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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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