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Horror Novels That Can Make Me Cry From Fear 恐怖小说,能把我吓哭的那种

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  1. 401 There’s a Ghost in the Dorm 宿舍有鬼 Mystery8k WordsCompleted 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. 14Reads—Score—Shelves
  2. 402 Transmigrated to Another World to Work as a Cleaner 穿越异界干保洁 Urban27k WordsOngoing There isn't just one system of power in the world! Flying cars, lightsabers, talismans, virtual reality, artificial intelligence... Is it science or fantasy? A top game developer transmigrates to another world just to lie flat and take a job as a cleaner?! Is it a distortion of human nature or a collapse of morality...? —Reads—Score—Shelves
  3. 403 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 Mystery8k WordsCompleted 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. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
  4. 404 Daughter Village 女儿村 Mystery9k WordsCompleted 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. 20Reads—Score—Shelves
  5. 405 The Missing Body 丢失的身体 12k WordsCompleted 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. —Reads—Score—Shelves
  6. 406 Midnight Strangulation Marks on a Severed Hand 断手的午夜掐痕 Mystery9k WordsCompleted 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 1Reads—Score—Shelves
  7. 407 Cloth-Clad Yin-Yang 布衣阴阳 Mystery864k WordsCompleted Ghosts roaming by night, ghost soldiers crossing the land, journeys into the underworld; cause and effect, reward for good and punishment for evil. Paranormal tales and strange encounters: believe them if you will, but disbelief doesn't mean they aren't real. I'm a yin-yang master. I've traveled far and wide across China, and I'll tell you about the country's folk tales of ghosts and spirits from the past century... 139Reads6.6Score—Shelves
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  8. 408 Workplace Rule Horror: A Desperate Fight to Survive the Grind 职场规则怪谈:玩命打工求生 Mystery8k WordsCompleted 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. 4Reads—Score—Shelves
  9. 409 Blood Wedding 血嫁 Mystery442k WordsCompleted Ever since I received a strange hundred-yuan bill, every wedding I attend ends in bloodshed. The grooms have their throats slit, their blood splattering across the brides’ white gowns. Ten couples have died for no apparent reason, and I’m the only one who has seen the killer: the Grim Reaper, holding a scythe... A cold and aloof fiancé appears out of nowhere. A mysterious exorcist hides in a coffee shop. Strange supernatural incidents pull me into a terrifying, thrilling spiral. At last, the da 644Reads8.6Score—Shelves
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  10. 410 Rule Horror: Starting in Bikini Bottom 规则怪谈:从比奇堡开始 Mystery862k WordsOngoing [Entirely Original Story + Supernatural Invasion of Childhood Cartoons + No System, No Cheats] In this book, the rules are absolutely correct. There are no false rules. Love is the only weapon against “corruption.” The moment Wu Nao wakes up, he sees a piece of paper covered in crookedly written rules: 1. From now on, remember that you are Patrick Star. Don't forget… 2. Do not go jellyfishing with SpongeBob unless absolutely necessary. 3. Gary the Snail cannot talk. 4. Squidward is always gloomy 3kReads8.9Score420Shelves
  11. 411 The Vengeful Spirit Notebook 凶灵笔记 Mystery1.2M WordsCompleted I've slept in a coffin since I was little. It wasn't until the woman in red appeared that I learned the truth. I was born on Ghost Festival. I don't want to die. 1.2kReads8.7Score213Shelves
  12. 412 The Maoshan Ferryman 茅山摆渡人 Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted Since ancient times, there have been many people among the common folk with extraordinary skills. They are mysterious and unpredictable, yet everything they do revolves around one thing: life and death! Corpse drivers, ghost painters, corpse menders, guides to the underworld... But the most mysterious of them all are the Maoshan Taoists. They can connect the realms of yin and yang above, and slay demons and banish evil below. Meng Yan is the latest inheritor of the Maoshan tradition, entrusted w 162Reads6.7Score—Shelves
  13. 413 Lighting the Sky Lantern 点天灯 Mystery1.9M WordsCompleted Just how terrifying is corpse-driving in western Hunan? After failing the college entrance exam, I stumbled into the corpse-driving trade. Who could have guessed that on my very first job, I would run into... 669Reads8.3Score103Shelves
