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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!

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  1. 201 The Woman You Must Never Cross 最不能得罪的女人 Mystery6k WordsCompleted Seven years ago, a yellow weasel slipped into my bed in the middle of the night and said it could help me get revenge. I agreed three times. Two bachelors hanged themselves in the village, the tongues of the village shaman’s entire family of four were torn out, and the son of the village chief, whose whole family of eight had been wiped out, went mad. It wasn’t until I got on the bus bound for the county town that I realized none of the passengers had feet. They were all dead people who had “sho 1Reads—Score—Shelves
  2. 202 Terror on a Snowy Night 雪夜惊魂 Mystery7k WordsCompleted I’ll never forget that winter night when a blizzard trapped me on the top floor of the seventh floor. The keycard unlocked Room 744 with a beep, and the smell of mold mingled with the cold, stinging my nostrils. The 340,000 yuan in my backpack weighed heavily on my shoulders. I snapped the three deadbolts shut behind me, only to hear a soft click from the aluminum window frame. Have you ever seen a figure hanging upside down outside a seventh-floor window? Its entire face was pressed against the —Reads—Score—Shelves
  3. 203 No One Escapes 谁也逃不掉 Mystery7k WordsCompleted “That haunted building took four of my friends twenty years ago. Now it’s finally come for me.” Trembling, I stood in the bedroom of Li Lisha’s home, watching Wang Yuanyuan smile at me from outside the window. But she had hanged herself twenty years ago... Even more terrifying, I suddenly realized something: back then, the five of us went to the Lotus Haunted House together, and I was the only one who made it out alive... Now a rotting hand is squeezing my neck from behind, and I hear the whispe 1Reads—Score—Shelves
  4. 204 What Happens If You Smoke While Mining? 在下矿时候抽烟会发生什么 Mystery7k WordsCompleted Have you ever seen three hundred corpses tumbling in boiling water? I have. On my first night down the mine, I ran into an old miner whose whole body was ice-cold. He shared a cigarette with me, until I felt the bones at his severed wrist. As I ran for my life, the entire tunnel suddenly filled with stones draped in red cloth. A dead person sat atop every stone, their faces peeling away, and they were all pointing me down the same path. At the end, a huge pit held a pool of boiling water, bubbli 1Reads—Score—Shelves
  5. 205 Sacrifice at the Haunted School Festival 诡校祭品 Mystery11k WordsCompleted Please follow these rules: 1. Whether it is day or night, do not make eye contact with any teacher you see. If you accidentally do, don't worry. The first time, the teacher will let it slide. 2. The dormitory lights go out at ten. Once they do, do not speak. Go to bed quietly, close the doors and windows, and draw the curtains. There will be nothing outside. If there is, ignore it. 3. Someone will inspect the dorms at night. If you encounter them, close your eyes and pretend to be asleep. You mi —Reads—Score—Shelves
  6. 206 The Blood-Red Bun Shop 血色包子铺 Mystery8k WordsCompleted The buns I sell have already sent two customers to their deaths. And yet my shop is still packed with customers. Just as the police run out of leads in the case, there is a third person who dies after eating one of my buns... 16Reads—Score—Shelves
  7. 207 Peeping Is a Crime 偷窥有罪 Mystery8k WordsCompleted On what seemed like a peaceful night, I, an ordinary shut-in, was unexpectedly swept into a vortex of terror unlike anything I had ever known. Every evening, through my telescope, I watched Li Weiwei, the yoga instructor who lived in the building opposite. It was a secret, thrilling pleasure. But then came that eerie night, and everything was turned upside down. Li Weiwei's graceful figure moved as usual among the pavilions in our residential compound, but the shadow of a woman in red had appear —Reads—Score—Shelves
  8. 208 Spirit Medium 跳大神 Mystery10k WordsCompleted “I watched with my own eyes as an actor performing a spirit-summoning ritual fell to his death onstage. That night, the whole village blocked the guesthouse entrance, sickles in hand. The Qing dynasty ghost said, ‘The foreigners must die,’ but when Anton was unconscious with a high fever, the villagers knelt in the torrential rain and kowtowed to my leg bone.” The heavy rain washed open a mass grave beneath the wasteland, and skeletal hands clutching rusty rifles pierced the earth. The resentful 13Reads—Score—Shelves
  9. 209 The Secret of the Buddha Mother 佛母的秘密 34k WordsCompleted The Buddha Mother's Secret 2Reads—Score—Shelves
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  10. 210 The Mysterious Corpse Retriever 诡秘捞尸人 Mystery10k WordsCompleted The Mysterious Corpse Retriever 20Reads—Score—Shelves
  11. 211 Terror at the Luxury Estate 豪苑惊魂 16k WordsCompleted Terror at the Grand Estate 18Reads—Score—Shelves
  12. 212 The Blind Woman’s Wedding 盲女的婚礼 32k WordsCompleted The Blind Girl's Wedding 18Reads—Score—Shelves
