A Surprising Take on Horror Fantasy Stories! You Don't See This Often 上头了,把惊悚奇幻文写成这样,不多见!
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I Learn to Slay Ghosts on a Paranormal Forum 我在怪谈论坛学斩鬼
[New book, Make a Wish to a Ghost, is now available] [The printed edition of Strange Tales Forum is in production] [The short drama adaptation of Strange Tales Forum is in production] Gao Shen joined a strange tales forum by chance. The forum often posts eerie stories, describing every detail so vividly that they seem to have really happened. Users who reply seriously analyze the source of each incident and discuss how to deal with it. They even address each other as Heavenly Masters, Soul Tamer
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City of Beasts 异兽迷城
[The new book The Maze of Inversion has begun serialization. Updates come at 9 p.m. every evening. Please continue to support it.] 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
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My Years as a Feng Shui Consultant in the Entertainment Industry 我在娱乐圈当风水顾问的那些年
Corpse-oil lipstick, raising little ghosts, summoning fox spirits, tattooed talismans: some celebrities will stop at nothing to get famous and go viral. My name is Chen Tian. I'm a feng shui consultant who moves in entertainment circles, specializing in handling the aftermath for celebrities who rose to fame through supernatural means.
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High Seas Survival: I Start with a Ghost Ship 全民大航海,我开局一条幽灵船
The print edition has been signed with a publisher. [Seafaring] [Survival] [Disasters] [Shipbuilding] [Talents] [Cthulhu] [One Female Lead] Everyone transmigrates, and Yang Yi, as a player, is forced to join a game where everyone must survive at sea. Some lucky players get special ships. Like the Iron Will, armed to the teeth. Like the Gale, which rides the wind and waves so fast it's never in sight. Like the Head-On, with its massive ram, charging fearlessly ahead. But Yang Yi's ship is called
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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!
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Ghosts in the Apocalypse: I Became the Strongest Ghost Tamer 百鬼末世:我成了最强御鬼师
[A Full 1,000 Types of Ghosts] Mysterious ghosts include Jin Buhuan, the White Bone Bodhisattva, the Earthly Branches War Lord, and the Blood-Drop Plum Blossom. The powerful ones include Asura, Rakshasa, the Butcher, the Martial Champion, and the Emperor. The eerie ones include Painted Skin, the Red Robe, the Chubby Baby, the Coroner, the Flower-Waisted Bride, the Embalmer, and the Ever-Burning Lamp. Every type has its own evolution path: Drowned Ghost → Water Monkey → Kappa → ? (There’s more af
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I Command Countless Vengeful Ghosts, and Return as the Strongest in the World 身具万千厉鬼,我归来即人间最强
[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
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An S-Rank Horror from the Start, but They Give Me a C-Rank Talent? 开局S级怪谈,但给我C级天赋?
[No Female Lead + Endless Twists + Wild Ideas and Clever Logic + Mild Horror + Protagonist and Villains Are Both Smart] [This is absolutely not a mindless power fantasy. If you don't like the first instance, go ahead and curse me out.] [This isn't a traditional rule-based horror story. The horrors can think and are intelligent, so readers who prefer traditional rule-based horror should steer clear.] Horrors run rampant, and strange tales are everywhere. Beneath every shadow may lurk an unknown t
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You Blush Eight Times in Five Minutes, and You're an SSS-Rank Female Ghost? 五分钟脸红八次,还SSS女诡?
This is supposed to be a terrifying survival game, yet while all the other contestants are struggling to stay alive, you’re falling into a sweet romance with an SSS-ranked eerie school beauty? The eerie game descended upon Blue Star, and one lucky person was randomly chosen from each country to represent it and survive in the eerie realm. Xu Fei was chosen against his will, but he could see hidden hints. His first dungeon was “Horror University.” To survive all 44 days, contestants from other co
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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
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I Turned the Horror World Into a Raising Game! 我把惊悚世界玩成养成游戏!
