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1. 1 恐 Horror Taboo: Returning the Soul Beneath the Coffin 恐怖禁忌，压棺回魂 Half a Jug of Clear Water半壶清水Mystery1.1M WordsOngoing The dead open their eyes, ghosts come to claim souls, the living borrow lifespans, and the dead press down on their coffins... One bizarre, uncanny experience after another keeps resurfacing in my mind like a nightmare. The strange tales in this book are mainly based on Yang Jian’s firsthand experiences... A warning: the actions in this book are for entertainment only. Do not imitate them! There are three kinds of people who read this book: thrill-seekers who aren’t easily scared... those who pu 1kReads6.2Score104Shelves

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   I recently became obsessed with this folk supernatural horror story novel. After reading it, it was really powerful. I was so scared that I didn't dare to turn off the light and sleep at night. It was so scary [fear]

2. 2 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… 83.5kReads9.3Score15.3kShelves

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   This is one of the scariest books I have heard. My heart beat faster when I listened to it in the middle of the night. I didn't even dare to go to the toilet. I grew up watching ghost movies and this person scared me. Maybe it's because it's about rural towns and cities, which made me feel so immersed in it. Moreover, his story is particularly exciting. It's not a mindless horror, it's a horror with layers and content. It's recommended to watch! Friends can try it!

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 56.2kReads9.2Score7.7kShelves
4. 4 山 The Yin-Yang Master of the Mountain Village 山村阴阳先生 The Out-of-Control Editorial Department失控编辑部Mystery589k WordsCompleted My brother came back from the dead, and I learned funeral rites to uncover the truth My name is Chen Xiaojun, and I live in a place in Northeast China called Kaoshan Village. One year, my older brother died under mysterious circumstances. His death was gruesome. Though he was only in his twenties, his corpse was as thin as a skeleton, with hair turned white! Even more bizarre, my brother came back to life in the funeral hall! To find out what had happened, I learned a few tricks from an old mast 14.4kReads9.2Score1kShelves

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   Recommend these two books! The language is simple and down-to-earth, not exaggerated, but the plot is quite interesting.

5. 5 借 [Borrowing Evil Bones, I Become a Ghost Immortal and Break the Yin-Yang Divide] 【借邪骨，我以鬼仙破阴阳】 I Want to Win a Bottle of Moutai我要中茅台Mystery1.6M WordsCompleted [Supernatural + Revenge + Magical Duels + Folk Horror + Feng Shui + One Heroine] I was born stillborn, but my grandfather brought me back to life with a fiend god's sinister bone! Yet my resurrection turned me into a freak who constantly attracted calamity, bringing about the deaths of my entire family. Only after I became a corpse collector did my fate take a dramatic turn! With a fiend god on my back, I will roam freely between the worlds of yin and yang, fearing no taboo. I bear the corpse co 11.2kReads7.6Score1.7kShelves
6. 6 第 The First Female Taoist Priest 第一女道士 Waveband波段Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted My name is Lai Xiaoman. One foot in the world of the living, the other in the underworld: I make my living dealing with yin and yang! I thought inheriting my grandfather’s legacy would make me a renowned female feng shui master, but when I was eight, someone took over my body and stole my soul. A powerful expert extended my life by fifteen years and calculated that my destiny had been violently altered when I was only one. My once-fortunate Vermilion Bird destiny had been reduced to an empty she 7.3kReads8.3Score726Shelves
7. 7 尸 Born of a Corpse, Carried in a Ghost's Coffin 尸生子，鬼抬棺 Jie Yu界玉Mystery3.3M WordsCompleted 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! 241.7kReads9.6Score30.4kShelves
8. 8 缝 Sewing Yin Corpses, Suppressing Ghostly Calamities 缝阴尸，镇鬼祸 Fake Cigarettes假烟Mystery4.3M WordsCompleted [Six Lines and Eight Trigrams, Soul Banners and Sacrificial Rites] Humans have three souls and seven spirits; ghosts have obsessions from the Nine Hells and the karmic flames of the Five Aggregates. But ever since I was born, I have been missing my [Earth Soul]. I’ve dealt with corpses since I was little. Other children played with colorful building blocks, fluffy stuffed animals, and little tin cars that could run. My toys were one battered corpse after another. Qimen Dunjia, puppetry that mani 1.1kReads6.7Score117Shelves
9. 9 悬 The Life-Hanging Coffin 悬命棺 Bai Qiyi白七易Mystery273k WordsOngoing [Traditional Supernatural] [No Female Lead] [Horror] [Mysticism] [A Somewhat Comedic Style: If You Mind, Don't Read] On deserted streets, all kinds of strange things are always happening. And these things always happen to Feng Tashui, the unluckiest man alive. His life hangs over a coffin, and his breath is held by a coffin rope. This is a bizarre coffin shop. Seven days after he started working there, the owner was brutally killed in the street, but Feng Tashui didn't dare quit. Every morning, 1Reads—Score—Shelves
10. 10 巡 The Yin-Walker 巡阴人 Feiyi匪夷Mystery1.7M WordsCompleted 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 9.5kReads9.1Score1.1kShelves
11. 11 盗 The Tomb Raider’s Road to a Jianghu Comeback 盗墓狂徒我的江湖逆袭路 Second Uncle of Yaoshan瑶山二叔Mystery221k WordsCompleted My name is Qian Dasheng, but people call me “Dogsheng.” I was born in the gullies of Guangxi and grew up on the streets of Harbin. My parents died young. Grandma fed me taro long enough to keep half of me alive, and I trained the other half crawling through underground tunnels with my Third Uncle. I’ve just gotten out of prison, with pockets emptier than my face, and after filling up on the northwest wind, I still have to dig graves for people in exchange for steamed buns. They say tomb raiding 113Reads—Score—Shelves

