Which Supernatural Stories Have Sent Chills Down Your Spine? 有哪些灵异小说让你背后发凉呢

1. 1 活 Taboo of the Living 活人禁忌 Ninth Master of the Thieves' Sect盗门九当家Mystery1.9M WordsCompleted When I was nine, I found myself in mortal danger! To save me, my grandfather made a decision that would change my life forever... 15.9kReads9.2Score2kShelves

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   Trust me, you will thank me after reading this

2. 2 活 Taboo of the Living 2 活人禁忌2 Ninth Master of the Thieves' Sect盗门九当家Urban1.7M WordsCompleted Heaven Official's Blessing, no taboos under heaven. The second installment of Living People’s Taboos! 7.6kReads9.1Score1kShelves
3. 3 7 Bureau 747: Special Affairs Division Nine 747局之特殊事物处理九科 Brother Elbow肘子师兄Urban770k WordsCompleted Do you really know the colleagues around you? What about your classmates and family? The person you've lived with for years, the one you know best, might not even be human! In this world, humans and demons coexist. Demons can live among you in all sorts of ways. “They” might be the man selling jianbing on the street, or they might be your boss! If a top special forces soldier hadn't awakened his family's bloodline in a panic while carrying out a highly classified special mission, and then joined 618Reads7.1Score—Shelves

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   Do you know the colleagues around you? Do you know your classmates and relatives? Maybe, the person you are most familiar with who has lived with you for many years may not be a human! In this world, humans and demons coexist! Demons will live around you in various ways! 'They' may be the pie filling uncle, or they may be your boss! If it weren't for an ace special forces soldier who awakened his family bloodline in a panic while performing a special and extremely confidential mission, and then joined the national special organization, I'm afraid all this would not have been known to the world...

4. 4 特 Special Affairs Bureau, Division Nine: The Nanhai Monster Uprising 特殊事物处理九科之南海妖乱 Brother Elbow肘子师兄Mystery540k WordsCompleted Do you really know the friends around you? The coworkers around you? Your own family? Do you~ know this world? Maybe the people you know, the ones you've met and fallen in love with, aren't human at all~~~ They're demons~! If it weren't for one extraordinary mission, none of this would ever have come to light. And if it weren't for the people who silently stood guard, the Jiuying Sect might already have severed the dragon veins and destroyed our nation's fortune of ten thousand years... 134Reads—Score—Shelves
5. 5 我 I Turned the Horror World Into a Raising Game! 我把惊悚世界玩成养成游戏！ Yu Zuo予作Mystery2.3M WordsCompleted A mysterious force descended upon Earth, giving rise to another world of terror. Everyone was forcibly sent into the world of horror games on their eighteenth birthday. While everyone else was immersed in fear, struggling to survive in the cracks between life and death, Qin Nuo discovered that he could earn System rewards by influencing the ghosts’ emotions. And every time he completed a dungeon, he could establish his own business in the world of horror. So he became a food runner at the Yin Sp 155.4kReads9.5Score18.1kShelves

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   You must have this book. The protagonist is really brave. For him, it is not scary but very scary. The author posts all the posts at 12 o'clock, and when you read it, you are looking for inspiration. Of course the article written by someone who has experienced great horror is true. [Smile]

6. 6 午 The Midnight Ghost Market: Living People Keep Out 午夜鬼市，活人回避 The Drinking Monk吃酒和尚Mystery592k WordsCompleted [Mystery + supernatural + ghost market + narrow escape from death] My name is Tang Chao. I’m a broke young man scraping by in the antiques business, with hundreds of thousands in debt hanging over me. An ordinary porcelain-buying deal led me to pick up a strange Jun ware bowl at an unexpectedly low price. I thought I’d found a bargain. Little did I know, it was the beginning of my nightmare... On a bus, I met a burly man calling himself Jue Mingzi, who warned me that “a calamity is sure to befal 3.7kReads9.1Score219Shelves

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   My palms were sweating and my heart was racing. The plot was so compact and exciting that I couldn't stop watching it.

