Looking for Supernatural Novels, No Cultivation, Just the Paranormal 求灵异小说，不修仙，就灵异
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My Years in the Funeral Business 我干白事儿这些年
After his master died, Lin Ran inherited his craft, took over the funeral business, and promised his master he would not leave this small town for three years. Keeping his promise, Lin Ran had to face the world without his master's protection. He saw all the strange sides of human nature that he had never witnessed before! Lin Ran remembered his master's words: “People look down on those of us in this line of work. Compared with ordinary people, we're also missing something. They call it being ‘
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The Midnight Ghost Market: Living People Keep Out 午夜鬼市，活人回避
[Mystery + supernatural + ghost market + narrow escape from death] My name is Tang Chao. I’m a broke young man scraping by in the antiques business, with hundreds of thousands in debt hanging over me. An ordinary porcelain-buying deal led me to pick up a strange Jun ware bowl at an unexpectedly low price. I thought I’d found a bargain. Little did I know, it was the beginning of my nightmare... On a bus, I met a burly man calling himself Jue Mingzi, who warned me that “a calamity is sure to befal
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- 3 The Sound of Nightmares: 60 Horror Stories That Wake You from Your Dreams 噩梦之声：60个做梦吓醒的恐怖故事 [Standalone Ghost Stories + Supernatural Horror + Not for the Faint of Heart + Rural Tales] When night falls, terrifying ghostly figures emerge. Step into all kinds of bizarre and unbelievable tales, and spend your nights screaming! Haunted houses, ghostly shadows outside the window, a deadly lipstick, someone beneath the mattress, an umbrella that hunts people... Every corner conceals inexplicable phenomena and secrets that will fill you with dread! Every page will make your hair stand on end, 2.1kReads8.9Score176Shelves
- 4 Northeastern China's Forbidden Secrets 东北禁忌手札 [Extreme horror + a folk-horror story set in the countryside] In a remote mountain village, deep within the forest, countless taboos remain unknown to outsiders. The people here follow ancient rules of life and death: pregnant women must never encounter a coffin, and anyone who dies of old age at a hundred years old is destined to become an evil spirit. But in a single day, the old Yu family breaks both taboos, drawing every kind of demon and ghost to their door! At midnight, someone hears the s 912Reads8.8Score108Shelves
- 5 Tales of Strange Happenings in the Countryside 乡村诡事录 The strange happenings in a mountain village. I was born and raised in the countryside. Deep in the mountains, there are always ghosts and spirits, and my village was no exception. Heaven, earth, black, yellow, the cosmos vast: demons and ghosts send shivers down your spine. One year, the start of spring fell on the fifteenth day of the eighth month. That year, so many strange things happened. Just bringing them up is enough to scare people. Meeting the Black and White Impermanence on a night wa 1.9kReads9.0Score137Shelves
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Ghostly Whispers at Midnight 夜半鬼语
[Rural + Supernatural + Ghost Stories] Back when my grandfather was young, he learned carpentry. As Old Zhao put it, a sixth-grade carpenter these days was worth half a scholar. But things were different back then. Carpenters belonged to one of the lowest trades. They had to carry their tools around every day, get up before dawn and stay out until the middle of the night, traveling from village to village to find work. And because they went so many places, and made coffins and dealt with the dea
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- 7 Midnight Wonders 午夜惊奇 At the stroke of midnight, amid a terrifying atmosphere, strange ghost stories begin to unfold! A bluish-white hand suddenly appears on the window in the middle of the night. Is it looking for someone to take revenge on? A bus still running in the dead of night: does it lead to the world of the living or to hell? The shapewear hanging in the wardrobe at home is made of human skin! During the Qingming Festival, a figure appears in the glass of the bathhouse. After returning to her room, a beautif 416Reads8.7Score—Shelves
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Yin-Yang Eye Realtor: Selling Haunted Houses in Chongqing 阴阳眼中介：我在重庆卖凶宅
A novel inspired by local Chongqing legends and historical anecdotes. This story is entirely fictional. As a child, the protagonist gained the ability to see yin and yang from a Qing dynasty skeleton. His family’s ancestral ledger is filled with secrets of old Chongqing. The folklore is meticulously researched, with traceable details ranging from place names and historical anecdotes to traditional remedies and feng shui formations. Each haunted house seems like a self-contained case, but in trut
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- 9 Horrifying! The Eighth One 惊悚！第八个 Horrifying! The Eighth One 40Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 He Was Eating Noodles at a Roadside Restaurant, When He Found a Human Eyeball in His Bowl! 他在路边餐馆吃面，竟然吃出了人眼珠子！ He was eating noodles at a roadside restaurant when he found a human eyeball in his bowl! 38Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 EN Ten Days to the End 十日终焉 2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat 1.7MReads9.9Score206.4kShelves
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I Have 36,524 Folk Horror Stories 我有36524个民间恐怖故事
[Standalone stories] [Supernatural suspense] [Folk horror] [Mountain spirits and monsters] [Adapted from real cases] [Rural legends] There is no main storyline. Each chapter is a self-contained story adapted from folk rumors, with eerie, gripping plots. Note: This story discourages superstition and encourages belief in science. It is entirely fictional, so just enjoy it as entertainment.
