Charles De Lint Reading Order

64 books (1986–2026)

Charles De Lint's Anthologies series comprises 59 books published between 1986 and 2018, presenting a comprehensive collection of fantasy and horror stories curated across two decades. The series should be read in publication order, beginning with Borderland and concluding with the final entry in 2018. This complete series showcases the evolution of fantasy and horror short fiction through various annual collections and themed anthologies edited or compiled by De Lint.

Start with Borderland, the first of 59 books in the Anthologies series.

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1	Borderland 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Dragons & Dreams 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Demons & Dreams: The Best Fantasy and Horror 1 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	First Annual Collection 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Third Annual Collection 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Year's Best Fantasy: Second Annual Collection 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Third Annual Collection 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Drabble II: Double Century 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	The Best Fantasy Stories of the Year, 1989 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Cafe Purgatorium 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Fourth Annual Collection 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Life on the Border 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Fourth Annual Collection 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Asimov's Science Fiction, Mid-December 1992 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Fifth Annual Collection 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	A Wizard's Dozen 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Christmas Forever 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	Snow White, Blood Red 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Temporary Walls 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	Love in Vein 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	Northern Stars 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	Seventh Annual Collection 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	Excalibur 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Tenth Annual Collection 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	Eleventh Annual Collection 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	The Crow: Shattered Lives and Broken Dreams 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
27	What If...? 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
28	Black Heart, Ivory Bones 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
29	Mr. Simonelli or the Fairy Widower 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
30	Fourteenth Annual Collection 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
31	Meditations on Middle-Earth 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
32	Tails of Wonder and Imagination 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
33	Fifteenth Annual Collection 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
34	Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstores 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
35	The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
36	New Magics 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
37	The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
38	Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
39	Firebirds Rising 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
40	Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2005 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
41	The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
42	Dreams and Visions 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
43	Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
44	The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
45	TwentiethAnnual Collection 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
46	Ravens in the Library 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
47	Curse of the Full Moon: A Werewolf Anthology 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
48	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction May/June 2010 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
49	Happily Ever After 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
50	The Mammoth Book of Angels and Demons 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
51	Fantasy & Science Fiction, July/August 2012 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
52	Fantasy & Science Fiction, March/April 2012 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
53	Obsession: Tales of Irresistible Desire 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
54	Protectors: Stories to Benefit PROTECT 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
55	Rock On: The Greatest Hits of Science Fiction & Fantasy 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
56	Season of Wonder 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
57	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2012 Edition 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
58	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction November/December 2013 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
59	Woman: An Anthology 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
60	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction May/June 2016 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
61	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction November/December 2016 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
62	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction July/August 2018 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
63	Mythic Journeys 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
64	Into the Deep, Dark Woods 2026Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

14 books (1989–1991)

Author's Choice Monthly is a 13-book fantasy and horror anthology series edited by Charles De Lint, published between 1989 and 1991. Each volume features work by a different author, beginning with Lisa Goldstein's Daily Voices and concluding with Karl Edward Wagner's Unthreatened by the Morning Light. The series is complete and should be read in publication order to follow the intended sequence of featured authors.

Start with Daily Voices(By: Lisa Goldstein), the first of 13 books in the Author's Choice Monthly series.

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1	Daily Voices(By: Lisa Goldstein) 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Old Funny Stuff(By: George Alec Effinger) 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Heroines(By: James Patrick Kelly) 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Neon Twilight(By: Edward Bryant) 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Peripheral Vision(By: Karen Joy Fowler) 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Swatting at the Cosmos(By: James K. Morrow) 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Tales from a Vanished Country(By: Elizabeth A. Lynn) 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Tales from a Vanished Country(By: Elizabeth Lynn) 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	True Minds(By: Spider Robinson) 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Hedgework & Guessery 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	It's Been Fun(By: Esther M. Friesner) 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Nine Hard Questions About the Nature of the Universe(By: Lewis Shiner) 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Stories by Mama Lansdales Youngest Boy(By: Joe R. Lansdale) 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Unthreatened by the Morning Light(By: Karl Edward Wagner) 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

2 books (1994–1994)

Brian Froud's Faerielands is a two-book fantasy series that began in 1994 and is now complete. The series should be read in publication order, starting with Something Rich and Strange, a collaboration between Patricia A. McKillip and Brian Froud, followed by The Wild Wood, also featuring Brian Froud's involvement. Both volumes draw on the fantasy and horror genres to explore enchanted realms.

Start with Something Rich and Strange(By: Patricia A. McKillip,Brian Froud) and read in order.

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1	Something Rich and Strange(By: Patricia A. McKillip,Brian Froud) 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Wild Wood(With: Brian Froud) 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

2 books (1985–1990)

Charles De Lint's Cerin Songweaver duology spans from 1985 to 1990 and should be read in publication order, beginning with The Harp of the Grey Rose followed by Ghosts of Wind and Shadow. This complete two-book series blends fantasy and horror elements, offering a contained narrative arc across both volumes.

Start with The Harp of the Grey Rose and read in order.

