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1. 101 请 Please Don’t Be Afraid 请不要害怕 Trembling Legs脚震震Mystery1.3M WordsOngoing [Subverting Tropes + Infinite Flow + No Female Lead + Mild Horror] “Captain Wang, I clearly buried her, but… but I saw her in the backyard again!” “How did she die?” “It had nothing to do with me. She… she killed herself!” “She… she just didn’t want to be cremated…” “Then… what is that thing in the backyard?” “I… I don’t know.” “Can she see us? Can she hear our voices?” “And is she dangerous?” … “As for ghosts, I have only one piece of advice for everyone…” “If you happen to run into one, pleas 30.3kReads8.5Score1.4kShelves

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   These are all very good novels.

2. 102 烟 Ashtray 烟灰缸 Little Sister-in-Law Huahua花花小嫂子Mystery323k WordsCompleted [Mild horror + affair + twists] A stunning woman from the south, a knock at midnight, a silent delivery guy, someone crouching beneath the bed... Qin Song’s life is plunged into a living hell by an affair. 106.9kReads9.5Score19.5kShelves

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   I was so scared that I almost wet the bed in the middle of the night because I needed to pee.

3. 103 惊 Horrifying! The Haunted House That Claims Lives 惊悚！索命凶宅 Sun Mingyuan孙铭苑Mystery905k WordsCompleted After moving into a haunted house, I discovered the secret behind a murder. I'm a suspense writer. After moving into my new home, I discovered it was a murder house! I stumbled upon some hidden clues that seemed to point to rumors of a murder from years ago! At night, beneath the bright moonlight, I stared in shock at a horribly disfigured face! A woman's rotting corpse was hanging from a tree outside the window! A little boy in a black-and-white photograph, a dried corpse sealed inside a wall, 6.1kReads9.1Score424Shelves
4. 104 夜 Ghost Sightings at the Nightclub 夜场见鬼录 Yu Long玉龙Mystery278k WordsCompleted A Long is a DJ at a bar with a legendary “Stage of Death.” Many people have died there under mysterious circumstances. The cause of death could never be determined, and some bodies were never even found! The strange incidents stopped only after the bar was shut down. As the legend of the deaths gradually faded from memory, someone opened the stage once more! After that, disaster struck again and again! A terrifying ghostly figure appears in the girls’ dormitory, a faceless baby clings to a chand 201Reads8.8Score—Shelves
5. 105 邪 The Diviner with the Evil Bone 邪骨相师 Ji Sijiu姬四九Mystery676k WordsCompleted My name is Xiang Yin. According to my adoptive father, he took me in from a snake immortal. My adoptive father runs a funeral shop in a northern town. He foresaw that I was born with a gift for serving the immortals and would one day become the finest spirit medium. Everyone else says I'm a corpse-born child, steeped in darkness. Only my adoptive father treasures me, teaching me spells and skills. When I was seven, something strange happened. I sold a woman a pair of burial shoes in the midd 6.3kReads9.3Score686Shelves
6. 106 死 The Dead Man's Makeup 死人妆 Luo Xiaoqi罗小琪Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted The old folks often say, “Men shouldn’t be born on the first day of the lunar month, and women shouldn’t be born on the fifteenth.” I was born on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, with the fate of an iron broom and a destructive bone marrow. The living despise me, and I bring death to my whole family, yet demons and ghosts have their eyes on me! Because of him, I also broke a taboo and became a woman of yin fate... To save me, my mother-in-law taught me the art of applying makeup to th 2.5kReads9.1Score340Shelves

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   The first two books absolutely have to be on the list, okay? I love them so much! I'd love to be the ultimate horror book fan!