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- 13 Folk Tales: One Chapter, One Horror Story 民间怪谈一章一个恐怖故事 [Anthology of stories] [Folklore horror] [Supernatural horror] [Village legends] [Chinese-style horror] [Old-time storytelling] There is no overarching plot. Each chapter is a standalone horror story adapted from folk tales, with eerie, unsettling plots that grow more terrifying the more you think about them. Note: This story discourages superstition and encourages belief in science. It is entirely fictional, so just enjoy it as a bit of fun. 26.1kReads7.5Score1.2kShelves
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Strange Little Tales from the Urban-Rural Fringe 城乡结合灵异小故事
This collection of little supernatural tales is drawn from stories told by elderly villagers and young people. It's hard to tell what's true and what's not, so just enjoy them as little stories to pass the time over tea.
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The Yellow Springs Pawnshop: No Living Visitors 黄泉典当铺，生人勿近
[Ghost Hunting + Supernatural Horror + Folk Customs + Strange Tales + Taoist Arts + Maoshan] At the end of a street at midnight stands a Yellow Springs Pawnshop. You have no way of knowing whether those who come and go to trade are human or ghost! Lu Guanshan takes over the pawnshop, and on his very first night, he encounters a stunningly beautiful, cold and aloof Ghost Queen hanging from a beam. She latches onto him and stays by his side as they collect yin objects and subdue a hundred ghosts.
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Strange Tales from Western Hunan 奇闻录之湘西诡事
After graduating straight into unemployment, Wang Mubai returns to the mountain city. A chance trip to western Hunan plunges him into one bizarre incident after another: a mysterious person follows him, he barely survives a journey into a cave, a hidden master offers him guidance, a strange book suddenly appears, and he has an exasperating romantic encounter... Spiritual energy has vanished from the modern world, and what little remains is thinly scattered. Yet by a twist of fate, Wang Mubai bec
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An Illustrated Guide to Folk Ghost Stories 民间灵异故事图鉴
Hello, readers! This book is a collection of supernatural stories I've heard from various sources, retold with added embellishments. Each chapter is a standalone story. This is my first time writing, so I hope you'll show it plenty of support! Thank you!
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After Prison, I Became the King of Feng Shui 出狱后，我成了风水之王
[One Female Lead + Plenty of Flirting + Mysterious Master + Empress of Zhao + Beautiful Gymnast + Policewoman + Beautiful Designer + Scheming Ex-Wife + Nine Chrysanthemum Sect + Battle over the Investiture of the Gods + Patriotic Hero] Five years ago, Yang Shaoyang went to prison to take the blame for his brother-in-law, who had been driving drunk. Five years later, Yang Shaoyang was released. But his scheming wife and brother-in-law not only failed to come greet him, they cruelly mocked
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Borrowed Corpse, Stolen Life 借尸命
When a plague swept through my mother’s village, she was the only one who escaped alive and made it to Chen Village. My mother was graceful and beautiful, but after arriving in the village, she went mad. There’s something wrong with this village. Every night, we hear strange noises. My father’s name is Chen Jiu, and mine is Chen Lintian. I suspect he isn’t my real father...
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Grave Relocation and Strange Happenings 迁坟与诡事
Eighteen-year-old Yu Xiaobao had been living a peaceful life with his grandfather, until Hu Jianguo’s plans to relocate his ancestral graves dragged him into a terrifying ordeal. His grandfather firmly refused to let Xiaobao get involved in this line of work, but after the entire village pleaded with him, he reluctantly agreed to move the graves.
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Er Kui’s Ghost Stories 二奎讲鬼故事
This book is adapted from the author's own experiences, collecting and organizing strange folk tales from everyday life and reworking them into stories about little ghosts. Each short story carries a profound lesson. As for ghosts and spirits, they exist if you believe in them, and don't if you don't. I hope you'll show your support.
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The Living Sacrifice of the Hanging Coffin Village 悬棺村的活人祭
An expedition enters a Miao village in search of the elixir of immortality said to lie in a hanging coffin. The villagers say they must send a living person into the coffin every ten years to accompany their ancestral spirits. A team member named A Ming is chosen. But inside the hanging coffin, he finds a diary: a hundred years ago, tomb raiders stole a Miao witchcraft manual and were cursed, trapped inside the coffin. The so-called living sacrifice is meant to make new tomb raiders open the doo
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Wearing Her Wedding Dress 穿上她的嫁衣
For the views, I went to livestream from the legendary haunted village. The village elders said that at midnight, you mustn’t look back, answer anyone, or look into the well. I scoffed and deliberately took a selfie by the well at midnight. “Fans, see any female ghosts?” Suddenly, a woman in a red wedding dress appeared behind me in the frame. The livestream went viral in an instant, but I could never turn off my phone again. The comments raced across the screen: “Turn around! Who’s behind you?”
