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1. 1 恐 Terrifying Nightmare: Extreme Survival in a Bizarre World 恐怖噩梦：我在诡异世界极限逃生 Young Bear年轻熊Mystery1.2M WordsOngoing [Infinite-flow, mildly scary, no romance] Wang Yan wearily opened his front door. Inside, he saw the woman next door holding and soothing a baby, staring at him in terror. “Sorry, I’ve got the wrong apartment.” He quickly apologized and backed out, then slammed the door shut. Standing in the pitch-black hallway, he found himself unable to decide what was more terrifying: seeing his female neighbor in his home, or seeing the baby who had died long ago… 409.4kReads9.4Score77.7kShelves

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   I highly recommend the first book. It's the kind of book I only dare to read during the day; I absolutely refuse to touch it at night. Can you imagine listening to this book in the middle of the day? Would you still feel a chill down your spine? The plot is full of twists and turns, a battle of wits and stamina, every scene is like walking a tightrope, terrifying upon closer inspection. The male lead is incredibly intelligent and suspicious, but ultimately just an ordinary person! The second book is scary, but leans towards physical horror. The male lead is also incredibly intelligent, and it's an ensemble piece. This book has some scary elements, but I believe the male lead will survive to the end. The third book is a female ensemble piece that I really like. Four girls, each with distinct personalities, are exceptionally united. I think the scary part of this book is its plot, which discusses the well-known chaos within Korean K-pop. The plot is very interesting, and some descriptions are thought-provoking. These are the three books I've introduced. In summary, these three books all feature incredibly intelligent characters and have high ratings of 9 points or higher. Those who dislike stupidity can use them with confidence.

2. 2 骇EN Dread Night: Getting Rich in a Horror Game 骇夜：我在恐怖游戏里暴富 A-One Is Not A-Two阿一不是阿二Mystery710k WordsOngoing (The rating just came out and will rise later. Infinite flow + mild horror + original instances + no female lead) A tower stands in the eternal night, with a group of players trapped inside. They have to keep taking part in bizarre games to earn the food and supplies they need to survive. A killer in red embroidered shoes, a child with no eyes, a haunted mountain where an entire expedition team died... One deadly trap after another, with death around every corner. Players: “We're going to die, w 2.8MReads9.5Score587.2kShelves

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   You can bring this along; it gives you a chilling feeling down your back.

3. 3 我 I Smell a Ghost! 我嗅到了鬼味！ My Conscience Is Clear我心有无愧Mystery2.0M WordsOngoing [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 197.6kReads8.6Score14.4kShelves

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   These two books are great! The first one is well-written from beginning to end, and the second one gets better and better as it goes on! It started at an above-average level, but then it became absolutely phenomenal, incredibly amazing!!!

4. 4 我 My Mom Is a Spirit Medium 我妈是神婆 Boss Ling灵老大Mystery246k WordsOngoing My mom is a famous spirit medium for miles around. She never charges anyone for “treating” their illnesses, but this time she insisted on taking a billion yuan in incense offerings. She even used my life to save someone else for the money! A car haunted by ghosts, a hanged ghost, a walking fox, a house of the dead, a temple of evildoers, a ghostly maze... No one would believe what I went through that summer! (This story is completely made up for entertainment. If it sounds familiar, don't ask me 9Reads—Score—Shelves

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   Let's see how it goes.

