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The Paper Effigy Shop: Everyone Around Me Is a Big Shot 扎纸铺，我身边都是大佬
In our ancient land of China, many professions have their own rules and taboos. The older and more mysterious the craft, the more this is true. For example, when “asking the rice,” you must never ask how someone died; a coffin maker must never make their own coffin; a paper effigy maker must never draw eyes on a paper figure; and a spirit medium must never conduct a ceremony without all the members of their altar present... If any of these rules and taboos are broken, something terrifying will h
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- 2 EN The House of Dread 诡舍 [Infinite-flow + Mild Horror + Survival + One Female Lead] A driverless bus carried a group of cursed people to a strange black lodge… Inside the lodge stood a door stained red with blood. At regular intervals, the cursed were forcibly dragged through the blood-red door and into terrifying worlds, where they had to complete horrifying events… After Ning Qiushui survived one bizarre and terrifying story after another inside the lodge, narrowly escaping death each time, he discovered that none of 707.4kReads9.6Score103.9kShelves
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The Last Bus on Route 13 13路末班车
I'm the driver of the last bus on Route 13. Every night at eleven, I have to make a run to the suburbs. This book is addictive, so don't blame me if you can't put it down! In this novel, even the sharp-tongued readers who always guess the plot right will find themselves repeatedly proven wrong. You might find yourself asking, “What's going on? What's going on?” Don't doubt your sanity. Just keep reading. A story that keeps you on edge, here to save readers suffering from a reading drought!
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- 4 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
- 5 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
- 6 The Cunning Yin-Yang Doctor 阴人诡医 [Supernatural + Feng Shui + Fortune-Telling + Doctor + Witchcraft + Ghosts + Mystery + Wild Imagination + Qimen Bagua + Professions] To repay a debt of gratitude, I went against my grandfather’s dying wish. From then on, there was a strange doctor in the world, and I encountered countless extraordinary people. A human face that appears on your back at night, man-eating Gu insects, evil spirits with human faces and snake bodies. The wandering knife peddlers who sell their wares on credit, and the 167Reads7.1Score—Shelves
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The Master of Ma Yi Divination 麻衣相师
My great-uncle had all kinds of abilities. One day, he told me he’d buried a treasure for me in a feng shui paradise…
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- 8 The Chosen Guardian of the Coffin 天命守棺人 My dad said that my grandfather traded his own skin for me with eight red-crested snakes... My family had made coffins for generations. My father was fated to have no sons, so to carry on the family line, my grandfather defied fate and died with eight snakes wrapped around him. Before he died, he told my father to keep having children. The ninth child would be born alive. So my parents had eight stillborn babies in a row. Then, with the ninth, I was born... 130Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 9 Born of a Corpse, Carried in a Ghost's Coffin 尸生子，鬼抬棺 In ancient, remote places, all kinds of strange and terrifying things are bound to happen. And these things happen around Hua Jiunan. In fact, Hua Jiunan is part of them. For instance, he was born from a corpse! 212.8kReads9.6Score25.1kShelves
- 10 The Grand Feng Shui Master 大相师 Ten years ago, nine snakes crawled into my bed. Grandpa said someone was trying to steal my life. To keep me alive, he arranged an engagement for me to extend my lifespan... 8kReads9.3Score984Shelves
- 11 Horror Tavern: I Only Raise the Most Ferocious Creatures 恐怖酒馆：我只养大凶之物 Tucked away in a quiet alley is a strange tavern that can grant your wishes, as long as you’re willing to set up a terrifying idol in your home... 6kReads9.4Score804Shelves
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Coffin Shop No. 44 44号棺材铺
Everyone knows what a coffin shop is, but would you dare enter one where someone has died? Ever since I took over a coffin shop, strange things have been happening all around me. Only then did I realize that the people who come to buy coffins aren't necessarily alive…
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Chronicles of Strange Folk Tales 民间怪谈事件录
Not for the faint of heart! Not for the faint of heart! Not for the faint of heart! The 1980s and 1990s saw one bizarre incident after another in Jubao Village: Zhao Laohei, who rose from the dead at the execution ground... The woman who hanged herself in town, her whole face turned a purplish black... The ghost child encountered during a game of hide-and-seek on the Ghost Festival... The terrifying bamboo fiend in the old bamboo grove... People and ghosts playing cards in a yin-yang card game..
