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The Ministry of Justice Needs Talents Like Me 刑部需要我这样的人才
Yan Zhao, a powerhouse with maxed-out combat skills + Shen Huaiqing, a brilliant and cunning vice minister of the Ministry of Justice [Supernatural Mystery, Suspense, and Horror + Mutual First Love + Two Strong Leads] Yan Zhao was supposed to descend from the mountain to hunt demons, but accidentally got caught up in a murder case. The seemingly bizarre and inexplicable murder turned out to be the work of a demon! Through the case, Yan Zhao met Shen Huaiqing, vice minister of the Ministry of J
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- 2 The Eerie Case Coroner 诡案女仵作 A lazy salted-fish coroner who just wants to lie flat VS a workaholic commander who knows nothing about romance. They crack bizarre cases and fall in love over time. As religious sects rise to prominence, people commit murder in the name of gods and ghosts, and strange cases erupt throughout the Great Qing Dynasty. After dying from overwork, forensic pathologist Jiang Ning joins the Yuning Guard, an organization of imperial investigators, hoping to lie flat and coast along as a low-ranking nobod 1.7kReads9.2Score226Shelves
- 3 Now That I Can Talk to Spirits, Who Needs to Date Humans? 都通灵了，谁还和人谈恋爱？ The rating was just posted today, so it's a little low. Come take a look! [A cool, aloof deity meets a spirit-medium with a knack for solving mysteries and crimes.] One night in the emergency room, the glass door inexplicably swung open... In the middle of the night, another hand mysteriously appeared in the mirror in the duty room. An old woman who had been resuscitated told Ye Ling that a little girl in a red dress had just waved to her. After one too many paranormal incidents, Ye Ling was exh 29Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 4 Damn! To Stay Alive, This Ten-Thousand-Year-Old Demon Has to Get Married 淦！为活命，这万年老妖非嫁不可 [Ghosts and monsters + mysticism and feng shui + two powerful leads + suspense and the supernatural] Born in a coffin and possessing an all-yin constitution, she inherited the family business and opened a paper shop. From then on, trouble came in every form, both human and supernatural. Soul-nurturing cages, life-extending umbrellas, paper charms to dispel evil… With her family’s paper-crafting art, she subdues ghosts, vanquishes demons, and turns feng shui to her advantage. Her sixteen-characte 798Reads8.7Score109Shelves
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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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- 6 EN 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! 13.5kReads9.2Score1.7kShelves
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The Twelve Haunted Stations 十二诡站
[Horror + Infinite Worlds + Not Invincible + No System + One Male Lead + One Female Lead] This is a train bound for the land of the dead. They say anyone who committed a capital crime in life can sign a contract and gain a slim chance of survival by boarding it. My name is Fang Jue. I thought everything happening here was just a terrifying “game,” but then I realized things were nowhere near as simple as I had imagined. My story is full of rampant ghosts and revelations about human nature. The f
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- 8 A Collection of Suspense Stories That Will Make You Think Twice 细思极恐的悬疑短篇故事集 A Collection of Suspenseful Short Stories That Will Send Chills Down Your Spine is an anthology combining lingering dread and horror, weaving a series of chilling worlds. Each story begins with a small detail from everyday life, then quietly reveals the shocking truth lurking beneath the calm surface, leaving readers with an indescribable chill and a deep sense of shock as they read... 197Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 9 I’m the Only One in the World Who Can’t See the Supernatural 全世界只有我看不见诡异 That day, the heavens showed strange signs, and terrifying entities beyond human understanding descended upon the world en masse. They took all sorts of forms and each followed different rules for killing. They were collectively known as the Strange Entities. “You all keep telling me the strange things have invaded, but where are the ghosts?” “Isn't this just an ordinary Barbie doll?” “What? It attacks anyone who brushes its hair?” “I plucked out every strand and nothing happened. How do you exp 11.4kReads8.0Score922Shelves
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Eerie Revival: I Can Contact the Past 诡异复苏：我能联系过去
The Hungry Ghost Festival of 2025. A super red moon appeared, and as it lingered in the sky, the supernatural returned. Left Yang was shocked to discover that he could use his phone to contact himself in the past. In the stairwell, the Knock-at-the-Door Ghost killed anyone who opened the door. But someone discovered that it skipped the first floor and started knocking there. So Left Yang contacted his past self. [Please have your one-month-younger self rent an apartment on the first floor!] The
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Midnight Fortune-Teller: Humans Keep Away, Ghosts Come Forward 午夜算命师：人回避，鬼上前
Everyone knows about fortune-telling, but have you ever heard of telling fortunes for ghosts? Just because you've never heard of something doesn't mean it doesn't exist. If you ever come across a fortune-telling shop with its doors still open in the middle of the night, don't go looking for excitement. Because the people waiting in line might not be people…
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Code of the Crime Scene 凶案密码
[Mystery + criminal investigation + dark themes + horror + human nature + crime + serial murders + social issues] This collection brings together five books in the Case Code series: Case Code, Echoes of Death, Vested Interests, The Black Corpse Mystery, and Sleepless Murder Island. Mutilated bodies in the city center, prisoners in a cellar, and urban mysteries return as a veteran cop unravels the truth behind the crimes. A classic crime procedural! The city is shrouded in criminal conspiracies,
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The Village of Terrifying Women 恐怖女人村
The women were so beautiful they were a feast for the eyes, yet they would not even let the men touch their hands. At first, I thought it was a feudal custom. As it turned out, it was part of a terrifying conspiracy. In this dark chapter of history, human nature erupted and was snuffed out again and again, without end.