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1	The Harp of the Grey Rose 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Ghosts of Wind and Shadow 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

1 book (2005–2005)

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1	This Moment 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

6 books (1990–1997)

The Dragonflight series is a six-book fantasy and horror collection published between 1990 and 1997, featuring contributions from multiple authors including Charles De Lint, Robert Silverberg, Brad Strickland, Esther M. Friesner, Kevin J. Anderson, John Gregory Betancourt, and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. The series is complete and should be read in publication order, beginning with Letters from Atlantis and concluding with Monet's Ghost.

Start with Letters from Atlantis(By: Robert Silverberg), the first of 6 books in the Dragonflight series.

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1	Letters from Atlantis(By: Robert Silverberg) 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Dreaming Place 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Dragon's Plunder(By: Brad Strickland) 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Wishing Season(By: Esther M. Friesner) 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Born of Elven Blood(By: Kevin J. Anderson,John Gregory Betancourt) 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Monet's Ghost(By: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro) 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

2 books (1987–1990)

Charles De Lint's Jack of Kinrowan is a complete two-book fantasy series published between 1987 and 1990. The books should be read in publication order, beginning with Jack, the Giant Killer followed by Drink Down the Moon. Both volumes explore dark fantasy and horror themes within De Lint's distinctive imaginative world.

Start with Jack, the Giant Killer and read in order.

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1	Jack, the Giant Killer 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Drink Down the Moon 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

2 books (2022–2025)

Charles De Lint's Juniper Wiles series is an ongoing fantasy-horror sequence currently comprising two books published between 2022 and 2025. The series should be read in publication order, beginning with Juniper Wiles and the Ghost Girls followed by Juniper Wiles Does Not Want to Be Queen. With the second installment released in 2025, additional books are anticipated in this continuing series.

Start with Juniper Wiles and the Ghost Girls and read in order.

5 books (1984–1992)

Charles de Lint's Moonheart series comprises five complete books published between 1984 and 1992, blending fantasy and horror elements throughout. The five entries—Moonheart, Ascian in Rose, Westlin Wind, Ghostwood, and Spiritwalk—should be read in publication order to follow the full arc of the narrative. This finished series offers a comprehensive experience for readers seeking de Lint's darker, imaginative storytelling across the full sequence.

Start with Moonheart, the first of 5 books in the Moonheart series.

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1	Moonheart 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Ascian in Rose 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Westlin Wind 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Ghostwood 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Spiritwalk 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

29 books (1990–2022)

Charles De Lint's Newford series comprises 27 fantasy and horror novels published between 1990 and 2022, with the series likely concluded. The books should be read in publication order, beginning with The Dreaming Place. This interconnected collection of stories set in the fictional city of Newford includes works written in collaboration with Charles Vess and blends contemporary fantasy with darker supernatural elements across its three-decade span.

Start with The Dreaming Place, the first of 27 books in the Newford series.

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1	The Dreaming Place 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Paperjack 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Dreams Underfoot 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Wishing Well 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Memory and Dream 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Ivory and the Horn 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Trader 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Moonlight and Vines 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Someplace to Be Flying 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	The Bone Woman 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Big City Littles 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Forests of the Heart 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	The Onion Girl 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Seven Wild Sisters(By: Charles Vess) 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Tapping the Dream Tree(By: Charles Vess) 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Spirits in the Wires 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Medicine Road(By: Charles Vess) 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	The Blue Girl 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	The Hour Before Dawn 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	Make a Joyful Noise 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	Widdershins 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	Little Grrl Lost 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	Promises to Keep 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	Dingo 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	Muse and Reverie 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	The Cats of Tanglewood Forest 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
27	Newford Stories: Crow Girls 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
28	Juniper Wiles 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
29	Juniper Wiles and the Ghost Girls 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

9 books (1988–2017)

Philip José Farmer's The Dungeon is a nine-book fantasy and horror series that began in 1988 and concluded in 2017, with the complete sequence written by multiple authors including Richard A. Lupoff, Robin Wayne Bailey, and Bruce Coville. The series should be read in publication order to follow the interconnected narrative across all installments. This collaborative work combines the creative visions of several fantasy writers contributing to Farmer's original concept, making it a unique multi-authored epic.

Start with Philip José Farmer's The Dungeon(By: Richard A. Lupoff), the first of 9 books in the Philip Jose Farmer's The Dungeon series.

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1	Philip José Farmer's The Dungeon(By: Richard A. Lupoff) 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Black Tower(By: Richard A. Lupoff) 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Lake of Fire(By: Robin Wayne Bailey) 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Valley of Thunder 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	The Final Battle(By: Richard A. Lupoff) 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Hidden City 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Dungeon(By: Philip Jose Farmer) 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	The Dark Abyss(By: Bruce Coville) 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Philip José Farmer's The Dungeon Vol. 6, The Final Battle(By: Richard A. Lupoff) 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

1 book (2003–2003)

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1	A Circle of Cats 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

24 books (1989–2019)

Charles De Lint's Short Stories/Novellas series consists of 24 independently published collections spanning from 1989 to 2019, showcasing the author's work in fantasy and horror across three decades. These books should be read in publication order, beginning with Berlin and concluding with the final entry in 2019. Each collection stands alone, allowing readers to experience De Lint's imaginative storytelling without commitment to a particular sequence, though following publication order provides insight into the author's evolving style and thematic interests.

