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The Sound of Nightmares: 60 Horror Stories That Wake You from Your Dreams 噩梦之声:60个做梦吓醒的恐怖故事
[Standalone Ghost Stories + Supernatural Horror + Not for the Faint of Heart + Rural Tales] When night falls, terrifying ghostly figures emerge. Step into all kinds of bizarre and unbelievable tales, and spend your nights screaming! Haunted houses, ghostly shadows outside the window, a deadly lipstick, someone beneath the mattress, an umbrella that hunts people... Every corner conceals inexplicable phenomena and secrets that will fill you with dread! Every page will make your hair stand on end,
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- 2 Ghostly Whispers at Midnight 夜半鬼语 [Rural + Supernatural + Ghost Stories] Back when my grandfather was young, he learned carpentry. As Old Zhao put it, a sixth-grade carpenter these days was worth half a scholar. But things were different back then. Carpenters belonged to one of the lowest trades. They had to carry their tools around every day, get up before dawn and stay out until the middle of the night, traveling from village to village to find work. And because they went so many places, and made coffins and dealt with the dea 5kReads9.0Score204Shelves
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Tales of the Haunted Mountain Village 山村诡事录
Where the woods are dense, ghosts abound; where the mountains are high, monsters are sure to lurk. After getting drunk, Chen Jianjun of Kaoshan Village encounters a beautiful woman in the mountains. Alone together, the pair spend several days in an intimate embrace. When he returns home, he goes mad for a day and then dies. On the day of his burial, Chen Jianjun suddenly comes back to life... To save his family, Chen Xiaojun becomes the apprentice of Yi, a lame man who was once sent to a work ca
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Horror's Edge: 100 Absolutely Terrifying Ghost Stories 恐怖边界:100个绝对惊悚的鬼谈
[Standalone Stories + Supernatural Horror + Folk Customs + Feng Shui and Mysticism + Mild Frights + Shocking Twists] Horror tales beyond anything you could imagine. Each story is like a dark door swinging open, drawing you into moments that will make your skin crawl. Listen. A faint whisper, an indescribable shadow creeping closer. Danger by the river, terror in the cemetery, ghost babies in the maternity ward, evil headhunting magic, apparitions at the hot springs, a bloodstained umbrella... On
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- 5 Northeastern China's Forbidden Secrets 东北禁忌手札 [Extreme horror + a folk-horror story set in the countryside] In a remote mountain village, deep within the forest, countless taboos remain unknown to outsiders. The people here follow ancient rules of life and death: pregnant women must never encounter a coffin, and anyone who dies of old age at a hundred years old is destined to become an evil spirit. But in a single day, the old Yu family breaks both taboos, drawing every kind of demon and ghost to their door! At midnight, someone hears the s 912Reads8.8Score108Shelves
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Tales of Strange Happenings in the Countryside 乡村诡事录
The strange happenings in a mountain village. I was born and raised in the countryside. Deep in the mountains, there are always ghosts and spirits, and my village was no exception. Heaven, earth, black, yellow, the cosmos vast: demons and ghosts send shivers down your spine. One year, the start of spring fell on the fifteenth day of the eighth month. That year, so many strange things happened. Just bringing them up is enough to scare people. Meeting the Black and White Impermanence on a night wa
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The Midnight Ghost Market: Living People Keep Out 午夜鬼市,活人回避
[Mystery + supernatural + ghost market + narrow escape from death] My name is Tang Chao. I’m a broke young man scraping by in the antiques business, with hundreds of thousands in debt hanging over me. An ordinary porcelain-buying deal led me to pick up a strange Jun ware bowl at an unexpectedly low price. I thought I’d found a bargain. Little did I know, it was the beginning of my nightmare... On a bus, I met a burly man calling himself Jue Mingzi, who warned me that “a calamity is sure to befal
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Insomniacs' Forbidden Tales: 444 Midnight Ghost Stories 失眠者禁忌:444个午夜鬼谈