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    I would like to recommend two suspenseful and supernatural tomb robbing novels to everyone! "My Counterattack in Tomb Robbers", the protagonist starts a counterattack in the world of tomb robbers. The plot is very tense and it is a potential good book. There is also "The Years When I Was Fighting in Guangxi", which tells about the experience of fighting in Guangxi. The story is quite attractive. Friends who are short of books can read it~

12. 12 老 Those Years I Spent Tomb Raiding in Guangxi 老子在广西倒斗那几年 Second Uncle of Yaoshan瑶山二叔Mystery221k WordsCompleted Wu Laole, a poor lad from Wuzhou, is forced to take up tomb raiding with the antique dealer Jinya Bing in order to save his seriously ill mother. He never expects his first trip into a tomb to lead him into an evil tomb filled with corpse-controlling magic, brought from western Hunan. He nearly ends up joining his ancestors after a cat startles a corpse into attacking. Then he unexpectedly awakens the ability to “taste and identify”: by licking an object, he can learn where it came from, but eve 86Reads—Score—Shelves
13. 13 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 939Reads8.8Score108Shelves

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    My palms were sweating and my heart was racing. The plot was so compact and exciting that I couldn't stop watching it.

14. 14 午 The Midnight Ghost Market: Living People Keep Out 午夜鬼市，活人回避 The Drinking Monk吃酒和尚Mystery592k WordsCompleted [Mystery + supernatural + ghost market + narrow escape from death] My name is Tang Chao. I’m a broke young man scraping by in the antiques business, with hundreds of thousands in debt hanging over me. An ordinary porcelain-buying deal led me to pick up a strange Jun ware bowl at an unexpectedly low price. I thought I’d found a bargain. Little did I know, it was the beginning of my nightmare... On a bus, I met a burly man calling himself Jue Mingzi, who warned me that “a calamity is sure to befal 3.7kReads9.1Score219Shelves
15. 15 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, 1.9kReads8.9Score215Shelves
16. 16 阴 The One Who Borrows Lives from the Underworld 阴间借命人 The Out-of-Control Editorial Department失控编辑部Mystery1.3M WordsCompleted [Standalone Stories + Supernatural Horror + Suspense + Folk Customs + Playful Tone + Ensemble Cast + Nonstop Ghost-Hunting Thrills!] Ever since I borrowed a life from the underworld, I’ve known no peace. My name is Quan Ning. I’m a lawyer, and one day I was in a car accident on a mountain road. As I lay dying, I saw a ghostly judge from the underworld come to claim my soul. I struck a deal with him and borrowed a sliver of hope for survival. The price of this life I borrowed was becoming 2.9kReads9.1Score294Shelves
17. 17 夜 Ghostly Whispers at Midnight 夜半鬼语 Millennium-Old Monster千年老妖Mystery87k WordsCompleted [Rural + Supernatural + Ghost Stories] Back when my grandfather was young, he learned carpentry. As Old Zhao put it, a sixth-grade carpenter these days was worth half a scholar. But things were different back then. Carpenters belonged to one of the lowest trades. They had to carry their tools around every day, get up before dawn and stay out until the middle of the night, traveling from village to village to find work. And because they went so many places, and made coffins and dealt with the dea 6.5kReads9.0Score259Shelves
