Please, Any Realistic Horror Stories About Rural Folk and Their Local Legends? 求求了有没有乡村民间那种恐怖小说，越真实的越好

1. 251 蛇 The Serpent Coffin 蛇棺 Jiang He江河Mystery3.2M WordsCompleted On the day I was born, my family was moving our ancestral graves. My father killed a huge snake in a coffin that was on the verge of shedding its skin and transforming into a dragon, and nearly got bitten to death. When I was born, snakes surged in from every direction, hissing. Everyone said I was ill-omened. A rice medium from the village gave her life to save my father. She left me a black jade pendant shaped like a snake, but she too was bitten to death. Just after my eighteenth birthday, th 34.1kReads9.0Score2.1kShelves

   Reader note

   This one is super pretty too

2. 252 噬 The Life-Devouring Ancient Formula 噬命古方 Liu Yunhe from Stinky Bamboo Ditch臭竹沟的刘云贺11k WordsCompleted The Life-Devouring Ancient Formula 2Reads—Score—Shelves
3. 253 活 Taboo of the Living 活人禁忌 Ninth Master of the Thieves' Sect盗门九当家Mystery1.9M WordsCompleted When I was nine, I found myself in mortal danger! To save me, my grandfather made a decision that would change my life forever... 16kReads9.2Score2kShelves
4. 254 美 The Curse of the Manicure 美甲之咒 Liu Yunhe from Stinky Bamboo Ditch臭竹沟的刘云贺11k WordsCompleted The Nail Art Curse 1Reads—Score—Shelves
5. 255 苗 Miaojiang Yin-Yang Gu 苗疆阴阳蛊 Liu Yunhe from Stinky Bamboo Ditch臭竹沟的刘云贺9k WordsCompleted Miaojiang Yin-Yang Gu 6Reads—Score—Shelves
6. 256 夜 Guiding Souls Along the Night Road 夜路引魂 Liu Yunhe from Stinky Bamboo Ditch臭竹沟的刘云贺12k WordsCompleted Guiding Souls on a Night Road 1Reads—Score—Shelves
7. 257 镇 The Calamity of the House Guardian 镇宅之祸 Liu Yunhe from Stinky Bamboo Ditch臭竹沟的刘云贺10k WordsCompleted The Calamity of the House-Guardian 1Reads—Score—Shelves
8. 258 白 I Wait for Someone by Day, But Who Do You Wait for at Night? 白日等一人，黑夜你等谁？ Native of Zhanlongya斩龙垭土著Mystery31k WordsCompleted “In life, we wait for all kinds of things, big and small. Gradually, people forget what they were waiting for.” I opened a milk tea shop in S City called “Waiting for Someone.” By day, we have bittersweet love stories, and you wait for your beloved. By night, we have eerie urban legends, and you wonder: who are you waiting for? It’s raining in S City again. That mysterious woman with the broad forehead has appeared once more. Is she the one you’ve been waiting for... 3Reads—Score—Shelves

   Reader note

   There are terrifying legends about the urban-rural fringe, and I look forward to the favor of the big guys.

9. 259 东 Paranormal Tales from the Northeast Countryside 东北农村灵异小故事 0An Ordinary Person00一个平凡的人0Modern Romance9k WordsCompleted Spooky Little Stories from the Northeastern Countryside 6Reads—Score—Shelves

   Reader note

   A supernatural short story adapted from a true story in the Northeastern countryside.

10. 260 诡 The House of Dread 诡舍 The Sound of Wind and Rain at Night,夜来风雨声丶Mystery2.1M WordsCompleted [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 761.2kReads9.6Score139.5kShelves

    Reader note

    Jie Yu's books are really good, all of them! Go! Look! Don't ask

11. 261 走 The Walking Corpse Files 走尸档案 Evil Spirit with a Knife邪灵一把刀Mystery2.0M WordsCompleted I knew a group of people like this, and accidentally became one of them. They knew ancient secret arts for finding people through corpse refinement. With a person's birth date and time and an item belonging to someone who had gone missing, they used divination, the Eight Gates and Hidden Armor, and the arts of ghosts and spirits to make nowhere safe for the missing, whether living or dead! 835Reads8.1Score109Shelves
12. 262 九 Nine Dragons Carry the Coffin 九龙抬棺 Ninth Master九当家Mystery3.5M WordsOngoing The night of my grandfather's funeral, I carried a stone tablet at the front of the procession to lead the way. I didn't dare look back, because the eight evil spirits carrying the coffin were behind me... 11kReads9.2Score2.7kShelves
13. 263 五 Fifth Watch 五更 Ming Buyu明卜语Mystery722k WordsOngoing The stories my grandpa used to tell me were probably meant to scare me into staying put, or maybe to lull me to sleep. He always told them with such conviction and vivid detail that I often found myself dreaming of the very scenes he had lived through. I met the old flower-growing woman on Yinshan Mountain, and one villager after another from Sangen Village. Their faces were gloomy and strange, and their deeds served as a warning, reminding us that “the gods are watching from three feet above yo 995Reads7.2Score100Shelves

