Horror Novels: The Scariest One You Know 恐怖小说,你知道的最恐怖的那本
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Tales of the Strange: A Joke 诡话连篇:玩笑
A deadly joke, with a truth far more terrifying than it seems. Behind the chills, there are no ghosts or spirits at work, only greed, jealousy, selfishness, or rage…
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A Security Guard’s Guide to Survival 保安求生之路
After a phone call and a nightmare, the ordinary life of Qin Yun, a lowly security guard, is turned upside down. He encounters one bizarre event after another, unsure whether the people around him can be trusted or the things beside him are safe. As dreams and reality intertwine, he searches through the unknown for a way to survive.
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The Yin-Yang Hot Pot Restaurant 阴阳火锅店
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
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Tianxuan Paranormal Affairs Office 天玄灵异事务所
- [Infinite Flow + Urban Supernatural + Chinese-Style Horror + Folk Legends and Hauntings + Celestial Master Exorcists + Heirs to the Daoist Tradition + Heterochromatic-Eyed Heroine + Haunted House Tales + Episodic Stories + Folk Taboos] - Hidden deep in the bustling streets is an inconspicuous supernatural affairs office called Tianxuan. - No one dares touch the folk taboos of this world. Haunted houses are plagued by unsolved horrors, abandoned villages and ancient mansions seethe with resentm
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That's Right! I'm a Psychopath 对啊!我就是神经病
(Infinite Flow + no heroine + horror and suspense + a touch of Lovecraftian horror) I, Ruan Xunwen, am a mental patient. One night, unable to sleep, I accidentally opened Door No. 13. Everyone in the world behind it looked like they were in much worse shape than I was.
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The Great Tomb of Ailao Mountain 哀牢山大墓
The Great Tomb of Ailao Mountain
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The Woman in the Red Dress 穿红色连衣裙的女人
The Woman in the Red Dress
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Strange Tales from the Civil Affairs Bureau (Complete in 8 Volumes) 民调局异闻录(全8册)
The Strange Tales of the Bureau of Investigation series creates an entirely new world of suspense: a mysterious organization dedicated to uncovering the truth behind bizarre, uncanny, and supernatural events, and the world it faces. The stories are wildly strange and utterly captivating, with a witty, playful style and one suspenseful twist after another. Once you start reading, you won't be able to put them down. Throughout history, strange cases and evil monsters have always been dealt with by
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The Strange World: Luckily, I'm Good at Exorcising Demons with Physics 诡异世界:正好本人擅长物理驱魔
[Infinite worlds + no System + horror + no national destiny competition + no livestreaming + bloodline + get stronger by fighting monsters] A mysterious door. A group of people forced to enter. Countless worlds overrun by the uncanny. Five years ago, his younger sister was taken by the Gray Realm. Wang Anle, who bears a Taotie tattoo, spent five years searching for her. He made his living exorcising spirits, until a chance opportunity finally let him enter the Gray Realm. Only then did he disc
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The Nine-Layered Supernatural Realm 九层灵异空间
“Welcome to the Ninth Supernatural Realm.” A black-clad bull-headed figure walked over. “Are you human or a ghost?” Ling Yun was caught up in a once-in-a-century “Heavenly Dog” swallowing the sun, plunging Earth into three days of darkness. When eight people awoke on the third day, the dimensions of space had changed, and they found themselves in the Ninth Supernatural Realm. Ling Yun was among them... “Escape. We have to get out. This is a world unlike Earth...”
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Hu Sheng's Strange Tales (A Supernatural Mystery Side Story) 胡生怪谈(诡事心异番外)
Hu Sheng's Strange Tales (A Strange and Uncanny Tale Side Story)
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My Job at the Horror Radio Station 我在恐怖电台任职这件事儿
[Folklore] [Supernatural] [Short Story] [No Superpowers] [No Rule-Based Horror] [Not a Wish-Fulfillment Story] [Not for the Faint of Heart] The author is working hard to make a living. If you enjoy the story, please show your support and help it climb the rankings.
