Horror Novels, the Scarier the Better! The Kind That Keep You Too Afraid to Sleep After Reading at Midnight 恐怖小说,越恐怖越好!最好是半夜看了不敢睡觉的
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Financial Ruin 破財
Dead... They're dead. The day the secret sealed away for nine years was revealed, everyone in Yunshui Town died! In the past, Cen Ziyu always thought the mountain demon that ate children was just a bizarre tale the adults had made up to scare them. Until one day, he uneasily remembered something. When he was little... he had eaten a person! Cen Ziyu and his grandmother depend on each other. Their life is hard, but the uncles and aunties in Yunshui Town have always been kind to them, ofte
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The Midnight Pawnshop: The Living Must Keep Away 午夜当铺,活人回避
[Traditional Supernatural Horror] [Chinese Folk Customs] [Unorthodox Trade] [Tales of Evil Objects] [No Romance] This is a strange pawnshop that deals exclusively in sinister objects with special value! When something goes against the natural order, evil must be at work! Some things simply should not exist in this world! Coins stuffed into the mouths of the dead, an executioner's blade, grave mushrooms, flesh lingzhi, Kunlun fetuses... Evil objects can harm people, but they can also help them! T
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The Sole Heir of the Gong Clan 唯一的宫氏传人
Slay thousand-year-old vengeful ghosts, destroy ten-thousand-year-old Ghost Kings; Ghost Generals and demon commanders come to welcome me... What, the progenitor of zombies? Quick, call me big brother! From now on... I'll bear your burdens; I'm sorry, I can't love you; I'll slaughter millions of humans, demons, and ghosts, all to find you; In this life, I'll protect your path...
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One Horror a Day 一天一个惊悚
One terrifying tale every day, and a different world each time. Just because you haven't seen it from in front of your phone doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Enough chatter. See you in the book, everyone.
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Insomniacs' Forbidden Tales: 444 Midnight Ghost Stories 失眠者禁忌:444个午夜鬼谈
A horror anthology with a bonus at the end of every story. I have 444 folk ghost stories guaranteed to keep you awake until midnight, terrify you, make you break out in a cold sweat, and pull the covers over your head! At the end of every chapter, the “Author’s Note” will include an illustration or bonus! But before you open it, brace yourself. The author accepts no responsibility for what happens next! [Supernatural Horror] [Folk Horror] [Rural Ghost Stories] [True Cases] [Urban Oddities] [L
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Fengdu Amusement Park 丰都游乐园
There is a place called Fengdu Amusement Park. The only way to leave alive is to clear every level! Here, every character is nothing more than someone else's bargaining chip or plaything. No one can see the road ahead. Everyone is a lost lamb. In the end, they all become pieces on a chessboard. But luckily, they refuse to stand still or follow the rules. They let go of their fantasies, put aside distractions, and cast off their fear. In the end, they make it out alive! This is simply the story o
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A Serial Killer Rented a Room and Accidentally Moved Into the Criminal Police Captain's Home 连环杀人犯租房子,不小心租进刑警队长家里了
A serial killer rents a place by accident, and ends up living with the captain of the criminal investigation team.
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I Sell Secondhand Mirrors Online, and the Buyer Says Someone in the Mirror Is Watching Her 我在闲鱼卖二手镜子,买家说镜子里有人在看她
I sell secondhand mirrors on Xianyu. The buyer says someone is watching her from inside the mirror.
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The Midnight Gravekeeper 午夜守墓人
A desolate mountain. An ancient tomb. A woman in white. A blood-red moon at midnight. A corpse monk on the move. I’m a high school senior. With the college entrance exam just around the corner, I suddenly came down with a fever that wouldn’t break and missed the test. After recovering at home for more than half a year, I found a job guarding the gate at a cemetery. Seeing how frail I was and how weak my yang energy was, Old Zhang, the gravedigger, found me a protector. But she wasn’t human. She
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- 60 The Food I Deliver Has a Recipient Who's Been Dead for Three Years 我送的外卖,收货人死了三年 The person who received the food I delivered died three years ago. 1.9kReads—Score—Shelves
- 61 Thriller: The Death Knight Is Actually Me? 惊悚:亡灵骑士竟是我自己? [Horror Game + Survival + Brother Cheng] The horror game arrived. Yin Cheng, known as Brother Cheng. He awakened a special talent that raised monsters' favorability toward him. Then Yin Cheng realized that his horror game... seemed to be going completely off the rails! A towering ghost nurse begged Yin Cheng to give her an IV, holding out her drip bag; a graceful, aristocratic vampire countess refused to drink anyone's blood but Yin Cheng's; a shapeshifting painted-skin ghost chased him, begging 41.9kReads9.1Score4.2kShelves
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March of a Hundred Ghosts: I Take the Hungry Ghosts to War 百诡行军:我带饿鬼上战场
[Comedy] [Adventure] Bilige was a half-baked shaman who had somehow ended up in the army. His companions included a Shaanbei fat man who'd eaten himself up to two hundred jin during a famine, a long-legged Northeastern squad leader who would grab a cleaver at the slightest provocation, and a Sichuan opera actor who never told the truth. Together with Wang Laihe, a hotheaded young man who couldn't read a single character, and a little hungry ghost who did nothing but bare its teeth and shout “Hun
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- 63 Horror: My Psychiatric Hospital Has Become a Forbidden Zone of the Supernatural 惊悚,我的精神病院成了诡异禁区 After horror games descend upon the world. Wang Ran has only just transmigrated when he discovers that a psychiatric hospital has suddenly appeared under his name. What’s more, when his patients see ghosts, they’re not afraid at all. In fact, they get unusually excited. During the Courtyard House instance, a group of patients charged in and beat up the boss, an old woman. Before leaving, they even stripped off her burial clothes. While riding Subway Line 7, they kidnapped the ghost attendant 522Reads9.0Score101Shelves
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The Girl Born of a Corpse with a Yin Fate 尸生阴命女
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...!
