Horror Novels Rated 9 or Higher! The Scarier, the Better 九分以上恐怖小说！越恐怖越得劲儿
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The Horror Night-Duty Booth 恐怖值班亭
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…
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The Dead Bride 死去的新娘
At the lavish wedding between my boyfriend and me, a strange man pushes open the doors and walks elegantly into the hall. Who is he? What does he want? Is he here to wish me well, or destroy me? When the man smiles and casually pushes me off the rooftop, I finally remember who he is. After destroying my life, fate grants me the chance to be reborn. If that's the case, I've decided never to bow my head and never to give up. Even if I have to fall into the deepest pits of hell, I won't hesitate.
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- 153 The Doll Grows Cold 人偶失温 Everyone says I must have done something virtuous in a past life for Qin Chuan to choose me. Only I know that's not the case. He married me because he wanted me dead. 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 154 An Unremarkable Jumping Death Case 不起眼的跳楼案 My fiancé, who had been overseas for three years, called to tell me he was coming back the day after tomorrow. I went to meet him at the airport. On the way home, he proposed, and I said yes. But this morning, he disappeared again, because I had once more returned to the day he called me. I've already relived these three days seven times. 2Reads—Score—14d adds
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Building 704: The Haunted Tower 七零四凶楼
Protagonist: Chen Mo, 28, a restorer of antiques and old objects. Quiet and reserved, with exceptional powers of observation, he is forced into a series of supernatural incidents while handling his ancestors’ belongings. Main setting: Building 704, a tenement in the old district of Jiangcheng. Abandoned for thirty years, the building is said to be filled with countless dead and overflowing with sinister energy.
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- 156 The People Around Me and I Had the Same Dream 我和周围人做了一样的梦 I knew I was dreaming, but everything in the dream was strange. When I woke up, I discovered that my coworkers and I had all shared the same dream. It turned out to be a monster's trap. 2Reads—Score—14d adds
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Late-Night Delivery: The Curse of Room 302 深夜外卖：血色302室的诅咒轮回
Late-Night Delivery: The Cursed Cycle of Room 302
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- 158 The One-Yuan Villa 一元别墅 Never believe that a windfall will fall from the sky. At 28, I was “hit” by a villa, but I don't have much time left. Now I have to find my next heir. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 159 Thief of the Memory Abyss 记忆深渊窃贼 Thief of the Memory Abyss —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 160 Fish Woman 鱼女 My father was a famous fisherman in the villages around us. Whenever he went out to sea, he always caught more fish than anyone else. He gutted countless live fish, scraped off their scales, and chopped off their heads. Then one day, he brought home a sea fish as tall as a person, and the entire village came to gawk. He turned down a merchant's offer to buy it, killed the fish himself, and put on a feast for the villagers, serving every part of it. The banquet lasted all night. The next day, the 51Reads—Score—14d adds
- 161 A Delivery in the Terrifying Midnight 惊恐午夜里的快递 A Delivery in the Terrifying Midnight —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 162 The Secret of Dad's Death 爸爸死亡的秘密 When I was seven, my dad died. An accident sent me back to the 24 hours before his death. I did everything I could to save him. But I never could have imagined it. This time, the one who killed my dad was... —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 163 A Ghostly Figure in the Mirror? 镜中的鬼影？ A Ghostly Shadow in the Mirror? —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 164 After I Lost My Memory, a Woman Just Like Me Appeared at Home 失忆后，家里出现和我一模一样的女人 I've lost my memory. Since then, people have kept showing me all kinds of evidence and implanting all sorts of memories in my mind. But I feel like an outsider looking in on my own past, unable to relate to any of it. One day, I came home and found a woman fast asleep on the sofa. What terrified me was that she looked exactly like me! 