  13. 213 The Qingling Rankings 清凌榜 43k WordsCompleted The Qingling Rankings 3Reads—Score—Shelves
  14. 214 The Strange Sword 诡剑 98k WordsCompleted The Ghost Sword 1Reads—Score—Shelves
  15. 215 The Mysterious Domain City 诡秘域都 99k WordsCompleted The Mysterious Domain City 3Reads—Score—Shelves
  16. 216 The Girlfriend Who Disappeared 我消失的女朋友 Sci-Fi & Apocalypse14k WordsCompleted My Girlfriend Who Disappeared 7Reads—Score—Shelves
  17. 217 The Corpse Stitcher’s Daughter 缝尸匠的女儿 Mystery7k WordsCompleted My father, Liu Si, was the most famous corpse tailor in Laoshan Village. After the start of winter, the women of the village were torn to pieces by wild bears in the mountains, one after another. My father suggested finding their bodies and sewing them back together so they could be buried in peace. But rumors spread through the village: “The bears were lured here by the Liu family. They'll do anything to make money sewing up corpses.” The village chief forced my father up the mountain to kill t 2Reads—Score—Shelves
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  18. 218 Escape from Hell 逃出地狱 10k WordsCompleted Because my cousin is weak-willed and a classic henpecked husband, my sister-in-law's family wanted to take my father's inheritance all for themselves. Just before my father was about to die of his illness, they actually kidnapped me and sold me into northern Myanmar, that living hell, without my cousin's knowledge! —Reads—Score—Shelves
  19. 219 The Wronged Ghost in the Incinerator 焚化炉里的冤魂 Mystery6k WordsCompleted On the surface, he was an official who upheld justice. Behind the scenes, he was the most brazen crime boss around! He was a cunning, utterly inhuman demon! He killed, robbed, and took lives, yet remained above the law! And all his audacity came from his powerful "protectors"! Before he was brought to justice, he did whatever he pleased, leaving countless people and families with memories of unbearable pain... —Reads—Score—Shelves
  20. 220 The Wolf King’s Revenge 狼王的报复 Mystery8k WordsCompleted They say wolves are spiritual creatures and must never be killed recklessly. That winter, heavy snow sealed off the mountains. The village was bitterly cold and hungry, and nearly every household had run out of food. When a she-wolf died at the village entrance, the villagers took notice. Desperate to survive the famine, they skinned her, enraging the pack in the mountains. That was when misfortune began. Every farm animal in the village was bitten to death. Hair began growing on the villagers' 30Reads—Score—Shelves
  21. 221 Graveyard Hauntings 坟地诡事 Mystery8k WordsCompleted Strange things have been happening in the village lately. Every night, a chilling woman's voice can be heard asking, "Who has seen the father of my child?" "Come back, child's father. Look how adorable our baby is." The villagers say it's the ghost of a young woman who hanged herself from a tree, returned to claim lives. But more than one girl hanged herself from that tree. Which of them is the ghost? 3Reads—Score—Shelves
  22. 222 The Jinx 丧门星 Mystery8k WordsCompleted Li Datou married a girl from the city, which was quite the rare thing in the village back then. Lian was exceptionally beautiful. When she first married Li Datou, every man in the village, young or old, was green with envy. But in less than half a month, everyone in the Li household was dead. 5Reads—Score—Shelves
  23. 223 The Red Ghost in the Village 村里的红厉鬼 Mystery8k WordsCompleted The village lies far from anywhere, with winding mountain roads. The harvest is good every year, but the crops simply can't be transported out. The only family in the village with a vehicle is Niu Dakui's, who owns a secondhand three-wheeler. The whole village relies on the two Niu brothers to haul its crops to the city and sell them for cash. The brothers use this advantage to bully people in our village all the time. And now Niu Dakui has set his sights on Xiaorou, the new wife of Chen Sheng. 31Reads—Score—Shelves
  24. 224 Back from the Dead 死而复生 Mystery8k WordsCompleted When I was little, there was a saying in the village. If someone in a family died, then came back to life after lying in state for three days, they might turn into an evil ghost. But that was just something the old folks said. Nobody had ever seen it with their own eyes. Then one day, something like that happened to Old Zhao's family. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
  25. 225 The Longevity Lock 长命锁 Mystery8k WordsCompleted For the past two weeks, whenever Song Yaozu steps into the bathroom to shower, he sees a woman's head dangling from the ceiling, glaring at him. He gets a longevity lock from a Maoshan medium, but everyone who later receives the lock dies in a freak accident… A longevity lock, a longevity lock. But isn't it also a lock that demands a life in payment?… 3Reads—Score—Shelves
