What's the Scariest Supernatural Horror Novel Ever? 史上最恐怖的灵异小说有没有?
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One Ghost Story a Chapter: I Warned You, So Don't Blame Me 一章一个鬼故事,吓到你,别怪我
[Traditional Chinese paranormal + Chinese-style horror] [Folktales + eerie rural happenings] Collected from all over and adapted into fiction, these stories include all kinds of folktales and urban legends. They're like the scary stories sold at street stalls, told in plain, simple language, with details that become more terrifying the longer you think about them. Great for unwinding. Each chapter features a different cast of characters. Note: Believe in science and reject superstition. Don't ta
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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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Northeastern Folk Taboos 东北民间禁忌
The black soil of the Northeast holds too many stories, and hides too many rules. If you hear someone call your name in the middle of the night, never look back. On New Year’s Eve, if a dumpling wrapper breaks, it’s for the “good brothers” to eat. If you meet a woman in red while walking at night, remember to pull your hat down low... These taboos passed down by the older generation are superstition if you don’t believe in them. But if you break them, they become a ghostly gateway that leads str
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The Last Shaman of Northeast China 东北最后的出马仙
Under siege by the Nine Wraiths and the Spirit-Devouring Ten Thousand Wraiths Formation, the barbarian wasteland's evil cultivators strike at the border again and again. Huang Dun wields a peachwood sword as his blade and his resolve to protect the people as his armor, leading immortal disciples, government forces, and border residents to build an ironclad defense. From tempering spirits and refining techniques to fortifying the area with the Sunbright Spirit-Gathering Formation, from passing on
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Northeastern Paranormal Tales: My Life as a Spirit Medium 东北诡事:我的出马仙生涯
Style: First-person narration, with self-deprecation, dark humor, and down-to-earth Northeastern Chinese dialect, blending the supernatural, suspense, folk customs, and the ways of human society. Core premise: An ordinary young man from Northeast China who never believed in ghosts or gods is forced by an accident to "become a spirit medium," serving as a disciple of the spirit mediums and forming a bond with the "immortals," animal spirits. He is drawn into a bizarre supernatural world, and as h
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The Ghost Stories I Heard Back Then 那些年听过的鬼故事
Now that I'm middle-aged, I look back on the ghost stories I heard as a child: tales of the bizarre and the uncanny, strange mysteries, and supernatural stories involving folk customs and taboos. I've brought them together to share with everyone.
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A Weasel Demands a Title, So I Reveal My Purple-Robed Celestial Master's True Form 黄皮子讨封,我亮出紫袍天师法身
Humorous and hilarious + traditional supernatural folklore + spirit medium rituals + no System Zhang Tiezhu staggers home drunk one night. He runs into a tailless weasel that asks him for a blessing. The weasel asks, “Do I look more like a human or a god to you?” “Heh... You look like your grandma’s leg!” The weasel says, “...Brother Zhang, cut it out. Give me a proper answer!” Zhang Tiezhu says, “Weasel, let me tell you: these days, you have to believe in science!” The weasel says, “I’m a Yello
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I’m the Land Immortal of the Northeast 我,东北坐地仙
My name is Chen Shan. I grew up in Lalin Town, Wuchang City, Heilongjiang Province. When I was twenty, a strange illness brought me to my knees. The hospital couldn't find its cause. My body swung between burning hot and freezing cold, and every night I dreamed of a fiery red fox coiling around the rafters. One day, by the Lalin River, the deranged Old Madam Wang grabbed my arm and shouted, “The Fox Immortal is on your shoulder, the Yellow Immortal is wrapped around your waist. You can't escape!
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A Collection of Ghost Stories 鬼故事之合集
My new work is out! Come read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support gives me the motivation to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well!