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The Eerie Spirit Medium: My Doll Can Really Manifest Spirits 诡异降神师:我的娃娃真能显灵
[Ghosts in the Book!] [Dark Tone!] [Villain Protagonist!] [Urban Supernatural!] [Horror Aesthetic!] [Invincible from the Start!] A sinister doll saws someone to pieces, a red-clad vengeful ghost claims lives at the airport, a hundred ghosts hunt people down along a ten-mile street, the dead rise again in a crematorium, and corpses dance wildly in an abandoned hospital... None of these things happened to me. They are all stories I wrote. My name is Yang Ning. I am an heir to the Ling Men, a profe
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- 66 I'm Xie, a Yin-Yang Guide, Not a Taoist Priest 阴阳开路人谢邀,不是道士 I've seen too many lonely spirits trapped in corners, unable to move on, and too many people hell-bent on harming others. Sometimes I can't tell whether I'm imagining it in the throes of a psychotic episode or witnessing something real. The truth is far darker than fiction. “Absurd” is the only word for it. 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 67 He Went Wild in a Horror Game 他在惊悚游戏里野翻了 [Feel-good power fantasy + Infinite flow + Strong leads + golden finger] “Ding ding ding! The horror game is starting! Anyone who clears every game can have their greatest wish come true!” Shen Zhong looked at the wish he'd rashly written down all those years ago and fell into a long silence. If anyone embodied the art of finding inventive ways to get himself killed, it was him. Looking back on his time in the horror games, Shen Zhong sighed. “I'm fighting to survive in a horror game every singl —Reads—Score—Shelves
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[Murder Game] I Want to Survive 【杀人游戏】我想活下去
[Infinite Flow]+ [No Romance]+ [Pure Villainess] High-stakes battles of wits and deadly games; everyone schemes against everyone else just to stay alive. The heroine does every kind of evil, casts aside her conscience, and cares only about profit. Because she knows that only by devouring others can she grow stronger and climb step by step to the pinnacle of power. Watch her fight her way out from the bottom, rising from a mere nobody to stand atop the world. Watch her pull off one dazzling m
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- 69 Horror Script: It Begins in the Baby-Crying Dormitory 惊悚剧本:从婴啼寝室开始 (Dark tone) (Escape-room survival) (No System) (Not invincible: the protagonist dies if he is killed) (Not a conventional power fantasy) Chen Xian is pinned against the wall by a female ghost in a bathroom, and finds himself plunged into a terrifying instance! The cries of a baby in the dead of night... Students with eyes as blue as ghostly flames... A wedding dress stained crimson with blood... A mermaid covered in wriggling maggots... And... Teammates dying one after another... To stay alive a 14.1kReads9.2Score1.4kShelves
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A Fading Lamp Shines on the Lonely Dead 残灯照孤冥
(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.
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The Witch Seeks the Veins and Calms the Soul 巫师寻脉镇魂
A man in a red robe isn't necessarily a groom. He might be a shaman, known as a Duangong. The protagonist, Liu Chunqiu, is the youngest shaman in southwestern Hubei. Other people wear red to marry. He wears red to drive out ghosts. Other people pray to Buddha and beseech the gods. He invites the gods to possess him. His master asks him to find and recover the lost lineage of shamanic arts. From then on, the protagonist performs Duangong rites day and night to heal the sick and ward off evil, and
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Strange Tales Livestream 怪谈直播间
The sound of meat being chopped eerily echoes through a bun shop in the dead of night. The passengers on the last bus all have the same face. On a freezing, rainy night, someone wearing funeral clothes wanders the streets... The Strange Tales livestream takes you deep into the hidden side of this world!