7. 107 空 The Empty Grave 空坟 Red Phantom红幽灵Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted Don't mess with the mirror in the house! After my favorite mirror disappeared, I began to fear the light. The doctor said I was allergic to sunlight, and I thought I was just sick. Until one day... I saw... my own grave! 1.1kReads9.0Score119Shelves
8. 108 邪 The Wicked Husband’s Seduction 邪夫撩人 Xia Bamu夏八木Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted I was born on the night of the Hungry Ghost Festival. From that day on, strange things kept happening in my village, and the people around me died one after another. To stay alive, I fled into the Dragon King Temple. When I came out, I found myself haunted by an invisible man... (Traditional supernatural horror + mind-bending mystery + realism) 155Reads7.4Score—Shelves
9. 109 住 I Moved into Dorm 404 and Uncovered a Deadly Campus Mystery 住进404宿舍，我看破校园凶局 Ding Xingxing521丁星星521Mystery239k WordsOngoing Feng shui, the supernatural, campus life, society: everything you're looking for is here! A story is just a story. Even if someone has experienced something similar in real life, I hope you'll still treat this as just a story! Don't get too caught up in it! Finally, may you, dear reader, stay safe and well! 39Reads—Score104Shelves

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   So scared that you lose control of your bladder

10. 110 蛇 Snake Immortal 蛇仙 October in April四月的十月Mystery2.0M WordsCompleted [The animated series Seven Days of Snake Entanglement is now streaming] My name is An Xin. On the day of the “Azure Dragon Wedding,” my great-grandfather killed a green snake and a white snake. The villagers said they were about to grow horns, transform into flood dragons, ascend, and become snake immortals. The night I was born, my grandfather knelt in the Snake Temple all night before my mother could give birth to me. He died in the temple. Ever since I was little, a snake has appeared in my d 5.1kReads9.3Score1kShelves
11. 111 在 I Am a Female Sorcerer 在下女术师 The Girl Who Swallows Ghosts吞鬼的女孩Mystery2.5M WordsCompleted The night Bai Zhou returned home to inherit the funeral-clothing shop, someone tried to murder her... From the moment she came back from the dead, she was swept up in one eerie, chilling case after another. A dead old woman wandering through a funeral hall; vengeful spirits who died violent deaths scrambling to find substitutes; a sinister temple in the mountains where people are killed; evil spirits crying out for justice during a performance of Judge Bao... Watch Bai Zhou learn the Taoist Five 18.1kReads9.2Score2.6kShelves
12. 112 兄 Bro, Trust Me, There Are No NPCs in This World 兄弟，相信我这世上真没有NPC Round Little Fried Egg圆滚滚的荷包蛋Mystery442k WordsOngoing Mystery + Campus + Investigations + Supernatural + Bizarre At other universities, students study, join clubs, fall in love, and joke around with their friends. At his university, he saves people, sneaks into mountain cemeteries at night, and keeps company with all kinds of NPCs! He always thought the only thing he'd ever need to worry about was how to make sure Sister Wang could enjoy a happy retirement. But one day, everyone started reminding him that he was an orphan... Was this the overlap of 51Reads—Score—Shelves

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    I stumbled upon an incredibly imaginative urban suspense novel. On the surface, the protagonist is an ordinary college student, but he's constantly dealing with all sorts of bizarre events and encountering countless tragic deaths. When all his past beliefs are overturned and the mastermind behind the scenes is closing in, the protagonist must uncover the truth all by himself.

13. 113 灵 The Soul Points to the Killer 灵魂指案 Eggie Baa Baa蛋咩咩Mystery1.2M WordsCompleted Pei Ai is a beautiful and clever spirit medium, born with eyes that can see ghosts. But there’s a catch: she can only see those who died unjustly. After an accident, Pei Ai goes into hiding under an assumed name. A year later, those eyes draw her into a bizarre and gruesome dismemberment case once again... 4.2kReads9.0Score449Shelves
14. 114 纸 The Paper Effigy Shop Owner Is a Powerful Occultist 纸扎店老板娘她是玄门大佬 A Xia, Beautiful and Talented阿夏貌美且有才Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted The second installment, Gods Cannot Save Themselves 2, is now available! Strong female lead, no CP (a monk with unrequited feelings approaches the heroine with an ulterior motive) + wish fulfillment + plot-driven. The heroine isn't a self-sacrificing saint, so if you like that type of heroine, please look elsewhere. The heroine, Chen Zhaoyuan, owns a paper offerings shop. She's a “person” who has lived for a very, very long time. Some of her memories are missing. She's no good at music, chess, c 31.3kReads9.0Score3.8kShelves
15. 115 惊 Horror Script: It Begins in the Baby-Crying Dormitory 惊悚剧本：从婴啼寝室开始 Novel Cake in the Works小说糕制作中Mystery1.1M WordsOngoing (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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    This is purely meant to stir up trouble. Of all the books by Tomato, only these two are worth reading; the rest are garbage. Disagree? Let's debate.