A horror anthology with a bonus at the end of every story. I have 444 folk ghost stories guaranteed to keep you awake until midnight, terrify you, make you break out in a cold sweat, and pull the covers over your head! At the end of every chapter, the “Author’s Note” will include an illustration or bonus! But before you open it, brace yourself. The author accepts no responsibility for what happens next! [Supernatural Horror] [Folk Horror] [Rural Ghost Stories] [True Cases] [Urban Oddities] [L
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- 9 The Horror Stories I Tell on the Midnight Radio Come True 午夜电台我讲的恐怖故事都成真了 [Thriller + horror + wild imagination + plot twists] Zhang Mo, a transmigrator whose parents have both died, is forced to inherit the radio station his father left behind, which is on the verge of going under. Then a System suddenly activates, releasing a new horror story every seven days. To his shock, every story comes true in the real world. The radio station reaches its peak, but little by little, Zhang Mo is driven to despair... 831Reads6.6Score102Shelves
- 10 My Livestreamed Ghost Stories Came True, and the Whole Country Is Terrified 直播鬼故事成真,全国网友吓哭了 (The rating just came out, so it'll go up.) [Light horror] [Absurd comedy] [No female lead] In his previous life, Gu Ming was a horror writer. After saying, "I love seeing you all scared to tears," at an awards ceremony, he was attacked by a reader in real life. When he woke up, he had transmigrated to a parallel world called Blue Star. He unlocked a ghost-story-come-true System. As long as he earned Fright Points, he could unlock all kinds of incredible rewards! And so, the most sinister stream 21.5kReads7.0Score3kShelves
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Tales of a Haunted Village 荒村怪谈录
[Rural Mysteries + Folk Customs + Chinese-Style Horror + Feng Shui and the Supernatural + Anthology + Shocking Twists] There is an old well in Jiulitun that has been sealed for thirty years, and one eerie incident after another keeps occurring. Why has a little girl become unbelievably strong and deranged? Why do villagers keep drowning, and why is the village taboo so difficult to speak of? It all goes back thirty years...
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- 12 Midnight Terror: Human Nature Stories That Will Haunt You 午夜惊魂:让人细思极恐的人性故事 At midnight, let's listen together to the little stories that circulate all around us. Maybe they're true. Maybe you've heard them too, or even experienced them yourself. Those moments that grow more terrifying the more you think about them go perfectly with the pitch-black night beyond the window. Red brick walls are common in many places. But we've never stopped to wonder: why are those bricks so red, so vivid? Rideshares at night aren't necessarily safe. Passengers have their concerns, and dr 522Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 13 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 416Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 14 Tales of the Supernatural 民间怪谈录 [Rural Horror Stories + Anthology + Folk Horror Tales + Chinese Supernatural] Supernatural happenings are most likely to occur in mountain villages, and the stories we've heard may well have really happened. In the eerie night wind, Granny Hao, the midwife who receives the dead, is like a messenger from the underworld, guiding the spirits of helpless mothers and children home. Locust trees commune with spirits, and poplars attract yin energy. Beneath the village's ancient trees lie secrets that 829Reads8.9Score105Shelves
- 15 A Ghost Knocks at Midnight 深夜鬼敲门 A collection of 40 traditional ghost stories, featuring all kinds of folk tales about ghosts and monsters. A rare collection of supernatural legends. 800Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 16 Reborn in the 1970s: Shen Laotai Abandons Her Husband and Children and Strikes It Rich 重生七零:沈老太抛夫弃子暴富了 [Period setting + rebirth + feel-good power fantasy + family drama] Granny Shen is reborn, returning to 1976, when her useless husband wanted her to give up her job to a martyr's widow and stay home to care for her in-laws, while sacrificing her honest, kind children as blood donors for ungrateful ingrates. In her previous life, Granny Shen dragged her dutiful eldest son and eldest daughter into devoting their whole lives to the Wang family. She cared for her in-laws until they died, then her us 2.5kReads8.0Score241Shelves