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Taboo of the Living 2 活人禁忌2
Heaven Official's Blessing, no taboos under heaven. The second installment of Living People’s Taboos!
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I'm Broke, Why Should I Be Afraid of Ghosts? 我穷鬼,岂会怕鬼?
[Goofy] [Funny] [Irreverent] [Mystery] [Supernatural] [Hop in] [No System] [A fish that slipped through nine years of compulsory education] Wang Ling landed a job paying 18,000 yuan a month as a security guard at a private hospital. On his first day, he was left completely stunned! Each floor of the hospital's inpatient wing had a special passage enshrining one of the underworld's yin deities. The morgue even had butcher's knives inexplicably lying around. Wang Ling put up with all of that. Then
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- 75 Special Cleaner, Occasional Crime Scene Stager 特殊清洁员,偶尔也布置案发现场 (Content warnings: no female lead, no romantic ambiguity, dark plot, protagonist is not a good person, lighthearted everyday tone) (No female lead does not mean no female supporting characters. Recommended that you stay away. The male lead is very much a criminal, not a positive role model, and people get killed on a regular basis.) Good news: He transmigrated. Bad news: The body’s original owner seems to have just killed someone. Is Qi Shu panicking? He’s practically panicking to death. After a 511Reads8.6Score102Shelves
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The Yin-Walker 巡阴人
Applying makeup to the dead, reading the winds and assessing the land, preparing bodies for burial, and performing rites on the seventh day after death. Scorched corpses: cleaning the body, applying rouge, painting the features! Bodies cut in half at the waist: removing the organs, filling the cavities, and stitching the body back together! I was born into a family that made its living from the dead, so I grew up dealing with corpses. I’ve seen all sorts of bizarre ways to die and countless inex
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Stop Pedaling, She’s in the Back Seat! 别蹬了,她在后座!
Stop Pedaling, She's in the Back Seat!
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Urban Strange Tales Archive: The Details 都市异闻档案:细说
“If you hear someone call your full name in an elevator late at night, don’t answer.” That was the last thing Old Zhou told me before he retired. My name is Chen Mo. I never believed in this sort of thing. Not until my partner, at a crime scene, answered a voice coming from an empty corner of the room... and then strangled himself to death. Now I run a little shop that specializes in handling things that “defy explanation.” My team includes a bookworm who firmly believes in folklore, a hacker wh
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- 79 Eleven Madmen 十一个疯子 (Not mindless, no harem, no System, and not a conventional power fantasy. Please read with that in mind.) From the day you were born until now, have you ever had doubts like these? “Do I really exist?” “Does the world really exist?” “Why do I exist?” “And why does the world exist?” “Is my existence inevitable? If I die, will the world keep existing?” “At the moment m 38.6kReads9.4Score5.6kShelves
- 80 I Was Five That Year, and I Flattened a Grave 那年我五岁,平了一座坟 I Was Five That Year When I Leveled a Tomb 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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Grandma’s Ghost Stories 听奶奶讲灵异故事
I was raised by my grandmother. The bedtime stories I heard as a child were all supernatural events she had experienced herself. They scared me so badly I was afraid to go to the bathroom, but I could never resist listening to the end. What I didn't know was that the more stories I heard, the more likely they were to come true, and that I had plenty of secrets of my own.
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- 82 Sister Drum: The Comeback of a Skin 阿姐鼓:一张皮的逆袭之路 The Sister Drum: A Hide’s Road to the Top 2Reads—Score—Shelves
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When the Uncanny Descends on the World, Death Is the End 当诡异降临世界,死亡即是终点
[Supernatural horrors descend + no System + fresh worldbuilding + survival + semi-infinite-flow + no do-gooder protagonist + not dark + supernatural abilities] In the best years of his life, amid the exuberance of youth, Su Yuan thought his days would remain peaceful and beautiful forever. Then a line of bloody text appeared on the blackboard during evening study. [In the silent night, a terrifying ghost appears outside your dorm room... How long will it take to kill you?] Everyone thought it wa
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- 84 My Dog Is My Creditor 我的狗是债主 My Dog Is My Creditor 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 85 A Honeymoon in a Ghost Marriage 阴婚蜜月 A Honeymoon with a Ghost Marriage 4Reads—Score—Shelves
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I Transmigrated into the World of the Taoist Priest of Zombie 穿越僵尸道长世界
I, Li Zhizhou, transmigrated and became a junior disciple under Uncle Jiu. After awakening the Daoist Cultivation System, I carried all of Maoshan to greatness. Grand Martial Uncle Shi Jian, Martial Uncle Qianhe, and Martial Uncle Simu look at me as if they're about to steal me away as their disciple! Complete all kinds of missions, and you can learn supreme Daoist arts. There are also divine-grade pills, top-tier magic artifacts, and the finest talismans. And so, I became the most gifted discip
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Rule Horror: Starting at a Mountain Grave 规则怪谈:从山坟开始
[Delusions of Grandeur + Semi-Infinite Flow + Ensemble Cast + Unconventional Rule-Based Horror] Infinite horror descends upon Earth, turning countless regions into contaminated exclusion zones. The leaders of various nations call them [the Haunted Theater]. Humans who receive an invitation ticket must enter the Haunted Theater and play a ‘human-skin role’ to reduce the chance of it contaminating the outside world further. Inside, they may find powers that overturn everything they know, but they
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- 88 My Dearest Husband 我亲爱的丈夫 My Dear Husband 27Reads—Score—Shelves
- 89 Beast Taming: In the Urban Legend Dungeon, I'm the Lazy King from the Start 御兽:怪谈副本,开局我是懒大王 [Rules-based horror + beast taming + comedy + System + no romance] The protagonist isn't a bleeding heart! (This isn't traditional beast taming or a national-fate rules horror story, so feel free to dive in.) After waking from a night's sleep, Lin Yu found himself transmigrated into a parallel world where people mainly made contracts with the supernatural. He was also a soon-to-be senior in high school, training to become a supernatural beast tamer?! "All I did was stay up late watching Blue Fox 10.8kReads9.1Score1.1kShelves
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I Smell a Ghost! 我嗅到了鬼味!
