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  1. 51 Nine Dragons Carry the Coffin 九龙抬棺 Mystery3.5M WordsOngoing The night of my grandfather's funeral, I carried a stone tablet at the front of the procession to lead the way. I didn't dare look back, because the eight evil spirits carrying the coffin were behind me... 9.8kReads9.2Score2.7kShelves
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  2. 52 Yin-Yang Eye Realtor: Selling Haunted Houses in Chongqing 阴阳眼中介:我在重庆卖凶宅 Mystery632k WordsCompleted A novel inspired by local Chongqing legends and historical anecdotes. This story is entirely fictional. As a child, the protagonist gained the ability to see yin and yang from a Qing dynasty skeleton. His family’s ancestral ledger is filled with secrets of old Chongqing. The folklore is meticulously researched, with traceable details ranging from place names and historical anecdotes to traditional remedies and feng shui formations. Each haunted house seems like a self-contained case, but in trut 194Reads8.3Score—Shelves
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  3. 53 Horrifying! The Eighth One 惊悚!第八个 6k WordsCompleted Horrifying! The Eighth One 40Reads—Score—Shelves
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  4. 54 He Was Eating Noodles at a Roadside Restaurant, When He Found a Human Eyeball in His Bowl! 他在路边餐馆吃面,竟然吃出了人眼珠子! 12k WordsCompleted He was eating noodles at a roadside restaurant when he found a human eyeball in his bowl! 38Reads—Score—Shelves
  5. 55 A Ghost-Hunting Record from Strange Tales 聊斋猎鬼录 Mystery650k WordsCompleted I transmigrated into a world of ghosts and monsters, and became Pu Songling. Good and evil lie in the human heart; deep love never regrets. I traveled the world and wrote down these strange tales. My name is Xiao Pu. That's the Pu in Pu Songling. I transmigrated into a world overrun by ghosts and monsters. To stay alive, I befriended a powerful female ghost. To record this extraordinary world, I traveled far and wide in search of its ghosts and monsters. A manor where a snake demon keeps people 163Reads8.3Score—Shelves
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  6. 56 A Collection of Folk Ghost Stories 民间鬼事汇 Mystery503k WordsCompleted This is a novel steeped in mystery, with every chapter like a door opening onto a strange new world. It brings together all kinds of folk tales and ghost stories, taking you into eerie corners hidden behind the bustle of everyday life. Here, you will encounter all manner of ghosts and monsters. Some originate from ancient curses, quietly wreaking havoc over the years; others linger in the human world because their obsessions remain unresolved. Each story is like a mysterious bead, linked to the 109Reads—Score—Shelves
  7. 57 Ghost Sightings at the Nightclub 夜场见鬼录 Mystery278k WordsCompleted A Long is a DJ at a bar with a legendary “Stage of Death.” Many people have died there under mysterious circumstances. The cause of death could never be determined, and some bodies were never even found! The strange incidents stopped only after the bar was shut down. As the legend of the deaths gradually faded from memory, someone opened the stage once more! After that, disaster struck again and again! A terrifying ghostly figure appears in the girls’ dormitory, a faceless baby clings to a chand 201Reads8.8Score—Shelves
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  8. 58 My Years of Ghost Hunting Among the People 我在民间捉鬼的那些年 Mystery275k WordsCompleted 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 4.5kReads—Score304Shelves
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  9. 59 The Horror Night-Duty Booth 恐怖值班亭 Mystery8k WordsCompleted Back around the 2000s, I worked as a security guard at an apartment complex. The complex had a strange rule: [After midnight, do not leave the security booth.] It made no sense, but I always kept it in mind, until the day one of my coworkers died! That night, a woman in a skirt knocked on the security booth window… 30Reads—Score—Shelves
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  10. 60 The Doll Grows Cold 人偶失温 Mystery9k WordsCompleted Everyone says I must have done something virtuous in a past life for Qin Chuan to choose me. Only I know that's not the case. He married me because he wanted me dead. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