    Reader note

    Let's read this one

14. 264 双 Twin Pupils 双瞳 Typing Fish码字鱼Mystery437k WordsCompleted Another pair of eyes overlapped with my own, setting a trap amid my jumbled thoughts and memories. The truth behind it all caught me completely off guard. But... as the mystery unraveled, thread by thread, another deadly secret was waiting for me in the memories that had vanished. A series of bizarre, suspense-filled events, interwoven with fierce clashes, sparks a unique chemistry between logic and the supernatural! 31Reads—Score—Shelves
15. 265 巡 The Yin-Walker 巡阴人 Feiyi匪夷Mystery1.7M WordsCompleted Applying makeup to the dead, reading the winds and assessing the land, preparing bodies for burial, and performing rites on the seventh day after death. Scorched corpses: cleaning the body, applying rouge, painting the features! Bodies cut in half at the waist: removing the organs, filling the cavities, and stitching the body back together! I was born into a family that made its living from the dead, so I grew up dealing with corpses. I’ve seen all sorts of bizarre ways to die and countless inex 9.1kReads9.1Score1.1kShelves
16. 266 乡 Old Folk Tales from the Countryside 乡野民间老故事 Fried Rice Noodles Without Noodles炒河粉不加粉Mystery256k WordsOngoing Each chapter tells a legendary tale collected by the author during visits to the countryside! Night after night, mournful singing drifts from an abandoned old mansion. The curious spy through the window and glimpse a woman in white combing her hair before a mirror, her figure flickering in and out of sight. No one has ever discovered where the singing comes from. —Reads—Score—Shelves

    Reader note

    When the author visited the people, he collected and compiled stories from legends in various places. Friends who like this style should not miss it!

17. 267 我 My Job at the Horror Radio Station 我在恐怖电台任职这件事儿 A Jiao阿椒Mystery90k WordsCompleted [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. If you enjoy the story, please show your support and help it climb the rankings. 30Reads—Score—Shelves

    Reader note

    Happiness doubled, terror intensified

18. 268 一 One Floor, One Ghost 一层一鬼 Yu Sifan羽思凡Mystery16k WordsCompleted I'm a columnist. After my career hit rock bottom, I ended up renting a place in the suburbs. I never expected to find myself trapped in a fire-ravaged building, where one terrifying incident after another unfolded, eventually revealing the full truth behind the blaze... The building's unspeakable secret. 153Reads9.0Score—Shelves
19. 269 恐 The Complete Collection of Horror Ghost Stories 恐怖鬼故事全 God's One Hand上帝之一手Mystery486k WordsCompleted A series of short, powerful stories that send a chill to the bone, their delicate prose sketching the hidden depths of human nature and the terror of ghosts and monsters. Each tale is like a sudden shiver. When you least expect it, its eerie atmosphere, bizarre plot, and unexpected twists let fear seep into your bones, leaving a creeping chill in your heart whenever you find yourself alone after reading. 1.6kReads—Score107Shelves
20. 270 老 Old Wei’s Supernatural Stories 老魏讲灵异故事 Unrestrained for Ten Thousand Miles万里天纵Mystery2.3M WordsOngoing [Traditional Supernatural Tales] [Chinese-Style Horror] [Based on True Stories] [Reader Submissions] [Chilling on Second Thought] [Bizarre Tales] [Beyond the Realm of Science] [Plain, Simple Writing] [Just Stories] These stories were collected from various places by the author, then adapted and fictionalized, so no sources are listed. They’re all kinds of little ghost stories to listen to before bed: straightforward and easy to follow, perfect for unwinding and relieving stress. To keep reader 1.5kReads9.4Score224Shelves
21. 271 缝 Sewing Yin Corpses, Suppressing Ghostly Calamities 缝阴尸，镇鬼祸 Fake Cigarettes假烟Mystery4.3M WordsCompleted [Six Lines and Eight Trigrams, Soul Banners and Sacrificial Rites] Humans have three souls and seven spirits; ghosts have obsessions from the Nine Hells and the karmic flames of the Five Aggregates. But ever since I was born, I have been missing my [Earth Soul]. I’ve dealt with corpses since I was little. Other children played with colorful building blocks, fluffy stuffed animals, and little tin cars that could run. My toys were one battered corpse after another. Qimen Dunjia, puppetry that mani 1.1kReads6.7Score113Shelves
22. 272 黄 The Yellow Springs Pawnshop: No Living Visitors 黄泉典当铺，生人勿近 The Moon Bridge Remains桥月仍在Mystery1.2M WordsOngoing [Ghost Hunting + Supernatural Horror + Folk Customs + Strange Tales + Taoist Arts + Maoshan] At the end of a street at midnight stands a Yellow Springs Pawnshop. You have no way of knowing whether those who come and go to trade are human or ghost! Lu Guanshan takes over the pawnshop, and on his very first night, he encounters a stunningly beautiful, cold and aloof Ghost Queen hanging from a beam. She latches onto him and stays by his side as they collect yin objects and subdue a hundred ghosts. 4.3kReads6.5Score364Shelves

