Any Truly Terrifying Novels That’ll Scare You to Death at Night? 有木有那种特别恐怖的小说，晚上看吓死人的那种！

1. 151 罪 Village of Sin 罪恶村庄 Sun Mingyuan孙铭苑Mystery8k WordsCompleted After Lu Yan returned from an out-of-town interview, it was as if he were possessed. Wherever he stayed, everything before his eyes would turn into ruins after sunset! He went for a medical examination, but nothing was wrong. There seemed to be no explanation for any of it. But he didn't know that from the moment he became a cold, detached observer, his fate was no longer in his own hands... 1Reads—Score—Shelves
2. 152 青 The Bronze Ritual Cauldron 青铜法鼎 Sun Mingyuan孙铭苑Mystery10k WordsCompleted Chen Junsheng has been seeing ghosts lately. While walking down the street, his vision would suddenly warp, and then he'd see a woman in a red traditional wedding gown. But he'd done plenty of good deeds in his life, so why would a ghost come after him? It wasn't until he sought help from an expert that he learned someone had made him take their place in death. Before long, he would die a sudden, violent death... —Reads—Score—Shelves
3. 153 锁 Soul-Locking Pavilion 锁魂阁 Sun Mingyuan孙铭苑Mystery9k WordsCompleted My hand trembled slightly as I clutched the diagnosis report. The clinic's heating was turned way up, but cold sweat had soaked the lining of my down jacket. The robed man before me slid over a cup of blood-red tea. The miniature carved pavilion in his palm glowed faintly. “The Soul-Locking Pavilion has recognized you as its master. That means the original owner of your heart was sacrificed alive.” Amid the crisp clink of the teacup against the table, he suddenly leaned in close: “Trade the glor 1Reads—Score—Shelves
4. 154 致 The Deadly Incense-Switching Pot 致命转香壶 Sun Mingyuan孙铭苑Mystery9k WordsCompleted Song Shiyan suffers from a strange illness, yet every medical examination comes back completely normal. A year has passed, and she's even lost her sense of taste. At her mother's suggestion, she seeks help from a mysterious shaman and receives a mandarin-duck aroma pot said to cure her illness. But this is the beginning of karmic retribution and the cycle of good and evil... 2Reads—Score—Shelves
5. 155 民 Notes on Folk Spirit Mediums 民间出马仙笔记 Sun Mingyuan孙铭苑Mystery95k WordsCompleted [Spirit Mediums + Chinese-Style Horror + Episodic Stories + Supernatural Mystery + Karma + Mind-Blowing Twists + Feng Shui and the Occult] "Unraveling one strange and unpredictable tale of karmic retribution after another" In a remote suburb of the city lies a cemetery. Few people know that a shop dealing in the supernatural stands there, run by a spirit medium who can communicate with the dead and the living. The owner specializes in paranormal cases beyond ordinary people's understanding, but 468Reads9.3Score—Shelves

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   Now I keep my eyes open until dawn, and I feel unsafe even if I turn on the light in the middle of the night! [Petrochemical][Petrochemical][Petrochemical]

