Horror Novels Full of Oppression and Despair 恐怖压抑绝望的灵异小说

1. 1 我 I Smell a Ghost! 我嗅到了鬼味！ My Conscience Is Clear我心有无愧Mystery2.0M WordsOngoing [Infinite Flow]+ [Mild Horror]+ [No Romance]+ [Despairing Tone] One night, Gu Quan walks out of the funeral home carrying two memorial portraits, having just attended a funeral. His father calls to tell him that his mother has been in a car accident and is at death's door. In a panic, Gu Quan heads to the underground garage, hoping to drive over and see his mother one last time. On the way, he unexpectedly catches the scent of his natural enemy! Terrified, he gets into a car without thinking, un 198.1kReads8.6Score14.5kShelves

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   It's even scarier than The Haunted House... Absolutely terrifying! The protagonist is incredibly strong, but the ghosts are just as powerful! You have to watch it with the lights on at night. Author, please update soon!

2. 2 恐 Terrifying Nightmare: Extreme Survival in a Bizarre World 恐怖噩梦：我在诡异世界极限逃生 Young Bear年轻熊Mystery1.2M WordsOngoing [Infinite-flow, mildly scary, no romance] Wang Yan wearily opened his front door. Inside, he saw the woman next door holding and soothing a baby, staring at him in terror. “Sorry, I’ve got the wrong apartment.” He quickly apologized and backed out, then slammed the door shut. Standing in the pitch-black hallway, he found himself unable to decide what was more terrifying: seeing his female neighbor in his home, or seeing the baby who had died long ago… 401.9kReads9.4Score73.5kShelves
3. 3 深 Midnight Nightmare 深夜噩梦 Idiom for the Deaf成语接聋Mystery983k WordsOngoing [Infinite Flow] [Hell Difficulty] [Original Dungeons] [Multiple Twists] Note: The dungeons are extremely difficult, so proceed with caution. The first two are only warm-ups. They say that “Ghost Eyes” can see a person’s “good and evil.” Wang Cheng was born with a pair of Ghost Eyes. But he discovered that this claim didn’t tell the whole story. Because Ghost Eyes can see more than people. They can also see cats, dogs, houses, mountains, and rivers… Or perhaps a strangely lifelike doll, or an old 182.8kReads9.4Score31kShelves
4. 4 灵 Spiritwalking Through Time and Space 灵行时空 Silence Has Lasted Long Enough沉默够钟Mystery864k WordsOngoing The Red Moon's invasion tore through space and time, and supernatural horrors descended across the globe! From the start, the protagonist takes control of a useless C-rank ghost, only to discover that it's a universal puzzle piece. But before he can grow strong, A-rank and S-rank paranormal incidents come one after another: Murderous illusion, evil ghost doppelganger (Split Ghost Persona, A) A gluttonous feast on a bridge in the rain (Hanging Ghost Incident, S) A terrifying haunting, the living 6.4kReads8.0Score1kShelves

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   A mysterious resurgence sets off an even more desperate supernatural world! Without the foundation of the older generation or the inheritance of supernatural power, a single S-class vengeful ghost is enough to destroy a city, and the entire ghost-taming team is sacrificed... How can one possibly survive in this desperate supernatural era?

5. 5 新 New Utopia 新，乌托邦 Broken Strings in the Rain雨中断弦Urban379k WordsOngoing [Political Thriller] [Montage Style] [Psychologically Oppressive] [Dystopian] (The plot moves slowly at first. Please be patient and read to the end.) After the catastrophe, a city-state rose from the ground. People called it New Utopia. Beneath its gleaming order, those in power had long since ceased to be human. Monsters wore human skin and occupied the highest offices. Their eyes were connected, and everything was under surveillance. A colossal beast hung in the sky, while monsters roamed t 2.4kReads—Score204Shelves

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   Can I take a look at this book?

6. 6 姽 The Ghostly Qi 姽炁 Daoist of Jiangnan江南道长Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted Dual transmigration between two worlds + mild horror + not a wish-fulfillment novel, so don't complain if that's not your thing (slow pacing) + a touch of Lovecraftian fantasy The red moon descends, vengeful ghosts return, and the human world becomes a living hell. In the depths of despair, he controls ghosts and is reborn. 9.4kReads7.5Score594Shelves

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   This is genuinely terrifying.

7. 7 千 Whatever You Do, Don’t Touch My Rules for Killing 千万不要，触碰我的杀人规则 Mickey Mouse Flying a Plane开飞机的米老鼠Mystery199k WordsOngoing (Just got its rating, which will rise later. Infinite dungeon, mild horror, rule-based mysteries, supernatural, deduction, no brainless characters, no female lead.) My name is Li Gui, and I'm a vengeful ghost. Ghosts can kill me, and I can kill ghosts. But only if you violate my rules for killing. I blend in among a group of human players. I watch them struggle to survive in the dungeons, barely clinging to life. They don't know that the dungeons they consider to be hell are my paradise. 26.6kReads7.0Score3.9kShelves

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   There are only these three books at the moment.