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Phantom Echoes of the Sin Bell 罪钟幻响
The holy sword emerges, its light unseen; a dragon's roar shakes the heavens, heed not the evil. Golden scales sprout wings, a thousand changes unfold; blood stains the bell of sin before its phantom rings. These four lines of prophecy tell the fate of He Xun, the Demon Emperor. I was once the Demon Emperor of Tainted Blood who ruled the world, but after I was betrayed, I was imprisoned upon my throne and subjected to eight hundred years of endless slaughter. The exorcist saint Mo She killed me
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Seeking Life Amid Lingering Regrets 残念觅生
[Infinite-flow, rules-based horror, extreme escape, eerie games, no harem, no formula, no invincible protagonist, no System, no mindless plot, not a feel-good power fantasy] I’m a ballet doll, grinning as I watch them kill themselves. I throw people into “my” mindscape and lay out an inescapable path to their doom. But that lunatic Li Yu finds a loophole in every stage. I crank up the difficulty of surviving, but he uses game theory to beat me. I forbid him from speaking, but he has the whole t
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Grudge-Locked Patterns 怨气锁纹
Dai Xiaochao, the protagonist, is a college graduate in architecture from the 1990s. Under heavy financial pressure, he moves into a tenement building where a locked-room murder took place two years earlier. Surveillance was scarce in those days, so the police had to investigate door to door, and the case made little progress. Then the ancient Taotie jade pendant inherited by Dai Xiaochao’s family, along with its Taotie patterns, begins to react... And that is where the story begins.
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A Lonely Ghost Goes on a Blind Date 孤魂野鬼来相亲
A former top student returns to her hometown in disgrace and takes over her grandmother’s shabby, run-down matchmaking house. With a huge debt to pay off, she has no choice but to roll up her sleeves and get to work. Good grief! What kind of ghosts are showing up for these blind dates? The head of a ghostly date rolls right off. Terrifying-looking men and women ghosts want her to edit them into handsome men and beautiful women. Her best friend has been dismembered, yet still asks Su Yinran to fi
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The Disciple's Game 神徒游戏
The entire world is plunged into a terrifying death game, with 8 billion people taking part! A global battle royale for survival has begun! Only 12 of the 8 billion will survive! The survival rate is less than 0.00000000015%! Hospitals, schools, prisons... Any location anywhere in the world could become a death-game arena! Terrifying ghosts and monsters take part in the game alongside humanity! [Welcome to the Disciple Game] [Light horror + mind games + games + infinite-world adventure] (This no
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My Daughter Plays a Horror Game—and Exposes Me as the Ghost Emperor 女儿玩惊悚游戏,我鬼帝被曝光
A game of evil spirits has descended upon the world. People are randomly chosen to become playthings for evil spirits, struggling in agony! Even four-year-old Tang Xiaoling is selected! The youngest player in history, she enters the game of evil spirits! The livestream explodes with comments from viewers across the internet! A four-year-old toddler? That's just a snack for the evil spirits! But what shocks everyone is that Tang Xiaoling's father, Tang Long, tells her to treat it like a playgroun
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Escape from Hell's Apartment 逃离地狱公寓
[Pure Deduction and Escape]+ [Infinite Flow]+ [No Golden Finger]+ [Mild Horror]+ [Two Male Leads] No female lead, no items, no cheats, just pure adventure and survival. If that’s not your thing, please don’t read. Ever since Lu Chao accidentally stumbled into this apartment building, he has been on the run. Every so often, the residents have to go out to designated locations to complete missions. Their targets are all ghosts, and they can only survive by carefully following the rules of each mis
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Thirty Years on Maoshan 茅山三十年
♥ Don’t let the rating fool you, my book is top-notch! A feel-good story about a Taoist priest who descends the mountain to catch ghosts and drive out evil. No romance, no saintly do-gooder. Traveling far and wide to vanquish demons and uphold the Dao. No padding, no rambling, no romance.
