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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 48 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
Northern Stars
1994
Tesseracts 5
1996
The Hard SF Renaissance
2003
ReVisions
2004
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection
2006
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2009
2008
Fantasy: The Best of the Year, 2009
2009
Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 40
2010
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection
2010
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 2
2010
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 5
2011
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2011
2011
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 3
2011
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2011 Edition
2011
Imaginarium 2012
2012
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2014
2013
Blood Type
2013
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Nine
2014
Upgraded
2014
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 7
2015
Imaginarium 4
2016
The Best Science Fiction of the Year Volume Three
2017
Infinity Wars
2017
The Final Frontier
2018
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2018
2018
The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 3
2019
The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 4
2020
The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Five
2020
The 2020 Look at Space Opera Book
2020
Life Beyond Us
2023
Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume One
2023
The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 8
2024
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition
2010
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, 2015 Edition
2015
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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