5. 5 全EN Global Death Exam: Straight from the Execution Grounds to the Test Room 全球死考：刚下刑场你让我去考试 I Love Eating Cat Chips我爱吃猫片哇Mystery1.0M WordsOngoing [Tactical battles + mild horror + infinite-world adventure] The Deadly College Entrance Exam has arrived, dragging thirty million candidates into hell. The exam questions have been replaced with scenes from horror movies and disasters. Even staying alive is a pipe dream. Pass and earn rewards. Fail and be erased! Ten points earn ten million. One hundred points earn Tyrant genes. One thousand points earn the Apocalypse. Only ??? can make it out of this exam. To investigate, the military “ 1.6MReads9.3Score295.4kShelves
6. 6 我 Could I Really Get Canceled in a Rules-Based Horror Game? 我还能在规则怪谈里塌房不成？ Xi Yao喜杳Mystery2.2M WordsOngoing [Infinite-Flow + Rules-Based Horror + Horror Game + Strong Female Team + A Group of People With Questionable Sanity] Just before their debut, the group Shili belonged to was betrayed by a bandmate, who framed them for bullying. Their debut fell through, while the bandmate won netizens’ sympathy and relaunched her career to great success. To this day, Shili’s social media accounts are still flooded with abuse from the other girl’s rabid fans. As luck would have it, in the third year after the com 64.4kReads9.6Score7.6kShelves
7. 7 无 Infinite Escape: I Earn Rent Money in Horror Games 无限逃生：我在惊悚游戏里挣房费 Mo Sibei陌肆白Mystery800k WordsCompleted [Infinite flow + horror, suspense, and mystery-solving + strong female lead + team + plot-focused] [Ding~ Welcome, player, to the Survival Inn! Please do your best to clear the instances and earn your room fees~ We offer dormitory rooms, guesthouse rooms, hotel rooms, and more, as well as a top-tier luxury VIP club waiting for you to unlock~] A gloomy, blood-soaked compound A school crawling with death A cursed painting that brings death to anyone who looks at it An old village teeming with stra 21kReads9.3Score2.4kShelves
8. 8 阳 Getting Roasted in the Living World, My Fans in the Underworld Help Me Get Even 阳间被喷，阴间粉丝帮我找场子 Rehab Expert复健达人Mystery1.2M WordsCompleted [Funny and lighthearted + playing a ghost + scaring people and ghosts alike + horror livestream + no female lead + top-tier star of the underworld + reverse brainwashing + misunderstandings + ghostly illusions] Shen Si is an obscure actor who loves performing but has mediocre acting skills. In other people’s eyes, he’s a strange, awkward speaker with stiff limbs who crawls faster than he runs. One day, he receives a script and enters a supernatural film set. Here, his awkwardness is because he’s 14.4kReads9.3Score2kShelves
9. 9 一 I Woke Up with 40 Murder Cases on My Hands 一觉醒来：我背上了40起命案 No Joy无喜Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted Chen Xiao wakes up to find everything around him strangely unfamiliar. The only thing beside him is a diary. He thinks it might explain his current predicament, but as he reads, he begins to doubt whether its contents are real. It is clearly a record of crimes committed by “himself.” Just as Chen Xiao is about to read on, the piercing wail of police sirens downstairs jolts him awake, and he can't help imagining the worst... 30.4kReads9.3Score3.2kShelves

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   Let me just say, if it's not scary, come find me, okay? Ghost House is awesome! [Admiration][Cool] Don't believe me? Look at my reading time! [Cool]

10. 10 诡 A Strange Game Invades: Honey, I’m Coming to Find You 诡异游戏入侵，老婆我在找你了 Send Me Off to Become a Rich Lady送我当富婆Fantastical Romance394k WordsOngoing [Supernatural Horror + Two Powerful Leads + Horror Game Dungeons + Devoted Couple + Mild Horror + Infinite Flow + Mild Suspense] A newsreader’s polished voice comes from the television: “Recently, more than a hundred people across the country have suddenly vanished for unknown reasons, only to be found dead at the sites of their disappearance several days later. The scenes are horrific. Relevant government departments have urgently begun an investigation...” The real world has been overrun by th 11.4kReads—Score2.3kShelves

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    [Eerie + Two Strong Characters + Horror Dungeon + Two Clean Characters + Mild Horror + Infinite Flow + Mild Thriller] [Sparrow's Masterpiece][Sparrow's Masterpiece]

11. 11 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 2.5kReads8.9Score192Shelves

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    After reading the first story, I got goosebumps 😭😭

12. 12 黑 Dark Face Reading 黑相术 Old Dog of the Barren Mountains荒山老狗Urban2.5M WordsCompleted After I lost my sight, a matchmaker set me up on a date, and I met a girl. She wasn’t human… One night, as we slept, I touched her tail. 22.6kReads8.9Score2.7kShelves

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    I wouldn't dare read this book alone at night.

