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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 12d

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...

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 20d

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.

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 21d

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 · 21d

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 · 22d

Submissions are closed for this reading session. Thanks to everyone who sent a story, we’ll respond within the next 30 days.

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 23d

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

Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine 2026

A digital literary magazine of horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction.

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 24d

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

Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine 2026

A digital literary magazine of horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction.

kck.st

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 24d

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 24d

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

Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine 2026

A digital literary magazine of horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction.

kck.st

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 25d

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

Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine 2026

A digital literary magazine of horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction.

kck.st

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 25d

Submissions are open until Sept 16, 12AM Pacific time. Send us your most frightening, strange, surprising tale!

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 26d

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

Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine 2026

A digital literary magazine of horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction.

kck.st

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 27d

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.

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 27d

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

Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine 2026

A digital literary magazine of horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction.

kck.st

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 28d

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

Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine 2026

A digital literary magazine of horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction.

kck.st

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 28d

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

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

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 29d

To clarify: we meant the incredible jump in 30 minutes before the post, not the last minutes of the campaign. We still have 40 hours to go, and late pledges to reach stretch goals!

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 29d

We just met our funding goal! Thank you times infinity to the backers of the last 30 minutes, and everyone in the last 28 days. There will be 3LBE 2026! 🖤🐙 📖

There’s still time for stretch goals, which will add more issues and more stories.

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 29d

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 · 29d

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 · Sep 8

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 · Sep 8

Thank you everyone who supported and shared our fundraiser today, raising it to 62%. Only 3 days left, we can get there!

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · Sep 7

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 · Sep 6

We really appreciate everyone sharing about our fundraiser, it’s helping us climb. Not much time left, and the stories are waiting to be told—we need your support!

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · Sep 6

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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