Horror Novels: The Scarier, the Better 恐怖小说，越恐怖越好

1. 551 天 The Heavenly Coffin Comes to Town: Living Must Keep Away 天棺出巡，活人回避 Mountain Rain山雨Mystery1.3M WordsCompleted The year Jiangnan suffered a terrible drought, a coffin was dredged up from the river. From that day on, torrential winds and rain battered the region for a month. Floodwaters surged, swallowing countless towns and cities. I was ten that year. More than a dozen red Hongqi cars with Beijing plates, along with rows of luxury cars, arrived in our little town. I don’t know how many important people knelt outside my home, begging my grandfather to stop the floods... [Folk customs, feng shui. A coffin 10.2kReads8.8Score830Shelves

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   The best supernatural novel I read this year

2. 552 尸 The Girl Born of a Corpse with a Yin Fate 尸生阴命女 Lanruo Temple兰若寺Mystery1.5M WordsCompleted On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, a human-skin lantern appears at the mass grave on Shiping Mountain. A little girl cradles a skull and slowly follows behind the lantern. The girl is called Qiyue. Born from a corpse and destined to live among the dead, she grows up determined to uncover the truth about her corpse-mother’s origins. When all the clues point to a mysterious ghost village...! 1.3kReads8.6Score177Shelves
3. 553 一 One Stick of Incense to Worship the Gods, an Outlaw Exorcist: Zhang Wulang! 一香祀神法外狂徒，端公张五郎！ Dish Qing帝釋青Mystery297k WordsOngoing This book is a work of fiction. The rituals, incantations, and water-based magic performed by Duangongs are invented for the story. Do not imitate them. What you read here is a story, not a craft. Cherish life and trust in science. Read the final chapter, and you will see with your own eyes what lies at the end of tearing down altars and temples. I transmigrated to the late Qing dynasty and became an outlaw. In other words, a man beyond the reach of the law. My skills came from ancient times, b 3Reads—Score—Shelves

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4. 554 鬼 The Ghost's Knocking Was So Loud, the Neighbors Came Over to Beat Me Up 鬼敲门声音太大竟引来邻居毒打 Fleece-Lined Long Johns秋裤加绒Mystery542k WordsCompleted Hear a ghost knocking on your door at night? Don't panic. Call the neighbors and ask them to come claim the “takeout.” Run into a vengeful ghost demanding blood money at a crossroads? Just drop the cash into the Buddha's merit box. A Ghost King disguises himself as a delivery guy and kills people at random. Who knew the delivery would be to the place where the patriarch of Longhu Mountain was in seclusion? After transmigrating to a supernatural world, Li Yi awakened the Unconventional Celestial 10.1kReads9.2Score701Shelves
5. 555 心 Where Does the Heart Belong? 心向何方 One Corner Three一隅三Mystery128k WordsCompleted A Search | Not a Power Fantasy | Philosophical | Flow After his grandfather dies, Yang Li is left all alone, and then his heart is stolen too. Can Yang Li get it back? What does the Black Snake want with it? And where can Yang Li turn when he falls into the void? I was born incomplete, and no one ever taught me how to love. These are questions I ask myself, and a way of making up for what is missing in me. I hope this work can help others who feel incomplete too. Please also bear with my writing 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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   Super scary, transcending the physical terror, and the root of terror

