Please Recommend Horror Stories That Keep You Awake at Night After Reading Them During the Day 求恐怖的书，那种白天看了，晚上睡不着觉的

1. 1 无 Infinite Escape: I Earn Rent Money in Horror Games 无限逃生：我在惊悚游戏里挣房费 Mo Sibei陌肆白Mystery800k WordsCompleted [Infinite flow + horror, suspense, and mystery-solving + strong female lead + team + plot-focused] [Ding~ Welcome, player, to the Survival Inn! Please do your best to clear the instances and earn your room fees~ We offer dormitory rooms, guesthouse rooms, hotel rooms, and more, as well as a top-tier luxury VIP club waiting for you to unlock~] A gloomy, blood-soaked compound A school crawling with death A cursed painting that brings death to anyone who looks at it An old village teeming with stra 36.8kReads9.3Score4.7kShelves

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   The first one is very good, Infinite Flow, with few emotional lines. Every copy in it is absolutely brilliant. The second and third books are all highly rated books, but the third one is a bit sadistic.

2. 2 三 The Language of the Three Corpses 三尸语 Luo Xiaoyang洛小阳Mystery1.1M WordsOngoing You’ve heard of people who died with their eyes open, but have you ever heard of a dead person whose mouth wouldn’t close? His grandfather’s death turns the life of a broke college student upside down. A corpse glares, a soul is hooked; a corpse opens its mouth, and disaster strikes twice. As one bizarre incident after another unfolds, he accidentally discovers that there’s far more to it than ghosts… 75kReads9.3Score10.9kShelves

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   I've seen all of these, and I think they're just average.

3. 3 暗 Dark Web 暗网 Your Highness Persimmon柿子殿下Mystery439k WordsCompleted How terrifying is the dark web? You may have brushed against its edges without even realizing it... Have you heard of the dark web? Hackers call it the other side of the internet. Every day, things that seem impossible to ordinary people happen there. A young woman goes missing for seven days. By the time we rescue her, she can hardly be called human. Then she tells me something so outrageous it makes my blood boil. She stumbled onto the dark web and was sold by human traffickers. She saw what s 10kReads8.1Score1.3kShelves
4. 4 超 Super Scary Livestream 超级惊悚直播 Yuwen Chang Gong宇文长弓Mystery2.2M WordsCompleted "Welcome, everyone, to the Supernatural Scary Live Stream. Before we start today's broadcast, I have to tell you that only three kinds of people can watch this stream: those with a heavy aura of yin energy, those who will die within seven days, and the third kind, which I can't discuss in detail. I can only give you one warning: watch your back!" 29.4kReads9.2Score3.6kShelves
5. 5 一 Confessions of a Mentally Ill Person 一个精神病人的自述 Multiply by Two乘二Mystery169k WordsCompleted Sometimes I wonder what I am, what the world is, and what my existence means to it. Am I an NPC? Or just a virus that doesn't matter? A virus, yes. I feel like I've caught some kind of virus, or maybe I've always been one. My name is Zhang Shun. I'm an ordinary person, and on an ordinary day, I suddenly saw things no one else could see... 2.1kReads9.3Score581Shelves
6. 6 尸 The Corpse Mother 尸母 Lanruo Temple兰若寺Mystery1.5M WordsCompleted Every year on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, a lantern made of human skin appears in the mass grave on Shiping Mountain. A little girl carrying a skull follows behind it at a leisurely pace. The girl is named Qiyue. Born with a corpse-bound yin fate, she has spent her life searching for the truth about her Corpse Mother’s past. When all the evidence points to a mysterious ghost village...! 60Reads6.9Score—Shelves

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   All pretty good!

