Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2015 Edition | 2015 | Suzy McKee Charnas | Buy |
| 2 | The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition | 2010 | Suzy McKee Charnas | Buy |
| 3 | The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2011 Edition | 2011 | Suzy McKee Charnas | Buy |
| 4 | The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2012 Edition | 2012 | Suzy McKee Charnas | Buy |
| 5 | The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2016 Edition | 2016 | Suzy McKee Charnas | Buy |
| 6 | The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2017 Edition | 2017 | Suzy McKee Charnas | Buy |
| 7 | The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition | 2014 | Suzy McKee Charnas | Buy |
| 8 | The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2018 Edition | 2018 | Suzy McKee Charnas | Buy |
| 9 | The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2013 Edition | 2013 | Suzy McKee Charnas | Buy |
| 10 | The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2019 Edition | 2020 | Suzy McKee Charnas | Buy |
| 11 | The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 1 | 2020 | Suzy McKee Charnas | Buy |
| 12 | The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 2 | 2021 | Suzy McKee Charnas | Buy |
| 13 | The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, Volume 3 | 2022 | Suzy McKee Charnas | Buy |
| 14 | The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 4 | 2023 | Suzy McKee Charnas | Buy |
| 15 | The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 5 | 2024 | Suzy McKee Charnas | Buy |
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror is an annual anthology series that collects the year’s strongest short fiction in dark fantasy and horror. Running from 2010 through 2024 across fifteen volumes, the series is curated by editor Paula Guran and provides a reliable yearly roundup of the genre’s best.
Each volume draws from magazines, anthologies, and online publications to assemble a representative sample of where dark fiction is headed. The series is a useful resource for readers who want to keep up with the genre without tracking dozens of individual publications.