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Any Recommendations for Folk Horror Novels? Thanks! 有没有民俗类恐怖小说 求 谢谢(* ̄3 ̄)╭♡

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  1. 51 The System's a Clown, I Make Things Worse: Rebellious to the Core 系统沙雕我添堵,一身反骨离大谱 Modern Romance9.1M WordsCompleted They came from distinguished families and were beautiful, talented, and exceptional. But whenever they crossed paths with the male and female leads, they became brainless cannon fodder, burning themselves up to make the leads’ romance flourish until their dying breath. And now Gu Mo has become all those women from countless novels. System: Boss, you can face-slap the villains and break up those couples! Go get ’em! Gu Mo: I’m awesome! I can do this! Much later, the System stares in bewilderment 46.1kReads9.1Score2.9kShelves
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  2. 52 As a Great Demon of the Primordial World, She Begins Quick Transmigration 当洪荒大妖她开始快穿 Modern Romance729k WordsCompleted [Quick Transmigration] [No Romance] [Strong Female Lead] Li Ku was once a piece of deadwood from the Primordial Realm, rootless and adrift in the abyss. Her daily routine was to watch countless great demons enter in perfect shape and leave missing limbs. One day, someone claiming to be a Tasker mistook her for a treasure and brought her back to the Time and Space Administration. No freeloaders were allowed there, so Li Ku, gathering dust, was kicked into a mission world. What was a mission? In t 7.7kReads9.3Score847Shelves
  3. 53 Quick Transmigration: My Host Is Frail and Helpless, but Completely Unhinged 快穿疯批:我那宿主柔弱不能自理 Modern Romance504k WordsCompleted In every tragic romance, the heroine is tormented by the hero until her heart is torn apart, and her heart, kidneys, and brain are cut out. Yet the heroine loves the hero without fail, devoting herself wholeheartedly to her career as his doormat. Now Jingsha has become the heroine of a tragic romance. She's obsessive, unstable, scummy, and downright crazy. She torments the male lead, then the male supporting character, then the female supporting character. In the end, they all love her but can n 12.8kReads9.3Score1.5kShelves
  4. 54 Livestream Fortune-Telling: The Metaphysics Expert Takes the Internet by Storm 直播算命:玄学大佬轰动全网 Mystery221k WordsOngoing Lin Xiao was born from the belly of a dead woman. Her grandmother said that a child born from a corpse was destined to be tough, and would make a fine successor to the Lin family's generations-old ghost-catching tradition. After her grandmother died, Lin Xiao used her inheritance to open a little shop that nobody cared about. Then inspiration struck: she started fortune-telling livestreams online. In her spare time, she also practices alchemy and makes deals with ghosts. From then on, she and he 8Reads—Score—Shelves
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  5. 55 Passerby: Secrets of the Ancient Scroll 过路人:古卷秘相 Mystery471k WordsOngoing Shen Xun, guardian of the cycle of reincarnation, suppresses evil spirits and keeps the balance between yin and yang. His time is running out, and he must pass on the guardians' legacy as soon as possible. The first successor is Lin Jian, who possesses a supernatural camera. The evil spirits have already set their sights on her. As Shen Xun reaches the foot of the stairs, he senses a pair of eyes watching him from behind. 8Reads—Score—Shelves
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  6. 56 My Sister Went on a Trip to Nanyang and Disappeared! 我妹妹去南洋旅游,就失踪了! 27k WordsCompleted My Younger Sister Went on a Trip to Nanyang and Disappeared! 9Reads—Score—Shelves
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  7. 57 The Ghost King Is Sealed Inside Me, Yet I’m a Good-for-Nothing 体内封印鬼王,我却是个废柴 Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted A rainy night in a cemetery, a man-eating black cat, a man searching for his late daughter, a school guard hanged on the stairs, a wedding coffin sealed with red paper, a grotesque face hiding in a mirror... What secrets lie behind it all? What other mysterious events will Wang Shier, the gravekeeper, have to face? As terror and dread slowly close in, those secrets seem to be steering his fate. (The stories in this book are all adapted from real events. If anything sounds familiar, it is pure co 11Reads6.4Score—Shelves
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  8. 58 Records of Yin and Yang Mysteries 阴阳诡录 Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted Ji Rendong was born with Yin-Yang Eyes and brought misfortune to her father, her mother, and her entire family. Since childhood, she has been able to see a girl who looks exactly like her, following her everywhere. At the age of five, her grandmother abandoned her, and a mysterious man took her away. She thought she would finally have a home, but it turned out the man only wanted her extremely yang blood. Her blood could save his son, in exchange for her life. Should she save him or not? That is 513Reads8.5Score102Shelves
