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Terrifying Nightmare: Extreme Survival in a Bizarre World 恐怖噩梦:我在诡异世界极限逃生
[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…
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The Midnight Pawnshop: The Living Must Keep Away 午夜当铺,活人回避
[Traditional Supernatural Horror] [Chinese Folk Customs] [Unorthodox Trade] [Tales of Evil Objects] [No Romance] This is a strange pawnshop that deals exclusively in sinister objects with special value! When something goes against the natural order, evil must be at work! Some things simply should not exist in this world! Coins stuffed into the mouths of the dead, an executioner's blade, grave mushrooms, flesh lingzhi, Kunlun fetuses... Evil objects can harm people, but they can also help them! T
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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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- 4 EN The House of Dread 诡舍 [Infinite-flow + Mild Horror + Survival + One Female Lead] A driverless bus carried a group of cursed people to a strange black lodge… Inside the lodge stood a door stained red with blood. At regular intervals, the cursed were forcibly dragged through the blood-red door and into terrifying worlds, where they had to complete horrifying events… After Ning Qiushui survived one bizarre and terrifying story after another inside the lodge, narrowly escaping death each time, he discovered that none of 707.4kReads9.6Score103.9kShelves
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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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- 6 Tales of a Spirit Medium 出马仙往事 “First, invite Hu; second, invite Huang. Third, invite Mang; fourth, invite Chang. Offer incense in the hall, and let all the immortals come forth.” With an entirely yin birth chart, I suddenly became the village's most despised madman when I was eight years old. Ten years later, I recovered from my madness and took charge of the Hu family's altar, one of the five great immortal clans of Northeast China. From then on, the Five Evils and Three Deficiencies followed me everywhere. I thought I had 32.4kReads9.5Score3.4kShelves
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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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- 8 The Language of the Three Corpses 三尸语 You’ve heard of people who died with their eyes open, but have you ever heard of a dead person whose mouth wouldn’t close? His grandfather’s death turns the life of a broke college student upside down. A corpse glares, a soul is hooked; a corpse opens its mouth, and disaster strikes twice. As one bizarre incident after another unfolds, he accidentally discovers that there’s far more to it than ghosts… 69.1kReads9.3Score10.7kShelves
- 9 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 (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 335.3kReads9.5Score66.6kShelves
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He Kills, Never Saves: This Taoist Is Wickedly Righteous! 只杀不渡,这个道士正到发邪!
[Supernatural + Mazu + folk customs + deity processions + Guanjian Shou + yin-yang taboos] People in Fujian often say, “If the powers above won't agree, just ask Mazu.” Born with an extremely weighty fate, Lin Haien was conceived on Qingming and born on the Winter Solstice. He has a yin-yang constitution and a spirit-sensitive body. Lost souls and wandering ghosts torment him, all hoping to take over his body and replace him. To give him even the slimmest chance of survival, his midwife grandmot
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- 11 After Maxing Out the Nine Suns Divine Skill, I Became a Living Forbidden Spell 九阳神功满级后,我成了人形禁咒 [Ghosts’ Worst Nightmare] [Ghost King Slayer] [Demon Meat Grinder] [Human-Shaped Forbidden Spell] Su Mo transmigrates to an era where the supernatural has returned, and from the start receives a love letter written by a female ghost! It’s unexpected, touching, and potentially deadly! Luckily, his Super Enhancement System awakens. A knockoff Nine Suns Divine Art? Enhance it! Nine Suns Devouring Heaven Art! Turn your body into a furnace, condense your blood and qi into a sun, and refine the evil g 108.7kReads8.6Score7.3kShelves
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At Three and a Half, Fu Bao Is Doted on by Her Eight Uncles 福宝三岁半,她被八个舅舅团宠了
When her stepmother miscarried after falling down the stairs, little Su Bao was punished by being forced to kneel in the snow for a day and a night, then branded a jinx and driven from home. Just as she was about to die, her eight domineering CEO uncles rushed to her side and gathered little Su Bao in their arms! The eldest uncle's face turned icy. “It's getting cold. I think it's time the Lin family went bankrupt.” The second uncle glared furiously. “Anyone who hurts my little Bao will be hunte
