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)
Buy on Amazon2018
The Blackest Death: Volume II
Buy on Amazon2005
Salon Fantastique: Fifteen Original Tales of Fantasy
Buy on Amazon2006
Aegri Somnia
Buy on Amazon2006
Ruins Extraterrestrial
Buy on Amazon2007
Bound for Evil: Curious Tales of Books Gone Bad
Buy on Amazon2008
Best New Fantasy 2
Buy on Amazon2009
Hatter Bones
Buy on Amazon2009
Interfictions 2
Buy on Amazon2009
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection
Buy on Amazon2010
Shine: An Anthology of Near-Future Optimistic Science Fiction
Buy on Amazon2010
Grave Conditions
Buy on Amazon2010
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 5
Buy on Amazon2011
Bewere the Night
Buy on Amazon2011
Apex Magazine - August 2011
Buy on Amazon2011
Daily Science Fiction Stories of August 2011
Buy on Amazon2011
Unfit for Eden: A Postscripts Anthology 26/27
Buy on Amazon2011
Steampunk III
Buy on Amazon2012
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection
Buy on Amazon2012
Pandemonium: Stories of the Smoke
Buy on Amazon2012
The Mammoth Book of Steampunk
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The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2012
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Fungi
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Unidentified Funny Objects
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Futuredaze: An Anthology of YA Science Fiction
Buy on Amazon2013
Clarkesworld: Year Three
Buy on Amazon2013
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2014
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The Best British Fantasy 2013
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Aliens: Recent Encounters
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Year's Best Young Adult Speculative Fiction 2013
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The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2013
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Best New SF 26
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We See a Different Frontier
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Memoryville Blues: A Postscripts Anthology 30/31
Buy on Amazon2013
The Book of Apex: Volume 4
Buy on Amazon2013
The End of the Road
Buy on Amazon2013
Best New Horror 25
Buy on Amazon2014
Plan B - Volume IV
Buy on Amazon2014
Clarkesworld: Year Six
Buy on Amazon2014
The Apex Book of World SF 3
Buy on Amazon2014
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection
Buy on Amazon2014
Lightspeed Magazine, October 2014
Buy on Amazon2014
The Apex Book of World SF 5
Buy on Amazon2015
Jews vs Aliens
Buy on Amazon2015
Jews Vs Zombies
Buy on Amazon2015
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2015 Edition
Buy on Amazon2015
The Apex Book of World SF 4
Buy on Amazon2015
Funny Science Fiction
Buy on Amazon2015
Best New Horror #26
Buy on Amazon2015
The Best of Abyss & Apex, Volume Two
Buy on Amazon2016
Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2016 Edition
Buy on Amazon2017
The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Two
Buy on Amazon2017
Behind the Mask: A Superhero Anthology
Buy on Amazon2017
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 9
Buy on Amazon2017
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection
Buy on Amazon2017
Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation
Buy on Amazon2017
Everyone: Worlds Without Walls
Buy on Amazon2017
The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2017
Buy on Amazon2017
Robots vs. Fairies
Buy on Amazon2018
The Book Of Swords: Part 2
Buy on Amazon2018
Best of British Science Fiction 2017
Buy on Amazon2018
Worlds Seen in Passing
Buy on Amazon2018
The Book of Magic: A Collection of Stories
Buy on Amazon2018
The Outcast Hours
Buy on Amazon2019
Bag Man
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The Year's Top Robot and AI Stories
Buy on Amazon2019
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2019 Edition
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Invisible Blood
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Best of British Science Fiction 2018
Buy on Amazon2019
The Best of British Fantasy 2019
Buy on Amazon2020
Best of British Science Fiction 2019
Buy on Amazon2020
The 2020 Look at Mars Fiction Book
Buy on Amazon2020
Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2020 Edition
Buy on Amazon2021
Far Out: Recent Queer Science Fiction and Fantasy
Buy on Amazon2021
The Best of World SF, Volume 1
Buy on Amazon2021
Out of the Ruins: The Apocalyptic Anthology
Buy on Amazon2021
Some of the Best of Tor.com 2021
Buy on Amazon2022
The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 6
Buy on Amazon2022
The Best of World SF: Volume 2
Buy on Amazon2022
Uncanny Magazine, Issue 53, July/August 2023
Buy on Amazon2023
Best of British Science Fiction 2022
Buy on Amazon2023
Ink and Daggers
Buy on Amazon2023
The Best of World SF: Volume 3
Buy on Amazon2023
The Year's Top Robot and AI Stories: Fourth Annual Collection
Buy on Amazon2023
Reports from the Deep End
Buy on Amazon2023
Uncanny Magazine Issue 57: March/April 2024
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Best of British Science Fiction 2023
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The Year's Top Robot and AI Stories: Fifth Annual Collection
Buy on Amazon2024
The Map of Lost Places: Stories From Strange and Haunted Realms
Buy on Amazon2025
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition
Buy on Amazon2010
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2011 Edition
Buy on Amazon2011
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2012 Edition
Buy on Amazon2012
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2013 Edition
Buy on Amazon2013
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition
Buy on Amazon2014
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2016 Edition
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The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2017 Edition
Buy on Amazon2017
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2018 Edition
Buy on Amazon2018
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2019 Edition
Buy on Amazon2020
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 1
Buy on Amazon2020
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 2
Buy on Amazon2021
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, Volume 3
Buy on Amazon2022
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 4
Buy on Amazon2023
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 5
Buy on Amazon2024
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume 5
Buy on Amazon2024
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 Blackest Death: Volume II (2005), 3. Salon Fantastique: Fifteen Original Tales of Fantasy (2006), 4. Aegri Somnia (2006), 5. Ruins Extraterrestrial (2007), and 99 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 Lavie Tidhar contains 104 books. The series began in 2018 and continues to be a popular choice for readers.
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