I Want Horror Novels, the Scarier the Better. Give Me Something That’ll Blow My Mind 我要看恐怖小说，越恐怖越好，没书让你们飞起来

1. 1 诡 The Eerie Spirit Medium: My Doll Can Really Manifest Spirits 诡异降神师：我的娃娃真能显灵 Clouds Can Smile云会笑Mystery1.4M WordsCompleted [Ghosts in the Book!] [Dark Tone!] [Villain Protagonist!] [Urban Supernatural!] [Horror Aesthetic!] [Invincible from the Start!] A sinister doll saws someone to pieces, a red-clad vengeful ghost claims lives at the airport, a hundred ghosts hunt people down along a ten-mile street, the dead rise again in a crematorium, and corpses dance wildly in an abandoned hospital... None of these things happened to me. They are all stories I wrote. My name is Yang Ning. I am an heir to the Ling Men, a profe 135.6kReads9.5Score11.8k14d adds

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   Overall, this book has a well-controlled atmosphere of horror, a very rich storyline, and is both frightening and captivating, making it hard to put down!

2. 2 三 The Language of the Three Corpses 三尸语 Luo Xiaoyang洛小阳Mystery1.1M WordsOngoing You’ve heard of people who died with their eyes open, but have you ever heard of a dead person whose mouth wouldn’t close? His grandfather’s death turns the life of a broke college student upside down. A corpse glares, a soul is hooked; a corpse opens its mouth, and disaster strikes twice. As one bizarre incident after another unfolds, he accidentally discovers that there’s far more to it than ghosts… 68.4kReads9.3Score10.6k14d adds

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   It's so good, the more you watch, the scarier it gets, and the scarier it gets, the more you want to watch.

3. 3 青 The Little Taoist of Green Mountain 青山小道士 Yan Xinyu严鑫宇Mystery1.6M WordsCompleted [Taoist priest + supernatural mysteries + technically detailed + magic arts + urban + no power fantasy + slow growth + no heroine] (The central idea of the first book: Heaven and humanity) This novel is told in the first person and explores knowledge and experiences from many perspectives, including Taoist culture, astronomy, feng shui, Qimen Dunjia, physiognomy, palmistry, humanities, society, and science. Everything unknown in the world is like a vast darkness. Science is like a flashlight ill 4.2kReads9.2Score70614d adds

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   This is a first-person account from a Taoist priest from Qingcheng Mountain, recounting his adventures with three fellow disciples to resolve paranormal events involving spirits, demons, and ghosts. There is no female lead or romantic subplot. The story is extremely detailed, with highly professional incantations and techniques. It also touches upon matters such as consecration, physical training for ordinary people, and incantation instruction. The veracity of this story is left to the reader to determine.

4. 4 诡EN 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 705.5kReads9.6Score103.9k14d adds

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   It's really good! Each one is amazing! 🥰 Every single one is over 9.5 points.

5. 5 民 Folk Horror Tales: The Yin Walker 民间诡事：走阴人 Ximen Shourou西门瘦肉Mystery337k WordsOngoing [Mystery · horror · folk feng shui · karmic retribution] Money for a life. A plot to make someone take your place in death. Flying-needle curses. Foundation sacrifices. Some steal other people’s fortune. Some raise starving Gu. Some use five dead infants to set up a Five Yin Supporting Yang Formation. Some drive corpse-fixing needles into their own mothers’ necks. Feng shui can save lives; sinister arts can devour them. A bowl of raw rice can summon a soul. A handful of incense ash can break a f 2kReads—Score10614d adds

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   A pure suspenseful, supernatural, and folktale tale, a series of short, episodic stories. It feels like something that happened right next door. No leveling up, no cultivation, no cheat codes, no system.

6. 6 噩 The Sound of Nightmares: 60 Horror Stories That Wake You from Your Dreams 噩梦之声：60个做梦吓醒的恐怖故事 Xiao Youqian萧有钱Mystery174k WordsCompleted [Standalone Ghost Stories + Supernatural Horror + Not for the Faint of Heart + Rural Tales] When night falls, terrifying ghostly figures emerge. Step into all kinds of bizarre and unbelievable tales, and spend your nights screaming! Haunted houses, ghostly shadows outside the window, a deadly lipstick, someone beneath the mattress, an umbrella that hunts people... Every corner conceals inexplicable phenomena and secrets that will fill you with dread! Every page will make your hair stand on end, 2.1kReads8.9Score17614d adds

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   🔥🔥Not for the faint of heart! Not for those with heart conditions! Not for watching at night! Not for watching before bed!

