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: January 2026
Publication Order
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One
Buy on Amazon2009
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Two
Buy on Amazon2010
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three
Buy on Amazon2011
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four
Buy on Amazon2012
The Best Horror of the Year Volume Five
Buy on Amazon2013
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Six
Buy on Amazon2014
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Seven
Buy on Amazon2015
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eight
Buy on Amazon2016
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Nine
Buy on Amazon2017
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Ten
Buy on Amazon2018
The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction
Buy on Amazon2018
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eleven
Buy on Amazon2019
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Twelve
Buy on Amazon2020
The Best Horror of the Year Volume Thirteen
Buy on Amazon2021
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen
Buy on Amazon2022
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fifteen
Buy on Amazon2024
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Sixteen
Buy on Amazon2024
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Seventeen
Buy on Amazon2025
Classic Victorian & Edwardian Ghost Stories
Buy on Amazon1996
Fantasy: The Best of 2002
Buy on Amazon2003
Poe: 19 New Tales of Suspense, Dark Fantasy, and Horror Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe
Buy on Amazon2008
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition
Buy on Amazon2010
Supernatural Noir
Buy on Amazon2011
The Book of Cthulhu
Buy on Amazon2011
Ghosts by Gaslight
Buy on Amazon2011
Creatures: Thirty Years of Monsters
Buy on Amazon2011
Best New Horror 22
Buy on Amazon2011
The Recent Weird
Buy on Amazon2011
New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird
Buy on Amazon2011
Mammoth Books presents Monsters in Our Midst
Buy on Amazon2012
Ghosts: Recent Hauntings
Buy on Amazon2012
A Season in Carcosa
Buy on Amazon2012
The Grimscribe's Puppets
Buy on Amazon2013
Lovecraft and Influence: His Predecessors and Successors
Buy on Amazon2013
Shadows Edge
Buy on Amazon2013
After Death
Buy on Amazon2013
Chewing the Page: The Mourning Goats Interviews
Buy on Amazon2013
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2013 Edition
Buy on Amazon2013
Fearful Symmetries
Buy on Amazon2014
The Children of Old Leech
Buy on Amazon2014
Shock Totem 9.5: Holiday Tales of the Macabre and Twisted - Halloween 2014
Buy on Amazon2014
The Starry Wisdom Library
Buy on Amazon2014
The Power of Love
Buy on Amazon2015
New Cthulhu 2: More Recent Weird
Buy on Amazon2015
Aickman's Heirs
Buy on Amazon2015
Giallo Fantastique
Buy on Amazon2015
The Monstrous
Buy on Amazon2015
The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu
Buy on Amazon2016
Lovecraft eZine issue # 37
Buy on Amazon2016
Swords v. Cthulhu
Buy on Amazon2016
Children of Lovecraft
Buy on Amazon2016
The Madness of Dr. Caligari
Buy on Amazon2016
Best New Horror 27
Buy on Amazon2017
The Lovecraftian Poe: Essays on Influence, Reception, Interpretation, and Transformation
Buy on Amazon2017
Behold! Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders
Buy on Amazon2017
The Beauty of Death, Vol. 2
Buy on Amazon2017
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 73
Buy on Amazon2018
Ashes and Entropy
Buy on Amazon2018
Spirits Unwrapped
Buy on Amazon2019
Edited By
Buy on Amazon2020
Weird World War III
Buy on Amazon2020
Weird Horror #1
Buy on Amazon2020
Oculus Sinister
Buy on Amazon2020
Best New Horror #30
Buy on Amazon2020
Under Twin Suns
Buy on Amazon2021
The Bad Book
Buy on Amazon2021
Hymns of Abomination
Buy on Amazon2021
When Things Get Dark
Buy on Amazon2021
Revelations
Buy on Amazon2022
Dark Stars: New Tales of Darkest Horror
Buy on Amazon2022
Screams from the Dark
Buy on Amazon2022
Chiral Mad 5
Buy on Amazon2022
Mother
Buy on Amazon2022
Christmas and Other Horrors
Buy on Amazon2023
Penumbra No. 4 : A Journal of Weird Fiction and Criticism
Buy on Amazon2023
Heartwood
Buy on Amazon2024
Where the Silent Ones Watch
Buy on Amazon2025
The Rack II
Buy on Amazon2025
Frequently Asked Questions
The recommended reading order for the Best Horror of the Year series is publication order: 1. The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One (2009), 2. The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Two (2010), 3. The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three (2011), 4. The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four (2012), 5. The Best Horror of the Year Volume Five (2013), and 73 more. This is generally the best way to experience the story as the author intended.
The Best Horror of the Year series by John Langan contains 78 books. The series began in 2009 and continues to be a popular choice for readers.
The Best Horror of the Year series is written by John Langan. You can find more books and series by this author on our website.
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