Horror and Dread Meets the Aesthetics of Violence 惊悚恐惧+暴力美学

1. 1 缅 Escaping the Compound: A Female Slave from Myanmar’s Northern Hellhole 缅北魔窟女奴逃出园区 Huang Zongmeng黄宗孟Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted In the compounds of northern Myanmar, a person's performance determines whether they live or die. Electric shocks, beatings, branding irons, pulled fingernails, water torture, solitary confinement, live burial, drowning, dumping bodies, drug addiction used as control, psychological torment, brainwashing, salt rubbed into wounds, black cells, forced blood donation, livestreams, and more! These inhuman methods of control happen every day. Over more than two hundred days, I watched my companions on 5.1kReads7.3Score357Shelves

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   A real-life novel about the Demon Cave in northern Myanmar. If you don't like violence and blood, don't read it if it's scary.

2. 2 民 The Greatest Taboo Among the People 民间第一禁忌 Feiyi匪夷Mystery4.8M WordsOngoing They severed my tendons and buried me alive in a sealed coffin, but they didn’t know I was born with the fate of the King of Hell! [Folk horror, feng shui and talismans, incense offerings] Feng shui and fortune-telling, painted-skin demons and spirit summoning, walking in the shadows and corpse driving, corpse-raising spells and curses, yin tattoos and talismanic needles, puppets controlled by strings, red doors sealed with wax, Dogs digging graves on Burial Mound Ridge, ghosts feasting in the R 337.7kReads9.4Score30.7kShelves
3. 3 捉 I Only Use Force to Catch Ghosts. That's Normal, Right? 捉鬼我只用暴力，这很正常吧？ A Wisp of Smoke on Paper一纸轻烟Mystery777k WordsCompleted [Decisive and Ruthless + Violent Ghost Exorcism + Kill, Never Save + No Goody-Two-Shoes] The most terrifying thing in this world is often not ghosts, but people, especially ruthless men like me, who kill instead of saving souls. Chanting sutras to send the dead to a better afterlife, saving all sentient beings? None of that exists where I’m concerned. In this age of underworld officials, vengeful ghosts, and supernatural monsters, I seek only one thing: exorcising ghosts. I kill them. I don’t sa 877Reads6.9Score—Shelves
4. 4 我 I’m a Dual-Personality Surgeon, Professionally a Ripper 我，双面手术师，职业开膛手 Clouds Can Smile云会笑Urban1.3M WordsCompleted Some call him Miracle Doctor Lu, while others call him Lu the Skinner. Some owe their battlefield dominance to the mechanical limbs he fitted them with; others have breathed their last beneath his surgical knife. He can save someone on the brink of death, or make a corpse disappear without a trace. By day, he is the warmest kindness in the world; by night, he is a terror that makes the whole world tremble. A scalpel rests between his fingers: one side is a demon, the other an angel. His name is 25.3kReads9.4Score3.2kShelves

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   [Adoration][Adoration][Admiration]

5. 5 惊 Thriller Game: From the Start, I Take Over the Haunted Clinic 惊悚游戏：开局拿下鬼诊所 Sliding-Step Expert滑步高手Mystery1.7M WordsCompleted The paranormal is on the rise, and horror games are invading reality. The genius doctor Li Fei is accidentally drawn into a game. With the Ghost Doctor System at his side, he devotes himself heart and soul to medicine, gradually building his clinic into a thriving business. The Slit-Mouthed Woman: “I only went in for a checkup for a cold, and he sewed my mouth shut the moment I walked in!” The Red Wedding Dress: “I only turned him down, but he insisted I had a fear of men!” The Ghost Lady: “He t 16.3kReads8.8Score2kShelves

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   Won the ghost clinic at the beginning [shocked]

6. 6 雪 Snowflake Town 雪粒镇 Sister Corpse尸姐Modern Romance130k WordsCompleted [Ji Handeng, a fragile, sickly, dark-minded younger brother x Xu Qiongqiong, a kind, resilient older sister who loves money] [Modern romance + mutual salvation + healing + older woman/younger man romance + revenge + cover-up + high-stakes twists] Xu Qiongqiong and Ji Handeng are siblings with no blood ties. In a small, poor town full of secrets, they rely on each other and keep one another warm. Their days hold happiness and pain, darkness and budding affection. Their shared goal is to leave Xue 102.5kReads9.7Score13.6kShelves

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   Horror Town is a super exciting suspenseful horror novel, you just can't stop reading it! The plot is gripping, and every twist and turn will get your blood pumping. The characters are so vividly drawn that you feel like they are as real as the haunted neighbors. It is definitely a terrifying choice that will make your heart beat!