13. 13 惊 The Horror Realm: Entering the Strange World from a Psychiatric Hospital 惊悚领域：从精神病院进入诡世界 Tender Little Puppy香嫩的小狗Mystery1.5M WordsOngoing (The hardcover edition has been published!) [Infinite Flow] [Original Horror Instances] [Mild Horror] “Chen Ji murdered his mother a week ago and spent three days with her corpse before he was arrested.” “You have been diagnosed with schizophrenia and are about to be transferred to a psychiatric hospital for supervision.” “Do you have anything to say?” The black-haired boy before them slowly raised his head, his expression calm. “I’ll say it again.” “The thing I killed wasn’t my mother...” “It w 314.1kReads9.5Score58.8kShelves
14. 14 深 Midnight Nightmare 深夜噩梦 Idiom for the Deaf成语接聋Mystery986k WordsOngoing [Infinite Flow] [Hell Difficulty] [Original Dungeons] [Multiple Twists] Note: The dungeons are extremely difficult, so proceed with caution. The first two are only warm-ups. They say that “Ghost Eyes” can see a person’s “good and evil.” Wang Cheng was born with a pair of Ghost Eyes. But he discovered that this claim didn’t tell the whole story. Because Ghost Eyes can see more than people. They can also see cats, dogs, houses, mountains, and rivers… Or perhaps a strangely lifelike doll, or an old 193.6kReads9.4Score32.9kShelves

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    For thrillers, I highly recommend the first two. As a long-time bookworm, I usually don't pay much attention to them. But these two are logically brilliant. The latter two are more mainstream works.

15. 15 诡EN 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 711.1kReads9.6Score100.9kShelves
16. 16 惊 Thriller: I Became Excessively Twisted for Fear of Looking Ungraceful 惊悚：因为担心不优雅而过度变态 The Sound of Wind and Rain at Night,夜来风雨声丶Mystery2.0M WordsCompleted [Horror + No Female Lead] A bizarre game descended, pulling all of humanity into a strange world to complete terrifying missions. Fail, and you lose life points. When your points hit zero, you die! Zhao Yi, a renowned psychiatrist, was dragged into the game too, but some unknown glitch appeared in his data source code. And so, an abnormal human emerged, one who made every ghost and monster tremble in fear! The Crybaby Ghost: I just wanted to give him a side quest, but he chopped off my head! The 74.4kReads9.5Score8.4kShelves

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    For thrillers, I highly recommend the first two. As a long-time bookworm, I usually don't find them appealing. But these two are logically brilliant. The latter two are more mainstream works.

17. 17 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 3.5kReads9.1Score217Shelves

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    It's not just scary, it's terrifying! 😱 It had my heart pounding, so those with a weak stomach should be careful! 🚫 My palms were sweating and my heart was racing! ❗️❗️ The plot is so fast-paced and exciting, you can't stop watching once you start!

18. 18 深 Deep Fear: This Taoist Priest Doesn't Believe in Ghosts 深层恐惧，贫道不信鬼 All About Playing It Safe突出一个稳健Mystery145k WordsOngoing [Mild Horror | Infinite Flow | Supernatural | Ensemble Cast | No System] Zhou Heng was raised in the Daoist tradition. He knows ritual ceremonies and talismans, and he has also studied applied psychology. After years of driving away evil spirits for people, he is certain of one thing: there are no ghosts in this world. Possession, spirits knocking at the door, and the dead returning are usually illnesses, hoaxes, or worries the living refuse to acknowledge. Those who need a hospital should go to —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    This is my first novel. Looking forward to your feedback. Does it have a good atmosphere?

