Well-Written Supernatural Horror with a Smart Protagonist, Like The Haunted House 要文笔好，主角智商髙灵异恐怖文，类似于诡舍
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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
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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
6.5kReads9.0Score259Shelves
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Selling Clothes by Day, Sewing Corpses by Night 白天卖衣服，晚上缝尸体
[Traditional supernatural horror, folk terror, decisive and ruthless] I rented an apartment where someone had died, hoping to save money, only to be plunged into endless darkness... My terrifying girlfriend has a mouth full of sharp teeth and haunts me day and night; A headless vengeful infant on the highway frantically tries to steal people’s heads; A horrifying internet celebrity livestreams herself peeling off people’s faces, while the comments turn eerie; At a Cat Immortal shrine in a strang
56.2kReads9.2Score7.7kShelves
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Plenty of Stories at the Funeral Home 殡仪馆里故事多
Ever since Lin Yu took a job driving a hearse at a funeral home, his life became anything but ordinary. He and his friends went through all kinds of bizarre, inexplicable events together. Vengeful spirits possessing people, a dead infant in a pot, opera singing in a graveyard... No one knew what would happen next.
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The Strange Tales of Shangguan Zhaorong 上官昭容诡事录
[Completed] [Strong female lead, no romance, Chinese-style horror, transmigration through history, numerous foreshadowed clues, coherent plot, no System, not a power fantasy] [The Strange Tales of Shangguan Zhaorong] [Also known as: Old Tales from the Yellow Springs] [Reader’s guide: The main plot and the individual arcs are interconnected, with plenty of clues and foreshadowing. Almost every character who appears has a role to play, though each arc can also be read as a standalone story.] Th
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Deadly Haunted Grounds: The Death Countdown Begins! 致命诡地：现在开始死亡倒计时！
[My new book, "Horror Loop: The Ghost Gate Survival Game", is out now. If you're interested, please show it your support. Thank you!] [Infinite-flow + horror instances + survival + mild scares + no romance] The curse of the Bronze Ghost Mask descends. Those chosen must embark on one deadly journey after another. Time is running out, and death is drawing near. Who will make it out alive this time? [The B&B Butcher] In a creepy old house, ghostly figures appear whenever night falls. Anyone who enc
32.6kReads8.5Score3.6kShelves
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[Murder Game] I Want to Survive 【杀人游戏】我想活下去
[Infinite Flow]+ [No Romance]+ [Pure Villainess] High-stakes battles of wits and deadly games; everyone schemes against everyone else just to stay alive. The heroine does every kind of evil, casts aside her conscience, and cares only about profit. Because she knows that only by devouring others can she grow stronger and climb step by step to the pinnacle of power. Watch her fight her way out from the bottom, rising from a mere nobody to stand atop the world. Watch her pull off one dazzling m
35.9kReads9.0Score4.6kShelves
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City of Beasts 异兽迷城
[The new book The Maze of Inversion has begun serialization. Updates come at 9 p.m. every evening. Please continue to support it.] Gao Yang was an orphan. At the age of six, he transmigrated to a parallel world and began living in a warm family of five. When he turned eighteen, Gao Yang accidentally discovered the truth about the world: this was not a parallel world at all, but a mysterious realm, and all the relatives and friends around him were terrifying Beasts! Gao Yang nearly lost his life
473.2kReads9.7Score73.9kShelves
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Ten Days to the End 十日终焉
2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat
1.7MReads9.9Score231.4kShelves
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Rule Horror: Who Taught You to Study Like That? 规则怪谈：谁教你这样读书的
[Strong Female Lead, No Romance, Rule-Based Horror, Infinite Realms, Chinese-Style Horror] Traditional culture has been distorted on a massive scale in modern society. Altered pronunciations, words smeared with stigma, and ancient sayings twisted out of shape are gnawing away at the human soul. Su Muyu, the thirtieth-generation descendant of Su Shi and the sole inheritor of the Soulcrafter lineage, joins Li Guazi, a girl whose past is a mystery, and Mr. Dongli, a word spirit from the handwritt
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999 Game Sessions for a Martian Couple 火星情侣的999次游戏体验
Lin Ye and Su Yutong made it through the first few rounds, but fighting in the game left them covered in mud and looking a mess. It was exhausting, but thrilling, too. In this round, they entered a forest where day and night alternated. Countless men in black, wearing masks and hiding in the trees, appeared with knives in hand, attacking people. A scene straight out of a horror movie was happening in real life. No, it was happening in this transmigration game, too. Su Yutong was so terrified tha
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Life-and-Death Gambit in the Snowlands 雪域生死局
[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.