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 165 Haunted Rental: Someone Under the Bed 出租屋诡事：床下有人 Haunted Rental: Someone Under the Bed 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 166 The Real Lunatic and the Fake Patient 真疯子假病人 In my dream, I thought it was nothing more than a dream. But when I woke up, someone beside me was lying on the ground, clutching their arm and crying out in pain. Now, I've dreamed of the crime scene once again. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 167 The Blameless Game of Go 无咎棋 The Blameless Game of Go —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 168 The Life-Extending Money 借寿钱 After a friend dies in a bizarre car accident, could a hundred-yuan bill inscribed with “Borrow your years to buy my life” really be a deadly curse? At the funeral home, he uses “life-borrowing money” to buy an urn, only to be haunted by the dead man's mother in a strange way. A talisman hides a sinister plot, and three life-borrowing bills appear out of nowhere at midnight! A locked kitchen, boiling water, knives falling for no reason... Who is controlling this deadly game? 273Reads—Score—14d adds
- 169 Warlord: I’m from Fenghua, So What If I Become President? 军阀：我奉化人，当个总统怎么了 In the nineteenth year of the Republic, Li Xuewen, county magistrate in Fujian Province, was forced to flee overseas to Nanyang after offending the Song family. He led eight hundred elite members of his security corps across the sea to Borneo, planning to restore the Lan Fang Republic and establish a nation abroad. President Li says, “No one understands nation-building better than I do.” Is nation-building difficult in its early stages? No matter. There will naturally be fools eager to come to t 303.5kReads9.0Score32.9k14d adds
- 170 Paper Bride 纸新娘 Rumor has it that I tried to seduce the Lin family's young master, failed, and then killed him in the village's paper-offering shop. To save my life, I agreed to marry Master Lin, who had raised me for ten years. On our wedding day, Master Lin laid his hands on me. "Darling, did you know I've wanted you for many years?" Of course I knew. I'd been looking forward to this day even longer than he had. 15Reads—Score—14d adds
- 171 Lover in a False World 虚假世界的爱人 My wife has been acting strangely lately. She keeps pestering me, saying she wants me to stay by her side forever. I can't help finding it a little funny. "Of course I'll stay by your side forever and ever, honey." But whenever she hears me say that, her body stiffens noticeably. Then she goes back to her room alone and locks the door. No matter how I try to coax her from outside, she refuses to open it. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 172 You Get Stronger by Hunting Ghosts and Slaying Demons, So Why Call Me a Corpse Collector? 捉鬼杀妖就变强，你叫我收尸佬？ [Urban Mysteries] [Folk Legends] [Supernatural] [Thriller] [Adventure] When Chen Sanqi woke up, he had been reborn in 2008, in a construction-site dormitory in Beijing. Time had turned back, and the world seemed to be the same one he knew, yet it had become almost unrecognizable. The good news: his good buddy, Fatty, was still alive. The bad news: ghosts really did exist in this world. Traditions had been lost, charlatans ran rampant, and the supernatural kept multiplying with the evil thoughts 23.3kReads6.3Score2.5k14d adds
- 173 The Skinning Ghost 扒皮鬼 (Traditional supernatural horror + extreme horror + multiple twists + mystery + entirely handcrafted) Lately, I've been having nightmares every night. A fortune-teller said I might have a ghost clinging to me. He told me about a forbidden folk ritual: Put on a pair of worn underwear over your head, and it will block a ghost's sight. That night, I got home and followed his advice, half believing it. My girlfriend came back to the room after washing up and stared blankly at where I was. "Where... 64.2kReads8.3Score7k14d adds
- 174 Crimson Wish 绯红之愿 I bought a cursed object, hoping to summon a ghost and make a pact with her so I could go to the Ghost City and find out what happened to my missing master. The summoning went unusually smoothly, but the moment she appeared, the powerful yin energy pouring out of the magic circle sent me flying several meters and knocked me to the ground. She stood quietly in the middle of the circle, dressed in a bright red bridal gown and phoenix crown, with her red veil neatly covering her head and her hands —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 175 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! 6.4kReads8.9Score57714d adds
