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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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