Looking for Supernatural Horror Novels. The Scarier, the Better 求灵异小说，越恐怖越好

1. 1 埋 Burying Yin Bones, Borrowing Yang Life, and Marrying the King of Hell's Younger Sister 埋阴骨，借阳寿，阎王妹妹嫁入门 Fragrance of Rice余米之香Mystery318k WordsOngoing On the day I was born, the midwife stabbed herself in the throat with a pair of scissors. With yang eyes, I see the rise and fall of the mortal world; with yin eyes, I glimpse the ghosts and monsters of the underworld. I was born with ghost eyes. I can see the secrets of fate, but that also brought down Heaven's retribution upon me. I was destined to die. To keep me alive, my mother borrowed Jiang Hanying's life. From that day on, Jiang Hanying and I were like twin vines, bound together. As 42Reads—Score—Shelves

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   The first book seems to have had its title changed; it used to be called "Ghost Eye." I personally thought it was alright; the beginning was scary, but the later parts leaned towards martial arts conflicts. I only recently read the second book, and it has a pretty high rating. You can read them together if you're interested; they're different styles.

2. 2 女 After the Goddess Died Tragically, I Drew My Sword and Slayed Ghosts! 女神惨死后，我拔剑斩鬼！ Sunlight on the Mountain Forest日照山林Mystery1.5M WordsOngoing 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
3. 3 白 Selling Clothes by Day, Sewing Corpses by Night 白天卖衣服，晚上缝尸体 Night Shadow夜幽影Mystery2.7M WordsCompleted [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 51.9kReads9.2Score6.2kShelves

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   The Ghost Wife 🥰, it's super good (highly recommended)

4. 4 镇 The Dragon-Suppressing Coffin and the King of Hell's Fate 镇龙棺，阎王命 Feiyi匪夷Mystery4.9M WordsOngoing They severed my tendons and buried me alive in a sealed coffin, but they didn’t know I was born with the fate of the King of Hell! [Folk horror, feng shui and talismans, incense offerings] Feng shui and fortune-telling, painted-skin demons and spirit summoning, walking in the shadows and corpse driving, corpse-raising spells and curses, yin tattoos and talismanic needles, puppets controlled by strings, red doors sealed with wax, Dogs digging graves on Burial Mound Ridge, ghosts feasting in the R 310.8kReads9.4Score27.9kShelves

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   It's terrifying! I'm too scared to look at it, and I'm even afraid to go to the bathroom at night. [Fear][fear][fear]

5. 5 算 Calculating Your Fate to the End 算死命 Nine-Rank Game九品一局Mystery5.9M WordsCompleted When I was born, I was nursed by a wolf for a few days. I thought of her as my mother, and believed I'd never see her again. Then one day, a woman came looking for me... 22.8kReads8.9Score2.5kShelves

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   These are some of the best supernatural novels I've read on Tomato in the past five years. They're not wish-fulfillment stories; the protagonists gradually become stronger step by step.

6. 6 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... 16kReads9.2Score2.1kShelves
7. 7 民 The Folk Feng Shui Master 民间风水之王 Miao Qimiao苗棋淼Mystery3.0M WordsCompleted 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! 52.2kReads9.4Score6kShelves
8. 8 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… 69.1kReads9.3Score10.7kShelves

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   Absolutely terrifying and entertaining

9. 9 我EN With a Fox Immortal, I Subdue a Hundred Ghosts 我以狐仙镇百鬼 Purple Dream Wandering Dragon紫梦游龙Mystery10.3M WordsOngoing The day I was born, nineteen bolts of thunder struck around our family’s courtyard. A fortune-teller said I was born a demon child, fated to suffer eighteen calamities in my life. Either someone else would die, or I would. As it turned out, the fortune-teller met his own calamity on the very day I was born. He carried me out of the village, and suddenly dropped dead! 748.4kReads9.4Score43kShelves
10. 10 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 707.4kReads9.6Score103.9kShelves