8. 8 全 Everyone's Survival Quest on a Haunted Highway 全民诡异公路求生 Uncontrollable Cloud失控云Mystery490k WordsOngoing [Growth-Oriented Golden Finger] [Horror Survival] [Farming] [Dungeon Challenges] [Supernatural Vehicles] [Collecting Inanimate Objects] All of humanity transmigrates to a world called the Supernatural Highway. There is only one road in this world, stretching endlessly forward. Everything that appears on it is extremely dangerous, and using any item comes at a price. Draw blood to drive vehicles, sacrifice flesh to command the dead, and burn your soul to fight the supernatural. On this eerie high 67.7kReads8.9Score5.9kShelves
9. 9 骇EN Dread Night: Getting Rich in a Horror Game 骇夜：我在恐怖游戏里暴富 A-One Is Not A-Two阿一不是阿二Mystery706k WordsOngoing (The rating just came out and will rise later. Infinite flow + mild horror + original instances + no female lead) A tower stands in the eternal night, with a group of players trapped inside. They have to keep taking part in bizarre games to earn the food and supplies they need to survive. A killer in red embroidered shoes, a child with no eyes, a haunted mountain where an entire expedition team died... One deadly trap after another, with death around every corner. Players: “We're going to die, w 2.7MReads9.5Score578.2kShelves
10. 10 灵 Supernatural Revival: I Tamed a Cowardly Ghost from the Start 灵异复苏：开局我驾驭了胆小鬼 Yin-Yang Pen Sage阴阳笔神Mystery1.2M WordsOngoing "If you could completely control the first evil spirit you encountered at no cost, then transmigrate to a mysterious world overrun by resurgent evil spirits, would you do it?" yes or no Of course, yes! Sun Lin was lying on his side in bed, scrolling through short videos, when he instinctively tapped yes. He saw choices like this countless times a day, but the next second, a vortex appeared on his phone and pulled him into this bizarre world. Ghosts cannot be killed. Only ghosts can deal with gho 179.7kReads7.0Score20.8kShelves

