Looking for All Kinds of Horror: Ghosts, Fortune-Telling, Taoist Magic, and Supernatural Tales 要各种恐怖的书，比如鬼，算命，道术，各种灵异。
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The Little Taoist of Green Mountain 青山小道士
[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
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The Drum Town of Yin and Yang 鼓镇阴阳
What if you discovered that the old immortal enshrined in your family hall had died long ago... Or that a thousand-year-old ghost was trying to outlast your entire family... Would you go with the flow and cling to life, or fight your fate with everything you've got? My name is Zhang An. An means peace. I only wanted to live a quiet life, but supernatural troubles and calamities kept hounding me. With no other choice, I took up the ancestral sheepskin drum and became a shamanic medium, earning
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King of Feng Shui 风水之王
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!
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A Collection of Short Folk Horror Stories 民间恐怖故事短篇集
Some old customs aren't about superstition. They're about staying alive. · Have you ever heard your grandmother's warning: Never pick up a red comb you find on the road? · Have you ever felt a sudden, inexplicable fear that your reflection might smile at you while you're looking in the mirror late at night? · Have you ever clearly heard the faint scrape of fingernails against the inside of a wall on a night when you're home alone? This book records the taboos people have forgotten, and the… re
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The Yin Talisman Edict 阴符令
Lu Jiaer returns to his hometown for a funeral, only to step into a cursed village. The neighbors are deranged, restless spirits roam the streets, and his grandmother's dying words become a fate he cannot escape. When his old friend Li Xiao and the mysterious girl Ge Wenxue appear, he discovers that he is the heart of a century-old curse: the "Fortune Vortex," coveted by the secretive organization known as the Fortune Thieves' Pavilion. From a haunted old well to an alley of paper effigies, from
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Uncle Nine: I Copy Traits, and Ren Tingting Begs Me in Tears to Marry Her 九叔，复制词条任婷婷哭着求嫁
[Zombie manipulation, humorous traits, recruiting disciples across film and TV worlds] Lin Fan transmigrates to Renjia Town, becomes Uncle Ninth’s disciple, and awakens the Trait Copying System. He can even combine traits without limit! Five Thunder Spell (Gold), Qimen Dunjia (Red), Zhong Kui Possession (Rainbow) Chrysanthemum Corpse Cultivation (Purple), Corpse King’s Tyrant Body (Red), Soul-Reaping Buddhist Chant (Red) Maoshan Corpse Driving (Purple), Sword Control Through Qi (Supreme), Indest
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Call Me Lord Ghost Messenger 请叫我鬼差大人
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
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The Ghost Marshal’s Yin-Yang Inn 鬼差之阴阳馆
By day, she transforms into a human; by night, she helps ghosts cross over. Come visit this unassuming little shop, run by a newly hired underworld makeup artist, and make an inquiry.
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Disciple of the Maoshan Sect 茅山门徒
A strange antique shop where the owner uses his ghostly eyes to appraise treasures and spends a fortune buying ghost bones! Think the owner only knows how to appraise antiques? Think again. He can read beautiful women, too! The domineering female CEO, the hottest star, an unconventional beauty, the pure-hearted campus belle, the girl next door… He can see right through you with a single glance!
9.6kReads9.0Score898Shelves
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Calculating Fate Through Yin 算阴命
My mother was snatched away by a beast when she gave birth to me. Twelve years later, my father brought home a woman. Three days after that, my father died…
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Paranormal Livestream: Please, Stop Telling Stories 灵异直播：求求你别讲了
Lin Xiao, a horror-story streamer, accidentally transmigrates to a world with no supernatural stories. His story about a haunted taxi is met with protests from countless taxi drivers. His story about a human-meat barbecue shop leaves countless barbecue lovers too terrified to go near one. His school ghost story unexpectedly helps the police solve a cold case that has remained unsolved for years. What's more, he discovers that he can inherit a vast collection of Daoist magical artifacts and skill
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The Coffin Walks at Night 灵棺夜行
I was carrying a coffin up the mountain for a burial when they stuffed me inside and buried me alive. Then, in a single night, all three hundred or so people in the village vanished. Only at night was the place alive with voices. I crawled out of the coffin, only to discover...
