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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- 251 Walking Marriage 走婚 A friend took me out to clear my head, and we ended up in a village. Not only was the whole village full of women, it even had a custom called “walking marriages”… 115Reads7.8Score—14d adds
- 252 I Learn to Slay Ghosts on a Paranormal Forum 我在怪谈论坛学斩鬼 [The printed edition of Strange Tales Forum is in production] [The short drama adaptation of Strange Tales Forum is in production] Gao Shen joined a strange tales forum by chance. The forum often posts eerie stories, describing every detail so vividly that they seem to have really happened. Users who reply seriously analyze the source of each incident and discuss how to deal with it. They even address each other as Heavenly Masters, Soul Tamer 49.9kReads8.7Score6.4k14d adds
- 253 I Drive a Taxi, but I Don’t Pick Up Passengers, Only Female Ghosts and Models 我开出租不拉客,只拉女鬼和模特 Pan Mudan kept her lips pressed tightly together, not daring to make a sound in case her husband heard... I used to be a company driver at a steel mill. Then the company laid people off. I spent eight thousand yuan on an almost-decommissioned commercial vehicle and started driving a taxi. My friends all said I'd struck gold! Even without the air conditioning on in summer, the car was chilly inside! 6.4kReads8.9Score57714d adds
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After a Thousand Simulations, I Have a Speedrun Strategy for Escape Games 模拟一千次,我有逃生游戏速通法
[Print edition on sale February 21 at 7 p.m. Please show it lots of support!] [Infinite-flow + fast-paced + funny + invincible protagonist + no female lead + no angst for the protagonist] [Across the four streets, east, south, west, and north, ask around and find out who’s the boss] [Don’t compare yourself to others. Just look at you: who do you think you are?] The White Tower descends, and the entire world enters death-instance mode. Zheng Xun, bound to an infinite simulation System and forced
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Terror in the Desolate Village 荒村惊魂
I entered a village inhabited entirely by women. I thought I’d found a man’s paradise, but after a series of bizarre events, I realized things weren’t so simple…
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Thriller Game: Slaughtering the Entire Village from the Start 惊悚游戏:开局屠杀全村村民
[Romance + not overpowered + one female lead] A mysterious cloud suddenly appears at Jinghai City's Central Primary School in Gaojing. Ye Tianming's father, the head of the universe's number one meteorology team, hurries to the scene with the entire team. A man dies mysteriously in the mist. His son, Ye Tianming, arrives at the scene wearing a suit and tie. The boy's consciousness grows hazy. When he wakes again, he finds himself transmigrated to the day of the college entrance exams. A strange
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Terror at Three in the Morning: There's a Ghost Behind the Door 三更惊魂,门内有鬼
Terror at Three in the Morning: There's a Ghost Behind the Door
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- 258 The Headless Bone Sculptor 无头雕骨师 He is a bone carver who inherited secret arts passed down for a thousand years. He is the headless ghost said to haunt a legendary haunted house. Walking the line between light and darkness, he hunts down the culprits behind bizarre murder cases: the taxidermist who makes specimens from human skin, the murderous doll that whispers, the mushroom man lurking in the ruins, the ghostly face on an exam paper, the ice-sculpture lovers who will stop at nothing, the faceless demon who steals organs... J 901Reads7.3Score12314d adds
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The Bride of the Vengeful Ghost 猛鬼新娘
When I was sixteen, I rescued a woman who had been tricked into coming to our village, simply because I wanted to help. I never imagined that my actions would not only get the poor woman killed, but also lead to the deaths of more than a hundred villagers. And so my strange life began.