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    Tired of mindless, supernatural fantasy novels where characters instantly defeat monsters? Fed up with the tired tropes of heroines throwing themselves at the world and saintly saviors? You've stumbled upon a dark, realistic, non-whitewashing, romance-free, all-selfish, ruthless ghost-revival masterpiece! A perfect counterpart to "Mysterious Resurrection," this post-apocalyptic supernatural world is packed with elements of hardcore rules, mind-blowing imagination, and a suffocating atmosphere. Readers experiencing a reading slump should jump right in! Important note: This is not a fast-paced, feel-good novel! If you dislike slow-burn setups, don't enjoy exploring supernatural rules, or just want an invincible start and a relentless crushing victory, skip this! This book focuses on realistic post-apocalyptic survival and strategic maneuvering. The first volume lays the groundwork and builds atmosphere to a fever pitch, while the second volume takes off dramatically, with power levels gradually increasing and becoming increasingly impressive! ✅ A hardcore, top-tier supernatural world | No bugged rules, pure Chinese-style eeriness and despair, completely abandoning the typical fantasy action tropes! Adhering to the core ironclad rule of supernatural literature: vengeful spirits have no independent consciousness, no emotions, and no thoughts; they are merely sophisticated killing machines that strictly adhere to rules. Physical weapons cannot destroy them; only vengeful spirits can restrain each other. Decades of eerie resurgence have led to the collapse of civilization and technological regression, leaving a vast wasteland filled with eerie and dangerous realms, with only a few giant cities retaining a semblance of order. The book's eerie realm settings are intricately layered and meticulously crafted: from isolated C-level realms triggered by a single individual, to B-level bone-melting markets with multiple vengeful spirits and multi-stage killings, to A-level multi-layered independent realms with an extremely high mortality rate, and even the nearly unsolvable S-level high-dimensional supernatural ghost post office—the rating system is clear and rigorous. Most impressively, the multi-layered realms feature independent rules! Large-scale realms, exemplified by Shenmu's Old Courtyard, have vengeful spirits on each level that are independent of each other, and their rules do not interfere with each other. Entering a three-layered, U-shaped closed-loop space means certain death; there is no universal solution, only the ability to cautiously probe for loopholes in the rules, creating a suffocating and oppressive atmosphere throughout. Even more mind-blowing supernatural settings: the rating of the Ghost Realm can be upgraded, the existence of vengeful ghosts is a deceptive illusion, rules can be mutually restrained and integrated, and even a permanent state of dormancy can occur where both sides are severely damaged. Every supernatural event is a completely new and imaginative concept, with no repetitive tropes, and every survival is a desperate gamble. ✅ Dual main storylines running in parallel | Power struggles in the megacity + the curse of the Ghost Post Office, the plot is never padded. The two core main storylines are interwoven and progressively develop, with foreshadowing planted throughout the text and resolved later, creating a perfectly logical closed loop! [Giant City Survival Storyline]: Penglai, Fangzhang, and Changbai are three independent megacity cities in a state of division and opposition, completely cut off from each other. The megacity's strict access system, point-based promotion rules, newcomer evaluation mechanism, and the power balance between the Guard and the Supernatural Investigation Bureau construct a complete wasteland social system. The brutal coexistence of ordinary people and ghost tamers, the supernatural transactions of the underground black market, the clandestine hunts by wasteland raiding gangs, the class-based crushing of titled captains and top ghost tamers—there is no absolute justice, only the law of the jungle. Within the giant city lies intrigue and scheming; outside lies an endless land of danger, every step fraught with peril. [The Ghost Post Office's Fate Line]: The book's biggest suspense highlight! A mysterious supernatural organization independent of all official forces, it never actively recruits, only forcibly binding messengers. Those chosen receive mandatory delivery missions periodically; completion grants extended lifespan, suppression of curses, and supernatural abilities, while failure inflicts a backlash more terrifying than death. The protagonist unexpectedly unlocks a second-layered messenger identity, superimposed with double curse marks: a blood-red mark burned into the back of his neck, his ghostly heart in turmoil, his gong cracking, and his burial shroud devouring him. The Ghost Post Office is no ordinary instance; it connects vast distances and multiple supernatural spaces, harboring mysterious and powerful figures such as woodcutters, mirror wielders, and multi-layered ghosts. Every delivery is a life-or-death adventure. ✅ A cautious, courageous, and self-interested protagonist | No recklessness, no self-destructive behavior, no saintly piety. From an insignificant nobody to a top-tier anomaly, there is no female lead, no ambiguity, and no romance overthinking! The protagonist, Ding Geng, is the most endearing, extremely rational, and self-interested character in supernatural novels. He remains clear-headed and restrained throughout, without mindless enthusiasm or overly compassionate pity. In the early stages, he embodies a pure cautious and courageous survivalist style: he first lies low, tests the waters, conceals his strength, and gathers intelligence, deeply understanding the survival rules of the wasteland. He never initiates trouble and never makes unnecessary sacrifices. When facing unknown vengeful spirits or unfamiliar ghost tamers, he always anticipates risks and has backup plans, even using others to test supernatural rules, all to protect himself. After being utterly crushed in the second level of the Ghost Post Office battle, he undergoes a complete transformation, with an extremely smooth and realistic growth trajectory: from a single-ghost tamer, he breaks through a desperate situation to unlock the balance of two ghosts sharing the same origin, controlling the gong ghost and the ghost heart, opening the two-layered ghost domain of the Second Watch, which can forcibly reveal hidden supernatural spaces and weaken the supernatural power of enemies on the fourth layer. Later, he gradually touches the realm of the otherworldly, his humanity slowly fades, his emotions become indifferent, and step by step he sheds his mortal body, becoming a non-human existence that surpasses ordinary ghost tamers. There is no protagonist halo throughout! Every increase in strength is a life-for-life exchange, every use of supernatural abilities is a drain on his life force, exacerbating the backlash from the vengeful ghosts. The gong's cracks are irreversible, the shroud continues to corrode his body, and curses pile up layer by layer, perfectly illustrating that supernatural power is never a gift, but a high-interest loan paid for with one's life. ✅ All villains, no saints | Everyone is a player, everyone is a pawn. The entire book has zero positive saints, zero moralizing, and zero forced whitewashing! All the supporting characters, teammates, and opponents are uniformly portrayed as selfish and ruthless bandits. There are no permanent allies, only permanent interests. Chen Dafu, with black lines growing from his fingertips and his flesh reduced to paper, is crippled yet still resorts to any means to survive. He secretly forms alliances to counterbalance the protagonist and even covets other people's bodies to prolong his life. Zhao Zhicheng, possessed by a bone demon, has his entire body ossified and can be disassembled to forge blades and shields. He is patient and unassuming, but in desperate situations, he unleashes overwhelming supernatural combat power. After his death, his vengeful spirit revives and slaughters all around. Lin Xiaoyuan, the biggest hidden dark horse in the entire book, appears low-key and weak, but in reality, she controls a high-level human skin demon and unlocks the Blood Cloth Demon Domain. She single-handedly clears out the entire backyard of vengeful spirits, and her combat power far surpasses that of many veteran demon tamers. Wang Zu'an, covered in putrefactive fluid and with a cold and sinister nature, is good at hiding his tricks and plundering relics. Even with his consciousness being corrupted, he still grits his teeth and fights, refusing to accept his fate. Many top-tier powerhouses make their grand entrance: Wei Yu, the captain of the Fangzhang Giant City with three ghosts sharing the same origin; Ci Huai, the deputy captain of the guard team who controls the Death Porcelain Ghost; Chen Yuan, the S-class ghost driver of the five-layered ghost domain; Lu Gui, the powerful dual ghost from the north; Su Jingling, the high-level messenger; the existence who intercepted the previous ghost bus driver halfway; Zhang Ya, the master of the River Yin Haunted House; Feng Yu, a first-class ghost tamer who rose to prominence at the end of the supernatural era… Everyone's struggle is for survival, resources, life extension, and breaking curses. Temporary alliances turn into betrayals in an instant, teammates can be abandoned at any time, and the weak can be sacrificed at will, perfectly recreating the ultimate law of the wasteland: in the wasteland, trust is the most expensive luxury, while betrayal is almost the lowest-cost choice. ✅ A massive amount of original supernatural items + ever-changing fierce ghosts | Mind-blowing, no repetition throughout, say goodbye to the monotonous ghost tropes! The book includes dozens of original supernatural props and hundreds of eerie fierce ghosts, each with different rules and weaknesses, making every battle a brand new experience. The variety of supernatural items is astounding: replicas of ghostly scissors that can cut away curses, a tattered schoolbag that can hold dormant vengeful spirits, eerie embroidered shoes that can control people's minds, black letters that hide secrets of the future, obituary booklets that bear endless curses... Each item has its own negative consequences; there are no invincible artifacts. The vengeful spirit settings are mind-blowing: boneless corpses, heart-ripping ghosts, shadow-devouring ghosts, straw-man mummified ghosts, female ghosts in wells, ghosts in shadows on beams, ghostly book boys... Some vengeful spirits can merge with rules, feign death and lie dormant, track across spaces, and even suppress their own controllers. The supernatural game unfolds with layers of twists and turns, making the ending unpredictable and the plot unfathomable. ✅ A captivating atmosphere | Pure suspense and supernatural, rejecting mindless battles. The entire text abandons the exaggerated clashes and aerial combat tropes of fantasy, focusing instead on supernatural phenomena, psychological pressure, and the torment of backlash. Bronze rust patterns crawl across forearms, ghostly hearts tremble in disarray, blood-red lines are embedded in bronze gongs, tattered human skin covers the sky and earth, black mist and ghostly eyes lurk in the shadows… countless details pile up to create an extremely eerie and sinister post-apocalyptic atmosphere. Every exertion of power by the ghost wielder results in physical mutation, memory erosion, and loss of humanity. There is no graceful crushing, only the exhaustion and ferocity of struggling for survival in dire straits. Finally, a word of caution to those who prefer fast-paced, wish-fulfillment stories: this book has no invincible beginnings, no easy cheats, no sycophantic characters, and no quick-fix plot twists. The first volume is a slow burn, laying the groundwork for the world and characters, while the second volume delivers a powerful surge in combat, plot, and suspense. It's perfect for hardcore supernatural fiction, rule-based warfare, dark realism, villains everywhere, and those who appreciate subtle foreshadowing! In this godless wasteland, vengeful ghosts roam the earth, all beings suffer, and survival is the only goal! If you enjoy realistic and suffocating supernatural survival stories, don't miss this treasure of a masterpiece!