6. 556 血 The Blood Mill 血磨坊 Lanruo Temple兰若寺Mystery485k WordsCompleted Mom is a zombie. Dad has a pure Yang constitution. And I was born as a walking delicacy for monsters. Demons run wild across Changbai Mountain. To summon heavenly thunder and subdue the demons, the entire village became living dead. 75Reads6.5Score—Shelves
7. 557 麻 The Ghost Physiognomist in Hemp Robes 麻衣鬼相 Run Tian润田Mystery3.4M WordsCompleted Some say it's difficult to understand another person, but to a face reader, understanding someone is easy. Others say you can't judge a person by appearances. I think it depends on who's doing the judging. My grandfather was a famous face reader of ghosts. He could read disaster and fortune, life and death, heaven and earth, and even uncover a person's past lives and future incarnations. When I was little, egged on by a group of friends, I kicked over the mound of an old grave. Luckily, my grand 1.4kReads8.5Score160Shelves
8. 558 尸 The Corpse Mother 尸母 Lanruo Temple兰若寺Mystery1.5M WordsCompleted Every year on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, a lantern made of human skin appears in the mass grave on Shiping Mountain. A little girl carrying a skull follows behind it at a leisurely pace. The girl is named Qiyue. Born with a corpse-bound yin fate, she has spent her life searching for the truth about her Corpse Mother’s past. When all the evidence points to a mysterious ghost village...! 52Reads6.9Score—Shelves
9. 559 尸 Corpse's Fate 尸命 Horseback Fishing骑马钓鱼Mystery3.2M WordsCompleted I have three masters, surnamed Li, Wang, and Xu. But my story begins with someone borrowing thirty years of my lifespan... 854Reads8.8Score100Shelves
10. 560 活 Tomb of the Living 活人墓 I Am Buddha我本佛Mystery1.3M WordsCompleted The village needed a new road, so they had no choice but to demolish a grave. After that, one strange thing after another began happening in the village... 42Reads8.6Score—Shelves
11. 561 死 Debts of the Dead 死人债 Ghost Shadow鬼影Mystery899k WordsCompleted Born of vengeful spirits, bound by the debts of the dead! When a hundred ghosts roam, they chain the souls of the departed! Bearing the debts of the dead, I enter the cycle of reincarnation, blessed from birth with the ability to foresee death... 598Reads6.7Score—Shelves
12. 562 诡 The Haunted House 2 诡舍2 The Sound of Wind and Rain at Night,夜来风雨声丶Mystery334k WordsOngoing The eternal night has come, and absurdity runs rampant. A thick pollution blankets the sky, while pitch-black eyes look down upon the world. Carrying a flame, we press slowly onward. Humanity's sun will be kindled by human hands. 394.5kReads8.8Score49.1kShelves

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    How about trying this book? Absolutely immortal! The further back you look, the more exciting it becomes! Every starting story and character appearance are interconnected by ultimate cause and effect. I would like to recommend to my family what I consider to be one of the most beautiful novels about another world. It has a high-octane plot, logical and harmonious ingenuity, and ultimate aesthetic skills. It is definitely the most worth-read novel this year.

13. 563 天 The Heavenly Coffin 天棺 Youth Evening News青年晚报Mystery2.0M WordsCompleted Because of a joke, my grandmother’s spirit refused to leave after her death and insisted on taking me with her to the grave. Otherwise, my whole family would die. To save my family, I went into the grave with my grandmother... 19.7kReads9.0Score1.8kShelves
14. 564 诡 Eerie Instances: Today, Too, I Must Be a Good Ghost 诡异副本：今天也要好好做诡 Pedro the Meticulous严谨的佩德罗Mystery541k WordsOngoing [No CP] [An unsettling perspective. Readers who can't accept eerie beings killing people, please stay away] [Writing this to satisfy my own cravings, please go easy on me] Lin Yan was a surgeon in life. After death, he became an eerie entity studying at the Abyss Echo Academy. To stay alive, Lin Yan diligently enters instances and works hard. 10.8kReads6.9Score1.1kShelves
15. 565 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 123.7kReads9.5Score12.5kShelves
16. 566 借 A Life Borrowed from the Yin Realm 借阴命 Shengtang You圣堂幽Mystery1.2M WordsCompleted To keep me alive, my grandfather borrowed someone else’s life for me. Years later, that person’s descendants came seeking revenge... 216Reads7.2Score—Shelves
17. 567 我 I'm a Demon Emperor, and You Want Me to Challenge the Rules of the Horror Tales? 我一魔帝，你让我挑战规则怪谈？ Three Cabbages三棵白菜啊Mystery488k WordsCompleted [Rule-based horror + Demon Emperor + Invincible + No Female Lead + National Destiny + Supernatural] Demon Emperor Su Bai returns to his homeland, intending to enjoy a quiet life. Just then, a rule-based horror game descends upon the real world, and Su Bai is chosen to represent the Dragon Kingdom in its challenge. Treating it as a bit of fun, Demon Emperor Su Bai enters the game and begins his relaxing vacation. Breaking the correct rules will get you corrupted? This Emperor wants to try it. The 618Reads9.3Score182Shelves

