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
Seductive Spectres
Buy on Amazon1996
Queer Fear
Buy on Amazon2000
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #11
Buy on Amazon2000
The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women
Buy on Amazon2001
Queer Fear II
Buy on Amazon2002
Dark Terrors 6
Buy on Amazon2002
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Vol. 15
Buy on Amazon2004
The Mammoth Book of Monsters
Buy on Amazon2007
Mighty Unclean
Buy on Amazon2009
Apex Magazine #16, September 2010
Buy on Amazon2010
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition
Buy on Amazon2010
Arcane
Buy on Amazon2011
Evil I Did Dwell; Lewd Did I Live
Buy on Amazon2011
Chilling Tales: Evil I Did Dwell; Lewd Did I Live
Buy on Amazon2011
The Mammoth Book of Body Horror
Buy on Amazon2012
Imaginarium 2012
Buy on Amazon2012
A Season in Carcosa
Buy on Amazon2012
Best New Horror 23
Buy on Amazon2012
Magic: An Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane
Buy on Amazon2012
The Grimscribe's Puppets
Buy on Amazon2013
In Words, Alas, Drown I
Buy on Amazon2013
Bad Seeds: Evil Progeny
Buy on Amazon2013
Best New Horror 24
Buy on Amazon2013
Dark Discoveries - Issue #26
Buy on Amazon2014
Stamps, Vamps & Tramps
Buy on Amazon2014
Lovecraft's Monsters
Buy on Amazon2014
Fearful Symmetries
Buy on Amazon2014
The Children of Old Leech
Buy on Amazon2014
Letters to Lovecraft
Buy on Amazon2014
The Starry Wisdom Library
Buy on Amazon2014
Imaginarium 3
Buy on Amazon2015
The Doll Collection
Buy on Amazon2015
Aghast Vol. 1: A Journal of the Darkly Fantastic
Buy on Amazon2015
Eulogies III
Buy on Amazon2015
Daughters of Frankenstein: Lesbian Mad Scientists!
Buy on Amazon2015
The Monstrous
Buy on Amazon2015
She Walks in Shadows
Buy on Amazon2015
Genius Loci: Tales of the Spirit of Place
Buy on Amazon2016
The Best of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine, Year Seven
Buy on Amazon2016
Children of Lovecraft
Buy on Amazon2016
Aghast
Buy on Amazon2016
The Madness of Dr. Caligari
Buy on Amazon2016
Imaginarium 4
Buy on Amazon2016
Best New Horror 27
Buy on Amazon2017
Looming Low: Volume I
Buy on Amazon2017
Chthonic: Weird Tales of Inner Earth
Buy on Amazon2018
I Don't Want to Play This Game Anymore
Buy on Amazon2018
Fright Into Flight
Buy on Amazon2018
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 75
Buy on Amazon2018
Best New Horror 29
Buy on Amazon2019
Vastarien: Vol. 2, Issue 1
Buy on Amazon2019
Thinking Horror Volume 2: The Horror Boom
Buy on Amazon2019
Behold the Undead of Dracula
Buy on Amazon2019
Apostles of the Weird
Buy on Amazon2020
Not Just a Pretty Face
Buy on Amazon2020
Weird Dream Society
Buy on Amazon2020
Final Cuts: New Tales of Hollywood Horror and Other Spectacles
Buy on Amazon2020
Tales from OmniPark
Buy on Amazon2021
In that Endlessness, Our End
Buy on Amazon2021
Beyond the Book of Eibon
Buy on Amazon2021
There Is No Death, There Are No Dead: Tales of Spiritualism Horror
Buy on Amazon2021
Hymns of Abomination
Buy on Amazon2021
Humans are the Problem: A Monster's Anthology
Buy on Amazon2021
Humans Are The Problem: A Monster's Anthology
Buy on Amazon2021
Body Shocks
Buy on Amazon2021
Beyond the Veil
Buy on Amazon2021
Dark Stars: New Tales of Darkest Horror
Buy on Amazon2022
Screams from the Dark
Buy on Amazon2022
Mother
Buy on Amazon2022
Damnation Games
Buy on Amazon2022
The Best of Eternal Haunted Summer
Buy on Amazon2023
Future Folk Horror
Buy on Amazon2023
A Darkness Visible: Explorations of Horror in the Postmodern
Buy on Amazon2023
Dead Letters: Episodes of Epistolary Horror
Buy on Amazon2023
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 87 more. This is generally the best way to experience the story as the author intended.
The Best Horror of the Year series by Gemma Files contains 92 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 Gemma Files. You can find more books and series by this author on our website.
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