11. 11 开 From the Start, I Command the Night Watch Ghost 开局驾驭打更鬼 Ansheng Fairy Tales安生童话Mystery544k WordsOngoing The protagonist is cautious and doesn't act recklessly. This story focuses on evil ghosts. The blurb isn't doing it justice; there's a detailed introduction in the book-search forum. He uses other people to test the ghosts' abilities, so don't read if that's not for you. An Eerie Revival setting with a Wasteland world, an original Tomato novel, not fanfiction. [Eerie Revival] [Wasteland] [Everyone Is a Villain] Over a hundred ghosts, all emotionless, unpredictable killing machines! Bone-Melting 1.9kReads—Score164Shelves
12. 12 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, 2.1kReads8.9Score176Shelves

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    😱😱This is really scary, don't try it if you're easily frightened!

13. 13 扒 The Skinning Ghost 扒皮鬼 Little Old Steed小老骥Mystery748k WordsOngoing (Traditional supernatural horror + extreme horror + multiple twists + mystery + entirely handcrafted) Lately, I've been having nightmares every night. A fortune-teller said I might have a ghost clinging to me. He told me about a forbidden folk ritual: Put on a pair of worn underwear over your head, and it will block a ghost's sight. That night, I got home and followed his advice, half believing it. My girlfriend came back to the room after washing up and stared blankly at where I was. "Where... 63.8kReads8.3Score7.1kShelves

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    Someone who understands me, a ten-year veteran bookworm, sincerely recommends this.