  11. 61 An Unremarkable Jumping Death Case 不起眼的跳楼案 Mystery8k WordsCompleted My fiancé, who had been overseas for three years, called to tell me he was coming back the day after tomorrow. I went to meet him at the airport. On the way home, he proposed, and I said yes. But this morning, he disappeared again, because I had once more returned to the day he called me. I've already relived these three days seven times. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
  12. 62 The People Around Me and I Had the Same Dream 我和周围人做了一样的梦 Mystery13k WordsCompleted I knew I was dreaming, but everything in the dream was strange. When I woke up, I discovered that my coworkers and I had all shared the same dream. It turned out to be a monster's trap. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
  13. 63 The One-Yuan Villa 一元别墅 Mystery9k WordsCompleted Never believe that a windfall will fall from the sky. At 28, I was “hit” by a villa, but I don't have much time left. Now I have to find my next heir. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
  14. 64 Fish Woman 鱼女 Mystery8k WordsCompleted My father was a famous fisherman in the villages around us. Whenever he went out to sea, he always caught more fish than anyone else. He gutted countless live fish, scraped off their scales, and chopped off their heads. Then one day, he brought home a sea fish as tall as a person, and the entire village came to gawk. He turned down a merchant's offer to buy it, killed the fish himself, and put on a feast for the villagers, serving every part of it. The banquet lasted all night. The next day, the 56Reads—Score—Shelves
  15. 65 The Secret of Dad's Death 爸爸死亡的秘密 Mystery9k WordsCompleted When I was seven, my dad died. An accident sent me back to the 24 hours before his death. I did everything I could to save him. But I never could have imagined it. This time, the one who killed my dad was... —Reads—Score—Shelves
  16. 66 After I Lost My Memory, a Woman Just Like Me Appeared at Home 失忆后,家里出现和我一模一样的女人 11k WordsCompleted I've lost my memory. Since then, people have kept showing me all kinds of evidence and implanting all sorts of memories in my mind. But I feel like an outsider looking in on my own past, unable to relate to any of it. One day, I came home and found a woman fast asleep on the sofa. What terrified me was that she looked exactly like me! 8Reads—Score—Shelves
  17. 67 The Real Lunatic and the Fake Patient 真疯子假病人 Mystery9k WordsCompleted In my dream, I thought it was nothing more than a dream. But when I woke up, someone beside me was lying on the ground, clutching their arm and crying out in pain. Now, I've dreamed of the crime scene once again. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
  18. 68 The Life-Extending Money 借寿钱 Mystery11k WordsCompleted After a friend dies in a bizarre car accident, could a hundred-yuan bill inscribed with “Borrow your years to buy my life” really be a deadly curse? At the funeral home, he uses “life-borrowing money” to buy an urn, only to be haunted by the dead man's mother in a strange way. A talisman hides a sinister plot, and three life-borrowing bills appear out of nowhere at midnight! A locked kitchen, boiling water, knives falling for no reason... Who is controlling this deadly game? 273Reads—Score—Shelves
  19. 69 Paper Bride 纸新娘 Mystery10k WordsCompleted Rumor has it that I tried to seduce the Lin family's young master, failed, and then killed him in the village's paper-offering shop. To save my life, I agreed to marry Master Lin, who had raised me for ten years. On our wedding day, Master Lin laid his hands on me. "Darling, did you know I've wanted you for many years?" Of course I knew. I'd been looking forward to this day even longer than he had. 15Reads—Score—Shelves
  20. 70 Lover in a False World 虚假世界的爱人 Mystery9k WordsCompleted My wife has been acting strangely lately. She keeps pestering me, saying she wants me to stay by her side forever. I can't help finding it a little funny. "Of course I'll stay by your side forever and ever, honey." But whenever she hears me say that, her body stiffens noticeably. Then she goes back to her room alone and locks the door. No matter how I try to coax her from outside, she refuses to open it. —Reads—Score—Shelves
