Horror Novels 惊悚小说

1. 201 死 The Village of the Dead 死人村 Jun Lan君澜Mystery11k WordsCompleted Rainy days gather ghostly energy. Moving graves is most taboo at such a time, but someone ignored the warning, dug up their grandmother's grave, and threw her bones into a mass burial ground. After that, strange things began happening in the village. People died one after another. Yet Grandpa Tianci was thinking of using ghosts to summon the souls of the dead! 182Reads—Score—Shelves
2. 202 替 The Cursed Mirror That Takes Your Place 替命诡镜 Sun Mingyuan孙铭苑Mystery9k WordsCompleted A strong, heavyset man becomes so emaciated that he's on the brink of death. Doctors can't figure out what's wrong with him, and even fortune-tellers are helpless. His wife gets him a Yin-Yang Mirror that can restore his fortune. But the mirror's power comes at a price: every name written on it makes someone else suffer his misfortune. The man is overjoyed. As one name after another is written down, death follows close behind… —Reads—Score—Shelves
3. 203 地 The Rat King Underground 地下的鼠王 Jun Lan君澜Mystery8k WordsCompleted In Northeast China, there are things you must never ask about, places you must never go, and some graveyards that even rats won’t dare approach… Forty years ago, a plague of rats devoured an entire village. The bodies, gnawed down to bare bones, became a taboo the villagers never dared mention. But no one expected that forty years later, the nightmare would return: bloodstains, gold bracelets, overturned graves, and rafters creaking with “squeaks” in the night… Everything filled them with terror 1Reads—Score—Shelves
4. 204 吊 The Hanged Girls 吊死的姑娘们 Jun Lan君阑Mystery8k WordsCompleted Strange things had been happening in the village with increasing frequency. Every night, an eerie woman’s voice could be heard asking, “Has anyone seen my child’s father?” “Come back soon, dear. Just look at our little one, isn’t the baby adorable?” The villagers said it was the ghost of a young woman who had hanged herself from a tree, returned to claim lives. But more than one woman had hanged herself from that tree. Which one was this ghost? 4Reads—Score—Shelves
5. 205 镇 Soul Calming: A Violent Death 镇魂之死于非命 Sun Mingyuan孙铭苑Mystery11k WordsCompleted Latest murder case: A wealthy couple in a villa district have both met gruesome ends. The husband was found dead in bed, dressed as a woman. The wife turned on the gas and burned herself to death! The scene was bizarre, yet surveillance footage showed that both deaths were suicides! No one knew that this was simply the just deserts of their own evil, the consequences of their sins coming back to haunt them… 5Reads—Score—Shelves
6. 206 染 The Bloodstained Embroidered Shoe 染血的绣花鞋 Jun Lan君阑Mystery8k WordsCompleted In the mountain villages of Northeast China, there are rules: those who die violently must not be cremated. At the very least, they should be put in a coffin and buried on the back hill. Lin Xiu, the new bride in Granny Wang’s household, was found naked and abandoned in a field. Her eyes and lips had been sewn shut while she was alive, and the embroidered shoes on her feet had mysteriously disappeared. The villagers cursed and complained about the bad omen. Granny Wang simply tossed the body int 380Reads—Score—Shelves
7. 207 招 The Spirit-Summoning Garment 招魂衣 Jun Lan君澜Mystery8k WordsCompleted They say Northeast China is full of taboos, and you can’t even wear the wrong clothes! Old Li was tempted by a bargain and accepted a new outfit that was “free.” But he never imagined it was a “life robe” sent by a soul-caller. The price was his grandson’s life. From that day on, strange things plagued the household: a dog’s head rolled across the floor, relatives died gruesome deaths, living people were burned alive, and even the dead began knocking at the door to claim their lives… 1Reads—Score—Shelves
8. 208 你 The Person You Want to Kill Will Die Within Three Days 你想杀死的人，将会在三天内死亡 Dreaming of Divine Light梦入灵光Mystery15k WordsCompleted Type a name on the screen, and three days later, that person will die. A bizarre “Thrilling Murder Mission” System suddenly appeared on the computer screen. Young, down-on-his-luck Lu Yunming entered the name of someone he hated, though he wasn’t sure he believed it… Three days later, that person really did die in a crowd, an arrow piercing his head as blood sprayed everywhere. Lu Yunming had thought it was a freak act of judgment, but it turned out to be only the beginning of a nightmare. The S 1Reads—Score—Shelves
9. 209 鱼 By the Fish Pond 鱼池边上 By the Fish Pond鱼池边上Sci-Fi & Apocalypse286k WordsCompleted On a clear summer night, gazing at the countless stars glittering overhead, have you ever felt the disappointment of knowing they’re out of reach? Are we really so pitiful? No, never! We must conquer the universe! 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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10. 210 活 The Living Dead Bring Fortune 活尸送财 Jun Lan君阑Mystery9k WordsCompleted One a day. For the past three months, the overpowering stench of blood and rot in Qi Lao San's incense hall had never let up. The fouler the stench, the more people came. Zhao Er, who had lost his manhood, buried his father in the hills behind the village so he could enter the incense hall. It was all started by the village chief, who chopped his own daughter-in-law into pieces. Today, it was Li Si's turn. Qi Lao San pointed his pipe toward the incense hall. “Go on in.” —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Looking at it in broad daylight makes my back feel cold [petrified] [petrified] [petrified]

