best horror fiction annuals for 2016 (mostly...collecting 2015 first publications, with one exception)

Almost a peak year, perhaps the peak year, for horror annuals, even with Best British Horror skipping 2016 and 2017, to arrive again (rise from the dead) last year...and with the Jones and Australian annuals arriving some months late for their target year.

• Publication: The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eight
• Editor: Ellen Datlow
• Date: 2016-06-07
• ISBN: 978-1-59780-853-8 [1-59780-853-9]
• Publisher: Night Shade Books
• Price: $15.99
• Pages: xli+317
• Format: tp
• Cover: The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eight by Blake Malcerta
• viii • Summation 2015 (The Best Horror of the Year Volume Eight) • essay by Ellen Datlow
• 1 • We Are All Monsters Here • (2015) • short fiction by Kelley Armstrong
• 17 • Universal Horror • (2015) • short story by Stephen Graham Jones
• 35 • Slaughtered Lamb • (2015) • short story by Tom Johnstone
• 45 • In a Cavern, in a Canyon • (2015) • short fiction by Laird Barron
• 65 • Between the Pilings • (2015) • short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
• 79 • Snow • (2015) • short story by Dale Bailey
• 93 • Indian Giver • (2015) • short story by Ray Cluley
• 107 • My Boy Builds Coffins • (2015) • short story by Gary McMahon
• 123 • The Woman in the Hill • (2016) • short story by Tamsyn Muir
• 133 • Underground Economy • (2015) • short story by John Langan
• 143 • The Rooms Are High • (2015) • short story by Reggie Oliver
• 159 • All the Day You'll Have Good Luck • (2015) • short story by Kate Jonez
• 177 • Lord of the Sand • (2015) • short story by Stephen Bacon
• 185 • Wilderness • (2015) • short story by Letitia Trent
• 201 • Fabulous Beasts • (2015) • novelette by Priya Sharma
• 229 • Descent • (2015) • short fiction by Carmen Maria Machado
• 239 • Hippocampus • (2015) • short story by Adam Nevill
• 247 • Black Dog • [American Gods] • (2015) • novelette by Neil Gaiman
• 283 • The 21st Century Shadow • (2015) • poem by Stephanie M. Wytovich
• 285 • This Stagnant Breath of Change • (2015) • short story by Brian Hodge

• Publication: Best New Horror #27
• Editor: Stephen Jones
• Date: 2017-01-01
• ISBN: 978-1-78636-066-3 [1-78636-066-7]
• Publisher: Drugstore Indian Press
• Price: £12.99
• Pages: 531
• Format: tp
• Cover: Best New Horror #27 by Lee Elias
• The Coffin House • (2015) • short story by Robert Aickman
• The Lake • (2015) • short story by Daniel Mills
• The Barnacle Daughter • (2015) • short fiction by Richard Gavin
• Exposure • (2015) • short story by Helen Marshall
• The Larder • (2015) • short fiction by Nicholas Royle
• The Seventh Wave • (2015) • short fiction by Lynda E. Rucker
• Underground Economy • (2015) • short story by John Langan
• The Drowning City • (2015) • short fiction by Loren Rhoads
• The Chapel of Infernal Devotion • (2015) • short fiction by Ron Weighell
• Alma Mater • (2015) • short story by Kate Farrell
• Hibakusha • (2015) • short story by L. P. Lee
• The Offing • (2015) • short fiction by Conrad Williams
• Marrowvale • (2015) • short fiction by Kurt Fawver
• Hairwork • (2015) • short fiction by Gemma Files
• Black Dog • [American Gods] • (2015) • novelette by Neil Gaiman
• In the Earth • (2015) • short story by Storm Constantine
• In the Lovecraft Museum • (2015) • novella by Steve Rasnic Tem

