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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 92 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

Seductive Spectres
1996

Queer Fear
2000

The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #11
2000

The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women
2001

Queer Fear II
2002

Dark Terrors 6
2002

The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Vol. 15
2004

The Mammoth Book of Monsters
2007

Mighty Unclean
2009

Apex Magazine #16, September 2010
2010

The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition
2010

Arcane
2011

Evil I Did Dwell; Lewd Did I Live
2011

Chilling Tales: Evil I Did Dwell; Lewd Did I Live
2011

The Mammoth Book of Body Horror
2012

Imaginarium 2012
2012

A Season in Carcosa
2012

Best New Horror 23
2012

Magic: An Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane
2012

The Grimscribe's Puppets
2013

In Words, Alas, Drown I
2013

Bad Seeds: Evil Progeny
2013

Best New Horror 24
2013

Dark Discoveries - Issue #26
2014

Stamps, Vamps & Tramps
2014

Lovecraft's Monsters
2014

Fearful Symmetries
2014

The Children of Old Leech
2014

Letters to Lovecraft
2014

The Starry Wisdom Library
2014

Imaginarium 3
2015

The Doll Collection
2015

Aghast Vol. 1: A Journal of the Darkly Fantastic
2015

Eulogies III
2015

Daughters of Frankenstein: Lesbian Mad Scientists!
2015

The Monstrous
2015

She Walks in Shadows
2015

Genius Loci: Tales of the Spirit of Place
2016

The Best of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine, Year Seven
2016

Children of Lovecraft
2016

Aghast
2016

The Madness of Dr. Caligari
2016

Imaginarium 4
2016

Best New Horror 27
2017

Looming Low: Volume I
2017

Chthonic: Weird Tales of Inner Earth
2018

I Don't Want to Play This Game Anymore
2018

Fright Into Flight
2018

Nightmare Magazine, Issue 75
2018

Best New Horror 29
2019

Vastarien: Vol. 2, Issue 1
2019

Thinking Horror Volume 2: The Horror Boom
2019

Behold the Undead of Dracula
2019

Apostles of the Weird
2020

Not Just a Pretty Face
2020

Weird Dream Society
2020

Final Cuts: New Tales of Hollywood Horror and Other Spectacles
2020

Tales from OmniPark
2021

In that Endlessness, Our End
2021
Beyond the Book of Eibon
2021

There Is No Death, There Are No Dead: Tales of Spiritualism Horror
2021

Hymns of Abomination
2021

Humans are the Problem: A Monster's Anthology
2021

Humans Are The Problem: A Monster's Anthology
2021

Body Shocks
2021

Beyond the Veil
2021

Dark Stars: New Tales of Darkest Horror
2022

Screams from the Dark
2022

Mother
2022

Damnation Games
2022

The Best of Eternal Haunted Summer
2023

Future Folk Horror
2023

A Darkness Visible: Explorations of Horror in the Postmodern
2023

Dead Letters: Episodes of Epistolary Horror
2023
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