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- 151 Folk Secret Spells 民间秘咒 [This book presents the classical Chinese text alongside its translation, for the appreciation of all fellow enthusiasts.] …The folk secret incantation, also known as “The Thirteen Ancient Moxibustion Incantations,” is said to have been entrusted by Patriarch Chen Tuan to a guardian in his final moments. After escaping danger, the guardian searched for someone to pass it on to, but found no one. The sole surviving copy was later kept by the Jiang family of Donglai. During the compilation of the 235Reads—Score189Shelves
- 152 I Might Have Changed the Wrong Fate 我可能改了个假命 When I was little, my mom asked a Taoist priest to tell my fortune. He said I'd face a calamity at 26, and that he'd come help me get through it the day before my 26th birthday. When the day finally came, the priest really did show up to change my fate. He even gave me a “Fate-Changing Ruler” and told me I had to change the fates of seven people with different destinies to survive the calamity. Otherwise, I'd only have five years left to live. So much for changing my fate for me! Did he only cha 76Reads8.9Score—Shelves
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The Last Bus on Route 13 13路末班车
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!
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- 154 The Netherworld Inn 阴间客栈 My name is Qin Yu. While on a business trip, I checked into a uniquely styled inn called the Yin Room Inn. It even offered “special services” in the middle of the night. Little did I know it was an inn from the underworld. I began having nightmare after nightmare, and my friends kept getting into trouble... 2.7kReads9.0Score152Shelves
- 155 500 Folk Ghost Stories 民间鬼故事500篇 In the vast world of folk legends, ghost stories have always stirred people’s curiosity and fear. Today, let me take you into this mysterious world of ghost stories and explore chilling mysteries and bizarre ideas that are impossible to resist investigating. 1. The Song at Midnight In an ancient village stood an abandoned opera house. Whenever night fell and everything grew still, mournful, beautiful singing could be heard from inside. Some said it was the ghost of an opera singer who had died 49Reads—Score—Shelves
- 156 My Years as a Buddhist Nun 我当师太的那些年 I was born a girl with a Pure Yang fate into a family of feng shui masters. For generations, my family had practiced feng shui in the countryside. My grandfather had hoped his eldest grandchild would be a boy, so he could pass down his skills to the eldest son and grandson. But I turned out to be a girl. Grandfather never took a liking to me, so my parents could only take me to live in the city. No one expected that, during the Ghost Festival in the year I turned twenty-five, Grandfather would s 420Reads8.7Score—Shelves
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A Ghost Farted and Died 有只鬼放个屁死了
This book is made up of ten short stories: “The Big Yellow Dog,” “The Nine-Headed Demon,” “Block,” “Xisha Pit,” “Cuckoo” “Ghostly Wailing,” “Madman,” “Swing,” “Blue Carp,” “The Hundred-Year-Old Tree” Title: A Ghost Died After Farting = Horror + Comedy + Tragedy The stories vary in length, and their plots range from salty to bland. The whole book is easy to understand, with plain and straightforward language. This story is entirely fictional. Please read responsibly. Do not be superstitious, and
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The Heavenly Master 一代天师
Forty years ago, a husband and wife ignored their ancestors' warning and died horribly at the entrance to their village. The woman's eyes were gouged out, and her body was hung from the old ginkgo tree in the ancestral hall. A year later, a young man from out of town unearthed a strange clay figure and was plunged into a deadly calamity, only to be saved by an old Daoist. Forty years later, a mysterious letter drew attention back to that village. No one knew that opening it would mean opening th
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- 159 After Games Invade, I Settle the Score with Campus Loan Sharks 游戏入侵后,我清算了校园贷 Set in a modern city, with Sun Yat-sen University’s three campuses and five schools as its central setting, an immersive game called "Era Invasion" suddenly overlays reality without distinction. Its rules become deeply entwined with the real world: completing missions can awaken supernatural abilities and grant supplies, while failure triggers real-world penalties such as ruined credit, physical injuries, or doubled debts. The campus loan platforms that once operated as usual mutate into the rea —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 160 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 23.9kReads9.1Score4.4kShelves
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A Chronicle of Debut 出道纪事
[No formulaic tropes, no wish fulfillment, no web-novel conventions, traditional supernatural fiction, based on real events. Read with caution if any of this bothers you.] I graduated from high school in 2014 and became a disciple of my master, Li Jingshan. I spent three years studying the Dao and another three learning the arts. Then I spent five years practicing them in the world, occasionally gaining new insights. I enjoy reading novels, but lament that today's books are all baseless fabricat
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The Mountain Village Bestiary 山村妖怪录
A series of novels brimming with mystery and fantasy. The story takes place in a remote mountain village that conceals a world of monsters unknown to most. Ancient legends intertwine with strange encounters in the real world. Travelers venturing alone beneath the night sky must be especially cautious, for every corner of the mountains and forests may hide an unimaginable creature.
