Looking for Horror Novels Scary Enough to Keep You Up at Night 求能吓到晚上不敢睡觉的恐怖小说
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Hong Kong’s Yin Chronicles: The Domino Curse 香江陰錄:骨牌劫
Hong Kong Yin Chronicles: The Bone Tile Calamity
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The Rouge House 脂楼
The Rouge Tower
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Ghost in the Well: The Woman in Room 704 井底亡魂-704室的女人
Ghost at the Bottom of the Well: The Woman in Room 704
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The Prison of Hair 发丝之狱
Prison of Hair
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Growing Back a Severed Finger 断指增殖
Severed Finger Proliferation
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Uncovering Strange Mysteries and Finding a Way Out 诡事探秘逢生
In Lichong City, four childhood friends who grew up together were enlightened by a Taoist priest when they were young, and each possesses a supernatural ability. After Yang Zhuang got into an online argument, the four were drawn into a supernatural incident at an abandoned hospital in the neighboring city of Huidong.
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Horror Expedition: Terror on a Deserted Island 恐怖探险:孤岛惊魂
[Cthulhu Mythos + Sanity Points + Mysterious Exploration + Stranded on a Desert Island + Ensemble Cast] An expedition leaves them stranded on an island surrounded by water. Their only shelter is an ancient, mysterious house on the island, where they find themselves caught up in one terrifying journey after another. A sunken ship lying dormant, an image of an evil god etched deep into their nightmares, and a grave discovered on the island: all of it has become the eyes of Cthulhu, gazing at the f
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Tropical Island: Terror on a Deserted Isle 热带岛屿,孤岛惊魂
The Card Survival game, a parallel universe. This is both a real world and a game. The story is presented in fragmented episodes, with frequent, large jumps. If you're looking for quick, easy entertainment, this isn't for you. One universe, one world.
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Survival Island 生存岛
If you feel like life is exhausting, we'll make you feel that being alive is a blessing. ---Death Game Modern City + Death Game + One Life + Multiple Characters + The Protagonist Is Not Invincible + The Protagonist Is an Ordinary Person
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Deadly Desert Island 死亡荒岛
The rules of this deadly deserted-island game are cruel to the extreme. In such a brutal competition, how can anyone possibly escape alive?
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Nightmare on a Deserted Island 孤岛梦惊魂
Was the sudden plane crash in the Pacific an accident, or was it deliberate? Was the isolated island, rich in resources, a gift or a disaster? Was the brilliant, highly educated beauty he fell for at first sight his true love, or a trap? Welcome to The Island of Nightmares.
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Midnight Terror 午夜惊魂
It started one morning when I stepped outside and found a yuan at my doorstep. I didn't think much of it. The next morning, I found a ten-yuan bill at the door. I thought I was pretty lucky, finding money two days in a row. But on the third morning, when I opened the door and saw a hundred-yuan bill on the ground, I finally realized something was off. After that, strange things kept happening around me, and I began venturing into one forbidden zone after another, all in the name of staying alive
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A Book by Wilderness Star Lord 荒野星君的一本书
A yacht wreck, a deserted island, a dense jungle, sinister human hearts, dangers lurking at every turn, and species no one has ever seen before...
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Cheers Curse: Anyone Who Mishears It Dies 干杯咒:听错的去死
“That American exchange student says ‘Cheers’ to me in his dreams every night, until I realize he misheard ‘Go to hell.’” In the graduate dormitory, Dennis grows paler by the day, and the doctors can’t figure out why. Then Mina brings back the exorcist’s verdict: Seven years ago, a girl whose foreign boyfriend cheated on her jumped from this building. Every night, her shattered head presses against Dennis’s ear and repeats “Cheers” in English... But when we reach the tenth repetition, the corner
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Bao Dadan’s True Accounts of Ghost Encounters 包大胆撞鬼实录
“You’ve heard of people who are ‘bold beyond belief,’ but have you ever seen someone scare a ghost into shutting itself away?” My name is Bao Dadan. It’s not a stage name, it’s my real name. My friends say I’m missing a screw, but they changed their minds after seeing it for themselves: I talked the “haunting female ghost” the landlord warned me about into silence; I roasted a “human-faced fish” deep in the mountains with pepper until it shrieked; even the “Slit-Mouthed Woman” covered her mask a
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The Deadly Mirror Image in the Symmetrical Bathroom 对称浴室的死亡镜像
“At three in the morning, I saw my ‘future husband’s’ face in the mirror, and three days later, he ran me over with his SUV until I was nothing but scraps.” My landlady told me in a hushed voice that if I recited an incantation to a mirror at midnight for 49 days in a row, I’d see my destined partner. On the 47th day, her son’s twisted smile appeared in the mirror. I screamed and fled the apartment, but at the intersection he ran over me four times, reversing each time. The police said he kept s
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Horror Sketches 恐怖素描
“The day I was accepted into art school through the recommendation program, I drew the killer who murdered Teacher Zhou with my own hands: the faceless woman who had been draped over my back for three whole months.” In the dead of night, a blizzard battered the studio windows with a crackling roar. I curled up in the bathroom and vomited, but a pale body slowly emerged in the mirror. Her long hair wound around my neck, her rotting fingertips stroked my spine, and where her face should have been.
