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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 75 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
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Volume 104 Number 2, February 2003
2003
Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection
2004
Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection
2006
Best New Fantasy
2006
Inferno
2007
The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy
2008
Poe: 19 New Tales of Suspense, Dark Fantasy, and Horror Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe
2008
Jack Haringa Must Die!
2008
Twenty-First Annual Collection
2008
Haunted Legends
2010
Wilde Stories 2011: The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction
2011
Supernatural Noir
2011
The Book of Cthulhu
2011
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2011 Edition
2011
Halloween: Magic, Mystery, and the Macabre
2011
The Recent Weird
2011
New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird
2011
Horror for Good
2012
Ghosts: Recent Hauntings
2012
A Season in Carcosa
2012
The Book of Cthulhu II
2012
Fungi
2012
The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination
2013
Shades of Blue and Gray
2013
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2013 Edition
2013
Tales of Jack the Ripper
2013
Primeval
2013
Suffered from the Night: Queering Stoker's Dracula
2013
Blood Type
2013
Lovecraft's Monsters
2014
The New Black
2014
Fearful Symmetries
2014
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition
2014
Nightmare Carnival
2014
New Cthulhu 2: More Recent Weird
2015
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2015 Edition
2015
Cthulhu Fhtagn!
2015
Whispers From The Abyss 2: The Horrors That Were and Shall Be
2015
Seize the Night
2015
Licence Expired: The Unauthorized James Bond
2015
The Gods of HP Lovecraft
2015
The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu
2016
Limbus, Inc. - Book III
2016
Children of Lovecraft
2016
Seas & Oceans
2017
Ashes and Entropy
2018
Nox Pareidolia
2019
Miscreations
2020
Edited By
2020
Wonder and Glory Forever
2020
Come Join Us By the Fire Season 2
2021
There Is No Death, There Are No Dead: Tales of Spiritualism Horror
2021
When Things Get Dark
2021
Revelations
2022
Screams from the Dark
2022
Fears: Tales of Psychological Horror
2024
Long Division: Stories of Social Decay, Societal Collapse, and Bad Manners
2024
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