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Heaven's Secrets Forbidden: A Metaphysics Master's Art of Feng Shui and Yin-Yang 天机禁忌:玄门风水相师镇阴阳
Xu Daoyi was born with a pure Yang constitution, a once-in-a-century rarity. The Yang energy within him was so strong it could burn vengeful ghosts to ash. But this gift was also a death sentence. His master told him that unless he found a woman with a pure Yin birth chart before the Summer Solstice and united their Yin and Yang, he would explode and die seven days later. The seven-day deadline drew closer, and the Yang energy in his body surged higher every day. Xu Daoyi had saved countless liv
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The Underworld Detective 阴间神探
My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well!
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True Accounts of Paranormal Events 灵异事件实录
My new work is out! You're welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well!
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- 166 Tales of the Supernatural 灵异故事讲述 A touch of the supernatural + horror + urban life + short ghost stories + everyday family squabbles Do you enjoy little supernatural tales? These are true little stories from a remote village during a tumultuous era, one after another, each one a chilling case... A vanishing shadow, a couple who took their own lives, a young woman who died, a family hunted down by a vengeful ghost, a deal to sell a loved one for money... Which is more frightening, people or ghosts? 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 167 Midnight in the Countryside 午夜乡村 My parents' job transfers sent me to live and study at my grandmother's house. Before bed, she warned me not to go and look, no matter what sounds I heard. From then on, one strange event after another came crashing into my life. Then, one day, my grandmother suddenly told me the secret about who I really was... 553Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 168 Strange Little Tales from the Folk 灵异民间小故事 These are folk tales of the strange and supernatural, some true, some not. Some are quite old and have grown more and more fantastical with each retelling, so don't overanalyze them or take them too seriously. Some may resemble stories you already know, but that's purely coincidental. 194Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 169 Forbidden Night Talks: A Collection of Folk Ghost Stories 夜谈禁忌:民间鬼故事集 These ghost stories are no fabrications. They are true events recounted by those who experienced them and passed down through the countryside. From the red-clad shadow knocking on the door of an old house in the dead of night to bloodstained embroidered shoes pulled from a bend in the river; from the strange sight of green smoke rising above a grave to the eerie apparition before the Kitchen God: these forbidden secrets told by our ancestors and terrifying firsthand accounts from the fields are —Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Years of a Spirit Medium's Disciple 出马弟子的时光
Everything that happens in this book is based on my own real experiences, with a touch of fantasy added! There's some popular science in here, too! I hope you enjoy it!
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- 171 A Collection of Folk Mystery Stories 民间悬疑故事集合 A collection of folk mystery stories. On a stormy night, rows of lanterns swayed and glimmered along the mountain road outside Gujia Village, while villagers clutching torches wore worry plainly on their faces. —Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Celestial Master Is Here: Qimen Feng Shui Shakes the World 天师在此,奇门风水震天下
[Several short dramas have been adapted from this novel: Feng Shui Heavenly Master, The Grand Master of Qimen Feng Shui, The Heavenly Master Is Here, Qimen Feng Shui Shakes the World, Notes of a Folk Feng Shui Master, and others] Everything in this book is fictional. Just enjoy the story, don’t take it seriously, and don’t get too caught up in it...
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The Mystic Arts Curse Master 玄门咒神
On the day Yang Xuan was supposed to get engaged, a blood-red coffin inexplicably appeared in his home. Inside lay a beautiful woman with skin like jade. On the first day, his father died. On the second day, a yin-yang master told Yang Xuan: If he wanted to survive this calamity, he had to consummate his marriage with her...
