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Horror's Edge: 100 Absolutely Terrifying Ghost Stories 恐怖边界：100个绝对惊悚的鬼谈
[Standalone Stories + Supernatural Horror + Folk Customs + Feng Shui and Mysticism + Mild Frights + Shocking Twists] Horror tales beyond anything you could imagine. Each story is like a dark door swinging open, drawing you into moments that will make your skin crawl. Listen. A faint whisper, an indescribable shadow creeping closer. Danger by the river, terror in the cemetery, ghost babies in the maternity ward, evil headhunting magic, apparitions at the hot springs, a bloodstained umbrella... On
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The Dragon-Suppressing Coffin and the King of Hell's Fate 镇龙棺，阎王命
They severed my tendons and buried me alive in a sealed coffin, but they didn’t know I was born with the fate of the King of Hell! [Folk horror, feng shui and talismans, incense offerings] Feng shui and fortune-telling, painted-skin demons and spirit summoning, walking in the shadows and corpse driving, corpse-raising spells and curses, yin tattoos and talismanic needles, puppets controlled by strings, red doors sealed with wax, Dogs digging graves on Burial Mound Ridge, ghosts feasting in the R
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- 3 This Spirit Medium Is Pretty Powerful! 这个出马仙有点强！ A piece of red cloth, three feet and three inches long. The old hall's people, the old hall's immortals. One day, when they emerge from the depths of the mountains, their names will spread far and wide! I was born in a rural village in Northeast China in the 1980s. When I was seven, a spirit medium said I was fated to suffer three calamities and eight misfortunes, and would one day become a horse-riding shaman. I didn't believe it, but hardship kept finding me. To make a living, I worked as a wa 148.7kReads9.7Score13.6kShelves
- 4 The Paper Effigy Shop: Everyone Around Me Is a Big Shot 扎纸铺，我身边都是大佬 In our ancient land of China, many professions have their own rules and taboos. The older and more mysterious the craft, the more this is true. For example, when “asking the rice,” you must never ask how someone died; a coffin maker must never make their own coffin; a paper effigy maker must never draw eyes on a paper figure; and a spirit medium must never conduct a ceremony without all the members of their altar present... If any of these rules and taboos are broken, something terrifying will h 22.1kReads9.3Score2kShelves
- 5 I'm a Funeral Officiant, So Summoning Immortals Is Only Natural 我个殡葬司仪，会请仙也很正常吧 [One heroine + the author conducted on-site research at funeral homes, crematoriums, and cemeteries, striving for realistic details + traditional supernatural tales + professional knowledge of funerals and spirit-medium practices] (The humorous setups and parody scenes in this book, as well as the original Qingfeng spirit-medium altar, where spirits other than ancestors are invited to take up residence, were published with the approval of the author's own guardian spirits. Readers, please believ 38.7kReads9.4Score3.8kShelves
- 6 Born of a Corpse, Carried in a Ghost's Coffin 尸生子，鬼抬棺 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! 212.8kReads9.6Score25.1kShelves
- 7 EN The House of Dread 诡舍 [Infinite-flow + Mild Horror + Survival + One Female Lead] A driverless bus carried a group of cursed people to a strange black lodge… Inside the lodge stood a door stained red with blood. At regular intervals, the cursed were forcibly dragged through the blood-red door and into terrifying worlds, where they had to complete horrifying events… After Ning Qiushui survived one bizarre and terrifying story after another inside the lodge, narrowly escaping death each time, he discovered that none of 707.4kReads9.6Score103.9kShelves
- 8 The Yin-Walker 巡阴人 Applying makeup to the dead, reading the winds and assessing the land, preparing bodies for burial, and performing rites on the seventh day after death. Scorched corpses: cleaning the body, applying rouge, painting the features! Bodies cut in half at the waist: removing the organs, filling the cavities, and stitching the body back together! I was born into a family that made its living from the dead, so I grew up dealing with corpses. I’ve seen all sorts of bizarre ways to die and countless inex 8.4kReads9.1Score1.1kShelves
- 9 The Eerie Spirit Medium: My Doll Can Really Manifest Spirits 诡异降神师：我的娃娃真能显灵 [Ghosts in the Book!] [Dark Tone!] [Villain Protagonist!] [Urban Supernatural!] [Horror Aesthetic!] [Invincible from the Start!] A sinister doll saws someone to pieces, a red-clad vengeful ghost claims lives at the airport, a hundred ghosts hunt people down along a ten-mile street, the dead rise again in a crematorium, and corpses dance wildly in an abandoned hospital... None of these things happened to me. They are all stories I wrote. My name is Yang Ning. I am an heir to the Ling Men, a profe 131.2kReads9.5Score11.5kShelves
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Super Scary Livestream 超级惊悚直播
"Welcome, everyone, to the Supernatural Scary Live Stream. Before we start today's broadcast, I have to tell you that only three kinds of people can watch this stream: those with a heavy aura of yin energy, those who will die within seven days, and the third kind, which I can't discuss in detail. I can only give you one warning: watch your back!"
