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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Rule Horror: The Prince Is Always Lusting After Me 规则怪谈：王子总是对我垂涎欲滴
[Volume One of the print edition goes on sale August 7] [Short drama and comic adaptation now available] [No romance + Infinite-flow + Horror game + No national destiny + Dark fairy tales] A young woman weeps softly at midnight. A handsome prince turns into a bloodthirsty “beast” at night. Cinderella dies a gruesome death on the night of the ball. The horror game is wrapped in shiny glassine, disguised as a sweet candy. What lies hidden behind the enchanting fairy-tale world... Weird tales desc
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- 402 A Survival Guide to the Haunted Dormitory 诡异宿舍求生路 Lu Chen, who is terminally ill, wakes up to find himself inside a mission world set in a sinister dormitory. There are terrifying ghosts and dangerous people here. He understands that the only way to survive is to face the dangers, complete one strange mission after another, earn survival points, and use them to exchange for skills to fight ghosts in the dormitory. Only by growing stronger can he stay alive... This isn't a story about the protagonist running for his life while ghosts chase him. 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 403 Codename: Bone Butterfly 代号骨蝶 A young woman's body is pulled from a cold riverbank. The police's preliminary conclusion: accidental drowning. When the victim's twin sister, the sharp and composed forensic pathologist Ye Shuyun, touches the body that looks so much like her own, professional instinct cuts through her grief in an instant: abnormal fluid in the lungs, a hidden needle mark, a missing kidney... This was no accident! The victim was her younger sister, Ye Shuya, an investigative journalist determined to expose socie 12Reads6.8Score—Shelves
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The Apocalypse Is Coming, and I’ve Already Simulated Invincibility! 末日将临，我已模拟无敌！
"System! Run a simulation for me! Show me what your limits are!" [Day One: A giant hand reached down from the sky. You glanced at it.] [You died.] A bead of cold sweat ran down Chen Ping'an's forehead. Oh no, something about this apocalypse wasn't right. The apocalypse would arrive in ten days, but I had already simulated my way to invincibility!
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- 405 You Asked Me to Livestream a Classic, and I Called Dream of the Red Chamber a Ghost Story 让你直播讲名著，你说红楼是鬼书 “Dream of the Red Chamber was never a classic novel. It's a book specifically about ghosts!” “Compendium of Materia Medica was never a conventional medical text. It's a sacred book containing a wealth of folk magic!” “The Classic of Mountains and Seas isn't a fabricated collection of myths. It's a historical record of civilization after a prehistoric nuclear war!” “...” Qi Luo gave up on traditional publishing, and from the very first second of his livestream, he turned everyone's understanding 51.2kReads8.9Score4.7kShelves
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Folk Horror [The Fake Master Who Shocks a Hundred Demons] 恐怖民俗【冒牌大师震百妖】
The thing Liu Buyi, a fake master, regrets most in his life is learning how to “draw talismans with soy sauce” from a short video. Because the corpse that should be lying quietly in front of him is now using a soy-sauce-dipped finger to write his name on the coffin lid. Meanwhile, his half-baked beauty of a partner, An Xun, is munching on sunflower seeds and enjoying the show. “Didn't you say you had Yin-Yang Eyes?!” Liu Buyi's voice trembles. Seeing how unconcerned she looks, he almost passes o
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- 407 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 1.1kReads—Score101Shelves
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Dark Fairy Tales: Modern Day 黑童话【现代】
Human teeth floating in a can of yellow peaches, pig's head meat coming back to life in a supermarket at midnight, a beautiful woman in an old photo album growing younger and younger... A collection of short stories that push the limits of imagination and horror, covering every kind of strange tale. If you enjoy horror and stories that defy expectations, these hundred-odd tales won't disappoint.