6. 156 我 I Run a Paper Effigy Shop 我有一间扎纸店 Er Lei二雷Mystery806k WordsCompleted I Have a Paper Effigy Shop tells the story of the protagonist, Liu Dabao, who runs a shop making paper effigies. One day, a guy named Li Xunhuan asked me to burn him a villa and gave me a jade pendant, saying someone would come to collect it later. That evening, a woman came to pick up the pendant and gave me a thousand yuan. But who could have guessed that the next day, the money vanished and turned into a pile of white paper! Was it ghost money for the dead? Were Li Xunhuan and that woman both 138Reads8.7Score—Shelves
7. 157 都 It's All the Haunted House's Fault 都是凶宅惹的祸 Nightfall夜色Mystery907k WordsCompleted I'm a mystery writer. In search of inspiration, I moved into a house rumored to be haunted. Every night, a horribly disfigured face appeared in the window, and outside, the rotten corpse of a woman hung from a tree. I realized then that this really was a haunted house! Gradually, my family began acting strangely, and we even found a mummified corpse sealed inside the wall for years! As I investigated further, I came across something even more terrifying… 124Reads8.7Score—Shelves
8. 158 阴 The Yin-Yang Hot Pot Restaurant 阴阳火锅店 Yan Huo炎火Mystery806k WordsCompleted I took over a hot pot restaurant from my second uncle. He told me never to serve customers a yuan yang hot pot after midnight! After I took over the place, everything I believed in began to crumble... One night, I wasn't paying attention and served a couple a yuan yang hot pot. The next day, I saw in the newspaper that the couple had died! They'd jumped to their deaths together! After that, every night at midnight, a strange couple would appear in my restaurant and ask me to make them a yuan yan 1.1kReads7.7Score—Shelves
9. 159 我 I Might Have Changed the Wrong Fate 我可能改了个假命 Knife in the Sleeve袖里刀Mystery808k WordsCompleted When I was little, my mom asked a Taoist priest to tell my fortune. He said I'd face a calamity at 26, and that he'd come help me get through it the day before my 26th birthday. When the day finally came, the priest really did show up to change my fate. He even gave me a “Fate-Changing Ruler” and told me I had to change the fates of seven people with different destinies to survive the calamity. Otherwise, I'd only have five years left to live. So much for changing my fate for me! Did he only cha 78Reads8.9Score—Shelves
10. 160 阴 The Netherworld Inn 阴间客栈 Sun Jiu Hutu孙九糊涂Mystery814k WordsCompleted My name is Qin Yu. While on a business trip, I checked into a uniquely styled inn called the Yin Room Inn. It even offered “special services” in the middle of the night. Little did I know it was an inn from the underworld. I began having nightmare after nightmare, and my friends kept getting into trouble... 2.7kReads9.0Score145Shelves
11. 161 我 My Years as a Buddhist Nun 我当师太的那些年 Gold Is Money金子就是钞票Mystery1.6M WordsCompleted I was born a girl with a Pure Yang fate into a family of feng shui masters. For generations, my family had practiced feng shui in the countryside. My grandfather had hoped his eldest grandchild would be a boy, so he could pass down his skills to the eldest son and grandson. But I turned out to be a girl. Grandfather never took a liking to me, so my parents could only take me to live in the city. No one expected that, during the Ghost Festival in the year I turned twenty-five, Grandfather would s 376Reads8.7Score—Shelves
12. 162 夜 Ghost Sightings at the Nightclub 夜场见鬼录 Yu Long玉龙Mystery278k WordsCompleted A Long is a DJ at a bar with a legendary “Stage of Death.” Many people have died there under mysterious circumstances. The cause of death could never be determined, and some bodies were never even found! The strange incidents stopped only after the bar was shut down. As the legend of the deaths gradually faded from memory, someone opened the stage once more! After that, disaster struck again and again! A terrifying ghostly figure appears in the girls’ dormitory, a faceless baby clings to a chand 249Reads8.8Score—Shelves
13. 163 你 Do You Believe There Are Ghosts in This World? 你相信，这个世界上有鬼吗？ Building BB楼Mystery896k WordsOngoing [Mind-bending] + [Slow-paced] + [Not for the faint-hearted] Thirty-six years ago, deep in the Tibetan grasslands, a secret research base studying the paranormal was rocked by a massive explosion. Only one person managed to escape alive. The male survivor not only made it out, but also brought a pair of pitch-black eyes from the secret base. Even after being removed from their body, they seemed alive. After this devastating disaster, the man deliberately avoided a mysterious organization and went 41Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Horror and thriller, suspenseful and strange, not for the faint of heart, unpleasant writing, no immortality, no harem, no holy mother, no system, no routine, high IQ, extreme reversal, easy to understand at a glance.

14. 164 午 Midnight Corpse Carrier: I’m Really Just in It for the Money 午夜扛尸人我真是为了钱 An Ran荌嘫Mystery435k WordsCompleted Poor young man + one heroine + crematorium-style groveling + mysterious contract + rules horror + reincarnation curse + calls from the underworld To raise the money needed to save his mother's life, Chen Mo, a country boy, took a night-shift job carrying corpses at Yong'an Crematorium. On his first day, he found an ancient Corpse-Burning Contract in his locker. His name was written unmistakably as the second party. He was the seventh signatory. Then came the rules horror that lurked everywhere: 1.3kReads—Score—Shelves

