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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
[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,
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- 2 Ghostly Eyes 鬼灵瞳 A reclusive man known as Little Master, along with several strange people brought together by coincidence but united by their shared interests, gradually uncovers a history buried for many years: the five great clans of the ancient world and the Yin-Yang adepts who could do anything. It seems that fate has long been leading them into one thrilling fantasy adventure after another... 1kReads9.1Score103Shelves
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Thanks for Asking, My Inherited Apartment Is Full of Ghost Stories 谢邀，我继承的公寓全是怪谈
[Single male lead, no romance, supernatural. The male lead isn’t strong or particularly satisfying to read about, and he’s indecisive. I’m warning you in advance, so if it’s not your thing, please move along.] The living should keep their distance from eerie tales whenever possible. When Yin Lan was little, his grandfather warned him of this. Yet that same grandfather left him a family home full of strange rumors after he died. Driven by curiosity and hoping to find out why his father and gran
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- 4 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
- 5 Rule Horror: The Haunted School 规则怪谈：诡异学校 [System + Mystery + Deduction] I grew up in an ordinary family. To broaden my horizons in another city, I deliberately applied to a university far from home. But then strange things began happening one after another: bizarre campus rules, a mysterious countdown, and the secrets hidden behind the school slowly coming to light... 40.8kReads9.3Score4.1kShelves
- 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
- 7 Terror in the Haunted Dorm 诡寝惊魂 I got a job as a dorm supervisor in a university women’s residence, but the girls there were a little too friendly… Crying in the middle of the night, dorm rooms catching fire, rooms that don’t exist. Hidden in the deepest corners of memory is a bizarre and fantastical world… The night is deep, the dream unfinished. A mountain spirit blows out the lamp. Where can a lonely soul return? 10.4kReads8.5Score1.1kShelves
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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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A Collection of Northeastern Folk Ghost Stories 东北民间鬼故事集锦
This work recounts various ghost stories in the voice of Second Grandpa, a man from rural Northeast China. Each chapter tells a different story, and the prose is concise, with no irrelevant padding just to increase the word count. There are so many stories that they are no longer all limited to the Northeast or the countryside. I can’t promise every story will scare you, but 90% of them will leave readers with a chill. Some stories end on an open note, leaving more room for your imagination; oth
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15 Hell-Level Bad Endings: You Stop at Flirting, While I’m In Too Deep 15个地狱级be：你点到为止，我泥足深陷
[Modern romance + domineering CEO + substitute + marriage + tragic love] Giving your whole heart in love will only leave you in pieces. Why do you think I’ll still be here just because you turn around? That if you crook your finger, I’ll make the same mistake all over again? I’m not the kind of person who forgets the pain once the wound heals. In love, the one who holds the power is never the one being loved. It’s the one brave enough to confess their feelings and brave enough to let go. I loved
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- 11 Bu Huoam's Second Book 不惑am的第2本书 The Main God Space has collapsed. When Zheng Zha awoke from a sea of blood, the pure white plaza that once controlled life, death, and reincarnation had become a ruin. In the subway tunnels, the corpses from Resident Evil and the vengeful spirits from The Grudge shrieked inside an Alien nest. Scarlet strings of garbled text on their wristwatches heralded a terrifying new era: countless movie worlds had been torn apart and stitched together by an unknown force, and Gene-Lock powerhouses and newco 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Reincarnation: The Horror Cinema 轮回：恐怖电影院 (Mystery, Wild Imagination, Infinite Realms, Survival, Horror, Deduction, Decisive Killing, Movies, Myriad Worlds) From the moment Lin Bai got a movie ticket and walked into a horror theater, his life began counting down to its end. Racing against death, he experienced one terror after another firsthand through endless cycles… Have you ever tried to survive on a train full of zombies? Have you ever tried playing hide-and-seek with Sadako? Have you ever been hunted by Freddy in your dreams? Do yo 2.1kReads7.0Score164Shelves
- 13 Short Horror Tales 短篇恐怖怪谈 In the shadowy corners of a bustling city lurk countless eerie secrets unknown to the world. Short Horror Tales will take you into one terrifying world after another, delivering fear that will make your heart stop. 22Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Short Horror Stories 恐怖的短篇故事 Short horror stories, all based on familiar themes. Your listens, reads, and requests for updates keep me writing. Feel free to add the stories to your collection if you like them. If you don’t, that’s fine too. Everyone has their own tastes. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 Death Notebook (Romance, Bad Ending) 死亡笔记本（言情BE） Death Note (Romance, Bad Ending) 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 Bad Ending: Life and Death be：生死 I can't tell dreams from reality, just as I can't tell whether you love me. I stand beneath the lights, yet I can't see the distant lighthouse or the road beneath my feet. I don't even know whether I'm dead or alive anymore... —Reads—Score—Shelves
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I Turned Down a Wealthy Family: My True Love Is a Cleaner 拒绝豪门，我的真爱是个保洁员
I Rejected a Powerful Family: My True Love Is a Cleaner
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The Heavenly Coffin 天棺
Because of a joke, my grandmother’s spirit refused to leave after her death and insisted on taking me with her to the grave. Otherwise, my whole family would die. To save my family, I went into the grave with my grandmother...