[Infinite Flow]+ [Mild Horror]+ [No Romance]+ [Despairing Tone] One night, Gu Quan walks out of the funeral home carrying two memorial portraits, having just attended a funeral. His father calls to tell him that his mother has been in a car accident and is at death's door. In a panic, Gu Quan heads to the underground garage, hoping to drive over and see his mother one last time. On the way, he unexpectedly catches the scent of his natural enemy! Terrified, he gets into a car without thinking, un
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- 92 The Ghost Bell 鬼铃 Ghost Bell 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 93 First Day of School: The Teacher Dies Before My Eyes 开学:老师死在面前 [Supernatural + Horror + Ensemble Cast + Smart Characters + Infinite Flow + Decisive and Ruthless + Teamwork] On the first day of school, the moment Class 4's homeroom teacher, Mr. Bai, mysteriously committed suicide in the classroom, everyone's worldview was completely overturned by what they saw. A bleeding blackboard, blood-red words appearing out of nowhere: it was as if a novel had become reality. Everyone in the class would be forced to take on all kinds of deadly missions. They could neit 27.3kReads8.9Score2.5kShelves
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The Clue System: No Criminal Can Escape 提示线索系统之犯罪分子无处可逃
(Urban crime investigation + System + mystery and deduction + team investigations.) The protagonist, Song Mozhou, unexpectedly awakens a System that provides clues to criminal cases. Follow along as he solves one baffling case after another with the System’s help. This is a pure crime-solving novel, with no romance, featuring a series of standalone cases. All cases and characters in this book are fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Here’s hoping you’ll enj
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- 95 Help, I Swallowed an Eyeball 救命,我吞了颗眼珠子 Help, I Swallowed an Eyeball 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 96 Major Crime Investigation Files 刑侦大案录 6.8kReads6.8Score445Shelves
- 97 Awake? 醒? Awake? —Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Twilight Line of the Haunted Realm: Conquering It with My Wits 诡界晨昏线:靠脑子制霸诡界
[Mild horror] [No System] [Character growth] [One heroine] Countless “Haunted Realms” suddenly appeared around the world. Like black holes, they devoured ordinary people's mental energy and the real world, pushing reality to the brink of madness. In response to the crisis, all kinds of organizations sprang up. They ventured into the Haunted Realms to explore, seized haunted objects to protect themselves, and sought the truth on the edge of life and death. As their investigations deepened, they d
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You Need Me to Survive? I'm an NPC, Not a Player! 靠我存活?我是NPC不是玩家哦
Wu Le is a murderous NPC in a horror game, rotating through different scenarios to "work"! Wu Le is free-spirited and willful. Deceiving players, playing tricks on them, and terrifying them are all part of her daily routine. Sometimes she likes to disguise herself as a player, getting a close look at the evil in people's hearts. She gives players hope, then crushes it completely, enjoying the look of despair on their faces. Other times, she plays the part of a proper horror NPC, hunting down pla
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Making a Wish to a Ghost 向鬼许愿
A school where everyone has vanished. A company that serves ghosts. A city crawling with vengeful spirits. A mountain of weeping where yin and yang are turned upside down. … In an age when paranormal phenomena run rampant, Gu Shan possesses a terrifying wish-granting machine that can crush any supernatural incident. But each wish also carves an even deeper despair. “After you make your tenth wish, we’ll meet again in a world without pain.” (The original title of this book was The Tenth Wish.)
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