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Jiangshi: A Wandering Taoist in Uncle Jiu’s World 僵尸：在九叔世界做游方道人
[Coming-of-age + comedy + mild horror + satisfying + scheming + decisive and ruthless] After transmigrating into Uncle Jiu's world, Gu Feng had no idea what was going on when he unexpectedly encountered his first zombie. Thanks to all the Uncle Jiu movies he'd watched, Gu Feng put his long-preserved virginity to use. As the zombie approached, Gu Feng grinned, holding a handful of virgin boy's urine. “Heh heh heh, little zombie, heh heh!” After binding himself to the “Wonderful Sign-in System,” c
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The Corpse Leaps Over the Wall 尸跳墙
I’ve been blind since childhood, so I work as a massage therapist for the blind. Then one day, I met a terrifying woman who said she could restore my sight. The price was...
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- 411 Secret Art: I Transmigrate and Fight to Survive in a Bizarre World 秘法穿越:我在诡异世界极限逃生 Secret Art Transmigration: My Extreme Escape in a World of the Uncanny 95Reads—Score—Shelves
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Between Two Worlds: 1949 两界穿梭之一九四九年
No morals + a little cruelty to beasts + everyday life at the heart of it Su Tianci transmigrates to Beiping in 1948, where his daily life revolves around tormenting beasts. Our protagonist has no manners and often does things without playing fair. The main idea is simple: if I have no morals, you can't morally blackmail me... [Putting the facts aside, is the author wrong to want to earn a little more tuition money? We shouldn't think only of ourselves; we need to consider the author too. I've m
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- 413 The Woman in the Closet 柜子里的女人 The Woman in the Cabinet 55Reads—Score—Shelves
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Back from Northern Myanmar, I Turned My Life Around 缅北归来，我逆转人生
Reborn in northern Myanmar, I join forces with my good brother to solve the mysteries that plagued us in our previous lives, and we both win the hearts of our beloved women! Rebirth, turning the tables, romance... This story has what you're looking for. I hope you'll support my new work.
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The Soul-Returning Soup 还魂汤
I was born in a remote village. The day my mother gave birth to me, she died a horrible death! I was born disabled, missing an arm, and with a red birthmark shaped like a coiled snake on my foot. My master said I had been cursed by an evil spirit, and that the curse could only be lifted if I found the one who cast it. Otherwise, I wouldn’t live to see twenty...
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- 416 Traveling Between Two Worlds: The 1970s 两界穿梭之七零年代 Wu Xiaoyao is a working-class nobody, a corporate drudge who likes to unwind by grilling skewers and letting loose whenever he has a bit of free time. But an out-of-control dump truck sends him hurtling back to the fiery age of the 1970s. What surprises him is that he can travel back and forth between the seventies and 2025. Two completely different eras now lie before him. 132Reads7.6Score—Shelves
- 417 The Haunted Cabinet Opens by Itself Every Night, Long Hair Drags People Inside 凶柜夜夜自开，青丝缠人拖入柜 The sinister cabinet opens by itself every night, and strands of black hair coil around people and drag them inside. 40Reads—Score—Shelves
- 418 Daydreams and Horrors: An Adventure 白日梦恐怖历险记 A broke college freshman, a university counselor, and five others form a group. With a strange Daydream System, bizarre missions, a mysterious base, the online world, demons and monsters, and savage beasts on the attack, they face all kinds of dangers and ultimately complete their mission, foiling the conspiracy of Japan and the United States! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 419 Suppressing the Dragon 镇龙 For one person, he dug up an ancient grave, broke into a dragon's tomb, and wielded the Yang Sword to slay yin spirits! An heir to a family of secret arts, he joins a group of men and women bound together by fate. Together, they travel far and wide, fighting monsters in the mountains, slaying evil in the cities, breaking into the underworld, and robbing ghost messengers... To change our fate, we defy the heavens! 2.5kReads8.8Score532Shelves
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Wayfarer Between Yin and Yang 阴阳行者