7. 7 噩 The Sound of Nightmares: 60 Horror Stories That Wake You from Your Dreams 噩梦之声：60个做梦吓醒的恐怖故事 Xiao Youqian萧有钱Mystery174k WordsCompleted [Standalone Ghost Stories + Supernatural Horror + Not for the Faint of Heart + Rural Tales] When night falls, terrifying ghostly figures emerge. Step into all kinds of bizarre and unbelievable tales, and spend your nights screaming! Haunted houses, ghostly shadows outside the window, a deadly lipstick, someone beneath the mattress, an umbrella that hunts people... Every corner conceals inexplicable phenomena and secrets that will fill you with dread! Every page will make your hair stand on end, 1.9kReads8.9Score215Shelves
8. 8 东 Northeastern China's Forbidden Secrets 东北禁忌手札 Jun Lan君阑Mystery122k WordsCompleted [Extreme horror + a folk-horror story set in the countryside] In a remote mountain village, deep within the forest, countless taboos remain unknown to outsiders. The people here follow ancient rules of life and death: pregnant women must never encounter a coffin, and anyone who dies of old age at a hundred years old is destined to become an evil spirit. But in a single day, the old Yu family breaks both taboos, drawing every kind of demon and ghost to their door! At midnight, someone hears the s 939Reads8.8Score108Shelves
9. 9 乡 Tales of Strange Happenings in the Countryside 乡村诡事录 Zhang Xiaohe张小河Mystery156k WordsCompleted The strange happenings in a mountain village. I was born and raised in the countryside. Deep in the mountains, there are always ghosts and spirits, and my village was no exception. Heaven, earth, black, yellow, the cosmos vast: demons and ghosts send shivers down your spine. One year, the start of spring fell on the fifteenth day of the eighth month. That year, so many strange things happened. Just bringing them up is enough to scare people. Meeting the Black and White Impermanence on a night wa 2.3kReads9.0Score148Shelves
10. 10 民 Chronicles of Strange Folk Tales 民间怪谈事件录 Fei vs Yi非vs衣Mystery351k WordsCompleted Not for the faint of heart! Not for the faint of heart! Not for the faint of heart! The 1980s and 1990s saw one bizarre incident after another in Jubao Village: Zhao Laohei, who rose from the dead at the execution ground... The woman who hanged herself in town, her whole face turned a purplish black... The ghost child encountered during a game of hide-and-seek on the Ghost Festival... The terrifying bamboo fiend in the old bamboo grove... People and ghosts playing cards in a yin-yang card game.. 196Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The ghost in the snowy night in the article

11. 11 我 My Twenty Years as a Spirit Medium 我出马的二十年 Xiao Xiao Zhao Zhao萧萧曌曌Mystery1.3M WordsOngoing After cultivating his character deep in the mountains, he emerged from an ancient cave to make a name for himself across the land. In twenty years as a spirit medium, he has overcome countless obstacles and witnessed countless events. This true account of those twenty years offers insight to readers unfamiliar with the profession and shares experience with fellow practitioners. 10.5kReads9.4Score661Shelves
12. 12 我 My Three Lives and Three Worlds 我的三生三世啊 Xiao Xiao Zhao Zhao萧萧曌曌Ancient Romance466k WordsOngoing A fantastical tale, all beginning with two bowls of expired Meng Po soup. By the time my hair reaches my waist, the soup's effects will have slowly worn off, and love will have quietly found its way to me! But can love really overcome every obstacle? 296Reads8.2Score—Shelves
13. 13 地 A Few Things from the Underworld 地府里的二三事 Xiao Xiao Zhao Zhao萧萧曌曌Mystery109k WordsCompleted As a disciple of the Ma family with more than twenty years of experience in spirit-medium work, I've written this book based on what I know. Some of it is true, some of it false, and some lies in between. Whether you can understand it is up to your own fate! 256Reads8.2Score—Shelves
14. 14 我 The True Story of a Haunted House Sleep Tester 我，一名凶宅试睡员的真实经历 Uncle Shui from Jinmen津门水叔Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted If there were a job where you didn’t have to do anything, but could charge by the minute and make a fortune just by sleeping, would you be interested in trying it? There’s just one catch: you can’t be afraid of ghosts. If you’re curious about what kind of job this is, I’m a veteran in the field, and I’ll tell you about my own experiences… 2.6kReads8.3Score191Shelves