  9. 59 I Am a Female Physiognomist 我是女相师 Mystery893k WordsCompleted I was born in the twelfth lunar month of 1991, and came into the world with six fingers. The saying that people born in the Year of the Sheep have bad luck somehow became attached to me. Before I could even speak, my family sent me to live with my grandaunt, who ran a shop selling paper offerings and burial clothes. My grandaunt said I had a star spirit in my fate, and the Vermilion Bird would come to my aid. What did it matter if my destiny was cursed? As the saying goes: The Azure Dragon and W 13.6kReads9.4Score1.7kShelves
  10. 60 The Two Fiends of the Pear Garden: Ashes Stain the Soul of the Land 梨园双煞:桥头巷口,烬染山河魂 Mystery268k WordsCompleted [Folk Horror] [Passionate Resistance Against the Japanese] [Infinite Flow] [Two Powerful Leads, Saving Each Other] [Decisive and Ruthless] When the Japanese invaders forced my fiancée to perform a victory opera, I agreed on the spot and personally made 108 paper figures. Everyone thought I was a spineless collaborator. Only I knew that once the crimes were written on the paper figures’ backs and the singing began, the wicked would die! After the opera stage burned down, Gu Wanxiang and I became 86Reads—Score—Shelves
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  11. 61 The Myriad Phenomena Restoration Bureau 万象修复局 Mystery346k WordsOngoing [Urban Mystery + Folk Horror + Unusual Profession + Conceptual Restoration + Ensemble Cast + No System] When a city begins to forget “fire,” when the names of the dead appear on paper effigies, when streets vanish from the map overnight... Some things can be fixed when they break. But what if what's broken is a “concept” shared by all humanity? Shen Yan is an antique restorer and a member of the Bureau of Universal Restoration. He can restore the things this world is forgetting. 15Reads—Score—Shelves
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  12. 62 The Nightmare Kingdom, Where the Flesh Mutates 亘梦诡国,肉身畸变 Mystery405k WordsOngoing [Supernatural]+ [Sanity Plummets]+ [Fantasy What-If]+ [Cthulhu]+ [Horror Folklore]+ [Transmigration]+ [Feel-Good Power Fantasy]+ [Fresh and Original] I hope more people will stop by and give me the motivation to update with 4,000+ words every day. The first instance may not be that interesting, so I recommend skipping ahead a dozen or so chapters before reading. Give the author a little patience and keep reading. The story won't disappoint you. You may find yourself wondering whether fate really 63Reads—Score—Shelves
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  13. 63 Playing With the Mortal World, Paying Homage to Ghosts and Gods 戏红尘,拜鬼神 Mystery925k WordsOngoing ♦Deranged, erotic corpse fiction [Miaojiang-born eunuch opera performer] [Porcelain doll, Guanyin's face and a viper's heart] [Two protagonists, no CP and no female lead] [Everyone's here for a good time] [Folk horror] [Everyone is wicked] ♦The concise version [Opera Performer] is an actor who sings ghost operas and the head of an ancient clan. He's also a narcissist who believes in chastity above all and refuses to leave descendants. The ghost god worshipped by the performer is a porcelain doll 1.8kReads8.1Score356Shelves
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  14. 64 The Pig That Looks Up and Eats People: Grandma's Dying Words 抬头猪吃人:奶奶的临终遗言 Mystery6k WordsCompleted The Talking Pig Eats People: Grandma's Last Words 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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  15. 65 The Biography Before the Crossing 渡前传记 Urban231k WordsOngoing “Have you ever heard of a medium?” “I am one!” Attach my spirit to the gods, and tell my whispered words. Lend me your eyes to see right and wrong, and repay my debts of gratitude and vengeance... The “treacherous” twin family, the gifted young cultivator, the beautiful Gu sorceress with “ulterior motives,” and the mysterious, eerie Lushan Sect... With no intention of getting involved in “other people’s business,” I was dragged into it all because of my “excellent” “physical condition”... T —Reads—Score—Shelves