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    Remember, don't watch it at night, it's really cold

15. 165 猛 The Ghosts Come Out at Night Series 猛鬼出更系列 Plucking Plum Blossoms, Drunk in Luoyang且插梅花醉洛阳7k WordsCompleted The Ferocious Ghosts Come Out at Night Series 141Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The first three are a collection of creepy horror stories, and the fourth is a new-style urban suspense and fantasy novel that is scary, funny, and a little bit borderline [Fear]

16. 166 午 The Deadly Neighbor at Midnight 午夜凶邻 Plucking Plum Blossoms, Drunk in Luoyang且插梅花醉洛阳7k WordsCompleted The Neighbor from Hell at Midnight 99Reads—Score—Shelves
17. 167 o Office Ghosts: Don't Work Overtime office有鬼之不要加班 Plucking Plum Blossoms, Drunk in Luoyang且插梅花醉洛阳6k WordsCompleted There Are Ghosts in the Office: Don’t Work Overtime 72Reads—Score—Shelves
18. 168 西 The Secrets of Journey to the West 西游记的秘密 Plucking Plum Blossoms, Drunk in Luoyang且插梅花醉洛阳Mystery551k WordsCompleted Abyssal Murder Mystery: I Can See the Death Countdown Each scenario is a standalone horror movie, with cruel rules and a barrage of deadly traps. The protagonist gains the one-of-a-kind hidden talent “Performance Notes,” which lets him glimpse death warnings and hidden rules in the scripts. The scenarios draw on real urban legends and folk taboos, steeped in Chinese-style horror. The central mystery deepens layer by layer: Who created the Abyss Theater? Why did the notebook’s previous owner d 31Reads—Score—Shelves
19. 169 鬼 Lord of Ghostly Mockery 鬼嘲之主 Master Yun of Yanshan Prefecture燕山府的云大师Mystery120k WordsOngoing “My name is Lin Yi. If you can see me, that means you’re going to die.” In this world of the Five Turbidities, where life on earth is a prison, would you think this was a natural disaster? No. This is the fun I came to watch. Give me the joy I want, then die a miserable death. 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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    I think it would be more terrifying if it were from the perspective of a supporting character.

20. 170 灵 Wait for Me, Lady Lingbai 灵柏娘子等等我 Little Lotus Among the Stars繁星小荷Mystery450k WordsCompleted That winter night, we sat around the charcoal brazier, the coals crackling as I huddled in a corner and listened to the adults tell a story about the sacred cypress at the village entrance. They said... The person who told me that story has passed away, but the chilling feeling it gave me is still etched in my memory. Now, I’ve adapted the story into a novel. 2Reads—Score—Shelves

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    "What... What is this?" Qigen's voice was full of fear, and his body was trembling slightly. The eyes moved slowly in the mist, seeming to be watching us. Qigen and I leaned closely together, holding the tools tightly in our hands, ready to respond at any time.

21. 171 罪 Phantom Echoes of the Sin Bell 罪钟幻响 He Jinke何金珂Mystery430k WordsCompleted The holy sword emerges, its light unseen; a dragon's roar shakes the heavens, heed not the evil. Golden scales sprout wings, a thousand changes unfold; blood stains the bell of sin before its phantom rings. These four lines of prophecy tell the fate of He Xun, the Demon Emperor. I was once the Demon Emperor of Tainted Blood who ruled the world, but after I was betrayed, I was imprisoned upon my throne and subjected to eight hundred years of endless slaughter. The exorcist saint Mo She killed me 211Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Psychological horror is the real horror