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    These two things will make you wake up laughing in the middle of the night

18. 568 阴 Stay Away, Spirits 阴人勿扰 Zhuo Ran卓染Mystery3.1M WordsCompleted Someone dug up our family grave and put the newlywed daughter-in-law who’d just died in their family in there. My uncle told me to go get her out in the middle of the night... 624Reads7.1Score—Shelves
19. 569 茅 The Maoshan Coffin-Raiser 茅山升棺人 Ninth Master of the Thieves' Sect盗门九当家Mystery1.8M WordsOngoing From the moment I was born, someone secretly plotted against me, making my mother give birth prematurely and changing my birth date. My birth chart clashed with my parents' fates, and they both died on the very day I was born. I vowed to find the culprit, and in time became a Maoshan coffin-raiser! Coffin-raising is the practice of relocating graves. After death, people should be buried in a place with good feng shui to protect their descendants. But some ancestors are buried in malevolent place 910Reads9.0Score107Shelves
20. 570 搬 The Haunting of the New Home 搬家诡事 I Love Li Xiaohan我爱李小憨Mystery119k WordsCompleted [Mystery + Thriller + Supernatural + Horror + No Female Lead + Smart Protagonist] His name was Yi Jibo. After he was wrongfully imprisoned, his mother fell ill and died. To pay off his gambling debts, his father sold her ashes to the Japanese through a crematorium driver. To get his mother's ashes back, Yi Jibo went to work at a Japanese funeral home. And so he burned Japanese corpses while searching for his mother's ashes… 44Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Theme type: pure horror, no immortality

21. 571 镇 Celestial Official of the Corpse-Subduing Sect 镇尸天官 Lianshan Yi连山易Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted The unfathomable mystery of immortality, horrifying strange happenings in a mountain village, a mysterious ancient tomb buried deep beneath the earth, and ancient legends from the barren wilderness... None of it should have had anything to do with me. But after my grandfather's bizarre death, I could no longer escape my fate and was dragged into this endless conspiracy... 642Reads7.3Score102Shelves
22. 572 赘 The Legend of the Son-in-Law: Peppa Pig Battles Nezha, the Third Prince 赘婿传说小猪佩奇大战哪吒三太子 En Zuo Fa La Li恩佐法拉利Anime Fanfiction614k WordsCompleted The Legend of the Live-In Son-in-Law: Peppa Pig Battles Nezha, the Third Prince! After reading this novel, the Milky Way's famous five-star reviewer, MacArthur, praised it as “the first philosophy lesson every adult should read!” Warning: This is a serious work of social satire, not a children's story. Please read with caution and a critical eye. This work is not for young readers! Younger readers must be supervised by someone with at least an undergraduate degree in philosophy!!! For a mysterio 57Reads8.1Score—Shelves

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    You will be scared after reading the directory name [laughing evilly]

23. 573 还 I Have Three Months Left to Live, So Let Me Die in Peace 还剩三个月命，请让我从容赴死 Reclining in the North高卧北Urban169k WordsCompleted From childhood onward, Zhuang Zi'ang was the kind of kid everyone called “the child other parents wish they had”: a model student every year and always first in his class. But after his parents divorced and his father started a new family, he became a child neither parent loved. At just eighteen, Zhuang Zi'ang is diagnosed with a terminal illness and given only three months to live. With his final three months, he decides to let out his rebellious, wild side and be truly himself for once. While 139.3kReads9.8Score15.9kShelves

