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The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 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 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror series? Start with "The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2018 Edition (By: Paula Guran)" (2018) and follow publication order through all 104 books.
The complete The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2018 Edition (By: Paula Guran)
2018
The Blackest Death: Volume II
2005
Salon Fantastique: Fifteen Original Tales of Fantasy
2006
Aegri Somnia
2006
Ruins Extraterrestrial
2007
Bound for Evil: Curious Tales of Books Gone Bad
2008
Best New Fantasy 2
2009
Hatter Bones
2009
Interfictions 2
2009
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection
2010
Shine: An Anthology of Near-Future Optimistic Science Fiction
2010
Grave Conditions
2010
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 5
2011
Bewere the Night
2011
Apex Magazine - August 2011
2011
Daily Science Fiction Stories of August 2011
2011
Unfit for Eden: A Postscripts Anthology 26/27
2011
Steampunk III
2012
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection
2012
Pandemonium: Stories of the Smoke
2012
The Mammoth Book of Steampunk
2012
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2012
2012
Fungi
2012
Unidentified Funny Objects
2012
Futuredaze: An Anthology of YA Science Fiction
2013
Clarkesworld: Year Three
2013
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2014
2013
The Best British Fantasy 2013
2013
Aliens: Recent Encounters
2013
Year's Best Young Adult Speculative Fiction 2013
2013
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2013
2013
Best New SF 26
2013
We See a Different Frontier
2013
Memoryville Blues: A Postscripts Anthology 30/31
2013
The Book of Apex: Volume 4
2013
The End of the Road
2013
Best New Horror 25
2014
Plan B - Volume IV
2014
Clarkesworld: Year Six
2014
The Apex Book of World SF 3
2014
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection
2014
Lightspeed Magazine, October 2014
2014
The Apex Book of World SF 5
2015
Jews vs Aliens
2015
Jews Vs Zombies
2015
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2015 Edition
2015
The Apex Book of World SF 4
2015
Funny Science Fiction
2015
Best New Horror #26
2015
The Best of Abyss & Apex, Volume Two
2016
Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2016 Edition
2017
The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Two
2017
Behind the Mask: A Superhero Anthology
2017
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 9
2017
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection
2017
Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation
2017
Everyone: Worlds Without Walls
2017
The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2017
2017
Robots vs. Fairies
2018
The Book Of Swords: Part 2
2018
Best of British Science Fiction 2017
2018
Worlds Seen in Passing
2018
The Book of Magic: A Collection of Stories
2018
The Outcast Hours
2019
Bag Man
2019
The Year's Top Robot and AI Stories
2019
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2019 Edition
2019
Invisible Blood
2019
Best of British Science Fiction 2018
2019
The Best of British Fantasy 2019
2020
Best of British Science Fiction 2019
2020
The 2020 Look at Mars Fiction Book
2020
Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2020 Edition
2021
Far Out: Recent Queer Science Fiction and Fantasy
2021
The Best of World SF, Volume 1
2021
Out of the Ruins: The Apocalyptic Anthology
2021
Some of the Best of Tor.com 2021
2022
The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 6
2022
The Best of World SF: Volume 2
2022
Uncanny Magazine, Issue 53, July/August 2023
2023
Best of British Science Fiction 2022
2023
Ink and Daggers
2023
The Best of World SF: Volume 3
2023
The Year's Top Robot and AI Stories: Fourth Annual Collection
2023
Reports from the Deep End
2023
Uncanny Magazine Issue 57: March/April 2024
2024
Best of British Science Fiction 2023
2024
The Year's Top Robot and AI Stories: Fifth Annual Collection
2024
The Map of Lost Places: Stories From Strange and Haunted Realms
2025
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition
2010
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2011 Edition
2011
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2012 Edition
2012
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2013 Edition
2013
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition
2014
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2016 Edition
2016
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2017 Edition
2017
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2018 Edition
2018
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2019 Edition
2020
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 1
2020
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 2
2021
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, Volume 3
2022
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 4
2023
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 5
2024
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume 5
2024
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