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City of Beasts 异兽迷城
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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- 14 EN Ten Days to the End 十日终焉 2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat 1.7MReads9.9Score206.4kShelves
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A Freshman Internship, and You Go to Bureau 749 to Contain Monsters 大一实习,你跑去749收容怪物
[Decisive killing] [How could any monster be good?] [All monsters deserve to die] [Ruthless] During his sophomore summer vacation, Lu Ding had planned to use the time to take an internship and earn some living expenses. Who could have expected that the construction site where he interned would excavate a bleeding stone? The workers fled one after another, but Lu Ding charged in with a rotary hammer. After transmigrating to this world nearly twenty years ago, Lu Ding’s golden finger, the Monster
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- 16 Growing Cursed Plants to Survive: Cultivating an Evil God After Reaping Death 种诡求生,从死亡丰收后种植邪神 [Unconventional farming, scavenging corpses, burying the dead to grow the strange, hardcore tomb building, slow burn, tons of female ghosts] Everyone transmigrated to a world of filthy soil, where they had to grow the strange to survive. Su Ye had always believed that you reap what you sow. He never expected that in this world of filthy soil, growing a ghost bride could give him a strange wife, while growing a ghost groom could give him a strange husband. Who could resist that kind of temptat 22.9kReads8.8Score2.6kShelves
- 17 Who Says These Evil Spirits Are Fierce? I Specialize in Taking Down the Worst! 谁说这邪祟凶?我专治大凶之物! [No female lead] [Decisive and ruthless] [Unlimited growth] [Slow burn] “You all call it an evil spirit, but I say it's clearly a good omen!” “Do you really think I don't know whether it can help me cultivate?” “Hand it over to me!!!” Shan Liang wiped the drool from the corner of his mouth and strode forward with a knife... Evil spirit: “Don't come any closer!!!” 41.5kReads9.1Score3.7kShelves
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Deceiving the Gods: A Performance! 欺神演出!
[Satisfying revenge + Mind-bending twists + Slow burn + Strategic battles + Loads of plot twists] “When I thought death was the end, I opened my eyes and discovered that death was only a new beginning.” Lin Yu was killed by a junior schoolmate he thought had come to confess her love, only to discover that he hadn’t truly died. Instead, he had entered a deadly game! Only the winner would earn the chance to “live again.” Fortunately, Lin Yu awakened the “Unique Class: Deceiver.” [Any lie you
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You Hired Me to Collect Bodies, So I Dissected My Ex-Girlfriend 让你当收尸人,你直接解刨了前女友
In anatomy class, the corpse turns out to be my ex-girlfriend... After that, I went through all sorts of unbelievable things. A bus that only goes up, never down, and runs straight to a reservoir. An old scholar tree in the hospital, lush with branches and leaves, that swallows people whole. A giant catfish by the Qingshui River, begging people for help every night. And a deadly brothel hung with human skin, open for business without end. It went on and on, as if it would never come to an end...
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- 20 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. 173.8kReads9.7Score17.7kShelves
- 21 The Bystander Who Transmigrated into Horror Movies 穿越在恐怖片里的路人甲 Everyone else who transmigrates gets the protagonist treatment, with treasures and beautiful women at their side. Li Haotian transmigrated as a mere nobody, and into a horror-movie world, no less, surrounded by demons and monsters. With his own life already in danger, he still had to complete assignments. Fortunately, he was lucky enough to gain the skill of having every wish granted: call to Heaven, and Heaven answers; call to Earth, and Earth responds. All kinds of immortals looked out for him 21.5kReads7.9Score1.3kShelves
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Strange Tales of Northeast China 东北诡异实录
The comic adaptation of the same name is now available, also known as Mountain Spirit Lost. The comic Northeast Strange Tales is currently being serialized. Across the vast, boundless black earth of Northeast China, one strange and little-known story after another has unfolded. Now, I’ll tell you these long-buried tales of the supernatural, one by one!
