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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One Goal: Stay Alive 唯一目标:活着
(Survival + high intelligence + deduction + no saintly protagonist + mild horror. Read with caution if you’re sensitive to these elements.) A stream of fire pierced the atmosphere and struck the ground. In an instant, the world was plunged into chaotic darkness, and the buildings of civilization people had once taken pride in became lifeless ruins. Yet among the ruins, one building alone remained standing, like a watchtower surveying all the darkness. Beneath the apocalypse, strange phenomena we
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- 402 After My Shadow Disappeared, the Evil Thoughts in the Mirror Forced Me to Deliver Takeout to the Underworld 影子消失后,镜子里的恶念逼我给地府送外卖 After My Shadow Vanished, the Evil Thoughts in the Mirror Forced Me to Deliver Takeout to the Underworld 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 403 My Years as a Yin-Yang Master 我当阴阳先生那些年 An entanglement of karma inherited from my ancestors and an ancient, wondrous book made me a Yin-Yang Master. From that day on, burdened by the curse of the Yin-Yang Master, I embarked on a path of slaying demons and suppressing ghosts. 3.8kReads8.2Score35214d adds
- 404 The Age of Declining Dharma: From the Start, I Blood-Sacrifice and Refine Corpses on Hong Kong Island! 末法时代:开局在港岛血祭炼尸! In the age of declining magic, all arts have vanished, and cultivating the Dao is harder than reaching the heavens! In his previous life, Zhao Shan was a great demon of the unorthodox path. Reborn in 1990s Hong Kong, he discovers that this is still an age of declining magic. The orthodox sects are a dead end, and the unorthodox schools are no better, so he has no choice but to keep following his own wicked path. But gradually, he realizes that something about this world seems a little off. On Do 63.7kReads8.6Score5.6k14d adds
- 405 Ancestor Worship in Lingnan: Great-Grandpa, Great-Grandma, We've Come to Visit You 岭南拜山祭祖:太公太婆我们来看你们了 Ancestor Worship in Lingnan: Great-Grandpa, Great-Grandma, We’ve Come to Visit You 1Reads—Score—14d adds
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The Rotten-Flesh Buddha 烂肉佛
Things get interesting when all the good people receive the punishment they deserve. A mass of rotting flesh crawls with maggots. The maggots raise their heads and look at Chou Zhengchu. “Chou Zhengchu, what do we look like to you?” “You look like Buddha to me!”
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Why Pick a Fight With Him? His Wife Is the Strongest Ghost Empress 你惹他干嘛,他老婆是最强鬼皇
[Reborn before the game + game and reality merge + contracting ghosts + stockpiling supplies + seizing the initiative + decisive killing + revenge on a scheming girlfriend + saintly heroine dies] The peaceful Earth was shaken by an eerie apocalyptic online game, which merged with the real world. In an instant, countless people were slaughtered. Lin Haoran was ambushed and killed by the woman he loved most and his brother, then devoured by a horde of ghosts. Unexpectedly, a mysterious ghost broug
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- 408 I Was a Ghost Officer, but Now I Only Want a Promotion 身为鬼差的我,后来只想升官 I wield the Register of the Underworld as a ghost officer, commanding the power to seize souls. Everyone says the King of Hell is the supreme ruler of the netherworld, but to me, he is merely a stepping stone. The underworld is vast, and the Nine Hells are deep. Is that really the limit of my ambition? I want to break the Nine Hells’ shackles, shatter the chains between yin and yang, ascend to the realm of the Great Emperor, and rule the netherworlds of all realms. Only then will my lifelong wis 33Reads6.0Score—14d adds
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Ghostly Eyes 鬼灵瞳
A reclusive man known as Little Master, along with several strange people brought together by coincidence but united by their shared interests, gradually uncovers a history buried for many years: the five great clans of the ancient world and the Yin-Yang adepts who could do anything. It seems that fate has long been leading them into one thrilling fantasy adventure after another...
