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  1. 1 The Midnight Ghost Market: Living People Keep Out 午夜鬼市,活人回避 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 2.9kReads9.1Score199Shelves
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  2. 2 Northeastern China's Forbidden Secrets 东北禁忌手札 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 921Reads8.8Score108Shelves
  3. 3 Netherworld Emperor: It All Begins with a Blood Coffin! 幽冥大帝:从血棺开始! Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted Mystery and the supernatural + horror + mind-bending deduction + wild imagination + Sichuan-Chongqing flavor After a flood, a blood-red coffin drifts down the river into our village... A strange song, eerie bloody handprints, a headless corpse, and somehow, I become the Great Emperor of the Netherworld... An accident reveals the secret of the Nine Fiends Blood Coffin and a grand scheme laid by the Great Emperor of the Netherworld. It all begins with the blood coffin, and everything will ultimate 424Reads—Score—Shelves
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  4. 4 Horror Script: It Begins in the Baby-Crying Dormitory 惊悚剧本:从婴啼寝室开始 Mystery1.1M WordsOngoing (Dark tone) (Escape-room survival) (No System) (Not invincible: the protagonist dies if he is killed) (Not a conventional power fantasy) Chen Xian is pinned against the wall by a female ghost in a bathroom, and finds himself plunged into a terrifying instance! The cries of a baby in the dead of night... Students with eyes as blue as ghostly flames... A wedding dress stained crimson with blood... A mermaid covered in wriggling maggots... And... Teammates dying one after another... To stay alive a 14.8kReads9.2Score1.4kShelves
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  5. 5 One Haunting a Day 一日一诡 Mystery1.1M WordsOngoing Like people, supernatural entities can be good or bad, so the author can’t promise that every story will have an off-the-charts scare factor that keeps you up at night. The only guarantee is that all the stories are entirely fictional. If anything seems familiar, you’re on your own! 532Reads—Score101Shelves
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  6. 6 The Paranormal Investigation Bureau Needs Talents Like Me 怪谈调查科需要我这样的人才 Mystery221k WordsOngoing [Handcrafted from scratch!]+ [Vengeful Ghosts Return]+ [Supernatural Escape]+ [Killing Patterns]+ [Rule Horror]+ [Mystery and Twists]+ [There’s a Romance, but It’s Not the Focus] [Please Give Me a Chance to Tell a Ghost Story] Doppelgängers, dismemberment cases, vengeful ghosts, whatever you do, don’t look back, a deadly exam, zoo horror stories… The world is being invaded by the supernatural, and ordinary humans can no longer survive. Lu Ming, a rookie at the Paranormal Investigation Bureau, di 677Reads—Score—Shelves
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  7. 7 The Long Night’s Journey 长夜行 Mystery299k WordsCompleted The eyes are the angle observers most often scrutinize, so you must learn to disguise your own., Li Mu. From making up his mind to carrying out his plan, he spent a full three years. His first murder, his second, his third... Even when he was teetering on the brink of death, he would take a gamble if it meant he might escape. To everyone else, he was merely a weakling, not even as capable as an ordinary person... 286Reads9.4Score—Shelves
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  8. 8 The Headless Bone Sculptor 无头雕骨师 Mystery2.0M WordsCompleted He is a bone carver who inherited secret arts passed down for a thousand years. He is the headless ghost said to haunt a legendary haunted house. Walking the line between light and darkness, he hunts down the culprits behind bizarre murder cases: the taxidermist who makes specimens from human skin, the murderous doll that whispers, the mushroom man lurking in the ruins, the ghostly face on an exam paper, the ice-sculpture lovers who will stop at nothing, the faceless demon who steals organs... J 1.3kReads7.3Score162Shelves
  9. 9 The Last Bus on Route 13 13路末班车 Mystery813k WordsCompleted I'm the driver of the last bus on Route 13. Every night at eleven, I have to make a run to the suburbs. This book is addictive, so don't blame me if you can't put it down! In this novel, even the sharp-tongued readers who always guess the plot right will find themselves repeatedly proven wrong. You might find yourself asking, “What's going on? What's going on?” Don't doubt your sanity. Just keep reading. A story that keeps you on edge, here to save readers suffering from a reading drought! 22.2kReads9.2Score2.9kShelves
  10. 10 Infinite Escape: I Earn Rent Money in Horror Games 无限逃生:我在惊悚游戏里挣房费 Mystery800k WordsCompleted [Infinite flow + horror, suspense, and mystery-solving + strong female lead + team + plot-focused] [Ding~ Welcome, player, to the Survival Inn! Please do your best to clear the instances and earn your room fees~ We offer dormitory rooms, guesthouse rooms, hotel rooms, and more, as well as a top-tier luxury VIP club waiting for you to unlock~] A gloomy, blood-soaked compound A school crawling with death A cursed painting that brings death to anyone who looks at it An old village teeming with stra 39.1kReads9.3Score5.1kShelves