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    I think this book is really scary

15. 15 末 The Apocalypse Is Coming, and I’ve Already Simulated Invincibility! 末日将临，我已模拟无敌！ Wangsheng Hall's Son-in-Law往生堂姑爷Urban1.0M WordsCompleted "System! Run a simulation for me! Show me what your limits are!" [Day One: A giant hand reached down from the sky. You glanced at it.] [You died.] A bead of cold sweat ran down Chen Ping'an's forehead. Oh no, something about this apocalypse wasn't right. The apocalypse would arrive in ten days, but I had already simulated my way to invincibility! 7.4kReads8.3Score459Shelves

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    This is the only one

16. 16 鬼 Ghostly Eyes 鬼灵瞳 Little Master小师傅Mystery931k WordsCompleted A reclusive man known as Little Master, along with several strange people brought together by coincidence but united by their shared interests, gradually uncovers a history buried for many years: the five great clans of the ancient world and the Yin-Yang adepts who could do anything. It seems that fate has long been leading them into one thrilling fantasy adventure after another... 1.3kReads9.1Score103Shelves

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    These novels have me hooked! That creepy feeling spread from my scalp to the soles of my feet

17. 17 夜 Ghostly Whispers at Midnight 夜半鬼语 Millennium-Old Monster千年老妖Mystery87k WordsCompleted [Rural + Supernatural + Ghost Stories] Back when my grandfather was young, he learned carpentry. As Old Zhao put it, a sixth-grade carpenter these days was worth half a scholar. But things were different back then. Carpenters belonged to one of the lowest trades. They had to carry their tools around every day, get up before dawn and stay out until the middle of the night, traveling from village to village to find work. And because they went so many places, and made coffins and dealt with the dea 6.5kReads9.0Score259Shelves
18. 18 保 A Security Guard’s Guide to Survival 保安求生之路 Just an Ordinary Guy挺普通一小子Mystery787k WordsOngoing After a phone call and a nightmare, the ordinary life of Qin Yun, a lowly security guard, is turned upside down. He encounters one bizarre event after another, unsure whether the people around him can be trusted or the things beside him are safe. As dreams and reality intertwine, he searches through the unknown for a way to survive. 69Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Recommend this book

19. 19 尸 Born of a Corpse, Carried in a Ghost's Coffin 尸生子，鬼抬棺 Jie Yu界玉Mystery3.3M WordsCompleted In ancient, remote places, all kinds of strange and terrifying things are bound to happen. And these things happen around Hua Jiunan. In fact, Hua Jiunan is part of them. For instance, he was born from a corpse! 241.7kReads9.6Score30.4kShelves

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    Are these two books okay?

20. 20 天 The Heavenly Master's Prodigy: The Nanshan Ghost Case 天师高材生之南山鬼事 Three Cups of Light Wine三杯淡酒Mystery279k WordsCompleted A lost civilization, a missing professor, a strange jade pendant, a paranormal adventure, and a brilliant young scholar: what connects them all? How does this gifted student become a master ghost hunter and reach the pinnacle of life? Pour yourself a glass of aged wine, light a solitary lamp, and open this book... 2Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The author himself feels cold

21. 21 我 I Am Not a Paper Spirit 我不是纸仙 Half-Fated Taoist半缘道人Mystery796k WordsCompleted A paper effigy is made by folding paper into the shape of a person, so it can take on another's sins, endure their punishment, and bear the consequences of their karma. I was an orphan from a young age, adopted by my master. He was a paper effigy maker, and when I was nineteen, I learned his craft. That set me on a road of no return and turned me into a jinx. Before long, I brought about my master's death. Through one mistake, I turned a “Lovers' Fold” into a “Life-Damaging Fold,” creating a pap 32Reads7.6Score—Shelves