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Paranormal Podcast 灵异播客
“What’s the most convincing paranormal story you’ve ever heard? As a paranormal podcast host, I thought I was just collecting urban legends, until a laugh that wasn’t mine came through my headphones. While I was adjusting the audio track, a shrill whisper seemed to breathe right into my ear, and a new waveform mysteriously appeared in the recording software. An expert told me, ‘That’s another audio signal. It isn’t human.’ Worse still, after I said, ‘Don’t come looking for me through my headphon
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The Hypnosis Trap: The Forgotten Bloody Hand 催眠陷阱:被遗忘的血手
“I caused my husband and child’s deaths with my own hands, then spent an entire year forgetting them. The truth only tore through my memories as I fell, after my psychiatrist pushed me onto the rooftop.” The travel magazine from a year ago, the coffee cup that appeared out of nowhere in the living room, the unfamiliar father and son in the photo frame... I thought I was simply suffering from depression, until I encountered those blood-soaked hands during hypnosis and realized that forgetting was
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The Night Shift Passage: An Invitation from the Dead 夜班通道:亡者邀请函
“Every night at ten, I open the supermarket’s rolling shutter right on time, never knowing that another world lies hidden at the end of the aisles: a black-gang nightclub that was burned to the ground. For two years, I watched my coworkers ‘disappear’ one by one. Even their names seemed to be erased, until Wang Tao grabbed my arm in the emergency exit, and a girl crawling with maggots in the Golden Ballroom pressed close to my ear and said, ‘Welcome to Brother Feng’s club. All the guests here...
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My Dead Friend 死去的好友
“I inherited my childhood friend’s billion-dollar fortune, but then received a call from him in the middle of the night. Yang Zhiyi, the man I’d pushed off a cliff with my own hands, gripped my throat with dirt-covered hands and asked me, one word at a time, in the mirror: ‘Why are you scheming against even my ghost?’” A staged mountaineering accident, a ‘will’ pieced together from lines in short videos: I thought I’d gotten away with a perfect murder, until a pair of glasses mysteriously appear
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A Midnight Invitation to the Yin-Yang Eyes 阴阳眼的午夜邀约
“I’ve seen with my own eyes a boy with yin-yang eyes, blessed by Guanyin, get torn at by a shadow in a cemetery. I’ve heard Teresa Teng’s songs drifting out of a bakery’s refrigerator. And in a restaurant attic, I once came across a bloodied face embedded in the floor. But the creepiest thing of all is the ‘little ghost’ in my son’s playroom, growing up on the ‘fragrance’ it smells.” Notes written during a late-night cemetery exploration, a wandering spirit in cloth shoes in the kitchen during a
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The Strange Happenings on Little C’s Moments 小C的朋友圈诡事
“My social media feed hides the truth behind seven cases of the living encountering evil spirits: Reporter Xiao Chen’s right shoulder is covered in bruises marked with the bite prints of an infant spirit; a junior student is chased to her apartment by a split-headed zombie on Halloween; tenant Xiao Chang waves through the window to a boy with no eyes every night at ten... The creepiest thing is the severed-hand granny who suddenly reaches out in front of a meat grinder at the market at three in
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The Watcher Beyond the Cat’s Eye 猫眼外的凝视者
“That night, at dawn, the ‘person’ outside my peephole stared into my eyes for a full three minutes, until I realized its pupils weren’t moving.” A late-night food delivery buzzer jolted me awake, but there was no one outside the door. It wasn’t until I crushed the eyeball stuck to the peephole that the news began reporting a series of dismemberment murders in this very building. Even more terrifying, when I approached the peephole with trembling hands to check, that bloodshot eye was still pres
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Nobody Working the Night Shift at This Company Is Human 公司里上夜班的都不是人
“You are absolutely not allowed to linger after work.” That was the rule my boss personally gave me on my first day. But when I returned to the office late at night to pick up the engagement ring, the elevator showed an overload despite being empty, the printer started spitting out a death certificate bearing my name, and on my social feed, my girlfriend was smiling sweetly as she posted an engagement photo with my boss. Even more terrifying, I kicked a corpse on the fourth-floor stairwell. That
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The Woman You Must Never Cross 最不能得罪的女人