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Northeastern China's Forbidden Secrets 东北禁忌手札
[Extreme horror + a folk-horror story set in the countryside] In a remote mountain village, deep within the forest, countless taboos remain unknown to outsiders. The people here follow ancient rules of life and death: pregnant women must never encounter a coffin, and anyone who dies of old age at a hundred years old is destined to become an evil spirit. But in a single day, the old Yu family breaks both taboos, drawing every kind of demon and ghost to their door! At midnight, someone hears the s
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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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- 16 My Years as a Feng Shui Consultant in the Entertainment Industry 我在娱乐圈当风水顾问的那些年 Corpse-oil lipstick, raising little ghosts, summoning fox spirits, tattooed talismans: some celebrities will stop at nothing to get famous and go viral. My name is Chen Tian. I'm a feng shui consultant who moves in entertainment circles, specializing in handling the aftermath for celebrities who rose to fame through supernatural means. 140.4kReads9.0Score27kShelves
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The Underworld Detective 阴间神探
My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well!
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Selling Eerie Scripts on the Street, I Talk the Gods into Knots 诡异剧本摆地摊，把神明忽悠瘸了
No romance, comedy, power fantasy, and nonstop absurd antics to keep you laughing! Welcome to the Divine Performance Grand Theater! Let Jiang Yi show you a different kind of life in the game scenarios! Other people enter a horror scenario: they run around in a panic, fighting to survive. Jiang Yi enters a horror scenario: he sets up a street stall and goes all-in on sales! The chainsaw butcher’s chainsaw is rusty? Sell him heavy-duty rust remover and a maintenance manual, with lessons included!
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Incense Ashes: I'm a Yin-Yang Medium 香灰：我是阴阳女先生
If someone asks to borrow money from you in a dream, promise me you won’t lend it. Because what you’re lending isn’t money, it’s your life. … Grandma called me a debt-collecting demon, and Mom called me a bringer of bad luck. All because, when I was born, a fire broke out at home for no apparent reason, and the villagers rushed over to help put it out. But no matter what they did, they couldn’t extinguish the flames. The fire only slowly died down after half the village had burned to the ground.
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The Abyss of the Heart: A Collection of Seven Deadly Sin Specimens 心渊之相：七罪标本集
In the shadowy corners of a bustling city, evil spreads like vines. This story takes you deep into the dark abyss of human nature. Behind each tale in this book lie the sins and possible redemption of the seven deadly sins: lust, gluttony, greed, wrath, envy, sloth, and pride. A fallen photographer is ensnared by a scarlet trap; an angry boxer uses his life to show what it means to be unyielding. In a world filled with temptation and desire, anyone can become a prisoner of sin. I hope you can fa
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Tales of a Haunted Village 荒村怪谈录
[Rural Mysteries + Folk Customs + Chinese-Style Horror + Feng Shui and the Supernatural + Anthology + Shocking Twists] There is an old well in Jiulitun that has been sealed for thirty years, and one eerie incident after another keeps occurring. Why has a little girl become unbelievably strong and deranged? Why do villagers keep drowning, and why is the village taboo so difficult to speak of? It all goes back thirty years...
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- 22 Ghostly Whispers at Midnight 夜半鬼语 [Rural + Supernatural + Ghost Stories] Back when my grandfather was young, he learned carpentry. As Old Zhao put it, a sixth-grade carpenter these days was worth half a scholar. But things were different back then. Carpenters belonged to one of the lowest trades. They had to carry their tools around every day, get up before dawn and stay out until the middle of the night, traveling from village to village to find work. And because they went so many places, and made coffins and dealt with the dea 5kReads9.0Score204Shelves
- 23 Midnight Wonders 午夜惊奇 At the stroke of midnight, amid a terrifying atmosphere, strange ghost stories begin to unfold! A bluish-white hand suddenly appears on the window in the middle of the night. Is it looking for someone to take revenge on? A bus still running in the dead of night: does it lead to the world of the living or to hell? The shapewear hanging in the wardrobe at home is made of human skin! During the Qingming Festival, a figure appears in the glass of the bathhouse. After returning to her room, a beautif 416Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 24 Tales of Strange Happenings in the Countryside 乡村诡事录 The strange happenings in a mountain village. I was born and raised in the countryside. Deep in the mountains, there are always ghosts and spirits, and my village was no exception. Heaven, earth, black, yellow, the cosmos vast: demons and ghosts send shivers down your spine. One year, the start of spring fell on the fifteenth day of the eighth month. That year, so many strange things happened. Just bringing them up is enough to scare people. Meeting the Black and White Impermanence on a night wa 1.9kReads9.0Score137Shelves
