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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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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Transmigrated to Another World to Work as a Cleaner 穿越异界干保洁
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...?
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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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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 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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Cloth-Clad Yin-Yang 布衣阴阳
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...
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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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Blood Wedding 血嫁
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
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Rule Horror: Starting in Bikini Bottom 规则怪谈:从比奇堡开始
[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
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The Vengeful Spirit Notebook 凶灵笔记
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.
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The Maoshan Ferryman 茅山摆渡人
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
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Lighting the Sky Lantern 点天灯
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...
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The Eerie Midnight Mirror 子夜诡镜
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
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Red and White Banquets 红白席面
[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
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The Xiangxi Corpse Drivers 湘西赶尸人
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.
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This Shop Sells Only Netherworld Goods 本店只卖阴间物
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...
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The Mystical Art of Spirit Communication 玄之通灵
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...
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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
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
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Hauntings in Xiang Village 湘村诡事
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...
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Oh No! The Horror Boss Is Both Ferocious and Clingy 糟糕!惊悚boss又凶又黏人
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
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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
[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
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The Maoshan Coffin-Raiser 茅山升棺人
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
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The Maoshan Coffin-Sealer 茅山镇棺人
(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!
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Seeking Life Amid Lingering Regrets 残念觅生
[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
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Eerie: A Dog from the Start, Gear You Scavenge 诡异:开局一条狗,装备全靠捡
[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
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The Mountain Wanderer 走山人
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!
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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
[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
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In Uncle Jiu's World: My Master Is Qianhe 九叔世界:我的师父是千鹤
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!
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Summoning the Immortals 招仙
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...
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I Have a Hypnosis App for Female Ghosts 我有一个女鬼催眠APP
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!
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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
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!
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The Spirit Guide 送灵先生
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
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I Came from the Underworld to Deal with Those Who Defy the Rules 我从地府来,专治规则不服
I Came from the Underworld to Make the Rules Behave
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The Last Soul-Quelling Master 最后一个镇魂师
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
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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
My neighbor knocks on the wall at exactly 3 a.m. every day
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Underworld Agent 地府经纪人
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.
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Rules of the Rest Stop on a Stormy Night 暴雨夜服务区规则怪谈
Rules of the Rest Stop on a Stormy Night
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Museum of Strange Creatures 怪生博物馆
(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
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Don't Look Back During Evening Study at School 学校晚自习别回头
Don’t Look Back During Evening Study at School
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The House of Deadly Peril 死亡凶间
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...
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The Underworld Calls Me Little Sir 地府叫我小先生
[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
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I Live in Fengmen Village 我住在封门村
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
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The Last Descendant of Zhong Kui 最后一个钟馗传人
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
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This Taoist Priest Is a Little Too Cool 这个道士不太冷
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
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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
[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
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The Haunted Grave 诡坟
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
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A Ghost at Midnight 午夜遇到鬼
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.
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My Job at the Horror Radio Station 我在恐怖电台任职这件事儿
[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.
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The Dorm Rules: A Guide to Avoiding Pitfalls 寝室规则避坑指南
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
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