18. 18 乡 Tales of Strange Happenings in the Countryside 乡村诡事录 Zhang Xiaohe张小河Mystery156k WordsCompleted The strange happenings in a mountain village. I was born and raised in the countryside. Deep in the mountains, there are always ghosts and spirits, and my village was no exception. Heaven, earth, black, yellow, the cosmos vast: demons and ghosts send shivers down your spine. One year, the start of spring fell on the fifteenth day of the eighth month. That year, so many strange things happened. Just bringing them up is enough to scare people. Meeting the Black and White Impermanence on a night wa 2.3kReads9.0Score148Shelves
19. 19 诡 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 755kReads9.6Score129.5kShelves

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    This is a highly recommended book. The author's writing style is also very good, and it is infinitely streamable. It is super beautiful!

20. 20 民 Notes on Folk Spirit Mediums 民间出马仙笔记 Sun Mingyuan孙铭苑Mystery95k WordsCompleted [Spirit Mediums + Chinese-Style Horror + Episodic Stories + Supernatural Mystery + Karma + Mind-Blowing Twists + Feng Shui and the Occult] "Unraveling one strange and unpredictable tale of karmic retribution after another" In a remote suburb of the city lies a cemetery. Few people know that a shop dealing in the supernatural stands there, run by a spirit medium who can communicate with the dead and the living. The owner specializes in paranormal cases beyond ordinary people's understanding, but 447Reads9.3Score—Shelves

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    This book makes people completely immersed in the world of horror. After reading it, the whole person is paralyzed with fear. It is definitely a must-read for horror lovers!

21. 21 为 For the Views, I Got Handcuffed to a Red-Clothed Female Ghost 为了流量，我和红衣女鬼锁了 Woodenhead's Journal木头的日志Mystery174k WordsCompleted Lin Xuan, a paranormal streamer struggling to make ends meet, breaks into the century-old haunted house known as the Huaiyin Mansion for views. He expects another scripted performance, but instead comes face-to-face with a real, murderous ghost: Wanqing, dressed in a blood-red wedding gown. The moment she sees him, she claims he is the “husband” she has waited a hundred years for, then transforms the mansion into an endless corridor. With death closing in, Lin Xuan desperately starts streaming, 5Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The secret of watching at night

22. 22 凶 House for Rent: Haunted 凶宅出租 Black Night Moon Spirit黑夜月灵Mystery453k WordsCompleted Firsthand experiences and true cases from a real estate agent, adapted supernatural incidents from haunted houses. Each chapter is a standalone paranormal story, uncovering the secrets behind haunted houses and the tangled struggles of human nature. 469Reads8.2Score—Shelves

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    "Haunted House Rent" is adapted from real supernatural events in a haunted house. Each chapter is a different story. It's super scary! It will make your heart tremble and your hands tremble with fear!