11. 211 失 The Lost Soul 失魂之人 Sun Mingyuan孙铭苑Mystery11k WordsCompleted After a car accident left Han Jin in a coma, he woke to find himself out of his body, wandering between the realms of yin and yang. His memories from before the accident had vanished, too! To return to his body, he went back to the accident scene, only to discover that someone had tried to murder him! His missing memories, the mystery of his disembodied soul, the secret of extending his life... Whose plot lies behind it all? 1Reads—Score—Shelves
12. 212 劣 Inferior Humanity 劣等人性 Sun Mingyuan孙铭苑Mystery9k WordsCompleted Liu Kai and several of his friends came down with a mysterious illness. Their skin rotted, but no camera could capture evidence of it, and hospital tests showed nothing wrong! Everything was deeply unsettling. By chance, he found a mysterious shop run by a shamanic practitioner and acquired a pig-headed, human-bodied figurine. His illness eased, but when his friends betrayed him, he suffered an even more terrible backlash! This disaster, which seemed like a strange illness, actually stemmed from 2Reads—Score—Shelves
13. 213 女 My Girlfriend and Best Friend Are Plotting to Have Me Killed 女朋友和好兄弟密谋让我去死 The Out-of-Control Editorial Department失控编辑部Mystery24k WordsCompleted “Do you believe a painting can kill someone?” I took a job worth three hundred thousand yuan: recreating Along the River During the Qingming Festival. At first, I thought it was just an ordinary copy, until the old man from the coffin shop in the painting knocked on my bed in the middle of the night, a woman in a white dress silently watched me from the entryway, and the “boat girls” that had appeared out of nowhere seeped into every stroke of paint like a curse. My buddy urged me on: “Fortune f 2Reads—Score—Shelves
14. 214 组 My Team Leader Tried to Psych Me Out, So I Sent Him Back to the Village as a Sacrifice 组长想要PUA我，我把他送回村里当祭品 Little Hands, Ice Cold小手冰冰凉Mystery9k WordsCompleted When I left the village, the High Priest hung a fish-shaped jade pendant around my neck. The High Priest said that if I wore it, I would never get lost. I’m descended from the guardians of the spring at the Loulan ruins. The Moon Spring is my beacon home. Why would I need a jade pendant? Back then, I didn’t understand, and the High Priest didn’t explain. Not until later, when I met him. —Reads—Score—Shelves
15. 215 借 Trading a Life for Wealth 借命换财 Agile Dog灵活的狗Mystery10k WordsCompleted The money Grandma had secretly buried in the ground to treat her terminal illness was gone. I didn’t find out it had been stolen until our neighbor started livestreaming to show off his wealth. He’d also stolen the lucky doll I used to pray for Grandma’s recovery, and showed everyone how its wishes always came true. But the neighbor had no idea: he was trading luck for money. —Reads—Score—Shelves
16. 216 惊 A Shocking Murder Plot 惊天杀局 Writer's Block卡文Mystery14k WordsCompleted There’s a corner in the police station’s archives where files on unsolved and bizarre cases are kept. [The Headless Corpse Case] [The Water Ghost Murder Case] [The Grinning Case] None of the above happened to me. They’re my stories. 191Reads—Score—Shelves
17. 217 夺 The Killer Elevator 夺命电梯 I Love Eating Big Oranges我爱吃大橙子Mystery9k WordsCompleted 10:30 p.m. A “friendly reminder” that popped up in the residents’ group chat jolted me wide awake. [Midnight Elevator Safety Notice...] Auntie Wang next door scoffed. “Quit with the spooky nonsense!” Then, late that night, she went out to take the trash, and a scream ripped through the silence... 32Reads—Score—Shelves
18. 218 丈 After Licking the Neighborhood, My Husband Turned into a Monster 丈夫舔过小区之后，变成了怪物 San Ming Zai三茗仔Mystery8k WordsCompleted I posted a missing-husband notice at the entrance to the residential compound. “Missing husband: Zhang Jianguo, two meters tall, recently developed a taste for licking...” The post made everyone laugh. Who still turns a missing-person notice into a joke these days? But after surveillance footage surfaced of our neighbor in Unit 905 being disemboweled, they finally started to feel afraid. —Reads—Score—Shelves
19. 219 别 Seven Hours of Terror in the Villa District 别墅区惊魂七小时 Two Yuan两元Mystery10k WordsCompleted In the early hours of Qingming, a notice from the deceased property manager, Bohe, appeared in the residents’ group chat: “Pay your property fees in full by nine.” The residents sneered, until the doors and windows locked, the phones lost signal, and at exactly nine, everyone who’d skipped their payments jumped to their deaths. The bloody footage played on loop across every screen. I pulled out the payment records. My wife looked away. When I was tearing down an illegal structure, she’d secretly —Reads—Score—Shelves
20. 220 婆 My Mother-in-Law's Secret Baby-Making Soup 婆婆的秘密生子汤 Chocolate McFlurry巧克力麦旋风Mystery8k WordsCompleted Before the Qingming Festival, my mother-in-law went looking for a folk remedy. They said drinking it for a month would help me get pregnant. But during the days she forced me to drink it, there was always a woman standing not far away. As time went on and the day drew closer, a friend from work finally told me I was being haunted because I’d taken something that belonged to someone else. —Reads—Score—Shelves