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- 260 The Impostors: The Whole World Is Fake, and I'm the Only Real Human 伪人:全世界都是假的,只有我是真人 Impostors: The Whole World Is Fake, and I'm the Only Real Person —Reads—Score—14d adds
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Ghost-Hunting Yin-Yang Master 捉鬼阴阳师
On the day I was born, the clear sky suddenly filled with lightning and thunder. A bolt struck a tree in our yard, and everyone in the village decided my birth was an ill omen. They all kept their distance. One villager accidentally offended me, and that night he mysteriously hanged himself. The body could only be taken down if someone knelt before me. On the day of his funeral, his brother died a violent death and the coffin fell to the ground. That was how the whole story began…
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- 262 The Corpse Keeper 守尸人 The morgue is where life and death meet. At this boundary, there are many taboos to heed. I grew up beside a hospital morgue, and I'll tell you about the hospital's taboos from a different perspective. Taboo 1: If you see a patient being resuscitated, don't gather around to watch. Taboo 2: If a patient's family throws away something the deceased used while alive, don't toss your own trash on top of it. Taboo 3: If you hear a cat meowing at night, don't go outside to look, whether you're a patien 891Reads6.3Score10214d adds
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Haunted House Mysteries 鬼宅诡事
Haunted House Mysteries
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- 264 Midnight Terror! Is There Someone in the Mirror? 夜半惊魂!镜里有人? A Midnight Fright! Someone in the Mirror? —Reads—Score—14d adds
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Anomaly Survival Guide 异常求生指南
[The Backrooms X rules-based horror X Cthulhu Mythos X infinite flow X wild imagination] No System, no leveling up, no harem. This handbook is designed to help you deal with all kinds of anomalies. We hope every investigator will survive and provide us with more useful data. Because of the existence of the gods, most life in the universe is subtly influenced by the rulers scattered throughout the galaxy. As the universe grew ever more prosperous, the rulers’ psychic projections created a space
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The Haunting of the New Home 搬家诡事
[Mystery + Thriller + Supernatural + Horror + No Female Lead + Smart Protagonist] His name was Yi Jibo. After he was wrongfully imprisoned, his mother fell ill and died. To pay off his gambling debts, his father sold her ashes to the Japanese through a crematorium driver. To get his mother's ashes back, Yi Jibo went to work at a Japanese funeral home. And so he burned Japanese corpses while searching for his mother's ashes…
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The Laws of Terror 恐怖法则
I don't know how I ended up in this world. Its structure is almost identical to the world I lived in, but its systems and rules for survival are utterly horrifying. If I told you about them, you might shiver with fear. Perhaps one day, you'll end up here too…
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- 268 Living Witness to the Strange 活见异闻 Grandpa had seen a ghost for himself. In the dead of night, he went behind the villagers’ backs to dig up a dead woman’s grave, and even stripped off her... 36Reads6.5Score—14d adds
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Surviving in a Supernatural World 存活灵异世界
[Vengeful Ghosts Revive + Horror Mysteries + No Female Lead + Supernatural Tales + Decisive and Ruthless + Movie Horrors Made Real] "The Ring," "Ju-On," "Friday the 13th," "Silent Hill," "Tomie," "The House Where Evil Dwells," "One Missed Call," "Mirrors," "A Nightmare on Elm Street" People have long suspected that the spread of urban legends might not be baseless after all, and that the rise of ghost stories was no fabrication either. When Chen Ze returned to the country once again, countless
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- 270 Tales of the Uncanny: Struggling to Survive in Silent Hill 诡异录:出生寂静岭的挣扎求生 [Supernatural + horror + suspense + mystery-solving + survival + a male lead with a surprising side] “Raccoon City to the left, Silent Hill to the right. You have to pick one. What would you do when you came to a fork in the road like this?” When Chen Lei woke up, he found himself in a supernatural realm called Silent Hill, surrounded by a group of strangers. An unknown force had stripped them all of their freedom. To uncover the truth and solve the mystery, they had no choice but to steel t 38Reads—Score—14d adds
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I'm Generous: I'll Give You Half My Soul 大方的我,灵魂分你一半
[Supernatural Mystery + Urban Fantasy] [Unmentionable Things Between One Man and Many Ghosts] [Not a Romance for Women! Don't Be Misled by the Title!] My summer job turned out to be helping Taoist Second Master cut souls loose and capture ghosts. Since then, a cool, aloof female teacher, a resentful young woman, a professional assassin, the wronged ghost of a cat… They’ve all moved into my body. Everyone says I’m stingy, but this time I’ve given away half my soul. That’s generous enough, right?
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Yin-Yang Eye Realtor: Selling Haunted Houses in Chongqing 阴阳眼中介:我在重庆卖凶宅
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
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South Road of the Haunted City 诡城南路
When the gods are dying! When the Buddhas and the Dao vanish! When ghosts sweep across the world once more! When the last city on Earth has fallen! As the last person on Earth sleeps, someone knocks at the gates of the entire planet...