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    ❄️🩸Oh, this is not a horror in the traditional sense, but a legendary horror more typical of Northeast folk... It won't scare you, but it will make your back feel cold... I didn't dare to go to the toilet that night😭😭😭

22. 22 万 Lord of Ten Thousand Nights 万夜之主 A Black-Inked Blade一柄墨刀Eastern Fantasy4.7M WordsCompleted Thirteen years ago, a blood-red demon star fell to earth. Was it the end, or a resurgence? The starry sea dimmed, and all things withered. As dusk fell, a ghostly fog once again spread across the land, revealing a mysterious world... 6.9kReads8.9Score668Shelves

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    Mo Dao Laoer Kawen Tianzun

23. 23 我 I Have a Mysterious Cemetery 我有一座神秘墓园 Mu Yi Guang木易广Mystery2.1M WordsCompleted (I've been on the front lines of the pandemic, so updates have been suspended for a while. I'm sorry.) As spiritual qi revives, evil spirit incidents break out everywhere: Demons commit murder, Ghost Buddha, the Origin Virus, Strange Threads, terrifying puppets... Yet science is the end point of every mystery. This is where the dead find rest. It is forbidden ground for the living, and it is also a treasure trove. Chen Shu is a fallen genius with a terrifying demon imprisoned inside his body, so 1.8kReads7.7Score187Shelves
24. 24 请 Call Me the Ghost Messenger 请叫我鬼差大人 The Cat from the Xu Family徐二家的猫Mystery2.1M WordsCompleted After the Eternal Night, terror returned. Ten miles of desolate graves, eerie singing. An old man searching for his arms, a headless baby... They kept piecing their bodies back together, unleashing an even more terrifying aura. In the wasteland, even a severed hand could destroy heaven and earth. In this world of darkness and despair, a post office appeared and vanished from view... A mysterious young man, a postal carriage traveling through the void... One blood-red letter after another became 126.6kReads9.5Score12.9kShelves
25. 25 我 There’s a Ghost Inside Me 我的体内有只鬼 A Black-Inked Blade一柄墨刀Mystery3.5M WordsCompleted Vengeful ghosts awaken, and a hundred ghosts roam the night. Jiang Xiao transmigrates into this world for no apparent reason and finds himself surrounded by demons and monsters. But then he discovers that his shadow can devour ghosts without limit and gain their abilities. [Successfully devoured the White Mist Ghost. Ability acquired: Mist Form] [Successfully devoured the Hanging Ghost. Ability acquired: Shackles] [Successfully devoured the Bronze Ghost. Ability acquired: Copper Skin] [Successfu 23.6kReads9.3Score2.8kShelves
26. 26 多 Many Worlds 多重世 Di Yaxin, Who Loves Ethnic Instrumental Music喜欢民族器乐的狄雅辛Urban133k WordsCompleted Deep in the mountains, weasels roam the woods carrying lanterns. In an underground cavern a hundred meters below the surface, corpses of half-human, half-fish creatures covered in scales lie scattered everywhere... Deep in the forest, whose coffin lies buried beneath the graves arranged according to the yin-yang and Eight Trigrams? Is the black snake that feeds on human souls truly a messenger from hell? —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    It's scary to think about it, and my back feels chilly, read this book

27. 27 魔 The Devil’s Game 魔鬼游戏 Yi He一和Mystery97k WordsOngoing When Chu Fan is diagnosed with a terminal illness and told he has little time left, he stumbles across a blood-red app on his old phone: the Devil’s Game… Human nature, fame and fortune, beauty, the supernatural… Everything is put to the devil’s test here. Are you ready? Welcome to the Devil’s Game. 46Reads—Score—Shelves

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    This book sounds interesting

28. 28 怪 Strange Tales Livestream 怪谈直播间 Chong Xiayueban虫下月半Mystery3.1M WordsCompleted The sound of meat being chopped eerily echoes through a bun shop in the dead of night. The passengers on the last bus all have the same face. On a freezing, rainy night, someone wearing funeral clothes wanders the streets... The Strange Tales livestream takes you deep into the hidden side of this world! 14.7kReads8.9Score1.4kShelves

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    The first one was a little scary, the second and third ones were okay, the fourth one was also a little scary, and the other few were okay.