21. 221 被 The Hunted “Dead Man” 被追杀的 “已死之人” lookMystery8k WordsCompleted At 2:47 a.m., I was curled up in a forest in the middle of nowhere. My companions’ screams rang in my ears, and Lin Peng’s blood still clung to my palm. Just seven hours earlier, we’d been laughing and chatting as we drove along in a Corolla, until a face covered in blood flashed in front of the car. It was unmistakably Wang Xuechun, who had been sitting in the back seat. There were no bodies and no signal. Only four shadowy figures stood before the gravestones in the cemetery, staring straight 1Reads—Score—Shelves
22. 222 杀 The 1001 Nights of Killing My Lover 杀死爱人的1001夜 Hengtang横塘Mystery9k WordsCompleted In the middle of the night, someone knocked at the door. I opened it. A strange man stood outside. He asked me a question. “Darling, do you know what day it is today?” I froze in place. In an instant, a dagger plunged into my heart. “You really forgot. Damn you.” I was lying in bed when my eyes suddenly flew open. I touched my chest. It had only been a dream. Relieved, I scrolled on my phone for a while. When sleep finally came over me, I rolled over, ready to drift off again. That was when some —Reads—Score—Shelves
23. 223 不 Don't Live in a House Where Someone Has Died 不要住在死过人的房子里 lookMystery9k WordsCompleted The man on the phone said his girlfriend was dead, but the rental agent said he’d been executed by firing squad two years ago. The night I moved into the haunted house, the black landline rang right on schedule at midnight. Zhang Jian cried over the phone, saying he wanted to see Han Chunyan. Yet through the peephole, I clearly saw a long-haired woman in a denim jacket standing outside. Blood was still seeping from the knife wound on the back of her neck. The rental agent, Zhao Shuang, texted me —Reads—Score—Shelves
24. 224 不 Don't Build a Land Temple on a Whim 不要随便修建土地庙 Underling小喽啰Mystery11k WordsCompleted I watched with my own eyes as Bian Guoshun smashed the Earth God statue with his head, while blood seeped in rivulets from its base. On the night the village built the temple in 1986, everyone heard knocking at their doors. Not with a hand, but with a head. Li Duyan said the temple had been built over a vein of evil energy, but no one believed him. Not until the Bai family’s boy started banging his forehead against the wall in the middle of the night, and Bian Guoshun was tied to a century-old w —Reads—Score—Shelves
25. 225 致 A Deadly Sense of Ceremony 致命的仪式感 Ye Fu也芙Mystery17k WordsCompleted I’m the full-time housewife everyone envies. I never lift a finger around the house. I wake up to spend money and close my eyes to beauty treatments. And I have a handsome, wealthy husband who takes care of my every need. Even my best friend says I must have the luckiest ancestors in the world to be this fortunate. But the truth is, the person sharing my bed isn’t my husband at all. —Reads—Score—Shelves
26. 226 4 The Skeleton in the Wall of Dorm Room 404 404女寝墙里的尸骨 Wu Li雾黎Mystery10k WordsCompleted In November 2025, human remains were discovered in a girls' dormitory at a high school. I sat in my swivel chair, with the DNA test report the lab had just sent over beside me. It read: DNA testing was conducted on hair follicles from clothing found with the remains inside the wall of Room 404, the girls' dormitory at Xingming Private High School. Preliminary findings suggest the victim died between six and ten years ago. Name: Chi Zhuo, male, 181 cm... I stared intently at the name, then took a —Reads—Score—Shelves
27. 227 七 Possessed by a Starving Ghost on the Ghost Festival 七月半饿死鬼附身 Shuiliu水柳Mystery8k WordsCompleted When I was little, the village elders used to say that on the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, the gates of hell swung wide open and restless spirits roamed everywhere. It was the worst night of all to go out. But I refused to believe in that sort of thing. I opened a tea shop in a mahjong parlor, thinking I could make a little extra money. Instead, I came face to face with something I should never have seen. No one was in the private room, yet I heard it bustling with noise. A customer —Reads—Score—Shelves
28. 228 美 Beauty Balm 美人膏 Jinshuang锦霜Mystery11k WordsCompleted I'm a matchmaker who specializes in training men for rich women. Men talk about “self-respect,” but once they become kept men, they'll still do whatever it takes to cling to their rich benefactors. Lately, my husband has started paying more attention to his looks, but he doesn't know that he has very thick eyelids. Very thick. That's exactly what those rich women like to feast on. 97Reads—Score—Shelves
29. 229 是 Who Killed Him? 是谁杀了他 YUE8k WordsCompleted At 8:30 on Saturday night, a woman arrived at her friend's home for dinner, as invited. The security door was ajar, and light from the hallway spilled through the gap, brightening the entryway. She could just make out the outline of a person lying flat in the bedroom opposite the door. As she turned on the lights, she caught sight of a woman lying facedown in the middle of the kitchen, vomit piled around her nose and mouth, half her face submerged in dirty water. Water from the sink dripped over —Reads—Score—Shelves
30. 230 恐 The Village of Terrifying Women 恐怖女人村 Taoist Li李道长Mystery826k WordsCompleted The women were so beautiful they were a feast for the eyes, yet they would not even let the men touch their hands. At first, I thought it was a feudal custom. As it turned out, it was part of a terrifying conspiracy. In this dark chapter of history, human nature erupted and was snuffed out again and again, without end. 606Reads8.5Score106Shelves