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The Yellow Springs Inn 黄泉客栈
Legend has it that at the boundary between the mortal realm and the underworld lies an ancient, mysterious street called Banshijin. On it stands an inn known as the Reincarnation Inn. Any soul, be it human, god, demon, or monster, whose heart is gripped by an overwhelming fixation will come here after death and wander along this street.
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Weird Things, Don't Run! 诡异你别跑!
In a modern world where the paranormal is running rampant, how am I supposed to survive? Wait, the paranormal? Don't run!
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Tracing the Crimes of the Past Decade 十年罪溯
#The Pinnacle of Mystery and Deduction #A Mind-Bending Masterpiece #This Novel Kept Me Up All Night In the shadows of a bustling city, horrific crimes keep occurring: bones buried beneath a school playground, a “domestic abuse sculpture” inside an apartment building, and a bizarre death in front of a livestream camera… Lin Shen, captain of the city’s criminal investigation team, leads a four-person task force: the coolheaded, incisive forensic pathologist Su Mingxue; Ye Nan, a criminology profes
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Reincarnated as the Shadow, I Call the Shots at Pawnshop No. 8 身为黑影转世,八号当铺我说了算
After the great battle between light and shadow, the Shadow was reincarnated and the Bai family passed into the Dao. Shen Yinuo, the Shadow’s tenth reincarnation, awakens once more and takes over Pawnshop No. 8, an establishment that has existed since ancient times. Thus, the legends begin anew. Shen Yinuo: “Nine times out of ten, life doesn’t go as you wish. Come to Pawnshop No. 8! Every wish you have will be granted.” Pawnshop No. 8 accepts anything of value. Intelligence, luck, emotions, year
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The Hidden Pattern 隐秘之格
[Multiple Personalities + No CP + Single Female Lead] [Warning] Do you dare face the darkness within? Do you really understand your true self? An invitation, a dream, an unknown journey. Wu Xiaoai is an obscure mystery novelist. After receiving a mysterious invitation, she embarks on an unknown journey. But Wu Xiaoai soon finds herself caught up in a series of strange events. Her dreams and reality intertwine, and behind every mystery lurks a secret of unfathomable depth. Around every turn in
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The King of Face Reading 观相之王
This novel is complex and brainy, not a lightweight read. If that’s not your thing, don’t read it. Ensemble cast + mind games + the supernatural + climbing the ranks and getting rich + foretelling good and bad fortune + solving mysteries through face reading and divination. “I’d like to ask about my health using the character ‘six.’” “Certainly. The character ‘six’ looks like a person dismembered into several pieces, with the head separated from the body.” Why are some people blessed with endle
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The Horror Night-Duty Booth 恐怖值班亭
Back around the 2000s, I worked as a security guard at an apartment complex. The complex had a strange rule: [After midnight, do not leave the security booth.] It made no sense, but I always kept it in mind, until the day one of my coworkers died! That night, a woman in a skirt knocked on the security booth window…
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The Doll Grows Cold 人偶失温
Everyone says I must have done something virtuous in a past life for Qin Chuan to choose me. Only I know that's not the case. He married me because he wanted me dead.
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An Unremarkable Jumping Death Case 不起眼的跳楼案
My fiancé, who had been overseas for three years, called to tell me he was coming back the day after tomorrow. I went to meet him at the airport. On the way home, he proposed, and I said yes. But this morning, he disappeared again, because I had once more returned to the day he called me. I've already relived these three days seven times.
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The People Around Me and I Had the Same Dream 我和周围人做了一样的梦
I knew I was dreaming, but everything in the dream was strange. When I woke up, I discovered that my coworkers and I had all shared the same dream. It turned out to be a monster's trap.
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The One-Yuan Villa 一元别墅
Never believe that a windfall will fall from the sky. At 28, I was “hit” by a villa, but I don't have much time left. Now I have to find my next heir.
