“Shulamit Singh, moving like a ghost among the throng of revelers, streamers hung under the dome, the daylight illuminating cotton candy stands and grilled meats, slices of fresh papayas with a lime squeeze, bumpers cars…” “Terminal Day” by Lavie Tidhar Issue 48 www.3lobedmag.com/issue48/3lbe...

3LBE Magazine - Terminal Day by Lavie Tidhar

Shulamit Singh, moving like a ghost among the throng of revelers, streamers hung under the dome, the daylight illuminating cotton candy stands and grilled meats, slices of fresh papayas...

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“Burl Lamberson had lived at the dead end of Emmaus Lane for fifteen years, and never spoke to any of his neighbors. He figured he knew them well enough by the state of their yards, their political signs, and—” “Lemuria is for Lovers” by Cody Goodfellow Issue 48 www.3lobedmag.com/issue48/3lbe...

3LBE Magazine - Lemuria is for Lovers by Cody Goodfellow

Burl Lamberson had lived at the dead end of Emmaus Lane for fifteen years, and never spoke to any of his neighbors. He figured he knew them well enough by the state of their yards...

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“Nobody told me that the job of an architect involved investigating a thing everyone has come to call ‘The House Eater’ that has been taking bites of the homes we've helped design, draft, and build.” “A House Eater Roaming the Divine Garden” by Ai Jiang Issue 48 www.3lobedmag.com/issue48/3lbe...

A House Eater Roaming the Divine Garden by Ai Jiang

Nobody told me that the job of an architect involved investigating a thing everyone has come to call The House Eater that has been taking bites of the homes we've helped design, draft, and build.

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“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...

3LBE Magazine - When You Sit By a Window, Look Out by Nick Mamatas

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...

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“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...

3LBE Magazine - Olden by Nisi Shawl

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...

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“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 Magazine - Lady Night's Menagerie by Rachael K. Jones

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.

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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...

3LBE Magazine - book club for bots by Clay McLeod Chapman

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.

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“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...

3LBE Magazine - Someday, The Rules Were (Mostly Clear) by Maxwell I. Gold

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. Sometimes I became t...

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“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 Show is in the Basement by Keith Rosson

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, but it's...

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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/

3LBE Magazine - Issue 47: Contents

A magazine of speculative fiction, horror, fantasy, and science fiction. Issue 47 features stories by Wendy N. Wagner, Hailey Piper, Eugen Bacon, Keith Rosson, Maxwell I. Gold, and Clay McLeod Chapman...

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“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...

3LBE Magazine - Kindredhood in Medieval Tongues by Eugen Bacon

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...

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“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...

3LBE Magazine - Our Darkness to Take by Hailey Piper

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.

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“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 Magazine - The Final Safest Place by Wendy N. Wagner

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 before...

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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...

3LBE Magazine - The Heart Is Hungry Above All Things by Avra Margariti

Our brother raises us on sugar-frosted corn flakes and lullabies from forgotten centuries. He raises us with storybooks of a time when giants walked the earth...

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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...