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    Believe me, this book will definitely keep you awake at night

24. 574 中 Chinese-Style Horror Doesn't Work? Paper Figures Carry the Coffin to Send Eagle Sauce Packing 中式恐怖不行？纸人抬棺送走鹰酱 Super Explanation超解Urban358k WordsOngoing A mysterious power descended upon Blue Star, and the National Destiny Arena opened, unleashing terrifying showdowns. Every country had to bring forth something terrifying to compete. The winners would see their national destiny flourish and endure forever. The losers would be plagued by terror, their people massacred, and their nations reduced to nothing. To claim victory, every country brought out the terrifying secrets they had kept in reserve. Eagle Country: The Reborn Clown, Carrie the Witch 21Reads—Score—Shelves
25. 575 全 Global Horror: A Red-and-White Collision Scares the World to Tears from the Start 全民恐怖：开局红白撞煞吓哭全球 The Script Is Set to Go Viral定本本爆火Urban313k WordsCompleted [Qin Shi Huang Ying Zheng + Chinese gods + Chinese-style horror + no saintly protagonist + no heroine + exhilarating, unstoppable power fantasy.] The world's mythological systems have collapsed. Western mythology now dominates, while Eastern mythology has been forgotten and mocked, and Chinese civilization has become a laughingstock. Wang Feng transmigrates with the entire Chinese pantheon... The Sakura Country and American Eagle mock China for having no gods! The people of China cry out in desp 1.7kReads8.5Score201Shelves
26. 576 女 Life with the Goddess: I Feel Like I've Seen You Somewhere Before 女神同居往事，我好像在哪见过你 Reclining in the North高卧北Urban126k WordsCompleted Li Huangxuan was a recent college graduate, stuck in a miserable nine-to-five job and always broke. Like every young person just starting out, he felt lost and uncertain about the future. He longed for a love that would leave a lasting mark. He had a crush on his coworker, Xu Wanqing, but was too timid to approach her. Then one day, his roommate moved out, and a goddess named Lin Ximeng moved in next door, turning his life upside down. A month of living together gradually drew the two of them cl 50.1kReads9.7Score4.8kShelves

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    It's extremely scary. Don't be fooled by the title. I guarantee you won't dare to read it a second time!!!!!!!!!!

27. 577 背 The Corpse Carrier 背尸工 West of the Clouds云间之右Mystery728k WordsCompleted My name is Chen Feng, and I work as a corpse bearer at a funeral home. After a class reunion, I spent the night with Jiang Lixin, the school beauty. I never expected to see her corpse at work the very next day, or that I'd have to carry her on her final journey... 5.8kReads7.0Score364Shelves

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    These two are the scariest books I have ever read

