Horror Novels That Are Genuinely Frightening to Readers 恐怖小说（真正让读者感到惊悚恐怖的）
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- 551 The Landlord in the Wall, Watching Me Every Night 墙缝里的房东，每晚都在看我 The Landlord in the Wall Gap Watches Me Every Night 4Reads—Score—14d adds
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The Doomed Witness 绝命证人
What is evil? Anything born of weakness is evil! Fang Ya survived a massacre that wiped out his entire family. Nourished by the flowers that bloomed from the seeds of evil, he resolved to become a police officer. Ahead of him lay countless baffling cases: A murder in a locked room at a wealthy family’s estate, a deranged artist who kills, a deadly game of love, a killer who hovers at the boundary between life and death to carry out euthanasia, the vicious crimes of a social group whose members a
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- 553 Code of the Crime Scene 凶案密码 [Mystery + criminal investigation + dark themes + horror + human nature + crime + serial murders + social issues] This collection brings together five books in the Case Code series: Case Code, Echoes of Death, Vested Interests, The Black Corpse Mystery, and Sleepless Murder Island. Mutilated bodies in the city center, prisoners in a cellar, and urban mysteries return as a veteran cop unravels the truth behind the crimes. A classic crime procedural! The city is shrouded in criminal conspiracies, 41.4kReads9.5Score5.1k14d adds
- 554 My Dead Husband’s Memo: Don’t Look Back, Honey 亡夫备忘录：老婆别回头 Widow's Memo: Don't Look Back, Wife 3Reads—Score—14d adds
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My Midnight Livestream Room 我的午夜直播间
An unconventional livestream. A turning point in fate. Welcome to the Midnight Livestream. Here you'll find not only expedition streams unlike anything you've ever seen, but also a place where souls are kept in captivity, beyond anything you could imagine.
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- 556 She Came Back After I Tore Up My Dead Wife's Photograph 撕碎亡妻遗照后，她回来了 After She Tore Up Her Late Wife’s Portrait, She Came Back 24Reads—Score—14d adds
- 557 I’m an Actor in a Horror World 我在恐怖世界当演员 [Infinite Loop + Death Games + Horror Worlds + Original Scenarios + No Female Lead] (The protagonist has limits he won’t cross + System (mostly useless) + Items + The protagonist isn’t superhuman) If you were asked to act in a real horror movie, would you be willing? Guan Long is one lucky guy: he was chosen to take part in one terrifying film after another. There’s the bizarre rest stop on the highway, another “floor” that suddenly appears on a rooftop, and eerie voices calling from elevators, 623Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 558 Heimu Creek: Bloodstained Human-Skin Paper Spat Out in the Dead of Night 黑木溪：深夜吐出的带血人皮纸 Blackwood Creek: Bloodstained Human Skin Paper Spat Out in the Dead of Night —Reads—Score—14d adds
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Terrifying, Twisted Dreams 诡梦惊谲
A Chilling, Bizarre Dream
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Please Kill Me Before I Wither 请在我凋零前杀了我
A series of bloody cases unfolds around the struggles of three women from the lowest rungs of society. Poverty-stricken families are like a curse, twisting into a cold, terrifying chain that follows them like a shadow and weighs heavily on the whole family. Will fate offer them a key to break the code? Can Shu Yunyan, Chen Xuanlan, and Chen Jingyun break the chain that passes misfortune down through generations, find redemption, and escape the tragic paths laid out for them? “Officer Peng, this
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- 561 I'm a Haunted House Sleep Tester 我在凶宅当试睡员 I worked for a real estate company, but later I was transferred to another department. I never expected to encounter something terrifying on my very first day... 5.5kReads8.8Score58314d adds
- 562 The Fox of Dust and Tumult: A Fated Bond in the Mountains and Seas 尘嚣仙狐山海缘 [Urban + Xuanhuan + adventure + growth + demonic beasts] No transmigration, no reincarnation, no golden finger. Only yin and yang, mutual generation, opposition, and fusion. And the integration of quantum technology with ancient metaphysics. After an ancient upheaval, “we” were no longer just “us.” “They” were hidden beneath the surface. The ordinary man Qin Yan was drawn into it by accident. “The Coffin of Heaven and Earth”? A fictional world, exploring the unknown and searching for the truth. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 563 Is Someone Hiding in Your Ceiling? 你家天花板有没有藏人？ Is Someone Hiding in Your Ceiling? —Reads—Score—14d adds