7. 7 山 Tales of the Haunted Mountain Village 山村诡事录 Mu Xue牧雪Urban893k WordsCompleted Where the woods are dense, ghosts abound; where the mountains are high, monsters are sure to lurk. After getting drunk, Chen Jianjun of Kaoshan Village encounters a beautiful woman in the mountains. Alone together, the pair spend several days in an intimate embrace. When he returns home, he goes mad for a day and then dies. On the day of his burial, Chen Jianjun suddenly comes back to life... To save his family, Chen Xiaojun becomes the apprentice of Yi, a lame man who was once sent to a work ca 4.3kReads9.1Score472Shelves
8. 8 鬼 The Ghost Marshal’s Yin-Yang Inn 鬼差之阴阳馆 Young Master Rui蕊公子Mystery501k WordsCompleted By day, she transforms into a human; by night, she helps ghosts cross over. Come visit this unassuming little shop, run by a newly hired underworld makeup artist, and make an inquiry. 986Reads9.1Score120Shelves
9. 9 黄 Yellow Springs General Store 黄泉杂货铺 Ninth Elder of the Wu Clan巫门老九Mystery2.5M WordsCompleted At the end of a street on a quiet, late-night evening stands a grocery shop with old-fashioned decor. Getting something for nothing is simple: just agree to do a ghost a favor, and it'll make it happen. 10.7kReads8.8Score1.5kShelves
10. 10 吉 Fortune Shines Bright 吉星高照 Wen Ren Nuan闻人暖Modern Romance1.7M WordsOngoing [Reborn + livestreaming + fortune-telling + ghost-hunting + episodic stories + satisfying revenge + punishing evil and promoting good] When she opened her eyes, metaphysics master Ye Ling discovered that she had been reborn! Her host was not only a social-phobe, but also had a mother with terminal cancer, an older brother who had never married, and an honest, simple father. To pay for her mother's treatment, find a wife for her brother, and give her family a better life, Ye Ling decided to retur 9.2kReads9.5Score2.2kShelves
11. 11 长 The Long Night’s Journey 长夜行 Ge Zhao格照Mystery299k WordsCompleted The eyes are the angle observers most often scrutinize, so you must learn to disguise your own., Li Mu. From making up his mind to carrying out his plan, he spent a full three years. His first murder, his second, his third... Even when he was teetering on the brink of death, he would take a gamble if it meant he might escape. To everyone else, he was merely a weakling, not even as capable as an ordinary person... 281Reads9.4Score—Shelves

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    You can tell just by looking at the name (don't mind 3 or 4, it's okay if you like it)