16. 116 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 8.8kReads8.8Score789Shelves

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    The scariest paranormal book I've ever read

17. 117 落 The Falling Leaves Have Their Own Intentions 落苏有意 Lu Xiaosheng鹿小笙Mystery440k WordsCompleted My background is a mystery, and I was born with Yin-Yang Eyes. After coming of age, I was chosen to enter the underworld and became a low-ranking official. All around me, a multitude of baffling, mysterious cases unfold... 8.2kReads9.1Score842Shelves
18. 118 滇 The Strange Case of Dianyun 滇云诡案 Snowfall to the Horizon霏雪连天Urban231k WordsCompleted [Republican-era mystery + criminal investigation + deduction + serial cases + passionate ensemble cast] “Stand up for the living, speak for the dead.” In 1920, Mengzi County in Yunnan is caught in a bitter power struggle full of deception and intrigue. Zhou Sinian, newly returned from studying abroad, boards a train for Yunnan. Born into a family of coroner examiners, he is now the new forensic examiner at the Mengzi police station. Around the same time, a mysterious young man with astonishing s 309Reads9.1Score103Shelves

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    These 7 books,

19. 119 异EN Another World: My Life Has Cheat Codes! 异世界：我的人生开了挂！ A Salty Fish c一条咸鱼cEastern Fantasy5.9M WordsCompleted [Vampires, werewolves, technology, potions, ghosts, biohumans, divination, puppets, and every terrifying element you can imagine: this world has them all.] Lin En transmigrated into such a bizarre otherworld and became an apprentice at a potion shop. "Something is wrong with that man! He never uses anesthetic when performing surgery!" "That shop is a scam! The moment you go in, they find a pile of illnesses even if you are perfectly healthy!" "But wait, isn't that shop supposed to be the bes 138.4kReads9.6Score16.9kShelves

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    These are good.

20. 120 东 Strange Tales of Northeast China 东北诡异实录 Asking the Cold Wind in a Light Rain微雨问冷风Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted The comic adaptation of the same name is now available, also known as Mountain Spirit Lost. The comic Northeast Strange Tales is currently being serialized. Across the vast, boundless black earth of Northeast China, one strange and little-known story after another has unfolded. Now, I’ll tell you these long-buried tales of the supernatural, one by one! 32.1kReads9.4Score3.3kShelves
21. 121 诡 The Strange Begins on a Rainy Night 诡异，雨夜的开始 Author Gan Chi作者甘吃Mystery90k WordsCompleted [Supernatural revival + Infinite Flow + light horror + survival] In 2355, an unknown and eerie force invaded Blue Star. The guardian spirit of Blue Star failed to hold it back, and just as it was about to vanish, it used the last of its strength to become... Take one step forward and you can have it. Wait until you've lost it to chase after it, and it may already be too late. There's no one behind me. What have I got to fear...? —Reads—Score—Shelves
22. 122 大 The Strange Cases of the Tang Dynasty: A Coroner's Legend 大唐诡案录之仵作传奇 Lan Xi's Light蓝希的光Mystery587k WordsOngoing The story takes place in the Tang dynasty under Emperor Li Longji, during the Kaiyuan era. Yun Yichen, the newly appointed forensic examiner at the Dali Temple, is calm and composed, with expert knowledge of autopsies. Cui Moyu, a brilliant and skilled martial artist who serves as a deputy minister at the Dali Temple, joins forces with him to solve a series of bizarre and sinister cases. From the mysterious death of a wealthy Chang'an merchant, to a cult wreaking havoc in a border town, to a con —Reads—Score—Shelves
23. 123 六 The Six-Fingered Exorcist 六指诡医 Linghu Erzong令狐二中Mystery7.8M WordsCompleted Born with six fingers on his left hand, he was called a jinx by his family. His father died the day he was born, and misfortune followed him everywhere as he grew up. He endured discrimination and contempt. When he turned eighteen and suffered his third half-cycle tribulation, even his beloved grandparents died. From then on, the protagonist was forced to wander. While struggling to stay alive, he investigated the truth behind the mysteries. Caught in an endless struggle between life and death, 4.7kReads9.2Score820Shelves