    Reader note

    Folk customs plus Chinese horror.

23. 273 阴 Yin-Yang Eye Realtor: Selling Haunted Houses in Chongqing 阴阳眼中介：我在重庆卖凶宅 Listening to the Wind in the Wilds山野聆风Mystery632k WordsCompleted A novel inspired by local Chongqing legends and historical anecdotes. This story is entirely fictional. As a child, the protagonist gained the ability to see yin and yang from a Qing dynasty skeleton. His family’s ancestral ledger is filled with secrets of old Chongqing. The folklore is meticulously researched, with traceable details ranging from place names and historical anecdotes to traditional remedies and feng shui formations. Each haunted house seems like a self-contained case, but in trut 190Reads8.3Score—Shelves

    Reader note

    This is okay

24. 274 我 I Just Want to Be a Slacker, but They Keep Making Me Play Horror Games 我只想当咸鱼，偏偏要我玩惊悚 Mu Xi Fanyin沐溪梵音25k WordsCompleted All I Want Is to Be a Couch Potato, but They Keep Making Me Play Horror Games 63Reads—Score—Shelves

    Reader note

    Horror and thriller short stories, ghosts on the bed, ghosts' revenge, ghost servants, the plot is compact and not procrastinating!

25. 275 与 Followed by Ghosts 与鬼随行 Green Wine and Red Lips绿酒朱唇Mystery369k WordsOngoing Immersive, terrifying, and packed with suspenseful mystery and deduction. I have a strange world, and I want to take you there! After the college entrance exams, I took a fatal blow meant for my friend and lost my sight. By chance, I ended up at a bizarre vocational college. My classmates are dying one after another under strange circumstances, and there seems to be a much bigger secret behind it all. This world seems so strange... so strange... I have to solve the mind-bending challenges one by 913Reads—Score—Shelves

    Reader note

    This book is scary, so scary

26. 276 3 365 Folktales of the Supernatural, All Come to the Human World 365个民间怪谈，皆来人间 A Lonely Lamp一盏枯灯Mystery730k WordsCompleted [Standalone Stories] [Folk Tales of the Strange] [Rural Supernatural] [Horror Folklore] [Terrifying on Closer Thought] No overarching plot! Each chapter features a separate tale of strange events from local folklore, adapted from true stories passed down by elders in my hometown. Note: This story is entirely fictional and for entertainment only. Trust in science and reject superstition. 2.3kReads—Score—Shelves

    Reader note

    You'll know it once you've seen it

27. 277 聊 Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio: I Asked You to Repay Your Debt, Not Paint Skins and Ghosts 聊斋：让你还债，没让你画皮画鬼 On Jiufeng Mountain九峰山上Eastern Fantasy125k WordsOngoing [Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio + Bizarre Cultivation + No System + Subverting Expectations + Folk Supernatural Tales + Becoming a God Through Painting + Dark Tone + Lovecraftian Horror + Clever Protagonist + Decisive and Ruthless + Not Mindless Wish Fulfillment] Transmigrating into Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, I find myself trapped in the deadly predicament of The Painted Skin from the start, and saddled with an unpayable debt to the dead? Don't panic. I have a White Bone Brush tha 529Reads—Score—Shelves

    Reader note

    This rural horror novel is so on point! The details of folk customs and feng shui are solid, and the ghost story has a real sense of spookiness. The protagonist relies on his brain to solve the problem, and the twists and turns are one after another. It makes people feel chills on the back and unable to put it down.