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At Seven Years Old, I Was Chosen to Take Part in the Rules Horror Game 七岁的我,被选中参加规则怪谈
No female lead + national fate + eerie mysteries + comedy + unconventional ideas Lin Yuan transmigrates to Blue Star, a parallel world, and is chosen to take part in a rules-based horror game. From the start, he activates an SSS-rank talent. [SSS-Rank Talent: Ghostbane] [Talent Effect 1: Rules are completely useless against you. When you break the rules of a horror scenario, the corruption of its world has no effect on you.] [Talent Effect 2: When a creature in a horror scenario feels negative e
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The Maoshan Occultist 茅山诡术师
My name is Fang Gang. I was stolen the moment I was born. From then on, my life unfolded into an epic tale, as turbulent as it was mysterious.
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- 276 Are There No Gods or Ghosts in China? Chinese Horror Terrifies the World 华夏无鬼神?中式恐怖吓哭全球 [National-Destiny Livestream + Horror and Terror + Designing Scenarios] Bai Lang, a fanatical horror-culture enthusiast, transmigrated to a world similar to the one he had known in his previous life. The only difference was that the Dragon Kingdom had never developed its own Chinese-style horror culture. Instead, Western horror legends had captured the public imagination, with figures like chainsaw-wielding maniacs, man-eating sharks, and zombies. When the horror national-destiny arena descended 12.5kReads8.5Score1.2k14d adds
- 277 Horrifying! The Eighth One 惊悚!第八个 Horrifying! The Eighth One 38Reads—Score314d adds
- 278 Horror Gallery: I Paint with Urban Legends 恐怖画廊:我以怪谈作画 [Ghosts + Horror + Strange Tales + Thrills + Humor + Comedy + Mystery + The Supernatural + Urban Setting + No Female Lead (One Female Lead)] College student Xu Hancheng inherits the art gallery his missing grandfather left behind. But there’s something strange about the paintings in the gallery. A bloodthirsty, crazed beauty; a portrait of a girl with stitches around her neck; a nurse sculpture that makes your knees tremble... Every painting is an urban legend hiding countless secrets. To find h 517Reads8.2Score10214d adds
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The Haunted Shroud 诡寿衣
My family sells burial clothes. Every seven days, a woman comes to order a set. Only at the end did I discover she had been ordering burial clothes for all four members of my family.
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- 280 He Was Eating Noodles at a Roadside Restaurant, When He Found a Human Eyeball in His Bowl! 他在路边餐馆吃面,竟然吃出了人眼珠子! He was eating noodles at a roadside restaurant when he found a human eyeball in his bowl! 38Reads—Score114d adds
- 281 EN Ten Days to the End 十日终焉 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 1.7MReads9.9Score206.4k14d adds
- 282 Horror Tavern: I Only Raise the Most Ferocious Creatures 恐怖酒馆:我只养大凶之物 Tucked away in a quiet alley is a strange tavern that can grant your wishes, as long as you’re willing to set up a terrifying idol in your home... 6kReads9.4Score80414d adds
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Cosmic Horror Cultivation: I Can Reverse Time 克系修仙:我能逆转时间
(No heroine, no invincibility, no brainless protagonist, plot-driven, a protagonist who eats people. Things get really exciting after he breaks through to the Nascent Soul realm!) Ye Xiang transmigrates into a Lovecraftian cultivation world and develops an eye condition. The world he sees is unlike the one ordinary people see: perception turned upside down, Buddha statues made of insects. The Great Dao has vanished, towers of corpses float in the air, and two dark moons hang overhead. What is re
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Horrifying! The Haunted House That Claims Lives 惊悚!索命凶宅
After moving into a haunted house, I discovered the secret behind a murder. I'm a suspense writer. After moving into my new home, I discovered it was a murder house! I stumbled upon some hidden clues that seemed to point to rumors of a murder from years ago! At night, beneath the bright moonlight, I stared in shock at a horribly disfigured face! A woman's rotting corpse was hanging from a tree outside the window! A little boy in a black-and-white photograph, a dried corpse sealed inside a wall,
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Heaven and the Death Row Inmate 天堂与死刑犯
(Original instances, setting-focused, no mindless characters or formulaic tropes) A place where people live. This book has a rich setting, rigorous logic, and a complex world. It’s perfect for immersive reading, so enjoy!