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Fish Woman 鱼女
My father was a famous fisherman in the villages around us. Whenever he went out to sea, he always caught more fish than anyone else. He gutted countless live fish, scraped off their scales, and chopped off their heads. Then one day, he brought home a sea fish as tall as a person, and the entire village came to gawk. He turned down a merchant's offer to buy it, killed the fish himself, and put on a feast for the villagers, serving every part of it. The banquet lasted all night. The next day, the
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The Secret of Dad's Death 爸爸死亡的秘密
When I was seven, my dad died. An accident sent me back to the 24 hours before his death. I did everything I could to save him. But I never could have imagined it. This time, the one who killed my dad was...
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After I Lost My Memory, a Woman Just Like Me Appeared at Home 失忆后,家里出现和我一模一样的女人
I've lost my memory. Since then, people have kept showing me all kinds of evidence and implanting all sorts of memories in my mind. But I feel like an outsider looking in on my own past, unable to relate to any of it. One day, I came home and found a woman fast asleep on the sofa. What terrified me was that she looked exactly like me!
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The Real Lunatic and the Fake Patient 真疯子假病人
In my dream, I thought it was nothing more than a dream. But when I woke up, someone beside me was lying on the ground, clutching their arm and crying out in pain. Now, I've dreamed of the crime scene once again.
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The Life-Extending Money 借寿钱
After a friend dies in a bizarre car accident, could a hundred-yuan bill inscribed with “Borrow your years to buy my life” really be a deadly curse? At the funeral home, he uses “life-borrowing money” to buy an urn, only to be haunted by the dead man's mother in a strange way. A talisman hides a sinister plot, and three life-borrowing bills appear out of nowhere at midnight! A locked kitchen, boiling water, knives falling for no reason... Who is controlling this deadly game?
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Paper Bride 纸新娘
Rumor has it that I tried to seduce the Lin family's young master, failed, and then killed him in the village's paper-offering shop. To save my life, I agreed to marry Master Lin, who had raised me for ten years. On our wedding day, Master Lin laid his hands on me. "Darling, did you know I've wanted you for many years?" Of course I knew. I'd been looking forward to this day even longer than he had.
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Lover in a False World 虚假世界的爱人
My wife has been acting strangely lately. She keeps pestering me, saying she wants me to stay by her side forever. I can't help finding it a little funny. "Of course I'll stay by your side forever and ever, honey." But whenever she hears me say that, her body stiffens noticeably. Then she goes back to her room alone and locks the door. No matter how I try to coax her from outside, she refuses to open it.
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Crimson Wish 绯红之愿
I bought a cursed object, hoping to summon a ghost and make a pact with her so I could go to the Ghost City and find out what happened to my missing master. The summoning went unusually smoothly, but the moment she appeared, the powerful yin energy pouring out of the magic circle sent me flying several meters and knocked me to the ground. She stood quietly in the middle of the circle, dressed in a bright red bridal gown and phoenix crown, with her red veil neatly covering her head and her hands
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Summer Vacation of Terror 暑假惊魂记
I can see things other people can't. I've never let it show. I didn't want anyone to think I was a freak. Until that summer vacation... Two classmates and I made plans to go swimming. I saw something in the water. I was terrified. But they insisted on going in, and I couldn't stop them...
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The Secret of Chaoxiao 朝校的秘密
In the village where my family lives, every household's first child has to be a girl. The day after their tenth birthday, these girls are sent to a place called Chaoxiao on the other side of the mountain. They say it's a paradise for girls. That is, until a black cat appeared in the village.
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The Secret of Chongcao Village 虫草村的秘密
“The cordyceps we raise are so fast, you can’t even catch them.” I was watching this funny video on a certain short-video app. Comments flew across the screen. Some people said the joke was hilarious, while others earnestly explained that cordyceps couldn’t possibly run fast. But I knew the joke wasn’t funny at all, because I had seen fast-running cordyceps myself. Perhaps “rabbit cordyceps” would be a more fitting name.