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- 11 EN Call Me the Ghost Messenger 请叫我鬼差大人 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 102.6kReads9.5Score9.7kShelves
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A Bewildering Labyrinth of Strange Tales 诡谲迷迭
[Infinite Flow] [No Golden Finger] My name is Wang Hong. My younger sister has gone mad. She's been haunted by a ghost. When I started searching for the truth, I was haunted by a ghost too. I should have realized sooner. Now, there's no going back. And ghosts are like a plague. I was the one who brought them into the lives of those around me. Believe me, I didn't mean to. If she comes to find me, it'll be inevitable once she comes to her senses. Anyway, while I was still more or less lucid, I le
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The Midnight Ghost Market: Living People Keep Out 午夜鬼市，活人回避
[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
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Ghostly Whispers at Midnight 夜半鬼语
[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
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- 15 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 [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, 2.1kReads8.9Score176Shelves
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The Little Ancestor of the Mystic Sect 玄门小祖宗
“I specialize in gossip and divination, naming based on the Five Elements, exorcisms, warding off evil spirits, catching ghosts, locating burial sites and reading feng shui. I also collect debts, apply screen protectors, and catch cheating partners. If my fortune-telling is wrong, you don’t pay. Prices start at a hundred yuan, and I can issue invoices. Every Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday at five in the afternoon, stall number eighteen beneath the footbridge on Yanluo Road. Fate has broug
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Northeast Spirit Medium: From the Start, the Hu Family Town Is Haunted by a Hundred Ghosts 东北弟马：开局胡家镇百诡
[Spirit-medium tradition + Northeastern Chinese customs + folk supernatural tales + feng shui secrets] My name is Chen Mo. I had just graduated from college when my grandpa passed away. On the day he died, the portrait in the mourning hall stared at me, someone spoke from inside the coffin, and his corpse even sat up on the day of the funeral. That's when I learned my grandpa hadn't died of an illness. He'd left me a whole spirit retinue: the Hu, Huang, Bai, Liu, and Hui spirits, each with formi
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Master of Folk Occult Arts: My Livestream Terrifies the Entire Internet 民间秘法大师，直播吓疯全网
[Horror + no romance + comedy + innate spirit body + spirit communication + maximum fear factor] My younger sister drew the death lot, and the whole village demanded she be sacrificed. I turned on a livestream and made a century-old vengeful ghost into sashimi. From then on, haunted houses became my cafeteria, and ghost kings became takeout. The authorities begged me to work with them, the Taoist sects revered me as a master, and the underworld begged me to livestream. When fear returned and a h
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Even Ghost Messengers Say the Hotpot at My Restaurant Is Delicious 我开的火锅店，鬼差吃了都说好
Low-key version She dropped out of school at thirteen and worked as a chef until she was nineteen. With the savings Lin Ye had scraped together over those six years, he opened a hot pot restaurant. Who could have guessed his venture would get off to such a poor start, with business so slow the place was about to close? Just as he was wondering what to do next, two customers showed up on the restaurant's final night and changed his life... Grim Reaper: “Boss Lin, your hot pot is so spicy. It
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Northeastern Ghost Doctor: I Cure Every Kind of Defiance! 东北鬼医：专治各种不服！
