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No Romance, Pure Supernatural, No Cultivation. Just Like Those Traditional Supernatural Novels! 无CP纯灵异不修仙 就是当初那种传统灵异小说!

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  1. 1 From the Start, a Wicked Buddha Possessed Me, and I Became Half a Yin Person 开局被邪佛寄生,我成了半阴之人 Mystery1.2M WordsOngoing [Mild horror + no System + not a power fantasy + folk supernatural tales + episodic stories + dark revenge in the middle and later arcs] [The later plot went in an unexpected direction, so straight men, beware. Sigh!] [It started as a story about brotherhood with no female lead, but later it seems to have shifted toward two male leads. Though not entirely. Sigh, I don't even know what I've written. Whatever!!!] Lin Fan was a dead-end wage slave. On the night he had nowhere else to turn, he knelt 45.2kReads8.7Score9.7kShelves
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  2. 2 The Greatest Taboo Among the People 民间第一禁忌 Mystery4.8M WordsOngoing They severed my tendons and buried me alive in a sealed coffin, but they didn’t know I was born with the fate of the King of Hell! [Folk horror, feng shui and talismans, incense offerings] Feng shui and fortune-telling, painted-skin demons and spirit summoning, walking in the shadows and corpse driving, corpse-raising spells and curses, yin tattoos and talismanic needles, puppets controlled by strings, red doors sealed with wax, Dogs digging graves on Burial Mound Ridge, ghosts feasting in the R 336.9kReads9.4Score29.9kShelves
  3. 3 Borrowing Yin Lifespan 借阴寿 Mystery2.5M WordsCompleted Have you ever slept wearing burial clothes? Don’t try it. I did once, and that night... My name is Li Yiliang. I was born with a shortened lifespan, and my birth caused my mother to die in childbirth. But one night when I was eighteen, my mother came back and said she wanted to take me with her... My grandfather told me to sleep in burial clothes, then gave his own life to help me escape that fate. From then on, my life was never free of strange and uncanny things... 4.4kReads8.9Score453Shelves
  4. 4 Tales of the Supernatural: Ghost-Hunting Venerable 怪谈之捉鬼天尊 Mystery176k WordsOngoing Eight severed-head mountains form a Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Formation, imprisoning Song An’s first eight incarnations. To ensure that Song An can grow up safely in his ninth life, a mysterious eminent monk comes to the mortal world. Unfortunately, this time Song An is born on the night of the Ghost Festival, and is also a child of extreme yin, with all eight characters of his birth chart belonging to yin. Even stranger, nine days and nine nights of blood rain fall before Song An’s birth. For —Reads—Score—Shelves
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  5. 5 King of Feng Shui 风水之王 Mystery10.1M WordsOngoing The day I was born, nineteen bolts of thunder struck around our family’s courtyard. A fortune-teller said I was born a demon child, fated to suffer eighteen calamities in my life. Either someone else would die, or I would. As it turned out, the fortune-teller met his own calamity on the very day I was born. He carried me out of the village, and suddenly dropped dead! 809.3kReads9.4Score43.5kShelves
  6. 6 A Female Ghost Shows Up Pregnant, and You Say You're a Proper Daoist? 女鬼怀孕上门你说你是正经道士? Mystery4.0M WordsOngoing [Mystery Solving] [Ghost Stories] [Chinese Folk Traditions] Su Yun is an heir to the Yin-Yang School, one of the pre-Qin traditions. Introduced by an acquaintance, he went on a blind date and met his girlfriend. After they broke up, Su Yun prepared to turn her into a zombie. Just as the process was nearly complete on the seventh day, a policewoman burst in and arrested him for murder. Su Yun: “I'm innocent! My ex-girlfriend was a flight attendant, fair-skinned, beautiful, and long-legged. Why wo 209.1kReads9.0Score22.1kShelves
  7. 7 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 Mystery1.3M WordsCompleted 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! 7.2kReads8.9Score665Shelves
  8. 8 The Little Taoist of Green Mountain 青山小道士 Mystery1.6M WordsCompleted [Taoist priest + supernatural mysteries + technically detailed + magic arts + urban + no power fantasy + slow growth + no heroine] (The central idea of the first book: Heaven and humanity) This novel is told in the first person and explores knowledge and experiences from many perspectives, including Taoist culture, astronomy, feng shui, Qimen Dunjia, physiognomy, palmistry, humanities, society, and science. Everything unknown in the world is like a vast darkness. Science is like a flashlight ill 3.9kReads9.2Score596Shelves
