Looking for Horror Novels So Terrifying They Make Your Soul Leave Your Body and Scare You Out of Your Wits, the Most Terrifying of the Terrifying 求恐怖小说吓到灵魂出窍吓到大小便失禁恐怖到极致

1. 151 铜 The Bronze Coffin Seals the Soul: The Yin Corpse 铜棺封魂·阴尸 My Name Is Liang Sheng我叫良生26k WordsCompleted The Bronze Coffin Seals the Soul: The Yin Corpse 2Reads—Score—Shelves
2. 152 洞 The Corpse in the Cave Pool Can Kill 洞穴深潭里的尸体会杀人 My Name Is Liang Sheng我叫良生7k WordsCompleted The Corpse in the Cave Pool Can Kill 1Reads—Score—Shelves
3. 153 残 Seeking Life Amid Lingering Regrets 残念觅生 Yu Cangjue御苍爵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 237Reads—Score—Shelves

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   [New Infinite Flow | Horror & Mind-Bending | Group Battles | Intellectual Showdown & Twists] -- Ten Days of Similar Genres -- Intellectual battles are what make it exciting! It's all about strategic maneuvering: the tattooed fat guy frantically gives up first blood, the suited man cleverly sets the pace, the tomboyish coach is fiercely protective, and the kid is drooling with hidden secrets... Every character is fleshed out and causes trouble. There's no harem, just a battle of wits (that's the intelligence a living person should have!)! --▼Click to browse and try it out▼ --Remember to add it to your bookshelf and give it a five-star review! 56318166116

4. 154 槐 Old Tales Beneath the Pagoda Tree 槐下旧事 An Old Fountain Pen一只旧钢笔Mystery6k WordsCompleted Old Stories Beneath the Pagoda Tree —Reads—Score—Shelves

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   It's not that scary, but I still wanted to promote what I wrote.

5. 155 我 My Years as a Fake Taoist at a Taoist Temple 我在道观当假道士的那些年 An Old Fountain Pen一只旧钢笔11k WordsCompleted My Years Pretending to Be a Taoist Priest at a Taoist Temple —Reads—Score—Shelves
6. 156 平 Ordinary World: I’m Creating a Horror Game 平凡世界：我来创造惊悚游戏 fh Black and Whitefh黑白Mystery227k WordsCompleted (Infinite flow + horror game + mild horror + dungeon escape + no female lead + supernatural resurgence + Cthulhu) Li Yan has run into the biggest crisis of his life: he's been framed! Unwilling to fall into the trap of having to prove his innocence, he hurries away from the scene. He can't do anything about the baseless accusations, but fortunately, a System drops from the sky, and now he can create terrifying horror games. Oh, so you're framing me? Then go repent in the horror game I create! (N 29Reads—Score—Shelves
7. 157 恐 The Terrifying Online Celebrity 恐怖女网红 The Girl Who Swallows Ghosts吞鬼的女孩Mystery2.5M WordsCompleted Ning Ruoyu is bullied and framed by the people closest to her. To stay alive, she has no choice but to catch ghosts for money. She never expected to become an online sensation with tens of millions of followers... During the new-book period, there will be one update a day until the story reaches 30,000 words, posted at noon. After that, there will be two updates 3.2kReads9.1Score360Shelves

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   Story Summary: I recommend four completed novels. If you want to get a real scare, I suggest listening to the audiobooks late at night, after turning off the lights. You'll feel completely immersed. Try it and see.

