Paul Tremblay Reading Order

35 books (2001–2026)

The Anthologies series is a collection of 30 books edited by Paul Tremblay, spanning from 2001 to 2026 and covering fantasy, mystery and thriller, and horror genres. The series is ongoing and should be read in publication order, beginning with Brainbox II: Son of Brainbox. Notable entries include Vivisections, Jigsaw Nation, Creatures: Thirty Years of Monsters, Supernatural Noir, Letters to Lovecraft, The Children of Old Leech, and The New Black, among twenty additional volumes. These anthologies bring together various authors' short works within their respective thematic focuses.

Start with Brainbox II : Son of Brainbox, the first of 30 books in the Anthologies series.

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1	Brainbox II : Son of Brainbox 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Vivisections 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Jigsaw Nation 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Jack Haringa Must Die! 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Phantom 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Creatures: Thirty Years of Monsters 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Supernatural Noir 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Chewing the Page: The Mourning Goats Interviews 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	The Booked. Anthology 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	The Grimscribe's Puppets 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Letters to Lovecraft 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	The Children of Old Leech 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	The New Black 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Gutted 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	The Madness of Dr. Caligari 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	The Shadow Booth: Vol. 1 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	Phantoms 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Suspended in Dusk II 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	The Black Room Manuscripts Volume Three 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	Transmissions From Punktown 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Twelve 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	Grimdark Magazine Issue #27 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	When Things Get Dark 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	Isolation 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
27	Revelations 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
28	Voices in the Dark 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
29	Unspeakable Horror 3: Dark Rainbow Rising 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
30	Shotgun Honey Presents: At the Edge of Darkness 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
31	You're Not Alone in the Dark 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
32	120 Murders: Dark Fiction Inspired by the Alternative Era 2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
33	Why I Love Horror 2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
34	Lovecraft's Brood 2026Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
35	Unhallowed Gifts 2026Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

19 books (2009–2026)

The Best Horror of the Year is an ongoing anthology series edited by Paul Tremblay, spanning 18 volumes published between 2009 and 2025. Each annual installment curates essential horror short fiction, with a retrospective collection marking ten years of the series. Readers should follow the volumes in publication order to experience the year-by-year evolution of horror writing, beginning with Volume One in 2009.

Start with The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One, the first of 18 books in the Best Horror of the Year series.

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1	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Two 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	The Best Horror of the Year Volume Five 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Six 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Seven 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eight 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Nine 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Ten 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eleven 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Twelve 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	The Best Horror of the Year Volume Thirteen 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fifteen 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Sixteen 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Seventeen 2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Best Horror of the Year, Volume Eighteen 2026Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

4 books (2007–2023)

Paul Tremblay's Collections series comprises four books published between 2007 and 2023, likely complete and best read in publication order. The series includes City Pier, In the Mean Time, Growing Things and Other Stories, and The Beast You Are, blending elements of fantasy, mystery, thriller, and horror across its volumes.

Start with City Pier, the first of 4 books in the Collections series.

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1	City Pier 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	In the Mean Time 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Growing Things and Other Stories 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Beast You Are 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

6 books (2019–2019)

The Forward series is a complete six-book collection of standalone science fiction novellas published in 2019, edited by Paul Tremblay. Each entry features a different author exploring speculative fiction themes, including works by Veronica Roth, N.K. Jemisin, Andy Weir, Blake Crouch, and Amor Towles, among others. These stories should be read in publication order to experience the full scope of the series as originally presented. The collection spans fantasy, mystery, thriller, and horror elements across its varied narratives.

Start with Ark(By: Veronica Roth), the first of 6 books in the Forward series.

2 books (2009–2010)

Paul Tremblay's Mark Genevich series consists of two complete novels published between 2009 and 2010, blending fantasy, mystery, and horror elements. Both books should be read in publication order, beginning with The Little Sleep followed by No Sleep Till Wonderland. This short series offers a self-contained story arc that concludes after the second installment.

Start with The Little Sleep and read in order.

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1	The Little Sleep 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	No Sleep Till Wonderland 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

4 books (2007–2023)

Paul Tremblay's Short Stories/Novellas series comprises four books published between 2007 and 2023, with the most recent entry appearing in 2023. These collections should be read in publication order, beginning with The Teacher and continuing through There's No Light Between Floors, The Harlequin and the Train, and In Bloom. The series appears to be complete, drawing on Tremblay's expertise in fantasy, mystery, thriller, and horror genres.

Start with The Teacher, the first of 4 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

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1	The Teacher 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	There's No Light Between Floors 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Harlequin and the Train 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	In Bloom 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

11 books (2004–2026)

Paul Tremblay has written eleven standalone novels across fantasy, mystery and thriller, and horror genres from 2004 through 2026. Though each book stands alone and can be read independently, readers should follow publication order to experience Tremblay's evolving style and thematic concerns, beginning with Compositions for the Young and Old. The series remains ongoing, with the most recent entry being Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep.

Start with Compositons for the Young and Old, the first of 11 books in the Standalone Novels series.

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1	Compositons for the Young and Old 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Swallowing a Donkey's Eye 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Floating Boy and the Girl Who Couldn't Fly(With: Stephen Graham Jones) 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	A Head Full of Ghosts 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Disappearance at Devil's Rock 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Cabin at the End of the World 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Survivor Song 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	The Pallbearers Club 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Horror Movie 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Another 2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep 2026Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

15 books (2010–2024)

The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror is an ongoing anthology series edited by Paul Tremblay, comprising 15 volumes published between 2010 and 2024. The series began with annual editions from 2010 through 2019, then transitioned to numbered volumes starting with Volume 1. Readers should follow publication order to experience the curated selections of dark fantasy and horror stories in the sequence they were released.

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