- 17 Reborn in 1979: Even This Old Lady Can Go Wild 重生一九七九:老太太也疯狂 [Period setting + reborn + family life + building wealth + no golden finger + everyday life] Xu Wenxiu lies in a pool of blood and hears the secret the Zhang family has kept for years: her daughter isn’t hers, but the bastard child her scumbag husband had with another woman. In a fit of rage, she is reborn. Fine, fine. The daughter she cherished in her previous life? This time, she’ll smash that little brat to pieces. Xu Wenxiu spent her entire previous life as a drudge. She’s done with that. 5.4kReads8.2Score494Shelves
- 18 Reborn in the 1980s: Grandma Li Has the Whole Family Wrapped Around Her Finger 重生八零:李老太拿捏全家 [Period + The 1980s + Reborn + Feel-Good Fiction + Family Life] Granny Li, who had been biased toward one child and died a miserable death in her previous life, has been reborn! First, she saves her husband, then her two daughters. She also makes up for all the motherly love she failed to give her second son and her daughters. You’re wondering how much she’ll make it up to them? Until they’re stuffed! As for the rotten eldest son and his wife, they’ll spit out everything they took from me and gi 1.4kReads8.0Score112Shelves
- 19 Back at Fifty, My Ungrateful Children Kneel Before Me 重回五十岁,逆子逆女都跪下 The short drama is now streaming. (A silver-haired woman’s story set in a bygone era, focused on everyday family life. If it’s not your thing, please don’t complain.) At ninety, Li Qingxiang was paralyzed on one side. Her eldest son and daughter-in-law abused her, forcing her to live in a pigsty, where she froze to death on a snowy night. When she opened her eyes, she was fifty again. Li Qingxiang decided to change how she raised her children, ditching her image as a doting mother and becoming a 5.5kReads8.7Score459Shelves
- 20 After Her Son Abandoned Her and She Died Tragically, Granny Jiang Was Reborn in the 1980s 江老太被儿子遗弃惨死后重生八零 [Modern romance + reborn in a past era + punishing scumbags + ordinary people as an ensemble cast + everyday life + family squabbles + no golden finger + satisfying read] In her previous life, Old Madam Jiang devoted herself to her three sons and five grandsons. She went without good food and clothes, laboring tirelessly for the family for most of her life. In the end, when illness left her bedridden and unable to work for them, all her sons saw her as a burden. The eldest pushed her onto the se 140Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 21 Reborn in the 1980s: The Old Lady Turns the Family Business Around 重生八零:老太太重整家业 [Period] [The 1980s] [No golden finger] [Family life] [Reborn] Qin Mengyun, a selfless woman in her seventies, has been reborn. In her previous life, she had money and a home but no husband, yet she spent her whole life working herself to the bone for her four ungrateful sons. Now that she's back, she's seen the light. Hard work can make you rich: if her sons work hard, she gets rich; if they suffer, she gets to enjoy the good things. People say, “Raise sons to support you in old age,” but that' 3.6kReads7.2Score265Shelves
- 22 Reborn, I'm Done Putting Up with This: Scumbag Husband and Evil Son, Get Lost 重生老娘不伺候了:渣夫逆子滚 In her previous life, Huang Chunyan worked like a beast of burden, serving her entire family, only to be thrown out on New Year's Eve and die of rage. Reborn, Huang Chunyan spends every day either beating her useless husband or her disobedient sons! Anyone who won't listen gets a beating. Anyone who won't work gets a beating. Anyone she can't stand gets a beating! She just can't stop hitting people! Better to go crazy than put up with it until your breasts grow lumps. Her troublemaking mother-in 4.2kReads7.6Score283Shelves
- 23 Reborn in the 1980s: My Dutiful Children Can All Get Lost 重生八零:孝子贤孙都滚蛋 [1980s] [An elderly woman is reborn] [Family life] [Ensemble cast of ordinary people] [No golden finger] Old Madam Li spent her whole life working herself to the bone. She bought houses for her children, lived apart from her husband so she could help them, and looked after her grandchildren. Who could have guessed that her old age would end in such misery? Her husband suffered so badly from stomach cancer that he writhed in pain. They couldn't even afford painkillers that cost just a few dimes, 697Reads7.3Score103Shelves
- 24 Joining Her Husband's Army on the Island: Mountain Delicacies and Seafood with Chicken and Duck 随军婆婆上岛:山珍海味配鸡鸭 The short drama adaptation is now available (no space, no romance, island military life, everyday life, family matters, raising kids, delicious food, capitalist daughter-in-law) In her previous life, Chen Guilan looked down on her daughter-in-law for being a capitalist's daughter and hated the hardships of island life. She refused to join her son at his post and care for his pregnant wife, choosing instead to stay nearby and look after her pregnant daughter. But her daughter, son-in-law, and gra 10.7kReads8.4Score919Shelves