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    The author is a true master of atmosphere! The eerie old house feels alive; the musty stairs creak underfoot, and moonlight streams through the broken windows, casting distorted shadows on the walls like ghostly faces. The most chilling aspect is the subtle, unsettling detail—for example, the protagonist waking up in the middle of the night to find the alarm clock stopped at 3 AM, while their phone shows 3:01; or seeing their reflection in the mirror with a sudden upturned smile, only to turn away and find nothing there! These descriptions will give you goosebumps, making you want to turn on the light even when going to the bathroom in the middle of the night…

11. 11 烧 I Burned the Wrong Incense and Worshipped the Wrong Spirit, and Now a Powerful Female Ghost Won’t Leave Me Alone 烧错香，供错魂，女鬼大佬赖上门 Daoist Ji姬道人Mystery2.2M WordsCompleted “Everyone else transmigrates and gets a golden finger that goes ding, ding, ding. I transmigrated, and a female ghost has me screaming my head off!” Lin Mo was one of the countless people who had transmigrated. Aside from a paper effigy shop his grandfather left him, he had no golden finger at all. Pressed by the need to make a living, he went to burn paper offerings at someone's grave on the Ghost Festival, but through a twist of fate, he paid his respects at the wrong grave and disturbed a pow 5.4kReads7.5Score530Shelves

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    Each book has its own style and its own highlights.

12. 12 阎 Fated by the King of Hell: On Our Wedding Night, My Wife Skinned Me Alive 阎王命：新婚夜，妻子剥了我的皮 Mo Lihong魔礼红Mystery1.3M WordsCompleted Grandma said I was brought into the human world by underworld soldiers. When I came here, I even stole the King of Hell's skin. To keep me alive, Grandma replaced the King of Hell's skin with dragon skin and found me a marriage to anchor my fate. But on our wedding day, my wife cut off my skin and took my life. She even killed my grandma! But I didn't die! To take revenge, I put on the King of Hell's skin again, hiding in the world of the living and keeping company with ghosts! 273Reads6.3Score102Shelves
13. 13 美 A Beauty's Coffin, a Corpse Bride, and the Balance of Yin and Yang 美人棺，娶尸妻，镇阴阳 Ye Xingzun夜星尊Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted Grandpa said Huilong Mountain was my lucky place, destined to bring me wealth and prosperity, so he sent me there to dig up graves. Instead, I dug up an old Qing Dynasty eunuch who wouldn’t stop pestering me day and night... 229Reads—Score—Shelves
14. 14 缝 The Corpse Stitcher’s Notes 缝尸人笔记 Chen Shisan陈十三Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted Chen Meihua, a Ma Yi practitioner, reads Ouyang’s fate through Zi Wei astrology. There’s Niu Er, who sews corpses; Qiao Niang, who makes paper figures; Lao Liu, who wields a broadsword; Sai Fang, who practices acupuncture; Pockmarked Li, the barber at the north street corner; and the peddler from Panjiayuan. The blind master of the south, the Ninth Master of the north, and the masters of the central region all have their own specialties. The Zhuge clan’s shrine is full of incense, and the Yin-Ya 4.3kReads8.4Score378Shelves

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    A perfect blend of suspense and the supernatural: **It offers the thrill of unraveling a mystery and the suspense of confronting ghosts and evil spirits, providing a double enjoyment.

15. 15 阴 The Yin Tattooist 阴纹师 Master Mo Da墨大先生Mystery4.1M WordsCompleted May you be blessed with wealth and long life, and travel safely in and out. I’m the heir to a special kind of embroidery, commonly known as “tattooing.” You’d think this craft would be quite profitable in a modern city, but before my master died, he forbade me from using it to make money. I always did as he said, but recently, something happened, and I had no choice but to go against his dying words. From then on, all kinds of strange things began happening around me. 968Reads8.8Score116Shelves

