Paul Tremblay Reading Order

30 books (2001–2026)

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

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

18 books (2009–2025)

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

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

4 books (2007–2023)

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

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

6 books (2019–2019)

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

2 books (2009–2010)

Start with The Little Sleep and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Little Sleep 2009Buy 🇺🇸
2	No Sleep Till Wonderland 2010Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2007–2023)

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

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

11 books (2004–2026)

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

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

15 books (2010–2024)

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.

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