- 25 A World Out of Balance 人间失衡 [Mind-bending suspense + short stories + no overarching plot + crime + criminal investigation + shocking twists + stories of ordinary people] The deepest wounds are often inflicted by those closest to us. A bloody case at an old family home, shrouded in mystery. Who is the real killer? After her father dies of illness, her sister-in-law sells her to northern Myanmar! The body of a baby girl is found in the woods. A kidnapping case turns into a murder investigation. Who would target an innocent i 203Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 26 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 829Reads8.9Score105Shelves
- 27 Midnight Terror: Human Nature Stories That Will Haunt You 午夜惊魂：让人细思极恐的人性故事 At midnight, let's listen together to the little stories that circulate all around us. Maybe they're true. Maybe you've heard them too, or even experienced them yourself. Those moments that grow more terrifying the more you think about them go perfectly with the pitch-black night beyond the window. Red brick walls are common in many places. But we've never stopped to wonder: why are those bricks so red, so vivid? Rideshares at night aren't necessarily safe. Passengers have their concerns, and dr 522Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 28 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—Shelves
- 29 Out of Control 失控者 [Anthology stories + supernatural horror + folk customs + feng shui and mysticism + subtle scares + jaw-dropping twists] Open a paper box sealed away for many years, and one terrifying incident after another begins to surface. The massacre that wiped out an entire family in Nanhua Estate, and the deaths of everyone connected to the case! A bride in a red qipao appearing by your side in the dead of night! Strange legends circulate through a dilapidated high-rise, where hands reach out of the dark 35Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 Notes on Folk Spirit Mediums 民间出马仙笔记 [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 467Reads9.3Score—Shelves
- 31 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 6.1kReads8.5Score324Shelves
- 32 The Midnight Ghost Market: Living People Keep Out 午夜鬼市，活人回避 [Mystery + supernatural + ghost market + narrow escape from death] My name is Tang Chao. I’m a broke young man scraping by in the antiques business, with hundreds of thousands in debt hanging over me. An ordinary porcelain-buying deal led me to pick up a strange Jun ware bowl at an unexpectedly low price. I thought I’d found a bargain. Little did I know, it was the beginning of my nightmare... On a bus, I met a burly man calling himself Jue Mingzi, who warned me that “a calamity is sure to befal 3.5kReads9.1Score217Shelves
- 33 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 201Reads8.8Score—Shelves
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Horror Game: My Family Are All Monsters! 恐怖游戏：我的家人都是鬼怪！
Horror games. Dungeon missions. In Zhao Shi’s world, everyone has to enter terrifying games and repeatedly face all kinds of dungeons. While everyone else struggles desperately to survive and escape, Zhao Shi obtains a System that lets him see the rules governing how ghosts and monsters kill. Everything has rules, and every rule can be broken! With the System’s help, Zhao Shi easily sees the rules of every ghost and monster. You need a son? Sure, Mom! You need a husband? Honey, how about me?
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- 35 Horror After Dark 深夜恐怖 A collection of horror stories, with one short tale every day. Each chapter stands alone, so feel free to skip around and read in any order. Light horror, best enjoyed at night… 29Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 The Horror Taxi 恐怖出租车 There is a kind of vehicle meant for certain people. Its job is to take them to the world they belong in. That is the ghost bus. You may never have heard of a living person boarding one, but if you ever see a vehicle of unknown origin on the road, be careful... 2kReads6.8Score—Shelves
- 37 Global Haunting: I Own a Terrifying Prison 全球诡异：我有一座恐怖监狱 As the supernatural world resurged across the globe, humanity faced a terrifying invasion. Lu Fei had inexplicably transmigrated to this world, only to discover that his body contained a terrifying city prison full of supernatural entities. [Successfully imprisoned the Melon-Planting Entity. Ability gained: Planting Melons] [Successfully imprisoned the Air Entity. Ability gained: Air] [Successfully imprisoned the Fear Entity. Ability gained: Nightmare] [Successfully imprisoned the Hardening Enti 297Reads7.5Score102Shelves
- 38 A Collection of Horror Stories 恐怖小集 The gods are watching from three feet above your head, and even the darkest places will eventually see the light! This book collects stories from around us that will make you think twice and send chills down your spine. One short story a day, guaranteed to cure your little bouts of insomnia. This is Horror Shorts. I'm Strawberry Duorou. See you there! 1.2kReads—Score—Shelves
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Abyss, Close Your Eyes 深渊请闭眼
Have you ever doubted this world? Blue skies and green waters, towering buildings and broad roads: what lies behind this false prosperity? That day, a chilly, sinister presence began to awaken one person after another... Ideas, conspiracies, love, and psychological corruption: the four defining features of this book.