  21. 71 Crimson Wish 绯红之愿 Mystery12k WordsCompleted I bought a cursed object, hoping to summon a ghost and make a pact with her so I could go to the Ghost City and find out what happened to my missing master. The summoning went unusually smoothly, but the moment she appeared, the powerful yin energy pouring out of the magic circle sent me flying several meters and knocked me to the ground. She stood quietly in the middle of the circle, dressed in a bright red bridal gown and phoenix crown, with her red veil neatly covering her head and her hands —Reads—Score—Shelves
  22. 72 Summer Vacation of Terror 暑假惊魂记 Mystery4k WordsCompleted I can see things other people can't. I've never let it show. I didn't want anyone to think I was a freak. Until that summer vacation... Two classmates and I made plans to go swimming. I saw something in the water. I was terrified. But they insisted on going in, and I couldn't stop them... —Reads—Score—Shelves
  23. 73 The Secret of Chaoxiao 朝校的秘密 Mystery11k WordsCompleted In the village where my family lives, every household's first child has to be a girl. The day after their tenth birthday, these girls are sent to a place called Chaoxiao on the other side of the mountain. They say it's a paradise for girls. That is, until a black cat appeared in the village. 7Reads—Score—Shelves
  24. 74 The Secret of Chongcao Village 虫草村的秘密 Mystery10k WordsCompleted “The cordyceps we raise are so fast, you can’t even catch them.” I was watching this funny video on a certain short-video app. Comments flew across the screen. Some people said the joke was hilarious, while others earnestly explained that cordyceps couldn’t possibly run fast. But I knew the joke wasn’t funny at all, because I had seen fast-running cordyceps myself. Perhaps “rabbit cordyceps” would be a more fitting name. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
  25. 75 Longevity Soup 长寿汤 Mystery8k WordsCompleted When I was little, Liu Laoer’s family in the village made a living selling goat-horn powder. The powder came from the horns of female goats. Though those horns were short and slender, Liu Laoer would skin and butcher female goats alive right after they gave birth. Then he would cut off their horns and grind them into powder. He would add the powder to soup made with freshly slaughtered lamb. They said drinking it regularly could help you live a long life. 13Reads—Score—Shelves
  26. 76 The Silent Echo 沉默的回声 Mystery17k WordsCompleted Five years ago, in Room 601 of Ningchuan High School, a girl was found hanged from a bathroom pipe. Her eyes bulged, her tongue was missing, and strange words had been written in blood on the mirror: “He… is back.” Five years later, the sealed cold case was suddenly reopened. Trainee criminal investigator Qin Chuan took over the investigation, never expecting that this bizarre murder would also uncover another buried case: the “South Campus Disappearance.” A deadly game of hunting, lying dormant 54Reads—Score—Shelves
  27. 77 Huizhu Village 慧猪村 Mystery10k WordsCompleted My college roommate claimed she came from an ancient village called Huizhu Village. She said the village got its name because, from ancient times to the present, it had produced many high-ranking officials and top scholars, as if its villagers were born with pearls of wisdom. It wasn’t until she talked the rest of us in the dorm into visiting her village around the Qingming Festival that I learned it was actually called “Wise Pig Village.” 1Reads—Score—Shelves
  28. 78 The Death Inn 死亡民宿 Mystery10k WordsCompleted On the first night after checking into the guesthouse, the owner died. But at midnight that same night, Lu Shou actually received a text from the owner. “Please be sure to follow the rules of the Deerhorn Guesthouse. Find the landlady’s dowry box before five tomorrow morning, and you can leave with the deputy manager, an orange cat.” “Otherwise, you’ll be stuck here forever.” Lu Shou broke out in a cold sweat, utterly baffled. “I clearly took his phone. How can he still text me?” —Reads—Score—Shelves