- 176 Summer Vacation of Terror 暑假惊魂记 I can see things other people can't. I've never let it show. I didn't want anyone to think I was a freak. Until that summer vacation... Two classmates and I made plans to go swimming. I saw something in the water. I was terrified. But they insisted on going in, and I couldn't stop them... —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 177 I Learn to Slay Ghosts on a Paranormal Forum 我在怪谈论坛学斩鬼 [The printed edition of Strange Tales Forum is in production] [The short drama adaptation of Strange Tales Forum is in production] Gao Shen joined a strange tales forum by chance. The forum often posts eerie stories, describing every detail so vividly that they seem to have really happened. Users who reply seriously analyze the source of each incident and discuss how to deal with it. They even address each other as Heavenly Masters, Soul Tamer 49.9kReads8.7Score6.4k14d adds
- 178 The Secret of Chaoxiao 朝校的秘密 In the village where my family lives, every household's first child has to be a girl. The day after their tenth birthday, these girls are sent to a place called Chaoxiao on the other side of the mountain. They say it's a paradise for girls. That is, until a black cat appeared in the village. 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 179 The Secret of Chongcao Village 虫草村的秘密 “The cordyceps we raise are so fast, you can’t even catch them.” I was watching this funny video on a certain short-video app. Comments flew across the screen. Some people said the joke was hilarious, while others earnestly explained that cordyceps couldn’t possibly run fast. But I knew the joke wasn’t funny at all, because I had seen fast-running cordyceps myself. Perhaps “rabbit cordyceps” would be a more fitting name. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
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The Corpse Coffin's Ghostly Fragrance 尸棺鬼香
[The corpse sits in the coffin, the ghost eats incense] [Fate from a past life, continued in this one] A Maoshan Taoist’s path to raising ghosts... After his grandmother dies unexpectedly, Shen Lin happens upon the notes his grandfather left behind. From then on, he begins a ghost-hunting life in which he narrowly escapes death time and time again...
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- 181 Longevity Soup 长寿汤 When I was little, Liu Laoer’s family in the village made a living selling goat-horn powder. The powder came from the horns of female goats. Though those horns were short and slender, Liu Laoer would skin and butcher female goats alive right after they gave birth. Then he would cut off their horns and grind them into powder. He would add the powder to soup made with freshly slaughtered lamb. They said drinking it regularly could help you live a long life. 16Reads—Score—14d adds
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Super Scary Livestream 超级惊悚直播
"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!"
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- 183 The Silent Echo 沉默的回声 Five years ago, in Room 601 of Ningchuan High School, a girl was found hanged from a bathroom pipe. Her eyes bulged, her tongue was missing, and strange words had been written in blood on the mirror: “He… is back.” Five years later, the sealed cold case was suddenly reopened. Trainee criminal investigator Qin Chuan took over the investigation, never expecting that this bizarre murder would also uncover another buried case: the “South Campus Disappearance.” A deadly game of hunting, lying dormant 57Reads—Score—14d adds
- 184 Huizhu Village 慧猪村 My college roommate claimed she came from an ancient village called Huizhu Village. She said the village got its name because, from ancient times to the present, it had produced many high-ranking officials and top scholars, as if its villagers were born with pearls of wisdom. It wasn’t until she talked the rest of us in the dorm into visiting her village around the Qingming Festival that I learned it was actually called “Wise Pig Village.” —Reads—Score—14d adds
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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.
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- 186 The Death Inn 死亡民宿 On the first night after checking into the guesthouse, the owner died. But at midnight that same night, Lu Shou actually received a text from the owner. “Please be sure to follow the rules of the Deerhorn Guesthouse. Find the landlady’s dowry box before five tomorrow morning, and you can leave with the deputy manager, an orange cat.” “Otherwise, you’ll be stuck here forever.” Lu Shou broke out in a cold sweat, utterly baffled. “I clearly took his phone. How can he still text me?” —Reads—Score—14d adds
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A Record of Supernatural Events in the Countryside 乡村灵异事件薄
My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I'll do my best to tell every story well!