14. 14 无 Infinite Horror: When Ghosts Attack, I Just Go Home 无限恐怖：被鬼袭击，我直接回家 One Finger to Annihilate Heaven and Earth一指灭天地Mystery943k WordsOngoing [Infinite-world adventure + thrilling horror + original instances + no heroine + wives and husbands + ghosts in the instances + Kind Solitary Great Celestial Venerable] [When ghosts attack me, I just go home.] One night, Chen Yu, who’s working the night shift, is swept into a supernatural elevator game. When he steps out of the elevator, he arrives in an infinitely terrifying nightmare. This place is called Hell. To escape, he must survive one blood-written mission after another. Luckily, Chen Y 3kReads5.9Score264Shelves
15. 15 让 You Were Told to Drive a Hearse, So Why Are You Hauling Zombies to the Funeral Home? 让你开灵车，你往殡仪馆拉僵尸？ Star Qilin XQ星麒XQMystery1.1M WordsCompleted [Traditional supernatural horror + funeral home + hearse + terrifying folk customs + mystery + suspense] A midnight call to collect a corpse nearly cost me my life. My brother turned into a living dead, and I found myself caught in a trap that had been set long ago... A corpse at the bottom of a reservoir that can never be dredged up, a body hanging from the rafters and grinning at you, a dead body wandering the roads in the middle of the night. They may sound unbelievable, but they’re all real 200Reads—Score—Shelves
16. 16 阴 The Underworld Detective 阴间神探 Old Nine of the Daoist Sect道门老九Mystery1.9M WordsCompleted My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 74kReads9.4Score8.9kShelves
17. 17 怪 Strange Tales Livestream! 怪谈直播间！ Stone Giant Monster石头巨怪Mystery1.3M WordsCompleted 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. 173kReads9.7Score17.7kShelves
18. 18 惊 The Horror Realm: Entering the Strange World from a Psychiatric Hospital 惊悚领域：从精神病院进入诡世界 Tender Little Puppy香嫩的小狗Mystery1.5M WordsOngoing (The hardcover edition has been published!) [Infinite Flow] [Original Horror Instances] [Mild Horror] “Chen Ji murdered his mother a week ago and spent three days with her corpse before he was arrested.” “You have been diagnosed with schizophrenia and are about to be transferred to a psychiatric hospital for supervision.” “Do you have anything to say?” The black-haired boy before them slowly raised his head, his expression calm. “I’ll say it again.” “The thing I killed wasn’t my mother...” “It w 281.1kReads9.5Score47.6kShelves
19. 19 规 Rule-Based Survival: I Can Foresee Death 规则求生：我能预知死亡 Love Drinking Lattes爱喝拿铁Mystery1.1M WordsOngoing [Infinite Flow, mild horror, terrifying dungeons, no romance, survival, not a saintly protagonist] One night, Chen Feng was walking through an abandoned park after finishing his shift at the crematorium when something strange happened. There was clearly no one behind him, yet he heard faint footsteps. At first, he thought he was imagining things, but when he listened closely, the footsteps were still there, gradually drawing nearer. They sounded as though they were deliberately mimicking his own 21.9kReads7.6Score2.1kShelves
20. 20 惊 Horror Script: It Begins in the Baby-Crying Dormitory 惊悚剧本：从婴啼寝室开始 Novel Cake in the Works小说糕制作中Mystery1.1M WordsOngoing (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
21. 21 诡 The Haunted City of Dreams 诡梦迷城 July Wife七月妻Mystery1.5M WordsCompleted [Manhua adaptation and high-quality live-action audio drama now available] [Infinite progression + mystery + mind-bending puzzles + supernatural powers + paranormal horror. No System, no harem, no brainless plot. Read with caution if these are deal-breakers.] When I woke up, everything around me had become eerie and terrifying. My dead roommate called me, repeating over and over the struggle of his final moments... A pair of slender, snow-white legs appeared mysteriously on a bed in the boys' do 41kReads8.7Score4.4kShelves
22. 22 全 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 Editable Polygon可编辑多边形Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted 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 11.1kReads8.0Score903Shelves
23. 23 一 One Man, One Dog, One Zombie 一人一狗一丧尸 Uncle Nan Yao南妖叔Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.1M WordsCompleted [No superpowers + no System + plot-focused + no harem] Huang Jin, a young man who secretly worked in a specialized line of business, received a call from his boss at the beginning of the zombie outbreak. His boss ordered him to stay put in C City and wait for the organization to rescue him. But time passed, and after waiting for two whole years, Huang Jin still saw no sign of anyone from the organization. He decided to head to Z City, where his boss was, on his own. Along the way, he came across 36.1kReads9.4Score3.3kShelves
24. 24 诡 Eerie Revival: I Can Contact the Past 诡异复苏：我能联系过去 Young Master Yanque燕雀大公子Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted 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 43.8kReads9.1Score4.9kShelves
25. 25 丧 Zombie Apocalypse: My Road to Survival 丧尸末日：我的求生路 Riding My Little Donkey骑上我的小野驴Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.6M WordsCompleted (Ordinary people + survival-focused + students + classic zombie story + no System + no special abilities + no pocket dimension + no harem) (A story all about realistic survival) A freshman is knocked over on the basketball court and hits his head, passing out. When he wakes up in the hospital, it seems he is the only living person left in the world. Even more terrifying, everyone else is a zombie! Surrounded by hordes of zombies, he fights desperately to survive and decides to find other survivo 15.7kReads8.8Score1.4kShelves
26. 26 恐 Horror Returns: I Feed Myself to Ghosts Just to Survive 恐怖复苏，我以身饲鬼只为活下去 Keyboard Ghost键盘鬼Mystery1.6M WordsCompleted The Starving Ghost breaks free, and three S-rank paranormal incidents erupt at once. The Ghost Riders' headquarters falls! While fleeing, Xia Feng is attacked by a ghost and mysteriously winds up in another parallel world. But this world still has ghosts! Ghosts cannot be killed. The only way to fight a ghost is with another ghost. The appearance of ghosts completely overturns materialism. As countless paranormal incidents unfold, regions across the globe begin to fall. Humanity is plunged into 6.3kReads8.4Score499Shelves
27. 27 恐 Horror Resurges: I Have a Ghost Bus 恐怖复苏，我有一辆鬼大巴 This Wang Is Tired本汪困了Mystery1.3M WordsCompleted “My name is Jiang Yan. If you don’t want to die, get in my car.” On the way back to his village for a holiday, Jiang Yan successfully took control of a ghost bus and became a ghost-handler. What secrets lie hidden in the eerie village? What terror is sealed inside the pitch-black coffin? In a torrential downpour, ghosts roam the amusement park. Is this the beginning of everything, or the end? As a blood mist invades and the entire city is sealed off, despair closes in. Face death and fight t 6.8kReads7.5Score508Shelves
28. 28 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 916Reads8.8Score108Shelves