29. 29 4 Coffin Shop No. 44 44号棺材铺 Chong Xiayueban虫下月半Mystery2.4M WordsCompleted Everyone knows what a coffin shop is, but would you dare enter one where someone has died? Ever since I took over a coffin shop, strange things have been happening all around me. Only then did I realize that the people who come to buy coffins aren't necessarily alive… 2.3kReads8.0Score238Shelves
30. 30 见 One Hundred Ways to Encounter a Ghost 见诡一百法 Lao Heini老黑泥Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted The day my eldest uncle died, all our relatives and friends went to his funeral. My cousins wailed as they finished burning the joss paper. When it was my turn, I just couldn't cry. I could have faked it, but no tears would come, and my aunt's family looked displeased. That wasn't really a big deal. The problem was that when I tossed paper money into the brazier, the flames, which had been burning fiercely, went out in an instant! I tried several times, and it happened every time. It was creepy, 1.4kReads8.5Score100Shelves
31. 31 死 Death Club 死亡俱乐部 Year's End年末Mystery2.4M WordsCompleted There are bizarre events, horrifying hellscapes, and the ugliness of human nature. People dwell among ghosts; there are hell trains, death academies… One terrifying incident after another, open only to members of the Death Club. The Death Club welcomes you to join! Zhang Chen was slowly growing drowsy. He had no idea how long it had been since night fell. Just as he was about to drift off, a series of thuds suddenly came from upstairs, the sound of wooden clogs striking the stairs. The clacking 4.7kReads8.6Score562Shelves
32. 32 恐 Horror Phone Game 恐怖手机游戏 Sad Internet Cafe Attendant悲伤网管Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted When the God of Death decides to make the most entertaining mobile game in the world... 1.2kReads8.5Score101Shelves
33. 33 民 A Strange Man of the Republic 民国奇人 Namo Kasaya Science Buddha南无袈裟理科佛Modern Romance2.2M WordsCompleted The Republic of China was an era of upheaval, teeming with extraordinary people. In those chaotic times, the martial world was vast. As the saying goes, “The heroes of our age emerge amid the world's turmoil; the seven extraordinary figures of the Republic are here.” But who were these seven? There was a Daoist priest who cried, “In prosperous times, Buddhist temples thrive on incense while Daoists hide away in mountain retreats. In troubled times, the Bodhisattvas turn a blind eye, so the Old L 13.8kReads9.2Score1.3kShelves
34. 34 体 The Ghost King Is Sealed Inside Me, Yet I’m a Good-for-Nothing 体内封印鬼王，我却是个废柴 Qu Shen去甚Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted A rainy night in a cemetery, a man-eating black cat, a man searching for his late daughter, a school guard hanged on the stairs, a wedding coffin sealed with red paper, a grotesque face hiding in a mirror... What secrets lie behind it all? What other mysterious events will Wang Shier, the gravekeeper, have to face? As terror and dread slowly close in, those secrets seem to be steering his fate. (The stories in this book are all adapted from real events. If anything sounds familiar, it is pure co 17Reads6.4Score—Shelves

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    Summer is here, and it's really a good time to read some horror stories that will send chills down your back. You can save on electricity bills, family members. I'm reading the first one recently, and just from the preface, I always feel like there's someone behind it...

