I've Been in the Mood for Horror Novels Lately 最近想看恐怖小说了
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Nine Out of Ten Divinations Are Wrong 【十卦九不准】
[No heroine, not a power fantasy, no tired tropes. A sequel to The Nether Road, also known as Strange Tales of the Spirit Road.] Read people's fortunes when you meet them; divine the dead's paths when you encounter ghosts. Use yarrow stalks to cast hexagrams, and pluck gold to change fate. Walk among the corpses without fear, and never lose your way in the underworld. The practitioners of yin and yang arts investigate strange cases, while ancient mystic traditions probe the hearts of humankind.
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Hilarious! The Fake Heiress Is Kicked Back to the Modern World by a Mystic Ancestor 笑疯！假千金被玄门老祖踹回现代
Xiao Li spent a hundred years in the Xuanmen. Even the little guard dog Xiao Hei, who joined at the same time as her, has already ascended to the upper realm, while she is still stuck guarding the temple gate and basking in the sun. The ancestral spirit appeared to her and said, “Xiao Li, you came from another world, and your worldly ties remain unresolved. If you wish to ascend, you must return to where you came from and settle your mortal affairs. Only then can you grasp the Heavenly Dao!” Bac
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Ghostly Whispers at Midnight 夜半鬼语
[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
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I'm Such a Delicate Girl, So Why Does Everyone Call Me the God of Ghost Slaying? 我娇滴滴的，怎么都说我灭诡之神
[Genuinely terrifying horror game + heroine who absolutely cannot see the supernatural horrors + lighthearted comedy] A horror game descends upon the world. People must face not only terrifying supernatural entities and all kinds of rules, but also severe mental corruption. Just as everyone is about to reach their breaking point, a magical paper-offering shop appears. Everything from the paper-offering shop is top quality. A safety talisman can instantly clear away all mental corruption. A ghost
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The Haunted House 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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The Greatest Taboo Among the People 民间第一禁忌
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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The Midnight Pawnshop: The Living Must Keep Away 午夜当铺，活人回避
[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
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Opening the Road to the Underworld 开冥路
[No romance, no female lead, not much of a power fantasy, first-person narration, a slightly slow start. If you don't mind, please be patient. My new book, "Nine Divinations Out of Ten Are Wrong", is the second installment of this story.] My name is Sui Xiaotian. I'm a guide. But I only guide those who die unnatural deaths. An unnatural death is a bitter consequence brought about by bad karma. After death, the great temples won't accept you, and the small temples won't keep you. You become a lon
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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…
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The Last Paper Effigy Maker 最后一个扎纸人
The art of paper effigies can bridge the worlds of yin and yang, perform rites for the dead, and summon the King of Hell. Cut yellow paper, weave bamboo strips: paper horses travel a thousand miles, and paper figures summon spirits. With one stroke to paint their eyes, the King of Hell appears, striking terror into all directions and sending ten thousand ghosts into hiding! By the time the art of paper effigies reaches Chen Mo, he is its last practitioner. He assumes this ancient, mysterious cra
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The Secret of the Five Immortals of the Northeast 东北五大仙的秘密
The Secret of the Five Immortals of the Northeast tells the story of young reporter Li Feng, who seeks the truth about the Five Immortals after his parents disappear. The Five Immortals, the fox, weasel, hedgehog, snake, and rat, each command a mysterious power: wisdom, wealth, health, longevity, and the ability to foresee the future. As Li Feng investigates further, he discovers an unspeakable connection between his parents' disappearance and these legendary animals. His search leads him into a
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Northeastern Strange Tales: A Folk Archive of Forbidden Things 东北诡事录：民间禁忌档案
The Northeast Records of the Uncanny: Archives of Folk Taboos follows Chen Mo, a young folklorist who is drawn into the most secret supernatural incidents in China’s three northeastern provinces after an unexpected turn during a field study. He goes from being a skeptic to experiencing the uncanny firsthand, joining forces with an heir to the shamanic tradition and a veteran detective to form an investigative trio and uncover terrifying truths buried in the past. The book explores northeastern l
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I Work in the Underworld 我在地府工作
After dying suddenly from overwork, 28-year-old programmer Lu Ming unexpectedly passes the underworld civil service exam and becomes an assistant judge in the Bureau of Reincarnation. With his knowledge of modern technology and programming skills, he solves one bizarre case after another in the underworld: from the disappearance of a ghost influencer and a hack of the Book of Life and Death System to the theft of Meng Po's soup recipe and a riot in the Eighteen Levels of Hell. As he investigates
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I Work in the Underworld, Part Two 我在地府工作第2部
Thirty-seven thousand years into the New Era, ages have passed since Lu Ming merged with the Dao and defeated the Celestial Law Divine Court. Under the new Heavenly Dao, the underworld has been reborn as a hub of reincarnation that brings together civilizations from countless worlds. Zhang Xiaoqian, the King of Transmigration, rules the netherworld and maintains order, yet she still longs for Lu Ming, who became a cornerstone of the Heavenly Dao. But a summons from the ruins of the mysterious Pr
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The Yin-Yang Pawnshop in the Mortal Realm 阳间的阴阳当铺
In the twelfth year of the Republic, Shen Moyan returns from studying abroad and is forced to inherit his family's pawnshop, the Jiwu Pawnshop. He discovers that by day it accepts valuables and good fortune from the living as collateral, while at night it helps ghosts and monsters fulfill their wishes. When he opens the Records of Crossing the Yin, a book documenting contracts between yin and yang, he is drawn into a conflict between the two realms that has lasted for three centuries. Guided by
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Tales from the Underworld 地府怪谈
My new work is here! You're welcome to 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!