28. 578 综 Comprehensive Horror: A Sword Three Survival Guide to Horror Movies 综恐剑三：恐怖片生存指南 A Bubble Without Bubbles泡泡没有泡泡的泡泡Mystery109k WordsOngoing [Infinite-flow + quick transmigration + female protagonist’s perspective + no romance] On her way to an internet café, Jiang Yue gets into a car accident. As she teeters on the brink of death, she is bound to a Merit System and awakens the Pure Yang skill set from Jian Wang 3. As long as she kills ghosts and monsters, she can earn merit points; once she has accumulated enough, she can go home. From then on, Jiang Yue embarks on a long journey of defeating monsters and leveling up. The heroine ha —Reads—Score—Shelves
29. 579 凶 The Vengeful Spirit Notebook 凶灵笔记 Nanmu楠木Mystery1.2M WordsCompleted I've slept in a coffin since I was little. It wasn't until the woman in red appeared that I learned the truth. I was born on Ghost Festival. I don't want to die. 1.2kReads8.7Score213Shelves
30. 580 诡 Eerie Revival: My Chinese-Style Horror Is Taking the World by Storm 诡异复苏：我的中式恐怖杀疯全球 Have a Bite of Cheese尝一口奶酪Mystery487k WordsOngoing [The uncanny + national destiny + Chinese-style horror + no female lead + fast-paced + terrifying + cathartic + tons of twists] The uncanny descends, and every country must set up a battlefield of horrors and take part in a national war. The winners prosper; the losers are overrun by the uncanny. Because the Dragon Kingdom’s knowledge of the path of ghosts and gods has been lost, it suffers repeated defeats on the battlefield of horrors, and much of its national fortune is plundered! While the w 128Reads7.3Score—Shelves
31. 581 顶 No One Dares Offend This Top Expert: All the Paranormal Beings Are His Patients 顶级大佬惹不起，诡异全是他病友 May Life Carry Me Across生生渡我Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted [Infinite-flow + wish fulfillment + no romance + livestreaming + a true powerhouse] Qi Yan spent ten years in a mental hospital and has finally been discharged. But the moment he steps outside, he is dragged into a newly generated instance. It turns out the outside world has been overrun by the supernatural for a long time. - Every time Qi Yan enters an instance, he runs into familiar “people”: his dear fellow patients again. While players flee in disarray, he leisurely visits old friends and to 51.8kReads9.0Score11.4kShelves

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    They're all pretty good. I'd recommend 7 and 8.

32. 582 规 Rule Horror: School of Life and Death 规则怪谈：生死学校 Seventh Month July柒月JulyMystery492k WordsOngoing [Rule Horror] [Infinite Flow] [Battle Royale] On the day he got into college, Yang Han thought his hardships were finally over. It wasn't until he stepped through the campus gates that he learned the truth: At this university, there are no classes and no exams. You only have to risk your life. Break the school rules? Erased on the spot. The survival app's countdown hits zero? You disappear instantly. If you want to live one more day, you must fight to complete one bizarre mission after another a 5.3kReads8.8Score737Shelves

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    These are very good [laughing]

33. 583 规 Rule Horror: I Am the Horror Story 规则怪谈：我即怪谈 Wish You Happiness祝你快乐呀Mystery1.8M WordsOngoing In 2017, supernatural tales descended upon Earth. Conventional weapons couldn't harm them, and humanity struggled to survive. Rule-based supernatural tales became humanity's last lifeline. Tens of thousands of chosen ones around the world were selected. If they won, the supernatural tales would vanish from reality. If they lost, the rule-based tales would descend upon the world. This was a war between humanity and the supernatural. Chen Shao, a patient suffering from bone cancer, became one of t 173.1kReads9.6Score34.5kShelves
34. 584 必 The Game That Must Be Broken (Complete Edition) 必须犯规的游戏（全集） Ning Hangyi宁航一Mystery876k WordsCompleted The murder-mystery game based on the novel of the same name is now available for preorder! In a locked-room battle for survival, endless twists turn every detail into a contest for victory. This time, you get to decide your own fate! Fourteen novelists, fourteen days, fourteen terrifying stories: a deadly game has begun. Fourteen mystery writers are "invited" to a mysterious location. Each must improvise a mystery story to tell the others. When the story ends, everyone votes, and the highest-sco 13.9kReads9.5Score2.1kShelves

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    Ning Hangyi's short suspense stories are simply the best of the best. Almost every story is terrifying and exciting [Like]

35. 585 山 Yin-Yang Travels in a Mountain Village 山村阴阳行 Writing About the Realm提笔论江山Mystery1.1M WordsOngoing My name is Chen Jiujin, and I'm a wandering tradesman. To put it plainly, when someone has a haunting on their hands, they hire me to take a look. This time, I came to Zhou Family Village. A seventeen-year-old girl had been followed by something foul. She drank chicken blood, dug up graves in the middle of the night, and kept repeating the same words: “Give me back my life.” I thought it was just an ordinary wandering ghost. But I was wrong. The thing inside that girl's belly wasn't a ghost. It 6.7kReads6.3Score428Shelves

