About

Three-Lobed Burning Eye (3LBE) is an online magazine of speculative fiction, bringing you stories of horror, wonder, and the weird. 3LBE launched in 1999, and has published authors Laird Barron, Gemma Files, Kelly Barnhill, Mari Ness, Kristi DeMeester, Gwendolyn Kiste, Cody Goodfellow, Nadia Bulkin, and Kealan Patrick Burke, among others. Each issue features four short stories. Beginning with issue 20, we offer audio readings, ebook formats, and online (responsive) format for mobile devices.

Our 2022 publishing schedule is moving to thrice yearly, with a print anthology every other year.

All issues of the magazine are free online. Please consider different ways to support our publication and its authors, by donating and spreading the word. We also offer advertising opportunities.

3LBE is edited by Andrew S. Fuller.

Honors

2016

“The Marking” by Kristi DeMeester, Issue 27 (reprinted in Year’s Best Weird Fiction, Vol 3, edited by Simon Strantzas and Michael Kelly)

2014

“Where You Come From” by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, Issue 26 (Best Horror of the Year, edited by Ellen Datlow, honorable mention)

“Some Corner of a Dorset Field that is Forever Arabia” by David Stevens, Issue 25 (Best Horror of the Year, edited by Ellen Datlow, honorable mention)

“Sheela of the Good Shepherd,” by Lauren Dixon, Issue 25 (Best Horror of the Year, edited by Ellen Datlow, honorable mention)

2013

“Big in Japan,” by Lawrence Conquest, Issue 23 (Best Horror of the Year, edited by Ellen Datlow, honorable mention)

“Scolyard’s ‘The Constructs Foresee Their Doom’” by Daniel Ausema, Issue 23 (Locus Online, recommended)

“I Will Trade With You” by J. M. McDermott, Issue 23 (Locus Online, recommended)

2012

“The Book in Dutch” by M. Bernardo, Issue 22 (Locus Online, recommended)

“Ladybird” by E. Catherine Tobler, Issue 22 (Best Horror of the Year, edited by Ellen Datlow, honorable mention)

“Judith of the Lions,” by R. S. Bohn, Issue 22 (Best Horror of the Year, edited by Ellen Datlow, honorable mention)

“The Eel Question,” by Mae Empson, Issue 22 (Best Horror of the Year, edited by Ellen Datlow, honorable mention)

2010

“The Biologie of Paradise” by Adam Browne, Issue 19 (Locus Online, recommended)

“A Feather’s Weight” by Jessica Reisman, Issue 19 (Best Horror of the Year, edited by Ellen Datlow, honorable mention)

“The End of Her World” by J. M. McDermott, Issue 19 (Best Horror of the Year, edited by Ellen Datlow, honorable mention)