19. 19 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 5.4kReads9.0Score229Shelves

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    ❗❗These novels are amazing! They're high-energy right from the start, packed with Chinese horror, and the folklore and metaphysics are incredibly captivating. No romance, just pure thrills! You have to read them!

20. 20 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, 2.1kReads8.9Score176Shelves
21. 21 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 916Reads8.8Score108Shelves

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    🔥🔥Watch at your own risk if you're easily scared⚠️⚠️Zun Du is really scary. When I watched it, my hair stood on end. The chilling feeling made me afraid to even go to the bathroom. You'll know how terrifying it is once you watch it!

22. 22 让 You Hired Me to Collect Bodies, So I Dissected My Ex-Girlfriend 让你当收尸人，你直接解刨了前女友 Ye Wusheng夜无声Mystery4.6M WordsOngoing In anatomy class, the corpse turns out to be my ex-girlfriend... After that, I went through all sorts of unbelievable things. A bus that only goes up, never down, and runs straight to a reservoir. An old scholar tree in the hospital, lush with branches and leaves, that swallows people whole. A giant catfish by the Qingshui River, begging people for help every night. And a deadly brothel hung with human skin, open for business without end. It went on and on, as if it would never come to an end... 62.6kReads9.4Score2.3kShelves

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    It's really scary, the first one is the best, I followed it for a long time.

23. 23 诡 The Haunted City of Dreams 诡梦迷城 July Wife七月妻Mystery1.5M WordsCompleted [Manhua adaptation and high-quality live-action audio drama now available] [Infinite progression + mystery + mind-bending puzzles + supernatural powers + paranormal horror. No System, no harem, no brainless plot. Read with caution if these are deal-breakers.] When I woke up, everything around me had become eerie and terrifying. My dead roommate called me, repeating over and over the struggle of his final moments... A pair of slender, snow-white legs appeared mysteriously on a bed in the boys' do 41.3kReads8.7Score4.5kShelves
24. 24 午 The Midnight Funeral Shop 午夜白事铺 Old Friend from Qing Times清时故人Mystery2.0M WordsOngoing A secluded funeral shop, where a single stick of incense can sell for over a thousand yuan. It opens for only three hours a day, yet people still crowd its doorstep. Today, the funeral shop welcomed its first customer. A woman in a red dress, her face deathly pale. As the candlelight flickered, she cast two shadows... 7.8kReads8.1Score494Shelves
25. 25 4 Coffin Shop No. 44 44号棺材铺 Chong Xiayueban虫下月半Mystery2.4M WordsCompleted 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… 2.3kReads8.0Score267Shelves
26. 26 贫 I Use Chinese-Style Horror Dungeons to Scare the Whole World to Tears! 贫道用中式恐怖副本吓哭全球！ Falling in Love with the Wind爱上听风Mystery1.8M WordsOngoing [Chinese-Style Horror] [National Fate] [Thriller Game] [No Female Lead] [Global Livestream] [Mild Horror, Not for the Fainthearted] Lin Ye, a Taoist priest, transmigrates to a parallel world where the paranormal has descended. Every country in this world must create paranormal scenarios for other countries to challenge. The winners receive National Fate rewards, while the losers are punished. However, due to a gap in its horror culture, Longguo's scenarios are often cleared easily by other c 25.2kReads7.4Score3.3kShelves
27. 27 诡 The Haunted Tomb 诡坟 Sugar Quixote糖吉柯德Mystery2.2M WordsCompleted [This is no ordinary paranormal story. It's all about horror and suspense: no mindless wish fulfillment, forbidden yin-yang lore, no cultivation, and a ghost wife. If it's not good, you can break my legs.] People laugh at my family's poverty and say that all my blood relatives have died, so there must be a ghost in our house. I don't dare argue... because there really is a ghost buried in our ancestral grave! ...My name is Zhang Asi... I was born at four in the morning on the fourteenth day of t 40.2kReads8.8Score3.8kShelves

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    If you want to read horror novels, look at my reading time to prove their value.

