Looking for Supernatural Novels, Preferably with a Series of Short Stories 求灵异小说 最好是一个个小故事的
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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
3.7kReads9.1Score219Shelves
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The One Who Borrows Lives from the Underworld 阴间借命人
[Standalone Stories + Supernatural Horror + Suspense + Folk Customs + Playful Tone + Ensemble Cast + Nonstop Ghost-Hunting Thrills!] Ever since I borrowed a life from the underworld, I’ve known no peace. My name is Quan Ning. I’m a lawyer, and one day I was in a car accident on a mountain road. As I lay dying, I saw a ghostly judge from the underworld come to claim my soul. I struck a deal with him and borrowed a sliver of hope for survival. The price of this life I borrowed was becoming
2.9kReads9.1Score294Shelves
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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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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,
1.9kReads8.9Score215Shelves
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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
2.3kReads9.0Score148Shelves
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I Have 499 Supernatural Stories 我有499个灵异故事
499 paranormal tales, all set in the black-soil region of Northeast China. Shamanic rituals, the secret history of spirits, and terrifying local legends, all revealed one by one. Here you’ll find eerie tales you’ve never heard before, along with the deepest secrets of this land. Get ready, and I’ll tell you all about them. Each story in the novel is a separate episode.
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Sisters, Here’s a Scary Ghost Story to Test Your Nerve Before Bed 姐妹，睡前听个练胆恐怖鬼故事吧
“It’s late. Want to hear a horror story to test your courage?” This is a collection of short horror stories made just for gorgeous you. Every story comes from a crack in ordinary life that becomes terrifying the more you think about it! Maybe it’s the faint sound of breathing beneath your bed, or a strange reflection that flashes across the mirror, or perhaps it’s the home where you live alone, yet someone always knocks on the door in the dead of night... The book is made up of several standa
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Midnight Whispers: Lock the Door Before You Hear My Ghost Story 午夜耳语：锁好门再听我的鬼故事
#Horror #Thriller #Mystery #UrbanLegends #ShortStories #CreepyOnSecondThought #QuickRead Shh...! Listen... When the clock’s pendulum swings past midnight, are you ready to receive a “whisper” meant only for you? Standalone short stories reveal brand-new scenes of terror. No complicated plots, no lengthy build-up, just pure sensory thrills. [Before You Read]: Lock your door. This book accepts no responsibility for any “accidents” that may occur because you left it unlocked. We recommend turning o
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The Huatong Expressway Pedestrian Fatality 华通高速行人死亡事件
The Hu Tong Expressway Pedestrian Fatality Case
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Sacrificial Red: Strange Tales from a Deep-Mountain Base Station 祭红·深山基站·诡事录
Offering Red: Strange Tales from a Remote Mountain Relay Station
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Horror Script: It Begins in the Baby-Crying Dormitory 惊悚剧本：从婴啼寝室开始
(Dark tone) (Escape-room survival) (No System) (Not invincible: the protagonist dies if he is killed) (Not a conventional power fantasy) Chen Xian is pinned against the wall by a female ghost in a bathroom, and finds himself plunged into a terrifying instance! The cries of a baby in the dead of night... Students with eyes as blue as ghostly flames... A wedding dress stained crimson with blood... A mermaid covered in wriggling maggots... And... Teammates dying one after another... To stay alive a
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Chinese-Style Horror Stories 中式恐怖小说
A new novel is out! You're welcome to read my work on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well!
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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
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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
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The First Night: The Ghost Baby 第一夜：鬼婴
The First Night: The Ghost Baby
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Exorcism Requires a Little Counseling 降妖也要做思想工作
A serialized collection of short supernatural stories about strange events in all kinds of places. Read it or don't. I like writing, so I'm going to write. And now they want me to write a synopsis. What am I supposed to say? I can't write one, I can't write one.
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I Confess! I'm a Ghost Magnet! 我坦白！我是招鬼体质！
I confess! I have a constitution that attracts ghosts!
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The Years I Spent as a Funeral Mourner 我当哭丧人的那些年
Some people must be mourned loudly when they are laid to rest. Otherwise, according to old folk customs, it is considered an act of filial impiety. After I was born, everyone in my family except my grandfather died because of me. My grandfather fell gravely ill, and to earn money for his treatment, I had no choice but to join Zhang the Elder, a man from my village, as a professional funeral mourner. From then on, I set out on a path of mourning with no return!
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The Heavenly Master's Memoirs of Spirits and Illusions 天师自传灵幻录
After I was tricked into going to northern Myanmar, my organs were harvested and I died... After being reborn, I somehow became a celestial master. By a stroke of luck, I subdued my first demon. Later, I went to Laos... where a seductive female ghost, still alluring despite her age and with long, slender white legs, pinned me beneath her feet. [This story is entirely fictional. Please do not imitate it or believe in superstition!]
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A Collection of Terrifying Tales 恐怖惊魂故事录
[Traditional supernatural tales] [Strange happenings late at night] [Whispers of the uncanny in your ear] [Based on true events] [Urban horror] [Thrilling and chilling] One ghost story for every chapter, all set in the dead of night. Come and read...
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