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Notes: Strange Happenings at the Crematorium 笔记：火葬场灵异事件
I work at a crematorium, and over the years I’ve had countless terrifying experiences that make your hair stand on end... I never believed in ghosts until my cousin introduced me to a job at the local crematorium. I began dealing with all kinds of corpses, and while cremating them, I also encountered all sorts of strange paranormal events. Because of my unusual constitution, “friends” who refuse to leave the human world for one reason or another keep coming to me. After all those spine-chilling
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You Hired Me to Collect Bodies, So I Dissected My Ex-Girlfriend 让你当收尸人，你直接解刨了前女友
In anatomy class, the corpse turns out to be my ex-girlfriend... After that, I went through all sorts of unbelievable things. A bus that only goes up, never down, and runs straight to a reservoir. An old scholar tree in the hospital, lush with branches and leaves, that swallows people whole. A giant catfish by the Qingshui River, begging people for help every night. And a deadly brothel hung with human skin, open for business without end. It went on and on, as if it would never come to an end...
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- 21 After the Goddess Died Tragically, I Drew My Sword and Slayed Ghosts! 女神惨死后，我拔剑斩鬼！ That day, I received a strange food delivery order. A goddess who had died a tragic death was begging me for help. After that, I became a spirit courier. I clear the way for wronged souls and guide the dead on their final journey! 40.5kReads9.2Score3.4kShelves
- 22 EN Terror: I Only Sell Haunted Houses 惊悚：我只卖凶宅 Rooms where unnatural deaths have occurred are collectively known as haunted houses. There are two kinds: “blue houses” and “red houses.” Living people can stay in blue houses without harm, but anyone who lives in a red house is doomed to die. I work as a real estate agent. One day, I accidentally sold a red house, and afterward, I began encountering terrifying things… 26.5kReads9.2Score3.2kShelves
- 23 Global Ghostmasters: There Are Hundreds of Millions of Ghosts Inside Me 全球御鬼：我的体内有亿只鬼 [Looting bamboo shoots + ghostly resurgence + ghost taming + one female lead + comedy = 100,000 new words every week?] The comic of the same name, Global Ghost Tamer: I Have Hundreds of Millions of Ghosts Inside Me, is now available on Fanqie. Lin Mo was playing games in class when he transmigrated to a parallel world overrun by ghosts. With the worst talent of all, he unexpectedly gained the Defense-Breaking System. As long as he could make a ghost lose its composure, he could force it into a c 71.9kReads9.4Score9.8kShelves
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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
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- 25 Hearse 灵车 A hearse is a vehicle used to transport coffins or urns. You could also call it a vehicle exclusively for the dead. I was a bus driver for four years, and for all four years I kept a secret bottled up inside. Now I'll tell you firsthand about the terrifying things that happen on trains, things you don't know about. Maybe you've never heard of hearses being converted into buses, but the buses you've ridden may not have carried only the living... 1.5kReads8.0Score131Shelves
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Nine Dragons Carry the Coffin 九龙抬棺
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...
