The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: January 2026
Publication Order
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2018 Edition (By: Paula Guran)
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The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition
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The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2011 Edition
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The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2012 Edition
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The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2013 Edition
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The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition
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The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2015 Edition
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The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2016 Edition
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The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2017 Edition
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The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2018 Edition
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The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2019 Edition
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The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 1
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The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 2
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The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, Volume 3
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The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 4
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The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 5
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The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume 5
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Post Road 3.
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The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories
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Best American Fantasy
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MOME Vol. 9
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The United States of McSweeney's
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Last Drink Bird Head
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My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me
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The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2011
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Supernatural Noir
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Lightspeed Magazine, December 2012
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Exotic Gothic 4
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The New Black
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Fearful Symmetries
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Letters to Lovecraft
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Penumbrae
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The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Seven
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Aickman's Heirs
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The Bestiary
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Verbivoracious Festschrift Volume Four
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Children of Lovecraft
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The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Nine
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Looming Low: Volume I
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The Beauty of Death, Vol. 2
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Future Dreams
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Birthing Monsters
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Whose Future Is It?
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Nox Pareidolia
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The New Flesh
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Uncertainties Volume IV
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The Nightside Codex
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Tiny Nightmares
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Oculus Sinister
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Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2020 Edition
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Tales from OmniPark
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Hymns of Abomination
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Great British Horror 6
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Body Shocks
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Conceptualisms
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Howls from the Dark Ages
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Screams from the Dark
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Mother
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The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen
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Diablo
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Mooncalves
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Azathoth: Ordo ab Chao
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Darkness Beckons Anthology
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A Darkness Visible: Explorations of Horror in the Postmodern
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The Best of Gamut
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Winter in the City
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Weird House Magazine #3
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13 Possessions
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Frequently Asked Questions
The recommended reading order for the The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror series is publication order: 1. The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2018 Edition (By: Paula Guran) (2018), 2. The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition (2010), 3. The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2011 Edition (2011), 4. The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2012 Edition (2012), 5. The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2013 Edition (2013), and 63 more. This is generally the best way to experience the story as the author intended.
The The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror series by Brian B.K. Evenson contains 68 books. The series began in 2018 and continues to be a popular choice for readers.
The The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror series is written by Brian B.K. Evenson. You can find more books and series by this author on our website.
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