12. 12 引 A Song to Summon Souls 引魂辞 Restless Slumber怅眠Mystery192k WordsCompleted The Yin-Yang Messenger travels between two worlds, guiding souls or collecting debts. Beneath a peaceful and prosperous age lie secrets of the capital, one after another. Whose love will be severed, whose heart betrayed? Amid the splendor of a fleeting dream, let us remember that prosperous times are hard-won. The soul-guiding songs fade away, and all that came before is scattered. One ghost, one past life: let me tell you the tale in detail… This is a story about chatting with ghosts, keeping t 313Reads8.9Score103Shelves
13. 13 全 Hunted Across the Globe 全球追杀 Wenren Buyu闻人不语Two Male Leads2.2M WordsCompleted [Two male leads, one-on-one, infinite-flow, evenly matched, devoted to each other, supernatural, sweet romance, feel-good power fantasy, big shots, a light ensemble cast, the protagonist's personality changes with each level, strongest fighter × stubborn master bluffer] [Chasing the Past once ranked in the top three for infinite-flow novels, top three for sweet romance, top three for System novels, fifteenth on the high-scoring list, and top ten overall. If you're interested, please read Chasing 3.8kReads9.4Score518Shelves
14. 14 全 Global Hunt to the Death 全球逃杀 Wenren Buyu闻人不语Mystery322k WordsCompleted [CP on the run from pursuers, infinite-level, Celestial Master, paranormal, System, powerhouse, escape game, Global Pursuit series] Extraterrestrial life has been left behind on Earth, bringing a global extinction-level crisis. The System Space chimed and came online. All humans burdened with original sin were dragged into an escape game to fight for survival. The reclusive Celestial Master Xie Lian fell into an instance while hunting ghosts and found himself pursued across the globe. Whenever t 788Reads9.2Score101Shelves
15. 15 第 The Ninth Investigation Bureau (Complete in Two Volumes) 第九调查局(全二册) Snow Over Pear Blossoms满地梨花雪Anime Fanfiction383k WordsCompleted (I) Shen Xisheng, 19, a genius teenage detective with perfect looks, perfect observation skills, and perfect reasoning abilities. Yin Chenxia, 29, a bestselling novelist with off-the-charts homebody tendencies, off-the-charts coldness, and detective skills that are... unfathomable. The genius teenager Shen Xisheng has been a huge fan of his paternal half-brother, Yin Chenxia, since childhood. Hoping to get his brother's attention, Shen became a minor celebrity detective while attending high sch 85Reads9.2Score—Shelves
16. 16 罪 Crime Deduction Bureau: Case Files (Volume One, 16 Books) 罪推理事务所 · 探案密档（卷一 共16册） Tong Jie, Wang Jiajun, Qiu Li, Da Xiu Zhe Tian, Wu Fei, Bai Ze Weipeng, Lin Yi, Bai Ze Weipeng, Zhu Xiaoxiang, Beaver佟婕 王稼骏 求鲤 大袖遮天 吴飞 白泽葳朋 林一 白泽葳朋 朱晓翔 河狸Mystery1.8M WordsCompleted The Crime Standards Investigation Office: Case Files (Volume One, 16 Books), including "Tales from the Bewildering District," "The Grim Reaper's Right Hand," "I Am Feng Tong," "Second-Category Death," "Death of a Flight Attendant," "A Plot Within a Plot," "Fragrant Blood," "Night March of the Hundred-Mile Hundred," "Heart-Pounding at Every Step," "Peerless Miracle Doctor," "The Unknown Day of the Dancing Demon," "The Haunted House Murders," "Nightmare Phone and the Flickering Locked Room," "The —Reads8.0Score—Shelves
17. 17 九 Ninefold Forbidden Zone (Season 1) 九重禁（第1季） Tea Is Clear Again茶又清Mystery140k WordsCompleted Nine bizarre murders conceal nine kinds of clues, each pointing in a different direction. Because the cases are so strange and disturbing, the killer has evaded justice for years, and the authorities have ordered all information about them tightly sealed. In secret, however, the provincial Public Security Department chief orders the formation of a special task force, determined to unravel the mystery. Its members include a criminal police captain skilled in deduction and martial arts; a genius c 128Reads9.1Score—Shelves
18. 18 我 I Was Raised by Monsters 我被怪物养大 Uncle Nan Yao南妖叔Urban769k WordsCompleted The story is set in a modern city in a parallel world. Legend has it that City A is home to an urban myth called the White Cat Agency. The agency is run by a group of monsters and demons. As long as you pay the appropriate price, they'll fulfill any request you make. Money, organs, emotions, memories, years of life... Anything could become a bargaining chip. Seventeen years ago, an infant boy of unknown origins was found by the agency's owner and raised by a group of monsters. Seventeen years l 2.8kReads9.6Score500Shelves
19. 19 十 Ten Deadly Sins 十宗罪 Spider蜘蛛Mystery524k WordsCompleted What kind of people does this book write about? It writes about policemen, rapists and murderers, disfigured people, thieves, cross-dressers, rebellious teens, corpse mutilators, homeless people, gambling addicts, people who sell their kidneys, psychopathic killers, lechers, beggar bosses, the mentally ill, and people who spend all day kneeling in the street... From God’s perspective, these people are also our brothers and sisters, parents, spouses, and children. I want to gather them into my ar 120Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Most of the suspenseful crime-solving novels have been adapted into TV series. The main content is the storyline adapted from real events, such as the story of the Corpse Whisperer.