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Legend Management Bureau 传说管理局
(No harem, no formulaic plot, no invincibility, no System, no brainless decisions, and no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if any of that bothers you.) Du Yu dies an untimely death right at the beginning of the story. Hoping to secure a better spot in his next life, he takes a job with the Bureau of Legendary Tales. His job is to return to legends that have gone off course and put their plots back on track. He never expected that the first mission assigned to an ordinary mortal like him would
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The Demon in the Coffin 至棺重妖
The new novel, The Fragrance of the Living Dead: Handling Ghostly Affairs Among the Living, is now being serialized. The excitement never stops, with new chapters every day. If you enjoy it, please support the author, Ye Wei. Thank you all! [Mystery + Horror + Supernatural + Folk Tales of the Strange + Female Ghosts + Monsters + Mountain Spirits + Corpses] This is a strange little village hidden deep in the mountains... Ever since he was nine and encountered the dead rabbit crouched on his windo
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They Reported Me for Child Abuse, but When the Police Broke In, They Found I'd Never Even Been Married 举报我虐待儿童，警察破门却发现我连婚都没结
They reported me for child abuse, but when the police broke down the door, they discovered I wasn't even married
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Tales of the Unextinguished Lights 不熄灯异闻录
More chilling than ghost stories, these tales recount the uncanny happenings secretly passed down by our elders! Children will be too scared to walk alone at night after hearing them, and adults will want to pay their respects to their ancestors. This is a book of taboos that the village elders tried to keep from being written! This collection of short stories features folk horror, supernatural mysteries, thrillers, legends, strange tales, and fantasy from across China and around the world.
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- 568 Fortune-Swapping Red Envelopes: Why Is Every Transfer Just 0.01 Yuan? 借运红包：每次都0.01元？ Fortune-Sharing Red Envelopes: Why Do I Get Just 0.01 Yuan Every Time? —Reads—Score—14d adds
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Tales of Folk Taboos 民间禁忌杂谈
A pig butcher never slaughters a pig with five toes. The village guardian never guards a village with a temple. A feng shui master never selects a lair of an evil dragon. A midwife must wash her hands in rooster’s blood. There are three hundred and sixty trades in the world, and every one has its rules. Are these ancient, mysterious rules really nothing more than empty formalities? If I told you that some rules must never be broken, because breaking them means death, would you believe me?
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- 570 Older Woman, Younger Man: His Suffocating Love 姐弟恋：他让我窒息的爱 May-December Romance: His Love Leaves Me Gasping 1Reads—Score—14d adds
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Strange Happenings? I Just Don't Believe in Them 诡事？我就是不信
When you are half-convinced and half-doubtful, they will appear right before you. Do you want to survive? Then hold firmly to your beliefs. Tell yourself that there has never been anything dirty in this world.
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Journey Through Hell: Northern Myanmar 地狱行之缅北
Synopsis: You think places like Muse, Kokang, and Wa State in northern Myanmar are hell? Heh. The real hell is hundreds, even thousands of times more terrifying! Myanmar is vast, and northern Myanmar isn't the only hell there! You've watched those online videos about northern Myanmar and think the methods shown are cruel enough? You have no idea. Their worst methods are far beyond that! They are more terrifying than demons who devour people without a trace. From the day I was tricked and lured i
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- 573 A Life Borrowed from the Yin Realm 借阴命 To keep me alive, my grandfather borrowed someone else’s life for me. Years later, that person’s descendants came seeking revenge... 190Reads7.2Score—14d adds
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A Haunted House to Die For 鬼宅心慌慌
I'm an ugly woman. For the past nineteen years, I've lived with a deep sense of inferiority. That's why I didn't want to live anymore. But fate had other plans: not only did I survive, I became beautiful. It's just that the price has led me step by step into an abyss...
