The Scarier the Horror Novel, the Better 恐怖小说越恐怖越好

1. 1 噩 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 Xiao Youqian萧有钱Mystery174k WordsCompleted [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, 1.9kReads8.9Score215Shelves

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   😱😱😱😱Help! These horror novels are the best of them all. They filled me with the fear of a deserted village. I didn't dare to let out my breath while reading. I felt a chill on my back, as if I was being dragged into an endless abyss. Not for the faint of heart!

2. 2 夜 Ghostly Whispers at Midnight 夜半鬼语 Millennium-Old Monster千年老妖Mystery87k WordsCompleted [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 6.6kReads9.0Score255Shelves
3. 3 东 Northeastern China's Forbidden Secrets 东北禁忌手札 Jun Lan君阑Mystery122k WordsCompleted [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 892Reads8.8Score108Shelves

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   🔥🔥 If you are timid, you accidentally entered it⚠️⚠️ Zundu is very scary. When I watched it, my hair stood on end. The creepy feeling made me afraid to even go to the toilet. Whoever watched it will know how scary it is!!

4. 4 恐 Horror's Edge: 100 Absolutely Terrifying Ghost Stories 恐怖边界：100个绝对惊悚的鬼谈 The Out-of-Control Editorial Department失控编辑部Mystery432k WordsCompleted [Standalone Stories + Supernatural Horror + Folk Customs + Feng Shui and Mysticism + Mild Frights + Shocking Twists] Horror tales beyond anything you could imagine. Each story is like a dark door swinging open, drawing you into moments that will make your skin crawl. Listen. A faint whisper, an indescribable shadow creeping closer. Danger by the river, terror in the cemetery, ghost babies in the maternity ward, evil headhunting magic, apparitions at the hot springs, a bloodstained umbrella... On 2.6kReads8.7Score216Shelves
5. 5 乡 Tales of Strange Happenings in the Countryside 乡村诡事录 Zhang Xiaohe张小河Mystery156k WordsCompleted 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 2.3kReads9.0Score148Shelves
6. 6 午 The Midnight Ghost Market: Living People Keep Out 午夜鬼市，活人回避 The Drinking Monk吃酒和尚Mystery592k WordsCompleted [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 3.7kReads9.1Score219Shelves
7. 7 诡 The House of Dread 诡舍 The Sound of Wind and Rain at Night,夜来风雨声丶Mystery2.1M WordsCompleted [Infinite-flow + Mild Horror + Survival + One Female Lead] A driverless bus carried a group of cursed people to a strange black lodge… Inside the lodge stood a door stained red with blood. At regular intervals, the cursed were forcibly dragged through the blood-red door and into terrifying worlds, where they had to complete horrifying events… After Ning Qiushui survived one bizarre and terrifying story after another inside the lodge, narrowly escaping death each time, he discovered that none of 746.7kReads9.6Score126.3kShelves

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   All the horror books you want to read are here.

8. 8 一 One Haunting a Day 一日一诡 Spring Rain in the South, Winter Snow in the North南春雨北冬雪Mystery1.1M WordsOngoing Like people, supernatural entities can be good or bad, so the author can’t promise that every story will have an off-the-charts scare factor that keeps you up at night. The only guarantee is that all the stories are entirely fictional. If anything seems familiar, you’re on your own! 396Reads—Score101Shelves

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   "The Ghost Enters the Door", "The Headless Old Mansion", "The House Seizes", and "The Haunted House", each story is extremely scary and makes people feel scared after reading it! From folklore to urban ghost stories and campus horror, there are all kinds of scary and supernatural stories!! Similar to the modern version of Liaozhai, all kinds of incredible horror stories will keep you awake late at night!!!

9. 9 末 The Age of Declining Spirituality: The Last Taoist of the Mystic Sect 末法时代，玄门最后一个道士 Cangzhu Yimu沧竹一木Urban211k WordsCompleted Following his master’s dying wish, Chen Bufan leaves the Daoist temple where he has lived for twenty years and steps into the modern city below the mountain for the first time. Amid the overwhelming culture shock, he keenly senses the first hint of an “ill omen” belonging to this age. 4.4kReads—Score228Shelves

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   This collection of horror stories is designed to poke at the chill in the cracks of daily life. I flipped through two pages before going to bed. After closing the book, I couldn't help but peek under the bed and behind the door. My spine was so cold that I didn't dare to turn over in the middle of the night. . .