The ultimate truths of heaven and earth are two: death and parting, and the way between yin and yang. I protect the living in the world of light, driving out evil and subduing demons until every specter is vanquished. I guide the dead across the Yellow Springs, and set foot upon the Bridge of Helplessness without hesitation. A traveler between the realms of yin and yang, I bear the balance of life and death on my shoulders. Have you ever seen an old sheep knock at your door, or a paper figure sp
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- 421 Passing Myself Off as a Rich Returnee in the 1980s 在八零伪装回国土豪 Su Tianci, an ordinary working stiff for 25 years, spends his free time exploring the wilderness. By chance, he discovers a box full of U.S. dollars. Overjoyed, Su Tianci starts dreaming about where to go for a meat-stuffed flatbread. But before he can even celebrate, he slips and inexplicably tumbles off a cliff. When he comes to again, he has somehow arrived in an era full of opportunity… 7.4kReads5.8Score297Shelves
- 422 A Collection of Minnan Ghost Stories (Fun Tales) 闽南鬼故事（趣味故事）合集 A Collection of Minnan Ghost Stories (Fun Tales) —Reads—Score—Shelves
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I'm a Merchant in a World of Horror 我在惊悚世界当商人
Some people trade in the living, while others trade in the dead. I deal in the business of the dead, but I don’t sell coffins, joss paper, burial clothes, or paper offerings. I sell things you’ve never seen before, things far stranger…
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Terror in the Haunted Apartment: It All Began in the Penthouse 凶寓惊魂，一切从顶楼出租屋开始
[Keeping a Ghost Wife + Opening Yin Eyes + Living in a Haunted House + Making Paper Effigies + Delivering a Yin Coffin + Guiding Souls to the Yellow Springs] Completed From the very first day I moved into that top-floor rental, strange things began happening one after another: a long-haired woman in red high heels, a short-tempered old woman with a head of white hair, a little girl in red who had hanged herself, a deformed baby girl with a huge head and tiny body, and an ancient rotting corpse i
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After Turning into a Cute Girl, I Got More Children, More Blessings, and I'm Pregnant to My Ears! 变萌妹后，多子多福，我怀麻了！
[Pure romance] [No toxicity, no angst] [Includes bonus chapters] [Ten is a big sister] Lin Li transmigrated. She was still a breathtakingly beautiful princess, but her kingdom had fallen. All she had was her beauty, and she had no real abilities. Fortunately, she could become stronger by binding herself to a System. And so… she left the crowds behind and walked into the forest. Today, she caught another wild… A new story is here! Come read my work on Fanqie Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your suppo
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The Last Descendant of Zhong Kui 最后一个钟馗传人
I was cursed by a thousand-year-old fox demon the moment I was born. As a child, I couldn’t see or hear, and everyone said I was born disabled. But when I was five, a master took me in as his disciple. He said I was a reincarnated ghost god, a tempting morsel in the eyes of ghosts and monsters. The fox demon’s revenge, a frozen corpse in a dry well, a water ghost claiming lives, a hundred ghosts roaming by night... Strange events followed one after another. To protect myself, I had no choice but
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The Corpse of a Mountain Village Woman 山村女尸
[Feel-Good Read + Urban + Suspense + Supernatural] He Xi is an ordinary security guard. One day, the west gate of Chaoxi Psychiatric Hospital desperately needs a guard. The pay is 30,000 yuan a month, but nobody dares take the job! Nobody else dares, but He Xi does! Only after arriving does he realize something is wrong. The west gate isn’t meant for people to pass through at all. It’s a gate for ghosts!
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- 428 Eerie Tattoos 诡纹 My grandfather was a tattoo artist, but the things he tattooed were seriously sinister… 7.5kReads9.1Score783Shelves
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Frightening Folk Tales of Ghosts and Monsters 民间吓人的鬼怪故事
This book collects folk tales about ghosts and monsters from China and around the world, both ancient and modern. They include deeply moving love stories, myths where good and evil are repaid in kind, and eerie tales that will leave you trembling with fear. We hope you enjoy them. This story is entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual events or people is purely coincidental.