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    😱This is really scary, don't try it if you're easily frightened!

29. 29 恐 Horror's Edge: 100 Absolutely Terrifying Ghost Stories 恐怖边界：100个绝对惊悚的鬼谈 The Out-of-Control Editorial Department失控编辑部Mystery432k WordsCompleted [Standalone Stories + Supernatural Horror + Folk Customs + Feng Shui and Mysticism + Mild Frights + Shocking Twists] Horror tales beyond anything you could imagine. Each story is like a dark door swinging open, drawing you into moments that will make your skin crawl. Listen. A faint whisper, an indescribable shadow creeping closer. Danger by the river, terror in the cemetery, ghost babies in the maternity ward, evil headhunting magic, apparitions at the hot springs, a bloodstained umbrella... On 2.5kReads8.9Score192Shelves
30. 30 死 Death and Infinite Resets: Uncovering the Rules of Every Vengeful Ghost 死亡无限回档：洞察所有厉鬼规律 Spring Rain South of the Creek溪南春雨Mystery124k WordsOngoing [Death Rewind] [Kill the do-gooders first] [Vicious ghosts return] [Dark story] As the paranormal world awakens and vicious ghosts reappear, all you need to do is call Su Yun's name. I'll lead you back through time to find the perfect timeline. Su Yun had just transmigrated into a world where the paranormal was returning when four vicious ghosts began interrogating him. First interrogation: "What do you mean, you killed me because you didn't know how I died?" He rewound to before his death and s 977Reads—Score104Shelves

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    A terrifying and despairing world, a world filled with the supernatural, where only ghosts can fight ghosts and discover the patterns of vengeful spirits.

31. 31 我 After My Face Was Stolen, I Drew the Six Realms of Living Beings 我的脸被夺走后我画出六道众生相 Watching Snow on a Sunny Day晴天看雪Mystery180k WordsOngoing My face was stolen. It wasn’t disfigured. It wasn’t disguised. My face was literally gone. To stay alive, I had no choice but to paint one new face after another onto my own. Human, ghost, demon, beast, god, immortal. Every face I painted gave me a new ability. As I tried to reclaim my original face, I gradually discovered that this world was far more complicated than it seemed. 90Reads—Score126Shelves

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    I'd like to recommend a story I wrote where the protagonist doesn't have any cheat codes and relies solely on their own wisdom to overcome challenges.

32. 32 与 Followed by Ghosts 与鬼随行 Green Wine and Red Lips绿酒朱唇Mystery434k WordsOngoing Immersive, terrifying, and packed with suspenseful mystery and deduction. I have a strange world, and I want to take you there! After the college entrance exams, I took a fatal blow meant for my friend and lost my sight. By chance, I ended up at a bizarre vocational college. My classmates are dying one after another under strange circumstances, and there seems to be a much bigger secret behind it all. This world seems so strange... so strange... I have to solve the mind-bending challenges one by 2.4kReads—Score230Shelves

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    I highly recommend a mind-bending horror thriller novel called "Walking with Ghosts"! The protagonist arrives at a haunted school where classmates begin to die mysteriously one after another. The story is full of terrifying suspense and mystery, definitely worth reading! 😘😘😘

33. 33 东 Tales of Strange Creatures in a Northeastern Mountain Village 东北山村野怪谈 Hong Jiu洪氿Mystery142k WordsCompleted Deep in the mountains of the Northeast, evil lurks in the old forests, and strange things abound in deserted villages. The elders say, “Every mountain has a mountain god, every forest a forest spirit. You can’t fight them, and you can’t escape them.” One eerie Northeast folk tale after another, one terrifying night in the mountain villages after another. It all begins with a heavy snowfall. 2.9kReads—Score118Shelves

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    Hey bro, look at this.