  11. 11 Horror: My Psychiatric Hospital Has Become a Forbidden Zone of the Supernatural 惊悚,我的精神病院成了诡异禁区 Mystery432k WordsCompleted After horror games descend upon the world. Wang Ran has only just transmigrated when he discovers that a psychiatric hospital has suddenly appeared under his name. What’s more, when his patients see ghosts, they’re not afraid at all. In fact, they get unusually excited. During the Courtyard House instance, a group of patients charged in and beat up the boss, an old woman. Before leaving, they even stripped off her burial clothes. While riding Subway Line 7, they kidnapped the ghost attendant 917Reads9.0Score102Shelves
  12. 12 I Was Raised by Monsters 我被怪物养大 Urban769k WordsCompleted The story is set in a modern city in a parallel world. Legend has it that City A is home to an urban myth called the White Cat Agency. The agency is run by a group of monsters and demons. As long as you pay the appropriate price, they'll fulfill any request you make. Money, organs, emotions, memories, years of life... Anything could become a bargaining chip. Seventeen years ago, an infant boy of unknown origins was found by the agency's owner and raised by a group of monsters. Seventeen years l 2.8kReads9.6Score508Shelves
  13. 13 Bureau of Legend Management 传说管理局 Eastern Fantasy1.4M WordsCompleted (No harem, no formulaic plot, no invincibility, no System, no brainless decisions, and no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if any of that bothers you.) Du Yu dies an untimely death right at the beginning of the story. Hoping to secure a better spot in his next life, he takes a job with the Bureau of Legendary Tales. His job is to return to legends that have gone off course and put their plots back on track. He never expected that the first mission assigned to an ordinary mortal like him would 214.7kReads9.6Score30.1kShelves
  14. 14 The Empty Grave 空坟 Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted Don't mess with the mirror in the house! After my favorite mirror disappeared, I began to fear the light. The doctor said I was allergic to sunlight, and I thought I was just sick. Until one day... I saw... my own grave! 1.7kReads9.0Score226Shelves
  15. 15 The Peter Pan Game 彼得潘游戏 Mystery259k WordsOngoing Earth’s resources are gradually running out... Boring people will be replaced by digital replicas... So keep your soul interesting... or hold on to a powerful obsession... Welcome to the Peter Pan Game... Provide emotional value to earn a ticket back to the real world. Female protagonist | Ensemble cast | No romance | Infinite-flow | Instances | Rule-based horror Fifty people lie in a huge room... This batch is pretty good... Three people are slowly waking up... 23Reads—Score—Shelves
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  16. 16 Rule Horror: My Memories Are Never Wrong 规则怪谈:我的记忆从不出错 Mystery98k WordsOngoing [Unconventional rules-based horror] [Multiple twists, but not mind-bending] [No need to memorize a long list of rules] [Strong, logical plotting] Rules-based horror has descended, and those caught in its games have only a one-in-ten chance of survival. The official reward: 100,000 for making it out alive, or 500,000 in compensation if you die. My name is Lin Mo. My memories never fade; I can recall every detail of every second since I was six years old. In the real world, that makes me little —Reads—Score—Shelves
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  17. 17 The Fake Master Walks Between Yin and Yang: Sweet-Talking the Living, Battling Vengeful Ghosts 冒牌大师走阴阳:哄完活人斗厉鬼 Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted The thing Liu Buyi, a fake master, regrets most in his life is learning how to “draw talismans with soy sauce” from a short video. Because the corpse that should be lying quietly in front of him is now using a soy-sauce-dipped finger to write his name on the coffin lid. Meanwhile, his half-baked beauty of a partner, An Xun, is munching on sunflower seeds and enjoying the show. “Didn't you say you had Yin-Yang Eyes?!” Liu Buyi's voice trembles. Seeing how unconcerned she looks, he almost passes o 579Reads—Score109Shelves
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  18. 18 Tianxuan Paranormal Affairs Office 天玄灵异事务所 Mystery541k WordsCompleted - [Infinite Flow + Urban Supernatural + Chinese-Style Horror + Folk Legends and Hauntings + Celestial Master Exorcists + Heirs to the Daoist Tradition + Heterochromatic-Eyed Heroine + Haunted House Tales + Episodic Stories + Folk Taboos] - Hidden deep in the bustling streets is an inconspicuous supernatural affairs office called Tianxuan. - No one dares touch the folk taboos of this world. Haunted houses are plagued by unsolved horrors, abandoned villages and ancient mansions seethe with resentm 784Reads—Score101Shelves