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- 430 Uh-Oh, I've Turned a Creepy Game into Reality 坏了，玩到真的诡异养成游戏了 Have you ever played a truly eerie creature-raising game? Have you ever had a heart-pounding life experience? “Red wedding dress, paper shoes for the dead, a ghost in the mirror...” Which of these ghosts would you choose to raise? When Wu Wen clicked the place button and saw the red-clad figure appear before him, only one thought remained in his mind. “Crap, I've actually started playing a real supernatural creature-raising game!” The game Ghost Encounter has been making games for twenty years. 3.7kReads8.6Score314Shelves
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Midnight Terror: Human Nature Stories That Will Haunt You 午夜惊魂：让人细思极恐的人性故事
At midnight, let's listen together to the little stories that circulate all around us. Maybe they're true. Maybe you've heard them too, or even experienced them yourself. Those moments that grow more terrifying the more you think about them go perfectly with the pitch-black night beyond the window. Red brick walls are common in many places. But we've never stopped to wonder: why are those bricks so red, so vivid? Rideshares at night aren't necessarily safe. Passengers have their concerns, and dr
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The Haunted Teahouse: I Only Sell Objects of Ill Omen 恐怖茶馆：我只卖大凶之物
The world is divided between yin and yang. Some people do business with the living, while others trade with the dead. I deal in the business of the dead, but I don’t sell coffins, paper money, funeral clothes, or paper effigies. What I sell are things you’ve never seen before, things far stranger still…
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Lighting the Sky Lantern 点天灯
Just how terrifying is corpse-driving in western Hunan? After failing the college entrance exam, I stumbled into the corpse-driving trade. Who could have guessed that on my very first job, I would run into...
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The Corpse Carrier 背尸工
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...
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The Bride of the Vengeful Ghost 猛鬼新娘
When I was sixteen, I rescued a woman who had been tricked into coming to our village, simply because I wanted to help. I never imagined that my actions would not only get the poor woman killed, but also lead to the deaths of more than a hundred villagers. And so my strange life began.
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Strange Tales, Volume 1 奇闻诡事录1
This is a collection of folk tales about the uncanny, strange accounts from across the land. Each chapter is a complete story, each tale a separate supernatural mystery, revealing the mysteries of yin and yang, folk taboos, and the obsessions of the dead. You never know when a casual remark might draw the attention of spirits lurking in the wilderness; when an old object you pick up might hold the memory of a tragic death; or when an everyday habit might already have crossed a forbidden boundary
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- 437 The Master of Ma Yi Divination 麻衣相师 My great-uncle had all kinds of abilities. One day, he told me he’d buried a treasure for me in a feng shui paradise… 28.1kReads9.0Score3.4kShelves
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Coffin Shop No. 44 44号棺材铺
Everyone knows what a coffin shop is, but would you dare enter one where someone has died? Ever since I took over a coffin shop, strange things have been happening all around me. Only then did I realize that the people who come to buy coffins aren't necessarily alive…
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The Strange Case Files 诡局录
[No System + No Cultivation + No Foolish Protagonist + Traditional Supernatural Horror + Mystery and Suspense] My name is Shang Tian, and I’m a man cursed by an evil spirit. It was a lottery ticket that should never have existed. Its dark, yellow-black background looked soaked in old blood and night; the glaring red lettering wasn’t a set of lucky numbers, but an invitation to hell. When I scratched it off, overjoyed and thinking I’d found a lifeline to a hundred-thousand-yuan jackpot, my finge
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Strange Tales from Thailand 泰国异闻录
Thailand, known in ancient times as Siam, is an ancient land steeped in mystery. Nangua and Yue Bing travel to distant Thailand to complete their studies. Before they can enjoy their wonderful life abroad, they are drawn into a series of inexplicable events: a witch whose body is covered in beautiful human skin aboard an airplane, a snake spirit flickering in and out of sight in the student dormitory, a remote primeval forest rarely visited by travelers, and a two-headed snake god in an ancient
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Tales from the Northern Horsemen 北马见闻录
I’m a spirit medium. What do I need brains for? As long as I’m stubborn enough, those weasels can’t get the better of me. This is a story full of blood and heart, and the legend of a spirit medium’s life. Whether it’s life or human nature, the wise will eventually find the answers meant for them. A record of strange encounters, and half the history of the Ma family. Folk legends, chilling mysteries, and uncanny wonders, all within...