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I Became a Sensation Worldwide by Livestreaming Fortune-Telling 我靠直播算命,火爆了全世界
[Reborn + livestreaming + fortune-telling + ghost-hunting + episodic stories + satisfying revenge + punishing evil and promoting good] When she opened her eyes, metaphysics master Ye Ling discovered that she had been reborn! Her host was not only a social-phobe, but also had a mother with terminal cancer, an older brother who had never married, and an honest, simple father. To pay for her mother's treatment, find a wife for her brother, and give her family a better life, Ye Ling decided to retur
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Plenty of Stories at the Funeral Home 殡仪馆里故事多
Ever since Lin Yu took a job driving a hearse at a funeral home, his life became anything but ordinary. He and his friends went through all kinds of bizarre, inexplicable events together. Vengeful spirits possessing people, a dead infant in a pot, opera singing in a graveyard... No one knew what would happen next.
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The Living Burial Mound 活人坟
Never let an unfamiliar woman into your car! Especially at night! Because the person you meet... might not be alive!
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- 413 Four-Year-Old Darling: One Kick Sends the Villainous Brother Flying 四岁小奶包:一脚踹开反派哥哥 [Adorable Baby + Beloved by All + Regretful Brothers Chasing Their Sister + Showbiz + Villainous Powerhouse + A Touch of the Supernatural] Zuo Yi was the long-lost biological daughter the Zuo family had finally managed to bring home. Yet her brothers thought she was a scheming little green tea, and bullied her at every turn to protect their precious, pampered Zuo An'an. The little girl didn't mind. She followed her powerful older brothers around like a lovesick puppy. Then one day, the fake heir 297Reads9.4Score10314d adds
- 414 A Red-Clad Female Ghost Knocks to Claim My Life. I Open the Door, Thrilled 红衣女鬼敲门索命,开门我兴奋了 The red moon rises! Ghostly energy returns! In the middle of the night, someone keeps knocking on the door of the campus beauty next door. Ning Chen curses in vain, then opens his door and steps out. To his surprise, a red-clad female ghost is knocking to claim the beauty’s life. Luckily, he activates the Supernatural Choice System. 1. Pretend you didn’t see her, go back inside, and lock the door tight, letting the red-clad female ghost claim the beauty’s life! Reward: a ghost-repelling constitu 7.1kReads8.9Score55914d adds
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Folk Feng Shui Secrets 民间风水秘术
This story focuses on practical feng shui and fortune-telling. If you're looking for made-up drama, this isn't for you! Feel free to skip the first four chapters and start reading from Chapter Five. The adaptation will also start from Chapter Five, which should make it much easier to adapt. Thank you for understanding! (Traditional, no System, no wild flights of fancy, funny, not saintly! A technical, skill-focused story!) I was born in a poor mountain village. From a young age, I traveled aroun
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Painting Yin and Yang with a Single Stroke 一笔绘阴阳
As I gazed down the shadowy corridor and across the empty hall, the strange order of light and darkness stirred a fear of the unknown deep inside me. The elders always said, “The ancestral hall is home to spirits that have yet to depart.” “Don’t step on the threshold, don’t touch the ancestral tablets, and don’t whistle in the ancestral hall.” “The names on the tablets weren’t carved there. They moved in.” When the wind blew past the row of wooden windows, the latticework let out a mournful wail
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- 417 A Rich Family's Dad Is Doomed from the Start? His Little Girl Hits Back with a Royal Flush! 豪门奶爸开局要挂?奶包她反手一个王炸! Original title: The Underworld King’s Little Darling Is Three and a Half The head of the Huo family, the most powerful family in Huaguo, adopts a little darling. She’s eccentric and adorable, sleeps soundly all day, and is wide awake all night! Everyone wonders if she’s been reincarnated as a night owl. Little Ming: “I’m just adjusting to the time difference. The residents of the underworld are all nocturnal!” Her human dad: “My little girl can sleep whenever she wants!” Heir to a psychic family 6.1kReads9.4Score96214d adds
- 418 I Am a Corpse 我是一具尸体 I slit my wrists and bled to death, my body drying into a corpse. They buried me in the ancestral copper coffin, and I came back to life on the Ghost Festival. I wielded my corpse with the will of a living person. I crossed between the worlds of yin and yang. I have loved, hated, killed people, and destroyed ghosts. I am a corpse. I will never grow old. Standing at the highest point in this world, I looked down and saw nothing but desire. This is my story. This is my biography... 158Reads6.7Score—14d adds
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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 Spooky, Hilarious Legend 恐怖幽默搞笑传
Synopsis of The Spooky, Humorous, Hilarious Tale Other streamers are scared out of their wits when they encounter ghosts on camera. When he runs into evil spirits, his go-to move is “cuddle up”! In a gloomy old mansion, instead of heartrending sobs, the streamer blasts his absurdly catchy “Good Luck Is Coming” theme music. A ghost in white lifts her long hair to scare him, only for him to whip out a pair of Tony's scissors and ask, “Want a makeover?” Even the supernatural crowd rushes to post co