22. 172 逝 The Land of the Dead and the Damned 逝躯凶地 He Jinke何金珂Mystery611k WordsCompleted The day the corpse explosion happened at school, I lost my left eye. When I woke up in the biology lab, I shoved a plastic eyeball into my empty socket, put on a fox mask, and walked into a classroom. Inside was a girl holding her dead dog. I took a switchblade from my pocket and handed it to her: “You're not good at handling this kind of thing. I can hold out a little longer. Once you're dead, I'll kill myself.” I didn't die. We were dragged into a place called the Murderous Land of the Dead, w 53Reads—Score—Shelves
23. 173 零 The Light of Creation at Zero Grams 零克的创世之光 He Jinke何金珂Eastern Fantasy1.0M WordsCompleted Two people live inside his body: one wants nothing but roast chicken, while the other has already seen through the threads of fate. The young chieftain has lived for over a decade in the Floating Sky Stronghold. He has no name, no parents, only a band of demons missing arms and legs to keep him company. Then one day, a woman storms into the stronghold, claiming she intends to marry his deceased adoptive father. The young chieftain acts without hesitation. He accepts her as his mother and forces 85Reads—Score—Shelves
24. 174 少 Aina Han’s Zero-Personality Disorder 少女艾娜含的零重人格 He Jinke何金珂Mystery1.5M WordsCompleted I dreamed I became a serial killer, so I decided to find the woman who would kill me in the future. My name is He Wangyan. “Wangyan” means telling lies. In 2008, I dreamed I used a revolver to kill countless people. At the end of the dream, a girl pressed the same gun to my forehead and said: “He Wangyan, in your next life, don't become a murderer again.” To get to the bottom of the dream, I pretended to slit my wrists and got myself admitted to a psychiatric rehabilitation center, where I found 82Reads6.4Score—Shelves
25. 175 月 Wanderer Beneath the Moon 月下流浪人 Time Time LJA时光时光LJAMystery342k WordsOngoing Blood-red moonlight bathed the earth, as though a red veil had been cast over the eyes of those walking at night. The moon drew ever closer to Earth, draining away humanity's flourishing civilization and bringing endless disasters and chaos. Energy ran out, magnetic fields went haywire, the world regressed, ghosts and gods howled in unison, and crime skyrocketed... 5Reads—Score—Shelves
26. 176 规 Rule Horror: The Haunted School 规则怪谈：诡异学校 Seventh Month July柒月JulyMystery580k WordsCompleted [System + Mystery + Deduction] I grew up in an ordinary family. To broaden my horizons in another city, I deliberately applied to a university far from home. But then strange things began happening one after another: bizarre campus rules, a mysterious countdown, and the secrets hidden behind the school slowly coming to light... 46.9kReads9.3Score5.2kShelves
27. 177 诡 Terror in the Haunted Dorm 诡寝惊魂 Chen Zidong辰子栋Mystery3.6M WordsCompleted I got a job as a dorm supervisor in a university women’s residence, but the girls there were a little too friendly… Crying in the middle of the night, dorm rooms catching fire, rooms that don’t exist. Hidden in the deepest corners of memory is a bizarre and fantastical world… The night is deep, the dream unfinished. A mountain spirit blows out the lamp. Where can a lonely soul return? 14.4kReads8.5Score1.6kShelves
28. 178 高 The Most Terrifying Class on Campus 高校里最恐怖的班级 Zhen Nai Wants to Sleep真奈想睡觉Mystery2.0M WordsCompleted A classmate who had been dead for two years suddenly spoke in the group chat. At first, everyone thought it was someone's prank, until the first classmate died unexpectedly. Only then did they realize this was no prank... 560Reads—Score—Shelves
29. 179 恐 The School of Terror 恐怖艺校 Sweet and Sour Cauliflower糖醋菜花Mystery272k WordsCompleted Also known as "The Horror Art School: I Fell in Love with a Taoist Priest" [Supernatural + Romance + Transmigration + Wild Imagination] During those three years at school, many strange and terrifying things happened. At midnight, a sinister atmosphere would descend over the school... The year Ye Xue'er attended art school, she fell in love with him at first sight and decided to follow him, staying by his side as they worked together to spread the art of Taoism far and wide... 3Reads—Score—Shelves
30. 180 恐 Horror Academy: Dormitory 404 恐怖学院：404凶舍 There Are Fusu Mountains山有扶苏Mystery1.5M WordsCompleted A sensational incident once occurred at the academy. It was later completely covered up. Five years later, the academy opened its doors again. 1.8kReads—Score163Shelves
31. 181 死 The Classroom of Death 死亡教室 Moderate Ink Brush中庸点墨Mystery1.2M WordsCompleted When you receive a strange letter of admission, you have set foot on a road of no return. No one can escape! At this university of death, the moment your name appears in bloody letters on the classroom blackboard, class has begun. And once class begins, you will enter an unknown world of terror, where you must face bizarre and horrifying ghosts. They will be everywhere, coming to claim your life. Even if you are lucky enough to survive that deadly class and return to the classroom, you will stil 1kReads7.1Score103Shelves
32. 182 校 Campus Panic: The Ghost Curse 校园恐慌：鬼咒 Leader Luo罗帮主Mystery300k WordsCompleted Lu Rong’s mother went missing several years ago. After moving with her father to a small town, Lu Rong unexpectedly gets caught up in a paranormal case. The entire class is cursed, and no one can escape the vicious cycle. To protect themselves, they must also uncover its source. The case leads to Anjia Village, and even to a message left behind by Lu Rong’s mother... 308Reads—Score—Shelves
33. 183 打 I Lost a Fight, So I Deserved to Become a Peerless Fairy Monster 打架输了活该穿成绝世大妖精 Big Dragon Fruit大那火龙果Ancient Romance566k WordsCompleted [Male-to-female transformation, gender-bender, exclusive romance, brainless fun, thrilling throughout with a touch of angst.] [Fantasy immortal-demon world meets ancient reality] [forced love + sweet romance + no saintly heroine] [Insight + bewitching charm + dazzling beauty + demonic physician + lightning-fast makeovers] Before transmigrating, he was a ruthless demon lord. Afterward, she became an ordinary young woman. The original owner was the legitimate daughter of the Prime Minister's house 452Reads—Score—Shelves