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- 40 True Records of Supernatural Happenings at University 大学冥幻见闻实录 On my very first day at college, an unknown voice began to haunt me. And that voice was coming from a...! I was terrified and had nowhere to run, so I had no choice but to make a deal. Later, I discovered what made me different and finally unraveled a mystery that had troubled me for years. It turned out that my repeated encounters with the supernatural were connected to the time and place of my birth, my family circumstances, and more. It seemed everything had been arranged long ago... ... 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 Fourteen Years of Hunting Ghosts (Complete in Five Volumes) 十四年猎诡人（全五册） Li Yifan’s spine-chilling ghost-hunting chronicles! A contemporary Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio! A spine-chilling record of ghost hunts! First posted on Tieba, it topped 100 million views within three months! The acclaimed mystery writer Li Yifan’s breakthrough work, now with the unpublished continuation added! Every ghost was once a living person. I’m a professional ghost hunter. I turn the compass, circle the place with red 11.8kReads9.6Score2.2kShelves
- 42 I Woke Up with 40 Murder Cases on My Hands 一觉醒来：我背上了40起命案 Chen Xiao wakes up to find everything around him strangely unfamiliar. The only thing beside him is a diary. He thinks it might explain his current predicament, but as he reads, he begins to doubt whether its contents are real. It is clearly a record of crimes committed by “himself.” Just as Chen Xiao is about to read on, the piercing wail of police sirens downstairs jolts him awake, and he can't help imagining the worst... 29.8kReads9.3Score3.2kShelves
- 43 The Thing in the City of Fog 雾都里的它 According to the older generation, Xuanshang Village is almost completely cut off from the outside world. Whenever torrential rain falls on the village, every household hurries to shut its doors and windows. The air grows so tense that even breathing feels like a mistake. Day after day, even the children learn to “read the skies and predict the rain.” The rich smell of earth can barely mask the strange fragrance wafting from the old mulberry tree at the village entrance. Villagers who happen to 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 Hiring a Handsome Guy to Guard the House 雇个帅哥来镇宅 [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
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Wait for Me, Lady Lingbai 灵柏娘子等等我
That winter night, we sat around the charcoal brazier, the coals crackling as I huddled in a corner and listened to the adults tell a story about the sacred cypress at the village entrance. They said... The person who told me that story has passed away, but the chilling feeling it gave me is still etched in my memory. Now, I’ve adapted the story into a novel.
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- 46 Destined Across Three Lifetimes: A Romantic Legacy of Young Love and Marriage 缘定三生，青春婚约的浪漫传承 A sweet promise spanning their youth, sealed by an engagement. Surrounded by the warmth of family and the passion of youth, they keep their vows and write a romantic story together, full of amusing moments from school and everyday life. From Lin Shimin's admiration for Luo Yimo, to their wondrous chance encounters at all kinds of events, and the hilarious, heartwarming episodes that follow, their story is sure to make you smile. The novel has playful banter between best friends, the warm support 34Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 The Mysteriously Disappearing Pen 神秘消失的书写笔 The Mysteriously Vanished Writing Brush 13Reads—Score—Shelves
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Tales of Strange Happenings in Snow City 雪城志异
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!
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Strange Tales from the Tea Pavilion 茶榭诡谈
Chilling events that may have happened right beside you and me. Perhaps you and I could become the protagonists, too. These are accounts of things that happened to people around us, as told by those who experienced them. True and false, false and true, right and wrong, wrong and right. Think it over, then think it over carefully!!
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I Draw Talismans in Midair to Slay a Hundred Ghosts: I Am a Maoshan Celestial Master 凌空画符灭百鬼，我是茅山天师
[An immensely satisfying story+lots of perks+a lecherous, roguish young Maoshan Celestial Master wipes out a hundred ghosts+multiple heroines+ghosts run rampant] I am the seventy-second generation Seal-Bearing Celestial Master of Maoshan. I command thunder, fire, water, ice, and wood talismans, and understand the mysteries of heaven and earth. After twelve years of cultivation, I can gather spiritual energy into ink with a single finger, form spells in thin air, and wipe out a hundred ghosts wit
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