28. 28 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 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 278.5kReads9.4Score24.3kShelves
29. 29 什 What Do You Mean the Corpses I Sew Together Are All Cursed? 什么叫我缝的尸体都是大凶之物？ Hidden in Poetry藏匿于诗Mystery1.7M WordsOngoing [Chinese folk customs] [Corpse seamster] [Traditional supernatural horror] [A clever protagonist who isn’t an idiot] My name is Chen Yang. I’m a mortician, or rather... a corpse seamster. I can sew up corpses no one else can. I can take jobs no one else dares to accept. I’ve handled all sorts of bizarre cases: people who jumped from buildings in red clothes, corpses missing arms and legs, and even one person who was holding their own head... Everyone says the corpses I sew up are all terribly un 212.3kReads9.1Score28.5kShelves
30. 30 恐 Horror: Death Comes at Midnight 恐怖：夜半索命 I'll Light a Candle Tomorrow Night明晚点蜡烛Mystery215k WordsCompleted I lived a routine life until the death of Old Chen changed everything. Beside his body lay a pile of handmade paper figures. One had been painted blood red and clutched in his stiff, dead hand. Blood-red words began appearing in the mirror: “Get out.” “He’s still in the building.” Then I received an ultimatum: his daughter needed a living substitute. Paper figures weren’t enough. Neither were his belongings. She wanted a living person in the building, someone warm and breathing. Tomorrow, at mid 19Reads—Score110Shelves

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    The first one is super scary, so those who are easily scared should be careful. The second one is a crime-solving book!

31. 31 往 The Rebirth Shop: I Handle Paranormal Cases at the Funeral Home 往生铺：我在殡仪馆处理灵异事件 I'll Light a Candle Tomorrow Night明晚点蜡烛Mystery301k WordsCompleted My name is Chen Yang, and I run a funeral shop called Passing On in the outskirts of the city. By day, I sell wreaths and make paper effigies. My business is with the dead. At midnight, I burn incense and light candles, dealing with the “unclean things” that the living would rather avoid. 348Reads—Score—Shelves
32. 32 特 Special Investigation Unit: Strange Cases, No Ghosts 特侦组：异案不诡 An Xia Chen Hang暗夏辰航Mystery398k WordsOngoing [Urban Legends + Hard-Core Criminal Investigation] Two nine-year-old students are found dead in a desolate mountain range, with not a drop of blood left in their bodies. A witness claims to have seen a vampire with their own eyes... A speeding car repeatedly runs down the children of wealthy families, yet the driver's seat is empty. The door opens by itself, revealing nothing but a rag doll sitting inside... At midnight, a beautiful woman appears in the river. Two night swimmers have their heart 579Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The fifth case is coming, currently being updated!

33. 33 乡 Strange Happenings on a Country Road at Night 乡间夜路诡事 Fan Xianran帆娴冉Modern Romance411k WordsCompleted As you walk along a country road at night, have you ever heard strange footsteps? This book collects a series of rural supernatural tales set in deserted villages and old houses, telling of eerie incidents passed down by word of mouth that no one dares investigate too closely. With no reliance on exaggerated descriptions, it uses details drawn from everyday life to send a bone-deep chill through you. —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The Strange Tales of the Countryside at Night: The Obsessive Master Mu Xue: The End of Ten Days, The End of Abyss. Ten days have passed, and Abyss reopens, turning the country streets into an endless purgatory. The obsessive master Mu Xue walks through the night, ghostly figures looming wherever she goes, the resentful spirits of the dead lingering. Desolate villages, old houses, lonely ghosts weeping in the wild, unsolved murders pile up, each step teetering on the edge of life and death. The fear of the previous work hasn't dissipated; the sequel adds even more suffocating oppression. The demons of the human heart are more terrifying than evil itself. The atmosphere is oppressive to the extreme, the strange events are intricately linked, and the chilling atmosphere is bone-chilling. Every page will send shivers down your spine. Read with caution late at night!