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Tales of the Taoist Sect 道门往事
Cha Wenbin holds the ancestral seal of the Maoshan sect and is the last heir to the position of sect leader in the Orthodox Way. He saves people caught between yin and yang, but brings disaster upon himself and suffers Heaven’s punishment. With a chivalrous heart and a mastery of Taoist arts, he rescues the living from the cracks between worlds and guides the dead through the endless hellish roads! Who are the ancient Di people clad in fish scales, the mysterious king brought back to life, and t
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The Comically Awkward Taoist 神囧道士
I have a master who claims to be an unofficial eighth-generation disciple of Maoshan, but I've never seen him perform a single Daoist art. I always thought he was a fraud, until the day we took on a ritual to guide the dead for a wealthy family...
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The Haunted Teahouse: I Only Sell Objects of Ill Omen 恐怖茶馆：我只卖大凶之物
The world is divided between yin and yang. Some people do business with the living, while others trade with the dead. I deal in the business of the dead, but I don’t sell coffins, paper money, funeral clothes, or paper effigies. What I sell are things you’ve never seen before, things far stranger still…
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Kiddo, I Told You to Burn Money, Not Set Off a Nuke! 乖孙，我让你烧钱你给我烧核弹？
[Campus Life, Everyday Moments, Laugh-Out-Loud Comedy, Supernatural, Shameless Antics, Unhinged Behavior] “Good grandson, Grandpa's out of money for the war. Hurry up and burn me some cash!” Zhang Di got nightmares like this at least once a day, but never thought much of them. Until one day, he dreamed his grandpa was fuming: “You little brat, why is it so hard to burn me some money? Fine, I'll send someone up there to teach you how to burn joss paper, step by step!” Grandpa's attacking a city?
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Corpse's Fate 尸命
I have three masters, surnamed Li, Wang, and Xu. But my story begins with someone borrowing thirty years of my lifespan...
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The Grand Feng Shui Master 大相师
Ten years ago, nine snakes crawled into my bed. Grandpa said someone was trying to steal my life. To keep me alive, he arranged an engagement for me to extend my lifespan...
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The Divine Qilin 麒麟神相
I was born with a Qilin by my side. To save me, my grandfather peeled off his own human skin and gave it to a nine-tailed fox. That day, dead trees bloomed again, and all the beasts came to pay their respects!
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Tomb of the Living 活人墓
My mother said I was short on Metal in the Five Elements, so she named me Du Jin. But I realized I wasn't just short on Metal. I was born without a fate, and all five elements were broken! When I was two or three, my baby brother, who had only just been born, died. When I was twelve or thirteen, my father left this world along with the little brother still in my mother's womb. Not long after my father died, my mother also passed away, taking with her the baby who had died shortly after birth. An
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The Underworld Calls Me Little Master 地府叫我小先生
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!
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Yin-Yang Flower Chronicles 阴阳花事录
A strange omen appeared in the sky, and a blood-red peony mark appeared on Wang Erdan's forehead, foretelling a future unlike anyone else's. From the age of eight, Wang Erdan embarked on a fantastical life…
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The Fate-Commanding Master 请命师
Li Daxiao is the eighth-generation fate diviner of the Li family. Following his grandfather’s last wishes, he keeps watch over a shabby video store. What awaits him there are one strange and terrifying tale after another…
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The Laws of the Underworld 阴间法则
A young man with three thousand years of memories faces a path of cultivation strewn with thorns. With unyielding resolve, he crushes them underfoot and fears no hardship. Along the way, he accidentally discovers that someone has tampered with the laws of the underworld. The mastermind behind it all turns out to be the Jade Emperor, ruler of the Three Realms. After learning his true identity, the young man enters into a thrilling battle of wits with the Jade Emperor...
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The Dead People's Housing Estate 死人小区
After losing his job, he rented an apartment and thought he was starting a new life. He never expected ghosts to knock on his door in the middle of the night, only to discover that all his neighbors were ghosts. He wanted to leave, but faced a hefty penalty for breaking his lease. With no other choice, he decided to make the best of it.