7. 7 东 Northeastern China's Forbidden Secrets 东北禁忌手札 Jun Lan君阑Mystery122k WordsCompleted [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 912Reads8.8Score10814d adds
8. 8 夜 Ghostly Whispers at Midnight 夜半鬼语 Millennium-Old Monster千年老妖Mystery87k WordsCompleted [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 5kReads9.0Score20414d adds
9. 9 乡 Tales of Strange Happenings in the Countryside 乡村诡事录 Zhang Xiaohe张小河Mystery156k WordsCompleted 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 1.9kReads9.0Score13714d adds
10. 10 阴 The One Who Borrows Lives from the Underworld 阴间借命人 The Out-of-Control Editorial Department失控编辑部Mystery1.3M WordsCompleted [Standalone Stories + Supernatural Horror + Suspense + Folk Customs + Playful Tone + Ensemble Cast + Nonstop Ghost-Hunting Thrills!] Ever since I borrowed a life from the underworld, I’ve known no peace. My name is Quan Ning. I’m a lawyer, and one day I was in a car accident on a mountain road. As I lay dying, I saw a ghostly judge from the underworld come to claim my soul. I struck a deal with him and borrowed a sliver of hope for survival. The price of this life I borrowed was becoming 2.5kReads9.1Score23614d adds
11. 11 午 The Midnight Ghost Market: Living People Keep Out 午夜鬼市，活人回避 The Drinking Monk吃酒和尚Mystery592k WordsCompleted [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 3.5kReads9.1Score21714d adds
12. 12 十EN Ten Days to the End 十日终焉 Pest Control Team Member杀虫队队员Mystery3.2M WordsCompleted 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 1.7MReads9.9Score206.4k14d adds
13. 13 异EN The Creatures That We Are 异兽迷城 Peng Pai彭湃Urban3.0M WordsCompleted 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 478.1kReads9.7Score66.6k14d adds
14. 14 我EN I'm Not a God of Theater 我不是戏神 Three Nine Sound Domain三九音域Urban4.0M WordsCompleted The brand-new masterpiece by San Jiu Yin Yu, author of Slay the Gods | Winner of the Best Science-Fiction Web Novel Award at the Macau International Science Fiction Awards | A Chinese grotesque epic that turns the tide of an era After a scarlet meteor streaked across the sky, human civilization ground to a halt. From that day onward, humanity could no longer build a rocket, a nuclear bomb, an airplane, a car... The pyramid of civilization built upon modern science collapsed with a thunderous roa 1.7MReads9.9Score178.8k14d adds
15. 15 超 Superpowers: I Have a Replication Mirror 超能：我有一面复刻镜 Three Nine Sound Domain三九音域Urban1.5M WordsCompleted [Gods Descend, Calamity Begins] When cultivators from the divine realm invade Earth, superpowers and modern weapons become humanity's last line of defense! Can Gou Chen and Adam, Earth's only two superpower academies, shoulder humanity's future? What kind of hidden strength does Huaxia, hailed as the Chosen Nation, possess? This is a feast for the Godslayers! A young man gains the power to replicate abilities. With a mortal body and the power of the world in his hands, he will ultimately slay th 116.4kReads9.6Score13.3k14d adds
16. 16 逆 The Reverse Maze 逆位迷宫 Peng Pai彭湃Urban1.7M WordsOngoing On the day of his eighteenth birthday, Bai Ze's life begins a countdown. Survive or perish: that is the choice. // Three lives, six paths, a mist-shrouded maze. Nothing is harder than choosing one's fate. 92.1kReads9.5Score7.2k14d adds
17. 17 我EN Learning to Slay Gods in the Psychiatric Hospital 我在精神病院学斩神 Three Nine Sound Domain三九音域Urban4.3M WordsCompleted A must-read hit on Tomato Novel | Original novel of the hit anime Slay the Gods | IP influence on the China Online Literature Influence List | 2023 China Good Novel Have you ever wondered whether monsters from ancient myths lurk beneath the neon-lit city? Have you ever wondered whether gods stand watch over humanity atop the moon hanging high above us? Have you ever wondered whether extraordinary people walk among us in our bustling modern cities, acting in the gods’ stead? In the society ruled 992.2kReads9.9Score158.5k14d adds
18. 18 我 I Turned the Horror World Into a Raising Game! 我把惊悚世界玩成养成游戏！ Yu Zuo予作Mystery2.3M WordsCompleted A mysterious force descended upon Earth, giving rise to another world of terror. Everyone was forcibly sent into the world of horror games on their eighteenth birthday. While everyone else was immersed in fear, struggling to survive in the cracks between life and death, Qin Nuo discovered that he could earn System rewards by influencing the ghosts’ emotions. And every time he completed a dungeon, he could establish his own business in the world of horror. So he became a food runner at the Yin Sp 113kReads9.5Score12.3k14d adds
19. 19 深 Abyss, Close Your Eyes 深渊请闭眼 Chunchun Is So Happy春春好开心Mystery483k WordsOngoing 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. 3Reads—Score—14d adds