10. 10 民 Folklore Horror Stories: Don't Open This at Midnight 民间恐怖故事，深夜千万别点开 Chess Mountain Ghost Immortal棋山鬼仙Mystery429k WordsOngoing Tales of strange happenings in the countryside, folk legends, mountain spirits and monsters, and eerie experiences. I’ve been through a lot and heard a lot of stories. Today, I’ve decided to record them all. I dare to write them. Do you dare to read them? Please believe in science. Any resemblance to actual events is purely coincidental. These are standalone stories, one per chapter. I’m the only one who knows that almost all of them are true. The result is that the more I write, the more scared 168Reads—Score100Shelves

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    He is the only one who owns this one

11. 11 纸 Tales of a Paper Effigy Maker 纸人扎匠诡事录 Black Armor Warrior黑甲武士7k WordsCompleted Tales of the Paper Effigy Artisan's Strange Cases 733Reads—Score—Shelves

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    These books are all written by the author's personal experience, which is terrifying to think about! Are there any masterpiece novels similar to this one? After reading these two books, reading anything else is simply boring.

12. 12 水 Thirty Meters Underwater, a Bride-Clad Corpse Opened Her Eyes 水下30米，一具女尸穿着嫁衣，睁开了眼 Black Armor Warrior黑甲武士6k WordsCompleted Thirty meters underwater, a female corpse in a wedding dress opens her eyes. 1.3kReads—Score—Shelves
13. 13 里 Solving Cases in the Otherworld: Did I Become a Cult’s Divine Guardian? 里世界破案：我成了邪教护法神？ Tou Long Lao头龙老Mystery35k WordsOngoing My new work is here! Everyone is welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Basically, constantly getting more basic, constantly getting more basic

14. 14 荒 Tales of a Haunted Village 荒村怪谈录 The Out-of-Control Editorial Department失控编辑部Mystery304k WordsCompleted [Rural Mysteries + Folk Customs + Chinese-Style Horror + Feng Shui and the Supernatural + Anthology + Shocking Twists] There is an old well in Jiulitun that has been sealed for thirty years, and one eerie incident after another keeps occurring. Why has a little girl become unbelievably strong and deranged? Why do villagers keep drowning, and why is the village taboo so difficult to speak of? It all goes back thirty years... 293Reads8.7Score—Shelves

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    If you are brave, please read here. If you are brave, go directly to [Petrochemical][Petrochemical][Petrochemical]

15. 15 午 Midnight Terror: Human Nature Stories That Will Haunt You 午夜惊魂：让人细思极恐的人性故事 Gold Is Money金子就是钞票Mystery142k WordsCompleted 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 558Reads8.8Score—Shelves
16. 16 午 Midnight Wonders 午夜惊奇 Qiao Dou Ma Dai QAQ桥豆麻袋QAQUrban171k WordsCompleted 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 421Reads8.7Score—Shelves
17. 17 民 Tales of the Supernatural 民间怪谈录 Qu Gaofeng曲高峰Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted [Rural Horror Stories + Anthology + Folk Horror Tales + Chinese Supernatural] Supernatural happenings are most likely to occur in mountain villages, and the stories we've heard may well have really happened. In the eerie night wind, Granny Hao, the midwife who receives the dead, is like a messenger from the underworld, guiding the spirits of helpless mothers and children home. Locust trees commune with spirits, and poplars attract yin energy. Beneath the village's ancient trees lie secrets that 1.3kReads8.9Score105Shelves
18. 18 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 265Reads8.8Score—Shelves

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    After watching it, I had a nightmare for a week, being chased by 💀[petrified][petrified][petrified]

19. 19 别 Don't Look Back, My Shadow Is Killing People 别回头，我的影子在杀人 Huaibin Bamboo淮滨竹11k WordsCompleted Don't Look Back, My Shadow Is Killing —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    This, I feel quite scary, I don't dare to go to the toilet after watching it [fear] (maybe it's because I'm timid [laughing and crying])