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    An old maid in the village who was over eighty years old secretly blocked the road to warn her husband not to dig into the past. She confessed that in the 1970s, she witnessed the head of the Zhou family forcibly dragging a pregnant woman from out of town to the back hill and burying her alive. Since then, strange things have happened frequently in the mansion, direct members of the Zhou family have died tragically one after another, and the huge ancestral home has become a haunted house that no one dares to enter.

36. 586 恐 The Terrifying Online Celebrity 恐怖女网红 The Girl Who Swallows Ghosts吞鬼的女孩Mystery2.5M WordsCompleted Ning Ruoyu is bullied and framed by the people closest to her. To stay alive, she has no choice but to catch ghosts for money. She never expected to become an online sensation with tens of millions of followers... I’ve started a new book and hope you’ll show it some love. Please recommend it and send me some diamonds. Don’t forget to tap “Follow”! During the new-book period, there will be one update a day until the story reaches 30,000 words, posted at noon. After that, there will be two updates 3.5kReads9.1Score402Shelves

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    The first one I read was Horror Female Anchor. The Quarrel was so good. I read it five or six times because I liked it so much. Later, the author released a horror female internet celebrity and I read it several times. They were all really good. I would be drawn into it without knowing it [Shy]

37. 587 必 The Game That Must Be Broken: Reboot 必须犯规的游戏·重启 Ning Hangyi宁航一Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted The companion novel to the nationally acclaimed suspense IP Fourteenth of Fourteen, The Game You Must Cheat At: Reboot, is coming in full force! It premieres across the web on December 4, with new chapters every Friday at 10 a.m. sharp! Fourteen people, each burdened with enormous debts for various reasons, receive a mysterious text message. It tells them that if they take part in a special “game,” they could win a hundred million yuan. Following the instructions, the fourteen arrive at the desi 9.5kReads8.8Score1.3kShelves
38. 588 纸 Paper Effigy Town: White Paper Alley 纸扎镇：白纸扎巷 Nan Shan Bu Yi Cai楠山不易财Mystery162k WordsOngoing In Qingya Town, deep in the mountains of western Hunan, there is an alley called White Paper Alley. At its end stands the Chen family's paper effigy shop, passed down for six generations. On the surface, it makes paper offerings for funerals, but in truth, it guards a boundary. The smoke from burning paper effigies is meant to show the way. If the path is lost, the things beneath the earth remain among the living. Chen Du is 26 and works in advertising design in Changsha. He has nothing to do w —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Who knows! "Paper Town: White Paper Alley" directly brings out the sense of oppression in Chinese horror! A strange story about rules + paper-tying theme, with paper figures in the alley and weird rules. The more I read, the more I felt chills on my back. I didn't dare to look back after watching it in the middle of the night, so I rushed quickly if I was brave!

39. 589 恐 Horror Revival: My Body Can Make Ghosts Crash! 恐怖复苏：我的身体能让鬼死机！ A Little Demonic有点妖Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted The supernatural is resurging, and the apocalypse is near. A bewitching ghost in a cheongsam walks down the corridor in blood-red high heels. An unattended room-service cart slowly rolls through a hotel, ramming into doors... A pair of dorm-room slippers appears in the corridor, waiting for someone to put them on... In this era of supernatural resurgence, Tang Yu gains a ghost capable of controlling screens. It enters shutdown inside his body, allowing him to control ghosts at virtually no c 20.5kReads8.1Score1.5kShelves

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    The one about Weird Resurrection is really good-looking, and the one about Controlling Ghosts Without Cost is also good-looking.