34. 34 那 I Heard of Strange Things That Year: Never Read This Late at Night 那年听闻怪事，千万别深夜翻看 Mumu Can't Sleep木木睡不着Mystery261k WordsCompleted These stories are adapted and fictionalized from various experiences shared by friends. They are written in an accessible style and make for a good way to unwind. A reminder: reject superstition. This is all imaginative fiction. Any similarities to real events are purely coincidental, so don't take it seriously! 12Reads—Score—Shelves

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    I'm even scared to go to the bathroom at night after seeing this.

35. 35 执 Obsessive Spirit Master: Muxue 执念师暮雪 Become a Flipping Salted Fish做个会翻身的咸鱼Mystery721k WordsCompleted I am Mu Xue, a grudge exorcist who walks between the realms of yin and yang. An ancient mirror reveals the demons in people’s hearts; a bronze bell awakens old injustices and buried hatred. A red-clad female ghost combs her hair at midnight. A murderous driver picks up passengers late at night. A ghost in the mirror dies in your place... Every ghost who refuses to be reincarnated hides a life that has been crushed to pieces. I don’t guide the dead to the afterlife. I only help them get justice 1Reads—Score—Shelves
36. 36 十EN Ten Days to the End 十日终焉 Pest Control Team Member杀虫队队员Mystery3.2M WordsCompleted 2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat 1.7MReads9.9Score209.2kShelves
37. 37 活 No Living People Allowed 活人勿近 Lang Jiuxin朗九心Rural Life2.3M WordsCompleted [Inspired by real events, but the setting is entirely fictional] [No cultivation] [Supernatural horror only] The countryside is different from the city. Rural areas are vast and sparsely populated, with too little human presence to suppress what lurks beneath the ground. That's why ghost stories and strange legends keep cropping up. Ask anyone from a village in Sichuan, and they'll have plenty to tell you about supernatural happenings in the mountains and fields in years gone by. Some people 94.7kReads9.3Score8.6kShelves

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    Book 1: A gentleman doesn't hold grudges overnight; I'll kill you that very night. Book 2: This is the real terror; those with a weak heart should proceed with caution.

38. 38 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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    The author of *The Ashtray* has such a high level of imagination; it's impossible to tell who the good guys and bad guys are. Basically, everyone's evil. The last few chapters even gave us a huge surprise – I was truly shocked and genuinely scared; I was even afraid to go to the bathroom! *The Haunted House* was really scary at the beginning, especially for someone with a vivid imagination like me; I could picture exactly what each ghost would look like. However, it got less scary later on, but so far, I haven't found anything scarier.

39. 39 无 The Final End of the Abyss: A Sequel to Ten Days to the End 无间终焉：十日终焉续章 Wang Yang Won’t Make Trouble王杨不闹Mystery167k WordsCompleted (No harem, no formulas, no invincibility, no System, no brainless plot, no wish fulfillment. Read at your own discretion.) When I thought it was just an ordinary day, I discovered I’d been taken to the Land of the End. When I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, everyone began awakening supernatural powers. When I thought this was a “place where gods are made,” everything instead started heading toward annihilation. Continuing the story in the original work’s “game r 41Reads—Score—Shelves
40. 40 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… 69.7kReads9.3Score10.8kShelves

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    I suggest not reading these two books at night; they're incredibly immersive. After reading them, I was too scared to go to the bathroom at night.

41. 41 短 Short Tales of Terror: A Collection of Strange Stories 短篇微恐：志怪故事集 Time's Gift光阴馈赠Mystery230k WordsCompleted Do you think the footsteps behind you when you walk alone late at night are just the wind? Do you think the unfamiliar object that suddenly appears in an old storage box is just something you forgot about? Do you think the blurry shadow that sometimes flickers across the mirror is just a trick of the light? This collection of strange tales has no blunt, bloody shocks. It is filled only with eerie everyday moments hidden in the folds of ordinary life. Each story stands alone, yet after you close 55Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The first book is the pinnacle of Chinese horror! The second book consists of short stories, each chapter with a different style, definitely worth reading.

