Horror Novels! The Kind That Makes You Huddle Under the Covers at Midnight! 恐怖小说！吓得半夜裹紧小被几的那种！
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- 551 After My Headphones Died, I Heard My Husband Cheating 《耳机没电后，我听到了老公的出轨现场》 After My Headphones Ran Out of Battery, I Heard My Husband Cheating —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 552 After Seeing the Comments, I Dumped the Jerk 看见弹幕后，我踹掉了渣男 After Seeing the Comments, I Dumped the Scumbag —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 553 The Ancient Well at the Village Entrance 村口的古井 The Ancient Well at the Village Entrance —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 554 Tales of the Strange: Urban Mystery, The No. 23 Night Bus 民间怪谈录：都市异闻之23路夜班车 Tales of Folk Hauntings: Strange Urban Encounters on the No. 23 Night Bus —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 555 The Clock in the Old House 古宅钟表 The Clock in the Old House —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 556 The Ghost Embroiderer 《鬼绣娘》 The Ghost Embroiderer —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 557 A Night's Shelter Deep in the Mountains 深山借宿 A Night's Shelter Deep in the Mountains —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 558 Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio: The Paper Bride 聊斋灵异故事：纸妻 Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio: The Paper Wife 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 559 Don't Look Down, There's a Ghost Beneath You 别低头，地下有鬼 Don't Look Down, There's a Ghost Below —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 560 Paranormal Ghost Story: The Lingering Yin Debt 灵异鬼故事：残阴债 A Ghost Story: The Lingering Yin Debt 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 561 Don't Touch That Red Coffin 别碰那口红棺 Don't Touch That Red Coffin 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 562 The Iron Coffin in Black Dragon Pool 黑龙潭的铁棺 The Iron Coffin in Black Dragon Pool 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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Strange Tales from the Civil Affairs Bureau (Complete in 8 Volumes) 民调局异闻录（全8册）
The Strange Tales of the Bureau of Investigation series creates an entirely new world of suspense: a mysterious organization dedicated to uncovering the truth behind bizarre, uncanny, and supernatural events, and the world it faces. The stories are wildly strange and utterly captivating, with a witty, playful style and one suspenseful twist after another. Once you start reading, you won't be able to put them down. Throughout history, strange cases and evil monsters have always been dealt with by
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No Living People Allowed 活人勿近
[Inspired by real events, but the setting is entirely fictional] [No cultivation] [Supernatural horror only] The countryside is different from the city. Rural areas are vast and sparsely populated, with too little human presence to suppress what lurks beneath the ground. That's why ghost stories and strange legends keep cropping up. Ask anyone from a village in Sichuan, and they'll have plenty to tell you about supernatural happenings in the mountains and fields in years gone by. Some people
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- 565 The Eunuch Keeps His Beloved Hidden 奸宦藏娇 [A double-standard, ruthless-to-others, soft-hearted-toward-the-heroine wicked eunuch x innocent, kind, clinging flower] Everyone knows that Xie Yunzhou, the Director of the Eastern Depot, is treacherous and sinister, with absolute power in his hands. No matter how much the ministers curse him in their hearts, to his face they respectfully call him “His Excellency, the Nine-Thousand-Year-Old.” Everyone says that someone as cruel and heartless as him must have no weakness at all. Until the day of 843Reads7.0Score114Shelves
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Tales of the Supernatural 民间怪谈录
[Rural Horror Stories + Anthology + Folk Horror Tales + Chinese Supernatural] Supernatural happenings are most likely to occur in mountain villages, and the stories we've heard may well have really happened. In the eerie night wind, Granny Hao, the midwife who receives the dead, is like a messenger from the underworld, guiding the spirits of helpless mothers and children home. Locust trees commune with spirits, and poplars attract yin energy. Beneath the village's ancient trees lie secrets that
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- 567 The Powerful Minister’s Concubine 权臣的瘦马通房 A devoted couple, sweet romance, and a wife-chasing journey of regret A Yuan was famous in Yangzhou as a slender beauty, with skin as smooth as jade and beauty as radiant as peach blossoms. Every frown and smile of hers could captivate the heart. Later, she was sold into the Marquis of Anning's household. The old madam took a liking to her and assigned her to serve as a bedchamber maid to Wei Xun, the heir to the marquis's title. Wei Xun was aloof and indifferent by nature. More than anything, h 4kReads8.5Score439Shelves
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Rats Devour the Eternal Night 鼠噬永夜
The Rat-Devoured Endless Night
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- 569 My Shadow Can Devour 我的影子会吞噬 My Shadow Can Devour 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 570 Where the Mirror Returns 镜归处 Where the Mirror Returns —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 571 Expired Time 过期时间 Expiration Date —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 572 Midnight Death Subscription 午夜死亡订阅 Midnight Death Subscription 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 573 Double Reflection 重镜 Double Vision —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 574 Echoes in the Bone 骨相回声 Echoes in Bone —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 575 Don't Click In, This Livestream Is Really Haunted 别点进来，这直播间真闹鬼 Don’t Click In, There Are Real Ghosts in This Livestream —Reads—Score—Shelves