40. 590 诡 Eerie Revival: I’m Covered in Taboos and Slaughter My Way Through the Haunted Realm 诡异复苏：我满身禁忌杀穿诡域 Eggplant in the Woods林子里的茄子Urban1.2M WordsCompleted “Since Heaven took pity on me and let me be reborn, I’ll fight my way through this terminally ill world in this life!” The occult returns. Monsters and demons roam, mountains of corpses and seas of blood spread, and screams fill the land. Only Divine Mark Masters are a light in this diseased world. Anyone with a pattern on their body has a chance of becoming a Divine Mark Master. One person has leukemia and transforms into a white-winged angel who metes out judgment in every direction. Another h 5.4kReads7.9Score1.1kShelves
41. 591 残 A Fading Lamp Shines on the Lonely Dead 残灯照孤冥 Seven Days in a Dream入梦七天Mystery503k WordsCompleted (Mystery + supernatural + no female lead) (Ghost case files + Taoist arts) (Tomato Original) The male lead is born under the fate of a lone star of calamity, destined to walk alone. A dying lamp lights the lonely darkness, and that darkness lights me in turn. 320Reads—Score—Shelves

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    You can read this traditional horror novel

42. 592 阴 Fate of the Yin Realm 阴缘逆命 Ziqingzi自清子Mystery668k WordsOngoing I was born with an extremely yin fate, making me the fattest piece of meat in the eyes of yin creatures. When I was thirteen, Li Xiaopang’s father, who lived next door, suddenly died away from home. On the night his body was brought back, someone knocked on our front door… A hand covered in livor mortis reached for my throat. Grandpa traded half his life to keep me alive. Before he left, he gave me a note telling me to go to Haizhou City, a hundred li away, and find a female master surnamed Shen 16Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The first-person supernatural, the sense of immersion is so strong, the description of the terrifying atmosphere made me retract my feet that were stretched out in the middle of the night back into the quilt [face covering]

43. 593 惊 Thriller: You Were Told to Escape, but You Became an NPC 惊悚：让你去逃生，你成了NPC Butterfly in the Rain雨中的蝶Mystery1.9M WordsCompleted [Horror Game + Choices + Comedy + Irreverent + Building a Personal Power Base] Ten years ago, the horror game descended upon Blue Star. As the protagonist, Lin Qi was inevitably dragged into the horror game too. While everyone else struggled to survive, he made choices. At the Death Restaurant, everyone else was careful not to anger the customers. Lin Qi had already become the restaurant owner. At the Ghostly Cemetery, others searched for clues and for the missing Grave No. 7. Lin Qi simply 18.8kReads9.1Score1.9kShelves

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    Just these two books, feel free to criticize me if they don't look good!

44. 594 鬼 The Ghost Fan's Grave: Crossing the Yin-Yang Divide 鬼扇坟之阴阳渡 Yu Meng聿梦Mystery215k WordsCompleted I saw a ghost for the first time when I was five. Using a ghost fan and a pair of eyes that could see through evil, my grandfather led me into the crack between the worlds of yin and yang. From then on, I became someone who mended fissures, patching up secrets that the living should never see and the dead could never tell. This is a story about eyes that see through evil and a ghost fan, two souls sharing one body and the Six Fiends, sacrifice and protection. From the first ghostly wail in Yinsh 4Reads—Score—Shelves

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    (Supernatural Folklore Mountain Village) The guardian of the mountain encounters evil, and the evil eye detects the evil. It is adapted from real folk ghost stories. It has a full sense of atmosphere, a full sense of horror, and no unfinished ending. The whole plot is online. The plot is compact and has no irritation. The more you watch, the more you get addicted! The whole process is high-energy without any delay. You can stay up late to finish it in one go. If you like Chinese supernatural things, don't miss it. Book title: "The Yin-Yang Crossing of the Ghost Fan Grave" Platform: Tomato Novels for free reading