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    These are all supernatural novels that I love to read 🤩🤩 They're all so good!

24. 124 百 Ghosts in the Apocalypse: I Became the Strongest Ghost Tamer 百鬼末世：我成了最强御鬼师 Yi People's Firelight彝人烟火Mystery2.9M WordsOngoing [A Full 1,000 Types of Ghosts] Mysterious ghosts include Jin Buhuan, the White Bone Bodhisattva, the Earthly Branches War Lord, and the Blood-Drop Plum Blossom. The powerful ones include Asura, Rakshasa, the Butcher, the Martial Champion, and the Emperor. The eerie ones include Painted Skin, the Red Robe, the Chubby Baby, the Coroner, the Flower-Waisted Bride, the Embalmer, and the Ever-Burning Lamp. Every type has its own evolution path: Drowned Ghost → Water Monkey → Kappa → ? (There’s more af 115.3kReads9.5Score9.7kShelves
25. 125 狐 Fox Maiden 狐女 King Rabbit兔子大王Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted My name is Tu Sang. Grandpa said I was a gift from the Fox Immortal. I was barely alive when he found me, as good as dead. So he sought out the village shaman and traded his life for mine, keeping me alive until I turned eighteen. But before my eighteenth birthday, he passed away, and overnight I became an orphan again. To stay alive, I had no choice but to marry a ghost below. Who knew he would be a ten-thousand-year-old Ghost Immortal? But our connection goes far beyond that... 12.4kReads9.1Score1.4kShelves
26. 126 平 Legend of the Demon-Slaying War 平魔传 Dugu Zilong独孤紫龙Urban1.6M WordsOngoing This is a work I wrote many years ago, now revised and presented to you! Its original title was The Demon-Slaying War. If you've read it before, feel free to keep reading! No System, no evolution, no being reborn. It's been restored to the fantasy world of old! 284Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Good articles about Taoist priests exorcising evil spirits and zombies

27. 127 道 Taoist, Spare Us! Zombies, Ghosts, and Monsters Are Freaking Out! 道士请饶命，僵尸鬼妖慌麻了！ Scorpio Water Demon天蝎水妖Mystery274k WordsCompleted [Supernatural] [Feng Shui and Folk Customs] [Ghost Hunting and Corpse Suppression] [Transmigration] [No System] Chen Yang, a Taoist who used to sweep temple floors, transmigrates to a world without Taoist priests and discovers that he has become the village idiot tasked with guarding the village. The village chief says, "My dead father is causing too much trouble. You have to get in the coffin and keep him company!" Chen Yang replies, "Trouble? That's right up my alley. I'll have your dad settle 107Reads—Score121Shelves

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    Supernatural horror, traditional supernatural, single female lead, the male lead transmigrates to a world without Taoist priests, becomes a Taoist immortal, exorcises evil spirits, practices feng shui, catches ghosts and eliminates zombies, very exciting!