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- 575 I Was Reported for Chopping Meat at Midnight, but When the Police Arrived, They Found Out I Don’t Even Have a Kitchen 举报我半夜剁肉，警察上门却发现我连厨房都没有 They reported me for chopping meat in the middle of the night, but when the police showed up, they found out I don't even have a kitchen. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 576 Buried in the Well 井葬 [Supernatural + strong female lead + exorcism prodigy] A well serves as a coffin, burying an unknown body. My job is to carry corpses out of wells and keep the wells from coming "alive." *The male lead is just a background character 98Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 577 Tomb of the Living 活人墓 The village needed a new road, so they had no choice but to demolish a grave. After that, one strange thing after another began happening in the village... 52Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 578 Someone Spat on the High Heels Outside My Door, So I Installed a Camera and Discovered... 门口高跟鞋被吐痰，我装上监控发现…… Someone spat on the high heels by my door. I installed a security camera and discovered... —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 579 The Astonishing Female Coroner 惊华女仵作 [One-on-one, mutual devotion, ultra-sweet romance] A modern forensic doctor lands at an ancient crime scene and is branded a murderer by the Dali Court! To clear her name, sociable go-getter Wen Yu clings to Gu Yan, the powerful and influential minister of the Dali Court, while examining corpses and solving cases, all to secure herself a steady living... Who could have guessed her powerful patron would be so ruthless and capricious? His signature talent is making a small problem into a big one, 4.5kReads9.2Score68714d adds
- 580 Southeast Asia Trip: The Day I Rescued My Mistress, My Wife Died 东南亚旅行：救回小三那天，妻子死了 Trip to Southeast Asia: The Day I Rescued My Mistress, My Wife Died 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 581 Snake Immortal 蛇仙 [The animated series Seven Days of Snake Entanglement is now streaming] My name is An Xin. On the day of the “Azure Dragon Wedding,” my great-grandfather killed a green snake and a white snake. The villagers said they were about to grow horns, transform into flood dragons, ascend, and become snake immortals. The night I was born, my grandfather knelt in the Snake Temple all night before my mother could give birth to me. He died in the temple. Ever since I was little, a snake has appeared in my d 5.2kReads9.3Score1k14d adds
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Fox Calamity 狐 祸
I’ve had a strange constitution since childhood, and nightmares often torment me in the middle of the night… In my dreams, a fox is always watching me, saying I’m his wife! To keep me from being afraid, my grandfather brought home an unknown statue of Buddha. After I turned eighteen, the statue cracked, and a woman in red burst into our house, bringing me face-to-face with the fox from my dreams. Grandfather said that people like us are all his pets… And I’m the one with no hope of escaping…
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- 583 My Husband Heated Soy Milk for Me, So I Fed Him a Dose of Herbal Medicine 老公给我热豆浆，我给他喂药汤 My husband warms soy milk for me, and I feed him medicinal soup. —Reads—Score—14d adds
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Fifth Watch 五更
The stories my grandpa used to tell me were probably meant to scare me into staying put, or maybe to lull me to sleep. He always told them with such conviction and vivid detail that I often found myself dreaming of the very scenes he had lived through. I met the old flower-growing woman on Yinshan Mountain, and one villager after another from Sangen Village. Their faces were gloomy and strange, and their deeds served as a warning, reminding us that “the gods are watching from three feet above yo
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- 585 On the Day the Whole Village Feasted, I Stole the Human Traffickers' Bitcoin 全村吃席那天，我偷走了人贩子的比特币 On the day the whole village gathered for a feast, I stole the human trafficker's Bitcoin. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 586 The Grave Relocation Master 迁坟师 You've heard of yin-yang masters, fortune-tellers, and feng shui masters. But have you ever heard of a grave relocation master? Do you know how relocating a grave can affect the deceased's descendants? My name is Chen An, and I'm a grave relocation master. I've spent my whole life dealing with graves and bones. I've seen clients strike it rich after relocating a grave. I've seen clients rise to high office after relocating a grave. I've also seen clients whose entire clan died out after relocati 10.5kReads9.0Score91514d adds
- 587 A Wealthy Family’s Live-In Son-in-Law Schemes to Take My Billions, but I Lie Still and Beg Him Not To 豪门赘婿谋夺亿万家产，我躺着不动求他不要 My wealthy son-in-law is plotting to seize a fortune worth hundreds of millions. I just lie back and beg him not to. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 588 Hearse 灵车 A hearse is a vehicle used to transport coffins or urns. You could also call it a vehicle exclusively for the dead. I was a bus driver for four years, and for all four years I kept a secret bottled up inside. Now I'll tell you firsthand about the terrifying things that happen on trains, things you don't know about. Maybe you've never heard of hearses being converted into buses, but the buses you've ridden may not have carried only the living... 1.5kReads8.0Score14114d adds
- 589 My Fortune Was Borrowed: Why Do I Get Only 0.01 Yuan Every Time I Grab a Red Packet? 财运被借：抢红包每次都0.01元？ My fortune has been borrowed: Why do I only get 0.01 yuan every time I grab a red envelope? 1Reads—Score—14d adds
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Disciple of the Maoshan Sect 茅山门徒
A strange antique shop where the owner uses his ghostly eyes to appraise treasures and spends a fortune buying ghost bones! Think the owner only knows how to appraise antiques? Think again. He can read beautiful women, too! The domineering female CEO, the hottest star, an unconventional beauty, the pure-hearted campus belle, the girl next door… He can see right through you with a single glance!