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  16. 66 Ghost Hunting 收鬼 Mystery1.0M WordsOngoing My name is Chen Jiujin, and I'm a wandering tradesman. To put it plainly, when someone has a haunting on their hands, they hire me to take a look. This time, I came to Zhou Family Village. A seventeen-year-old girl had been followed by something foul. She drank chicken blood, dug up graves in the middle of the night, and kept repeating the same words: “Give me back my life.” I thought it was just an ordinary wandering ghost. But I was wrong. The thing inside that girl's belly wasn't a ghost. It 8kReads—Score504Shelves
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  17. 67 Tianxuan Paranormal Affairs Office 天玄灵异事务所 Mystery541k WordsCompleted - [Infinite Flow + Urban Supernatural + Chinese-Style Horror + Folk Legends and Hauntings + Celestial Master Exorcists + Heirs to the Daoist Tradition + Heterochromatic-Eyed Heroine + Haunted House Tales + Episodic Stories + Folk Taboos] - Hidden deep in the bustling streets is an inconspicuous supernatural affairs office called Tianxuan. - No one dares touch the folk taboos of this world. Haunted houses are plagued by unsolved horrors, abandoned villages and ancient mansions seethe with resentm 778Reads—Score101Shelves
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  18. 68 The Woman in the Closet 柜子里的女人 Mystery6k WordsCompleted The Woman in the Cabinet 46Reads—Score—Shelves
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  19. 69 Secret Art: I Transmigrate and Fight to Survive in a Bizarre World 秘法穿越:我在诡异世界极限逃生 14k WordsCompleted Secret Art Transmigration: My Extreme Escape in a World of the Uncanny 105Reads—Score—Shelves
  20. 70 A Chronicle of Debut 出道纪事 Mystery509k WordsOngoing [No formulaic tropes, no wish fulfillment, no web-novel conventions, traditional supernatural fiction, based on real events. Read with caution if any of this bothers you.] I graduated from high school in 2014 and became a disciple of my master, Li Jingshan. I spent three years studying the Dao and another three learning the arts. Then I spent five years practicing them in the world, occasionally gaining new insights. I enjoy reading novels, but lament that today's books are all baseless fabricat 460Reads8.5Score100Shelves
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  21. 71 The Red Moon Era: Saving China from the Start of Spring 红月纪元:从立春开始拯救华夏 Mystery95k WordsOngoing In 2045, a red moon hung in the sky, and all life withered. Two years later, the world was on the brink of collapse. Qin Jingming, a small-time funeral-shop owner who knew folk customs and martial arts, was chosen by the will of the planet and sent into the "Inner World." His mission was to clear dungeons themed around the twenty-four solar terms. Every stage he purified restored a little more vitality to the world outside! Spring sacrifice in the eastern suburbs, longevity rites during the Rain —Reads—Score—Shelves
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  22. 72 The Forbidden Covenant Stele: Each Rule I Trace Costs Me Something 禁约碑:每拓一条规则,便失一物 Mystery238k WordsOngoing [Folk Horror] [Rule Horror] [No System] [Infinite Flow] For generations, the Yan family has made rubbings of ancient steles. Our ancestral copper seal and purple bamboo brush can reveal the obsessions of the dead beneath the stone, but every forbidden stele we make a rubbing of costs us something forever. My grandfather vanished thirty years ago at the Cizhou Kiln in Hebei, leaving behind only one last warning: Don't touch the stele of commandments carved with lotus patterns. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
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  23. 73 Notes on Folk Spirit Mediums 民间出马仙笔记 Mystery95k WordsCompleted [Spirit Mediums + Chinese-Style Horror + Episodic Stories + Supernatural Mystery + Karma + Mind-Blowing Twists + Feng Shui and the Occult] "Unraveling one strange and unpredictable tale of karmic retribution after another" In a remote suburb of the city lies a cemetery. Few people know that a shop dealing in the supernatural stands there, run by a spirit medium who can communicate with the dead and the living. The owner specializes in paranormal cases beyond ordinary people's understanding, but 499Reads9.3Score—Shelves
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  24. 74 The Yin-Yang Hot Pot Restaurant 阴阳火锅店 Mystery806k WordsCompleted I took over a hot pot restaurant from my second uncle. He told me never to serve customers a yuan yang hot pot after midnight! After I took over the place, everything I believed in began to crumble... One night, I wasn't paying attention and served a couple a yuan yang hot pot. The next day, I saw in the newspaper that the couple had died! They'd jumped to their deaths together! After that, every night at midnight, a strange couple would appear in my restaurant and ask me to make them a yuan yan 364Reads7.7Score—Shelves
