Chinese-Style Horror Novels About Ghostly Incidents in Mountain Villages, No Cultivation, Just Chilling Terror 中式恐怖,山村鬼事,不修仙,后背发凉的恐怖小说
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My Fiancée Disappeared, and I Became the Killer 未婚妻失踪,我成了凶手
My name is Cheng Yuan. My fiancée has disappeared. The last message I saw before I passed out was from her. “Cheng Yuan, run!” When I woke up, I found myself trapped in a perfect replica of my home, with something sinister lurking everywhere. And it seemed someone was watching me! A madman claimed to be deeply in love with my fiancée. But later, I discovered that the real madman was someone else.
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The Dragon Raises the Coffin 龙抬棺
A human corpse with a serpent’s body, a red coffin for the funeral, the living must not disturb it. Anyone who sees it is doomed to die. Eight ghosts bear the coffin, and once it touches the ground, the burial begins. The descendants entrusted with the task will enjoy boundless fortune and longevity...
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What Will the Next Story Be? 下一个故事会是什么?
A collection of episodic stories based on personal experiences. First person, rural life, the supernatural, mildly frightening, and terrifying when you think it over... episodic stories. The damp villages of the south conceal supernatural tales colder than snakes. Open this book, and you’ll enter a graveyard of memories: a forgotten puppy leaves muddy paw prints on a rainy night; the withered vines of gossip tighten around a young girl’s neck; a blond doll by the roadside carries a curse that cl
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There’s a Ghost in the Dorm 宿舍有鬼
My roommate is a cosplayer. A month into our sophomore year, she ordered a complete Chinese ghost-bride outfit online to wear to a horror party. She even hung the entire outfit beside her bed the night before. But that night, I woke with a start in the middle of the night and saw with my own eyes a female ghost in a bright red wedding dress pacing back and forth at the foot of her bed.
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Terror in the Haunted Dorm 诡寝惊魂
I got a job as a dorm supervisor in a university women’s residence, but the girls there were a little too friendly… Crying in the middle of the night, dorm rooms catching fire, rooms that don’t exist. Hidden in the deepest corners of memory is a bizarre and fantastical world… The night is deep, the dream unfinished. A mountain spirit blows out the lamp. Where can a lonely soul return?
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My Best Friend Disappeared While Picking Up Takeout, and Everyone Says She Never Existed 闺蜜取个外卖就失踪,所有人都说她并不存在
My best friend went out to pick up a delivery and never came back. She vanished from my life completely. Nobody remembered her. They all thought I was mentally ill. The truth was, we had been split across two different timelines.
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Classroom of Despair 绝望教室
What began as a prank voting game set off a string of tragedies. One classmate after another died, yet the voting continued. I knew that maybe I would be the next one to die…
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Daughter Village 女儿村
I was born in Daughter Village. For twenty years in a row, every child born in our village was a girl. Every nightfall, the cries of baby girls echoed through the valley. Once, a Taoist priest came to our village and said the entire village was cursed. During the summer of my first year of graduate school, my advisor ignored my protests and brought me and several other students to the village to conduct research.
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The Republic-Era Book of Mysteries 民国诡秘录
Sometimes, the one who takes your life isn’t a person at all, but an evil spirit or demon. And the one controlling those spirits from behind the scenes might well be human... In the chaotic Republican era, foreign powers encircled the nation, eager to invade China, while warlords fought among themselves at home, leaving the land in ruins. On the other side of the jianghu, evil spirits rose everywhere and ghosts ran rampant, while mysterious foreign religions invaded as well. After waking from a
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The Missing Body 丢失的身体
Two empty bottles of sleeping pills lay before the grave, and two kidneys lay before his son's grave. With a smile on his face, he leaned against his son's gravestone and slowly closed his eyes.