• Publication: The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2016
• Editor: Paula Guran
• Date: 2016-07-19
• ISBN: 978-1-60701-471-3 [1-60701-471-8]
• Publisher: Prime Books
• Price: $19.95
• Pages: 527
• Format: 
  tp
• Cover: The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2016 (2016) • by Fer Gregory [as by Fergregory]
• The Door • (2015) • short story by Kelley Armstrong
• Snow • (2015) • short story by Dale Bailey
• Seven Minutes in Heaven • (2015) • short story by Nadia Bulkin
• The Glad Hosts • (2015) • short story by Rebecca Campbell
• Hairwork • (2015) • short fiction by Gemma Files
• Black Dog • [American Gods] • (2015) • novelette by Neil Gaiman
• A Shot of Salt Water • (2015) • short story by Lisa L. Hannett
• Cassandra • (2015) • short story by Ken Liu
• Street of the Dead House • (2015) • short fiction by Robert Lopresti
• The Deepwater Bride • (2015) • novelette by Tamsyn Muir
• 1UP • (2015) • novelette by Holly Black
• The Scavenger's Nursery • (2015) • short fiction by Maria Dahvana Headley
• Daniel's Theory About Dolls • (2015) • short fiction by Stephen Graham Jones
• The Cripple and Starfish • (2015) • short story by Caitlín R. Kiernan (variant of The Cripple and the Starfish)
• The Absence of Words • (2015) • short story by Swapna Kishore
• Corpsemouth • (2015) • novelette by John Langan
• Mary, Mary • (2015) • short story by Kirstyn McDermott
• There Is No Place for Sorrow in the Kingdom of the Cold • (2015) • novelette by Seanan McGuire
• Below the Falls • (2015) • short story by Daniel Mills
• The Greyness • (2015) • short fiction by Kathryn Ptacek
• The Three Resurrections of Jessica Churchill • (2015) • short story by Kelly Robson
• Those • (2015) • short story by Sofia Samatar
• Fabulous Beasts • (2015) • novelette by Priya Sharma
• Windows Underwater • (2015) • short fiction by John Shirley
• Ripper • (2015) • short fiction by Angela Slatter
• The Lily and the Horn • (2015) • short story by Catherynne M. Valente
• Sing Me Your Scars • (2015) • short story by Damien Angelica Walters
• The Body Finder • (2015) • short story by Kaaron Warren
• The Devil Under the Maison Blue • (2015) • short story by Michael Wehunt
• Kaiju maximus®: "So Various, So Beautiful, So New" • (2015) • short story by Kai Ashante Wilson

• Publication: Best British Horror 2018 (first since 2015)
• Editor: Johnny Mains
• Date: 2018-10-16
• ISBN: 978-1-910935-95-8 [1-910935-95-6]
• Publisher: NewCon Press
• Pages: 258
• Format: hc
• Cover: Best British Horror 2018 by Daniele Serra
• Best British Horror 2018 • interior artwork by Russell John Morgan
• Introduction (Best British Horror 2018) • essay by Johnny Mains
• Paymon's Trio • (2017) • short story by Colette de Curzon
• Love and Death • (2017) • short fiction by Reggie Oliver
• In the Light of St. Ives • short story by Ray Cluley (variant of In the Light of St Ives 2017)
• The Book of Dreems • (2017) • short story by Georgina Bruce
• The Affair • (2017) • short story by James Everington
• Fragments of a Broken Doll • non-genre • (2017) • short story by Cate Gardner
• The Lies We Tell • (2017) • short story by Charlotte Bond
• Ting-a-Ling-a-Ling • (2017) • novelette by Daniel McGachey
• Tools of the Trade • (2017) • novelette by Paul Finch
• Departures • (2017) • short fiction by A. K. Benedict
• The Taste of Her • (2017) • short story by Mark West
• Sun Dogs • (2017) • novelette by Laura Mauro
• Dispossession • (2017) • short story by Nicholas Royle
• Shell Baby • (2017) • short story by V. H. Leslie
• The Unwish • (2017) • short story by Claire Massey [as by Claire Dean (Massey pseudonym)]
• A Day with the Delusionists • (2017) • short story by Reggie Oliver
• We Who Sing Beneath the Ground • (2017) • short story by Mark Morris

• Publication: Year's Best Weird Fiction: Volume Three
• Editors: Michael Kelly, Simon Strantzas
• Date: 2016-10-11
• ISBN: 978-0-9950949-1-8 [0-9950949-1-8]
• Publisher: Undertow Publications
• Price: $19.99
• Pages: xiv+365
• Format: 
  tp
• Cover: Year's Best Weird Fiction: Volume Three by Beatriz Martin Vidal
• vii • Forward (Year's Best Weird Fiction, Volume 3) • essay by Michael Kelly
• xi • Introduction (Year's Best Weird Fiction, Volume 3) • essay by Simon Strantzas
• 3 • Rabbit, Cat, Girl • (2015) • short story by Rebecca Kuder
• 13 • Violet Is the Color of Your Energy • (2015) • short fiction by Nadia Bulkin
• 27 • Blood • (2015) • short fiction by Robert Shearman
• 55 • Loveliness Like a Shadow • (2015) • novelette by Christopher Slatsky
• 73 • Orange Dogs • (2015) • short story by Marian Womack
• 89 • Seaside Town • (2015) • short story by Brian Evenson
• 107 • Honey Moon • (2015) • short story by D. P. Watt
• 131 • The Marking • (2015) • short story by Kristi DeMeester
• 139 • The Strangers • (2015) • novella by Robert Aickman
• 189 • Guest • (2015) • short story by Brian Conn
• 197 • Julie • (2015) • novelette by L. S. Johnson
• 223 • The Devil Under the Maison Blue • (2015) • short story by Michael Wehunt
• 235 • Fetched • short fiction by Ramsey Campbell (variant of Nightmare 2015)
• 235 • The Seventh Wave • (2015) • short fiction by Lynda E. Rucker
• 255 • Rangel • (2015) • novelette by Matthew M. Bartlett
• 277 • Visit Lovely Cornwall on the Western Railway Line • (2015) • short fiction by Genevieve Valentine
• 293 • The Rooms Are High • (2015) • short story by Reggie Oliver
• 313 • Strange Currents • (2015) • short fiction by Tim Lebbon
• 345 • Little Girls in Bone Museums • (2015) • short story by Sadie Bruce