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Tianxuan Paranormal Affairs Office 天玄灵异事务所
- [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
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Northeastern Ghost Doctor: I Cure Every Kind of Defiance! 东北鬼医：专治各种不服！
[Mystery and wild ideas] [Hilarious power fantasy] [Folk horror] [Invincible protagonist] [No female lead] (The short drama adaptation, Northeast Ghost Doctor: Five Ghosts Carry Me on My Journey from the Start, is now available on Tomato Short Drama.) Chen Shian, a ghost doctor from Northeast China born under the "Tenfold Peace" destiny, descends the mountain at his master's command to heal the world. With silver needles in his left hand, he cures ailments caused by ghosts; with his right fist,
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The Cursed Coffin 阴棺抬煞
Deep in Bai Street stands a yin-yang coffin shop that never makes coffins and never receives customers. Chen Ye grew up accompanying his grandfather on spirit-walking rites and coffin-bearing, learning all manner of evil spirits. He thought he would spend his life in the peaceful funeral trade, taking payment to guide souls onward and living in safety. Then, in a single night, three coffins arrived at the Ding family’s home, and one bizarre incident after another erupted throughout the househol
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- 27 Breaking Hell: The Celestial Master Returns 破狱：天师归来 After ten years in prison, the day he gets out, he discovers he’s completely out of step with the world. There are no bustling streets or lights in every window. The streets lie abandoned, the cities are dead, and the air reeks of rot and blood. Monsters that are neither human nor ghost roam everywhere: stiff bodies, fangs and claws, and a thirst for blood. The military can’t defeat them, the police can’t hold them back, and human civilization is on the brink of collapse. Even more absurdly, peo 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 Crown of Frost and Ash 霜与烬之冠 At her engagement ceremony, the man she loved pushed her into an abyss. Three years later, she returned wearing a silver-frost mask. This time, she would crown his empire with her own hands, then stain that crown red with his blood. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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Cultivating the Dao, Starting in a Psychiatric Hospital 从精神病院开始修道
All living beings are right before his eyes, but only he can see the “invisible.” The world laughs at him as a madman and a fool, yet this is how he steps onto the path of mysticism. The road begins behind the iron bars of a psychiatric hospital and stretches all the way to the ends of the world. As invisible beings pave his way and gods and Buddhas look down from the heavens, Lu Guichen finally understands: these eyes, misdiagnosed as “delusions,” are the wondrous cultivation method that sees t
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My Lady Doesn't Believe in the Supernatural 我家夫人不信邪
I believe in metaphysics, but she doesn’t. We got married just to prove each other wrong. I wanted to hang a portrait of the Three Pure Ones, but she refused, so after a huge argument, I decided to write down all the true events that have happened over the years: my dad got into trouble after eating a snake, my grandma suddenly started eating pork knuckle and cursing, Gao Dabao lost a hand in an elevator accident, Feng Ershuang was grabbed by a ghost, and their cousin mysteriously went mad and d
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- 31 Among the Otherworldly 我在异人间 I am descended from the Sage Yangming. When I was born, countless bolts of heavenly thunder circled our old family home and crashed down. Could it be because the last dragon and phoenix in the world died right outside my house, and now they want me to pay with my life? 17Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 32 Day 49: The Whole Internet Watches Me Tear Through the Horse-Shaman World 第49天，全网看我杀穿出马仙 [The first novel online to tackle the “spirit-medium” genre from an opposing perspective] Before my dad died, he left me a blood curse: “If you meet a god, beat it. If you see an immortal, kill it.” Now the whole village is made up of spirit mediums, and I'm the only ordinary person left. They livestream “catching an old immortal,” so I report them and get their accounts banned. They stage “the Tragic King being killed,” so I expose their tricks on the spot. Then I rescue a snow-white fox, and i 13Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Yin-Yang Spirit-Summoning Record 阴阳引魂录
[A book you need to read in a quiet frame of mind. Not for readers looking for formulaic stories.] In a small town at the start of the 2000s, Lang Yi'an gets caught up in a supernatural murder case. The deaths of his companions, one after another, bring to light an unsolved case from a century ago. To appease the wronged spirits, Lang Yi'an takes up his family's mission and sets out to guide souls back to their rightful place. As one supernatural mystery after another is solved, the true enemy f
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Dark Clouds over Shanghai: Records of a Night Parade of a Hundred Ghosts 沪上阴云：百鬼夜行录
Shanghai in the Republic of China era was shrouded in gloom. Strange incidents abounded, and ghosts roamed the streets at night. Detective Lu Yanzhou specialized in solving bizarre cases, while spirit medium Lin Qinghe could communicate between the worlds of the living and the dead. Together, they unraveled mysteries, guided lost souls, and uncovered the layers of evil and human darkness lurking in Shanghai.
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