4.2kReads8.6Score730Shelves
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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
Secret Art Transmigration: My Extreme Escape in a World of the Uncanny
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Devouring Hope 吞噬希望
This is a world steeped in despair. No System lays out the rules at a leisurely pace, and there are no hints about how to survive. You can only search for a way out using scattered clues, with no room for error when testing the rules. One wrong step means utter ruin. An endless night, black as ink, wraps the world in its grip. The killing game never stops, like a tightening net of blood that leaves everyone caught in its strands struggling to breathe. And Lu Jin is the only anomaly in this bo
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Endless Devouring: The Unseen Laws 无尽残噬：未见的法则
[Trapped-room opening + survival adventure + graphic gore + unknown creatures + mechanical engineering + contamination + mutation] ~When Zhang Huan wakes up, he finds himself with several strangers in a sealed apartment with no doors. They have all lost their memories. Also trapped with them is a mysterious female corpse in the basement. They decide to find a way out of the carefully designed apartment. The red fog outside the windows grows thicker, and the corpse’s eyes are slowly opening...~ (
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In This World, Who Do You Think You Are? 天地间老子在你算老几？
On a pitch-black night, I dreamed of countless stars rushing toward me. By chance, I became a haunted-house tester, and all sorts of supernatural phenomena began appearing out of nowhere. The strange and bizarre things in the city, the mysterious forces deep in the mountains, and the gods people worship: do they really exist? Where can I find the key to a new world? Is this a responsibility, a mission, or a chance to become the next scapegoat? What unsolved mysteries lie in the world I inhabit,
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The Ghost Tamer: Strange Forces Run Rampant 养鬼师之诡异横行
[Raising ghosts, ghost battles, infinite flow, rules-based urban legends, supernatural resurgence, horror and suspense, ghost hunting, multiple protagonists, team growth] “Hmm~” A figure with long, straight black hair slowly stepped out of the corridor. “I could clearly feel it... It was here~” The sound of high heels echoed through the corridor. She came to a cabinet. Her face turned toward it. “Found you!” [Not invincible] [Think things through] [No System] [Relies entirely on real strength] A
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Unraveling the Strange: Surviving the Second Case 诡事探秘逢生二
An abandoned mining town, missing residents, and dense fog that traps souls. A four-person ghost-hunting team ventures into the forbidden zone to uncover a shocking mystery from 2015. When the truth comes to light, whose spirit has been waiting? A suspenseful thriller that will keep you awake tonight.
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Uncovering Strange Mysteries and Finding a Way Out 诡事探秘逢生
In Lichong City, four childhood friends who grew up together were enlightened by a Taoist priest when they were young, and each possesses a supernatural ability. After Yang Zhuang got into an online argument, the four were drawn into a supernatural incident at an abandoned hospital in the neighboring city of Huidong.
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Raven Exclusion Zone 渡鸦禁区
Qi Xuan, a once-renowned surgeon brought low by a medical malpractice case, crushing debt, and the betrayal of everyone around him, tries to end his life in an abandoned hospital on the edge of the city. But the "endpoint" he chooses is precisely where the most basic paranormal incident, the Echo Corridor, first erupts. As he teeters on the brink of death, an interface called the [Paranormal Dissection System] activates in his consciousness. The System turns the indescribable horror into data: g
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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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