28. 128 狐 The Fox Spirit Is a Natural Flirt, and I Make Billions by Scaring Tourists 狐妖太会撩我靠吓哭游客狂赚千亿 Yan Hengqu雁衡去Modern Romance504k WordsCompleted The new book has only just started receiving ratings, so the score will go up later [Mythology Theme Park Management + Stolen Fortune + Fake and Real Heiresses + Game Invasion + AI Butler Development + Mythical NPC Compendium] An evil ritual stole Jiang Weixi’s life from her. At seventeen, she was ugly, stupid, sick, poor, and reduced to dust for everyone to trample underfoot. At the end of her rope, she bonded with the [Myriad Myths Mystery Park] and became a “Myth Architect,” using powerful hu 7Reads8.5Score—Shelves

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    I stumbled upon this, and it's really interesting. The female protagonist's luck is stolen, and she's on the verge of death. She opens a mythological secret chamber, unlocking Chinese mythology, Egyptian mythology, Greek mythology, and even a romance between a male fox and a Taoist priest. Reading this novel is like playing a game; I highly recommend it. The author updates consistently, so you can wait until it's fully released before reading. The premise is very interesting; I strongly recommend it.

29. 129 三 Three Souls as the Betrothal Gift, Seven Spirits as the Wedding Present 三魂为聘，七魄为礼 All Out肆意满Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted Everyone has three hun and seven po souls. Yin Wenjiu has only one hun and one po: an unidentified resentful soul and an unidentified life soul. Both exist to keep her body alive. But she only cares about enjoying the moment. She tells fortunes with perfect accuracy and charges the highest price! She won’t go out of her way to stay alive, nor will she actively seek death. She waited at Yunmeng Marsh for five years. If someone came to save her, she would go with them; if no one did, she would dig 24.6kReads9.3Score3.6kShelves

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    Ahh, if you love mind-bending mystery novels, you'll definitely love "Three Souls as Dowry, Seven Spirits as Gifts." Seriously, don't be put off by the title! The plot is engaging, the logic is rigorous, the suspense is constantly building, and each character has their own backstory.

30. 130 谢 The Xie Family's Short-Lived Son Has Lived to a Hundred 谢家的短命鬼长命百岁了 Yi Ran怡然Ancient Romance2.0M WordsCompleted [Screen adaptation rights sold] The lid of a dead person's coffin won't lie flat because they had an unresolved longing in life. Given time, that longing turns into a demonic obsession, and unless it is resolved, their descendants will suffer. Yan Sanhe's job is to release the dead from their obsessions. One day, she gets hounded by Third Master Xie, who claims to have one. Yan Sanhe says she doesn't deal with the living. Third Master Xie replies, “Everyone says I won't live long. Just think of 127.1kReads9.6Score17.2kShelves
31. 131 那 That Day, the Moon Swallowed the Entire City 那一天，月亮吞下整座城 Turbid One浊人Mystery2.3M WordsOngoing Illustrations throughout! Illustrations throughout! Illustrations throughout! (An important point, repeated three times: every chapter has gorgeous illustrations.) From the start, I awakened the [Hellwalker] talent and devoured the uncanny across the heavens. Every powerful uncanny becomes one of my organs, transforming me into a monster. My stomach devours heaven and earth: [Black Devour] My brain, a sea of blood and divine consciousness: [Void Sea] My heart, deathless and indestructible: [Lotu 162.2kReads8.2Score21.9kShelves

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    This book is quite good. The rating is a bit low, but it's very engaging and keeps you reading. I found the plot somewhat original and unexpected.

32. 132 诡 The Eerie Cannot Die, So I Guide It to the Afterlife and Become a God 诡异不死，我超度成神 Darling Chenchen Duck宸宸宝贝鸭Mystery490k WordsCompleted [Bizarre end of the Dharma age] [Eastern fantasy] [High Martial] [Game-like stats] The gods and Buddhas have fallen, and the path to immortality is severed. The bizarre cannot be killed, and “malice” is everywhere. With the bloodstained foremost scripture of the Dao, the Scripture of Deliverance, Lin Xiuyuan exorcises the bizarre and earns merit and blessings, in the form of bizarre abilities, seeking transcendence in this deranged world. “The bizarre can’t die? Watch me bathe, fast, set up an a 1.6kReads7.2Score101Shelves