20. 20 嘘 Shh, It’s Time for a Ghost Story 嘘，要讲鬼故事了 Third Battalion, Sixth Squad, White-Faced Calabash Kidz三营六组白面葫芦娃zMystery261k WordsCompleted [Short ghost stories + Chinese-style horror + rural setting + strange folk tales] Have you ever heard of a cow bride? The legend says you must offer the blood of an old yellow ox that can no longer plow the fields. Skin it, pull out its tendons, and hammer ninety-nine iron nails into its skull. Nail it inside a wooden coffin and leave it hanging for forty-nine days. When you open it, a peerlessly beautiful woman with pale skin will be inside. My older brother was born disabled, ugly, and coarse, 1.5kReads—Score115Shelves

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    This is a bit scary

21. 21 午 The Midnight Gravekeeper 午夜守墓人 Rose蔷薇Mystery802k WordsCompleted 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 3.2kReads8.4Score219Shelves
22. 22 我 The Years I Spent as a Funeral Mourner 我当哭丧人的那些年 Luo San罗三Mystery302k WordsCompleted Some people must be mourned loudly when they are laid to rest. Otherwise, according to old folk customs, it is considered an act of filial impiety. After I was born, everyone in my family except my grandfather died because of me. My grandfather fell gravely ill, and to earn money for his treatment, I had no choice but to join Zhang the Elder, a man from my village, as a professional funeral mourner. From then on, I set out on a path of mourning with no return! 108Reads8.6Score—Shelves
23. 23 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. 3Reads—Score—Shelves

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    🌩️This urban supernatural novel can "stun the audience"! A very novel subject matter, the plot design is interlocking, and it is very immersive. I must recommend this book.

24. 24 我 After I Chiseled a Hole in the Wall 我在墙上凿了个洞以后 C HeheC鹤鹤15k WordsCompleted After I Cut a Hole in the Wall —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    I just finished reading this short story and felt a chill down my back. [Petrochemical]

25. 25 最 The Last Soul-Quelling Master 最后一个镇魂师 The One in Charge话事人Mystery813k WordsCompleted I grew up at my grandfather's house in the countryside. He was the most respected suona player in our village. One day, Li Dashan, a fellow villager, beat his pregnant wife to death and came to ask my grandfather for help. My grandfather tried everything he could, but still couldn't calm the resentment of Li Dashan's wife. In the end, he had no choice but to play a suona dirge to forcibly pacify her soul. On the night of the Lantern Festival, Li Dashan and his family turned into vengeful ghosts 136Reads8.4Score—Shelves
26. 26 地 Underworld Agent 地府经纪人 Stars星辰Mystery810k WordsCompleted I was hit by a basketball at school and fell into a lake, but I survived and became an official employee of the Underworld. I also gained a Ghost Hunter System that helps the Underworld recruit talented ghosts, setting me on the path to turning my life around. 32Reads6.1Score—Shelves
27. 27 地 The Underworld Calls Me Little Sir 地府叫我小先生 HelinEastern Fantasy803k WordsCompleted [Supernatural + mystery + power progression] Getting hit by a basketball and falling into a lake was bad enough. Even worse, I got killed by a basketball!! The Black and White Impermanence told me I still had seventy years left to live. To make it up to me, they offered me a job in the underworld. So I became an HR officer on the underworld’s permanent staff and even got a ghost recruitment System! As long as I help the underworld recruit talented ghosts, I can earn all kinds of abilities: talis 501Reads—Score—Shelves
28. 28 这 This Taoist Priest Is a Little Too Cool 这个道士不太冷 Ghost Hunter, Big Brother抓鬼大师兄Mystery802k WordsCompleted My name is Niu Dabao, and I’m the only college graduate in Niu Village. I thought that after graduation, I’d get promoted, earn a bigger salary, marry a beautiful, rich woman, and reach the pinnacle of life. Who knew the company would go under and the boss would kill himself? I didn’t get a single penny of my wages, couldn’t even afford rent, and had to sleep at the train station every night! Then a ragged Taoist priest told me I was dogged by bad luck and possessed by a host of ghosts, and that 628Reads7.8Score—Shelves
29. 29 我 I Live in Fengmen Village 我住在封门村 Naughty Leopard顽皮豹Mystery807k WordsCompleted My hometown shares its name with the legendary number-one haunted village in China: Fengmen Village. What’s more, our village also has a grandmaster’s chair. Whoever sits in it is doomed to die! It was 1997, and I had been accepted into the high school in town. Once summer vacation was over, I would finally be able to leave the place where I’d spent sixteen years. But what I never expected was for one terrifying incident after another to strike the village! Rats that ate human flesh, five-colore 798Reads6.1Score—Shelves
30. 30 诡 The Haunted Grave 诡坟 A Single Ink Blade墨刀一柄Mystery802k WordsCompleted I think I've been possessed! Right before the college entrance exam, I suddenly came down with a high fever that wouldn't break. I missed the exam and had to spend half a year recovering at home. During those six months, I found a job as a cemetery groundskeeper. My coworker, Old Zhang, saw how frail I was and how weak my yang energy seemed, and insisted on finding me someone to protect me. But he didn't tell me that my protector would be a female ghost!! Not only does she want to marry me, she 89Reads7.0Score—Shelves
31. 31 话 There Are Ghosts in These Words 话里有诡 Chen Taiyao陈太瑶Mystery88k WordsCompleted They say everyone has a few little secrets they can't bring themselves to talk about these days. But if you really want to hear something out of the ordinary, go find Old Bu. Old Bu runs a little tavern set inside an abandoned train carriage. From the day it opened, he laid down one rule: One interesting story in exchange for a night's worth of drinks. Sounds like a good deal, doesn't it? Too bad he doesn't give you much to drink, and the stories just keep getting stranger. An intelligent wristb 7Reads8.5Score—Shelves
32. 32 9 999 Folk Horror Ghost Stories 999个民间恐怖鬼故事 Chongyang Valley重阳谷Mystery80k WordsCompleted Night has fallen! It's here Black Hole Ghost Eyes! Haunted old houses! Fake-suicide murder mysteries, and more… Every story comes full circle with a twist, and the more you think about it, the more it sends chills down your spine. Countless sinister and bizarre events, where terror and tragedy intertwine. Night has fallen! It's here… 3Reads—Score—Shelves