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Infinite: The Strange Realm 【无限】诡异境界
(Note: Infinite-world story, no female lead, no System, not invincible, not stupid, not a wish-fulfillment novel) Welcome, everyone, to the Cycle of the Haunted Realm. Here, you’ll be thrown into an unexpected “death trap.” The only thing you can do is solve it and escape with your life. When I regained consciousness, I found myself in a terrifying cemetery! It was pitch-black, so dark I couldn’t see my hand in front of my face. Only a faint light fell on the graves. I was holding a shovel, and
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Chronicles of Strange Folk Tales 民间怪谈事件录
Not for the faint of heart! Not for the faint of heart! Not for the faint of heart! The 1980s and 1990s saw one bizarre incident after another in Jubao Village: Zhao Laohei, who rose from the dead at the execution ground... The woman who hanged herself in town, her whole face turned a purplish black... The ghost child encountered during a game of hide-and-seek on the Ghost Festival... The terrifying bamboo fiend in the old bamboo grove... People and ghosts playing cards in a yin-yang card game..
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- 593 Ghost Stories by Night 鬼话夜谈 The story follows Chen Xingchen and Jiang Chuyan, who grew up together in a village. They hear tales of the supernatural from the village elders and experience a number of eerie events themselves. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 594 My Best Friend Is Pregnant with My Husband’s Child? I Couldn’t Be Happier! 闺蜜怀了老公的孩子？我高兴坏了！ My best friend is pregnant with my husband's baby? I'm over the moon! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 595 Reverend, Stop Pretending. I Know You Can Use Immortal Arts 道长别装了，我知道你会仙术 At Zhongnan Mountain, people knew only that it was home to the Quanzhen Sect. Few knew that at its foot stood a dilapidated Taoist temple. That day, the people of Gujing Temple burst onto the scene. From then on, their name would resound throughout the land! 185.7kReads9.2Score13.6k14d adds
- 596 The Unlucky Heavenly Master Walks the Mortal World 冤种天师走人间 The Maoshan Celestial Master holds yin and yang in check, slays ghosts, banishes demons, and dispels ill omens. A three-foot peachwood sword, a stick of incense for virtue! My fate is unusual: I court death but never die, so my master took me in as a disciple and taught me the secret arts of Maoshan. After descending the mountain, I met a beautiful older girl I knew as a child, and she led me down a road of no return. A beauty in an ice coffin, a snow-mountain witch, a fox spirit beneath the moo 714Reads7.4Score10114d adds
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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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- 598 A Child Screamed Next Door for Hours. When I Called the Police, They Found Nobody Living There?! 隔壁孩子惨叫几小时，我报警发现无人居住？！ A child next door screamed for hours. I called the police and found the place was unoccupied?! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 599 The Ghost Banquet 鬼禁食 A glutton's feast: can it really eat anything at all? Open wide, and nothing is off-limits? When you're indulging in wild game, have you ever felt a hint of murderous intent behind you... 29Reads—Score—14d adds
- 600 I Heard a Woman Screaming Next Door. When I Called the Police, They Found Three Years' Worth of Dust 隔壁传来女人惨叫，我报警发现积灰三年 A woman’s screams came from next door. I called the police, only to find three years’ worth of dust. 84Reads—Score—14d adds
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