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Horror Taboo: Returning the Soul Beneath the Coffin 恐怖禁忌,压棺回魂
The dead open their eyes, ghosts come to claim souls, the living borrow lifespans, and the dead press down on their coffins... One bizarre, uncanny experience after another keeps resurfacing in my mind like a nightmare. The strange tales in this book are mainly based on Yang Jian’s firsthand experiences... A warning: the actions in this book are for entertainment only. Do not imitate them! There are three kinds of people who read this book: thrill-seekers who aren’t easily scared... those who pu
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Tales of the Supernatural in Northeast China 东北非人故事
A forest ranger living deep in the Greater Khingan Range recounts stories of the Five Immortals, wandering spirits, and yin-yang encounters from childhood onward. Each chapter contains one to three short stories. Whether or not the series is on hiatus, you can still enjoy it with peace of mind.
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Half Bad, Half Good 一半坏一半好
When dawn breaks, close your eyes. When night falls, open them. Each day brings a different revelation. The more you see, the less afraid you become, until you get used to it. When I thought I had arrived in hell, the next moment I was in heaven. Hell and heaven are hard to tell apart. Can you tell the difference?
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- 177 The Ghostly Side of Humanity: Mad Stories You Never Knew, Volume 1 鬼味人间:你不知道的疯人故事1 Believe me, this world has another face. What seems insane to you may be perfectly normal to someone else. The eerie, unsettling stories of human life, the sinister and unfathomable depths of the human heart, and tales of madness you’ve never heard before are all hidden in this book, Ghostly Flavors of the Human World. 3kReads9.2Score269Shelves
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Tales of the Supernatural 人间灵异杂谈
Everyone has a colorful past, and what I’m about to tell you happened right here around me. It was strange and mysterious, so listen as I recount it all.
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My Years of Ghost Hunting Among the People 我在民间捉鬼的那些年
Chinese-Style Horror, No Female Lead My name is Xu Jian. I’m 26, and I studied Taoist arts under a Maoshan priest for several years. Over the years, I’ve seen all kinds of things. After doing this long enough, I realized that ghosts aren’t scary. What’s truly frightening are the things people can’t get past in their hearts. All I do is help them say what needs to be said and settle their debts once and for all. People call me a Celestial Master of the Taoist sect, but I’m really just an ordin
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- 180 Listening to Strange Tales at Night 夜听诡事 Whenever you're bored in your spare time, you can open my book and let it take you into a different world. This book is made up of a collection of short tales of horror, the supernatural, and ghosts and monsters. They will show you the warmth and coldness of the world, and reveal the selfishness and greed of human nature. Perhaps you'll find yourself in the stories and feel what the characters feel. As you read, set aside the weariness of body and mind for a while and immerse yourself completely 576Reads8.0Score—Shelves
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In Another World, I Use Taoist Arts to Empty My Enemy's Warehouse 到了异世,我用道术搬空仇人仓库
An alternate history setting. Please do not compare this story with real history! Gou Yunshu, a modern Daoist exorcist, was betrayed by her best friend during an exorcism. She was struck down by heavenly retribution, killed by a bolt of lightning. She transmigrated into the body of a young girl in the Great Xia Kingdom of the Republican era and discovered that her grandfather had been captured by the Japanese army. To rescue him, she took her younger siblings, bought a house, and left Laolongtan
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- 182 Don't Chat with Strangers 别和陌生人聊天 A collection of suspenseful, horrifying, mind-bending mystery stories that expose the greed of human nature. People lose their reason to satisfy their selfish desires, plunging into an abyss of sin and causing innocent people to suffer, sometimes losing their precious youth or even their lives. The stories in this book are based on real cases, and all the names have been changed. 97Reads6.9Score107Shelves
- 183 The Dragon-Suppressing Coffin and the King of Hell's Fate 镇龙棺,阎王命 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 310.8kReads9.4Score27.9kShelves
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The Ninth Secret Bureau 第九守秘局
“If we want the people of this world to live in the sunlight and keep their sanity, then we must keep secret the things they were never meant to know.” “Because the moment they see those terrifying beings that defy all known science and truly discover how horrifying this world is... believe me, Earth will become the biggest asylum in the universe.” Chen Xian, Ninth Secret Bureau
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The Savior? Let Me Go Back and Make a Person First! 救世主?我先回去造个人!
A savior? Let me go back and make a person first!