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
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Thriller Game: From the Start, I Helped Monsters Make Choices 惊悚游戏:开局帮鬼怪做选择
[Horror game dungeons + career-based progression + NPCs caught in a rat race + livestreaming + everyday-life style] Jiang Ye’s daily routine consists of working, studying, working... Then one day, he’s pulled into a horror game during class and awakens an all-career talent. He discovers that all his career skills are a little strange. From the start, he unlocks the career “Small-Town Exam Machine,” with an added skill that lets him make choices for ghosts and monsters. [A difficult choice has ap
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When the Uncanny Descends on the World, Death Is the End 当诡异降临世界,死亡即是终点
[Supernatural horrors descend + no System + fresh worldbuilding + survival + semi-infinite-flow + no do-gooder protagonist + not dark + supernatural abilities] In the best years of his life, amid the exuberance of youth, Su Yuan thought his days would remain peaceful and beautiful forever. Then a line of bloody text appeared on the blackboard during evening study. [In the silent night, a terrifying ghost appears outside your dorm room... How long will it take to kill you?] Everyone thought it wa
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Recreating Iconic Scenes in a Horror Game 我在惊悚游戏里复刻名场面
[No female lead + iconic scenes + absurd laugh-out-loud comedy + national destiny + vengeful ghosts. If you don’t laugh in 30 minutes, come beat me up] A horror game appeared, and Qin Ming was ordered to take part at a time when the fate of the Dragon Nation hung in the balance. The System directly altered his talent, granting him an SSS...-rank ability: Meme Reenactment, which let him recreate iconic scenes inside the horror game. When Qin Ming unlocked Crazy Donkey, he said, “Vengeful ghosts,
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Strange Tales Livestream! 怪谈直播间!
Welcome to the Rules of the Strange. This is a battle of blood and fire, a test of wit and courage. The power of words cannot be resisted, and the eerie rules must not be broken. In a seemingly hopeless situation, find the one correct answer, break free of your constraints, and search for a way to survive.
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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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The Dragon-Suppressing Coffin and the King of Hell's Fate 镇龙棺,阎王命
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
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With a Fox Immortal, I Subdue a Hundred Ghosts 我以狐仙镇百鬼
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!
800.7kReads9.4Score53.9kShelves
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Eleven Madmen 十一个疯子
My new book, Nine Hells: The Strange Nuo, is now out! It’s a sequel to this one. You can find it on my profile. Come check it out! (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
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The Immortal Cultivation Idea King: The Fairies of the Hehuan Sect Have All Gone Mad 修仙点子王,合欢宗仙子们都疯了
(No System + With spirit stones, anything goes + Lighthearted power fantasy) A whole new experience, a different kind of cultivation. Put the Harmony Sect fairies in white stockings. We’re not betting on their taste, just on their lust. Install streetlights in immortal cities and build the first city in the immortal realm that never sleeps. Roll out the red carpet for the prodigies and big shots. Only the most charming and influential female cultivators qualify. … … Li Moxu, Earth’s Swordbeare
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Ironblooded Late Ming 铁血残明
In the late Ming dynasty, Spain and Japan gradually restricted the outflow of silver, reversing the capital inflow that the Ming had enjoyed since the early sixteenth century. The commercial and smallholder economies that coexisted under the Ming were both hit by deflation. Combined with the effects of the Little Ice Age, one domino after another fell, plunging the realm into chaos. In the eleventh month of the sixth year of the Chongzhen reign, the roving rebels crossed the river south of Mianc
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From the Start, Immortal for Eternity, Laying Low Until the End of Time 开局长生万古,苟到天荒地老
[Published in print] [Not a wish-fulfillment story + tranquil daily life + lighthearted humor + no female lead + no tragedy + survival expert] Enter with caution. A longevity story told from the perspective of an immortal, spanning several great eras of cultivation. It begins in an ordinary mountain village, moves into a small domain, and then enters the vast world of cultivation, passing through the eras of flourishing development, golden prosperity, the collapse of the rules, the great dark up
792.5kReads9.7Score93.8kShelves
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Wait, How Did My AI Girlfriend Cultivate into a Sword Immortal? 不是,我电子女友咋修成剑仙了
[Signed for publication, read with confidence] [One heroine] [Fresh premise] [Virtual girlfriend raising + pay-to-power-up] My name is Chen Huai'an. I have cancer, and I'm about to die. Lately, I've gotten hooked on a game where you raise a virtual girlfriend. I spend money to buy her cultivation techniques and magical treasures. Even though my wallet is empty, I couldn't be happier. I always thought it was just a game, until one day my virtual girlfriend gave me a pill. The next second, the pil
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Blessed Beyond the Heavens 仙福齐天
What is cultivation really for? To strengthen the self and seek the path to immortality? Or to break free of fate’s shackles and grasp life’s true meaning? Perhaps to find a sanctuary for the soul and gain the power to challenge the heavens? No. None of those. At least, not for Li Chuan. He’s here to enjoy the blessings of an immortal…
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Damn! Why Is the Crown Princess Surrounded by Suitors Everywhere? 可恶!怎么到处都是长公主的鱼!