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    Tan Zhu screamed! She shoved the fat cat aside in an instant. Terrified, she jumped three feet high, urinating, defecating, and menstruating all at once! "Why!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" The fat cat's bloated, stiff voice emanated from the woman's body. He took a step in front of Tan Zhu, gritting his teeth and baring his teeth as he loudly questioned her in pain and ferocity! Tan Zhu couldn't utter a word, foaming at the mouth. Just as she was about to faint from fright, the fat cat manipulated the lesbian's body, gouging out Tan Zhu's eyes, pulling out her tongue, biting off her nose, and chewing up Tan Zhu's face piece by piece. Those alluring lips that had once captivated him were now being chewed up and spat back into his mouth. The lights flickered, and the fat cat bit Tan Zhu to death, tearing her to shreds. It ripped her flesh and bones to shreds, smashing her internal organs to pieces. Then, it used the pieces of flesh to write a large "injustice" on the wall before leaving her body and disappearing.

20. 20 鬼 Ghost Blows Out the Light: Nuqing Xiangxi: Moonlight, Someone Leans on the Tower 鬼吹灯怒晴湘西:月明人倚楼 Begonias in Heavy Misty Rain海棠烟雨浓Mystery518k WordsCompleted Ghost Blows Out the Light? Candle in the Tomb? So good, so good! A delicate beauty transmigrates into Ghost Blows Out the Light? Light the candle, and the ghosts blow it out... Heart-pounding, grand and sweeping, perilous and eerie, with death lurking at every turn... What a thrill... What? I have to raid a tomb? No... I just can’t do it... System, can I switch to another mission??? A modern young woman’s journey through Ghost Blows Out the Light... 1kReads8.0Score—14d adds

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    ① This is fan fiction, featuring new storylines while retaining the original characters' personalities. ② Also fan fiction, with vivid characters and a coherent plot; it's a decent horror/suspense novel. ③ The plot is exciting and immersive; not recommended for the faint of heart, but it's still ongoing.

21. 21 盗 Tomb Raiding: From the Start, I Obtained the Bloodline of a True Dragon 盗墓：开局获得真龙血脉 The Ninth Under Heaven天下第九Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted People light the candles, ghosts blow them out, and the Mountain-Moving Taoist descends into the tomb. When a mysterious heir appears, one who has mastered the secret arts of all four tomb-raiding schools, the entire tomb-raiding world is turned upside down. Third Uncle: "Ninth Master is the strongest tomb raider I've ever met!" Fatty: "I've never been scared going into a tomb with my senior brother!" Naive: "Ninth Master showed me that tomb raiding can be as easy as sightseeing!" Zhang Qilin: " 45.6kReads9.0Score3.9k14d adds
22. 22 最 The Last Tomb Raider 最后一个盗墓者 I Love Fried Eggs我爱吃炒鸡蛋Mystery1.5M WordsCompleted Thirty years ago, my grandfather teamed up with his childhood friend to rob tombs. His friend and the rest of the group all died horribly, while my grandfather alone survived, only to go mad and disappear. Thirty years later, I follow in his footsteps and descend into the caves to search for tombs... A three-headed snake mother, a burial trench holding ten thousand people, and crystal coffins drifting unseen through underground waterways: in this bizarre subterranean world, I fight to survive an 779Reads7.5Score10314d adds
23. 23 雇 Hiring a Handsome Guy to Guard the House 雇个帅哥来镇宅 Zahari扎哈里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 54Reads—Score—14d adds
24. 24 1EN The Last Bus on Route 13 13路末班车 Old Eighty老八零Mystery813k WordsCompleted 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! 13.5kReads9.2Score1.7k14d adds

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