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Horror Cinema: My Teammate Is Yukino Yukinoshita 恐怖影院:我的队友是雪之下雪乃
[The rating has only just come out, and it’ll rise later] [Infinite Flow] + [Mild Horror] + [Horror Dungeons] + [Anime Crossover, Multiple Heroines] “Welcome to the Nightmare Screening Room. Here, you’re not an audience member sitting in the theater. You’re a participant in a real horror movie!” Guan Hong accidentally stumbles into a bizarre horror theater. There’s no popcorn here, only endless survival missions and vengeful evil spirits ready to peel off your skin at any moment. First screeni
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I’m an Actor in a Horror World 我在恐怖世界当演员
[Infinite Loop + Death Games + Horror Worlds + Original Scenarios + No Female Lead] (The protagonist has limits he won’t cross + System (mostly useless) + Items + The protagonist isn’t superhuman) If you were asked to act in a real horror movie, would you be willing? Guan Long is one lucky guy: he was chosen to take part in one terrifying film after another. There’s the bizarre rest stop on the highway, another “floor” that suddenly appears on a rooftop, and eerie voices calling from elevators,
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Reborn in the Graveyard, I Go on a Rampage with the “Am I Dead?” System 墓地重生,我靠死了吗系统杀疯了
[Reborn in a graveyard + Death System + mystery and crime-solving + powerful heroine seeking revenge] [Nonstop thrills + a badass heroine + lots of twists + crushing scumbags every step of the way] ⊗ Orphan Qin Mo is kidnapped and thrown into a mass grave. After crawling out of a coffin, she unexpectedly binds herself to the [Are You Dead Yet] System. ⊗ Fail six missions in a row, and the System will erase you! ⊗ Watch Qin Mo plan each move carefully, turn the tables against all odds, and make h
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Life-and-Death Gambit in the Snowlands 雪域生死局
[Chinese Folk Horror + Gods and Ghosts + Folk Legends + Secret-Realm Exploration + Mystery and Deduction + Strong Allies] At an antique fair in Lhasa, I stumbled upon an ancient Tibetan stone tablet. Curious about its contents, I accepted an invitation to join a merchant named Lao Gun and the team he had assembled to search for goods. Together, we ventured deep into the barren mountains of northern Tibet to investigate an ancient temple. I never expected the old temple to conceal such mysteries.
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Yin-Yang Eye Realtor: Selling Haunted Houses in Chongqing 阴阳眼中介:我在重庆卖凶宅
A novel inspired by local Chongqing legends and historical anecdotes. This story is entirely fictional. As a child, the protagonist gained the ability to see yin and yang from a Qing dynasty skeleton. His family’s ancestral ledger is filled with secrets of old Chongqing. The folklore is meticulously researched, with traceable details ranging from place names and historical anecdotes to traditional remedies and feng shui formations. Each haunted house seems like a self-contained case, but in trut
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Horrifying! The Eighth One 惊悚!第八个
Horrifying! The Eighth One
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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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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
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He Was Eating Noodles at a Roadside Restaurant, When He Found a Human Eyeball in His Bowl! 他在路边餐馆吃面,竟然吃出了人眼珠子!
He was eating noodles at a roadside restaurant when he found a human eyeball in his bowl!
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Murder in a Locked Room at Tang House on a Rainy Night 雨夜唐楼密室杀人案
Murder in a Locked Room at a Tanglou on a Rainy Night
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72-Hour Countdown to Death! 死亡倒计时72小时!
72 Hours Until Death!
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Neon Abyss: Heart of the Machine 霓虹深渊:机械之心
Neon Abyss: Heart of the Machine
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The Hour Has Come. 时辰已到。
The time has come.
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The Flowers Have Yet to Fade, My Perfect Lover 花事未了,完美恋人
The Flowers Have Yet to Fade, My Perfect Lover
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My Master Gave Me a Car for Investigating the Supernatural 师父传我一辆看事儿车
A thousand-year-old van? Built by hand from scratch [Traditional horror]➕ [Even more immersive as an audiobook]➕ [Uncovering the truth about my origins] Greetings, dear readers! [Traditional supernatural horror, primal fear] The original experience of horror is the fear a person feels when experiencing it firsthand. [First person, highly atmospheric] Give me a chance to tell this story from my own point of view. [Uncovering the truth about my origins] Along the way, I met many people. “The gates
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The May Day Calamity 五一劫
The May Day Calamity
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Republic-Era Notes on Summoning Evil 民国招邪笔记
Chinese-Style Horror + Episodic Mysteries + Ancestral Taboos + Republican-Era Suspense + Cursed Objects That Claim Lives Each supernatural case wraps up in three to five chapters. The pace is breakneck, with no dragging things out! Folk-horror elements: red wedding gowns, ancestral halls, midnight opera troupes... If you’re a scaredy-cat, read during the day. If you’re brave, listen to the audiobook at night for the full dose of terror.