Seven years ago, a yellow weasel slipped into my bed in the middle of the night and said it could help me get revenge. I agreed three times. Two bachelors hanged themselves in the village, the tongues of the village shaman’s entire family of four were torn out, and the son of the village chief, whose whole family of eight had been wiped out, went mad. It wasn’t until I got on the bus bound for the county town that I realized none of the passengers had feet. They were all dead people who had “sho
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Terror on a Snowy Night 雪夜惊魂
I’ll never forget that winter night when a blizzard trapped me on the top floor of the seventh floor. The keycard unlocked Room 744 with a beep, and the smell of mold mingled with the cold, stinging my nostrils. The 340,000 yuan in my backpack weighed heavily on my shoulders. I snapped the three deadbolts shut behind me, only to hear a soft click from the aluminum window frame. Have you ever seen a figure hanging upside down outside a seventh-floor window? Its entire face was pressed against the
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No One Escapes 谁也逃不掉
“That haunted building took four of my friends twenty years ago. Now it’s finally come for me.” Trembling, I stood in the bedroom of Li Lisha’s home, watching Wang Yuanyuan smile at me from outside the window. But she had hanged herself twenty years ago... Even more terrifying, I suddenly realized something: back then, the five of us went to the Lotus Haunted House together, and I was the only one who made it out alive... Now a rotting hand is squeezing my neck from behind, and I hear the whispe
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What Happens If You Smoke While Mining? 在下矿时候抽烟会发生什么
Have you ever seen three hundred corpses tumbling in boiling water? I have. On my first night down the mine, I ran into an old miner whose whole body was ice-cold. He shared a cigarette with me, until I felt the bones at his severed wrist. As I ran for my life, the entire tunnel suddenly filled with stones draped in red cloth. A dead person sat atop every stone, their faces peeling away, and they were all pointing me down the same path. At the end, a huge pit held a pool of boiling water, bubbli
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Sacrifice at the Haunted School Festival 诡校祭品
Please follow these rules: 1. Whether it is day or night, do not make eye contact with any teacher you see. If you accidentally do, don't worry. The first time, the teacher will let it slide. 2. The dormitory lights go out at ten. Once they do, do not speak. Go to bed quietly, close the doors and windows, and draw the curtains. There will be nothing outside. If there is, ignore it. 3. Someone will inspect the dorms at night. If you encounter them, close your eyes and pretend to be asleep. You mi
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The Blood-Red Bun Shop 血色包子铺
The buns I sell have already sent two customers to their deaths. And yet my shop is still packed with customers. Just as the police run out of leads in the case, there is a third person who dies after eating one of my buns...
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Peeping Is a Crime 偷窥有罪
On what seemed like a peaceful night, I, an ordinary shut-in, was unexpectedly swept into a vortex of terror unlike anything I had ever known. Every evening, through my telescope, I watched Li Weiwei, the yoga instructor who lived in the building opposite. It was a secret, thrilling pleasure. But then came that eerie night, and everything was turned upside down. Li Weiwei's graceful figure moved as usual among the pavilions in our residential compound, but the shadow of a woman in red had appear
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Spirit Medium 跳大神
“I watched with my own eyes as an actor performing a spirit-summoning ritual fell to his death onstage. That night, the whole village blocked the guesthouse entrance, sickles in hand. The Qing dynasty ghost said, ‘The foreigners must die,’ but when Anton was unconscious with a high fever, the villagers knelt in the torrential rain and kowtowed to my leg bone.” The heavy rain washed open a mass grave beneath the wasteland, and skeletal hands clutching rusty rifles pierced the earth. The resentful
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Delusions: The Book of Ghostly Grudges 诡妄:鬼怨书
[Two heroines + Lovecraftian horror + thrills + madness + mutual devotion + smart leads] A meteorite resembling a ball of flesh crashes into Earth, bringing with it a god from another planet: the Mad God Mo Shanshan. The arrival of this uninvited guest awakens supernatural evils that have slumbered for ages, and a bizarre, terrifying feast of “god-making” is about to begin.
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Ghosts: They Exist If You Believe 鬼魂:信则有,不信则无
[Supernatural + Thriller + The Bizarre + Horror] Do ghosts really exist in this world? Some say they’re hallucinations; others call it delusion. Yet all kinds of bizarre, inexplicable events remain shrouded in mystery, their truth impossible to discern. If you insist on believing there are no ghosts, some things become impossible to explain. That’s why many old folks tell us: Believe, and they exist; don’t believe, and they don’t!