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Longevity Soup 长寿汤
When I was little, Liu Laoer’s family in the village made a living selling goat-horn powder. The powder came from the horns of female goats. Though those horns were short and slender, Liu Laoer would skin and butcher female goats alive right after they gave birth. Then he would cut off their horns and grind them into powder. He would add the powder to soup made with freshly slaughtered lamb. They said drinking it regularly could help you live a long life.
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The Silent Echo 沉默的回声
Five years ago, in Room 601 of Ningchuan High School, a girl was found hanged from a bathroom pipe. Her eyes bulged, her tongue was missing, and strange words had been written in blood on the mirror: “He… is back.” Five years later, the sealed cold case was suddenly reopened. Trainee criminal investigator Qin Chuan took over the investigation, never expecting that this bizarre murder would also uncover another buried case: the “South Campus Disappearance.” A deadly game of hunting, lying dormant
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Huizhu Village 慧猪村
My college roommate claimed she came from an ancient village called Huizhu Village. She said the village got its name because, from ancient times to the present, it had produced many high-ranking officials and top scholars, as if its villagers were born with pearls of wisdom. It wasn’t until she talked the rest of us in the dorm into visiting her village around the Qingming Festival that I learned it was actually called “Wise Pig Village.”
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The Death Inn 死亡民宿
On the first night after checking into the guesthouse, the owner died. But at midnight that same night, Lu Shou actually received a text from the owner. “Please be sure to follow the rules of the Deerhorn Guesthouse. Find the landlady’s dowry box before five tomorrow morning, and you can leave with the deputy manager, an orange cat.” “Otherwise, you’ll be stuck here forever.” Lu Shou broke out in a cold sweat, utterly baffled. “I clearly took his phone. How can he still text me?”
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Edict of the Mystic Eye 玄瞳敕令
[Chinese-Style Horror + Urban Cultivation + Livestream Fame + Ghost-Tormenting Face-Slapping + No Romance + “Easygoing Girl” + Episodic Story] My family runs a shop called the Worry-Free Pavilion, but our business deals with the realms of the living and the dead. One day, after delivering some clothes, I took a shortcut and stepped onto a long street where dawn would never come. A ghost wedding palanquin passed by, and ghosts roamed the night. I blended in, hoping to get home without drawing att
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The Immortal World's Top-Tier Star Reborn as the Real Heiress 仙界顶流穿成真千金后
[Top-Tier Star of Metaphysics in the Immortal Realm + Livestream Face-Slapping of Scumbags + Putting Green Tea and White Lotus Types in Their Place + Slight Everyone's Favorite + Exorcising Ghosts and Leveling Up Through Cultivation] Su Qintang, the top-tier star of ghost hunting in the immortal realm and a Golden Immortal of Primordial Chaos, was envied by someone and suddenly reborn as the despised real daughter of a modern wealthy family. On the night of the birthday banquet, facing the fak
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Help! What Do I Do When My Conquest of the Villain Goes Wrong? 救命!攻略反派翻车怎么办?
Amid everyone’s shock and contempt, Yun Daixi is forced to put on a pitiful, sweet-natured act, though inside she’s ranting like crazy. But Fu Jiuchuan, who has her trapped, suddenly fixes her with a dark, fathomless gaze. He repeats every word of her inner complaints, then whispers in her ear, “Your honest thoughts are far more interesting than your lies.” From then on, Yun Daixi’s quick transmigration journey goes completely off the rails. She thinks she’s diligently playing the sweet, schemin
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Lord of the Spirit Realm: From the Start, Bound to a Horror Short-Drama System 灵境主宰:开局绑定恐怖短剧系统
[Soul Transmigration to the Modern World + Cultivation Expert + Unhinged CEO + Demon-Fallen Buddhist Monk + Horror Short-Drama Instances + Yandere Villain + Love Rival Showdown] Li Xinghua, a Mahayana cultivator, was ambushed by a Buddhist monk who had fallen to the demonic path. Her soul transmigrated to the modern world, where she became a freshman at Huaqing University who had died from staying up too late. Stripped of her cultivation and stranded in an unfamiliar world with scarce spiritual
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