  29. 79 Five-Year-Old Cutie Ye Xiaoman: Blows Up the Yin-Yang Realm 五岁萌宝叶小满:炸翻阴阳界 Modern Romance104k WordsOngoing Five-year-old Su Xiaoman was born with yin-yang eyes and destined to be short of money... After her parents are tragically killed, a Daoist priest saves her, takes her in, and teaches her his skills. She eats the mountain temple out of house and home, so her master sends her down the mountain, saying, “Your family is in trouble.” With osmanthus candies in her pocket, she sets off to find her relatives. Gazing at a grand villa, she sobs, “Waaah... I've finally found a meal ticket for life...!” Sh —Reads—Score—Shelves
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  30. 80 Raise Your Head Three Feet, and There’s an Evil God 举头三尺有邪神 Mystery328k WordsOngoing [Eastern Fantasy + Lovecraftian Elements + Plot-Driven + Mystery + No Cliches + No System + No Brain-Dead Characters + Not a Power Fantasy] [Readers who may be bothered by this, proceed with caution] [The first five chapters are slow-burn setup. The story picks up afterward, and there's a detailed outline, so read with confidence!] After transmigrating, Zhou Mo finds himself in a small village that resembles one from ancient China. Gradually, strange and utterly inexplicable things begin happeni 922Reads8.1Score—Shelves
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  31. 81 After Prison, I Became the King of Feng Shui 出狱后,我成了风水之王 Mystery1.5M WordsOngoing [One Female Lead + Plenty of Flirting + Mysterious Master + Empress of Zhao + Beautiful Gymnast + Policewoman + Beautiful Designer + Scheming Ex-Wife + Nine Chrysanthemum Sect + Battle over the Investiture of the Gods + Patriotic Hero] Five years ago, Yang Shaoyang went to prison to take the blame for his brother-in-law, who had been driving drunk. Five years later, Yang Shaoyang was released. But his scheming wife and brother-in-law not only failed to come greet him, they cruelly mocked 2.1kReads7.3Score155Shelves
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  32. 82 The Best Feng Shui Master on the Construction Site 工地最强建筑风水师 Mystery1.8M WordsOngoing [If this caught your eye, it must be fate. Don't scroll away just yet.] This novel (campus opening + wild imagination + an expansive world) combines feng shui and the supernatural (using feng shui to weave the plot together), fantasy, magic, science fiction, parallel worlds, and time travel to the past. The pace picks up dramatically after Chapter 30, and the story strongly promotes traditional Chinese culture. Also known as From the Start with a Treasure Gourd to Help Me Destroy Demons Also kno 2.2kReads8.3Score265Shelves
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  33. 83 The Midnight Gravekeeper 午夜守墓人 Mystery802k WordsCompleted A desolate mountain. An ancient tomb. A woman in white. A blood-red moon at midnight. A corpse monk on the move. I’m a high school senior. With the college entrance exam just around the corner, I suddenly came down with a fever that wouldn’t break and missed the test. After recovering at home for more than half a year, I found a job guarding the gate at a cemetery. Seeing how frail I was and how weak my yang energy was, Old Zhang, the gravedigger, found me a protector. But she wasn’t human. She 6.1kReads8.5Score324Shelves
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  34. 84 My Hopeless Life Became Even More Desperate 我无望的人生更加绝望 Mystery199k WordsOngoing After something happened to her family, Mu Xia could never move on from that day. She went through life in a daze. Until one day, she accidentally entered a world of horror. And so began a fantastical journey. She made new friends, faced all kinds of events, and lived a new life. 1Reads6.4Score—Shelves
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  35. 85 Tianxuan Paranormal Affairs Office 天玄灵异事务所 Mystery541k WordsCompleted - [Infinite Flow + Urban Supernatural + Chinese-Style Horror + Folk Legends and Hauntings + Celestial Master Exorcists + Heirs to the Daoist Tradition + Heterochromatic-Eyed Heroine + Haunted House Tales + Episodic Stories + Folk Taboos] - Hidden deep in the bustling streets is an inconspicuous supernatural affairs office called Tianxuan. - No one dares touch the folk taboos of this world. Haunted houses are plagued by unsolved horrors, abandoned villages and ancient mansions seethe with resentm 1.2kReads—Score101Shelves