8. 158 通 The Spirit Medium's Strange Cases 通灵诡事 Not Drunk不醉Mystery2.0M WordsCompleted Parental love? I have none. From the moment I was born, they wanted to strangle me. Sibling affection? I have none. My own brother calls me a country bumpkin. Friendship with my peers? I have none. Everyone in the village says I'm a demon in human form who eats children. Love? What even is that? The first time I saw Qi Yue, I just thought he looked clean-cut and handsome. The next time I saw him, I found out his mother was the woman who had gone looking for Fourth Auntie years ago. Only now, she 2kReads9.2Score390Shelves
9. 159 恐 The Horror Livestreamer 恐怖女主播 The Girl Who Swallows Ghosts吞鬼的女孩Mystery2.3M WordsCompleted My name is Yuan Junyao, a name that doesn't suit me at all. I've had a chronic illness since birth, and I'm so hideously deformed that tumors started growing on my face when I was little. My father left me when I was just three months old. At fifteen, I was blamed for my mother's death. Only my grandmother raised me and my stepbrother, who shared neither parent with me. But after an accident, I was offered up to a man who should never have crossed my path. To get revenge and see justice done, I 18.3kReads9.1Score2.3kShelves
10. 160 异 Chronicles of the Supernatural 异灵实录 Dwarf Cutup矮人活宝Mystery298k WordsCompleted At three in the morning, check the list of the dead; let the ferryman guide your soul. Chinese horror stories, spirit-summoning, death notes. Some things can be explained, while other feelings defy description. A terror that makes you shudder as you think it over rises from the depths of your heart. After reading these 99 stories, you'll find yourself questioning your own life. There's a rumor that you should never stay in the last room on the ground floor of a hotel. The author once traveled ou 24Reads9.2Score—Shelves
11. 161 雇 Hiring a Handsome Guy to Guard the House 雇个帅哥来镇宅 Zahari扎哈里Mystery1.1M WordsOngoing [Horror, one heroine] What do you do when you’re nearly broke? With no other options, Shang Yi reluctantly took a night-shift job, and it completely upended his worldview! The elevator, hallways, underground parking garage, bathrooms… Those places were already enough to give him a headache. But what troubled him even more was the attention he got from beautiful women… Strange incidents kept happening in the residential complex, yet the residents went on living there as if nothing were wrong. The 54Reads—Score—Shelves
12. 162 北 The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: Northern School 北派盗墓笔记 Yun Feng云峰Mystery4.5M WordsOngoing [Published in print and available online] [The Beipai Notes horizontal-screen drama is now streaming] [Tomb Raiding + Mystery + Antiques] I'm a poor kid from a mountain village in Northeast China. In the early twenty-first century, hoping to make something of myself, I joined a northern tomb-raiding crew. From south to north, I've seen every side of the underworld and crossed paths with people from all walks of life. Over the years, I went from a young man to a middle-aged one. My drinking got b 957.1kReads9.6Score121.4kShelves

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    It's just so-so.