20. 20 惊 Horror Descends: She Emerges from the Shadows 惊悚降临：她从阴影中来 Shan Xiaozhu山小竹Mystery353k WordsOngoing [Not a brainless power fantasy; plot-focused] After the great disaster, terror descends, ghosts and monsters run rampant, and the world is shrouded in fear. Amid the apocalypse, the timid Song Xuantang steps onto the stage of a terrifying world. A “bloodstained life-price” from an unknown source draws her into the tide of the age. She longs for an ordinary life, yet carries far too many secrets. To survive, she takes a thorny path, seeking only to uncover the truth buried beneath blood and bones 48Reads8.7Score—Shelves

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    The first one was quite scary, but the last two were scary and funny, making me tremble with laughter. The only thing I wasn't satisfied with was that it wasn't finished yet.

21. 21 惊 When Terror Descended, My Insane Social Skills Shocked the World 惊悚降临:社交牛x的我震惊世界 Zun Yu尊臾Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted Qin Xiao, a world-class sales trainer and proud holder of a Social Skills Expert certificate, transmigrated into a parallel world where a terrifying game had descended. As it turned out, you could do anything you wanted as long as you had great social skills. Affection: 60 Rakshasa: “From now on, you're my brother, Lao Luo!” Affection: 90 Ghost King: “Big bro, take a look! Take a look at the kingdom your little brother conquered for you!” Affection: 100 Ghost Teacher: “Little brother, stay the n 494Reads9.4Score148Shelves
22. 22 我 I Turned the Horror World Into a Raising Game! 我把惊悚世界玩成养成游戏！ Yu Zuo予作Mystery2.3M WordsCompleted A mysterious force descended upon Earth, giving rise to another world of terror. Everyone was forcibly sent into the world of horror games on their eighteenth birthday. While everyone else was immersed in fear, struggling to survive in the cracks between life and death, Qin Nuo discovered that he could earn System rewards by influencing the ghosts’ emotions. And every time he completed a dungeon, he could establish his own business in the world of horror. So he became a food runner at the Yin Sp 196kReads9.6Score24.7kShelves
23. 23 地 The Underworld Calls Me Little Master 地府叫我小先生 Jie Yu界玉Mystery3.3M WordsCompleted In ancient, remote places, all kinds of strange and terrifying things are bound to happen. And these things happen around Hua Jiunan. In fact, Hua Jiunan is part of them. For instance, he was born from a corpse! 252.7kReads9.6Score31kShelves

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    It's okay, not terrible

24. 24 谜 Fragments of Memory 谜忆 Little Old Steed小老骥Mystery243k WordsCompleted Gao Fan wakes up one day with no memory of who he is... And that’s not even the most outrageous part. One strange event after another, each impossible to explain scientifically, makes him wonder if he’s still dreaming... The unfamiliar life and the unfamiliar people around him leave him utterly bewildered. The one bright spot is having Su Mi'er by his side. He thinks he can spend the rest of his life in peace, but a massive conspiracy is waiting for him... Do you love horror stories? Do you enjo 101Reads—Score—Shelves

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25. 25 尸 The Corpse Whisperer: A Citywide Manhunt 尸语者：都市追凶录 Coconut Juice, 70% Sweet椰汁七分甜Mystery745k WordsCompleted Beneath the neon lights of the bustling city lurk dark crimes hidden from view. Forensic pathologist Gu Yanbai, a genius his colleagues call the “Whisperer of the Dead,” uses his scalpel as a pen and corpses as his pages, decoding the dead’s final “words” on the cold autopsy table. Whenever an apparently unsolvable body is brought in, he can always uncover clues left by the killer in the angle of a wound, a fracture in the bones, or the slightest change in an organ. Ice crystals in a victim’s bl —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    This book is okay. I still want to read it after reading it.

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