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    Highly recommended! The latest and most explosive transmigration, eerie resurrection, leveling-up, and high-IQ online novel: ① Dahuai Town has a population of 4,444, no more, no less. It's been almost two years since Lin Xiuyuan transmigrated to this world, and something strange has been amiss everywhere. Legend has it that there are ghosts outside the town, ghosts that cannot be killed, and whose malice is omnipresent. Lin Xiuyuan uses the "Scripture of Salvation" to continuously exorcise these ghosts, gaining blessings and embarking on the path of merit and godhood;

33. 133 起 Getting to the Bottom of Mind-Reading 起底观心术 Bao Erri鲍尔日Urban1.5M WordsCompleted When I was five, a fortune-teller said I’d be able to read people’s minds when I grew up. My parents thought I was a genius and spent the whole family’s savings to send me to school. But I failed the college entrance exam and became a fried-noodle vendor. That vendor later became a “Walking Encyclopedia,” all thanks to the saying, “In books, there are houses of gold.” You are not just who you are. You can become a different kind of dazzling light. Read a comment on the first page, and you’ll get 225.7kReads9.6Score64.5kShelves

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    In surpassing oneself, one is also constantly improving oneself, thereby making one's life more wonderful.

34. 134 仙 The Immortal Fetus Mutant 仙胎异种 Jian Hanshan剑寒衫Eastern Fantasy457k WordsOngoing This is a grotesque world controlled by “immortals.” There are immortal pills grown in hearts, where flesh and blood serve as the soil; bone-ash baby formula made by burning corpses; and rich-blood immortal fruits growing from flesh. This is a savage immortal realm that is disgusting, diseased, ugly, and deformed. “I am an aberrant immortal fetus, an apocalyptic calamity that feeds on immortals. My name is Chen Yang, and I’ve had the good fortune to arrive in this filthy, sinister savage immorta 1.7kReads8.8Score133Shelves
35. 135 诡 The Eerie Case Coroner 诡案女仵作 Qie Qie Isn't Sleepy茄茄不困Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted A lazy salted-fish coroner who just wants to lie flat VS a workaholic commander who knows nothing about romance. They crack bizarre cases and fall in love over time. As religious sects rise to prominence, people commit murder in the name of gods and ghosts, and strange cases erupt throughout the Great Qing Dynasty. After dying from overwork, forensic pathologist Jiang Ning joins the Yuning Guard, an organization of imperial investigators, hoping to lie flat and coast along as a low-ranking nobod 1.7kReads9.2Score226Shelves
36. 136 古 Strange Tales of the Old Mansion: The Midnight Paper Doll Curse 古宅异闻：午夜纸人咒 Prosperous Lotus盛世莲花Mystery357k WordsCompleted A century-old mansion hides a deadly evil, and a paper effigy opens its eyes to claim the souls of the wronged. Su Xiao unexpectedly inherits an old house from a distant branch of her family. The moment she steps inside, she sees a bloodstained paper effigy standing in the entryway, its hollow eyes fixed on her and dark red stains glaring from beneath its fingernails. Deep in the mansion, eyes silently peer through cracks in the walls. At midnight, the sound of someone combing their hair comes f 6Reads—Score—Shelves
37. 137 狩EN Demon Hunt: A Hunter's Memoir 狩魔手记 Misty Rain Jiangnan烟雨江南Sci-Fi & Apocalypse2.2M WordsCompleted After the nuclear war, slaughter began to spread across the entire world. The order of human society completely collapsed, and the law of the jungle became the foremost rule. Once desire was freed from its restraints, there was no road forward, only a choice to turn left or right. Hell lay to the left, and hell lay to the right. 3.4kReads9.2Score643Shelves

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    For those looking for supernatural horror novels, this is for you! This post-apocalyptic suspense novel has an amazing plot twist, full of high-energy reversals, a smart protagonist, and incredibly well-placed details that will keep you hooked from the moment you start reading.