13. 163 民 Strange Tales from the Min Tiao Bureau: Mian Zhuan 民调局异闻录之勉传 Er Dong Shuishou耳东水寿Mystery8.3M WordsCompleted This is the story of an immortal man spanning two thousand years. In every corner of history, he left his name behind. To some, he was a nightmare. To others, he awakened them from the nightmares that haunted them. At the beginning of the story, his name was Wu Mian. By the end, his name was Invincible. 22.5kReads9.4Score2.2kShelves
14. 164 我 There’s a Ghost Inside Me 我的体内有只鬼 A Black-Inked Blade一柄墨刀Mystery3.5M WordsCompleted Vengeful ghosts awaken, and a hundred ghosts roam the night. Jiang Xiao transmigrates into this world for no apparent reason and finds himself surrounded by demons and monsters. But then he discovers that his shadow can devour ghosts without limit and gain their abilities. [Successfully devoured the White Mist Ghost. Ability acquired: Mist Form] [Successfully devoured the Hanging Ghost. Ability acquired: Shackles] [Successfully devoured the Bronze Ghost. Ability acquired: Copper Skin] [Successfu 20.7kReads9.3Score2.4kShelves
15. 165 死 Death List 死亡名单 Taotie Hermit饕餮居士Sci-Fi & Apocalypse2.5M WordsCompleted A horrifying murder that shocked the entire city took place in the capital of Handan. On Christmas Eve, a middle-aged couple were brutally killed, and the only person left at the scene was their eight-year-old stepson, covered in blood. Over the next twelve years, the boy murdered dozens of people by various means. Now he is about to be sentenced to death... 84Reads8.6Score—Shelves
16. 166 噩 Nightmares Awaken 噩梦复苏 Loves Sweet Apples爱吃甜苹果Mystery467k WordsCompleted What would you do if one day the world went dark and you became a walking corpse? I never expected to live to see tomorrow. We’re just a bunch of poor wretches who could die at any moment. I hate that I keep struggling. I look at the world in despair. Sometimes, you never know how wonderful the world after death can be. New book: My Apocalypse Is Not Normal. 40Reads8.0Score—Shelves
17. 167 死 Death Club 死亡俱乐部 Year's End年末Mystery2.4M WordsCompleted There are bizarre events, horrifying hellscapes, and the ugliness of human nature. People dwell among ghosts; there are hell trains, death academies… One terrifying incident after another, open only to members of the Death Club. The Death Club welcomes you to join! Zhang Chen was slowly growing drowsy. He had no idea how long it had been since night fell. Just as he was about to drift off, a series of thuds suddenly came from upstairs, the sound of wooden clogs striking the stairs. The clacking 3.9kReads8.6Score496Shelves
18. 168 锈 The Age of Rusted Hearts 锈心时代 Tianya88天涯88Mystery690k WordsCompleted Synopsis In a future where capitalism has dissected human emotions, Jiang Rou sells off pieces of her husband Lu Chen's "love soul" to gain entry to high society. When Lu Chen sees his own heart being auctioned at a "human flesh wedding expo," the dormant "Love Slave bloodline" within him suddenly awakens. Fitted with a penance collar forged by his romantic rival, he descends into the seven levels of the Hell of Devouring Love, swearing to tear apart his wife's betrayal. The trials of hell revea 9Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The most ordinary scene in "Rusty Hearts" is a dark future that will send chills down your spine as you read.

19. 169 幽 Whispers by the Candlelit Ruins 幽庭烛烬语 A Zan Kuna阿赞坤娜Mystery1.3M WordsOngoing In the dead of night, countless eerie secrets lurk in the dark folds of the city. The knocking in an old apartment, known as “Knocking at Midnight,” rings out like clockwork at three in the morning. When a woman living alone peers through the peephole, all she sees is a roiling cloud of scarlet blood mist in the hallway, while a damp scratching comes from the doorknob. In the basement of a century-old apothecary, “Whispers in the Medicine Crock” never cease, day or night. Every night at midnight 3Reads—Score—Shelves

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    3. Today's update: The owner of the comb-tooth pharmacy accidentally stumbled upon a coffin, mistakenly burying the belongings of a woman who died with resentment and her unborn child. From then on, he was haunted. The woman used human bones as comb teeth, attempting to piece together a broken burial mirror so that her child could see the light of day again. The pharmacy, and later the coffin shop, suffered a series of misfortunes, with many people being murdered and becoming "comb teeth." Years later, eerie resurrection plants grew from the ruins, and ghostly figures combing hair frequently appeared at midnight. Even when the schoolteacher's students set fire to the shop, the strife persisted. Finally, A-Yue, a descendant connected to the events, used an ancestral peach wood comb and the last fragment of the mirror to resolve all the resentment. The mirror shattered, the souls scattered, the resurrection plants withered, and the once terrifying place became a school campus. Only the grass under the old locust tree still holds the memories of the comb teeth and the story of redemption.

20. 170 盲 The Blind Woman’s Wedding 盲女的婚礼 Eighth Master of Dou City斗城八爷32k WordsCompleted The Blind Girl's Wedding 32Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Suspenseful plot twists and dramatic dialogue propel the story forward.