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    [Laughing and crying][shocked][laughing and crying][shocked][laughing and crying][laughing and crying][laughing and crying][laughing and crying][laughing and crying][laughing and crying][laughing and crying][laughing and crying][laughing and crying][laughing and crying][making faces][shocked][making faces]

33. 33 诡 The Four Sons of the Ghost Gate 诡门四子 YaoguangYG耀光YGMystery446k WordsCompleted [Power Fantasy + Horror + No System + Brotherhood] Li Longhao comes across a video of a haunted place and notices that the shadow in it is moving. His friends laugh at him for being superstitious, until Zeng Hongqing encounters a faceless figure on a night run, Xiao Zhenhou's livestream captures a real ghost, and Chen Mu sees a corpse open its eyes in the morgue. An abandoned factory, a hospital at midnight, a paper effigy carried in a wedding sedan… Ghosts are real in this world, and the four o 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The beginning of a classic horror novel. After reading it, I can go to the toilet alone at night. I will give you a thumbs up. Everyone is welcome to comment.

34. 34 恐 Horror! Terror! Zombies! Monsters and Maniacs! 恐怖！惊悚！丧尸！怪物和变态！ Jason Who Loves Beef Tripe Soup爱吃牛肚汤的杰森Mystery441k WordsCompleted You think ghosts are frightening, but what you picture is a person turning into a ghost! What about animals? You think biochemistry is just something you think about! But what if it happened by accident? What do you think is the strangest thing of all? Seeing a ghost? No, seeing someone exactly like yourself! Is forbidden love something to pity? Same-sex forbidden love can make you cry just the same! 617Reads—Score—Shelves
35. 35 无 The Faceless Woman 无脸婆 Monk0900和尚0900Ancient Romance24k WordsCompleted The Faceless Woman 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Ancient style, not a brainless novel, the plot is reasonable and very interesting. Horror [petrified]

36. 36 三 Combing My Hair at Midnight: The Person in the Mirror Isn’t Me 三更梳头，镜里的人不是我 Night Princess Loves Earl Grey Tea爱吃伯爵茶的夜姬8k WordsCompleted I Comb My Hair at Midnight, but the Person in the Mirror Isn't Me —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    It's a short story, it looks very good, it's quite interesting.