  14. 414 The Eerie Midnight Mirror 子夜诡镜 Mystery559k WordsOngoing The scholar Chou Wuya happened upon a copy of Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio. The stall owner casually included an ancient bronze mirror, named Seeing the Heart. At midnight, Chou Wuya discovered that the mirror could tear apart dreams and reality, drawing him into one eerie, terrifying mirror realm after another. Every mirror realm was a supernatural ordeal with no way out. A woman named Ruoxi was sealed inside the mirror. She told Chou Wuya that every time he entered a dream, he would gai 3Reads—Score—Shelves
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  15. 415 Red and White Banquets 红白席面 Mystery178k WordsOngoing [Mild thrills] [A clever main cast] [One heroine] [No excessive saintliness] [All manner of evil spirits + mysterious practitioners with their own agendas] A sudden mishap at her father's funeral leads Li Sixian, a wealthy heiress, to be rescued by Gan Xin, a village banquet chef. She discovers the hidden side of the world, and, determined to spare her father the tortures of the City of Wrongful Death, she boldly chooses to become a ghost official while still alive. A rookie ghost official who k 23Reads6.5Score—Shelves
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  16. 416 The Xiangxi Corpse Drivers 湘西赶尸人 Mystery2.7M WordsCompleted The exorcists of the south and corpse drivers of the north: once they cross the threshold, death is sure to follow. After disappearing for thirty years while driving corpses, Grandpa returns to his hometown and unleashes calamity upon the world. Grandma, who spent her life doing good by others, is struck by heavenly lightning. My honest, down-to-earth second uncle is burned by underworld fire, trapped in an ominous willow-wood coffin, with his three souls and seven spirits unable to find peace. 270Reads—Score—Shelves
  17. 417 This Shop Sells Only Netherworld Goods 本店只卖阴间物 Mystery547k WordsCompleted A friend recommended a high-paying job. It wasn't until my first day that I realized I was selling offerings for the dead. Then all kinds of strange things started happening. The money a woman in red paid me turned into hell banknotes, and I began seeing "people" no ordinary person could see... 106Reads8.0Score—Shelves
  18. 418 The Mystical Art of Spirit Communication 玄之通灵 Mystery268k WordsCompleted This is a novel made up of short stories about supernatural events. Some are true, some are false, and some are exaggerated, with humor, comedy, horror, and all manner of paranormal happenings... 5Reads—Score—Shelves
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  19. 419 I Deliver Takeout to the Underworld, From the Start I Earn Billions 我给阴间送外卖,开局奖励亿万 Mystery135k WordsCompleted Humiliated in public by his ex-girlfriend while delivering takeout, with his seriously ill mother in the hospital and urgently needing money, Jiang Chen hits rock bottom. Just as he reaches the brink of despair, his phone chimes, and an app called Yin-Yang Delivery mysteriously installs itself! “Order from: a girl who drowned; item: a letter that was never sent; reward: underwater breathing (10 minutes).” “Order from: a chef who died in a car accident; item: a family recipe; reward: god-tier coo 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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  20. 420 Hauntings in Xiang Village 湘村诡事 Mystery863k WordsCompleted The living leave shoes to see someone off; the dead leave shoes to send someone to their grave. After I picked up a pair of a beggar’s straw sandals, my grandfather hanged himself in the bamboo grove in the middle of the night... 215Reads7.0Score107Shelves
  21. 421 Oh No! The Horror Boss Is Both Ferocious and Clingy 糟糕!惊悚boss又凶又黏人 Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted The print edition has been published under the title Beneath the Mask, Lost Without End [Infinite Flow + Multiple Instances + Mystery + Devoted Couple + Rivals-to-Lovers] [The male lead is a horror boss disguised as a player. At first, both leads want to kill each other. The story mainly follows the infinite-flow instances.] Jiang Lian is dragged into a horror game. While everyone else avoids it at all costs, she has spent three years painstakingly searching for it. On her first instance, she l 72.9kReads9.3Score11.2kShelves
  22. 422 No More Wage Slavery After Graduation: I'm Becoming a Bounty Hunter 毕业后不做牛马,去当赏金猎人 Mystery2.1M WordsCompleted [Comedy + Alternate setting + A touch of mystery + Adventure + Urban + No female lead] Investigating a murder from more than a decade ago, he pits his wits against a deranged serial killer. He transmigrates into a primeval jungle no one dares enter, searching for the bodies of people lost in a sinkhole. He enters a mysterious village deep in the Hundred Thousand Mountains to find a little girl... What drove a recent college graduate to embark on this one-way journey? It all began with a haunted 104.9kReads9.3Score11.7kShelves