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  36. 86 Folk Horror [The Fake Master Who Shocks a Hundred Demons] 恐怖民俗【冒牌大师震百妖】 Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted 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 821Reads—Score109Shelves
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  37. 87 The Sobbing Maitreya 哽咽的弥勒 Mystery408k WordsCompleted 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! 15Reads—Score—Shelves
  38. 88 The Woman in the Closet 柜子里的女人 Mystery6k WordsCompleted The Woman in the Cabinet 55Reads—Score—Shelves
  39. 89 Judge of the Living: I Awaken the Book of Life and Death from the Start 人间判官:开局觉醒生死簿 Mystery645k WordsOngoing The Human Judge: Urban High Martial Arts + Mystery + Underworld Conspiracy The Ten Yama Kings [King Qinguang (Mirror), King Chujiang (Cold), King Songdi (Rope), King Wuguan (Abacus), King Yanluo (Summon), King Biancheng (City), King Taishan (Grind), King Dushi (Anger), King Pingdeng (Interval), King Zhuanlun (Wheel)] + Book of Life and Death + Judge’s Brush [Sin-Mirror Heavenly Judgment, Mystic Ice Dragon Edict, Netherworld Heavenly Constitution, Jun-Tian Calculating Ruler, Nine Hells Imperial J 7Reads6.9Score—Shelves
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  40. 90 The Taoist Exorcist 道门驱邪人 Mystery768k WordsCompleted Where there is evil under heaven, there are all manner of wicked things, and so there are Daoist exorcists. He travels between heaven and earth, yin and yang. He ventures deep into the hundred thousand mountains of Miao territory and far away to the borders of the southern seas. Head-dropping curses, gu raising, black magic, and all the world's fiends and spirits of darkness. He has exorcised countless demons and ghosts, only to discover in the end that nothing is more evil than the human heart. 2.6kReads9.1Score395Shelves
  41. 91 Severing the Dragon Vein 断命龙脉 Mystery221k WordsOngoing The men of the Gu family never live past forty. After his father, Gu Mingyuan, dies, Gu Chenchuan follows a train ticket to Baihe, a bloodstained compass, and a few unfinished last words into the old trails of the Changbai Mountains. But the deeper he digs, the more he realizes that the Gu family has not simply been haunted or cursed. They have been caught in a living account, buried for many years, that refuses to let go. From Baihe to Tamen Peak, from the Changbai Mountains to an old well in t 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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  42. 92 The Book of Parasites 寄生之书 Mystery92k WordsOngoing A strange encounter in an abandoned warehouse full of old books. A bizarre book with a living eye drags the protagonist into a terrifying mystery he cannot escape. Calm and levelheaded, he only wanted to get back the comic books that had been confiscated. Instead, he stumbles upon a hardcover book with no title, its yellowed pages threaded with blood-red veins. A living eye stares at him, whispers cling to him, and the pages writhe. Fear follows him like a shadow, yet an inexplicable attraction —Reads—Score—Shelves
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  43. 93 This Spirit Medium Puts All Doubters in Their Place 本出马仙专治各种不服 Mystery120k WordsOngoing At sixteen, I was forced to take up the incense and begin my work as a spirit medium. I've been at it for twenty-three years. The Fox, Yellow Weasel, White Hedgehog, Willow Snake, and Gray Rat spirits travel with me. I can handle all kinds of demons, ghosts, karmic debts, and spiritual debts. A possessive fox spirit from Inner Mongolia won't leave me alone. A dead soul clings to an old house. Malevolent spirits run rampant through the streets. I never charge the poor exorbitant fees for treatmen 6Reads—Score—Shelves
