper (tpb) (Aug 2025)

What Kind of Mother by Clay Chapman McCleod
Red Skies in the Morning by Nadia Bulkin (tpb)
Dead Girls Don’t Dream by Nino Cipri
Constellations of Ruin by Andrew S. Fuller (tpb)
Haunted Ecologies by Corey Farrenkopf (tpb)
A Palace Near the Wind by Ai Jiang
The Haunting of Velkwood by Gwendolyn Kiste
Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions by John Langan (tpb)
We Are Always Tender with Our Dead by Eric LaRocca
Countess by Suzan Palumbo
All the Fabulous Beasts by Priya Sharma
Girl in the Creek by Wendy N. Wagner
The October Film Haunt by Michael Wehunt (Sept 2025)

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 17/09/2025

24 hours remain on late pledges. Help us hit our stretch goal and unlock another issue of 3LBE in 2026! kck.st/4mIkEm1

A parade of strange monsters marches through a colorful fire, along with the 3LBE masthead.

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 10/09/2025

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

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 09/09/2025

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)

A black t-shirt featuring a parade of strange monsters, along with and 3LBE masthead.

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 09/09/2025

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 parade of strange creatures, along with the 3LBE icon and cover artwork.

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 08/09/2025

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

A shadowy forest with pinpoints eyes staring back at you, along with the 3LBE icon and cover artwork.

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 07/09/2025

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

A strange creature lurks upright in the colorful darkness, along with the 3LBE icon and cover artwork.

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 06/09/2025

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

The words “54% funded, only 4 days left” against a distressed background, along with the 3LBE icon and cover artwork.

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 05/09/2025

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

The faces of 13 authors listed above, along with the 3LBE icon and cover artwork.

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