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Selling Burial Clothes, Sewing Up Corpses, and Raising a Ghost Wife 卖寿衣，缝尸体，养鬼妻
[Traditional supernatural horror, folk terror, decisive and ruthless] I rented an apartment where someone had died, hoping to save money, only to be plunged into endless darkness... My terrifying girlfriend has a mouth full of sharp teeth and haunts me day and night; A headless vengeful infant on the highway frantically tries to steal people’s heads; A horrifying internet celebrity livestreams herself peeling off people’s faces, while the comments turn eerie; At a Cat Immortal shrine in a strang
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Tales from the Underworld 阴司异闻录
After dying a wrongful death for no apparent reason, he goes to the underworld and unexpectedly becomes an underworld official. Bearing a command token from the realm of the dead, he maintains the balance between yin and yang, slays demons and exorcises evil, and sets out to capture ghosts and accumulate yin virtue, all in hopes of changing his own fate…
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Thriller: I Only Sell Haunted Houses 惊悚：我只卖凶宅
Rooms where unnatural deaths have occurred are collectively known as haunted houses. There are two kinds: “blue houses” and “red houses.” Living people can stay in blue houses without harm, but anyone who lives in a red house is doomed to die. I work as a real estate agent. One day, I accidentally sold a red house, and afterward, I began encountering terrifying things…
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I Have 36,524 Folk Horror Stories 我有36524个民间恐怖故事
[Standalone stories] [Supernatural suspense] [Folk horror] [Mountain spirits and monsters] [Adapted from real cases] [Rural legends] There is no main storyline. Each chapter is a self-contained story adapted from folk rumors, with eerie, gripping plots. Note: This story discourages superstition and encourages belief in science. It is entirely fictional, so just enjoy it as entertainment.
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Ghost Stories From a Mountain Village: One Horror Story Per Chapter 山村鬼事：一章一个恐怖故事
[Anthology of stories] [Folklore horror] [Supernatural horror] [Village legends] [Chinese-style horror] [Old-time storytelling] There is no overarching plot. Each chapter is a standalone horror story adapted from folk tales, with eerie, unsettling plots that grow more terrifying the more you think about them. Note: This story discourages superstition and encourages belief in science. It is entirely fictional, so just enjoy it as a bit of fun.
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The Yin-Yang Way by Night 夜行阴阳道
When he was six, his mother died, and his father went west to seek work and never returned. He fled to Sanyuan Temple, where the old Daoist Shen gave him a bowl of corn grits and a new name: Shen Yexing. “Walk the yin-yang road by night; go about your business in the human world by day.” From then on, those who traveled by night had no sun to light their way. They had to feel their way forward in the dark.
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The Divine Fortune-Teller in the Linen Robe 麻衣神算子
My grandfather taught me everything he knew about fortune-telling, but after I read three people’s fortunes, he left me. From then on, I didn’t just tell the fortunes of the living...
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There’s a Ghost Inside Me 我的体内有只鬼
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
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Super Scary Livestream 超级惊悚直播
"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!"
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Fourteen Years of Hunting Ghosts (Complete in Five Volumes) 十四年猎诡人（全五册）
[The full-cast audio drama is now available. Give it a listen!] Li Yifan’s spine-chilling ghost-hunting chronicles! A contemporary Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio! A spine-chilling record of ghost hunts! First posted on Tieba, it topped 100 million views within three months! The acclaimed mystery writer Li Yifan’s breakthrough work, now with the unpublished continuation added! Every ghost was once a living person. I’m a professional ghost hunter. I turn the compass, circle the place with red
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Taboo of the Living 活人禁忌
When I was nine, I found myself in mortal danger! To save me, my grandfather made a decision that would change my life forever...
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Confessions of a Mentally Ill Person 一个精神病人的自述
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...
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Calculating Your Fate to the End 算死命
When I was born, I was nursed by a wolf for a few days. I thought of her as my mother, and believed I'd never see her again. Then one day, a woman came looking for me...