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The Cursed Coffin 阴棺抬煞
Deep in Bai Street stands a yin-yang coffin shop that never makes coffins and never receives customers. Chen Ye grew up accompanying his grandfather on spirit-walking rites and coffin-bearing, learning all manner of evil spirits. He thought he would spend his life in the peaceful funeral trade, taking payment to guide souls onward and living in safety. Then, in a single night, three coffins arrived at the Ding family’s home, and one bizarre incident after another erupted throughout the househol
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Breaking Hell: The Celestial Master Returns 破狱:天师归来
After ten years in prison, the day he gets out, he discovers he’s completely out of step with the world. There are no bustling streets or lights in every window. The streets lie abandoned, the cities are dead, and the air reeks of rot and blood. Monsters that are neither human nor ghost roam everywhere: stiff bodies, fangs and claws, and a thirst for blood. The military can’t defeat them, the police can’t hold them back, and human civilization is on the brink of collapse. Even more absurdly, peo
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Crown of Frost and Ash 霜与烬之冠
At her engagement ceremony, the man she loved pushed her into an abyss. Three years later, she returned wearing a silver-frost mask. This time, she would crown his empire with her own hands, then stain that crown red with his blood.
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March of a Hundred Ghosts: I Take the Hungry Ghosts to War 百诡行军:我带饿鬼上战场
[Comedy] [Adventure] Bilige was a half-baked shaman who had somehow ended up in the army. His companions included a Shaanbei fat man who'd eaten himself up to two hundred jin during a famine, a long-legged Northeastern squad leader who would grab a cleaver at the slightest provocation, and a Sichuan opera actor who never told the truth. Together with Wang Laihe, a hotheaded young man who couldn't read a single character, and a little hungry ghost who did nothing but bare its teeth and shout “Hun
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In This World, Who Do You Think You Are? 天地间老子在你算老几?
On a pitch-black night, I dreamed of countless stars rushing toward me. By chance, I became a haunted-house tester, and all sorts of supernatural phenomena began appearing out of nowhere. The strange and bizarre things in the city, the mysterious forces deep in the mountains, and the gods people worship: do they really exist? Where can I find the key to a new world? Is this a responsibility, a mission, or a chance to become the next scapegoat? What unsolved mysteries lie in the world I inhabit,
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I Just Want to Be a Slacker, but They Keep Making Me Play Horror Games 我只想当咸鱼,偏偏要我玩惊悚
All I Want Is to Be a Couch Potato, but They Keep Making Me Play Horror Games
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Night Wanderer: Never Look Back at Three in the Morning 夜游神:凌晨三点千万别回头
[Urban supernatural + underworld ranks + survival in two realms + System binding] At three in the morning, never look back. Lu Chen picks up a [Night Patrol God Seal] and accidentally becomes bound to a divine office in the underworld! While everyone else sleeps, he traverses the netherworld, patrols the night, and hunts down ghosts. When the hundred ghosts roam, they bow before him; when dark forces run rampant, he suppresses them with a single gesture! Unsolved cases in the mortal world, secre
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Reborn Daoist: I Sweep the City Clean by Catching Ghosts 重生道士:我靠捉鬼横扫都市
[Rebirth + suspense]+ [mysticism and the supernatural]+ [revenge and comeback] In my previous life, I devoted myself to Taoist cultivation, only to be betrayed by my lover and die at the hands of a vengeful ghost. Reborn at twenty, I awaken the memories of a Celestial Master, with Taoist arts powerful enough to reach the heavens! Malevolent spirits in apartment hallways, vengeful ghosts in old houses, urban hauntings, plots from the netherworld... Every evil spirit in the world bows before me! W
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Campus Ghost Stories 校园鬼汇
A fast-paced, feel-good story of eerie incidents on campus. Join the characters as they explore the school's chilling horrors! A cursed phone, a lifelike silicone doll, a deadly package, mysterious glasses, a terrifying elevator, revenge for bullying, an abandoned classroom building, a dance studio, a study room, sculptures... The campus is full of strange happenings.
