Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2009 | 2009 | Lavie Tidhar | N/A |
| 2 | The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition | 2010 | Lavie Tidhar | Buy |
| 3 | The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2010 | 2010 | Lavie Tidhar | N/A |
| 4 | The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2011 Edition | 2011 | Lavie Tidhar | Buy |
| 5 | The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2012 Edition | 2012 | Lavie Tidhar | Buy |
| 6 | The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2013 Edition | 2013 | Lavie Tidhar | Buy |
| 7 | The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition | 2014 | Lavie Tidhar | Buy |
| 8 | The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2014 | 2013 | Lavie Tidhar | N/A |
| 9 | The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2015 Edition | 2015 | Lavie Tidhar | Buy |
| 10 | The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2016 Edition | 2016 | Lavie Tidhar | Buy |
| 11 | The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2017 Edition | 2017 | Lavie Tidhar | Buy |
| 12 | The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2018 Edition | 2018 | Lavie Tidhar | Buy |
| 13 | The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2019 Edition | 2020 | Lavie Tidhar | Buy |
| 14 | The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 1 | 2020 | Lavie Tidhar | Buy |
| 15 | The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 2 | 2021 | Lavie Tidhar | Buy |
| 16 | The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, Volume 3 | 2022 | Lavie Tidhar | Buy |
| 17 | The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 4 | 2023 | Lavie Tidhar | Buy |
| 18 | The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 5 | 2024 | Lavie Tidhar | Buy |
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror is an annual anthology series that Lavie Tidhar has edited across multiple volumes since the early 2010s. Each volume collects the strongest dark fantasy and horror stories published during the preceding year, drawn from magazines, collections, and online venues.
With eighteen volumes spanning from 2009 to 2024, the series has become one of the most important ongoing records of the dark speculative fiction field. Tidhar’s editorial taste favors stories that push boundaries and challenge genre conventions, making each volume a useful guide to what is happening at the cutting edge of dark fiction.