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Possessing a Body in the Void 虚空夺舍
[Mystery and deduction] + [Yandere] + [Contract Ghosts] + [Transmigration] + [Horror] While in college, the protagonist, Yuan Wenxing, stumbles upon an abandoned school building. From then on, a mindscape comes into being!!! The most terrifying thing inside isn't the supernatural horrors, but the hearts of those within. Yuan Wenxing takes on task after task in the mindscape, gaining skills as he goes. The only way to escape is to become the rules themselves, in other words, to become a god.
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The Language of the Three Corpses 三尸语
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…
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- 16 Eleven Madmen 十一个疯子 (Not mindless, no harem, no System, and not a conventional power fantasy. Please read with that in mind.) From the day you were born until now, have you ever had doubts like these? “Do I really exist?” “Does the world really exist?” “Why do I exist?” “And why does the world exist?” “Is my existence inevitable? If I die, will the world keep existing?” “At the moment m 38.7kReads9.4Score5.6kShelves
- 17 Eerie Tattoos 诡纹 My grandfather was a tattoo artist, but the things he tattooed were seriously sinister… 7.5kReads9.1Score783Shelves
- 18 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!" 25.3kReads9.2Score3.3kShelves
- 19 The Miaojiang Gu Chronicles 苗疆蛊事 The calamity of witchcraft and poison is spoken of only by people in the countryside. Many people who are unknowingly caught up in it have no idea it exists. Friends, do you really think there are no extraordinary people in this vast land of China? You do? No! No! No! Do you want me to tell you that I’m a poison-raising practitioner from the Miao borderlands? All right, come on in and let’s dish… 13.9kReads9.3Score2kShelves
- 20 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
- 21 EN Call Me the Ghost Messenger 请叫我鬼差大人 After the Eternal Night, terror returned. Ten miles of desolate graves, eerie singing. An old man searching for his arms, a headless baby... They kept piecing their bodies back together, unleashing an even more terrifying aura. In the wasteland, even a severed hand could destroy heaven and earth. In this world of darkness and despair, a post office appeared and vanished from view... A mysterious young man, a postal carriage traveling through the void... One blood-red letter after another became 102.6kReads9.5Score9.7kShelves
- 22 Strange Tales from the Civil Affairs Bureau (Complete in 8 Volumes) 民调局异闻录（全8册） The Strange Tales of the Bureau of Investigation series creates an entirely new world of suspense: a mysterious organization dedicated to uncovering the truth behind bizarre, uncanny, and supernatural events, and the world it faces. The stories are wildly strange and utterly captivating, with a witty, playful style and one suspenseful twist after another. Once you start reading, you won't be able to put them down. Throughout history, strange cases and evil monsters have always been dealt with by 37.4kReads9.6Score5.8kShelves
- 23 Folktales of the Mountains and Wilds 民间山野怪谈 The hidden truths behind ten major unsolved mysteries, revealing a host of terrifying taboos that will send chills down your spine! 14.5kReads9.1Score960Shelves
- 24 EN 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 1.7MReads9.9Score207.7kShelves
- 25 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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Back-to-School Season: Night of Terror 开学季之惊魂夜
Opening Night of the New School Year: A Night of Terror
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Horror Academy: Dormitory 404 恐怖学院：404凶舍
A sensational incident once occurred at the academy. It was later completely covered up. Five years later, the academy opened its doors again.
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- 28 Midnight Terror 午夜惊魂 It started one morning when I stepped outside and found a yuan at my doorstep. I didn't think much of it. The next morning, I found a ten-yuan bill at the door. I thought I was pretty lucky, finding money two days in a row. But on the third morning, when I opened the door and saw a hundred-yuan bill on the ground, I finally realized something was off. After that, strange things kept happening around me, and I began venturing into one forbidden zone after another, all in the name of staying alive 2.1kReads7.3Score148Shelves
- 29 The Haunted Funeral Home 恐怖殡仪馆 I was born incredibly ugly. My family despised me, society shunned me, and I had no friends. I thought I would spend my whole life like that, but then my parents forced me to marry into the Lu family. I suffered humiliation in the Lu household, and it was only thanks to Lu Yechuan, the younger uncle of the Lu family, that I was saved! He led me out of the darkness and removed the birthmark on my face, until I lost myself in his tender embrace... But one day, the truth came to light, and Lu Yechu 124Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 30 The Haunted Inn 恐怖旅店 A new graduate faces the toughest job market in years and, with no other options, applies for a night receptionist position at an inn. On my first day, I was told that the job had two requirements. First, I must not speak to the guests. Second, I must not leave the front desk. 513Reads8.0Score103Shelves
- 31 The Haunted Old Mansion 恐怖老宅 The living guard the yang, while ghosts hold the yin in check. Yin and yang are inseparable, and nothing is forbidden. In this world, everyone is either human or ghost, yin or yang. But there are people who walk between the two realms all year round, neither human nor ghost. They are the Yin-Yang House Guardians! 54Reads7.0Score—Shelves
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