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- 421 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 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 422 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 3Reads—Score—14d adds
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Spirit-Sending Diary 送灵日记
She died with her eyes open, her body piled among countless corpses, her resentment reaching the heavens. She sings at night in the barren hills, waiting desperately for someone from her past, her devotion unchanged. They haunt an old mansion, their ghostly forms harming the living. There are no evil spirits in this world. They are all people who were hurt. I'm an unconventional spirit guide. I listen to the dead, resolve their lingering grievances, and lay their souls to rest. This is my work d
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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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Afterlife Notes: The Eyeless Locust Tree Maiden Bonus Story: Blood Silkworm Thread 还魂笔记之无眼槐娘番外:血蚕丝
Afterlife Notes: The Eyeless Locust Tree Maiden Bonus Story: Blood Cocoon Silk
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The Bloody Rain That Wouldn't Wash Away 洗不净的腥雨
The Rain of Blood That Will Never Wash Clean
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Netherworld Immortality 幽冥长生
[No Saintly Protagonist] [No Harem] [No System] “My name is Li Changsheng. I seek the Immortal Dao in pursuit of eternal life!” Will he become an immortal or a demon? So what if he becomes an immortal? So what if he becomes a demon? I seek only eternal life. I seek only supreme strength. Beneath the Nine Hells lies the Netherworld. In this cruel cultivation world, there is no simple division between black and white. Strength is everything: the strong rule, and the weak are ants. With the Netherw
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- 428 Afterlife Notes Bonus Story: The Corpse Stitcher 还魂笔记番外篇:缝尸匠 Afterlife Notes: Bonus Story: The Corpse Stitcher 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 429 A Puppet Show Beneath the Embroidered Spring Blade 绣春刀下的傀儡戏 Puppet Show Beneath the Embroidered Spring Sabre 2Reads—Score—14d adds
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My Bewitching Husband Is Flirting with Me Again 妖孽夫君又在撩我
Su Yu has had an unlucky fate since childhood and thought she would be alone for the rest of her life. Instead, she marries Third Master Qin, the most powerful man in all of Haicheng, who dotes on her like no one else. “I hear Third Master’s new wife is bad luck incarnate! She’ll bring her husband to ruin!” Third Master Qin: “My fate is too strong. I’m only worried nobody will be able to jinx me.” “Look at that necklace Third Madam is wearing. How tacky!” Third Master Qin: “Go buy up every jewel
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- 431 Notes on Returning Souls: The Eyeless Huai Tree Maiden 还魂笔记之无眼槐娘 The plum rains have swollen every brick in Green Tile Alley. When Lin Yan grips her grandmother’s death notice and opens the door to the old house, the sixty-year-old locust tree in the courtyard seems to be watching her through its cracked bark. The year her great-great-grandmother planted it, three children went missing from the alley. During all the years her grandmother kept watch over it, she would bury bloodstained silver locks beneath its roots in the dead of night. The last page of her g 3Reads—Score—14d adds
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A Soul Guide from the Yellow Springs 黄泉过阴人
At the age of ten, a strange old man touched me, and from that day on, ghosts and monsters were everywhere, and demons plagued me. I was drawn into a bizarre and inexplicable world. Livestock went mad, my parents died violent deaths, and my childhood sweetheart vanished. A weasel spirit wanted my life, a ghost wanted my body, and a black goat stood in the shadows, cackling eerily. I studied talismans and Taoist texts, killed goats with a casual gesture, and destroyed vicious ghosts with my hands
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- 433 The Fiend Walks in the Light 魔头于光明下行走 Live like a mayfly, die like a moth. The Great Way is hard to find; life and death go hand in hand. Neither righteous nor demonic. A thought rises, a thought falls. The road is long, and I will seek from top to bottom. A true demon is loyal only to himself, making a pilgrimage through the darkness! This is the story of a demon overlord who is reborn again and again, all to pursue the path to eternal life in his heart. Amid the sea of blood and flesh, with waves surging ten thousand feet high, on 7Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 434 The Dead Wear Watches: It's Not Dead, It's Still Ticking 死人戴表:它没死,它在走字 The Dead Man's Watch: It's not dead. Its hands are still moving. 8Reads—Score—14d adds
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My Career in Funeral Services and the Supernatural 我的殡葬灵异生涯
After graduating, I joined the funeral industry and learned about its many secrets. I also encountered all kinds of terrifying, bizarre supernatural incidents. Let me tell you about some truly unusual tales of terror and the taboos of the funeral trade... The latest work by a free-spirited programmer. As always, the promise stands: suspense and horror taken to the extreme.