[Mystery and wild ideas] [Hilarious power fantasy] [Folk horror] [Invincible protagonist] [No female lead] (The short drama adaptation, Northeast Ghost Doctor: Five Ghosts Carry Me on My Journey from the Start, is now available on Tomato Short Drama.) Chen Shian, a ghost doctor from Northeast China born under the "Tenfold Peace" destiny, descends the mountain at his master's command to heal the world. With silver needles in his left hand, he cures ailments caused by ghosts; with his right fist,
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The Psychic Lawyer 通灵律师
Lin Xiaoxiao is a struggling corporate lawyer in Kyoto. Looking to save money, she rents a room in an old apartment complex beside the Five Emperors’ Tombs. One night, a chilling gust of wind wakes her. When she opens her eyes, she finds herself staring into a pair of deep, black eyes. The ghost, who calls himself Xiao Yin, wears a dark robe patterned with dragons. His handsome, pale face bears no trace of the supernatural, only the weariness and authority of someone who has been dead for nine h
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Northeastern China's Forbidden Secrets 东北禁忌手札
[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
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- 23 Tales of Strange Happenings in the Countryside 乡村诡事录 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 1.9kReads9.0Score137Shelves
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Chou Xian'er 仇仙儿
Good demons are for Fahai to handle, and bad ghosts need bad people to deal with them. If life is already miserable, who cares if you end up in the frying pan after death! If you won’t let me, Chen Guang, live in peace, then what the hell am I cultivating merit for? One word: fight to the bitter end!
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The Female Side Character Woke Up to Find the Male Lead Begging for a Kiss 女配一睁眼，男主冷脸求亲亲
Brooding, unhinged male lead vs. proud, silly, timid beauty | Sweet-on-the-outside, dark-on-the-inside male lead | Sweet romance | Both leads are each other’s first | Mostly everyday life | A slow-burn romance | Coercive possessiveness | Intense push and pull Only after Jiang Yumian died did she learn that she was not only the villainess in a book, but also a fake heiress. The poor student Qizhou, who had been switched with her at birth, was the real heir. In her previous life, she turned the re
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My Wife Is a Snake 我的老婆是条蛇
When I was born, nine snakes were coiled around the roof beams. They called it Nine Dragons Sending a Son, and it meant I’d face eighty-one calamities before turning nine. If I could get through them, I’d enjoy great wealth and success. To keep me alive, my grandfather made me marry a snake as my wife. He also had me marry into someone else’s family and take their surname…
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Taboo of the Living 活人禁忌
When I was nine, I found myself in mortal danger! To save me, my grandfather made a decision that would change my life forever...
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Folk Feng Shui Secrets 民间风水秘术
This story focuses on practical feng shui and fortune-telling. If you're looking for made-up drama, this isn't for you! Feel free to skip the first four chapters and start reading from Chapter Five. The adaptation will also start from Chapter Five, which should make it much easier to adapt. Thank you for understanding! (Traditional, no System, no wild flights of fancy, funny, not saintly! A technical, skill-focused story!) I was born in a poor mountain village. From a young age, I traveled aroun
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100 Strange Tales I Know 我所知道的100个诡故事
So, what is this book about? Shadow people, red wedding gowns. Green hair, embroidered shoes. Incense offerings, talismans, yin-yang eyes. Ghost marriages, spirit journeys, ancient fox immortals. Old mansions, deserted villages, ancient wells. Curses, vengeful spirits, taboos… Strange tales, bizarre legends, unsolved mysteries beyond belief, and eerie happenings that make your back go cold and your hair stand on end… I've written down the experiences of my family and friends, as well as things I
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Please, Someone Come and Try to Kill Me! 求求你们来个人害我吧！
Please, someone come and hurt me!