[Short drama of the same name] [The Princess's World of Flowers] Now streaming [Content warning: The female lead is not exclusive, but all the men are, so read with caution] [Schrodinger's playgirl × a whole lot of men] [Lighthearted, not a serious historical drama] [Original title]: Too Many Men Are Such a Hassle. Who Should I Spoil? Wen Yu transmigrates into the Great Sheng Dynasty as its beautiful, useless, brainless eldest princess. After learning that the original owner drowned by accident
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Getting to the Bottom of Mind-Reading 起底观心术
When I was five, a fortune-teller said I’d be able to read people’s minds when I grew up. My parents thought I was a genius and spent the whole family’s savings to send me to school. But I failed the college entrance exam and became a fried-noodle vendor. That vendor later became a “Walking Encyclopedia,” all thanks to the saying, “In books, there are houses of gold.” You are not just who you are. You can become a different kind of dazzling light. Read a comment on the first page, and you’ll get
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The Ice Age Apocalypse: I Hoarded a Hundred Billion in Supplies 冰河末世,我囤积了百亿物资
Doomsday + reborn + massive stockpiling + playing it safe + unlimited space + dark revenge, no saintly protagonist The world enters an ice age. The freezing apocalypse arrives, and 95% of the planet's population perishes! In his previous life, Zhang Yi was killed by people he'd helped because of his kind heart. Reborn one month before the freezing apocalypse, Zhang Yi awakens a spatial ability and begins frantically stockpiling supplies! Short on supplies? He empties the hundred-billion-yuan war
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Apocalypse: Stockpiling a Billion in Supplies from Day One 末世:开局先囤十亿物资
[Apocalypse + Rebirth + Spatial Ability + Stockpiling Supplies + Ruthless, No Saintly Savior + Building a Faction] “Mr. Chen, your one hundred family buckets of fried chicken have arrived.” “Mr. Chen, your one hundred roast ducks have arrived.” “Boss Chen, your ten thousand tons of pork have arrived.” Chen Luo, known as the Void King, relied on his unmatched ability to lie low until every survivor had died. In the whole world, only monsters remained; there were no humans left. With nothing left
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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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You Turned the Scenic Area Into a Legend: Juxian Mountain Scenic Area 景区改造你封神,聚仙山景区
After accidentally transmigrating to a parallel world, the protagonist uses a golden finger to change his fate. He renovates scenic attractions, draws in visitors, and pays off tens of millions in debt. Who says China has no scenic wonders? Doesn't my immortal mountain count?
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After Reincarnation, You're Still a Scumbag 轮回后的你依然是渣男
Even after reincarnation, you’re still a scumbag
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Perhaps the Heavenly Way Is a Book 天道也许是本书
Humans must not meddle with the Heavenly Way. Anyone who studies the arts of yin and yang will invite the Five Bane and Three Deficiencies. But what is the Heavenly Way? Xiao Sanzi, a student forced to learn Daoist arts, is resigned to living only until the age of twenty-three. There is no transmigration, no golden finger, and no System here. What there is are bizarre events and nights when a hundred ghosts roam the streets.
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Come On, I Was Already Invincible Before This Horror Game Even Started! 不会吧,我都无敌了,恐怖游戏才来?
The anime adaptation of the novel I’m Having a Blast in the Paranormal Game is now streaming on Hongguo App. “Three years, then another three years. Ten years have passed. System, I’m already invincible. Where’s that horror game you promised me?” Lin Chen came to this world ten years ago, and the horror game managed to avoid him for nine of them. But it couldn’t avoid him forever. Lin Chen entered the horror game, a game with a 99% death rate, and turned it into a speedrun.
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Illusion Patch 幻境补丁
In 2058, leading neuroscientist Lin Shen presents a world-shaking theory: The body is merely hardware; consciousness is an energy wave that can be extracted, altered, and reconstructed. The ghosts and illusions that fill people with dread are merely echoes of disembodied consciousness clinging to a vessel. What we call objective reality is just a program waiting for a patch. An ancient meteorite coin dating back to the Apocalypse Explosion draws him into a struggle spanning the Three Realms. It
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Her Divine Majesty Doesn't Want to Be Taught or Trained 女神陛下不想被教导培训
[Solo heroine + Western fantasy + angels + ensemble cast + racial revenge + behind-the-scenes scheming + pseudo-DND] Luo Xi dropped dead while pulling an all-nighter to finish a game. When she opened her eyes again, she had fallen into the Western fantasy erotic game that had kept her up so many nights she was losing her hair: Pride and Despair. But this time, Luo Xi was no longer the player controlling a character. She had become the short-lived goddess Luo Xi, who died early in the game’s back
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Shelter 404: Writing Rules in the City 404号收容所:我在都市写规则
[Supernatural Horror + Urban Legends + Godslaying + Ancient Texts + High Martial Arts + Cthulhu] When urban neon conceals the bloody truth, the reality you see is nothing but a set of carefully crafted rules. Lin Wu, an intern at Containment Facility 404, is horrified to discover his name on a death list from 1953! From that moment on, anomalies that defy common sense begin appearing one after another: a Tang-dynasty bronze mirror that eats nightmares, a living filing cabinet that goes berserk,
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