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31. 231 岷 Strange Tales of Min Mountain 岷山异事 All I Think Of Is the Galaxy所念皆星河Mystery285k WordsCompleted In the 1980s, businessman Mo Wenshan traveled to the Min Mountains to survey the market. By a twist of fate, he became entangled in a tomb-robbing case, setting off a series of strange and perilous ancient tomb expeditions. In the process, the secrets of the ancient Shu civilization, hidden for a thousand years, came to light… 199Reads8.7Score—Shelves

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    Coming, coming😀

32. 232 灵 Paranormal Case Investigation Bureau 灵异诡案调查局 Mr. Nice Guy,好好先生，Mystery310k WordsCompleted Who is getting married in the remote wilderness? A terrifying ride turns strange... Bizarre things happen during an overnight hotel stay... A knock sounds at midnight... A smiling man appears at dawn... Who is that person under the bed? A haunted village deep in the mountains... A woman waving in the middle of the night, a scarecrow on campus, a ghostly hand in the hallway... Where is that voice coming from? These paranormal, inexplicable events may be exactly why the Paranormal Investigation Bu 259Reads—Score—Shelves

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    It's scary to think about it!

33. 233 噩 Nightmare Game: I Can Rewind Time by Dying 噩梦游戏：我能死亡回档 fh Black and Whitefh黑白Mystery163k WordsOngoing [Nightmare Game + Infinite Worlds + Mild Horror + Death Rewind] Ye Feng moved into the Xingfu Huayuan residential complex. The scenery was nice, and the neighbors were friendly enough. The only fly in the ointment was that the person living upstairs kept making noise in the middle of the night. He once tried going over to talk, but they never opened the door. Then, one day, just as he was about to put on his headphones as usual to block out the annoying noise, two people showed up at his door, c —Reads—Score—Shelves
34. 234 夜 A Strange Tale Every Night 夜夜都有诡故事 Brilliant as a River of Stars灿若星河呀Mystery507k WordsOngoing [Extreme Supernatural Horror] [Ghosts, Fox Spirits, and Other Strange Creatures] [Not for Women] [Not for the Fainthearted] Based on personal experience and real events. The occult is science we have yet to touch; science is the occult we have already mastered. 30Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Ghosts, foxes and monsters.

35. 235 桃 The Little Mountain Village of Taoyuan 桃源小山村 Si Ruolan思若兰Urban1.9M WordsCompleted After graduating from college, Yang Yu is assigned to teach in a remote village that seems like an earthly paradise. Beneath its tranquil surface, however, the village is eerie and terrifying. Men keep disappearing, one strange incident follows another, and everyone has a bizarre identity they dare not reveal. As Yang Yu gradually uncovers the village's true nature, the truth sends chills down his spine! 7Reads8.7Score—Shelves

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