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Best Horror of the Year Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of Best Horror of the Year books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: April 2026
Quick Answer
What order should I read the Best Horror of the Year series? Start with "The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One" (2009) and follow publication order through all 131 books.
The complete Best Horror of the Year reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One
2009
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Two
2010
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three
2011
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four
2012
The Best Horror of the Year Volume Five
2013
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Six
2014
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Seven
2015
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eight
2016
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Nine
2017
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Ten
2018
The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction
2018
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eleven
2019
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Twelve
2020
The Best Horror of the Year Volume Thirteen
2021
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen
2022
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fifteen
2024
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Sixteen
2024
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Seventeen
2025
Book of the Dead
1989
Razored Saddles
1989
The New Frontier
1989
Second Annual Collection
1989
Third Annual Collection
1989
The Year's Best Fantasy 2 / Demons and Dreams
1990
Splatter-Punks: The Definitive Anthology
1990
Cold Blood
1991
The Horror Hall of Fame
1991
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Fourth Annual Collection
1991
Fourth Annual Collection
1991
The Little Book of Horrors: Tiny Tales of Terror
1992
Dark at Heart
1992
The Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1991
1992
The Giant Book of Zombies
1993
100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories
1993
Dark Crimes 2
1993
The Mammoth Book of Zombies
1993
Sea-Cursed
1994
Ten Tales
1994
The King is Dead: Tales of Elvis Postmortem
1994
100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories
1995
100 Wicked Little Witch Stories
1995
Weird Business
1995
The Mysterious Press Anniversary Anthology: Celebrating 25 Years
2001
The Silver Gryphon
2003
Retro Pulp Tales
2006
Cross Plains Universe
2006
The Mammoth Book of Monsters
2007
The Living Dead
2008
Best New Horror 19
2008
The Best of Cemetery Dance II
2008
Zombies: Encounters with the Hungry Dead
2009
Smoke and Mirrors
2009
Son of Retro Pulp Tales
2009
Twilight Zone: 19 Original Stories on the 50th Anniversary
2009
The Dead That Walk
2009
Curse of the Full Moon: A Werewolf Anthology
2010
L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories
2010
Haunted Legends
2010
Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror
2010
Never Again
2010
Werewolves and Shape Shifters: Encounters with the Beasts Within
2010
Robert Bloch's Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper
2010
Zombies: The Recent Dead
2010
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition
2010
Classics Mutilated
2010
Down These Strange Streets
2011
House of Fear
2011
Crucified Dreams
2011
Supernatural Noir
2011
The Urban Fantasy Anthology
2011
Warriors 3
2011
The Book of Cthulhu
2011
Necro Files
2011
Best New Horror 22
2011
A Hacked-Up Holiday Massacre
2011
Triumph of The Walking Dead: Robert Kirkman's Zombie Epic on Page and Screen
2011
Lightspeed: Year One
2011
The Best Bizarro Fiction of the Decade
2012
A Feast of Frights from The Horror Zine
2012
Obsession: Tales of Irresistible Desire
2012
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2012 Edition
2012
A Clutch of Zombies
2012
Extreme Zombies
2012
Ghosts: Recent Hauntings
2012
Protectors: Stories to Benefit PROTECT
2012
Psychos
2012
Best New Horror 23
2012
Beyond Rue Morgue Anthology: Further Tales of Edgar Allan Poe's 1st Detective
2013
Black Pulp
2013
Zombies!: Tales of the Walking Dead
2013
Bad Seeds: Evil Progeny
2013
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2013 Edition
2013
Best New Horror 24
2013
Old Mars
2013
The Time Traveler's Almanac
2013
The Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs
2013
Piercing the Darkness
2014
Now Write! Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror
2014
Lovecraft's Monsters
2014
Dead Man's Hand
2014
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition
2014
Zombies: More Recent Dead
2014
Insidious Assassins
2015
The Gods of HP Lovecraft
2015
Flinch
2015
Christmas Horror Volume 1
2015
Last Night, a Superhero Saved My Life
2016
The Year's Best Military & Adventure SF 2015
2016
Horror Anthology 2016
2016
The Highway Kind
2016
Shadows Over Main Street Volume 2
2017
Tales from The Lake Vol. 4
2017
Alive in Shape and Color
2017
Lost Highways
2018
The Mammoth Book of Halloween Stories
2018
Fantastic Tales of Terror
2018
At Home in the Dark
2019
The Mammoth Book of Nightmare Stories
2019
A Time For Violence
2019
Bullets and Other Hurting Things: A Tribute to Bill Crider
2021
When a Stranger Comes to Town
2021
Love, Death and Robots: The Official Anthology: Volume One
2021
Conan: The Songs of the Dead and Other Stories
2021
Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology to the MostHaunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World
2021
Revelations
2022
Screams from the Dark
2022
Black is the Night: Stories inspired by Cornell Woolrich
2022
Playing Games
2023
Hot Iron and Cold Blood: An Anthology of the Weird West
2023
Road Kill
2023
The Drive-In: Multiplex
2024
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