- 25 Reborn, the Timid Old Woman Leaves Her Husband and Children to Marry a Commander 窝囊老太重生后抛夫弃子嫁首长 Ratings for newly launched novels tend to be low and will gradually rise, so ignore them and read the story. [1970s] [Family Life] [Punishing Scumbags] [Military Marriage] [Ensemble Cast] [Feel-Good Read] Feng, an old woman, poured her heart and soul into raising her stepson and stepdaughter, helping them achieve their ambitions. In the end, they drove her from the house, and she died miserably beneath a bridge. Reborn in a new life, Feng would never again try to be the universally praised good 2.2kReads8.3Score227Shelves
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Night-Shift Internet Cafe Attendant: The Woman in Red in the Men's Room Stall Hides a Ten-Year-Old Case 夜班网管:男厕隔间的红衣女,竟藏着十年旧案
Night-Shift Internet Cafe Attendant: The Red-Clad Woman in the Men's Restroom Stall Is Hiding a Decade-Old Case
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- 27 After My Brother Was Crushed by a Tycoon Family, I Summoned the Ten Kings of Hell to Claim Their Lives 弟遭豪门碾杀,我引十殿阎罗索命 After his younger brother is crushed to death by a powerful family, he summons the Ten Kings of Hell to claim their lives 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 The Sealed Cave Behind the Mountain: I Became the Village's Soul Guardian 后山囚洞:我成了全村守魂人 After accidentally entering a century-old forbidden site in the back mountains, Jiang Ningyue unexpectedly inherits a fated duty and becomes the village’s only soul guardian. A deep, secluded prison cave suppresses countless wrongfully dead spirits. Ancient village rules conceal secrets unknown to outsiders, while turmoil erupts along the boundary between Yin and Yang, and one eerie calamity follows another. Generations of cave guardians have borne endless suffering, and a century of tangled gru 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 I Blundered into a Horror World, Only to Find That All the Bosses Were Lamps 误入恐怖世界,没想到BOSS全是灯 I stumbled into a world of horror, only to find that every BOSS was a lamp. 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 Paralyzed by Terror: The Shadow That Smelled of Tobacco 鬼压床惊魂-那具带着烟草味的黑影 Terrifying Sleep Paralysis: The Shadow That Smelled of Tobacco 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 Calling Spirits in the Ruined House: My Seven-Year-Old Brother Mysteriously Fell from a Building, and a Shadow in White Came After Him 荒坯房叫魂:7岁小弟莫名坠楼,白衣黑影缠上了他 A Spirit-Calling Ritual in a Derelict House: My Seven-Year-Old Brother Mysteriously Fell from the Building, and a Shadow in White Is Haunting Him 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 The Vengeful Ghost Great-Grandma Wants to Kill My Daughter, but My Pure Yang Infant Shatters a Century-Old Blood Pact 厉鬼太奶想杀我女,我纯阳婴镇碎百年血契 A Vengeful Ghost of a Great-Grandmother Wants to Kill My Daughter, but My Pure-Yang Baby Shatters a Century-Old Blood Pact 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 The Hanging Charm 魅巾悬 No romance + fantasy and the supernatural + mild horror + modern-day imaginative premise + episodic plot + feel-good power fantasy Liu Yixian, with a high forehead and a broad, square face, was taken in as an apprentice by Daoist Wu in the twelfth year of his life, setting him on an extraordinary path. A thousand-year-old fox or a century-old ginkgo: which one will win Yixian’s heart? A blood-red sickle stabbed the ghost seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, maybe twenty times. The ghost couldn’t take 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 The Tiger Skin: Three Years After My Mother Died, Someone Knocked at My Door in the Dead of Night 皮打虎:我娘死后三年,深夜来敲我家门 Leather Tiger: Three Years After My Mother Died, Someone Came Knocking at My Door Late at Night 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 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, 6.1kReads9.1Score453Shelves
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Stay Away, Spirits 阴人勿扰
Someone dug up our family grave and put the newlywed daughter-in-law who’d just died in their family in there. My uncle told me to go get her out in the middle of the night...