21. 171 佛 The Secret of the Buddha Mother 佛母的秘密 Eighth Master of Dou City斗城八爷34k WordsCompleted The Buddha Mother's Secret 40Reads—Score—Shelves
22. 172 豪 Terror at the Luxury Estate 豪苑惊魂 Eighth Master of Dou City斗城八爷57k WordsCompleted Terror at the Grand Estate 17Reads—Score—Shelves
23. 173 河 The Debt Beneath the River, Billed in My Name 河底那笔账，记在我名下 Eighth Master of Dou City斗城八爷Mystery57k WordsCompleted The debt at the bottom of the river is in my name 18Reads—Score—Shelves
24. 174 诡 The Mysterious Domain City 诡秘域都 Eighth Master of Dou City斗城八爷99k WordsCompleted The Mysterious Domain City 3Reads—Score—Shelves
25. 175 清 The Qingling Rankings 清凌榜 Eighth Master of Dou City斗城八爷43k WordsCompleted The Qingling Rankings 2Reads—Score—Shelves
26. 176 我 The Girlfriend Who Disappeared 我消失的女朋友 Eighth Master of Dou City斗城八爷Sci-Fi & Apocalypse60k WordsCompleted My Girlfriend Who Disappeared 12Reads—Score—Shelves
27. 177 诡 The Strange Sword 诡剑 Eighth Master of Dou City斗城八爷98k WordsCompleted The Ghost Sword 3Reads—Score—Shelves
28. 178 穿 Transmigrated to Another World to Work as a Cleaner 穿越异界干保洁 Eighth Master of Dou City斗城八爷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...? 1Reads—Score—Shelves
29. 179 猛 The Ghosts Come Out at Night Series 猛鬼出更系列 Plucking Plum Blossoms, Drunk in Luoyang且插梅花醉洛阳7k WordsCompleted The Ferocious Ghosts Come Out at Night Series 140Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The first three are a collection of chilling short horror stories, while the fourth is a thrilling, humorous, and slightly suggestive new-style urban suspense fantasy novel.