7. 7 恐 The Terrifying Dark Town 恐怖的黑暗镇 Forever Loves Chili Sauce永远爱辣椒酱Mystery118k WordsCompleted A collection of chilling tales, made up of various short stories averaging around 2,000 words each. I highly recommend giving them a read. I poured my heart into writing them, hee hee hee. —Reads—Score—Shelves
8. 8 镇 Ghost Suppression 镇鬼 Yan Jun延峻Mystery952k WordsCompleted More than twenty years ago, a scientific expedition team secretly ventured into the mountains to investigate a strange stone coffin. In the end, only two people survived. According to one survivor, the other three had all died... Years later, when my grandfather passed away, a strange woman brought over a baby... I took over my grandfather's duty as the village guardian, only to encounter all kinds of horrifying things beyond belief. A ghostly fetus conceived by a virgin, a malevolent spirit 7Reads—Score—Shelves
9. 9 大 First-Year Internship—And You Went to Site 749 to Contain Monsters?! 大一实习，你跑去749收容怪物 Gaara's Sand我爱罗的沙Urban3.9M WordsOngoing [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 638.1kReads9.5Score52.6kShelves

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   🥀🥀The immortal demon and the seal of humanity are all copies of the game. The protagonist can see everyone's health bars, including the earth, so he picked up the weapon in his hand and smashed it down hard, choosing to blow up the world, the ultimate violence

10. 10 世 The World Became a Game, but Forgot to Generate the Players 世界游戏化，却忘了生成玩家 Red Bean Tea红豆茶Eastern Fantasy3.2M WordsOngoing The physical edition of Volume One will soon be available for preorder. Follow @0RedBeanTea0 for details. Everyone says that the Dao is waning, demons are growing stronger, and the Heavenly Tribulation is imminent, but Zhou Yuan disagrees. Undying, indestructible demons? Those are just monsters respawning in a game. Paradise realms and wondrous secret realms? Those are just game dungeons. Humankind sealing and suppressing demons? That just means not exiting the dungeon, preventing its monsters f 221kReads9.3Score20.9kShelves
11. 11 仙 The Fairy Asked If You’d Done It, and You Made Her Fly 仙子问你开没开，你让仙子飞起来 Changshou Can't Fly长寿不会飞Urban3.4M WordsOngoing [Signed for publication] [High martial arts + wish fulfillment + total domination + fast-paced + ruthless] “Ye Li, your opponent this time is my boyfriend. You’re no match for him, so hurry up and forfeit...” “You knocked him to his knees?!” “Ye Li, why did you apply to the top of the five great academies? Didn’t your teacher tell you not to get complacent and to keep your feet on the ground... You’ve already been granted early admission?!” “Ye Li, this strange beast rules the whole region. We’r 137.6kReads9.1Score9.7kShelves
12. 12 大 Great Ming: The Strongest Brocade Guard Slaughters the Officials 大明：最强锦衣卫，屠戮百官 Jinghai's Most Devoted Lover京海第一深情Historical1.1M WordsCompleted Zhou Chu transmigrated to the Zhengde era of the Ming dynasty. To survive, he was sold to the Lu family as a page. Just as Zhou Chu was helping the family’s second young master study and make steady progress, disaster struck the Lu family. Its members were thrown into prison. Zhou Chu took the Lu family’s only daughter with him, earning money while bribing the guards to make life in prison more comfortable for the family. Then Zhu Houzhao died, and Zhu Houcong took the throne, changing the era n 59.1kReads8.9Score5.6kShelves
13. 13 头 The Seventh Night 头七 Binghuo Zi Wende丙火字文德Mystery8k WordsCompleted The Seventh Day 51Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Recommend some ghost stories

14. 14 招 The Soul-Summoning Lantern 招魂灯 Binghuo Zi Wende丙火字文德Mystery13k WordsCompleted The Soul-Summoning Lantern 15Reads—Score—Shelves
15. 15 那 The Departure That Year 那一年的离去 Binghuo Zi Wende丙火字文德Mystery12k WordsCompleted The Day They Left 2Reads—Score—Shelves

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