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34. 184 雪 Life-and-Death Gambit in the Snowlands 雪域生死局 Trusted Washlet心腹大浣Mystery1.4M WordsOngoing [Chinese Folk Horror + Gods and Ghosts + Folk Legends + Secret-Realm Exploration + Mystery and Deduction + Strong Allies] At an antique fair in Lhasa, I stumbled upon an ancient Tibetan stone tablet. Curious about its contents, I accepted an invitation to join a merchant named Lao Gun and the team he had assembled to search for goods. Together, we ventured deep into the barren mountains of northern Tibet to investigate an ancient temple. I never expected the old temple to conceal such mysteries. 4.3kReads8.6Score725Shelves

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    A scary story about exploring the secrets of Tibet, a weird and scary story that is different from the mainland! The sense of immersion is super strong! Highly recommended🔥

35. 185 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! 3Reads—Score—Shelves

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    I feel like this novel is quite weird

36. 186 幽 Whispers by the Candlelit Ruins 幽庭烛烬语 A Zan Kuna阿赞坤娜Mystery1.3M WordsOngoing In the dead of night, countless eerie secrets lurk in the dark folds of the city. The knocking in an old apartment, known as “Knocking at Midnight,” rings out like clockwork at three in the morning. When a woman living alone peers through the peephole, all she sees is a roiling cloud of scarlet blood mist in the hallway, while a damp scratching comes from the doorknob. In the basement of a century-old apothecary, “Whispers in the Medicine Crock” never cease, day or night. Every night at midnight 3Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Today's update "Blood Vine" tells a horror story surrounding the old house, the copper key and the blood vine. After the death of a distant relative, Chen Mo inherited the old house, but was entangled in the strange blood vines in the attic and was eventually devoured. This copper key with the mark of blood vines found its way into an antique store and was bought by Lu Mingyu, a history student. It triggered a series of horrific events and revealed the old case of the mysterious disappearance of seven concubines from the warlord's foreign residence 70 years ago - they were parasitized by blood vines and turned into vengeful spirits. Seven people must be gathered to complete the revenge. The key continued to circulate and fell into the hands of the child An An. The blood vines spread throughout the city, and people continued to be swallowed by the vines and became members of "Go Home". Finally, when the ninety-ninth victim appeared, the blood vine was temporarily silent, and the key was discovered by scavengers again, implying that this curse that spans time and space is far from over, and a new cycle is about to begin. The story is full of a damp and fishy horror atmosphere, showing the despair of revenge and curse reincarnation.