38. 138 规 Rules of the Strange: She Conquers the Supernatural World and Becomes a Legend 规则怪谈，她在诡异世界通关封神 Xu Ruopingsheng徐若平笙Mystery307k WordsCompleted The story is complete. [Female-Oriented, No Romance, Mystery, Deduction, Power Fantasy, Light Infinite-Loop Elements; the heroine is just an ordinary person] The supernatural returns, and strange tales descend upon the world. Wen Qi is chosen by the supernatural world. As one of the chosen, she bears the hopes of her country. She must do her best to survive in the supernatural world's strange-tale instances and even earn rewards. Watching Wen Qi on the livestream, with her rumpled clothes, bird' 613Reads8.9Score110Shelves

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    Female-oriented, no romantic pairing, suspenseful, imaginative, eerie, terrifying, thrilling, and rule-based supernatural tales.

39. 139 活 Living on the Edge of Fear 活在恐惧边缘 Prosperous Lotus盛世莲花Mystery181k WordsCompleted Living on the Edge of Fear He was an ordinary resident of an old apartment complex. After encountering a faceless figure in white appearing in the mirror, eerie knocks at the door, and terrifying secrets hidden inside the walls, among other paranormal events, he is forced into the crack between yin and yang, connected by mirrors. With vengeful ghosts closing in and danger lurking in the unknown, he struggles to survive amid the fear. Gradually, he discovers that these supernatural phenomena may —Reads—Score—Shelves
40. 140 西EN Western Fantasy: Your Majesty the Empress, I Am a Loyal Servant of the Empire 西幻：女皇陛下，朕是帝国忠臣啊 Writing Nonsense Like Crazy嘎嘎乱写Eastern Fantasy4.2M WordsOngoing [Farming]+ [Slow Burn]+ [Western Fantasy]+ [Multiple Races]+ [No System]+ [Conquest] After transmigrating to the Middle Ages, he became a nobleman named Field. He learned that women in this world could awaken as “Chosen Ones,” each with unique abilities and extraordinary beauty. Field hadn't even had time to celebrate before his useless father and beautiful stepmother sent him off to develop a blighted land full of poverty and monsters! Worse still, the entire empire, no, the entire world, was r 312.2kReads9.4Score19.5kShelves
41. 141 让 I Asked You to Write a Horror Play, So Why Did You Have to Add a Deity? 让你写诡剧，您非要往里加神人？ Fictional Dimension虚构次元Mystery81k WordsOngoing He Mo has always believed that eerie plays, with their dark, disturbing themes and wall-to-wall negativity, are bound to drive actors to a mental breakdown if they perform in them for too long. So he insists on adding a few absurd characters and comic plotlines to lighten things up. The more the theater objects, the more it proves he's doing the right thing. It shows that he's exposed the theater's intention to torment its actors through eerie plays. The more the actors object, the more it prove 291Reads—Score—Shelves

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    A supernatural, suspenseful, and terrifying film with imaginative plot twists; the characters are intelligent, and the story is fast-paced and exciting—definitely worth watching.

42. 142 阴 Yin-Yang Eye Realtor: Selling Haunted Houses in Chongqing 阴阳眼中介：我在重庆卖凶宅 Listening to the Wind in the Wilds山野聆风Mystery632k WordsCompleted 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 200Reads8.3Score—Shelves

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    Adventure, eeriness.

43. 143 我 I Am a Lady Tutor 我是女先生 Xiao Xu小叙Mystery2.2M WordsCompleted I'm hard to kill. These were the words I heard from the moment I was born. A blind fortune-teller said I was a White Tiger Sha, a girl born with a boy's fate, innately tough and destined to bring misfortune to my husband, my children, and myself. Everyone in the village said I wouldn't survive. My yang energy was too strong. Even if they managed to keep me alive, I'd grow up to be an idiot. But my grandma, a spirit medium who presided over the altar, refused to give up. Every year, she burned a 3.3kReads9.4Score449Shelves

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    It's top-tier, the kind that captivates you at first glance. I was a little intimidated at first, but the more I watched, the more I wanted to watch it.