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  9. 9 Paper Figures Knock at the Door: No Living People Allowed 纸人敲门,活人勿进 Mystery1.5M WordsOngoing The father who came back with a corpse died yesterday. The old man who came to report a death was made of paper. My childhood sweetheart, Fang Ting, kept watch with me. At dawn, she was gone too. Suona horns blared outside. Her father held up her memorial portrait and said she had died at eight o'clock last night. So what was the thing in my bed last night? And now, evil beings from a hundred li in every direction are heading for my home. 16.9kReads7.0Score1.2kShelves
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  10. 10 Young Taoist Master 少年道师 Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted In southwestern China, funeral ritual officiants are also known as Daoist masters. When someone dies, rich or poor, their family will hire these masters to perform rites, choose a burial date, and select a gravesite with auspicious feng shui. Their daily work also involves many other things, including driving away evil spirits, conducting rituals, and even glimpsing the secrets of fate. Why does the boy leading the funeral procession set off firecrackers? What do the black and white strips 1.2kReads8.6Score213Shelves
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  11. 11 I'm an Evil Cultivator and Demon Lord. You Want Me to Enter a Horror Game? 我邪道魔头,你让我进诡异游戏? Urban1.1M WordsCompleted [This novel has been adapted into a comic series. Go check it out: its title is The Final Evil Cultivator: I Cultivate Immortality in a Haunted Game.] [Comedy + suggestive and cheeky writing + fun-loving protagonist + standout female supporting character] What’s it like to be an evil cultivator in a technologically advanced world where spiritual energy has run dry? Lin Ming can only say: It’s rough! Damn rough! Luckily, the haunted game arrived. It’s full of countless horrors. They are Lin Ming’ 31.1kReads8.4Score2.6kShelves
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  12. 12 The Underworld Calls Me Little Master 地府叫我小先生 Mystery3.3M WordsCompleted In ancient, remote places, all kinds of strange and terrifying things are bound to happen. And these things happen around Hua Jiunan. In fact, Hua Jiunan is part of them. For instance, he was born from a corpse! 249.2kReads9.6Score30.8kShelves
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  13. 13 So What If I'm Out of a Job as a Male Model? I Can Exorcise Demons! 男模下岗咋了?老子会驱魔! Urban150k WordsOngoing [Paranormal + Exorcism + Episodic Stories + No Female Lead + No Romance + No Harem + Brotherhood + Growing Up] Male model and drinking companion Sun Yu gets plied with drinks and groped by rich women in private rooms every night. He curses under his breath but still has to smile, thinking he’s doomed to spend his whole life trapped in drinking parties. Then he finds a busted piece of wood hidden by his adoptive father, and a big brother from an exorcist family suddenly shows up! Now the winegla 8Reads—Score—Shelves
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  14. 14 The Last Bus on Route 13 13路末班车 Mystery813k WordsCompleted I'm the driver of the last bus on Route 13. Every night at eleven, I have to make a run to the suburbs. This book is addictive, so don't blame me if you can't put it down! In this novel, even the sharp-tongued readers who always guess the plot right will find themselves repeatedly proven wrong. You might find yourself asking, “What's going on? What's going on?” Don't doubt your sanity. Just keep reading. A story that keeps you on edge, here to save readers suffering from a reading drought! 19.1kReads9.2Score2.3kShelves
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  15. 15 Confessions of a Mentally Ill Person 一个精神病人的自述 Mystery169k WordsCompleted Sometimes I wonder what I am, what the world is, and what my existence means to it. Am I an NPC? Or just a virus that doesn't matter? A virus, yes. I feel like I've caught some kind of virus, or maybe I've always been one. My name is Zhang Shun. I'm an ordinary person, and on an ordinary day, I suddenly saw things no one else could see... 2kReads9.3Score561Shelves
  16. 16 Baby Lantern 婴儿灯 Mystery1.3M WordsCompleted When I was five, I fell into the water and my soul left my body. With my own eyes, I saw the legendary baby lantern said to lure away souls. I initially thought it had come to harm me, but that wasn’t the case. As I continued to investigate, a sinister layout targeting me slowly came to light... 194Reads—Score—Shelves
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  17. 17 Bureau 747: The Paranormal Incident Investigation Unit 747局之妖怪事件处理科 Urban770k WordsCompleted 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 530Reads7.1Score—Shelves