34. 34 白 You Won’t Find This During the Day: One Ghost Story Every Day 白天刷不到：每天一个诡故事 Hong Jiu洪氿Mystery590k WordsCompleted I’m a horror writer who publishes online. I have no fame and no income, so I can only grab people’s attention by writing the most sinister, unsettling, and realistic stories. To make them feel “real,” I’m used to grounding my characters in details from the real world: real streets, real neighborhoods, real outfits, and real little gestures. I always thought a novel was just a novel. That is, until the serial killer I wrote stepped out of my story and found me in the real world. 715Reads—Score—Shelves
35. 35 恐 Horrifying Hauntings: Ghost Stories 恐怖灵异诡：鬼故事 Hong Jiu洪氿Mystery426k WordsCompleted Do you really think stories are just stories? In fact, behind every story lies a real event! In this book, I wrote a story about the last bus on Route 24. To experience what it would really feel like, I set myself a goal: for seven days straight, I'd ride the last Route 24 bus from its starting point to its final stop, then ride it all the way back. And that's where the story begins...! 291Reads—Score—Shelves
36. 36 序EN Sequence Highway: Don't Fall Behind! 序列公路：不要掉队！ Roaring Mountains and Seas山海呼啸Mystery3.8M WordsOngoing [Fresh Premise + Not Mindless Wish Fulfillment + Not Invincible + Sequence Potions + The Supernatural + Road Survival + Upgrading Supplies + Ruthless Protagonist] The supernatural descended, turning cities into forbidden zones for humanity. People had to rely on Sequence Awakened to keep migrating. Settled life gave way to a nomadic existence. During one such migration, Chen Ye awakened an upgrade System. In his hands, a rusty bicycle transformed into an armored battle vehicle. A tattered tent e 611.5kReads8.5Score40.6kShelves
37. 37 我 I Drive a Taxi, but I Don’t Pick Up Passengers, Only Female Ghosts and Models 我开出租不拉客，只拉女鬼和模特 I Want to Run Wild我要浪Mystery1.3M WordsCompleted Pan Mudan kept her lips pressed tightly together, not daring to make a sound in case her husband heard... I used to be a company driver at a steel mill. Then the company laid people off. I spent eight thousand yuan on an almost-decommissioned commercial vehicle and started driving a taxi. My friends all said I'd struck gold! Even without the air conditioning on in summer, the car was chilly inside! 5.9kReads8.9Score550Shelves

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    Extremely oppressive and terrifying 😱

38. 38 我 My Years of Ghost Hunting Among the People 我在民间捉鬼的那些年 Releasing a Hydrogen Balloon放氢气球Mystery275k WordsCompleted Chinese-Style Horror, No Female Lead My name is Xu Jian. I’m 26, and I studied Taoist arts under a Maoshan priest for several years. Over the years, I’ve seen all kinds of things. After doing this long enough, I realized that ghosts aren’t scary. What’s truly frightening are the things people can’t get past in their hearts. All I do is help them say what needs to be said and settle their debts once and for all. People call me a Celestial Master of the Taoist sect, but I’m really just an ordin 4.3kReads—Score296Shelves
39. 39 我 I Learn to Slay Ghosts on a Paranormal Forum 我在怪谈论坛学斩鬼 Young and Unaccomplished, Yet Never Insecure年少无为不自卑Mystery735k WordsCompleted [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 51.4kReads8.7Score6.6kShelves
40. 40 当 When the Uncanny Descends on the World, Death Is the End 当诡异降临世界，死亡即是终点 Qingyuan Vocational High School Prodigy庆元职高小天才Mystery2.5M WordsOngoing [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 384.5kReads9.3Score42.2kShelves

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    This is an absolute masterpiece.

41. 41 荒 Tales of a Haunted Village 荒村怪谈录 The Out-of-Control Editorial Department失控编辑部Mystery304k WordsCompleted [Rural Mysteries + Folk Customs + Chinese-Style Horror + Feng Shui and the Supernatural + Anthology + Shocking Twists] There is an old well in Jiulitun that has been sealed for thirty years, and one eerie incident after another keeps occurring. Why has a little girl become unbelievably strong and deranged? Why do villagers keep drowning, and why is the village taboo so difficult to speak of? It all goes back thirty years... 243Reads8.7Score—Shelves

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    After watching it, I had nightmares for a week straight, with a dog chasing me.

42. 42 鬼 Ghostly Eyes 鬼灵瞳 Little Master小师傅Mystery931k WordsCompleted 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
43. 43 慈EN Cihang City 慈航市 Mountain-Patrolling Lord God巡山主神Mystery1.3M WordsOngoing At Cihang's grand arena, don't show up without a cheat. Chen Feng transmigrated to another world and discovered that the bosses here were unbelievably sneaky. “Let's go level up in the newbie village first.” “Ha! Got you, transmigrator.” “I'll be reborn and buy a lottery ticket.” “Ha! Got you, regressor.” “Fine, if you're going to play dirty, I don't need to pretend to be a gentleman either.” Chen Feng discovered that every time he died, he could refresh and get a new System. A System's power ha 1.1MReads9.2Score128.6kShelves
44. 44 主 Streamer, You Call This Ghost Hunting? 主播，你管这叫探灵？ Dalang Loves Taking Medicine大郎爱喝药Mystery1.0M WordsOngoing The eerie footsteps in a public toilet in the mountains. The midnight wails from the Red Chamber Clinic. The paranormal-investigation students who mysteriously disappear. The centenarian who borrows years to prolong his life. The ghost that returns on the seventh day after a bus plunges into the river. The terrifying rumors surrounding the Qingshan hospital ward. Behind these bizarre tales, is it vengeful spirits claiming lives, or a human conspiracy? An accident three years ago has become a nig 213Reads7.1Score—Shelves

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    It's good, I'm watching.

