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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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