  23. 423 The Maoshan Coffin-Raiser 茅山升棺人 Mystery1.8M WordsOngoing From the moment I was born, someone secretly plotted against me, making my mother give birth prematurely and changing my birth date. My birth chart clashed with my parents' fates, and they both died on the very day I was born. I vowed to find the culprit, and in time became a Maoshan coffin-raiser! Coffin-raising is the practice of relocating graves. After death, people should be buried in a place with good feng shui to protect their descendants. But some ancestors are buried in malevolent place 910Reads9.0Score107Shelves
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  24. 424 The Maoshan Coffin-Sealer 茅山镇棺人 Mystery306k WordsCompleted (Coffin sealing, corpse driving, tomb raiding, zombies, the supernatural) One sword and one talisman to slay evil, a Celestial Master's command to seal the coffin keeper! Zombies roam the remote wilderness, and deadly feng shui formations lurk in peril. Lin Xiaofeng, a Maoshan Celestial Master, descends the mountain and ultimately wins the heart of a beauty! 23kReads8.8Score1.4kShelves
  25. 425 Seeking Life Amid Lingering Regrets 残念觅生 Mystery318k WordsOngoing [Infinite-flow, rules-based horror, extreme escape, eerie games, no harem, no formula, no invincible protagonist, no System, no mindless plot, not a feel-good power fantasy] I’m a ballet doll, grinning as I watch them kill themselves. I throw people into “my” mindscape and lay out an inescapable path to their doom. But that lunatic Li Yu finds a loophole in every stage. I crank up the difficulty of surviving, but he uses game theory to beat me. I forbid him from speaking, but he has the whole t 149Reads—Score—Shelves
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  26. 426 Eerie: A Dog from the Start, Gear You Scavenge 诡异:开局一条狗,装备全靠捡 Mystery915k WordsOngoing [The rating just came in, and it will rise later] [Apocalyptic Awakening] [Stat-Allocation Sequence] [Horror Survival] [Extreme Combat Style] Terror descends upon the world, and a Black Tide begins to devour cities. The uncanny, demons, monsters, forbidden artifacts... Human life is as worthless as grass. People struggle to survive by any means. In an apocalypse of endless terror, the only way to stay alive is to awaken and become part of a Transcendent Sequence! Others awaken as doctors, surviv 403.3kReads8.5Score43.7kShelves
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  27. 427 The Mountain Wanderer 走山人 Mystery2.2M WordsCompleted Three years after I died, I climbed out of my grave. I set out on the path of a spirit medium and made my name roaming the mountains. Grandpa said I was half-dead, with no taboos to hold me back! 2.8kReads8.7Score290Shelves
  28. 428 Haunted from the Start, I Dug Up Her Family's Ancestral Grave Overnight 开局鬼缠身,我连夜刨了她家祖坟 Urban147k WordsCompleted [Comedy + Feel-Good Power Fantasy + Schemer + Wild Imagination + Ghosts’ Worst Nightmare] Supernatural incidents are breaking out all over Blue Star, and suddenly the whole world has become dangerous. Luckily, Qin Yuan has activated the Ghosts’ Worst Nightmare System. By collecting ghosts’ negative emotions, he can use them as points to draw prizes and obtain all kinds of items and abilities. As a result, ghost victims are starting to appear all over the place. Starved Ghost: “He tied me up and 30.8kReads8.5Score2.2kShelves
  29. 429 In Uncle Jiu's World: My Master Is Qianhe 九叔世界:我的师父是千鹤 Mystery2.0M WordsCompleted He transmigrates to Uncle Jiu's world and becomes a disciple of Daoist Master He Qianhe. With a System at his side, he grows stronger by completing missions. What does it mean to be Maoshan's great general and the vanguard of the altar? I am a Maoshan Celestial Master, the strongest in the Daoist sect! 4.7kReads6.8Score307Shelves
  30. 430 Summoning the Immortals 招仙 Mystery3.5M WordsCompleted A successor to the Corpse-Measuring tradition, the Ma Immortals return! The Ma family’s disciples can divine fortune and misfortune and ward off evil. Wave the spirit-summoning banner, and the immortals will gather; lower the Immortal-Suppressing Seal, and every demon will be destroyed! I died for three days, then came back to life. From that moment on, I experienced a series of untold stories... 768Reads8.7Score108Shelves