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- 436 The Real Crown Prince in the Funeral Home 义庄里的真太子 The True Crown Prince at the Yizhuang 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 437 Reincarnation Notes: An Extra Story, The Painted-Skin Debt 还魂笔记番外篇:画皮债 The Reincarnation Notebook: Extra Story: The Painted Skin Debt —Reads—Score—14d adds
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The Village of Terrifying Women 恐怖女人村
The women were so beautiful they were a feast for the eyes, yet they would not even let the men touch their hands. At first, I thought it was a feudal custom. As it turned out, it was part of a terrifying conspiracy. In this dark chapter of history, human nature erupted and was snuffed out again and again, without end.
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- 439 Afterlife Notes: Blood Silkworms Raised on Babies 还魂笔记之血蚕饲婴 The Soul-Returning Notes: Blood Silkworms Feeding a Baby —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 440 The Security Chief's Final Shift 保安队长的最后一班岗 The Security Captain's Final Shift 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 441 Afterlife Notes Bonus Story: The Hundred Ghosts' Night Parade 还魂笔记番外篇:百鬼夜行 The Soul-Returning Notes: A Hundred Ghosts Roaming by Night —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 442 Records of the Ghost Kiln: Porcelain Made from Human Bones 鬼窑录:人骨成瓷 Records of the Ghost Kiln: Porcelain Made from Human Bones 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 443 Afterlife Notes Bonus Story: Secrets of the Haunted House 还魂笔记番外篇:凶宅秘录 Afterlife Notes: Bonus Story: The Haunted House’s Secret Records —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 444 The Bizarre Paintings of Bianjing: Corpses Hidden in Ink 汴京诡画录:墨色藏尸 Records of Strange Paintings in Bianjing: A Corpse Hidden in Ink —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 445 Afterlife Notes Bonus Story: Rouge Well 还魂笔记番外篇:胭脂井 Afterlife Notes: Bonus Story: The Rouge Well —Reads—Score—14d adds
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On the Night of the Hungry Ghost Festival, a Yin-Born Child 七月半,阴生胎
The day I was born, a monster that came running down from the mountain stole a baby. Strange things kept happening in the village. The villagers listened all night to my mother’s wretched cries and cursed me as an ill-omened child. They blocked the entrance to our home, saying they would burn me alive. My grandfather simply sat by the gate, and not one of them dared come closer. A baby’s piercing wail rang out, and I came into this world. You need some skills to make your way in life. My name is
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- 447 Night Walks in Bianjing: The Smiling Corpse 汴京夜行录:笑面尸 Night Wanderings in Bianjing: The Smiling Corpse —Reads—Score—14d adds
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Doomsday: The Road to Ruin 末日绝途
Blue rain began to fall from the sky. Unknown monsters suddenly descended upon this world. Human society collapsed in an instant. No cheats, no protagonist's halo, no spiritual qi revival! Every step we take leads us closer to despair! To those who died at the very beginning of the apocalypse, I envy you, because you never had to experience a despair more despairing than death. My name is Chen Ge. I will witness the coming of the apocalypse.
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- 449 Who Wore That Blue Robe? 谁穿了那件蓝衫 Who Wore That Blue Shirt? 2Reads—Score—14d adds
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Death on Delivery 死亡外卖
Never try to save money when ordering takeout! After ordering a meal that wasn't clean, strange events keep happening, and his coworkers begin dying one by one. Some takeout costs you money. Some takeout costs you your life. My other completed novel, The Hell Company, is over a million words long. Come check it out, dear readers~~
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