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- 37 Mom Says Crazy People Can Eat Candy 妈妈说,疯子可以吃糖 Mom says crazy people can have candy. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 My Strange Tales Won't Let Me Go Crazy 我的怪谈禁止我发疯 My Paranormal Tales Won't Let Me Go Crazy —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 Reborn as the Legitimate Daughter: Don't Kneel, I Haven't Beaten You Enough Yet 嫡女重生:别跪,我还没打够呢 Reborn as the Legitimate Daughter: Don’t Kneel, I’m Not Done Beating You Yet —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 A Record of the Maniac Boss Pretending to Be a Dog 疯批大佬装狗实录 The Record of a Deranged Big Shot Pretending to Be a Dog 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 Midnight Livestream: Trapped in Building Three 午夜直播:出不去的三号楼 Midnight Livestream: Trapped in Building No. 3 —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 Rule Horror: A Six-Year-Old Cutie and Her Ghost Friends 规则怪谈:六岁萌宝和她的鬼怪朋友 Rule Horror: A Six-Year-Old Cutie and Her Ghost Friends —Reads—Score—Shelves
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Song Dingbo: A New Tale of the Black and White Impermanence 宋定伯新篇之黑白无常
A New Tale of Song Dingbo: The Black and White Impermanence
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- 44 I’m Just a Mortal. You Expect Me to Fight a Four-Hundred-Year-Old Ghost? 我一个凡人,你让我硬刚四百年老鬼? I'm just an ordinary person. You expect me to take on a four-hundred-year-old ghost head-on? —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 The Blue-Faced Corpse Demon: An Exorcist’s Tale from the Mountains of Central Shandong 青面尸魈:鲁中山区降妖记 The Green-Faced Corpse Demon: Exorcisms in the Mountains of Central Shandong 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 Knocks at Midnight: Crossing the Bridge 半夜鬼敲门之过桥 Ghosts Knock at Midnight: Crossing the Bridge —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 Rural Mysteries: The Woman in the Mirror 农村诡事之镜子里的女人 Rural Hauntings: The Woman in the Mirror —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 Hauntings on the Qingshui River: A Copper Coin Flower Blossoms from an Eight-Year-Old Corpse’s Chest 青水河诡事:八岁童尸胸口开出铜钱花 The Strange Happenings of Qing Shui River: A Copper-Coin Blossom Sprouts from an Eight-Year-Old Corpse’s Chest —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 A Monk in a Ruined Temple Recites Sutras, Catches a Ghost, and Sends a Soul on Its Way! 破庙和尚,念经抓个鬼,超度下亡魂! A monk at a ruined temple chants sutras, catches a ghost, and helps a lost soul pass on! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 A New Tale of Song Dingbo: The Faceless Ghost 宋定伯新篇之无面鬼 A New Tale of Song Dingbo: The Faceless Ghost 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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