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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
Bust Down the Door and Eat All the Chickens
2007
TwentiethAnnual Collection
2007
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition
2010
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2011 Edition
2011
Halloween: Magic, Mystery, and the Macabre
2011
Weird Tales 359
2012
Walking the Clouds
2012
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2012 Edition
2012
Ghosts: Recent Hauntings
2012
Heroics: Strange Tales of Absurd Superheroes
2012
Chewing the Page: The Mourning Goats Interviews
2013
Bad Seeds: Evil Progeny
2013
Zombies
2013
The New Black
2014
The Children of Old Leech
2014
Zombies: More Recent Dead
2014
Nightmare Carnival
2014
Letters to Lovecraft
2014
The Starry Wisdom Library
2014
Death's Realm
2015
Nightmares Unhinged
2015
The Monstrous
2015
Children of Lovecraft
2016
The Starlit Wood
2016
Cyber World
2016
People of Color Take over Fantastic Stories of the Imagination
2017
Georgetown Haunts and Mysteries
2017
Blood Business
2017
Mad Hatters and March Hares
2017
The Demons of King Solomon
2017
I Don't Want to Play This Game Anymore
2018
Suspended in Dusk II
2018
Mechanical Animals
2018
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 75
2018
Straight Outta Deadwood
2019
Terror at 5280'
2019
Tales of the Lost, Volume 1
2019
Nowhereville
2019
The Horror Writer: A Study of Craft and Identity in the Horror Genre
2020
The Midnight Exhibit, Vol. 1
2020
Psi-Wars: Classified Cases of Psychic Phenomena
2020
It Came from the Multiplex: 80s Midnight Chillers
2020
Edited By
2020
Tiny Nightmares
2020
Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2020 Edition
2021
Giving the Devil His Due
2021
When Things Get Dark
2021
The Horror Zine’s Book of Werewolf Stories
2022
Dark Stars: New Tales of Darkest Horror
2022
Shattered & Splintered
2022
Screams from the Dark
2022
Other Terrors
2022
Dark Matter Presents Human Monsters: A Horror Anthology
2022
Unioverse: Stories of the Reconvergence
2023
Christmas and Other Horrors
2023
The Best of Gamut
2024
The Drive-In: Multiplex
2024
Human Monsters
2024
Fears: Tales of Psychological Horror
2024
Some Of The Best From Reactor: 2024 Edition
2024
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