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An S-Rank Horror from the Start, but They Give Me a C-Rank Talent? 开局S级怪谈，但给我C级天赋？
[No Female Lead + Endless Twists + Wild Ideas and Clever Logic + Mild Horror + Protagonist and Villains Are Both Smart] [This is absolutely not a mindless power fantasy. If you don't like the first instance, go ahead and curse me out.] [This isn't a traditional rule-based horror story. The horrors can think and are intelligent, so readers who prefer traditional rule-based horror should steer clear.] Horrors run rampant, and strange tales are everywhere. Beneath every shadow may lurk an unknown t
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Married to Yan Luo 阎罗嫁
The villagers called me a “ghost fetus,” and I had no friends growing up. After the wealthy Wang Changnian pursued me relentlessly, he died under mysterious circumstances, and the Wang family buried me alive as his grave companion. A male ghost dressed in a Republican-era funeral robe saved me, but demanded that I give myself to him and marry him in a ghost marriage. A bond from a past life, an extremely yin body, the mystery of the ghost fetus: I escaped from the Taoist temple, only to discover
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Horror Arena: From the Start, a Red-and-White Collision Scares the World to Tears 恐怖擂台：开局红白撞煞吓哭全球
A horror arena has descended upon Blue Star. Each nation must summon a terrifying entity to fight for it. The winners will see their national fortunes flourish and endure for all eternity. The losers will see their national fortunes decline, their resources and territory plundered, and their dignity stripped away. To claim victory, nations everywhere summon horrors native to their lands. The Sakura Nation has the Slit-Mouthed Woman, the Red Cape, the Four Great Female Ghosts, and the Hundred Gho
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The Golden Bait Project 黄金鱼饵计划
[Modern mystery, dark crime, twist-filled power fantasy] Cornered with no way out, he came up with a plan: the Golden Fish Bait scheme. He deliberately posted huge amounts of fake gold online, posing as a wealthy recluse to lure greedy thieves to his door. He set up layers of mechanisms, surveillance cameras, and traps in advance, hoping to take the thieves down and get the money he needed to save his life. But once the hunters took the bait, everything spiraled out of control. The intruders wer
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- 580 The Maltese Falcon 马耳他之鹰 One job, two murders, three groups on his trail, four factions. On a foggy night in San Francisco, private detective Sam Spade is drawn into a deadly con revolving around a priceless black falcon statuette. A beautiful woman, swindlers, hitmen, wealthy businessmen: everyone has an agenda, and danger lurks at every turn. When the truth strips away the disguises, and love collides with principle, he must make the most ruthless choice. No warmth, no redemption, just the truth, hard-boiled to the en 35Reads8.5Score—Shelves
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The Life-Borrowing Pool 借命池
Life-Loan Pool
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- 582 Love So Deep It Pierces the Bones: Mandarin Ducks in the Fire 入骨相思·鸳鸯炙 Yearning to the Bone: Mandarin Duck Roast —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 583 Basement Floor B1-07 负一楼B1-07 Basement Level B1-07 5Reads—Score—Shelves
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Married to an Evil Spirit: The Red Veil of Huaian Village 嫁煞：槐安村的红盖头
Married to a Malevolent Spirit: The Red Veil of Huaian Village
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- 585 The Old Building's Clock Strikes at Midnight. I Recorded the Bell Ringer 旧楼钟声午夜响，我录下了敲钟的人 The old building's bell rang at midnight. I recorded the person who rang it. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 586 I Faked an Illness to Skip the Team-Building Trip, Yet I Was the Happiest One in the Group Photo 部门团建我装病没去，合照里的我却笑得最开心 I pretended to be sick and skipped the department outing, yet in the group photo, I was the one smiling the brightest —Reads—Score—Shelves
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Republican-Era Detective Tales 民国侦探诡事录
[Standalone cases + Republican-era investigations + criminal investigation and deduction + paranormal mysteries + powerful partners] In the chaotic Republican era, the land is shattered and strange events abound. One bizarre case follows another, but the truth remains as elusive as a mist... In a village at midnight, residents die one after another. Rumors say the “Stinking-Mouth Ghost” has returned to exact revenge, leaving everyone terrified. A haunted house by the lake conceals an old massacr
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My Years as a Buddhist Nun 我当师太的那些年
I was born a girl with a Pure Yang fate into a family of feng shui masters. For generations, my family had practiced feng shui in the countryside. My grandfather had hoped his eldest grandchild would be a boy, so he could pass down his skills to the eldest son and grandson. But I turned out to be a girl. Grandfather never took a liking to me, so my parents could only take me to live in the city. No one expected that, during the Ghost Festival in the year I turned twenty-five, Grandfather would s
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- 589 It's All the Haunted House's Fault 都是凶宅惹的祸 I'm a mystery writer. In search of inspiration, I moved into a house rumored to be haunted. Every night, a horribly disfigured face appeared in the window, and outside, the rotten corpse of a woman hung from a tree. I realized then that this really was a haunted house! Gradually, my family began acting strangely, and we even found a mummified corpse sealed inside the wall for years! As I investigated further, I came across something even more terrifying… 71Reads8.7Score—Shelves