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  18. 18 The Spirit Medium's Hall: Let's See What This Client's Deal Is 出马鬼堂:我看看这缘主怎么个事 Mystery3.0M WordsOngoing My name is Zhou Tie. In this book, I'll tell the true story of my ten years running a spirit hall and serving ghosts. You've heard of spirit mediums... but have you heard of a ghost spirit hall? At eighteen, I established a ghost spirit hall and served ghost immortals! The presiding master was the sister my grandfather said had gone mad and died! This book has no female lead. It's not fantasy, and it's definitely not a cultivation novel! It's the true story of how I, born with an ominous yin con 42.5kReads9.6Score3.5kShelves
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  19. 19 The End of Ten Days 十日终焉 Mystery3.2M WordsCompleted 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 1.8MReads9.9Score232.4kShelves
  20. 20 You Call Yourself a Player? You Ride a Bike and Lead a Ghost Around! 骑着车,牵着鬼,你管这叫玩家? Mystery1.9M WordsCompleted [Horror Game + Choices + Comedy + Irreverent + Building a Personal Power Base] Ten years ago, the horror game descended upon Blue Star. As the protagonist, Lin Qi was inevitably dragged into the horror game too. While everyone else struggled to survive, he made choices. At the Death Restaurant, everyone else was careful not to anger the customers. Lin Qi had already become the restaurant owner. At the Ghostly Cemetery, others searched for clues and for the missing Grave No. 7. Lin Qi simply 26.6kReads9.1Score2.8kShelves
  21. 21 No One Survives: A Survival Guide to the Terrifying Domain 无人生还:惊悚诡域生存指南 Mystery343k WordsCompleted [Infinite Flow + Mild Horror + Survival + Supernatural Instances + No Female Lead] Resentment that cannot be dispelled in the real world gathers to form new eerie domains. After being chosen, people are dragged into an eerie domain when they die unexpectedly. They can return to reality only by successfully completing the tasks inside. Only after escaping one terrifying eerie domain after another by the skin of his teeth does Lu Lin discover that the real world is also being infiltrated and taint 6.7kReads7.1Score513Shelves
  22. 22 Call Me Lord Ghost Messenger 请叫我鬼差大人 Mystery2.1M WordsCompleted After the Eternal Night, terror returned. Ten miles of desolate graves, eerie singing. An old man searching for his arms, a headless baby... They kept piecing their bodies back together, unleashing an even more terrifying aura. In the wasteland, even a severed hand could destroy heaven and earth. In this world of darkness and despair, a post office appeared and vanished from view... A mysterious young man, a postal carriage traveling through the void... One blood-red letter after another became 161.9kReads9.5Score18.2kShelves
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  23. 23 I Turned the Horror World Into a Raising Game! 我把惊悚世界玩成养成游戏! Mystery2.3M WordsCompleted A mysterious force descended upon Earth, giving rise to another world of terror. Everyone was forcibly sent into the world of horror games on their eighteenth birthday. While everyone else was immersed in fear, struggling to survive in the cracks between life and death, Qin Nuo discovered that he could earn System rewards by influencing the ghosts’ emotions. And every time he completed a dungeon, he could establish his own business in the world of horror. So he became a food runner at the Yin Sp 194.2kReads9.6Score24.3kShelves
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  24. 24 There’s a Ghost Inside Me 我的体内有只鬼 Mystery3.5M WordsCompleted Vengeful ghosts awaken, and a hundred ghosts roam the night. Jiang Xiao transmigrates into this world for no apparent reason and finds himself surrounded by demons and monsters. But then he discovers that his shadow can devour ghosts without limit and gain their abilities. [Successfully devoured the White Mist Ghost. Ability acquired: Mist Form] [Successfully devoured the Hanging Ghost. Ability acquired: Shackles] [Successfully devoured the Bronze Ghost. Ability acquired: Copper Skin] [Successfu 25.6kReads9.3Score2.9kShelves
  25. 25 Endless Killing Intent 无尽杀机 Sports367k WordsOngoing The groundbreaking online game Endless Killing appeared out of nowhere, dragging the entire world into an abyss of terror. Bai Qiong opened his eyes and discovered that he had been reborn at the time the game first launched. Looking at the familiar game and its new players, Bai Qiong recalled the killing techniques and gaming experience stored in his mind, then laughed aloud. (A game-world novel in the style of Dead by Daylight and Identity V, bringing you an experience unlike anything you've 7.4kReads9.3Score572Shelves
  26. 26 Suppressing the Dragon 镇龙 Mystery2.2M WordsCompleted For one person, he dug up an ancient grave, broke into a dragon's tomb, and wielded the Yang Sword to slay yin spirits! An heir to a family of secret arts, he joins a group of men and women bound together by fate. Together, they travel far and wide, fighting monsters in the mountains, slaying evil in the cities, breaking into the underworld, and robbing ghost messengers... To change our fate, we defy the heavens! 3.5kReads8.8Score586Shelves