  25. 75 I Might Have Changed the Wrong Fate 我可能改了个假命 Mystery808k WordsCompleted When I was little, my mom asked a Taoist priest to tell my fortune. He said I'd face a calamity at 26, and that he'd come help me get through it the day before my 26th birthday. When the day finally came, the priest really did show up to change my fate. He even gave me a “Fate-Changing Ruler” and told me I had to change the fates of seven people with different destinies to survive the calamity. Otherwise, I'd only have five years left to live. So much for changing my fate for me! Did he only cha 74Reads8.9Score—Shelves
  26. 76 The Netherworld Inn 阴间客栈 Mystery814k WordsCompleted My name is Qin Yu. While on a business trip, I checked into a uniquely styled inn called the Yin Room Inn. It even offered “special services” in the middle of the night. Little did I know it was an inn from the underworld. I began having nightmare after nightmare, and my friends kept getting into trouble... 2.8kReads9.0Score145Shelves
  27. 77 My Years as a Buddhist Nun 我当师太的那些年 Mystery1.6M WordsCompleted 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 368Reads8.7Score—Shelves
  28. 78 I Run a Paper Effigy Shop 我有一间扎纸店 Mystery806k WordsCompleted I Have a Paper Effigy Shop tells the story of the protagonist, Liu Dabao, who runs a shop making paper effigies. One day, a guy named Li Xunhuan asked me to burn him a villa and gave me a jade pendant, saying someone would come to collect it later. That evening, a woman came to pick up the pendant and gave me a thousand yuan. But who could have guessed that the next day, the money vanished and turned into a pile of white paper! Was it ghost money for the dead? Were Li Xunhuan and that woman both 143Reads8.7Score—Shelves
  29. 79 It's All the Haunted House's Fault 都是凶宅惹的祸 Mystery907k WordsCompleted 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… 129Reads8.7Score—Shelves
  30. 80 A Record of Supernatural Events in the Countryside 乡村灵异事件薄 Mystery241k WordsCompleted 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! 377Reads—Score—Shelves
  31. 81 March of a Hundred Ghosts: I Take the Hungry Ghosts to War 百诡行军:我带饿鬼上战场 Mystery308k WordsCompleted [Comedy] [Adventure] Bilige was a half-baked shaman who had somehow ended up in the army. His companions included a Shaanbei fat man who'd eaten himself up to two hundred jin during a famine, a long-legged Northeastern squad leader who would grab a cleaver at the slightest provocation, and a Sichuan opera actor who never told the truth. Together with Wang Laihe, a hotheaded young man who couldn't read a single character, and a little hungry ghost who did nothing but bare its teeth and shout “Hun 457Reads—Score—Shelves
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  32. 82 Ghosts: They Exist If You Believe 鬼魂:信则有,不信则无 Mystery293k WordsCompleted [Supernatural + Thriller + The Bizarre + Horror] Do ghosts really exist in this world? Some say they’re hallucinations; others call it delusion. Yet all kinds of bizarre, inexplicable events remain shrouded in mystery, their truth impossible to discern. If you insist on believing there are no ghosts, some things become impossible to explain. That’s why many old folks tell us: Believe, and they exist; don’t believe, and they don’t! 5Reads—Score—Shelves
  33. 83 Paranormal Tales from the Northeast Countryside 东北农村灵异小故事 Modern Romance9k WordsCompleted Spooky Little Stories from the Northeastern Countryside 8Reads—Score—Shelves
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  34. 84 The Dragon King’s Debt: A Ghost Marriage 龙王债,娶阴亲 Mystery228k WordsCompleted During the Qingming Festival, I paid respects at the wrong grave. A high fever left me blind. My grandmother had always favored boys. To make my mother give birth to a son, she threw me into the back hills to be devoured by wild beasts. By sheer luck, I saved a white dragon from the mountains and survived. Grateful for saving his life, the white dragon gave me one of his eyes. He told me he would return to take it back once I came of age. But before I even reached adulthood, my life changed d 96Reads6.9Score—Shelves
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  35. 85 The Best Feng Shui Master on the Construction Site 工地最强建筑风水师 Mystery1.8M WordsOngoing [Campus opening · Wild imagination · Feng Shui Mysticism · Supernatural Strange Events · Hu, Huang, Bai, Liu, and Hui (Spirit Mediums) · Bureau 749 · Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Mohism, and Legalism · Gu Poison Duels · Qimen Dunjia · Mohist Mechanisms · Lu Ban Craft · Reincarnated Living Buddha]! Cultivate righteousness to uphold heaven and earth, and keep a touch of bandit spirit to put petty men in their place. Nurture seven parts chivalry to roam the world, and carry three parts roguishne 2.6kReads8.3Score373Shelves