23. 23 请 Call Me the Ghost Messenger 请叫我鬼差大人 The Cat from the Xu Family徐二家的猫Mystery2.1M WordsCompleted After the Eternal Night, terror returned. Ten miles of desolate graves, eerie singing. An old man searching for his arms, a headless baby... They kept piecing their bodies back together, unleashing an even more terrifying aura. In the wasteland, even a severed hand could destroy heaven and earth. In this world of darkness and despair, a post office appeared and vanished from view... A mysterious young man, a postal carriage traveling through the void... One blood-red letter after another became 126.6kReads9.5Score12.9kShelves
24. 24 苗 The Miaojiang Gu Chronicles 苗疆蛊事 Namo Kasaya Science Buddha南无袈裟理科佛Mystery4.3M WordsCompleted The calamity of witchcraft and poison is spoken of only by people in the countryside. Many people who are unknowingly caught up in it have no idea it exists. Friends, do you really think there are no extraordinary people in this vast land of China? You do? No! No! No! Do you want me to tell you that I’m a poison-raising practitioner from the Miao borderlands? All right, come on in and let’s dish… 14.6kReads9.3Score2.2kShelves
25. 25 十 Fourteen Years of Hunting Ghosts (Complete in Five Volumes) 十四年猎诡人（全五册） Li Yifan李诣凡Mystery1.2M WordsCompleted [The full-cast audio drama is now available. Give it a listen!] 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 14.2kReads9.6Score3.2kShelves
26. 26 午 The Midnight Pawnshop: The Living Must Keep Away 午夜当铺，活人回避 Chong Xiayueban虫下月半Mystery4.0M WordsOngoing [Traditional Supernatural + Chinese Folklore + Unorthodox Trading + Tales of Evil Objects] No romantic pairing This is a strange pawnshop that only accepts sinister objects with special value! Coins placed in the mouths of the dead, executioners' swords, grave-top mushrooms, flesh lingzhi, Kunlun fetuses... Evil objects can harm people, but they can also help them! Once they pass through the pawnshop's hands, being pawned and sold, evil can be transformed into treasure! They can bring promotions 257.7kReads9.4Score22.1kShelves
27. 27 天 The Heavenly Coffin 天棺 Youth Evening News青年晚报Mystery2.0M WordsCompleted 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... 19.9kReads9.0Score1.8kShelves
28. 28 豫 Strange Tales from Western Henan 豫西诡事 X Half-ImmortalX半仙Mystery1.4M WordsCompleted You may think I’m telling a story, but these are things I’ve experienced firsthand over the past ten-odd years. You don’t have to believe me, but are you sure everyone you’ve met was human? Science can’t explain everything… 34.4kReads8.4Score4.4kShelves
29. 29 我 Even Ghost Messengers Say the Hotpot at My Restaurant Is Delicious 我开的火锅店，鬼差吃了都说好 Lone Lord孤爷Mystery1.5M WordsCompleted Low-key version She dropped out of school at thirteen and worked as a chef until she was nineteen. With the savings Lin Ye had scraped together over those six years, he opened a hot pot restaurant. Who could have guessed his venture would get off to such a poor start, with business so slow the place was about to close? Just as he was wondering what to do next, two customers showed up on the restaurant's final night and changed his life... Grim Reaper: “Boss Lin, your hot pot is so spicy. It 26.9kReads9.1Score2.6kShelves
30. 30 民 Tales of Folk Horror 民间恐怖故事杂谈 Tengteng Greens腾腾菜Mystery348k WordsCompleted Throughout history, countless terrifying supernatural events have taken place in the world. Some really happened; others have been passed down by word of mouth through generations and embellished along the way. I'll tell them all, one by one. 1.8kReads—Score101Shelves
31. 31 民 Strange Tales From the Wilds 民间山野奇谈 Mushroom Stewed with French Fries香菇炖薯条Mystery1.5M WordsCompleted To pay for my grandfather's medical treatment, I secretly dug up a fox fairy's tomb. But then... 192Reads7.0Score—Shelves
32. 32 不 The Unorthodox Horse-Riding Immortal 不正经的出马仙 Xu Gou'er许狗儿Mystery1.2M WordsOngoing Nine out of ten shamanic practitioners are frauds, and the other one is still cultivating. It’s both lucky and unlucky that I’m a shamanic practitioner who doesn’t cultivate immortality. I only like hanging out with my fox spirit companion, and I absolutely refuse to cultivate. 10.8kReads8.4Score1.2kShelves

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