  27. 27 Super Scary Livestream 超级惊悚直播 Mystery2.2M WordsCompleted "Welcome, everyone, to the Supernatural Scary Live Stream. Before we start today's broadcast, I have to tell you that only three kinds of people can watch this stream: those with a heavy aura of yin energy, those who will die within seven days, and the third kind, which I can't discuss in detail. I can only give you one warning: watch your back!" 29.1kReads9.2Score3.7kShelves
  28. 28 Thriller Game: My Hints Are More Terrifying Than the Game 惊悚游戏:我的提示比游戏恐怖 Mystery951k WordsCompleted [Ridiculous comedy + power fantasy. Not scary. If that's not your thing, move along!] A mysterious dimension descends upon Earth, randomly selecting humans to take part in a horror game. Uncensorable horror livestreams spread across the internet, allowing all of humanity to witness one terrifying spectacle after another. Gu Yi is unlucky enough to be chosen as an adventurer. Fortunately, he can see mysterious hints. Following the hints, Gu Yi gradually seeks out the truth, only to discover that 10.4kReads8.9Score1.1kShelves
  29. 29 Come On, I Was Already Invincible Before This Horror Game Even Started! 不会吧,我都无敌了,恐怖游戏才来? Mystery4.8M WordsOngoing The anime adaptation of the novel I’m Having a Blast in the Paranormal Game is now streaming on Hongguo App. “Three years, then another three years. Ten years have passed. System, I’m already invincible. Where’s that horror game you promised me?” Lin Chen came to this world ten years ago, and the horror game managed to avoid him for nine of them. But it couldn’t avoid him forever. Lin Chen entered the horror game, a game with a 99% death rate, and turned it into a speedrun. 6.7kReads8.5Score651Shelves
  30. 30 I Get God-Tier Gear in Horror Games 我在惊悚游戏中爆神装 Mystery1.7M WordsCompleted [System + infinite worlds] A mysterious livestreaming app has arrived, bringing with it wave after wave of survivalists chosen to enter terrifying worlds! While everyone else trembles in fear at their horrifying predicament, Chen Daxing suddenly discovers that he can see glowing orbs no one else can. Kill the monsters around the orbs, and they drop gear! And so the revelry begins! “Don’t run! You’re glowing!” “Don’t dismiss common gear just because it’s common!” “Oh my God!” “A monster this terr 3kReads9.1Score306Shelves
  31. 31 Global Terror: The Strongest Man in Horror Movies 全球恐惧:恐怖片中最强的男人 Mystery361k WordsOngoing [Urban, System, Supernatural, Livestream] A mysterious organization recreates the world's most terrifying horror films and livestreams them globally, offering a ten-billion-dollar reward to recruit fearless contestants from around the world! The Smiling Woman, Sadako, Silent Hill, Child's Play, Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum... The only way to make it out of these horror films alive is to complete the mission! Dapper thug Lu Yanchen is sent into The Smiling Woman scenario from the start. His mission is 4Reads8.0Score—Shelves
  32. 32 Folk Tales of the Strange and Supernatural 民间诡闻怪谭 Mystery1.6M WordsCompleted In feudal times, only the gates of imperial palaces, government offices, and temples were painted red. Thus, “Red Gate” referred to sorcerers who served at government offices. The history of the Red Gate may go back as far as the origins of yin-yang and the Five Elements. After the feudal order was overthrown, the Red Gate spread among the people, making a business of taking money to solve people’s problems. Though they did the work of yin-yang masters, they did not belong to that trade. Members 11Reads—Score—Shelves
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  33. 33 Tales of Strange Happenings Across the Ten Directions 十方异事录 Mystery399k WordsCompleted By a twist of fate, the young Ma Shiyi wanders aboard a wondrous ship that sails beyond the Six Realms. The great vessel drifts across the Ten Directions Sea, hazy and dreamlike. Inside, it holds a world of its own, like a gigantic living maze, carrying countless humans, ghosts, and demons toward worlds that are not theirs. It is filled with dazzling splendor, rare treasures, and unimaginable wealth. The one thing it has no supply of is time, and death is its greatest problem. 30Reads9.2Score—Shelves
  34. 34 The Ghost Speaks Not: The Ghost's Lament at Xiandun 鬼不语之仙墩鬼泣 Mystery201k WordsCompleted Ghosts Don't Speak: The Ghost Cries at the Immortal Mound is the first book in the latest tomb-raiding series, Ghosts Don't Speak. Taking the mysterious ancient Chinese Nuo religion as its point of departure, it tells a twisting, perilous tale of tomb raiding. The story begins with legends passed down orally by the protagonist's ancestors. The protagonist ventures into the Northeast, travels through the Central Plains, and heads southwest in search of the legendary rare treasures and the secrets 1.8kReads9.3Score295Shelves
