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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: March 2026
Quick Answer
What order should I read the The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror series? Start with "The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition" (2010) and follow publication order through all 40 books.
The complete The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition
2010
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2011 Edition
2011
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2012 Edition
2012
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2013 Edition
2013
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition
2014
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2015 Edition
2015
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2016 Edition
2016
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2017 Edition
2017
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2018 Edition
2018
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2019 Edition
2020
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 1
2020
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 2
2021
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, Volume 3
2022
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 4
2023
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 5
2024
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume 5
2024
My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding
2006
Many Bloody Returns
2007
My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon
2007
Blood Lite
2008
Mean Streets
2009
Strange Brew
2009
Dark and Stormy Knights
2010
Songs of Love and Death
2010
Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy
2011
Hex Appeal
2012
Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron
2012
Lightspeed Magazine, December 2012
2012
Dangerous Women
2013
Magic City: Recent Spells
2014
Beyond the Pale
2014
Unbound
2016
Street Magicks
2016
Shadowed Souls
2016
Unfettered II: New Tales By Masters of Fantasy
2016
Straight Outta Tombstone
2017
Urban Enemies
2017
Parallel Worlds: The Heroes Within
2019
Heroic Hearts
2022
Instinct: An Animal Rescuers Anthology
2023
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