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- 31 Notice: We Really Have Ghosts. We Are Not Responsible If You Get Scared to Death 告示：我们真的有鬼吓死不负责 Notice: We Really Do Have Ghosts. We Are Not Responsible If You Get Scared to Death. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 Don't Worry, My System Talks Too Much but It's Useless 别怕，我的系统话痨但很菜 Don’t Worry, My System Talks a Lot but Is Pretty Useless —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 An Underworld Wage Slave, an Overworld Night Owl 阴间打工人，阳间熬夜人 An Underworld Employee, an All-Night Worker in the Living World —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 Hey, System, You're Sending Me to a Haunted Restaurant for a Late-Night Snack? 喂，系统你让我去鬼店吃宵夜？ Hey, System, You’re Sending Me to Eat Late-Night Snacks at a Ghost Shop? —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 After the System Went Bankrupt, I Was Transferred to Customer Service in the Underworld 系统破产后，我被移交冥界客服 After the System Went Bankrupt, I Was Transferred to Underworld Customer Service —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 I Got a Permanent Job at the Hotel by Following the Rules 我靠遵守规则，被旅馆永久录取了 I Got a Permanent Job at the Hotel by Following the Rules —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 Shocking! Is There Really a Ghost Behind the Streamer? 惊！主播身后真有鬼？ Shocking! Is There Really a Ghost Behind the Streamer? —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 Scare Delivery 惊吓快递 Scare Delivery —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 The Horror Livestream Went Horribly Wrong 恐怖直播翻车了 The Horror Livestream Went Horribly Wrong —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 I’m a Literary Genius in the Underworld, and the Three Realms Can’t Stop Reading 我在地府当文豪，三界追更乱套了 I’m a Literary Master in the Underworld, and the Three Realms are going wild waiting for updates —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 Please, I'm Really Not an Unmatched Expert 求求你们，我真不是绝世高人 Please, I’m Really Not an Peerless Expert —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 After the Grim Reaper Retired, the System Begged Me to Come to Work 死神退休后，系统求我上班 After the Grim Reaper Retired, the System Begged Me to Go to Work 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 After I Transmigrated, I Started Livestreaming Sales to the Heavenly Demons 穿越后，我给天魔直播带货 After I Transmigrated, I Started Livestreaming Sales to the Heavenly Demon —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 The Young Master of the Capital Has Cheats in His Dreams 京圈大少在梦里开挂了 The Young Master of the Capital's Elite Circle Gets Cheats in His Dreams —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 A Netherworld Bureaucrat's Vacation Goes Up in Smoke 地府公务员的假期泡汤 Yun Che, Young Lord of Fengdu, only meant to slack off while investigating a ghost disappearance case. Instead, he plunged headfirst into a mist-shrouded battlefield crawling with “anomalies.” The good news: he can exorcise, refine, and even transform them. With merit at his side, his strength grows by leaps and bounds, and the Heavenly Dao has even given him a System for protection, helping him lead humanity to grow stronger like a snowball. The bad news: first, 99% of his power is sealed by th —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 The Rules Administrator Refuses to Work Overtime 规则管理员拒绝加班 The Rules Administrator Refuses to Work Overtime —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 Don't Burn Any More for Your Good-for-Nothing Grandson, the Underworld Can't Take It 乖孙别烧了，地府扛不住了 Don't Burn Any More, Good Grandson. The Underworld Can't Take It Anymore —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 The Door in the Old House That Must Never Be Opened 老屋不能开的那扇门 The Door in the Old House That Must Never Be Opened —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 I Live in a City with Just One Human in Ten Thousand 我住在只有万分之一人类的城里 I Live in a City Where Only One in Ten Thousand People Is Human 3Reads—Score—Shelves
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Forbidden Burial Ground 阴坟禁地
The beautiful female corpse in the yin grave turns out to have been my wife in a previous life... In this life, a female Taoist priest has taken a liking to me. The beautiful female corpse and the sexy Taoist priestess in fishnet stockings are fighting over me? How am I supposed to choose...?
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