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Ghost Sightings at the Nightclub 夜场见鬼录
A Long is a DJ at a bar with a legendary “Stage of Death.” Many people have died there under mysterious circumstances. The cause of death could never be determined, and some bodies were never even found! The strange incidents stopped only after the bar was shut down. As the legend of the deaths gradually faded from memory, someone opened the stage once more! After that, disaster struck again and again! A terrifying ghostly figure appears in the girls’ dormitory, a faceless baby clings to a chand
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A Thousand Years of Ghost Stories 千年鬼话
A Thousand Years of Ghost Stories: One Thousand and One Nights of Chinese Folk Ghost Tales is a spine-chilling collection steeped in folk tradition. This book brings together ancient folk legends and ghost stories from across China, featuring mysteries and uncanny events from different historical periods and regions. From eerie mountain forests and desolate old villages to bizarre corners of modern cities, every story holds little-known horrors and shocking revelations. The plots are mysterious
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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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- 191 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. 56Reads6.8Score414d adds
- 192 The Years I Spent as a Funeral Mourner 我当哭丧人的那些年 Some people must be mourned loudly when they are laid to rest. Otherwise, according to old folk customs, it is considered an act of filial impiety. After I was born, everyone in my family except my grandfather died because of me. My grandfather fell gravely ill, and to earn money for his treatment, I had no choice but to join Zhang the Elder, a man from my village, as a professional funeral mourner. From then on, I set out on a path of mourning with no return! 126Reads8.5Score—14d adds
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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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- 194 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 798Reads7.8Score—14d adds
- 195 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 717Reads6.1Score4814d adds
- 196 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 108Reads7.0Score514d adds
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Burying Yin Bones, Borrowing Yang Life, and Marrying the King of Hell's Younger Sister 埋阴骨，借阳寿，阎王妹妹嫁入门
On the day I was born, the midwife stabbed herself in the throat with a pair of scissors. With yang eyes, I see the rise and fall of the mortal world; with yin eyes, I glimpse the ghosts and monsters of the underworld. I was born with ghost eyes. I can see the secrets of fate, but that also brought down Heaven's retribution upon me. I was destined to die. To keep me alive, my mother borrowed Jiang Hanying's life. From that day on, Jiang Hanying and I were like twin vines, bound together. As
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- 198 There Are Ghosts in These Words 话里有诡 They say everyone has a few little secrets they can't bring themselves to talk about these days. But if you really want to hear something out of the ordinary, go find Old Bu. Old Bu runs a little tavern set inside an abandoned train carriage. From the day it opened, he laid down one rule: One interesting story in exchange for a night's worth of drinks. Sounds like a good deal, doesn't it? Too bad he doesn't give you much to drink, and the stories just keep getting stranger. An intelligent wristb 8Reads7.6Score—14d adds
- 199 The Demon Taoist Breaks Through the Underworld Pass 妖道破阴关 (Supernatural horror, feng shui and geomancy, warding off evil and misfortune, one heroine) My parents used forbidden magic to conceive me, but on the day I was born, my strange appearance frightened them away... My third uncle raised me in a cage. I barely managed to grow up on borrowed yin virtue and incense offerings... On my eighteenth birthday, I was buried alive in the ancestral graveyard. She saved me... but she wasn’t human... 5.4kReads9.1Score47014d adds
- 200 The Midnight Gravekeeper 午夜守墓人 A desolate mountain. An ancient tomb. A woman in white. A blood-red moon at midnight. A corpse monk on the move. I’m a high school senior. With the college entrance exam just around the corner, I suddenly came down with a fever that wouldn’t break and missed the test. After recovering at home for more than half a year, I found a job guarding the gate at a cemetery. Seeing how frail I was and how weak my yang energy was, Old Zhang, the gravedigger, found me a protector. But she wasn’t human. She 6.1kReads8.5Score32414d adds