44. 144 万 The Myriad Phenomena Restoration Bureau 万象修复局 VIP Among VIPs威艾屁中屁Mystery346k WordsOngoing [Urban Mystery + Folk Horror + Unusual Profession + Conceptual Restoration + Ensemble Cast + No System] When a city begins to forget “fire,” when the names of the dead appear on paper effigies, when streets vanish from the map overnight... Some things can be fixed when they break. But what if what's broken is a “concept” shared by all humanity? Shen Yan is an antique restorer and a member of the Bureau of Universal Restoration. He can restore the things this world is forgetting. 4Reads—Score—Shelves

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    This suspenseful urban fantasy novel has a logical plot progression, constant plot twists, and well-developed characters. I really like the main character, and you won't be able to put it down once you start reading.

45. 145 鬼 The Ghost Marshal’s Yin-Yang Inn 鬼差之阴阳馆 Young Master Rui蕊公子Mystery501k WordsCompleted By day, she transforms into a human; by night, she helps ghosts cross over. Come visit this unassuming little shop, run by a newly hired underworld makeup artist, and make an inquiry. 814Reads9.1Score116Shelves

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    1. I highly recommend the first book. His peaceful life is disrupted by his grandfather's sudden death. After a series of supernatural events, he discovers that it's not just a simple ghost story. 2. A shop that transforms people by day and ferry ghosts by night is where our story begins. 3. The Yin-Yang Shop is the continuation of our story (a sequel to The Yin-Yang Pavilion).

46. 146 狐 The Fox King's Betrothed: A Girl Born to the Yin 狐王聘，阴生女 Fu Sihui付思卉Mystery195k WordsCompleted On the night of Jiang Yuening's eighteenth birthday, she saw ghosts drifting through her village. After that night, a little red fox came to her in her dreams every night. Its magnetic, bewitching voice had already been etched into her memory. Who is this little fox? How will the wheels of fate turn? The secrets hidden deep in the darkness will eventually bloom like flowers beneath the sunlight… 11Reads6.8Score—Shelves

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    The supernatural plot unfolds in a captivating way, keeping viewers engrossed. The female protagonist, born in the Yin realm, encounters a white-clad female ghost right from the start, but fortunately, the Fox King, who has been haunting her dreams, appears and saves her.

47. 147 惊 Horrifying! The Eighth One 惊悚！第八个 Listening to the Wind in the Wilds山野聆风6k WordsCompleted Horrifying! The Eighth One 40Reads—Score—Shelves
48. 148 我 I Turned the Horror World Into a Raising Game! 我把惊悚世界玩成养成游戏！ Yu Zuo予作Mystery2.3M WordsCompleted A mysterious force descended upon Earth, giving rise to another world of terror. Everyone was forcibly sent into the world of horror games on their eighteenth birthday. While everyone else was immersed in fear, struggling to survive in the cracks between life and death, Qin Nuo discovered that he could earn System rewards by influencing the ghosts’ emotions. And every time he completed a dungeon, he could establish his own business in the world of horror. So he became a food runner at the Yin Sp 112.4kReads9.5Score12kShelves

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    All the ratings are online, and each has its own merits, especially the first and third books.

49. 149 阴 The Yin-Yang Shop's Grim Reaper 阴阳店之鬼差 Young Master Rui蕊公子Mystery568k WordsCompleted "There is a shop tucked away on a street corner. It has no name, and every nightfall, all sorts of people can be seen coming and going. A tycoon worth hundreds of millions, a madman begging on the street, a gambler with one arm... Here, you can see human nature stripped bare. A wife pawned for money, a zombie who went into hiding in the mountains for love, a ghost imprisoned by the living... The human heart is endlessly varied, and the world is full of every kind of life. Nothing is impossible. 486Reads9.2Score105Shelves
50. 150 他 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！ Listening to the Wind in the Wilds山野聆风12k WordsCompleted He was eating noodles at a roadside restaurant when he found a human eyeball in his bowl! 38Reads—Score—Shelves

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