45. 45 一 Painting Yin and Yang with a Single Stroke 一笔绘阴阳 The Waves Are a Whale's Tears海浪是鲸鱼的眼泪Mystery661k WordsOngoing As I gazed down the shadowy corridor and across the empty hall, the strange order of light and darkness stirred a fear of the unknown deep inside me. The elders always said, “The ancestral hall is home to spirits that have yet to depart.” “Don’t step on the threshold, don’t touch the ancestral tablets, and don’t whistle in the ancestral hall.” “The names on the tablets weren’t carved there. They moved in.” When the wind blew past the row of wooden windows, the latticework let out a mournful wail 196Reads—Score101Shelves
46. 46 序EN Sequence Highway: Starting as a Fake Artificer 序列公路：从假装炼器师序列开始 Dugu Cang Hu独孤沧虎Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.8M WordsOngoing #Mysterious Apocalypse #Road Migration #Sequence Powers #Ruthless and Decisive #Survival Story #Team Adventure #Wild Imagination A tide of apocalyptic horrors sweeps the world. The migrating convoy is the only hope for survival. Wang Ying is the blade, Cao Xianming is the brains, Zheng Xiaofeng is the shield, and Yang Yong... pretends to wield sequence powers. He’s called crafty and accused of being a coward, but when the convoy is wiped out, he swallows a fragment of the source of the uncanny 18.7kReads6.0Score1.4kShelves

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    Ten thousand zombies besieged the city, and eight elders, reduced to data particles, entrusted their lives to an outsider. Yang Yong sat cross-legged in the tower, his boundless extraordinary power surging forth: "Since you've given me your lives, then let's fight!"

47. 47 从 It Begins with a Figure in the Mirror 从镜中人影开始 Mask's Little TavernMask的小酒馆Mystery362k WordsOngoing [Eerie phenomena descend + no System + escape by following the rules + fighting evil with evil + semi-infinite flow + brotherly bonds] As the Heavenly Dao declines, eerie forces revive. Bai Ren and Bai Jian pray to the gods, but the only ones who answer are their future selves… The terrifying Hell Apartment issues deadly missions, the government’s Anomaly Control Bureau struggles to hold the line, and mysterious forces stir up a storm. The struggle between salvation and destruction has never 54Reads—Score103Shelves

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    This book is truly amazing.

48. 48 恐 Horror Road Survival: From the Start, I Got Wild Dog Milk 恐怖公路求生：开局获得野生狗奶 Benwu Xuantong本物玄同Mystery345k WordsOngoing [Supernatural Resurgence] [Only a Ghost Can Kill a Ghost] [Horror Road Survival] [Talent Lottery] [Power at a Price] [Mild Horror] Everyone was dumped onto a terrifying road. There were no cities or mountains, only a road stretching endlessly into the distance. Supernatural horrors ran rampant, and humanity became a flock of lambs waiting to be slaughtered. To gain power, drive a vehicle, or activate a supernatural object, everyone had to pay a price. Lifespan was the universal hard currency h 1.1kReads—Score115Shelves

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    True survival isn't about mindless wish-fulfillment stories.

49. 49 旧 The Old Ones? What a Joke, I Can't Handle Them at All 旧日？笑死根本应对不了 Moyu Yaoqingfeng墨雨遥清风Urban100k WordsOngoing [Infinite Flow, Urban Legends, Cthulhu-Style Roleplaying, Sequences] With terminal cancer, Su Ning still manages to find a bargain at a street stall. After performing a mysterious ritual, blue characters flicker before his eyes: [Welcome to the Domain of the Abnormal] Clear dungeons to raise your [Sequence] rank. From [Pickpocket] to [Master Thief], from mortal to god. But Su Ning... “Controlling the bizarre” means making it part of his harem. “Mastering technology” means using someone else’s S 2Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Starting with a dungeon, the story becomes intertwined with the supernatural, but it's definitely not a supernatural harem story or anything like that.

50. 50 羽 The Feathered People: Strange Tales of Ailao Mountain 羽人：哀牢诡事 Wolf's-Tail Fern狼尾蕨Mystery117k WordsCompleted Otherworldly powers × two male leads × ensemble cast × mystery and adventure. Strange incidents plague the Ailao Mountains. Wings appear on my back, an ancient secret erupts from Fuxian Lake, and a female streamer dies a bizarre death. The Wu Clan's vengeful spirits refuse to rest, the Feather Clan hunts them down to the last, and a divine tree connecting to the underworld emerges. From the very beginning, I had stepped into a dead end. 286Reads8.2Score—Shelves

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    A mix of horror and stress! Not suitable for those who can't handle stress! The entire plot is high-energy and suspenseful!

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