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Midnight Strangulation Marks on a Severed Hand 断手的午夜掐痕
That night on duty, my junior grabbed my sleeve, his voice trembling. “Senior, the patient who lost a hand in a drunk-driving accident half a year ago… he's dead.” A chill ran down the back of my neck as the memories came flooding back. Two accident victims had been brought to the hospital that day, and both had lost their right hands. Yet only one of them survived. Later, the survivor woke in the middle of the night with red marks where his own hand had choked him. His family sought help from e
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You Were Hired to Catch Ghosts, but You Took Over and Became the King of Hell 让你打工抓鬼,你接盘成了阎王
[1,094 days left on the lifespan countdown! If I don’t catch a hundred vengeful ghosts, I’ll have to go down below and work as a laborer!] Chen Mo, the most miserable agent of the Underworld stationed among the living. Back then, he couldn’t keep his hands to himself and tore up a contract from the netherworld. His lifespan was docked, leaving him with only three years. To stay alive, he’s forced to take ghost-hunting jobs. But the Underworld pairs him with a hot-tempered man from Shaanxi who si
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Rule Horror: Escape from Silent Bear Ridge 规则怪谈:逃出死寂狗熊岭
[Rules-based horror + fantasy world + ultra-bizarre + decisive killer + smart protagonist + no System + plot-driven] A blend of a fantasy world and rules-based horror, with a fast-paced, plot-focused main story. The protagonist, Li Huaqiang, was once a famous lumberjack in the Dragon Kingdom. After an accident transported him to another world ruled by strange laws, can he escape, or will he become its king?
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Workplace Rule Horror: A Desperate Fight to Survive the Grind 职场规则怪谈:玩命打工求生
A job interview turns into a deadly game The printer devours people, the elevator plummets, the boss eats human flesh… Every workplace rule is a lethal trap! Double-sided printing can save your life; pressing the wrong elevator button can cost it. Remember the rules of the workplace, or you'll be the next zombie! Is this workplace bullying, or a death game? Welcome to workplace hell Please do your best to survive.
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Thriller: I Designed Chu Renmei and Scared the Whole World to Tears 惊悚:我设计出楚人美吓哭全球
[Horror games + supernatural resurgence + terrifying paranormal events + infinite-loop world] When the paranormal suddenly engulfed the globe, some chosen humans became horror game designers. By creating games scary enough, they gained the power to fight vengeful spirits. Those who made it to the end would become gods of a new age! After transmigrating, Han Yu discovered that this world shrouded in the paranormal had once been a pristine place, with no tales, films, or books about vengeful spiri
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Designing Horror Games: Chu Renmei Terrifies the World 设计恐怖游戏,楚人美吓哭全球
[Horror Game + Mysterious Revival + Horror and Terror + Suspense and Mystery + Infinite Flow] The supernatural has spread across the globe. Some people become horror game designers, gaining the ability to fight vengeful spirits by designing horror games. Those who make it to the end will become gods of a new era. After transmigrating, Han Yu realizes that the world shrouded in the supernatural was originally a pure land, with no legends, films, or books about vengeful spirits. With so little sou
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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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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
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Folk Horror [The Fake Master Who Shocks a Hundred Demons] 恐怖民俗【冒牌大师震百妖】
The thing Liu Buyi, a fake master, regrets most in his life is learning how to “draw talismans with soy sauce” from a short video. Because the corpse that should be lying quietly in front of him is now using a soy-sauce-dipped finger to write his name on the coffin lid. Meanwhile, his half-baked beauty of a partner, An Xun, is munching on sunflower seeds and enjoying the show. “Didn't you say you had Yin-Yang Eyes?!” Liu Buyi's voice trembles. Seeing how unconcerned she looks, he almost passes o
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Mystery Revival 神秘复苏
Kill and loot, and you’ll strike it rich; build bridges and mend roads, and you’ll die without a body! At twenty-seven, Bi Tao was an intern at a cancer hospital. After being diagnosed with a terminal illness, he discovered... the familiar world had changed! The world grew increasingly bizarre, and horror slowly returned! Monsters ran rampant, and ghosts wreaked havoc. Watch as he takes control of fate and turns the tide!
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Folk Sorcery 乡野诡术
My fate is ruled by the Seven Killings star, and I was born with a short life. Before adulthood, I face a calamity every year. The eighteenth year is the most perilous, known as the Life-and-Death Tribulation. My grandfather took seventeen calamities for me, but he died before my Life-and-Death Tribulation arrived. Before he breathed his last, he took away seventeen paper figures. They are my karmic retribution...
