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
Bust Down the Door and Eat All the Chickens
Buy on Amazon2007
TwentiethAnnual Collection
Buy on Amazon2007
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition
Buy on Amazon2010
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2011 Edition
Buy on Amazon2011
Halloween: Magic, Mystery, and the Macabre
Buy on Amazon2011
Weird Tales 359
Buy on Amazon2012
Walking the Clouds
Buy on Amazon2012
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2012 Edition
Buy on Amazon2012
Ghosts: Recent Hauntings
Buy on Amazon2012
Heroics: Strange Tales of Absurd Superheroes
Buy on Amazon2012
Chewing the Page: The Mourning Goats Interviews
Buy on Amazon2013
Bad Seeds: Evil Progeny
Buy on Amazon2013
Zombies
Buy on Amazon2013
The New Black
Buy on Amazon2014
The Children of Old Leech
Buy on Amazon2014
Zombies: More Recent Dead
Buy on Amazon2014
Nightmare Carnival
Buy on Amazon2014
Letters to Lovecraft
Buy on Amazon2014
The Starry Wisdom Library
Buy on Amazon2014
Death's Realm
Buy on Amazon2015
Nightmares Unhinged
Buy on Amazon2015
The Monstrous
Buy on Amazon2015
Children of Lovecraft
Buy on Amazon2016
The Starlit Wood
Buy on Amazon2016
Cyber World
Buy on Amazon2016
People of Color Take over Fantastic Stories of the Imagination
Buy on Amazon2017
Georgetown Haunts and Mysteries
Buy on Amazon2017
Blood Business
Buy on Amazon2017
Mad Hatters and March Hares
Buy on Amazon2017
The Demons of King Solomon
Buy on Amazon2017
I Don't Want to Play This Game Anymore
Buy on Amazon2018
Suspended in Dusk II
Buy on Amazon2018
Mechanical Animals
Buy on Amazon2018
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 75
Buy on Amazon2018
Straight Outta Deadwood
Buy on Amazon2019
Terror at 5280'
Buy on Amazon2019
Tales of the Lost, Volume 1
Buy on Amazon2019
Nowhereville
Buy on Amazon2019
The Horror Writer: A Study of Craft and Identity in the Horror Genre
Buy on Amazon2020
The Midnight Exhibit, Vol. 1
Buy on Amazon2020
Psi-Wars: Classified Cases of Psychic Phenomena
Buy on Amazon2020
It Came from the Multiplex: 80s Midnight Chillers
Buy on Amazon2020
Edited By
Buy on Amazon2020
Tiny Nightmares
Buy on Amazon2020
Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2020 Edition
Buy on Amazon2021
Giving the Devil His Due
Buy on Amazon2021
When Things Get Dark
Buy on Amazon2021
The Horror Zine’s Book of Werewolf Stories
Buy on Amazon2022
Dark Stars: New Tales of Darkest Horror
Buy on Amazon2022
Shattered & Splintered
Buy on Amazon2022
Screams from the Dark
Buy on Amazon2022
Other Terrors
Buy on Amazon2022
Dark Matter Presents Human Monsters: A Horror Anthology
Buy on Amazon2022
Unioverse: Stories of the Reconvergence
Buy on Amazon2023
Christmas and Other Horrors
Buy on Amazon2023
The Best of Gamut
Buy on Amazon2024
The Drive-In: Multiplex
Buy on Amazon2024
Human Monsters
Buy on Amazon2024
Fears: Tales of Psychological Horror
Buy on Amazon2024
Some Of The Best From Reactor: 2024 Edition
Buy on Amazon2024
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 Stephen Graham Jones 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 Stephen Graham Jones. You can find more books and series by this author on our website.
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