42. 42 无 Infinite Haunting Realms: I Can See Through Lies 无限诡域：我能堪破谎言 The Civil and Polite Mr. Xue文明礼貌雪某Mystery1.2M WordsOngoing [Infinite Flow]+ [No Romance]+ [Original Instances]+ [Mild Horror]+ [Ghosts Kill People]+ [Ghosts in Every Real-World Instance] “Ghosts cannot be killed.” “Humans cannot fight ghosts.” “Ghosts each have their own rules for killing.” A mysterious letter. A door that leads to the unknown. When Li Yu opened the door, one eerie instance after another awaited him. This is the [Ghostly Domain], a world of vengeful ghosts! Will you die in confusion, or be reborn from a nightmare? 154.8kReads8.3Score24.8kShelves

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    Super incredibly amazing and visually stunning!

43. 43 我EN I'm Not a God of Theater 我不是戏神 Three Nine Sound Domain三九音域Urban4.0M WordsCompleted The brand-new masterpiece by San Jiu Yin Yu, author of Slay the Gods | Winner of the Best Science-Fiction Web Novel Award at the Macau International Science Fiction Awards | A Chinese grotesque epic that turns the tide of an era After a scarlet meteor streaked across the sky, human civilization ground to a halt. From that day onward, humanity could no longer build a rocket, a nuclear bomb, an airplane, a car... The pyramid of civilization built upon modern science collapsed with a thunderous roa 1.7MReads9.9Score183.1kShelves
44. 44 我EN Learning to Slay Gods in the Psychiatric Hospital 我在精神病院学斩神 Three Nine Sound Domain三九音域Urban4.3M WordsCompleted A must-read hit on Tomato Novel | Original novel of the hit anime Slay the Gods | IP influence on the China Online Literature Influence List | 2023 China Good Novel Have you ever wondered whether monsters from ancient myths lurk beneath the neon-lit city? Have you ever wondered whether gods stand watch over humanity atop the moon hanging high above us? Have you ever wondered whether extraordinary people walk among us in our bustling modern cities, acting in the gods’ stead? In the society ruled 1MReads9.9Score162.2kShelves
45. 45 异EN City of Beasts 异兽迷城 Peng Pai彭湃Urban3.0M WordsCompleted Gao Yang was an orphan. At the age of six, he transmigrated to a parallel world and began living in a warm family of five. When he turned eighteen, Gao Yang accidentally discovered the truth about the world: this was not a parallel world at all, but a mysterious realm, and all the relatives and friends around him were terrifying Beasts! Gao Yang nearly lost his life 473.6kReads9.7Score67.7kShelves
46. 46 开 First Day of School: The Teacher Dies Before My Eyes 开学：老师死在面前 Er Mo二陌Mystery1.5M WordsOngoing [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
47. 47 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!" 25.7kReads9.2Score3.4kShelves
48. 48 民 Old Tales of Strange Happenings 民间旧诡事 Gray Matter灰白质Mystery399k WordsCompleted The woman in red who knocks on doors late at night, the soul-binding bones beneath the locust tree, the copper-bell curse in an old house in an abandoned village... These old tales of the uncanny, scattered across the countryside, are the idle chatter of old folks and stories sealed away by time... 40Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Take a look at these two books, I recommend them.

49. 49 怪 Strange Tales Livestream 怪谈直播间 Chong Xiayueban虫下月半Mystery3.1M WordsCompleted 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! 13.8kReads8.9Score1.2kShelves
50. 50 我 My Wife Disappeared for Three Years, Then Called to Me from Under the Bed 我的老婆失踪三年，她在床下叫我 Wen Dingli温定理21k WordsCompleted My Wife Has Been Missing for Three Years, and She’s Calling to Me from Under the Bed 2Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Horror readable, guaranteed 1300 hours of reading time.

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