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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 116 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
Ravens in the Library
2009
The Living Dead 2
2010
The Book of Apex: Volume 2 of Apex Magazine
2010
After Hours: Tales from the Ur-Bar
2011
Night-Mantled: The Best of Wily Writers
2011
Whedonistas
2011
Apex Magazine - June 2011
2011
Home Improvement: Undead Edition
2011
Chicks Unravel Time: Women Journey Through Every Season of Doctor Who
2012
Westward Weird
2012
The Modern Fae's Guide to Surviving Humanity
2012
A Fantasy Medley 2
2012
The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination
2013
Oz Reimagined
2013
Carniepunk
2013
Glitter & Mayhem
2013
Hex in the City
2013
The End is Nigh
2014
Speculative Fiction 2013
2014
Robot Uprisings
2014
Dead But Not Forgotten
2014
Dead Man's Hand
2014
Lightspeed Magazine, June 2014: Women Destroy Science Fiction! Special Issue
2014
The End is Now
2014
Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2014 Edition
2015
Operation Arcana
2015
The Doll Collection
2015
Mermaids and Other Mysteries of the Deep
2015
The End Has Come
2015
Press Start to Play
2015
Letters to Tiptree
2015
Temporally Out of Order
2015
Loosed Upon the World
2015
Seize the Night
2015
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015
2015
Bloodlines
2015
Future Visions
2015
The Gods of HP Lovecraft
2015
Warrior Women
2015
Unbound
2016
Lightspeed Magazine, May 2016
2016
Defying Doomsday
2016
The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume One
2016
Genius Loci: Tales of the Spirit of Place
2016
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection
2016
Limbus, Inc. - Book III
2016
The Book Smugglers' Quarterly Almanac: Volume 2
2016
The Starlit Wood
2016
Shadowed Souls
2016
Unfettered II: New Tales By Masters of Fantasy
2016
The Long List Anthology Volume 2
2016
Lightspeed Magazine, February 2017
2017
Little Green Men—Attack!
2017
Dark Cities
2017
Behind the Mask: A Superhero Anthology
2017
Indigo
2017
Nights of the Living Dead Anthology
2017
Urban Enemies
2017
Hath No Fury
2017
Submerged
2017
Joe Ledger: Unstoppable
2017
New York Fantastic: Fantasy Stories from the City that Never Sleeps
2017
Mad Hatters and March Hares
2017
Robots vs. Fairies
2018
Infinity's End
2018
Rocket Fuel
2018
Unidentified Funny Objects 7
2018
Hark! the Herald Angels Scream
2018
Chiral Mad 4
2018
A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers
2019
Tor.com Publishing Editorial Spotlight #2: A Selection of Novellas
2019
Unfettered III: New Tales By Masters of Fantasy
2019
Kaiju Rising II
2019
Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories
2019
Infinite Stars
2019
The Best of Uncanny
2019
Nevertheless She Persisted
2020
Shattering Glass
2020
Ignorance Is Strength
2020
Burn the Ashes
2020
Or Else the Light
2020
Where the Veil Is Thin
2020
Far Out: Recent Queer Science Fiction and Fantasy
2021
King in Black Gwenom Vs. Carnage
2021
When Things Get Dark
2021
Body Shocks
2021
99 Tiny Terrors
2021
The Reinvented Heart
2022
Someone in Time
2022
Close to Midnight
2022
Instinct: An Animal Rescuers Anthology
2023
The Hitherto Secret Experiments of Marie Curie
2023
Lofty Mountains
2023
99 Fleeting Fantasies
2024
Wink: Young Adult Tales that Wink at Classic Children's Books
2024
Lesbians In Space: Where No Man Has Gone Before
2025
Grimoire
2025
Jim Henson Presents
2025
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