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Tales of Demons and Ghosts at Night 妖鬼夜话
My new book, I Get Awesome with Technology, is now being serialized. My short ghost stories The Water Ghost, The Seventh Night, The Departure That Year, and The Soul-Calling Lantern are available on Tomato Short Stories.
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The Seventh Night 头七
The Seventh Day
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The Soul-Summoning Lantern 招魂灯
The Soul-Summoning Lantern
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The Harem Emperor 后宫大帝
A harem novel with multiple female leads and a System. If you like beautiful women, come take a look. A naturally lecherous nouveau riche gets sent to the cultivation world after sexually harassing a waitress and being hit by a computer, bringing along a hundredfold experience System. He levels up at breakneck speed, is lecherous by nature, gathers a harem, and gets revenge on his enemies. He's a coward who fears death and never goes anywhere dangerous. I've never liked challenging people above
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Whispers by the Candlelit Ruins 幽庭烛烬语
In the dead of night, countless eerie secrets lurk in the dark folds of the city. The knocking in an old apartment, known as “Knocking at Midnight,” rings out like clockwork at three in the morning. When a woman living alone peers through the peephole, all she sees is a roiling cloud of scarlet blood mist in the hallway, while a damp scratching comes from the doorknob. In the basement of a century-old apothecary, “Whispers in the Medicine Crock” never cease, day or night. Every night at midnight
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Notes on Folk Spirit Mediums 民间出马仙笔记
[Spirit Mediums + Chinese-Style Horror + Episodic Stories + Supernatural Mystery + Karma + Mind-Blowing Twists + Feng Shui and the Occult] "Unraveling one strange and unpredictable tale of karmic retribution after another" In a remote suburb of the city lies a cemetery. Few people know that a shop dealing in the supernatural stands there, run by a spirit medium who can communicate with the dead and the living. The owner specializes in paranormal cases beyond ordinary people's understanding, but
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There Are Ghosts in These Words 话里有诡
They say everyone has a few little secrets they can't bring themselves to talk about these days. But if you really want to hear something out of the ordinary, go find Old Bu. Old Bu runs a little tavern set inside an abandoned train carriage. From the day it opened, he laid down one rule: One interesting story in exchange for a night's worth of drinks. Sounds like a good deal, doesn't it? Too bad he doesn't give you much to drink, and the stories just keep getting stranger. An intelligent wristb
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Bureau 747: Special Affairs Division Nine 747局之特殊事物处理九科
Do you really know the colleagues around you? What about your classmates and family? The person you've lived with for years, the one you know best, might not even be human! In this world, humans and demons coexist. Demons can live among you in all sorts of ways. “They” might be the man selling jianbing on the street, or they might be your boss! If a top special forces soldier hadn't awakened his family's bloodline in a panic while carrying out a highly classified special mission, and then joined
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Horror Academy, 恐怖高校,
A country boy somehow winds up in a dim, terrifying classroom. Some say this place is hell; others call it a land of nothingness. You have to endure countless trials before you can graduate, leave, and return to the real world. Here, there are enhanced bloodlines that can alter the body’s genetic makeup, as well as supernatural abilities beyond anything people in the real world could ever dream of. Everything here is utterly extraordinary, with all kinds of factions and power struggles. Countles
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The Bronze Coffin Seals the Soul: The Yin Corpse 铜棺封魂·阴尸
The Bronze Coffin Seals the Soul: The Yin Corpse
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The Haunted House of Resentment: A Bizarre Murder Case 怨气凶宅·诡异的凶杀案
The Haunted House of Resentful Spirits: A Bizarre Murder
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Possessed by a Vengeful Spirit: Who Peeled Off My Face? 冤魂附体·谁剥了我的脸皮?
Possessed by a Vengeful Ghost: Who Peeled Off My Face?
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The Corpse in the Cave Pool Can Kill 洞穴深潭里的尸体会杀人
The Corpse in the Cave Pool Can Kill
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One Haunting a Day 一日一诡
Like people, supernatural entities can be good or bad, so the author can’t promise that every story will have an off-the-charts scare factor that keeps you up at night. The only guarantee is that all the stories are entirely fictional. If anything seems familiar, you’re on your own!
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Deadly Delivery 致命快递
I received a package from an unfamiliar sender. A note inside said I could scan a code to claim a huge cash bonus. But when I scanned it, my phone opened a livestream instead. Even stranger, my face appeared right in the middle of the screen. The comments were flying by: "This girl looks pretty good. What a shame to kill her." "Tsk, tsk, what a beauty. I recommend having some fun with her before killing her." Just then, I suddenly heard someone knocking behind me. "Hello, delivery!"
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