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- 27 The Fragrance of Corpses for Ten Miles 十里尸香 Most people receive gifts that are heartwarming or romantic. Even if they aren't a surprise, they're at least well-intentioned. But the gift I received when I turned twenty was a very real shock, and a curse. 1.9kReads8.2Score165Shelves
- 28 The Coffin Walks at Night 灵棺夜行 I was carrying a coffin up the mountain for a burial when they stuffed me inside and buried me alive. Then, in a single night, all three hundred or so people in the village vanished. Only at night was the place alive with voices. I crawled out of the coffin, only to discover... 5.8kReads8.2Score366Shelves
- 29 The House of Deadly Peril 死亡凶间 I work as a specialist crime-scene cleaner, tasked with cleaning up after murders, suicides, and accidental deaths. I’ve seen more than my share of partings and grief, as well as the other side of death. Then, on the Ghost Festival, I encountered something terrifying... 18.1kReads9.2Score1.8kShelves
- 30 The Folk Feng Shui Master 民间风水之王 The Nine Cauldrons Dragon Palace, the Secret Files of the Yellow Springs, the Snow Mountain Corpse Demon, the Yin-Yang Inn... Ever since I borrowed a life from the underworld, I have known no peace. Every time I borrow a life, it becomes a deadly game. After each desperate struggle and narrow escape, I wait for the next secret order from the underworld so I can keep living. Just when I thought I'd escaped the clutches of fate, I discovered that Heaven had prepared a coffin for me too! 52.3kReads9.4Score5.9kShelves
- 31 Borrowing Yin Lifespan 借阴寿 Have you ever slept wearing burial clothes? Don’t try it. I did once, and that night... My name is Li Yiliang. I was born with a shortened lifespan, and my birth caused my mother to die in childbirth. But one night when I was eighteen, my mother came back and said she wanted to take me with her... My grandfather told me to sleep in burial clothes, then gave his own life to help me escape that fate. From then on, my life was never free of strange and uncanny things... 4.7kReads8.9Score411Shelves
- 32 Calculating Fate Through Yin 算阴命 My mother was snatched away by a beast when she gave birth to me. Twelve years later, my father brought home a woman. Three days after that, my father died… 1.8kReads8.9Score257Shelves
- 33 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
- 34 Taboo of the Living 活人禁忌 When I was nine, I found myself in mortal danger! To save me, my grandfather made a decision that would change my life forever... 16kReads9.2Score2.2kShelves
- 35 Borrowed Corpse, Stolen Life 借尸命 When a plague swept through my mother’s village, she was the only one who escaped alive and made it to Chen Village. My mother was graceful and beautiful, but after arriving in the village, she went mad. There’s something wrong with this village. Every night, we hear strange noises. My father’s name is Chen Jiu, and mine is Chen Lintian. I suspect he isn’t my real father... 1.8kReads9.0Score130Shelves
- 36 The Living Must Keep Away 活人回避 Originally titled Living People, Keep Away. An antique set me on a desperate path. From then on, just to stay alive, I became a yin walker who dealt with the dead and the walking corpses. Three years searching for dragon veins, ten years locating acupoints, roaming between yin and yang, dealing in ghosts and spirits. I kept walking, struggling my way to where I am today. 2.7kReads8.9Score327Shelves
- 37 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
- 38 Horror Script: It Begins in the Baby-Crying Dormitory 惊悚剧本：从婴啼寝室开始 (Dark tone) (Escape-room survival) (No System) (Not invincible: the protagonist dies if he is killed) (Not a conventional power fantasy) Chen Xian is pinned against the wall by a female ghost in a bathroom, and finds himself plunged into a terrifying instance! The cries of a baby in the dead of night... Students with eyes as blue as ghostly flames... A wedding dress stained crimson with blood... A mermaid covered in wriggling maggots... And... Teammates dying one after another... To stay alive a 14.1kReads9.2Score1.4kShelves
- 39 The Yin-Walker 巡阴人 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 8.4kReads9.1Score1.1kShelves
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