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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: March 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 108 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
Dark Terrors 2
1996
Secret City
1997
Dark Terrors 3
1997
Eleventh Annual Collection
1998
In the Shadow of the Gargoyle
1998
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 9
1998
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 10
1999
Silver Birch, Blood Moon
1999
Dark Terrors 5
2000
October Dreams
2000
Queer Fear
2000
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #11
2000
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #12
2001
The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women
2001
Wrong Things
2001
The Darker Side: Generations of Horror
2002
Keep Out The Night
2002
Dark Terrors 6
2002
Fifteenth Annual Collection
2002
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 14
2003
The Children of Cthulhu
2003
The Mammoth Book of New Terror
2004
A Walk on the Darkside
2004
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Vol. 15
2004
Mondo Zombie
2006
Best New Horror 17
2006
Best New Horror 18
2007
Best New Horror 19
2008
The Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance 2
2009
Last Drink Bird Head
2009
Haunted Legends
2010
Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded
2010
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition
2010
A Book of Horrors
2011
The Mammoth Book of Angels and Demons
2011
Supernatural Noir
2011
The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities
2011
The Colliers’ Venus
2011
The Book of Cthulhu
2011
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2011 Edition
2011
Halloween: Magic, Mystery, and the Macabre
2011
Best New Horror 22
2011
The Recent Weird
2011
New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird
2011
Lightspeed: Year One
2011
Lightspeed Magazine, April 2012
2012
The Mammoth Book of Steampunk
2012
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2012 Edition
2012
Unexpected Encounters
2012
Ghosts: Recent Hauntings
2012
Rock On: The Greatest Hits of Science Fiction & Fantasy
2012
The Book of Cthulhu II
2012
The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women
2012
After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia
2012
Weird Detectives
2013
Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth
2013
Aliens: Recent Encounters
2013
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2013 Edition
2013
Once Upon a Time: New Fairy Tales
2013
Lovecraft's Monsters
2014
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition
2014
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Nine
2014
Zombies: More Recent Dead
2014
The Mammoth Book of Steampunk Adventures
2014
New Cthulhu 2: More Recent Weird
2015
Black Wings IV: Tales of Lovecraftian Horror
2015
Penumbrae
2015
Mermaids and Other Mysteries of the Deep
2015
Blood Sisters
2015
The Monstrous
2015
Warrior Women
2015
Darker Terrors 7
2016
Street Magicks
2016
Black Wings V
2016
The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu
2016
Children of Lovecraft
2016
New York Fantastic: Fantasy Stories from the City that Never Sleeps
2017
The Beauty of Death, Vol. 2
2017
Best New Horror 28
2018
The Mammoth Book of Nightmare Stories
2019
Houses Under the Sea
2019
Lovecraft Mythos New & Classic Collection
2020
Edited By
2020
Best New Horror #30
2020
Far Out: Recent Queer Science Fiction and Fantasy
2021
Body Shocks
2021
Best New Horror #31
2021
Screams from the Dark
2022
The Junk Merchants 2
2024
Just One Fix: A Literary Salute to William S. Burroughs
2025
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