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Curse of the Desolate Village 荒村咒怨
[Horror + suspense + mystery] [Step-by-Step Terror Series: Parasites Among the Living] An isolated mountain village is inexplicably struck by a spreading plague. The infected bleed from all seven orifices, while their internal organs liquefy and pour out through openings in their bodies, leaving them to die in gruesome agony. Several medical workers from the nearby town venture into the deadly region to investigate, and one bizarre incident after another unfolds… Can they uncover the truth? Who
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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.
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Paranormal Tales from the Northeast Countryside 东北农村灵异小故事
Spooky Little Stories from the Northeastern Countryside
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Passerby: Secrets of the Ancient Scroll 过路人:古卷秘相
Shen Xun, guardian of the cycle of reincarnation, suppresses evil spirits and keeps the balance between yin and yang. His time is running out, and he must pass on the guardians' legacy as soon as possible. The first successor is Lin Jian, who possesses a supernatural camera. The evil spirits have already set their sights on her. As Shen Xun reaches the foot of the stairs, he senses a pair of eyes watching him from behind.
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Strange Tales, Volume 1 奇闻诡事录1
This is a collection of folk tales about the uncanny, strange accounts from across the land. Each chapter is a complete story, each tale a separate supernatural mystery, revealing the mysteries of yin and yang, folk taboos, and the obsessions of the dead. You never know when a casual remark might draw the attention of spirits lurking in the wilderness; when an old object you pick up might hold the memory of a tragic death; or when an everyday habit might already have crossed a forbidden boundary
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The Scarlet Fountain Pen 血色钢笔
The Blood-Red Fountain Pen
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Conspiracy: The Amnesia Cage 诡计:失忆囚笼
The Scheme: A Cage of Lost Memories
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Death Novel: Judgment 死亡小说:审判
Death Novel: Judgment
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The Last Bus on Route 13 13路末班车
I'm the driver of the last bus on Route 13. Every night at eleven, I have to make a run to the suburbs. This book is addictive, so don't blame me if you can't put it down! In this novel, even the sharp-tongued readers who always guess the plot right will find themselves repeatedly proven wrong. You might find yourself asking, “What's going on? What's going on?” Don't doubt your sanity. Just keep reading. A story that keeps you on edge, here to save readers suffering from a reading drought!
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My Iron Wok Is Actually an Ancient Alchemy Cauldron 我的铁锅竟是上古丹炉
My Iron Pot Turned Out to Be an Ancient Alchemy Furnace
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I Rely on My Nose to Attain the Great Dao 我靠鼻子证大道
I Rely on My Nose to Attain the Great Dao
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The Red Paper Umbrella: A Soul's Return 红纸伞之念魂归
The Red Paper Umbrella: A Thought to Bring the Soul Home
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The Struggle for Supremacy at the End of the Han: Winners Become Kings, Losers Become Outlaws 汉末争霸之成王败寇
The protagonist is Zhang Jiao. He sweeps across the realm, vying for supremacy through warfare and battles between generals. A village bully’s soul travels back to the late Eastern Han and takes over Zhang Jiao’s body. At a moment of crisis, he turns the tide and leads the Yellow Turbans in a sweeping conquest of the realm, winning through strategy.
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Uncovering Strange Mysteries and Finding a Way Out 诡事探秘逢生
In Lichong City, four childhood friends who grew up together were enlightened by a Taoist priest when they were young, and each possesses a supernatural ability. After Yang Zhuang got into an online argument, the four were drawn into a supernatural incident at an abandoned hospital in the neighboring city of Huidong.
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Unraveling the Strange: Surviving the Second Case 诡事探秘逢生二
An abandoned mining town, missing residents, and dense fog that traps souls. A four-person ghost-hunting team ventures into the forbidden zone to uncover a shocking mystery from 2015. When the truth comes to light, whose spirit has been waiting? A suspenseful thriller that will keep you awake tonight.
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