• Publication: Year's Best Hardcore Horror: Volume 1
• Editors: Randy Chandler, Cheryl Mullenax
• Date: 2016-05-29
• Publisher: Comet Press
• Price: $3.99
• Format: ebook/tp
• Cover: Year's Best Hardcore Horror: Volume 1 by Inkubus Design

• Introduction: The Year That Was • essay by Randy Chandler and Cheryl Mullenax
• Worth the Having • (2014) • short story by Michael Paul Gonzalez
• Awakening • (2015) • short story by Jeff Strand
• Readings Off The Charts • (2015) • short story by Adam Cesare
• Reborn • (2015) • short story by The Behrg
• What's Worst • (2015) • short story by David James Keaton
• Dead End • (2015) • short story by Kristopher Triana
• What You Wish For • (2015) • short story by Lilith Morgan
• King Shits • (2015) • novelette by Charles Austin Muir
• Clean-Up on Aisle 3 • (2015) • short story by Adam Howe
• Bath Salt Fetus • (2015) • short story by Jorge Palacios
• Bored with Brutality • (2015) • short story by M. P. Johnson
• Exposed • (2015) • short story by Monica J. O'Rourke
• Eleanor • (2015) • short story by Jason Parent
• The Scavengers • (2015) • short story by Tony Knighton
• The Most Important Miracle • (2015) • short story by Scott Emerson
• Hungry for Control • (2015) • short story by Clare de Lune
• Clarissa • (2015) • short story by Jack Bantry and Robert Essig
• Where the Sun Don't Shine • (2015) • short story by Pete Kahle
• Blackbird Lullaby • (2015) • short story by George Cotronis

This one not published till 2017, and the last so far. 

• Publication: The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2015
• Editors: Liz Grzyb, Talie Helene
• Date: 2017-04-04
• Publisher: Ticonderoga Publications
• Price: A$35.00
• apparently uncredited cover artwork purchased from an image-bank.

• 2B • (2015) • short story by Joanne Anderton
• The Chart of the Vagrant Mariner • (2015) • short story by Alan Baxter
• Look How Cold My Hands Are • (2015) • short story by Deborah Biancotti
• Oh, Have You Seen the Devil • (2015) • short story by Stephen Dedman
• The Events at Callan Park • (2015) • short story by Erol Engin
• The Dog Pit • (2015) • short story by Jason Fischer
• In the Blood • (2015) • short story by Dirk Flinthart
• In Sheep's Clothing • (2015) • short story by Kimberley Gaal
• The Flowers That Bloom Where Blood Touches Earth • (2015) • novelette by Stephanie Gunn
• Consorting with Filth • (2015) • short story by Lisa L. Hannett [as by Lisa Hannett]
• Double Speak • (2015) • short story by Robert Hood
• A Hedge of Yellow Roses • (2015) • short story by Kathleen Jennings
• Ninehearts • (2015) • short story by Maree Kimberley
• Sleepless • (2015) • short story by Jay Kristoff
• El Caballo Muerte • (2015) • short story by Martin Livings
• Reminiscences of Herbert West • (2015) • poem by Charles Lovecraft [as by Danny Lovecraft]
• Self, Contained • (2015) • short story by Kirstyn McDermott
• Mr Schmidt's Dead Pet Emporium • (2015) • short fiction by Sally McLennan (variant of Mr. Schmidt's Dead Pet Emporium)
• Almost Days • (2015) • short story by D. K. Mok
• Blueblood • (2015) • short story by Faith Mudge
• Half Past • (2015) • short story by Samantha Murray
• Night Blooming • (2015) • short story by Jason Nahrung
• The Company of Women • (2015) • short story by Garth Nix
• Lady Killer • (2015) • novelette by Anthony Panegyres
• Beyond the Factory Wall • (2015) • short story by Rivqa Rafael
• Perfect Little Stitches • (2015) • short story by Deborah Sheldon
• Bluebeard's Daughter • (2015) • short story by Angela Slatter
• Dragon Girl • (2015) • short story by Cat Sparks
• Angelito • juvenile • (2015) • short story by Lucy Sussex
• Tap • (2015) • short story by Anna Tambour
• Mine Intercom • (2015) • short story by Kaaron Warren