  31. 431 I Have a Hypnosis App for Female Ghosts 我有一个女鬼催眠APP Mystery479k WordsOngoing Qin Ming meant to download a hypnosis game app, but ended up with a female ghost hypnosis app instead. As he gazed at the app’s dazzling array of female ghosts he could romance, then watched one actually appear in the real world, he fell silent. If he wanted to stay alive, he had no choice but to romance the female ghosts! Female Ghost Hypnosis App: Activate! 305.4kReads8.5Score42.3kShelves
  32. 432 I Drive a Taxi, but I Don’t Pick Up Passengers, Only Female Ghosts and Models 我开出租不拉客,只拉女鬼和模特 Mystery1.3M WordsCompleted Pan Mudan kept her lips pressed tightly together, not daring to make a sound in case her husband heard... I used to be a company driver at a steel mill. Then the company laid people off. I spent eight thousand yuan on an almost-decommissioned commercial vehicle and started driving a taxi. My friends all said I'd struck gold! Even without the air conditioning on in summer, the car was chilly inside! 6.2kReads8.9Score580Shelves
  33. 433 The Spirit Guide 送灵先生 Mystery774k WordsCompleted A madwoman from the neighboring village died, but even in death her eyes wouldn’t close. No matter how many people tried, they couldn’t lift her coffin. The living face trials in life, and the dead face trials in death. An infant who cannot pass the trial between life and death cannot enter the new world. A dead person who cannot pass the trial of death cannot move on, and remains by their loved ones’ side. A sprig of green bamboo summons the spirits; a three-foot spirit banner sends the souls o 13Reads8.9Score—Shelves
  34. 434 I Came from the Underworld to Deal with Those Who Defy the Rules 我从地府来,专治规则不服 33k WordsCompleted I Came from the Underworld to Make the Rules Behave 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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  35. 435 The Last Soul-Quelling Master 最后一个镇魂师 Mystery813k WordsCompleted I grew up at my grandfather's house in the countryside. He was the most respected suona player in our village. One day, Li Dashan, a fellow villager, beat his pregnant wife to death and came to ask my grandfather for help. My grandfather tried everything he could, but still couldn't calm the resentment of Li Dashan's wife. In the end, he had no choice but to play a suona dirge to forcibly pacify her soul. On the night of the Lantern Festival, Li Dashan and his family turned into vengeful ghosts 133Reads9.0Score—Shelves
  36. 436 My Neighbor Knocks on the Wall at 3 A.M. Every Day 我的邻居每天准时在凌晨3点敲墙 11k WordsCompleted My neighbor knocks on the wall at exactly 3 a.m. every day 7Reads—Score—Shelves
  37. 437 Underworld Agent 地府经纪人 Mystery810k WordsCompleted I was hit by a basketball at school and fell into a lake, but I survived and became an official employee of the Underworld. I also gained a Ghost Hunter System that helps the Underworld recruit talented ghosts, setting me on the path to turning my life around. 35Reads6.1Score—Shelves
  38. 438 Rules of the Rest Stop on a Stormy Night 暴雨夜服务区规则怪谈 15k WordsCompleted Rules of the Rest Stop on a Stormy Night 1Reads—Score—Shelves
  39. 439 Museum of Strange Creatures 怪生博物馆 Mystery222k WordsOngoing (Told mainly from the first-person perspective, with a secondary protagonist whose perspective will also appear.) [Mild Horror] (The story mainly focuses on the contents of the dreams. It has nothing to do with cultural relics; they are merely a device for bringing out the story and have no connection to it. Please don't confuse the two or dwell too much on this point.) Graduation means unemployment. After months of hitting dead ends in my job search, I still hadn't found work. One day, while wa —Reads—Score—Shelves
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  40. 440 Don't Look Back During Evening Study at School 学校晚自习别回头 14k WordsCompleted Don’t Look Back During Evening Study at School 4Reads—Score—Shelves
  41. 441 The House of Deadly Peril 死亡凶间 Mystery1.6M WordsCompleted I work as a specialist crime-scene cleaner, tasked with cleaning up after murders, suicides, and accidental deaths. I’ve seen more than my share of partings and grief, as well as the other side of death. Then, on the Ghost Festival, I encountered something terrifying... 20.7kReads9.2Score2.2kShelves
  42. 442 The Underworld Calls Me Little Sir 地府叫我小先生 Eastern Fantasy803k WordsCompleted [Supernatural + mystery + power progression] Getting hit by a basketball and falling into a lake was bad enough. Even worse, I got killed by a basketball!! The Black and White Impermanence told me I still had seventy years left to live. To make it up to me, they offered me a job in the underworld. So I became an HR officer on the underworld’s permanent staff and even got a ghost recruitment System! As long as I help the underworld recruit talented ghosts, I can earn all kinds of abilities: talis 538Reads—Score—Shelves