  26. 226 Double Taboo 双重禁忌 Mystery8k WordsCompleted When Dongzi was a child, there were many deadly taboos in the village. For example, a pregnant woman must never cross paths with a funeral procession. If she did, the dead person's soul would enter her body, turning her into a man-eating evil ghost. Another taboo was that anyone who lived past a hundred would become an evil ghost. Three days before an elder turned a hundred, people had to take them to the back mountain and leave them to fend for themselves. If they kept the elder at home, the ev 3Reads—Score—Shelves
  27. 227 Death’s Pallbearers 死亡抬棺 Mystery8k WordsCompleted There was a half-immortal in this little mountain village named Yu Shouwang. Just after dusk, someone came rushing to his house. “Uncle Shouwang, you have to come take a look. The village chief's father's coffin was just carried to the village entrance, and now nobody can move it. It's downright eerie!” Strangely enough, as soon as the half-immortal arrived, they were able to move the coffin. But at the time, only Old Yu Shouwang knew that this and the series of tragedies that followed were all 1Reads—Score—Shelves
  28. 228 The Blood Sacrifice’s Curse 血牲的诅咒 Mystery8k WordsCompleted In the Northeast, there's a taboo no one dares to break lightly: eat livestock that have become spirits, and you'll suffer retribution. But one year, during a famine, the harvest was good in that remote little village. Old Yang suddenly slaughtered the old ox he'd raised for fifteen years. On the very day the ox was killed, a crowd of strange, unfamiliar people came to the village, demanding meat night after night. —Reads—Score—Shelves
  29. 229 The Village of the Dead 死人村 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! 209Reads—Score—Shelves
  30. 230 The Cursed Mirror That Takes Your Place 替命诡镜 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
  31. 231 The Rat King Underground 地下的鼠王 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 —Reads—Score—Shelves
  32. 232 The Hanged Girls 吊死的姑娘们 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? 8Reads—Score—Shelves
  33. 233 Soul Calming: A Violent Death 镇魂之死于非命 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… 4Reads—Score—Shelves
  34. 234 The Bloodstained Embroidered Shoe 染血的绣花鞋 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 130Reads—Score—Shelves
  35. 235 The Spirit-Summoning Garment 招魂衣 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
  36. 236 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 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 —Reads—Score—Shelves
  37. 237 Terror of the Strange Invasion 诡侵惊魂 Mystery311k WordsOngoing After unexpectedly losing my job, I applied for a dorm supervisor position in a factory women’s dormitory. But I soon discovered that the girls there were acting strangely enthusiastic… Crying in the middle of the night, a bizarre dormitory, strange girls, a room that doesn’t exist. In the deepest recesses of memory, a surreal world lies hidden… —Reads—Score—Shelves
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  38. 238 Devour the Immortal Cosmos 噬仙宙 Eastern Fantasy1.6M WordsOngoing “The stars are beginning to vanish one by one, far off in the distance.” What kind of power could be responsible? “Could there be a beast hidden in the depths of space, larger than the sun, swallowing stars one by one?” Immortals and gods vie for supremacy, and fiery battles sweep across the myriad realms of the heavens. The young Cheng Bai awakens the Gluttonous Beast Physique, ventures into another world and gains the legacy of a fiendish god. He cultivates the strongest divine arts, comprehen 1.4kReads8.9Score177Shelves
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  39. 239 A Strange Tale Every Night 夜夜都有诡故事 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. 25Reads—Score—Shelves
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  40. 240 The Living Dead Bring Fortune 活尸送财 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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  41. 241 The Lost Soul 失魂之人 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
  42. 242 Inferior Humanity 劣等人性 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 1Reads—Score—Shelves
  43. 243 My Girlfriend and Best Friend Are Plotting to Have Me Killed 女朋友和好兄弟密谋让我去死 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 1Reads—Score—Shelves
  44. 244 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 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
  45. 245 Trading a Life for Wealth 借命换财 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
  46. 246 A Shocking Murder Plot 惊天杀局 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. 173Reads—Score—Shelves
  47. 247 The Killer Elevator 夺命电梯 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... 41Reads—Score—Shelves
  48. 248 After Licking the Neighborhood, My Husband Turned into a Monster 丈夫舔过小区之后,变成了怪物 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
  49. 249 Seven Hours of Terror in the Villa District 别墅区惊魂七小时 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
  50. 250 My Mother-in-Law's Secret Baby-Making Soup 婆婆的秘密生子汤 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

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