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City Soul-Soother 1 都市清心人1
Urban Serenity 1
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I Had to Join a Fugitive Show for My Sister's Sake 为了妹妹我不得不参加逃犯节目
The pace is a little slow, but things get really satisfying later on, so please stick with it, everyone. This is entirely original, and I’ve carefully designed every part. I hope you’ll consider leaving a tip. Thank you.
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The Serpent Coffin 蛇棺
On the day I was born, my family was moving our ancestral graves. My father killed a huge snake in a coffin that was on the verge of shedding its skin and transforming into a dragon, and nearly got bitten to death. When I was born, snakes surged in from every direction, hissing. Everyone said I was ill-omened. A rice medium from the village gave her life to save my father. She left me a black jade pendant shaped like a snake, but she too was bitten to death. Just after my eighteenth birthday, th
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Forced Possession: After Becoming a Vengeful Ghost's Sacrifice 强制占有:成为厉鬼的祭品后
A new story is out! You can head over to Tomato Novel to read my work. I hope you enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well!
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- 27 The Weird Realm Descends: My Chinese-Style Horror Crushes the World 诡界降临:我的中式恐怖碾压全球 The Weird Realm descends, and the world’s third great war of plunder erupts. Unlike the wars before it, this time the main weapon is not modern arms, but weird formations. Weird formations can be deployed in any country, in any city. If a formation is not broken within a set time, the city it engulfs becomes a forbidden zone, and every citizen loses a portion of their remaining lifespan. The strength of a weird formation depends on each nation’s heritage of weird culture. The richer that heritag 919Reads7.1Score101Shelves
- 28 The Haunted Coffin 诡棺 When the coffin opens, the living are doomed to grief! My sister-in-law hanged herself, but no one could take her body down from the white cloth... As it turned out, I had been burdened with a mission from the very beginning, one that would push me down a strange and sinister path! 729Reads—Score101Shelves
- 29 Invitation from Hell 地狱邀请函 [Ghost Escape + Supernatural Horror + Infinite Flow + A Clever Protagonist] An invitation and an abandoned bus drag a group of people into a haunted realm… Lin Mo barely makes it back to the real world alive, only to discover that the horror has just begun. One invitation after another arrives before him, and one eerie world after another comes calling… The Dusk Spirit Hotel, the Dead Return, Vengeful Ghosts Invade: what is the truth behind it all? Who is a friend? And who is an enemy? Shh… Watc 18.2kReads8.6Score1.4kShelves
- 30 Horror Academy: Dormitory 404 恐怖学院:404凶舍 A sensational incident once occurred at the academy. It was later completely covered up. Five years later, the academy opened its doors again. 2kReads—Score182Shelves
- 31 Terror in the Haunted Dorm 诡寝惊魂 I got a job as a dorm supervisor in a university women’s residence, but the girls there were a little too friendly… Crying in the middle of the night, dorm rooms catching fire, rooms that don’t exist. Hidden in the deepest corners of memory is a bizarre and fantastical world… The night is deep, the dream unfinished. A mountain spirit blows out the lamp. Where can a lonely soul return? 10.4kReads8.5Score1.1kShelves
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A Woman Can Only Rely on Herself 女人靠谁都不如靠自己
She was a highly educated woman who, for love, was willing to sever ties with her father. She devoted herself to caring for her bedridden mother-in-law, only to be cruelly abandoned by her husband. Schemed against and suppressed at every turn, she rises from the depths, grows stronger with every battle, and reaches the pinnacle of life.
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The Horror Livestreamer 恐怖女主播
My name is Yuan Junyao, a name that doesn't suit me at all. I've had a chronic illness since birth, and I'm so hideously deformed that tumors started growing on my face when I was little. My father left me when I was just three months old. At fifteen, I was blamed for my mother's death. Only my grandmother raised me and my stepbrother, who shared neither parent with me. But after an accident, I was offered up to a man who should never have crossed my path. To get revenge and see justice done, I
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Strange Tales of a Mountain Village 山村异事
Mom tied a rope around her mouth and hanged herself over Dad's coffin! Forty-nine days later, Mom came back for me!