37. 187 茅 The Maoshan Taoist-Buddhist Master 茅山道释 Heaven and Earth Dream of Butterflies天地梦蝶Urban5.4M WordsOngoing [Maoshan] + [Supernatural] + [Urban Cultivation] + [Stunning Beauties] The mighty Heavenly Emperor is reborn, only to be driven to the brink by a predatory loan contract?! In my previous life, I was Shiti Huan Yindiluo, the Heavenly Emperor. My merits complete, I should have ascended beyond the heavens, but I was ambushed by petty villains, and my divine soul fell into the mortal world! Fortunately, the power of the Sumeru Realm protected me, and I was reborn alongside a Maoshan Celestial Maste 541Reads—Score—Shelves
38. 188 弥 Maitreya Heavenly Emperor 弥勒天帝 Heaven and Earth Dream of Butterflies天地梦蝶Eastern Fantasy1.7M WordsCompleted [Mortal cultivation + creation of the heavens and myriad worlds + fantasy + beauties galore] Citi Tianxing has already reached the peak of the Heavenly Emperor realm, yet he resolutely gives up his position as sovereign over all worlds and ventures toward an even higher, unknown realm. He seeks to question the heavens: What is the meaning of cultivation? What is the purpose of creation? Follow him as he battles across the Myriad Worlds, comprehending the great mysteries of darkness, light, life, 185Reads6.2Score—Shelves
39. 189 干 Cheers Curse: Anyone Who Mishears It Dies 干杯咒：听错的去死 Chen Taiyao陈太瑶Mystery11k WordsCompleted “That American exchange student says ‘Cheers’ to me in his dreams every night, until I realize he misheard ‘Go to hell.’” In the graduate dormitory, Dennis grows paler by the day, and the doctors can’t figure out why. Then Mina brings back the exorcist’s verdict: Seven years ago, a girl whose foreign boyfriend cheated on her jumped from this building. Every night, her shattered head presses against Dennis’s ear and repeats “Cheers” in English... But when we reach the tenth repetition, the corner —Reads—Score—Shelves
40. 190 包 Bao Dadan’s True Accounts of Ghost Encounters 包大胆撞鬼实录 Chen Taiyao陈太瑶Mystery12k WordsCompleted “You’ve heard of people who are ‘bold beyond belief,’ but have you ever seen someone scare a ghost into shutting itself away?” My name is Bao Dadan. It’s not a stage name, it’s my real name. My friends say I’m missing a screw, but they changed their minds after seeing it for themselves: I talked the “haunting female ghost” the landlord warned me about into silence; I roasted a “human-faced fish” deep in the mountains with pepper until it shrieked; even the “Slit-Mouthed Woman” covered her mask a —Reads—Score—Shelves
41. 191 对 The Deadly Mirror Image in the Symmetrical Bathroom 对称浴室的死亡镜像 Chen Taiyao陈太瑶Mystery10k WordsCompleted “At three in the morning, I saw my ‘future husband’s’ face in the mirror, and three days later, he ran me over with his SUV until I was nothing but scraps.” My landlady told me in a hushed voice that if I recited an incantation to a mirror at midnight for 49 days in a row, I’d see my destined partner. On the 47th day, her son’s twisted smile appeared in the mirror. I screamed and fled the apartment, but at the intersection he ran over me four times, reversing each time. The police said he kept s —Reads—Score—Shelves
42. 192 恐 Horror Sketches 恐怖素描 Pan Yewei潘野微Mystery11k WordsCompleted “The day I was accepted into art school through the recommendation program, I drew the killer who murdered Teacher Zhou with my own hands: the faceless woman who had been draped over my back for three whole months.” In the dead of night, a blizzard battered the studio windows with a crackling roar. I curled up in the bathroom and vomited, but a pale body slowly emerged in the mirror. Her long hair wound around my neck, her rotting fingertips stroked my spine, and where her face should have been. 5Reads—Score—Shelves
43. 193 灵 Paranormal Podcast 灵异播客 Chen Taiyao陈太瑶Mystery8k WordsCompleted “What’s the most convincing paranormal story you’ve ever heard? As a paranormal podcast host, I thought I was just collecting urban legends, until a laugh that wasn’t mine came through my headphones. While I was adjusting the audio track, a shrill whisper seemed to breathe right into my ear, and a new waveform mysteriously appeared in the recording software. An expert told me, ‘That’s another audio signal. It isn’t human.’ Worse still, after I said, ‘Don’t come looking for me through my headphon —Reads—Score—Shelves