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The Yin Compass Suppresses Evil 阴盘镇煞
Genre: Modern feng shui thriller / Folk mystery / Metaphysical deduction Key elements: Feng shui compass, ill-fated tomb arrangements, using the living to suppress evil, closed loops of cause and effect, and deeply unsettling details Style: Chinese-style horror, internally consistent logic, no ghosts or gods, suspense created through feng shui and destiny reading
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Ghost Accounts 鬼账
When a person dies, are their debts wiped out? No. The person dies, but the debt remains. And it keeps accruing interest. My name is Gu Changsheng. I'm a junior bookkeeper at the Futong Money House in Yingtian Prefecture. My grandfather passed down a pair of eyes that can see what others cannot in a ledger: What kind of creditor stands behind every debt. Some creditors are alive, wearing blue robes and cloth shoes, standing beside the account page and waiting to collect. Some creditors are dead,
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Working Part-Time at a Crematorium, the Campus Belle Tried to Make a Move on Me as Soon as She Died 火葬场兼职，校花刚死就要逆推我
[Spirit Familiars + Supernatural + Irreverent + Choices + Mystery + Horror] Also known as: “Horror: It Begins When the Campus Beauty Makes a Move on Me at the Crematorium” The protagonist is a shameless womanizer who plays by his own rules. If that’s not your thing, please move along. Jin Ran, a longtime recipient of welfare benefits, accidentally activates the “Yellow Springs Record Choice System” while selling condoms. Every choice he makes brings generous rewards. His accident sets off a butt
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Horror Revival: It Started When I Flirted with a Female Ghost 恐怖复苏：从撩了女鬼开始
The Three Paths of Impermanence are in turmoil, yin and yang are out of balance, terror returns, and demons and ghosts wreak havoc. Xue Yan obtains a ghost-flirting System. A ghost from the Republic of China era: “What's with this guy? He's not afraid of me, and he's even flirting with me!” A stumbling ghost: “I've finally met someone more twisted than I am.” A hanging ghost: “He actually told me to step on his AJ sneakers?” While the masters of the martial world are scared witless by terrifying
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I Woke with a Start from a Dream, Only to Find Out I'm the Villain 病从梦中惊坐起，反派竟是我自己
[Get stronger when attacked by monsters + Transmigration + System + Invincible + Comedy + Villain + Demon Suppression Bureau] After transmigrating to a fantasy world overrun by monsters, Gu Qingfeng becomes a prison guard in the Demon Suppression Prison of the Great Yan Dynasty’s Demon Suppression Bureau. From that day on, strange cases begin piling up in the prison, once known as a living hell and feared for its eerie, terrifying atmosphere! Why do the monsters in the prison scream every night?
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Outlaw: This Criminal Doesn’t Spare Even Ghosts 法外狂徒：这个罪犯连鬼也不放过
In an age when the supernatural is returning, vicious ghosts are appearing all over the city. Just out of prison, Chu Bei looks serious. “Officer, does the country allow me to commit crimes against ghosts?” The Life-Taking Ghost: “Spirit Management Bureau? I'd like to report a crime. Someone stole my kidneys. Yes, both of them are gone.” The Ghost Vendor: “Is there any justice in this world? I'm just a watermelon seller, and he asked me if my melons were ripe!” The Zombie King from some mass gra
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I Turned the Horror World Into a Raising Game! 我把惊悚世界玩成养成游戏！
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
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From the Start, Livestreaming the Underworld: Who Would Dare Enter This Stream? 开局直播地府：这直播间谁敢上啊
[Live streaming from the underworld + ghost officer + heartwarming everyday life] Jiang Lin is a White Impermanence, guiding the dead to the afterlife and delivering messages in dreams. One day, he obtains an Underworld Live-Streaming System. He can earn rewards by promoting the culture of the Netherworld. From then on, a miraculous livestream appears in the human world, connecting the realms of the living and the dead. A typical day in the livestream: “Ghost: Stay away from me!” “This really is
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Strange Tales Livestream 怪谈直播间
The sound of meat being chopped eerily echoes through a bun shop in the dead of night. The passengers on the last bus all have the same face. On a freezing, rainy night, someone wearing funeral clothes wanders the streets... The Strange Tales livestream takes you deep into the hidden side of this world!
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I Am Intersex 我是阴阳人
My mother said that when I was born, her first reaction was to strangle me, because it was impossible to tell whether I was male or female. My grandmother called me a freak and a jinx, saying I would only bring shame on the family. It was then that my maternal grandmother, who had traveled all the way from the countryside to visit my mother, adopted me. So, by chance, I got to enjoy a pure childhood, free from scornful looks. Following my half-immortal grandmother, I unexpectedly discovered how
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The Detective Who Speaks in Riddles 诡语神探
In his previous life, Zhu Long was betrayed by both the woman he loved most and his best friend. He died a miserable death, unable to let go of his resentment. After a journey through hell, he emerged stronger: not only was he reborn five years in the past, he also gained the blessing of strange words. This time, he will rewrite his fate and clear the names of the dead. Whatever belongs to him, he will take back with his own hands!
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Breaking the Yin Fate 破阴命
Someone wants me dead, but I insist on surviving My fate was altered, and my loved ones were harmed I have to fight to stay alive if I want to clear away the fog I was supposed to die on the day I was born, but Grandpa won me a slim chance at life Now that I'm seventeen, strange things keep happening And to survive, I have no choice but to...
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