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Eerie Revival: I Can Contact the Past 诡异复苏：我能联系过去
The Hungry Ghost Festival of 2025. A super red moon appeared, and as it lingered in the sky, the supernatural returned. Left Yang was shocked to discover that he could use his phone to contact himself in the past. In the stairwell, the Knock-at-the-Door Ghost killed anyone who opened the door. But someone discovered that it skipped the first floor and started knocking there. So Left Yang contacted his past self. [Please have your one-month-younger self rent an apartment on the first floor!] The
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A Freshman Internship, and You Go to Bureau 749 to Contain Monsters 大一实习，你跑去749收容怪物
[Decisive killing] [How could any monster be good?] [All monsters deserve to die] [Ruthless] During his sophomore summer vacation, Lu Ding had planned to use the time to take an internship and earn some living expenses. Who could have expected that the construction site where he interned would excavate a bleeding stone? The workers fled one after another, but Lu Ding charged in with a rotary hammer. After transmigrating to this world nearly twenty years ago, Lu Ding’s golden finger, the Monster
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- 592 Ghosts in the Apocalypse: I Became the Strongest Ghost Tamer 百鬼末世：我成了最强御鬼师 [A Full 1,000 Types of Ghosts] Mysterious ghosts include Jin Buhuan, the White Bone Bodhisattva, the Earthly Branches War Lord, and the Blood-Drop Plum Blossom. The powerful ones include Asura, Rakshasa, the Butcher, the Martial Champion, and the Emperor. The eerie ones include Painted Skin, the Red Robe, the Chubby Baby, the Coroner, the Flower-Waisted Bride, the Embalmer, and the Ever-Burning Lamp. Every type has its own evolution path: Drowned Ghost → Water Monkey → Kappa → ? (There’s more af 115kReads9.5Score9.8kShelves
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Painting Yin and Yang with a Single Stroke 一笔绘阴阳
As I gazed down the shadowy corridor and across the empty hall, the strange order of light and darkness stirred a fear of the unknown deep inside me. The elders always said, “The ancestral hall is home to spirits that have yet to depart.” “Don’t step on the threshold, don’t touch the ancestral tablets, and don’t whistle in the ancestral hall.” “The names on the tablets weren’t carved there. They moved in.” When the wind blew past the row of wooden windows, the latticework let out a mournful wail
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Followed by Ghosts 与鬼随行
Immersive, terrifying, and packed with suspenseful mystery and deduction. I have a strange world, and I want to take you there! After the college entrance exams, I took a fatal blow meant for my friend and lost my sight. By chance, I ended up at a bizarre vocational college. My classmates are dying one after another under strange circumstances, and there seems to be a much bigger secret behind it all. This world seems so strange... so strange... I have to solve the mind-bending challenges one by
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Ghost Stories of the Southwest 西南鬼事
This is a collection of ghost stories from southwest China, made up of a series of medium-length tales. Some may be part of your childhood, some may be stories you've told yourself, and others may be stories you've never heard. Today, let Xiao An tell you these strange and wondrous tales, one by one.
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Strange Tales Livestream 怪谈直播间
The sound of meat being chopped eerily echoes through a bun shop in the dead of night. The passengers on the last bus all have the same face. On a freezing, rainy night, someone wearing funeral clothes wanders the streets... The Strange Tales livestream takes you deep into the hidden side of this world!
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- 597 Survival Game: I Can Actually See the Audience's Comments 求生游戏，我竟然能看到观众弹幕 [Infinite Flow + System + No Saintly Heroics + Survival + Wild Imagination] When Mo Chen woke up, he found himself inside a survival game. From the start, he was on a train! Monstrous passengers, murderous attendants, blood mist that devoured people... Players had to overcome hardships on their own to grow stronger, but most importantly, they had to fight to survive the game. Unlike the other players, Mo Chen could actually see the audience's bullet comments, allowing him to glean all kinds of u 304Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 598 The Supreme Taoist: Subduing Ten Thousand Ghosts 道门太上：万鬼伏藏 Offer blood to Heaven and slaughter every evil. The Daoist arts are the strongest of all. The protagonist, Li Changsheng, masters the supreme arts of the Daoist sect and makes a solemn vow: he will not ascend until he has eliminated every demon and evil spirit under Heaven. He willingly seals his cultivation between Heaven and Earth, remaining in the mortal realm for thousands of years! 22.2kReads9.4Score1.7kShelves
- 599 Supreme Taoist: A Calamity of Bloodshed 道门太上：血光之灾 Offer blood to Heaven, and slay every evil thing. The Daoist arts are the strongest of all. All the great paths beneath Heaven come from Taishang. The Taishang lineage belongs to my Li family alone. The protagonist, Li Changsheng, makes a solemn vow to eradicate every evil demon beneath Heaven: he will never ascend, but remain in the mortal world for thousands of years. 10.7kReads9.4Score876Shelves
- 600 The Taoist Exorcist 道门驱邪人 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
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