  43. 443 I Live in Fengmen Village 我住在封门村 Mystery807k WordsCompleted My hometown shares its name with the legendary number-one haunted village in China: Fengmen Village. What’s more, our village also has a grandmaster’s chair. Whoever sits in it is doomed to die! It was 1997, and I had been accepted into the high school in town. Once summer vacation was over, I would finally be able to leave the place where I’d spent sixteen years. But what I never expected was for one terrifying incident after another to strike the village! Rats that ate human flesh, five-colore 823Reads6.1Score—Shelves
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  44. 444 The Last Descendant of Zhong Kui 最后一个钟馗传人 Mystery3.8M WordsOngoing I was cursed by a thousand-year-old fox demon the moment I was born. As a child, I couldn’t see or hear, and everyone said I was born disabled. But when I was five, a master took me in as his disciple. He said I was a reincarnated ghost god, a tempting morsel in the eyes of ghosts and monsters. The fox demon’s revenge, a frozen corpse in a dry well, a water ghost claiming lives, a hundred ghosts roaming by night... Strange events followed one after another. To protect myself, I had no choice but 6.2kReads9.0Score557Shelves
  45. 445 This Taoist Priest Is a Little Too Cool 这个道士不太冷 Mystery802k WordsCompleted My name is Niu Dabao, and I’m the only college graduate in Niu Village. I thought that after graduation, I’d get promoted, earn a bigger salary, marry a beautiful, rich woman, and reach the pinnacle of life. Who knew the company would go under and the boss would kill himself? I didn’t get a single penny of my wages, couldn’t even afford rent, and had to sleep at the train station every night! Then a ragged Taoist priest told me I was dogged by bad luck and possessed by a host of ghosts, and that 607Reads7.8Score—Shelves
  46. 446 Death and Infinite Resets: Uncovering the Rules of Every Vengeful Ghost 死亡无限回档:洞察所有厉鬼规律 Mystery124k WordsOngoing [Death Rewind] [Kill the do-gooders first] [Vicious ghosts return] [Dark story] As the paranormal world awakens and vicious ghosts reappear, all you need to do is call Su Yun's name. I'll lead you back through time to find the perfect timeline. Su Yun had just transmigrated into a world where the paranormal was returning when four vicious ghosts began interrogating him. First interrogation: "What do you mean, you killed me because you didn't know how I died?" He rewound to before his death and s 1.2kReads—Score104Shelves
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  47. 447 The Haunted Grave 诡坟 Mystery802k WordsCompleted I think I've been possessed! Right before the college entrance exam, I suddenly came down with a high fever that wouldn't break. I missed the exam and had to spend half a year recovering at home. During those six months, I found a job as a cemetery groundskeeper. My coworker, Old Zhang, saw how frail I was and how weak my yang energy seemed, and insisted on finding me someone to protect me. But he didn't tell me that my protector would be a female ghost!! Not only does she want to marry me, she 88Reads7.0Score—Shelves
  48. 448 A Ghost at Midnight 午夜遇到鬼 Mystery83k WordsOngoing Don’t go out at midnight. I often hear the old folks tell ghost stories, and they scare me so much I won’t go outside after dark. I’ll tell you all one too. I wonder if any of you are scared? If you haven’t done anything wrong, you have nothing to fear from ghosts knocking at your door. —Reads—Score—Shelves
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  49. 449 My Job at the Horror Radio Station 我在恐怖电台任职这件事儿 Mystery90k WordsCompleted [Folklore] [Supernatural] [Short Story] [No Superpowers] [No Rule-Based Horror] [Not a Wish-Fulfillment Story] [Not for the Faint of Heart] The author is working hard to make a living. If you enjoy the story, please show your support and help it climb the rankings. 30Reads—Score—Shelves
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  50. 450 The Dorm Rules: A Guide to Avoiding Pitfalls 寝室规则避坑指南 Mystery588k WordsCompleted When campus rules become a trap for survival, a midnight game of trust and betrayal begins in secret. Behind the rules lies a carefully woven conspiracy, and every missing person is a “test subject” selected for an experiment. The protagonists engage in a battle of wits across a campus like a maze, dodging ever-present surveillance while unraveling the deadly logic behind the rules. As the truth is peeled back layer by layer, it exposes a human experiment that uses fear as a tool. This is more t —Reads—Score—Shelves
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