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  44. 94 The Barren Heavens and Defiled Earth 荒天垢土 Mystery429k WordsOngoing My name is Mu Yang. They call me the shepherd of humanity. It seems humanity has gone extinct once before. I have seen many stories that do not belong to this world: [Black and White Impermanence] [Heavenly Wolf] [Celestial Palace] [Underworld] [Human Emperor] [Ancient Ruins] These came from my father, but now I can’t find any trace of him. He merely tossed a few riddles into my world. The great power of Earth swept this now-filthy land clean. Under Earth’s law of survival of the fittest, humani 20Reads8.4Score—Shelves
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  45. 95 Cheers Curse: Anyone Who Mishears It Dies 干杯咒:听错的去死 Mystery11k WordsCompleted “That American exchange student says ‘Cheers’ to me in his dreams every night, until I realize he misheard ‘Go to hell.’” In the graduate dormitory, Dennis grows paler by the day, and the doctors can’t figure out why. Then Mina brings back the exorcist’s verdict: Seven years ago, a girl whose foreign boyfriend cheated on her jumped from this building. Every night, her shattered head presses against Dennis’s ear and repeats “Cheers” in English... But when we reach the tenth repetition, the corner —Reads—Score—Shelves
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  46. 96 Bao Dadan’s True Accounts of Ghost Encounters 包大胆撞鬼实录 Mystery12k WordsCompleted “You’ve heard of people who are ‘bold beyond belief,’ but have you ever seen someone scare a ghost into shutting itself away?” My name is Bao Dadan. It’s not a stage name, it’s my real name. My friends say I’m missing a screw, but they changed their minds after seeing it for themselves: I talked the “haunting female ghost” the landlord warned me about into silence; I roasted a “human-faced fish” deep in the mountains with pepper until it shrieked; even the “Slit-Mouthed Woman” covered her mask a —Reads—Score—Shelves
  47. 97 The Deadly Mirror Image in the Symmetrical Bathroom 对称浴室的死亡镜像 Mystery10k WordsCompleted “At three in the morning, I saw my ‘future husband’s’ face in the mirror, and three days later, he ran me over with his SUV until I was nothing but scraps.” My landlady told me in a hushed voice that if I recited an incantation to a mirror at midnight for 49 days in a row, I’d see my destined partner. On the 47th day, her son’s twisted smile appeared in the mirror. I screamed and fled the apartment, but at the intersection he ran over me four times, reversing each time. The police said he kept s —Reads—Score—Shelves
  48. 98 Horror Sketches 恐怖素描 Mystery11k WordsCompleted “The day I was accepted into art school through the recommendation program, I drew the killer who murdered Teacher Zhou with my own hands: the faceless woman who had been draped over my back for three whole months.” In the dead of night, a blizzard battered the studio windows with a crackling roar. I curled up in the bathroom and vomited, but a pale body slowly emerged in the mirror. Her long hair wound around my neck, her rotting fingertips stroked my spine, and where her face should have been. 5Reads—Score—Shelves
  49. 99 Paranormal Podcast 灵异播客 Mystery8k WordsCompleted “What’s the most convincing paranormal story you’ve ever heard? As a paranormal podcast host, I thought I was just collecting urban legends, until a laugh that wasn’t mine came through my headphones. While I was adjusting the audio track, a shrill whisper seemed to breathe right into my ear, and a new waveform mysteriously appeared in the recording software. An expert told me, ‘That’s another audio signal. It isn’t human.’ Worse still, after I said, ‘Don’t come looking for me through my headphon —Reads—Score—Shelves
  50. 100 The Hypnosis Trap: The Forgotten Bloody Hand 催眠陷阱:被遗忘的血手 9k WordsCompleted “I caused my husband and child’s deaths with my own hands, then spent an entire year forgetting them. The truth only tore through my memories as I fell, after my psychiatrist pushed me onto the rooftop.” The travel magazine from a year ago, the coffee cup that appeared out of nowhere in the living room, the unfamiliar father and son in the photo frame... I thought I was simply suffering from depression, until I encountered those blood-soaked hands during hypnosis and realized that forgetting was —Reads—Score—Shelves

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