45. 595 S I’m an S-Rank Aberration, Contracted by a Psychic School Beauty S级诡异的我，被通灵体校花契约 A Cup of Wheat Beer一杯麦啤Urban500k WordsOngoing [Supernatural + Mysterious Revival + Suspense + Horror + Terror + Adrenaline Rush + Not for the Faint of Heart] My name is Zhang Jian. I transmigrated into a world where the supernatural had returned and was reborn as an S-rank supernatural entity, the Taotie Ghost. I can devour other supernatural beings and take their powers, earning me the title of nightmare to countless spirits. Unfortunately, my strength was low from the start. I planned to lie low and devour a few weak spirits to grow stron 375Reads6.0Score140Shelves

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    It's super scary. It gets scarier as you go to the back. It's a bit like a mysterious resurgence.

46. 596 矿 The Vein Agreement 矿脉协议 Hearing Lanterns Beneath the River江底听灯Mystery293k WordsCompleted What lies buried deep underground is not ore, but a forbidden secret no living person should ever touch. In the mountains of the middle and lower Yangtze River region, Qingyan Phosphate Mine in Y City, H Province, is a flagship provincial mine owned by one of the area’s pillar industries. It has comprehensive procedures and advanced equipment, and in more than twenty years of operation, it has never had an accident. During the War of Resistance, a Japanese geological survey team entered an old 16Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The most terrifying thing for human beings is the unknown.

47. 597 惊 Thriller Game: Slaughtering the Entire Village from the Start 惊悚游戏：开局屠杀全村村民 Old Friends Never Return故人不再来Mystery57k WordsOngoing [Romance + not overpowered + one female lead] A mysterious cloud suddenly appears at Jinghai City's Central Primary School in Gaojing. Ye Tianming's father, the head of the universe's number one meteorology team, hurries to the scene with the entire team. A man dies mysteriously in the mist. His son, Ye Tianming, arrives at the scene wearing a suit and tie. The boy's consciousness grows hazy. When he wakes again, he finds himself transmigrated to the day of the college entrance exams. A strange —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    These books are also strongly recommended, okay——qrf

48. 598 深 Notes from the Abyss 深渊笔记 Third Uncle of the Southern School南派三叔Historical147k WordsCompleted The story begins in the winter of 1959. During a fire in the Greater Khingan Mountains, firefighters discovered the wreckage of a Japanese transport plane in a swamp. The authorities found that the plane had been carrying documents on the Kwantung Army’s geological surveys of the northeastern provinces and parts of Mongolia. One file, detailing a particular area, was exceptionally secret and unusual. Yet when we surveyed the area ourselves, we found nothing of any geological significance. The Ja 11.8kReads9.2Score1.9kShelves
49. 599 不 Not to Be Trusted 不可信奉 After Dusk昏黄之后Mystery1.9M WordsCompleted This world is full of the bizarre. Every household worships a god, and the more devout you are, the more power you gain. Everyone longs to become a god. New to this world, Jiang Yuan refuses to worship. His blood-red cleaver tears through the beautiful veil covering the world. Beneath that veil, the real world is mad, violent, and evil. Surrounded by monsters, he realizes that he is the one who doesn't belong. He has to survive. 21.5kReads8.9Score2.2kShelves

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    Let me give you a good look, City God

50. 600 诡 The Weird Path to Immortality: I Become a God in a Strange World 诡道长生：我在诡异世界封神 Xian Muo衔木oEastern Fantasy3.4M WordsCompleted [Eerie] [Gu cultivation] [A completely revamped power system] The blind Lin Hun is a corpse collector, a white-clad servant in his ninth life at the Demon Suppression Bureau. Born ill-fated, he cultivates the eerie path with his crippled body. He spends his days collecting, stitching, and refining corpses, surrounded by the Eerie. Then he unexpectedly awakens the divine Eerie art, "The Lifespan-Boiling Gu Cultivation Method": Use lifespan as fuel, boil up supernatural abilities, and cultivate Gu 27.8kReads8.2Score3.2kShelves

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