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The Horrors Are Hard to Kill? Sorry, I'm the Truly Immortal One 诡异难杀?抱歉,我才是真正不死
This book has been signed for publication, so enjoy it with confidence. [Death Regression + Foreknowledge of the Future + Kill the Saintly One First + Dark Tone + Supernatural Resurgence] After accidentally transmigrating to a world invaded by the supernatural, Fang Xiu awakens the ability to return from death, also known as turning back time. Whenever he dies, time rewinds to just before his death. In this perilous and uncanny world, he could have laid low, but instead he chooses to announce to
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Execution Livestream: I Become a Clown and Harvest Emotions 直播处刑:我化身小丑,收割情绪
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- 288 Mildly Scary Stories 轻微恐怖故事 This book contains horror elements. Children under 12, seniors over 60, and people with heart conditions or mental illnesses are prohibited from reading it. Everyone else should consider carefully whether they wish to read it. 2Reads—Score—14d adds
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Apocalypse: The Whole Company Denies the Existence of the 18th Floor 末世:全公司否认18楼存在
[Apocalypse + No System + Reborn + Mystery + One Female Lead + Zombies + Hard Sci-Fi + No Mindless Decisions + Revenge] Reborn six hours before the apocalypse, Chu Yan has not only retained his memories of the future, but also mastered the ultimate secret of genetic evolution! He can become the most powerful god in the apocalypse! He frantically stockpiles supplies, builds weapons, modifies vehicles, and saves his parents, racing against time! He will kill his enemies with his own hands and turn
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The Supernatural Returns? I Rule the World of Black Rain! 诡异复苏?我在黑雨世界当主宰!
[System] + [no female lead] + [not a power fantasy] + [Thriller] + [conflict] + [Eerie Revival] Ye Jingshan grew up amid all kinds of eerie incidents. From the start, he was chased up eighteen floors by something uncanny!
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Rule Horror: Don't Look Back During 72 Hours in the Dorm 规则怪谈:宿舍72小时不要回头
A word of warning: this is terrifying, so timid readers beware. (No female lead, no cheats, no romance, game instances, infinite flow, horror, mystery) Eight university students who returned to campus early found a mysterious sheet of rules in their empty dormitory building: Rule One: No matter what strange “person” you see, don’t cry out or scream. Rule Two: No matter who calls you from behind, don’t turn around or answer. Rule Three: One of you is an impostor who will eat people in the middle
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Folktales of the Northeast: The Household Guardian Immortal 民间故事之东北保家仙
In folk tradition in Northeast China, people believe in household guardian spirits. Those who worship them receive blessings, and my job is to help people invite these spirits into their homes…
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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.
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I'm Broke, Why Should I Be Afraid of Ghosts? 我穷鬼,岂会怕鬼?
[Goofy] [Funny] [Irreverent] [Mystery] [Supernatural] [Hop in] [No System] [A fish that slipped through nine years of compulsory education] Wang Ling landed a job paying 18,000 yuan a month as a security guard at a private hospital. On his first day, he was left completely stunned! Each floor of the hospital's inpatient wing had a special passage enshrining one of the underworld's yin deities. The morgue even had butcher's knives inexplicably lying around. Wang Ling put up with all of that. Then
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Midnight Wonders 午夜惊奇
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
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Girls’ Dorm Rule Horror: Survive! 女寝规则怪谈:请活下去!
The Dormitory Girls’ Rules of the Strange: Survive!
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The Terrifying School 极度恐怖校园
As the best university in the city, this school admits only outstanding students. But it also has many rules that are hard to understand: no studying after eight o’clock, and no leaving your dorm room after midnight. No matter who calls to you from the corridor, do not answer... The protagonists in this story are all independent, but their countless connections eventually bring them together. What secrets does this school hold?
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He Watches You from the Abyss 他在深渊中凝视你
After a strange illness, Su Jingjing unexpectedly discovers that she can sense the emotions surrounding death. She thinks that becoming a police officer will help her overcome the nightmares caused by these emotions. But once she joins the force, she realizes it was all in vain. As cases continue to occur in City A, she gradually gains a new understanding of her “special ability,” and begins to suspect that the strange illness she suffered at the age of twelve was no ordinary illness. The killer
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Chinese-Style Horror Stories 中式恐怖小说
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The Midnight Gravekeeper 午夜守墓人
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
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