37. 37 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 185Reads8.3Score—Shelves
38. 38 超 Super Scary Livestream 超级惊悚直播 Yuwen Chang Gong宇文长弓Mystery2.2M WordsCompleted "Welcome, everyone, to the Supernatural Scary Live Stream. Before we start today's broadcast, I have to tell you that only three kinds of people can watch this stream: those with a heavy aura of yin energy, those who will die within seven days, and the third kind, which I can't discuss in detail. I can only give you one warning: watch your back!" 27kReads9.2Score3.4kShelves
39. 39 惊 Thriller Game: From the Start, I Urge the Ghost Courtesan to Reform! 惊悚游戏：开局劝鬼花魁从良！ Sweet Sweet Sweet Stories甜甜甜故事Mystery1.2M WordsCompleted [Horror game + comedic mild horror + infinite-flow + livestream + no heroine + the protagonist doesn’t act human + everyone is clever + everyone lies + original game scenarios] [The only novel online to tell the story of what happened before the horror game invaded!] [Horror scenario “Ghost Brothel” fully loaded. Players, please get ready!] Lin Xun, a hack screenwriter, is transported into a horror game. Unblockable horror livestreams spread across the internet, turning this into a terrifying sp 6.9kReads9.3Score746Shelves
40. 40 别 Stop Talking, There Are No Ghosts in This World! 别聊了世上没鬼的！ Monk0900和尚090010k WordsCompleted Stop talking! There are no ghosts in this world! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
41. 41 真 A True Account of a Terrifying Experience 真实记录一段可怕经历 Monk0900和尚0900Mystery42k WordsCompleted A true account of a terrifying experience 7Reads—Score—Shelves
42. 42 噩 The Nightmare Frontier 噩梦边境 Early Winter Snow初冬雪Mystery101k WordsCompleted Late at night, five people in a subway car were all plunged to the edge of a dream, trapped between life and death. And someone was already waiting for them there: a bizarre creature… 48Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Living alone in an old-fashioned apartment, at eleven o'clock every night, there would be a burst of unhurried footsteps outside the door. Start from the end of the corridor, walk step by step to his door, then stop, be quiet for three seconds, and then walk back step by step. Never interrupted, never advanced or delayed. He initially thought it was the neighbor upstairs, until one day he had the courage to open the door and poke his head out - the corridor was empty, the voice-controlled light was intact, but the light did not move when footsteps sounded, indicating that the thing making the sound was not within the scope of "voice control" at all. He installed surveillance cameras, and the playback showed that at eleven o'clock every night, a series of footprints would appear on the dust on the corridor floor. They would come from a distance, stop at the door, with the toes pointing inward, and then a series of reverse footprints would appear and leave. However, no "human" images were recorded throughout the process, as if the series of footprints were made by themselves. He checked the history of the apartment and found that this building was a hospice center fifty years ago. Three days before each elderly person died, the nurse would record their "last walk" - from the end of the corridor to the door of a certain room, and then back to the end of the corridor when their children came to visit. And the house he lives in now is the "visiting room" back then. Those footsteps are not ghosts, but all the old people who have been waiting here for the last time for their loved ones in the past fifty years, repeating the cycle of "walking to the door, waiting, and then walking back disappointed" day after day, and he just lived in that "waited" position. What made him even more devastated was that for the first time last night, there was an additional movement in the footsteps: he didn't stop after he reached the door, and there were three knocks on the door. He didn't open the door. But those three knocks might turn into six or nine tonight, until he couldn't help but pull the door open. I would like to advise everyone, if you hear regular footsteps in the corridor in the middle of the night, don't count the number of steps it has taken - if you count them clearly, it will know that you are awake!