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Cursed Grudge 怨咒
[Warning: After leaving this unfinished for ages, I can't write what comes next, and I really don't want to pad it out and ruin the feel of the earlier chapters. I've decided to shelve it, so please don't read.] When I was sixteen, an evil spirit latched onto me and changed my fate. I brought disaster upon my parents and family, then my relatives and friends. Anyone who came near me would die violently in the street, bleeding from every orifice and meeting a horrible end. A fortune-teller calcul
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The Corpse Soul's Lost Spirit 尸魂落魄
I bought a human-body mannequin on Taobao. The seller had clearly gone to a lot of trouble, because what arrived was a living corpse...
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The Yin-Born Child 阴生子
Before I was even born, someone plotted against me. I was cut from my mother’s womb before I was full-term, born with a congenital defect, and prone to attracting evil spirits. My fate was cursed, and I was destined not to live past a hundred days. To stay alive, I went to live with my maternal grandfather, a medium who could travel between the worlds of the living and the dead. After years of learning from him, I became a medium myself. From then on, I could communicate with the gods, enter the
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Terrifying Folklore: It Begins with the Weasel Spirit 恐怖民俗:从黄皮子开始
The day I was born, I bore the burden of the Five Ghosts, and my soul was bound. I was destined to die, but my grandfather used an evil folk ritual to borrow a life for me. When I was twelve, weasels surrounded the village. They told me the life I'd borrowed had to be repaid...
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The Golden Bait Project 黄金鱼饵计划
[Modern mystery, dark crime, twist-filled power fantasy] Cornered with no way out, he came up with a plan: the Golden Fish Bait scheme. He deliberately posted huge amounts of fake gold online, posing as a wealthy recluse to lure greedy thieves to his door. He set up layers of mechanisms, surveillance cameras, and traps in advance, hoping to take the thieves down and get the money he needed to save his life. But once the hunters took the bait, everything spiraled out of control. The intruders wer
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Another World: My Life Has Cheat Codes! 异世界:我的人生开了挂!
[Vampires, werewolves, technology, potions, ghosts, biohumans, divination, puppets, and every terrifying element you can imagine: this world has them all.] Lin En transmigrated into such a bizarre otherworld and became an apprentice at a potion shop. "Something is wrong with that man! He never uses anesthetic when performing surgery!" "That shop is a scam! The moment you go in, they find a pile of illnesses even if you are perfectly healthy!" "But wait, isn't that shop supposed to be the bes
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Ghosts in Pieces 散装见鬼
Do you believe there are ghosts in this world? I think that question is as impossible to answer as whether there are dragons in this world. The answer you hear most often is: Believe in them, and they exist. Don’t believe in them, and they don’t. But if you ask me, my answer is simple: Yes! Not because I believe, but because I can see them. Of course, I wasn’t able to see them from birth. It all goes back to the strange experience I had when I was six...
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The Capital’s Young Master Is at Her Feet 京圈太子爷是她的裙下之臣
The Capital’s Crown Prince Is Her Devoted Suitor
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In This World, Who Do You Think You Are? 天地间老子在你算老几?
On a pitch-black night, I dreamed of countless stars rushing toward me. By chance, I became a haunted-house tester, and all sorts of supernatural phenomena began appearing out of nowhere. The strange and bizarre things in the city, the mysterious forces deep in the mountains, and the gods people worship: do they really exist? Where can I find the key to a new world? Is this a responsibility, a mission, or a chance to become the next scapegoat? What unsolved mysteries lie in the world I inhabit,
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The Yin-Yang Lady Seer 阴阳女先生
I accidentally brought a female ghost back to life, even though she’d been dead for three years. But her fingernails were rotten, and she grabbed me, asking if I could treat them. I rolled my eyes. Lady, I’m a yin-yang practitioner, not a dermatologist. I can draw talismans, send spirits on their way, read feng shui, and pass messages between the worlds of the living and the dead. The one thing I never learned was how to treat skin diseases in the newly revived dead. The longer I worked in this
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Yagyu Yelang 柳生夜郎
Liu Shisan was born in the 1990s and learned folk Taoist arts from Grandpa Yun, a member of his family, from a young age. He thought he was simply gifted, but never imagined he would be drawn into the secret of how Liu Bowen of the Ming dynasty severed the dragon veins beneath the land...