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Legends of Fengdu City 丰都城的传说
When forensic pathology intern Lin Xiaomeng takes on the case of a woman whose chest is carved with an ancient incantation, she assumes it's simply a rare ritualistic murder. Then she discovers a bronze key engraved with the characters “Fengdu” in the corpse's stomach, and her mentor dies mysteriously after leaving a blood-written warning: “Whatever you do, don't go there.” Determined to uncover the truth, Lin Xiaomeng and Zhao Zhengting, the police detective investigating the case, are forced t
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The Ninth Yin-Yang Pawnshop 第九阴阳当铺
A thousand-year-old pawnshop trades in the seven emotions. Its new proprietor, Ye Xuan, watches the joys and sorrows of the world with cold detachment. That changes when a woman named Qin Ruoxue comes to pawn her “past.” In her memories, Ye Xuan discovers an image of himself, setting in motion the revelation of a vast conspiracy spanning a thousand years and involving the realms of gods, demons, and humans. In search of the truth, Ye Xuan sets out on a journey, gradually recovering the emotions
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Soul Ferry: I Fulfill the Dead's Final Wishes at a Funeral Home 渡魂人：我在殡仪馆替鬼还愿
My name is Jiang Lin. Three years ago, I worked as a mortuary makeup artist. That day, as I was putting makeup on a woman who had died in a car accident, she... smiled at me. After that, the resentful spirits of the dead began coming to me, asking me to fulfill their wishes, avenge them, and guide their souls onward. I thought I was only helping people "put their best face forward," but when the Soul Ferry Ledger slipped from the corpse's chest, I finally understood: I am the last soul ferryman,
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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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Taboo of the Living 活人禁忌
When I was nine, I found myself in mortal danger! To save me, my grandfather made a decision that would change my life forever...
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The Rules of the Official World 官路的规则
On his way to the provincial capital to take the civil service exam, Zhang Jianzhong discovers a shoddy construction project and dies a violent death. He transmigrates to the late 1970s, unexpectedly gets transferred to the county Party committee office, and enters the political arena, climbing the ranks one step at a time.
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Notes of a Folk Feng Shui Master 民间风水师笔记
[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...
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Hiring a Handsome Guy to Guard the House 雇个帅哥来镇宅
[Horror, one heroine] What do you do when you’re nearly broke? With no other options, Shang Yi reluctantly took a night-shift job, and it completely upended his worldview! The elevator, hallways, underground parking garage, bathrooms… Those places were already enough to give him a headache. But what troubled him even more was the attention he got from beautiful women… Strange incidents kept happening in the residential complex, yet the residents went on living there as if nothing were wrong. The
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My Final Ten Years as a Taoist 我为道士的最后十年
Wherever there is desire in this world, there are ghosts. I, Jiang Ping, was accidentally caught up in a supernatural incident, leaving me with only ten years to live. Since my fate is sealed, I’ll cultivate the Dao and extend my life. Capture ghosts, slay demons. A sharp mind and a well-laid plan. No cheap melodrama or harem antics, though the plot takes a while to unfold. Also, this is a long novel. What? You don’t like that? Take your time and give it a proper read, or don’t blame me when I
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My Career in Funeral Services and the Supernatural 我的殡葬灵异生涯
After graduating, I joined the funeral industry and learned about its many secrets. I also encountered all kinds of terrifying, bizarre supernatural incidents. Let me tell you about some truly unusual tales of terror and the taboos of the funeral trade... The latest work by a free-spirited programmer. As always, the promise stands: suspense and horror taken to the extreme.
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Casual Chats About Strange Happenings in Northeast China 闲聊东北邪乎事
Every child who grew up in Northeast China has heard adults tell ghost stories and tales of the supernatural. Whether they were true or not, there's no way to know. But perhaps they were simply part of our childhood. We were scared, yet still begged the adults to tell us more. Even now, some things remain vivid when I think back on them. Starting today, I'll share some of the paranormal incidents I experienced and heard about as a child. This story will be updated regularly.
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The Ancestor of Feng Shui 风水之祖
This is not your typical feng shui story. If that bothers you, please move along. Inside you’ll find the most terrifying human demons and ghosts, horrifying infant spirits, bewitching female ghosts, thousand-year-old flood dragons, and even a ghastly face that will make your heart race... There are no tired formulas here, so be patient. The further you read, the better it gets… The story begins on the day I was born. On the day of my birth, every last one of the chickens and ducks my family k
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The Strange Immortals of Northeast China 东北诡仙录
In the bitterly cold lands of Northeast China, an ancient faith has been passed down since time immemorial. It combines the ancient Chan sect’s traditions with shamanic worship of animal spirits. The animals that cultivate there are known as “Old Immortals,” and their human representatives are called spirit mediums. Among them are a brother and sister who travel the mortal world, punishing evil and upholding justice. Along the way, they encounter a female ghost seeking a husband, a drought demon
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