30. 180 午 The Deadly Neighbor at Midnight 午夜凶邻 Plucking Plum Blossoms, Drunk in Luoyang且插梅花醉洛阳7k WordsCompleted The Neighbor from Hell at Midnight 121Reads—Score—Shelves
31. 181 o Office Ghosts: Don't Work Overtime office有鬼之不要加班 Plucking Plum Blossoms, Drunk in Luoyang且插梅花醉洛阳6k WordsCompleted There Are Ghosts in the Office: Don’t Work Overtime 91Reads—Score—Shelves
32. 182 西 The Secrets of Journey to the West 西游记的秘密 Plucking Plum Blossoms, Drunk in Luoyang且插梅花醉洛阳Mystery551k WordsCompleted Abyssal Murder Mystery: I Can See the Death Countdown Each scenario is a standalone horror movie, with cruel rules and a barrage of deadly traps. The protagonist gains the one-of-a-kind hidden talent “Performance Notes,” which lets him glimpse death warnings and hidden rules in the scripts. The scenarios draw on real urban legends and folk taboos, steeped in Chinese-style horror. The central mystery deepens layer by layer: Who created the Abyss Theater? Why did the notebook’s previous owner d 57Reads—Score—Shelves
33. 183 地 The Rat King Underground 地下的鼠王 Jun Lan君澜Mystery8k WordsCompleted In Northeast China, there are things you must never ask about, places you must never go, and some graveyards that even rats won’t dare approach… Forty years ago, a plague of rats devoured an entire village. The bodies, gnawed down to bare bones, became a taboo the villagers never dared mention. But no one expected that forty years later, the nightmare would return: bloodstains, gold bracelets, overturned graves, and rafters creaking with “squeaks” in the night… Everything filled them with terror 1Reads—Score—Shelves
34. 184 死 Death’s Pallbearers 死亡抬棺 Jun Lan君澜Mystery8k WordsCompleted There was a half-immortal in this little mountain village named Yu Shouwang. Just after dusk, someone came rushing to his house. “Uncle Shouwang, you have to come take a look. The village chief's father's coffin was just carried to the village entrance, and now nobody can move it. It's downright eerie!” Strangely enough, as soon as the half-immortal arrived, they were able to move the coffin. But at the time, only Old Yu Shouwang knew that this and the series of tragedies that followed were all 1Reads—Score—Shelves
35. 185 血 The Blood Sacrifice’s Curse 血牲的诅咒 Jun Lan君澜Mystery8k WordsCompleted In the Northeast, there's a taboo no one dares to break lightly: eat livestock that have become spirits, and you'll suffer retribution. But one year, during a famine, the harvest was good in that remote little village. Old Yang suddenly slaughtered the old ox he'd raised for fifteen years. On the very day the ox was killed, a crowd of strange, unfamiliar people came to the village, demanding meat night after night. —Reads—Score—Shelves
36. 186 招 The Spirit-Summoning Garment 招魂衣 Jun Lan君澜Mystery8k WordsCompleted They say Northeast China is full of taboos, and you can’t even wear the wrong clothes! Old Li was tempted by a bargain and accepted a new outfit that was “free.” But he never imagined it was a “life robe” sent by a soul-caller. The price was his grandson’s life. From that day on, strange things plagued the household: a dog’s head rolled across the floor, relatives died gruesome deaths, living people were burned alive, and even the dead began knocking at the door to claim their lives… —Reads—Score—Shelves
37. 187 死 The Death Camera 死亡相机 It's Getting Hot天热了Mystery9k WordsCompleted I don't like digital cameras. I like old-fashioned film cameras. After my grandfather's funeral, I inherited one of his belongings: an unused roll of film. My grandfather once said, "Don't touch the future, or you'll be caught up in an unknown disaster." I didn't understand what he meant then, not until a short while later, when I used that roll of film to photograph a murder. A murder that had yet to happen. 12Reads—Score—Shelves
38. 188 一 A Sheet of Human Skin 一张人皮 Qu Gaofeng曲高峰Mystery8k WordsCompleted When beads of blood seeped from the claw marks on Li Jun's back, I recognized their shape: they were fingernail marks, exactly like the ones on the female corpse at the crematorium thirty years ago. Three days earlier, when he tremblingly handed me that faded pellet drum, the smiling faces of the boy and girl painted on its surface had suddenly split open, revealing locust-wood grain writhing beneath the skin. Now the lights above the emergency room flickered, and black blood was flowing through 1Reads—Score—Shelves
39. 189 惊 A Terrifying New Year's Eve 惊悚除夕夜 Mo Chen墨尘Mystery11k WordsCompleted On New Year’s Eve, I was driven mad by the nonstop kitchen noise from upstairs. I bombarded the tenants’ group chat with voice messages. “I just want to know which lunatic is cooking in the middle of the night! Are you making food for ghosts?” Someone replied almost immediately. “Don’t you know we make our New Year’s Eve dinner at midnight here in Hunan? It’ll be ready soon. Why don’t you come up and join us?” Then they sent a gruesome photo. The picture was quickly deleted. In its place came a —Reads—Score—Shelves