  35. 35 The Demon Hunter’s Journal 猎魔手记 Mystery3.9M WordsCompleted Have you ever seen a white dog wearing clothes, or a mouse eating a cat? Have you heard of paper effigies putting on an opera, or flying stiff corpses sucking blood? Come, let me tell you... 1.4kReads8.5Score117Shelves
  36. 36 Heir to the Corpse Arts 尸术传人 Mystery532k WordsCompleted A poor young man falls in love with the village beauty and sets out on the road to success. A mysterious master of the Corpse Sect leads me down an unconventional path in life. To avenge my father, I break into an ancient tomb with a gang of criminals, only to have my accomplices turn on me... 3Reads—Score—Shelves
  37. 37 The Corpse-Liberated Immortal 尸解仙 Mystery350k WordsCompleted Every night after midnight, a woman knocks on my door and calls me her husband. The moment I open it, one bizarre and uncanny event after another unfolds. But when I try to escape, I discover that she is actually my bride... 1.1kReads—Score133Shelves
  38. 38 The Hard Road of the Corpse Man 尸人难行 Mystery1.6M WordsCompleted That day, I saw a woman in red beckoning to me from a boat... From then on, I began turning, little by little, into a walking corpse. 113Reads5.6Score—Shelves
  39. 39 Corpse Pouch Man 尸囊人 Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted A corpse, lacking vitality, returns to oneness; yellow earth is the final destination of the dead. A corpse pouch bears a hundred thoughts and bridges yin and yang; the mortal world is but a fleeting dream. Ten years ago, I was assigned to an oil-drilling platform in the South China Sea. After a mishap during operations, I hauled a beautiful female corpse out of the oilfield. Strange things began happening one after another: coworkers died, footsteps sounded in the dead of night, and people's he —Reads—Score—Shelves
  40. 40 The Haunted Realm of the Underworld 黄泉诡域 Mystery876k WordsCompleted A mysterious lost civilization, ancient ruins beyond imagination, and a deserted city in the wilderness... The members of an archaeological expedition, presumed dead to the last, turn out to have a survivor. What are they hiding from? One bizarre discovery after another finally uncovers the secret the older generation had kept hidden and protected. Once the gaps in history are filled, they are astonished to discover that this is what the world was really like all along... 38Reads—Score—Shelves
  41. 41 Horror Revival: I’m Bound to a Supernatural Simulation System 恐怖复苏:我绑定了诡异模拟器 Mystery6.7M WordsOngoing Six days from now, the supernatural will return, and terror will descend! Not only will evil spirits appear in huge numbers, but rule-based horror stories will also lurk in the shadows! Fortunately, Jiang Qiao has bound himself to the [Strange Simulation System]. [Strange Simulation begins] [Day One. Smog blankets the city, and hell lies outside your window. You stay home, eating hot pot and singing, without a care in the world.] [Day Two: An evil spirit comes knocking. You brick it into the wa 14.5kReads7.0Score1.3kShelves
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  42. 42 Evil Spirit World: My Mortal Body Crushes All 邪灵世界:我以肉身横推此世 Eastern Fantasy1.9M WordsCompleted This is a story about a body that can overpower anything. Darkness descended upon the Great Ye Dynasty, and evil spirits and ghosts lurked everywhere, killing without a trace. Faced with strange demons and sinister spirits, ordinary people could only tremble, cower in a corner, and wait for death. Jiang Dao transmigrated into this world with a Martial Arts Modification System. He could modify any martial art without limit just by looking at it. Mad Demon Staff Technique, Iron Shirt and Eagle Cla 2.6kReads8.8Score380Shelves
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  43. 43 Global Terror 全球惊悚 Mystery882k WordsCompleted The world is falling apart, and the supernatural is returning. Life and death, partings and loss play out every day, but this has also given rise to a special group of people: Ghost Tamers! By a twist of fate, Yu Sheng becomes a member of the Paranormal Association. Then an old photograph leads him to a clue left behind by his father. Every clue points to Dongcheng, but the city is now shrouded by the Shuddering Ghost Domain… [Scare Level: Uneasy - Frightening - Terrifying - Bone-Rattling - Hair 29Reads7.5Score—Shelves
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  44. 44 Tales of Strange Happenings in Snow City 雪城志异 Mystery834k WordsOngoing A collection of short tales of the strange and supernatural, including ghost stories and even stories about aliens! Each story is only a few hundred words, so you can finish one in no time. Strange happenings and supernatural tales, demons and ghosts, tree spirits and fox fairies! Let your imagination run wild! Everyone is welcome to read! 28Reads—Score—Shelves
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