43. 43 阴 The Yin-Yang Hot Pot Restaurant 阴阳火锅店 Yan Huo炎火Mystery806k WordsCompleted I took over a hot pot restaurant from my second uncle. He told me never to serve customers a yuan yang hot pot after midnight! After I took over the place, everything I believed in began to crumble... One night, I wasn't paying attention and served a couple a yuan yang hot pot. The next day, I saw in the newspaper that the couple had died! They'd jumped to their deaths together! After that, every night at midnight, a strange couple would appear in my restaurant and ask me to make them a yuan yan 1.3kReads7.7Score—Shelves

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    In terms of horror, it has to be Chinese horror, which is real and weird. It is immersive and is my top horror novel. Go read it and you will definitely not be disappointed!!! [Top post][Top post][Top post][Top post][Top post]

44. 44 九 Nine Dragons Carry the Coffin 九龙抬棺 Ninth Master九当家Mystery3.5M WordsOngoing The night of my grandfather's funeral, I carried a stone tablet at the front of the procession to lead the way. I didn't dare look back, because the eight evil spirits carrying the coffin were behind me... 11.4kReads9.2Score2.7kShelves

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    A must read of Three Corpses

45. 45 午 The Midnight Pawnshop: The Living Must Keep Away 午夜当铺，活人回避 Chong Xiayueban虫下月半Mystery4.0M WordsOngoing [Traditional Supernatural + Chinese Folklore + Unorthodox Trading + Tales of Evil Objects] No romantic pairing This is a strange pawnshop that only accepts sinister objects with special value! Coins placed in the mouths of the dead, executioners' swords, grave-top mushrooms, flesh lingzhi, Kunlun fetuses... Evil objects can harm people, but they can also help them! Once they pass through the pawnshop's hands, being pawned and sold, evil can be transformed into treasure! They can bring promotions 257.5kReads9.4Score22.1kShelves
46. 46 只 He Kills, Never Saves: This Taoist Is Wickedly Righteous! 只杀不渡，这个道士正到发邪！ Midsummer Is Coming仲夏将至Mystery2.1M WordsCompleted [Supernatural + Mazu + folk customs + deity processions + Guanjian Shou + yin-yang taboos] People in Fujian often say, “If the powers above won't agree, just ask Mazu.” Born with an extremely weighty fate, Lin Haien was conceived on Qingming and born on the Winter Solstice. He has a yin-yang constitution and a spirit-sensitive body. Lost souls and wandering ghosts torment him, all hoping to take over his body and replace him. To give him even the slimmest chance of survival, his midwife grandmot 109kReads9.2Score10.6kShelves
47. 47 三 The Language of the Three Corpses 三尸语 Luo Xiaoyang洛小阳Mystery1.1M WordsOngoing You’ve heard of people who died with their eyes open, but have you ever heard of a dead person whose mouth wouldn’t close? His grandfather’s death turns the life of a broke college student upside down. A corpse glares, a soul is hooked; a corpse opens its mouth, and disaster strikes twice. As one bizarre incident after another unfolds, he accidentally discovers that there’s far more to it than ghosts… 84.1kReads9.3Score15.7kShelves
48. 48 生 Rite of Life and Death 生死祭 The Fish Who Wants to Flyz想飞的鱼zMystery1.1M WordsCompleted One tail cries, two tails leap, Three and four laugh atop the grave, Five and six have sharp little fangs, Seven and eight are pretty as can be, Nine tails soar into the sky, Ten tails go back into the furnace. A strange nursery rhyme has haunted me for over twenty years. No one could explain what it meant, until a fierce-looking man barged into my life. He taught me skills, rescued me from danger, fought evil spirits and battled demons. I thought he was the benefactor fate had sent me, until t 92Reads7.7Score—Shelves
49. 49 借 Borrowing Yin Bones, Wife of the King of Hell 借阴骨，阎王妻 The Best Melon最好的瓜Mystery2.3M WordsOngoing To keep me alive, my grandfather threw me into a mass grave and buried me with nine stunningly beautiful female corpses. But he never expected someone to cut open my chest and dig out my bones, leaving me on the brink of death… 8.6kReads8.9Score878Shelves
50. 50 白 Selling Clothes by Day, Sewing Corpses by Night 白天卖衣服，晚上缝尸体 Night Shadow夜幽影Mystery2.7M WordsCompleted [Traditional supernatural horror, folk terror, decisive and ruthless] I rented an apartment where someone had died, hoping to save money, only to be plunged into endless darkness... My terrifying girlfriend has a mouth full of sharp teeth and haunts me day and night; A headless vengeful infant on the highway frantically tries to steal people’s heads; A horrifying internet celebrity livestreams herself peeling off people’s faces, while the comments turn eerie; At a Cat Immortal shrine in a strang 57.1kReads9.2Score7.8kShelves

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