40. 190 别 Seven Hours of Terror in the Villa District 别墅区惊魂七小时 Two Yuan两元Mystery10k WordsCompleted In the early hours of Qingming, a notice from the deceased property manager, Bohe, appeared in the residents’ group chat: “Pay your property fees in full by nine.” The residents sneered, until the doors and windows locked, the phones lost signal, and at exactly nine, everyone who’d skipped their payments jumped to their deaths. The bloody footage played on loop across every screen. I pulled out the payment records. My wife looked away. When I was tearing down an illegal structure, she’d secretly —Reads—Score—Shelves
41. 191 七 Possessed by a Starving Ghost on the Ghost Festival 七月半饿死鬼附身 Shuiliu水柳Mystery8k WordsCompleted When I was little, the village elders used to say that on the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, the gates of hell swung wide open and restless spirits roamed everywhere. It was the worst night of all to go out. But I refused to believe in that sort of thing. I opened a tea shop in a mahjong parlor, thinking I could make a little extra money. Instead, I came face to face with something I should never have seen. No one was in the private room, yet I heard it bustling with noise. A customer —Reads—Score—Shelves
42. 192 是 Who Killed Him? 是谁杀了他 YUE8k WordsCompleted At 8:30 on Saturday night, a woman arrived at her friend's home for dinner, as invited. The security door was ajar, and light from the hallway spilled through the gap, brightening the entryway. She could just make out the outline of a person lying flat in the bedroom opposite the door. As she turned on the lights, she caught sight of a woman lying facedown in the middle of the kitchen, vomit piled around her nose and mouth, half her face submerged in dirty water. Water from the sink dripped over —Reads—Score—Shelves
43. 193 致 The Deadly Delivery 致命快递 Little Potato小土豆Mystery10k WordsCompleted I’m a Buddhist: beautiful, kindhearted, rich, and gullible. I can’t stand to see the poor suffer. If my fried noodles cost seven yuan, I pay ten. That can have its downsides, though. For example, some penniless creep from the noodle stall might latch onto me. Or I might find my husband’s severed finger in my fried noodles. —Reads—Score—Shelves
44. 194 血 The Blood-Red Bun Shop 血色包子铺 I Petted a Cat撸了个猫啊Mystery8k WordsCompleted The buns I sell have already sent two customers to their deaths. And yet my shop is still packed with customers. Just as the police run out of leads in the case, there is a third person who dies after eating one of my buns... 7Reads—Score—Shelves
45. 195 死 Death Trip 死亡旅行 Congee Rice粥米Mystery11k WordsCompleted Before graduation, everyone wanted to take a graduation trip that was a little different, so one of my rich classmates rented an old, rundown cruise ship. On the first night aboard, the rich kid posted a raffle in the group chat: “I’ve prepared a grand prize for everyone. Entries close at midnight. We’ll reveal the luckiest winner tomorrow morning!” I was just about to open the link when an anonymous text came in. “Open it and you die.” 1Reads—Score—Shelves
46. 196 别 Terror at the Villa: Everyone Who Heard the Weeping Died 别墅惊魂：听见哭声的人都死了 Jiang Xiaoyu江晓屿Mystery10k WordsCompleted I'm a feng shui master. One day, I was hired by the tycoon Jia Qing, who said something strange was happening at his villa on Lingzhou Island. Every night, the sounds of a woman and a baby crying could be heard inside the villa. The reward he offered was so generous that I couldn't refuse. Who knew that a string of terrifying events would unfold on the very night I moved in? 4Reads—Score—Shelves
47. 197 囚 The Spirit-Suppressing Coffin 囚灵棺 Mu Shang沐觞Mystery9k WordsCompleted I was curious about the coffin necklace around my boyfriend's neck. Before I could even touch it, he broke up with me on the spot. I complained about it to the viewers in my livestream, but then a fortune-telling streamer suddenly joined the call and warned me: “Break up with him right now. Your boyfriend is wearing a Spirit-Binding Coffin!” From that day on, eerie nightmares, a mysterious female ghost, and my boyfriend's secrets... One strange event after another began to unfold. Just when I th —Reads—Score—Shelves
48. 198 惊 The Haunted Inn 惊魂旅馆 Ye Ling Tianyu夜凌天羽Mystery9k WordsCompleted An unexpected downpour drowned out the sounds of murder. Late at night, in a remote inn, a corpse lay sprawled across a bed, blood pouring from all seven orifices. The killer seemed to be hiding among the guests, none of whom trusted one another: a police officer, a writer, a psychiatrist, a celebrity, a fan, a college student... Every one of them had something to hide. After a second murder, the line between the dead and the living grew increasingly blurred. Everyone was a suspect, and everyone 4Reads—Score—Shelves
49. 199 恐 The Horror Night-Duty Booth 恐怖值班亭 Fish Feast鱼鱼宴Mystery8k WordsCompleted Back around the 2000s, I worked as a security guard at an apartment complex. The complex had a strange rule: [After midnight, do not leave the security booth.] It made no sense, but I always kept it in mind, until the day one of my coworkers died! That night, a woman in a skirt knocked on the security booth window… 30Reads—Score—Shelves
50. 200 井 Ghost in the Well: The Woman in Room 704 井底亡魂-704室的女人 Yang Zai楊載Mystery14k WordsCompleted Ghost at the Bottom of the Well: The Woman in Room 704 —Reads—Score—Shelves

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