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Painting Yin and Yang with a Single Stroke 一笔绘阴阳
As I gazed down the shadowy corridor and across the empty hall, the strange order of light and darkness stirred a fear of the unknown deep inside me. The elders always said, “The ancestral hall is home to spirits that have yet to depart.” “Don’t step on the threshold, don’t touch the ancestral tablets, and don’t whistle in the ancestral hall.” “The names on the tablets weren’t carved there. They moved in.” When the wind blew past the row of wooden windows, the latticework let out a mournful wail
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A Gathering of Folk Tales and Strange Tales 民间志怪故事会
Built on stories passed down by word of mouth, fleshed out with strange tales, and given a soul by taboos. We gather up the folk stories scattered across villages, old houses, graveyards, and mountain hamlets. They are not myths or legends, but the rules and reverence earned through a lifetime of experience by the elders who came before us.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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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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
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Half a Lifetime on the Uncanny Path 我的诡道半生
Ghosts and monsters are fierce and savage, demanding lives in the dead of night and bringing sinister forces into people’s homes, terrifying all who encounter them. With talismans in hand and sword at my side, I wield the righteous energy of heaven and earth to slay demons and drive out evil. “The Mysterious Ancestor of Heaven and Earth, root of all qi, let golden light appear swiftly and shield my body. Let evil spirits retreat and disperse. By the authority of the law, obey at once!” With the
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Yun Che: The Seven Lamps of the Paper Effigy Maker 云澈:扎纸人的七盏灯
Yun Che: The Seven Lamps of the Paper Effigy Maker
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The Slacker’s Book of Strange Tales: Seeking a Child in Doll Village 咸鱼诡事录之娃娃村求子
The Lazybones’ Record of Strange Tales: Seeking a Child in Doll Village
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The Secret Record of the Between-Realm 筑间秘录
Jiang Ziwen, a renowned designer, was playing a game when someone lured his soul into a dream. He suddenly died... When he was judged in the underworld, the King of Hell took note of his sense of justice and the injustice he had suffered. Since they shared the same name, the King of Hell bestowed upon him secret Feng Shui techniques. After returning to the living world, he fell in love at first sight with Ye Ling, a night patrol envoy of the underworld...
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The Tang Dynasty's Pearl-Dispelling Record (Original Novel of the TV Adaptation Starring Tian Xiwei and Song Weilong) 大唐辟珠记(田曦薇、宋威龙主演同名影视原著)
[All-New Bonus Edition] [A Screen Adaptation with the Same Title Has Been Officially Announced, Starring Tian Xiwei and Song Weilong] [Beloved Princess Reborn: Looks Like a Delicate Crybaby, Actually a Well-Rounded Warrior] ✖ [Defiant, Doomed, Devoted, Pure-Hearted Top Jianghu Big Shot] [Their Romance Is So Sweet It Makes You Cry] Princess Wanshou, blessed with the Tang emperor's favor and love, died of an illness at just seventeen. A thief secretly opened the eerie underground palace, only to d
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I Became a Yin-Yang Master's Disciple at Seven and Read the Signs in Northeast China 七岁拜师阴阳先生,我在东北看事
When I was seven, my fate was rewritten. Something evil had entered our home, so I became a disciple of Liu Ye, a folk master. From the start, I ran into a rat spirit, and my mother was cursed with a Gu from the Miao borderlands. At seven, I became his apprentice and braved the supernatural dangers of Northeast China. From then on, I went from village to village, reading fortunes, dispelling curses, guiding souls, and capturing ghosts. Haunted houses in mountain villages, strange happenings in g
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I Inherited a Funeral Shop During the Hundred Ghosts' Night Parade 百鬼夜行时,我继承了一家冥铺
Lu Ci thought all his grandfather had left him was an old shop on the verge of closing. Then, one rainy night, the first customer walked through the door and bought a stack of spirit money. The next day, that very “ghost currency” appeared in someone else’s account. From then on, the shop, open only at night, began receiving one unusual customer after another: some sought wealth, some wanted to buy a life, and some only wished to exchange something for a long-overdue truth. At the end of the lon
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