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Secrets of the Underworld 阴间秘事
Are you afraid of death? As the saying goes, when a person dies, their light goes out. But in truth, many people fear death because it is unknown. Li Damin and I were both intensely curious. One day, we went out of our way to visit a man who had traveled to the underworld. Afterward, Li Damin continued investigating to uncover the truth, but then he disappeared... A man surrounded by the aura of death, a mysterious spirit-caller, and the disappearance of my friend. In the end, I too set out on a
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- 187 My Career in Funeral Services and the Supernatural 我的殡葬灵异生涯 After graduating, I joined the funeral industry and learned about its many secrets. I also encountered all kinds of terrifying, bizarre supernatural incidents. Let me tell you about some truly unusual tales of terror and the taboos of the funeral trade... The latest work by a free-spirited programmer. As always, the promise stands: suspense and horror taken to the extreme. 2.9kReads8.4Score246Shelves
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My Uncle's Bizarre Experiences While Watching the Reservoir 老舅看水库时的离奇经历
They say that if you leave a reservoir deep in the mountains alone for long enough, giant fish will appear in it. And how big are these fish? With one flick of the tail, they can churn rivers and seas. With one thrust of the head, they can shake the earth and mountains. They can smash a small boat more than ten meters long to pieces with a single charge. A distant uncle of mine once visited a reservoir. In those days, food and clothing were scarce, and people were hungry and craving a taste of s
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- 189 Record of Strange Phenomena: Bizarre Adventures Through the Years 异象录之流年往事奇异冒险 A two-headed serpent, a giant clam in an ancient well, a humanoid goat, a venomous dragon from the Nine Hells, a giant toad the size of a hill... All these strange adventures, seemingly unrelated, point to one ultimate answer. 382Reads—Score—Shelves
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Mist Shrouds Miaojiang 雾锁苗疆
Xiangxi, the Mist God, the bloodline of Chiyou, the Realm of Mist: love, friendship, family, bonds that transcend life and death, and the pull of fate that even you cannot understand.
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Republican-Era Detective Tales 民国侦探诡事录
[Standalone cases + Republican-era investigations + criminal investigation and deduction + paranormal mysteries + powerful partners] In the chaotic Republican era, the land is shattered and strange events abound. One bizarre case follows another, but the truth remains as elusive as a mist... In a village at midnight, residents die one after another. Rumors say the “Stinking-Mouth Ghost” has returned to exact revenge, leaving everyone terrified. A haunted house by the lake conceals an old massacr
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- 192 Eerie Tattoos 诡纹 My grandfather was a tattoo artist, but the things he tattooed were seriously sinister… 7.5kReads9.1Score783Shelves
- 193 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… 31kReads9.2Score2.9kShelves
- 194 Horror Tavern: I Only Raise the Most Ferocious Creatures 恐怖酒馆:我只养大凶之物 Tucked away in a quiet alley is a strange tavern that can grant your wishes, as long as you’re willing to set up a terrifying idol in your home... 6kReads9.4Score804Shelves
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The Sobbing Maitreya 哽咽的弥勒
A truly thrilling horror fantasy, with a master like Lin Zhenying guiding you through terrifying adventures, slaying demons and monsters, exploring forbidden arts, and cultivating as a demon immortal. Once you start reading, you won't be able to stop. It's pure exhilaration from beginning to end!
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Ten Days to the End 十日终焉
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
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- 197 The Woman in the Closet 柜子里的女人 The Woman in the Cabinet 55Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Record of a Spirit Medium's Disciple 出马弟子进行录
A very real, purely personal account of life as a spirit medium! I’m a real spirit-medium disciple myself! This book has no fantasy elements or cultivation-power fantasies, just true experiences and information! I hope you’ll enjoy it! wlt52121
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- 199 My Years as a Spirit Medium's Apprentice 我当出马弟子那几年 Hello, everyone. I'm a spirit medium from Shandong. The main reason I'm writing this book is, first, to record my experiences. Whether it becomes popular or not, I want to preserve my memories and my life story! Second, I hope the book will help people understand spirit mediumship. In recent years, certain people with bad intentions have given it a terrible reputation. So I'm writing about my own experiences to help clear its name! —Reads—Score—Shelves
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My Grandfather’s Supernatural Notebook 我爷爷的灵异笔记
[Spirit Medium + Supernatural + Episodic Stories] One eerie incident after another, each like something out of a horror novel. Getting trapped in a ghostly maze in the middle of the night Strange mystical arts and Taoist magic A weasel that can talk A notebook of supernatural cases left behind by my grandfather helped me unlock my Yin-Yang Eyes, sealed for years. From then on, I embarked on an extraordinary everyday life as a ghost hunter!
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