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- 35 Fused with the Human-Skin Paper, I Am the Harbinger of Death! 融合人皮纸,我即是死亡预告! A sheet of human-skin paper fuses with Chen Ming’s left hand and grants him an ability. Death Premonitions! For anyone he knows, any living being within his sight, and even himself, if they are destined to die soon, a warning will appear. [Death countdown: Chen Ming, 3 minutes 18 seconds] Like this. The Spirit Realm also descends at the same time! The Spirit Realm is full of all kinds of bizarre dungeons. Any player drawn into it faces an extremely high chance of dying while clearing them. Chen 9.2kReads7.5Score780Shelves
- 36 Weird Apocalypse: I Became a Ghost with a Body Full of Certain-Death Rules 诡异末世:变鬼的我一身必死规则 [Gender Swap, Urban Fantasy, Supernatural, Chinese-Style Horror, No Romance, No System, Nearly Invincible, Mild Horror] Lu Chuan died at the hands of a stunningly beautiful female ghost. Or maybe he hadn't quite died? For some unknown reason, his consciousness took over the female ghost's body, turning him into a malevolent ghost with a living person's mind. As time passed, Lu Chuan gradually discovered that the original female ghost was bound by a whole host of fatal rules, dozens of them at le 1.9kReads6.2Score197Shelves
- 37 Eerie Revival: The Mirror Ghost, Come Find Me! 诡异复苏:镜中诡,快来找我! [Gender Swap] + [Transmigration] + [No System] + [Eerie Revival] This is a bedroom in an ancient style. Lan Mu wakes up in bed, only to discover that he has become a woman. A strange environment, and eerie things that have suddenly appeared. The reflection in the mirror smiles at her. Heh heh heh... This is an age of Eerie Revival. Everything... seems... [This book has no System and no levels for the eerie entities, but it isn’t a collection of eerie tales either. The entities still differ in st 1.2kReads6.3Score171Shelves
- 38 Paranormal Invasion: I Turn into a Ghost Girl from the Start! 灵异入侵,我开局变成女鬼! [Rule-based strange tales + supernatural invasion + man turns into a woman + national destiny + near-invincible lead + livestreaming + ruthless protagonist!] The Su household, wiped out in a single night Family members who don't exist A haunted villa A mental hospital where living patients are dissected Behind every strange tale lies a deeply hidden story. Will it end in destruction, or salvation? 2kReads8.6Score190Shelves
- 39 Horror Revival: From the Start, I Get a Call from a Ghost! 恐怖复苏:开局遭遇鬼来电! [Horror Revival + Wielding the Supernatural + Invincible + No Female Lead + Saving the World + System + Taking Over Headquarters] From the start, Lin Yu sacrifices two Demon Pills and activates the ghost System, his golden finger! As long as he comes into contact with a vengeful ghost, he can take perfect control of it directly!? What are we waiting for? Vengeful ghosts, come and die! In the end, after taking control of every vengeful ghost in an entire world, Lin Yu realizes he can never get th 32.1kReads6.9Score2kShelves
- 40 The Celestial Master Is Here: Qimen Feng Shui Shakes the World 天师在此,奇门风水震天下 [Several short dramas have been adapted from this novel: Feng Shui Heavenly Master, The Grand Master of Qimen Feng Shui, The Heavenly Master Is Here, Qimen Feng Shui Shakes the World, Notes of a Folk Feng Shui Master, and others] Everything in this book is fictional. Just enjoy the story, don’t take it seriously, and don’t get too caught up in it... 248.3kReads9.1Score59.8kShelves
- 41 Born of a Corpse, Carried in a Ghost's Coffin 尸生子,鬼抬棺 In ancient, remote places, all kinds of strange and terrifying things are bound to happen. And these things happen around Hua Jiunan. In fact, Hua Jiunan is part of them. For instance, he was born from a corpse! 212.8kReads9.6Score25.1kShelves
- 42 I'm a Haunted House Sleep Tester 我在凶宅当试睡员 I worked for a real estate company, but later I was transferred to another department. I never expected to encounter something terrifying on my very first day... 5.7kReads8.8Score600Shelves
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