44. 194 催 The Hypnosis Trap: The Forgotten Bloody Hand 催眠陷阱：被遗忘的血手 look9k WordsCompleted “I caused my husband and child’s deaths with my own hands, then spent an entire year forgetting them. The truth only tore through my memories as I fell, after my psychiatrist pushed me onto the rooftop.” The travel magazine from a year ago, the coffee cup that appeared out of nowhere in the living room, the unfamiliar father and son in the photo frame... I thought I was simply suffering from depression, until I encountered those blood-soaked hands during hypnosis and realized that forgetting was —Reads—Score—Shelves
45. 195 夜 The Night Shift Passage: An Invitation from the Dead 夜班通道：亡者邀请函 lookMystery8k WordsCompleted “Every night at ten, I open the supermarket’s rolling shutter right on time, never knowing that another world lies hidden at the end of the aisles: a black-gang nightclub that was burned to the ground. For two years, I watched my coworkers ‘disappear’ one by one. Even their names seemed to be erased, until Wang Tao grabbed my arm in the emergency exit, and a girl crawling with maggots in the Golden Ballroom pressed close to my ear and said, ‘Welcome to Brother Feng’s club. All the guests here... —Reads—Score—Shelves
46. 196 死 My Dead Friend 死去的好友 lookMystery8k WordsCompleted “I inherited my childhood friend’s billion-dollar fortune, but then received a call from him in the middle of the night. Yang Zhiyi, the man I’d pushed off a cliff with my own hands, gripped my throat with dirt-covered hands and asked me, one word at a time, in the mirror: ‘Why are you scheming against even my ghost?’” A staged mountaineering accident, a ‘will’ pieced together from lines in short videos: I thought I’d gotten away with a perfect murder, until a pair of glasses mysteriously appear —Reads—Score—Shelves
47. 197 阴 A Midnight Invitation to the Yin-Yang Eyes 阴阳眼的午夜邀约 Chen Taiyao陈太瑶Mystery11k WordsCompleted “I’ve seen with my own eyes a boy with yin-yang eyes, blessed by Guanyin, get torn at by a shadow in a cemetery. I’ve heard Teresa Teng’s songs drifting out of a bakery’s refrigerator. And in a restaurant attic, I once came across a bloodied face embedded in the floor. But the creepiest thing of all is the ‘little ghost’ in my son’s playroom, growing up on the ‘fragrance’ it smells.” Notes written during a late-night cemetery exploration, a wandering spirit in cloth shoes in the kitchen during a —Reads—Score—Shelves
48. 198 小 The Strange Happenings on Little C’s Moments 小C的朋友圈诡事 Chen Taiyao陈太瑶Mystery9k WordsCompleted “My social media feed hides the truth behind seven cases of the living encountering evil spirits: Reporter Xiao Chen’s right shoulder is covered in bruises marked with the bite prints of an infant spirit; a junior student is chased to her apartment by a split-headed zombie on Halloween; tenant Xiao Chang waves through the window to a boy with no eyes every night at ten... The creepiest thing is the severed-hand granny who suddenly reaches out in front of a meat grinder at the market at three in —Reads—Score—Shelves
49. 199 猫 The Watcher Beyond the Cat’s Eye 猫眼外的凝视者 Chen Taiyao陈太瑶Mystery7k WordsCompleted “That night, at dawn, the ‘person’ outside my peephole stared into my eyes for a full three minutes, until I realized its pupils weren’t moving.” A late-night food delivery buzzer jolted me awake, but there was no one outside the door. It wasn’t until I crushed the eyeball stuck to the peephole that the news began reporting a series of dismemberment murders in this very building. Even more terrifying, when I approached the peephole with trembling hands to check, that bloodshot eye was still pres —Reads—Score—Shelves
50. 200 公 Nobody Working the Night Shift at This Company Is Human 公司里上夜班的都不是人 Jia Liuyi甲六一Mystery7k WordsCompleted “You are absolutely not allowed to linger after work.” That was the rule my boss personally gave me on my first day. But when I returned to the office late at night to pick up the engagement ring, the elevator showed an overload despite being empty, the printer started spitting out a death certificate bearing my name, and on my social feed, my girlfriend was smiling sweetly as she posted an engagement photo with my boss. Even more terrifying, I kicked a corpse on the fourth-floor stairwell. That —Reads—Score—Shelves

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