35. 35 阴 Records of Yin and Yang Mysteries 阴阳诡录 Shi San Haitang石三海棠Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted Ji Rendong was born with Yin-Yang Eyes and brought misfortune to her father, her mother, and her entire family. Since childhood, she has been able to see a girl who looks exactly like her, following her everywhere. At the age of five, her grandmother abandoned her, and a mysterious man took her away. She thought she would finally have a home, but it turned out the man only wanted her extremely yang blood. Her blood could save his son, in exchange for her life. Should she save him or not? That is 370Reads8.5Score102Shelves
36. 36 栩 Vivid as Life 栩栩若生 Xiao Xu小叙Mystery2.3M WordsCompleted A fortune-teller said I was born destined for greatness, the reincarnation of the Flower Goddess, with the power to turn stones into gold and command flower spirits and tree sprites. Once I came of age, my family was sure to prosper. But when I was twelve, I came down with a strange illness. My fever wouldn’t break, and I kept seeing terrifying visions... In a dream, I met an old woman who told me to find an expert with supernatural powers to save my life. Millet to summon souls, altars and form 23.9kReads9.5Score3.9kShelves
37. 37 灵 Paranormal Encounters: What I Saw and Heard 灵异事件之所见所闻 Poet Jingxuan敬轩诗人Mystery356k WordsCompleted No System + no transmigration + no power fantasy + no harem + no invincible protagonist + no sweet romance + no clichés + no female lead + no cultivation. Important notice: if this isn’t for you, don’t read it. If this isn’t for you, don’t read it. If this isn’t for you, don’t read it! Do you believe there are things in this world that science cannot explain? Have you ever experienced anything supernatural yourself? Treat the events in this novel as stories, and remember: Fear and respect the sp 162Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Push down your own to see how scary it is?

38. 38 谲 The Dark Realm of the Uncanny 谲暗物境 Little Fengtian小奉天Mystery118k WordsOngoing Lin Xue, a classmate of Qin Chuan and Ye Xin, mysteriously vanishes inside an abandoned old school building. Even stranger, everyone around them except Qin Chuan and Ye Xin has forgotten that Lin Xue ever existed. Determined to uncover the truth, Qin Chuan and Ye Xin embark on a strange and unsettling investigation. One inexplicable event after another follows. Yet when the truth finally comes to light, it turns everyone's understanding upside down! 4Reads—Score—Shelves

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    You can try this feeling

39. 39 都 Urban Tales of a Grand Spirit Master 都市之我是大灵师 Little Book of Delight迷乐小书Urban549k WordsOngoing Urban + Cultivation + Supernatural + Horror I was just an ordinary city dweller, but I once robbed tombs and carried corpses. Then a book belonging to the old master sent me down a path that took my life far off course. 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Horror and catching ghosts [laughing evilly] [laughing evilly] [laughing evilly]

40. 40 雇 Hiring a Handsome Guy to Guard the House 雇个帅哥来镇宅 Zahari扎哈里Mystery1.1M WordsOngoing [Horror, one heroine] What do you do when you’re nearly broke? With no other options, Shang Yi reluctantly took a night-shift job, and it completely upended his worldview! The elevator, hallways, underground parking garage, bathrooms… Those places were already enough to give him a headache. But what troubled him even more was the attention he got from beautiful women… Strange incidents kept happening in the residential complex, yet the residents went on living there as if nothing were wrong. The 80Reads—Score—Shelves

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    [Fear][fear]

41. 41 玄 The Mystical Arts Master Runs a Coffin Shop 玄学大佬，她开了间棺材铺 Mo Xiaoxi莫小西Mystery854k WordsOngoing [Infinite-flow, mission-based, no romance, strong female lead, ghost hunting!] (The heroine is ruthless and emotionally clueless, but gradually changes. She isn't a do-gooder, and readers who have very upright values should beware! This isn't just an infinite-flow story about completing missions; it's also made up of several little ghost-hunting tales.) Everyone thinks that those who enter horror games will become players. But no one knows that a small number of them become NPCs in the horror ga 13Reads7.4Score—Shelves

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