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    "The Tattoo Artist"—Ink needles pierce souls to suppress Yin and Yang, blood threads hook fate to defy destiny! A car accident shatters a young man's life; his father dies violently, his mother is critically ill, and the 800,000 yuan kidney transplant fee pushes the tattoo artist protagonist to the brink of despair. When he trembles as he opens the sandalwood box containing the ancient book "Yin-Yang Embroidery," his fingertips touch not only ink needles and cinnabar, but also a life-or-death pact with the underworld—nourishing tattoos with souls, defying fate, each stroke of the tattoo drains his lifespan. The bizarre nightmares of his neighbor, Mimi, a prostitute, become the starting point for his return to his old profession: in his dreams, a blood-stained blade chases his soul; in reality, bruises and finger marks appear on his neck, clearly an ominous sign of "debts from the underworld demanding life"! The protagonist uses black dog blood mixed with corpse oil as ink to tattoo a "Yaksha Suppressing Evil Pattern" on her back, but unexpectedly, the moment the tattoo is completed, the studio compass spins wildly, and a cold wind carrying paper money pounds against the doors and windows—he has summoned not only evil spirits, but also the truth behind the "Crossroads Gathering Yin Formation" that led to his father's tragic death thirteen years ago! As one forbidden business after another arrives: tattooing a "Pixiu swallowing wealth" for a wealthy man backfires, tattooing a "lotus purifying the fetus" for a pregnant woman leads to an abortion and a ghost demanding the baby… The protagonist gradually discovers that his mother's kidney failure is related to his family's "pure yin destiny," and with each person he saves, the line between life and death on his palm fades a little. When the Yin-Yang embroidery awakens his forgotten memories—the rainy night his grandfather used an ink line to lock his soul in his childhood, the spirit summoned was actually his own thousand-year-old ghost possessing his body! The ink needle pierces the flesh, and cinnabar seeps into the karma. This time, he will sacrifice himself, tattooing a "Yama Judge" image that reverses yin and yang, to demand a blood debt from the mastermind who stole his mother's lifespan! —The tattoo represents human greed, anger, and ignorance; the repayment is a debt of life and death in the netherworld.

16. 16 富 The Secret Shadows of Fuchun Mountain: The Tomb Keeper 富春山秘影，守陵人 Haozi Loves Celery浩子爱吃芹菜Mystery857k WordsOngoing Follow me, and let my words fire your way! "The mysterious guardian of the tomb, whose family has protected Fuchun Mountain for generations, discovers that he's not an ordinary person at all." A landslide on a stormy night cracks the seal on a bronze coffin. And the web novelist who guards the tomb, she... There, the ruins of the Tomb Guardian Village, which vanished a hundred years ago, suddenly reappear in the world. The Ability Bureau is looking for him, the archaeological team is chasing him 4Reads—Score—Shelves

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    From the unusual reflection in the mirror to the eerie voice on the cassette tape, the truth unfolds layer by layer.

17. 17 茅 Maoshan Taoist Arts 茅山术 Life Like a Mayfly生似蜉蝣Mystery2.7M WordsCompleted “Master, why does everyone say that after the founding of the country, animals aren’t allowed to become spirits?” “Because it’s the law. Whatever is spoken becomes law. After the country was founded, no animals, plants, or anything else was allowed to become a spirit!!!” “Then why have we still run into so many demons and monsters?” “Because those were all from before the country was founded. Afterward, there are only ghosts. So you have to live your whole life carefully and keep a low profile. 3.5kReads7.4Score465Shelves
18. 18 至 The Supreme God of Slaughter 至尊杀神 Listening to the Wind and Rain听风吹雨Urban1.5M WordsCompleted The Lin family was wiped out, and Lin Chuan was torn from his wife and children. Forced to flee for seven years, he returns in glory after seven years of war and bloodshed! He seeks only to settle old scores and vent all the indignation pent up inside him. 7.5kReads9.0Score753Shelves
19. 19 阴 The Yin-Yang Demon Suppression Bureau 阴阳镇魔司 Happy God乐乐神Mystery2.1M WordsCompleted He walks between the worlds of yin and yang, slays vengeful ghosts, subdues evil demons, battles zombies, and stands up for the weak against the strong. He even becomes sworn brothers with the Black and White Impermanence and Ox-Head and Horse-Face. 2.3kReads6.7Score233Shelves

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