28. 278 拾 Climbing the Steps 拾级 Yang Zai楊載Mystery24k WordsCompleted Climbing the Steps 4Reads—Score—Shelves

    Reader note

    Push it a little bit

29. 279 尸 The Corpse Plague 尸瘟 Yang Zai楊載Mystery24k WordsCompleted Corpse Plague —Reads—Score—Shelves
30. 280 香 Hong Kong’s Yin Chronicles: The Domino Curse 香江陰錄：骨牌劫 Yang Zai楊載13k WordsCompleted Hong Kong Yin Chronicles: The Bone Tile Calamity 2Reads—Score—Shelves
31. 281 亘 The Nightmare Kingdom, Where the Flesh Mutates 亘梦诡国，肉身畸变 Allergic to Bitter Coffee苦咖啡过敏原Mystery434k 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 23Reads—Score—Shelves

    Reader note

    It's not very real, but it's enough folkloric horror. The setting is really rare and novel. The writing style is rare for Tomato. The first copy is not very attractive. You can jump to more than ten chapters before reading.

32. 282 脂 The Rouge House 脂楼 Yang Zai楊載Mystery22k WordsCompleted The Rouge Tower 3Reads—Score—Shelves
33. 283 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
34. 284 出 The First Half of a Female Spirit Medium’s Life! 出马女弟子的前半生！ Brother Zhang弟马张Mystery325k WordsCompleted I’m an ordinary country girl from Northeast China. When I was 18, I learned that I was born with a connection to the immortals. I was often unwell in all sorts of ways, and I sought out many spirit mediums, hoping they could help me escape my predicament. I was cheated, but I also met kind people. This is the story of how I eventually found my way out. I decided to write this book to keep more people from being scammed. I can’t guarantee that everything I say is right, but I can guarantee that I 9.5kReads9.4Score754Shelves

    Reader note

    An autobiographical novel with a Northeastern flavor! From rural life in the 1990s, to going out, setting up court, watching things, and resolving cause and effect, interspersed with anti-Japanese war grandfathers and simple folks, the story is warm and suspenseful, and the more you watch it, the more addictive it becomes.

35. 285 末 Doomsday Awakening: The God of Slaughter System Lets Me Sweep the Wasteland 末日覺醒殺神系統，我橫掃廢土 Yang Zai楊載Sci-Fi & Apocalypse7k WordsCompleted Awakening a Godslayer System in the Apocalypse, I Sweep Across the Wasteland —Reads—Score—Shelves
36. 286 古 A Collection of Ancient Folk Tales of the Supernatural 古代民间灵异故事合集听来的故事 Pig's Head Meat at Every Meal顿顿猪头肉Mystery806k WordsCompleted A hugely popular collection on Tomato Listen, featuring rule-based horror, infinite-loop survival, folk customs and taboos, deranged killers, deadly survival instances, feng shui, livestreaming, modern technology, and many other kinds of horror. Volume One: Classical ghost stories. A blend of modern and classical taboos: never look in the mirror at midnight, someone is under the bed... A wedding sedan, an old well, an ancestral shrine, a nighttime opera... Any ordinary thing can become a spirit; 4Reads—Score—Shelves

    Reader note

    This collection is suspected of having a "reading contagion curse": you can't help but retell the plot to your friends, just to see them stand on their heads in the same way. 56 Short stories, 56 kinds of tremors. Test your courage in which chapter will you surrender?

37. 287 乡 The Village Yin Ferrywoman 乡村渡阴人 Xuanhuang Linglong玄黄玲珑Rural Life46k WordsOngoing Paranormal + Episodic Stories + Rural Folklore and Strange Tales + Folk Ghost Stories + Chinese-Style Horror + Yin-Yang Eyes + Heartwarming Paranormal Fiction Chen Jiujin, a farmer with a fate that attracts evil spirits, takes his little daughter, who can see ghosts, from village to village to settle the unfinished affairs of wronged souls and wandering ghosts in the world of the living. —Reads—Score—Shelves

    Reader note

    Supernatural + Rural Monsters + Folk Ghost Stories + Chinese Horror + Yin-Yang Eyes + Warm Supernatural Chen Jiujin, a farmer who was destined to attract evil spirits, and his little girl who can see ghosts, settled the cause and effect in the world for the ghosts from all over the country.

38. 288 香 Hall Master, Please Wait 香主，请留步 Flowers Bloom in Frost霜色生花Modern Romance118k WordsOngoing On her master’s recommendation, Ruan Xiaojiu took a job as a fragrance master. But soon after, her master mysteriously disappeared. She discovered that the employer behind the job was the Pei family of the capital, a clan with deep roots and influence that could summon extraordinary talents from across the land to crack all manner of strange cases. Even stranger, while working, she could communicate with her master through their consciousness. She could even create a fragrance domain and refine —Reads—Score—Shelves

    Reader note

    Supernatural detective text, unit horror case, with realistic prototypes. The male and female protagonists are both strong, there is no blood, and the emotional line is thin and flowing. There are Feng Shui techniques and real-life case prototypes. Looking forward to a reader [send heart]

Other lists with The Serpent Coffin