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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 78 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
Classic Victorian & Edwardian Ghost Stories
1996
Fantasy: The Best of 2002
2003
Poe: 19 New Tales of Suspense, Dark Fantasy, and Horror Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe
2008
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition
2010
Supernatural Noir
2011
The Book of Cthulhu
2011
Ghosts by Gaslight
2011
Creatures: Thirty Years of Monsters
2011
Best New Horror 22
2011
The Recent Weird
2011
New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird
2011
Mammoth Books presents Monsters in Our Midst
2012
Ghosts: Recent Hauntings
2012
A Season in Carcosa
2012
The Grimscribe's Puppets
2013
Lovecraft and Influence: His Predecessors and Successors
2013
Shadows Edge
2013
After Death
2013
Chewing the Page: The Mourning Goats Interviews
2013
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2013 Edition
2013
Fearful Symmetries
2014
The Children of Old Leech
2014
Shock Totem 9.5: Holiday Tales of the Macabre and Twisted - Halloween 2014
2014
The Starry Wisdom Library
2014
The Power of Love
2015
New Cthulhu 2: More Recent Weird
2015
Aickman's Heirs
2015
Giallo Fantastique
2015
The Monstrous
2015
The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu
2016
Lovecraft eZine issue # 37
2016
Swords v. Cthulhu
2016
Children of Lovecraft
2016
The Madness of Dr. Caligari
2016
Best New Horror 27
2017
The Lovecraftian Poe: Essays on Influence, Reception, Interpretation, and Transformation
2017
Behold! Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders
2017
The Beauty of Death, Vol. 2
2017
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 73
2018
Ashes and Entropy
2018
Spirits Unwrapped
2019
Edited By
2020
Weird World War III
2020
Weird Horror #1
2020
Oculus Sinister
2020
Best New Horror #30
2020
Under Twin Suns
2021
The Bad Book
2021
Hymns of Abomination
2021
When Things Get Dark
2021
Revelations
2022
Dark Stars: New Tales of Darkest Horror
2022
Screams from the Dark
2022
Chiral Mad 5
2022
Mother
2022
Christmas and Other Horrors
2023
Penumbra No. 4 : A Journal of Weird Fiction and Criticism
2023
Heartwood
2024
Where the Silent Ones Watch
2025
The Rack II
2025
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