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The Best of Cemetery Dance Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of The Best of Cemetery Dance 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 Best of Cemetery Dance series? Start with "The Best of Cemetery Dance, Volume 1 (With: Nancy Holder)" (2000) and follow publication order through all 60 books.
The complete The Best of Cemetery Dance reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
The Best of Cemetery Dance, Volume 1 (With: Nancy Holder)
2000
The Best of Cemetery Dance Volume 2 (With: William Relling Jr.)
2001
Cold Blood
1991
100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories
1993
The Earth Strikes Back
1994
Screamplays
1997
100 Twisted Little Tales of Torment
1998
October Dreams
2000
The Best of Cemetery Dance, Volume 1
2000
The Best of Cemetery Dance Volume 2
2001
Trick or Treat
2001
Shivers
2002
Shivers II
2003
Shivers III
2004
Cemetery Dance: Issue 52
2005
Shivers IV
2005
4 Fear of...
2006
Shocklines
2008
The Best of Cemetery Dance II
2008
Smoke and Mirrors
2009
Shivers V
2009
Shivers VI
2010
Shivers VII
2013
Mister October, Volume I: An Anthology in Memory of Rick Hautala
2013
Turn Down the Lights
2013
Cemetery Dance: Issue 71
2014
Dead Harvest
2014
October Dreams II
2015
Twice Upon A Time
2015
Better Weird
2015
Hides the Dark Tower
2015
Horror 201: The Silver Scream Vol. 1
2015
10 Halloween Haunts
2015
Unearthed
2016
Tales from the Witching Hour
2016
F*ck the Rules
2017
Seas & Oceans
2017
Dark Places, Evil Faces
2017
The Demons of King Solomon
2017
Aphotic Realm Magazine Issue #3: Classified
2018
The Washingtonians
2018
You, Human
2018
Christmas Horror Vol. 2
2018
Fantastic Tales of Terror
2018
Halloween Haunts Volume 1
2018
Silverwood
2019
100 Word Horrors Part 2
2019
The Horror Collection: Black Edition
2019
When the Clock Strikes 13
2019
Shivers VIII
2019
In Darkness, Delight: Creatures of the Night
2019
Dark Tides
2019
Seasons of Terror
2020
Halloween Nights
2021
Revelations
2022
Institutionalized
2022
The Horror Collection: Lost Edition
2023
October Screams: A Halloween Anthology
2023
Vampires
2023
The Rack
2024
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