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  36. 86 Notes from Blackwind Pass 黑风口札记 Mystery705k WordsCompleted An aged, yellowed scroll of sheepskin and half of a broken meteorite jade entwine the fates of Lin Yan, a university history student, and Su Qing, a restorer of ancient jade. The mystery of their ancestors dying together at Heifeng Pass sends the pair into the deserts of the Western Regions, unaware that they are caught in a cycle of fate spanning three generations. Does the bronze compass point to the treacherous mechanisms of a prehistoric ruin, or to a secret their ancestors gave their lives 37Reads7.7Score—Shelves
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  37. 87 In a Weird World, I'm Martin the Shape-Shifter 诡异世界,我百变马丁 Mystery70k WordsOngoing No one knows when strange beings first appeared in this world. To fight them, humanity developed Awakened Ones, whose bodies and souls are extraordinarily powerful. Once they reach a certain level of cultivation, they can move mountains, fill in seas, and extend their lives. They can even slay powerful strange beings. But these creatures grow quickly and come in great numbers, leaving humanity struggling to survive in the cracks. It was only when a crazy, cunning wildcard appeared that humanity 1Reads—Score—Shelves
  38. 88 Life-and-Death Gambit in the Snowlands 雪域生死局 Mystery1.3M WordsOngoing [Chinese Folk Horror + Gods and Ghosts + Folk Legends + Secret-Realm Exploration + Mystery and Deduction + Strong Allies] At an antique fair in Lhasa, I stumbled upon an ancient Tibetan stone tablet. Curious about its contents, I accepted an invitation to join a merchant named Lao Gun and the team he had assembled to search for goods. Together, we ventured deep into the barren mountains of northern Tibet to investigate an ancient temple. I never expected the old temple to conceal such mysteries. 5.1kReads8.6Score788Shelves
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  39. 89 Hiring a Handsome Guy to Guard the House 雇个帅哥来镇宅 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 57Reads—Score—Shelves
  40. 90 I Run a Stall Selling Ghost Money at the Vegetable Market Entrance 我在菜市口摆摊卖冥钱 Mystery121k WordsOngoing [Folk taboos + ghost hunting + no romance] After accidentally violating a mysterious folk taboo, Xu Xuanzhi has only three days left to live. It is then that Xu Xuanzhi finds his family and successfully inherits the ancestral incense shop, beginning a new life selling ghost money at a stall in Caishikou. He slays the Dragon Turtle and battles evil spirits, becoming the most revered person in the Gelug school. He makes ghost money and saves those lost to suffering, becoming the president of the U 2Reads—Score—Shelves
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  41. 91 Rule Horror: The Master of Role-Playing 规则怪谈:角色扮演大师 Mystery320k WordsOngoing The roles to be played next are an ambiguous priest, a psychologist disguised as a fraud. a detective investigating the secrets of Innsmouth, a folklorist, a deity’s favored one among the Caribbean pirates, a missing person. Of all these roles, the person who has played them best so far is one and the same. So, without further ado, let us welcome the one who walks between darkness and light, and ventures through places of terror. The undying Black Sun, the legendary master of disguise Du Wei —Reads—Score—Shelves
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  42. 92 Shamanic Tales: Strange Folk Stories and Supernatural Tales from Northeast China 出马仙之民间诡事,东北灵异故事 Mystery269k WordsOngoing [Traditional supernatural horror] Some strange happenings my second uncle experienced when he was sent to the countryside as a young man Which is truly more terrifying, ghosts and gods or the human heart? A night spent seeking shelter at a temple brings vengeful spirits to the door. A son gathers herbs to cure his father, only to cause his death. Children from the same clan die one after another under bizarre circumstances. The Snake Immortal storms into the hall with a blade in hand, seeking on —Reads—Score—Shelves
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  43. 93 Tales of Strange Happenings in Snow City 雪城志异 Mystery833k WordsOngoing A collection of short tales of the strange and supernatural, including ghost stories and even stories about aliens! Each story is only a few hundred words, so you can finish one in no time. Strange happenings and supernatural tales, demons and ghosts, tree spirits and fox fairies! Let your imagination run wild! Everyone is welcome to read! 26Reads—Score—Shelves
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