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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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