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Rules of Horror? I'll Just Fire Up Excel 规则怪谈？我反手一个Excel
Mo Fan, a top data analyst who worked so much overtime he went bald, suddenly dies and is thrown into a perilous world of bizarre rules. Here, the supernatural is commonplace and death is the ending. Everyone lives in fear. When others are scared out of their wits by the Slit-Mouthed Woman, Mo Fan calmly opens Excel and marks her threat level red with conditional formatting. When others run in despair through an endless corridor, Mo Fan uses a pivot table to spot the spatial patterns at a glanc
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The Haunted House: The Evil God Descends 诡舍：邪神降临
[A Strange House fanfiction + horror + survival + infinite loop] Ning Qiushui sealed the Gray Sun, bringing the calamity of the old world to an end. But the Heavenly Dao demands balance between yin and yang. With the old evil destroyed, an even more powerful evil god was born. After lying dormant for ages, the Strange House's blood-red door appeared once more. The blood-red door swung open. Yin and yang were reversed, the underworld fell, and the six paths were severed. A new generation of S
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- 444 Strange Tales of China 中国异闻录 Lanterns in the Dark, also known as Strange Tales from China, follows the success of Strange Tales from Thailand, which sold 100,000 copies. In this all-new work, the “master of suspense,” Yang Xingchu, takes you deep into the heart of Chinese folk customs. What tragic and moving tales of love and hate lie behind the legends passed down to this day? The things you have always taken for granted may not be what you think: Is a ghost marriage really a marriage to a dead person? Is every stretch of 110Reads7.8Score—Shelves
- 445 The Folk Feng Shui Master 民间风水之王 The Nine Cauldrons Dragon Palace, the Secret Files of the Yellow Springs, the Snow Mountain Corpse Demon, the Yin-Yang Inn... Ever since I borrowed a life from the underworld, I have known no peace. Every time I borrow a life, it becomes a deadly game. After each desperate struggle and narrow escape, I wait for the next secret order from the underworld so I can keep living. Just when I thought I'd escaped the clutches of fate, I discovered that Heaven had prepared a coffin for me too! 51.6kReads9.4Score6kShelves
- 446 Strange Tales from Japan 日本异闻录 Japan is a country with a long history, deeply influenced by Chinese civilization. Tales of the supernatural have circulated in Japan for almost as long as the country itself has existed. Japan has a great many kinds of yokai, most of which originated in China. But through their own rigorous reinvention, Japanese yokai eventually surpassed their predecessors. In modern Japan, this has given rise to a consumer culture centered on yokai, with books, comics, films, TV dramas, and games appearing on 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 447 When the Military Faces the Unknowable 当军队面对不可名状之物 When the army faces the indescribable 2Reads—Score—Shelves
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What Do You Mean I Became a World-Ending Urban Legend? 什么叫我成了灭世级怪谈？
[No Female Lead] [Mild Horror] [Turns Into a False Person in One Chapter] [The Protagonist Is a Pure Monster] Su Yuan transmigrated to a bizarre world rife with danger. Here, everything from horror legends had become real: false people, vengeful spirits, old gods hidden beneath the ocean... And an official organization lurking in everyday life: the Cleanup Bureau. This was an age of despair. With urban legends becoming reality, ordinary people could hardly fight back, and even the authorities we
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- 449 The Heaven-Ordained Fortune Teller 天命神算 When I was thirteen, I fell gravely ill. My fever wouldn't break, and no matter how many famous doctors I saw, none could cure me. My grandfather healed me, but he died mysteriously five years later. Only then did I learn that he had incurred a karmic debt on my behalf. So I inherited his legacy and embarked on the path of a feng shui master. 150.1kReads9.2Score17.4kShelves
- 450 Eerie: A Dog from the Start, Gear You Scavenge 诡异：开局一条狗，装备全靠捡 [The rating just came in, and it will rise later] [Apocalyptic Awakening] [Stat-Allocation Sequence] [Horror Survival] [Extreme Combat Style] Terror descends upon the world, and a Black Tide begins to devour cities. The uncanny, demons, monsters, forbidden artifacts... Human life is as worthless as grass. People struggle to survive by any means. In an apocalypse of endless terror, the only way to stay alive is to awaken and become part of a Transcendent Sequence! Others awaken as doctors, surviv 466.4kReads8.5Score52kShelves
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