Start with Berlin, the first of 24 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

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1	Berlin 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Timeskip 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Death Leaves an Echo 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Pity the Monsters 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Bridges 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Merlin Dreams In The Mondream Wood 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Conjure Man 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	The Moon Is Drowning While I Sleep 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Where Desert Spirits Crowd the Night 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	China Doll 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Old Man Crow 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Yellow Dog 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	And the Rafters Were Ringing 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Companions to the Moon 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Crow Roads 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Dharma 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Dog Boys 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	Jack in the Green 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	That was Radio Clash 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	The Butter Spirit's Tithe 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	Riding Shotgun 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	Somewhere in My Mind There Is a Painting Box 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	Barrio Girls 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	Horsepower & Medicine 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

8 books (2000–2010)

Charles de Lint's Short Story Collections span eight volumes of fantasy and horror tales published between 2000 and 2010, forming a complete series. The books should be read in publication order, beginning with Triskell Tales and concluding with The Very Best of Charles de Lint. This series showcases de Lint's range across multiple short fiction entries, including Waifs and Strays, A Handful of Coppers, Quicksilver & Shadow, Triskell Tales 2, What the Mouse Found and Other Stories, and Woods and Waters Wild.

Start with Triskell Tales, the first of 8 books in the Short Story Collections series.

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1	Triskell Tales 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Waifs and Strays 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	A Handful of Coppers 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Quicksilver & Shadow 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Triskell Tales 2 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	What the Mouse Found and Other Stories 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Woods and Waters Wild 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	The Very Best of Charles de Lint 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

20 books (1984–2017)

Charles De Lint's collection of standalone novels spans from 1984 to 2017, comprising twenty complete books that should be read in publication order beginning with The Riddle of the Wren. Written across his career in fantasy and horror, these independent stories were occasionally published under the pseudonym Samuel Key. Each novel stands alone narratively, though together they showcase De Lint's evolving style and thematic interests across more than three decades of work.

Start with The Riddle of the Wren, the first of 20 books in the Standalone Novels series.

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1	The Riddle of the Wren 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Mulengro 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Yarrow 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Greenmantle 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Wolf Moon 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Svaha 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Angel of Darkness(As: Samuel Key) 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Our Lady of the Harbour 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	The Little Country 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Uncle Dobbin's Parrot Fair 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	From a Whisper to a Scream(As: Samuel Key) 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Into the Green 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	I'll Be Watching You(As: Samuel Key) 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	The Buffalo Man 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	The Road to Lisdoonvarna 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Eyes Like Leaves 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	The Mystery of Grace 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	The Painted Boy 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Jodi and the Witch of Bodbury 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	The Wind in His Heart 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

15 books (2010–2024)

The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror is an ongoing anthology series edited by Charles De Lint that collects the best dark fantasy and horror stories published each year. Fifteen volumes have been released from 2010 to 2024, with the first ten organized by year (2010–2019) and subsequent entries published as numbered volumes. Readers should follow publication order to experience the selections as they were curated and presented. Each edition features a diverse array of short fiction from established and emerging authors working in dark fantasy and horror genres.

Start with The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition, the first of 15 books in the The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror series.

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1	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2011 Edition 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2012 Edition 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2013 Edition 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2015 Edition 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2016 Edition 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2017 Edition 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2018 Edition 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2019 Edition 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 1 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 2 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, Volume 3 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 4 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 5 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (2012–2014)

Charles De Lint's Wildlings trilogy is a complete fantasy-horror series consisting of three books published between 2012 and 2014. The three installments—Under My Skin, Over My Head, and Out of This World—should be read in publication order to follow the story as intended. This series offers dark fantasy and horror elements across its three-book arc.

Start with Under My Skin and read in order.

#	Title
1	Under My Skin 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Over My Head 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Out of This World 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

9 books (2001–2009)

Charles De Lint edited nine volumes in the Year's Best Fantasy anthology series, published between 2001 and 2009. Each installment collects the finest fantasy and horror short fiction from its respective year, curated by De Lint for readers seeking quality genre stories. The series is complete and should be read in publication order to follow the chronological progression of selections. Readers interested in short-form fantasy and horror will find these collections showcase both established and emerging voices in the field.

Start with Year's Best Fantasy, the first of 9 books in the Year's Best Fantasy series.

#	Title
1	Year's Best Fantasy 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Year's Best Fantasy 2 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Year's Best Fantasy 3 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Year's Best Fantasy 4 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Year's Best Fantasy 5 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Year's Best Fantasy 6 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Year's Best Fantasy 7 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Year's Best Fantasy 8 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Year's Best Fantasy 9 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible