Folk Horror Novels 民间恐怖小说

1. 1 镇 The Dragon-Suppressing Coffin and the King of Hell's Fate 镇龙棺，阎王命 Feiyi匪夷Mystery4.8M WordsOngoing 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 328.3kReads9.4Score30.6kShelves

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   This book fits the folk horror genre very well, and the plot is very coherent [Love]. It is also a novel that I have been following!

2. 2 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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   Horror in the Village, a very interesting horror thriller, dark and heavy!!! I strongly recommend it!!!

3. 3 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
4. 4 东 Strange Tales of Northeast China 东北诡异实录 Asking the Cold Wind in a Light Rain微雨问冷风Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted 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! 41.7kReads9.4Score4.4kShelves

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   Love folk horror dash! After reading these three supernatural books, I dare not walk at night! 1. "Collection of Northeastern Folk Ghost Stories" In the Northeast Kangtou, 46,000 people listened to the "Chu Ma Xian" telling real ghost stories. 2. "The No. 1 Folk Taboo" is a "don't touch" rule passed down by the elders. Breaking one will lead to evil. 416,000 People follow it and are even more afraid of missing it. 3. "Collection of Tales from the Netherworld" Each of the strange things fished out of the Netherworld contains a reversal of reasoning. 593,000 People have read this book and gotten chills down their backs. (Who is starting to panic now that they think of the "taboos back home"?)

5. 5 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 3.9kReads9.1Score230Shelves

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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.

6. 6 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... 1.2kReads9.1Score103Shelves
7. 7 夜 Ghost Sightings at the Nightclub 夜场见鬼录 Yu Long玉龙Mystery278k WordsCompleted A Long is a DJ at a bar with a legendary “Stage of Death.” Many people have died there under mysterious circumstances. The cause of death could never be determined, and some bodies were never even found! The strange incidents stopped only after the bar was shut down. As the legend of the deaths gradually faded from memory, someone opened the stage once more! After that, disaster struck again and again! A terrifying ghostly figure appears in the girls’ dormitory, a faceless baby clings to a chand 239Reads8.8Score—Shelves

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   I always feel like there are a pair of eyes looking at me [petrified] [petrified]

8. 8 最 The Last Soul-Quelling Master 最后一个镇魂师 The One in Charge话事人Mystery813k WordsCompleted I grew up at my grandfather's house in the countryside. He was the most respected suona player in our village. One day, Li Dashan, a fellow villager, beat his pregnant wife to death and came to ask my grandfather for help. My grandfather tried everything he could, but still couldn't calm the resentment of Li Dashan's wife. In the end, he had no choice but to play a suona dirge to forcibly pacify her soul. On the night of the Lantern Festival, Li Dashan and his family turned into vengeful ghosts 133Reads9.0Score—Shelves
9. 9 地 Underworld Agent 地府经纪人 Stars星辰Mystery810k WordsCompleted I was hit by a basketball at school and fell into a lake, but I survived and became an official employee of the Underworld. I also gained a Ghost Hunter System that helps the Underworld recruit talented ghosts, setting me on the path to turning my life around. 35Reads6.1Score—Shelves
10. 10 我 The Years I Spent as a Funeral Mourner 我当哭丧人的那些年 Luo San罗三Mystery302k WordsCompleted Some people must be mourned loudly when they are laid to rest. Otherwise, according to old folk customs, it is considered an act of filial impiety. After I was born, everyone in my family except my grandfather died because of me. My grandfather fell gravely ill, and to earn money for his treatment, I had no choice but to join Zhang the Elder, a man from my village, as a professional funeral mourner. From then on, I set out on a path of mourning with no return! 95Reads8.6Score—Shelves
11. 11 地 The Underworld Calls Me Little Sir 地府叫我小先生 HelinEastern Fantasy803k WordsCompleted [Supernatural + mystery + power progression] Getting hit by a basketball and falling into a lake was bad enough. Even worse, I got killed by a basketball!! The Black and White Impermanence told me I still had seventy years left to live. To make it up to me, they offered me a job in the underworld. So I became an HR officer on the underworld’s permanent staff and even got a ghost recruitment System! As long as I help the underworld recruit talented ghosts, I can earn all kinds of abilities: talis 538Reads—Score—Shelves
12. 12 这 This Taoist Priest Is a Little Too Cool 这个道士不太冷 Ghost Hunter, Big Brother抓鬼大师兄Mystery802k WordsCompleted My name is Niu Dabao, and I’m the only college graduate in Niu Village. I thought that after graduation, I’d get promoted, earn a bigger salary, marry a beautiful, rich woman, and reach the pinnacle of life. Who knew the company would go under and the boss would kill himself? I didn’t get a single penny of my wages, couldn’t even afford rent, and had to sleep at the train station every night! Then a ragged Taoist priest told me I was dogged by bad luck and possessed by a host of ghosts, and that 607Reads7.8Score—Shelves
13. 13 我 I Live in Fengmen Village 我住在封门村 Naughty Leopard顽皮豹Mystery807k WordsCompleted My hometown shares its name with the legendary number-one haunted village in China: Fengmen Village. What’s more, our village also has a grandmaster’s chair. Whoever sits in it is doomed to die! It was 1997, and I had been accepted into the high school in town. Once summer vacation was over, I would finally be able to leave the place where I’d spent sixteen years. But what I never expected was for one terrifying incident after another to strike the village! Rats that ate human flesh, five-colore 823Reads6.1Score—Shelves
14. 14 诡 The Haunted Grave 诡坟 A Single Ink Blade墨刀一柄Mystery802k WordsCompleted I think I've been possessed! Right before the college entrance exam, I suddenly came down with a high fever that wouldn't break. I missed the exam and had to spend half a year recovering at home. During those six months, I found a job as a cemetery groundskeeper. My coworker, Old Zhang, saw how frail I was and how weak my yang energy seemed, and insisted on finding me someone to protect me. But he didn't tell me that my protector would be a female ghost!! Not only does she want to marry me, she 88Reads7.0Score—Shelves
15. 15 话 There Are Ghosts in These Words 话里有诡 Chen Taiyao陈太瑶Mystery88k WordsCompleted They say everyone has a few little secrets they can't bring themselves to talk about these days. But if you really want to hear something out of the ordinary, go find Old Bu. Old Bu runs a little tavern set inside an abandoned train carriage. From the day it opened, he laid down one rule: One interesting story in exchange for a night's worth of drinks. Sounds like a good deal, doesn't it? Too bad he doesn't give you much to drink, and the stories just keep getting stranger. An intelligent wristb 5Reads7.7Score—Shelves
16. 16 午 The Midnight Gravekeeper 午夜守墓人 Rose蔷薇Mystery802k WordsCompleted A desolate mountain. An ancient tomb. A woman in white. A blood-red moon at midnight. A corpse monk on the move. I’m a high school senior. With the college entrance exam just around the corner, I suddenly came down with a fever that wouldn’t break and missed the test. After recovering at home for more than half a year, I found a job guarding the gate at a cemetery. Seeing how frail I was and how weak my yang energy was, Old Zhang, the gravedigger, found me a protector. But she wasn’t human. She 3.7kReads8.4Score218Shelves
17. 17 我 I Have 36,524 Folk Horror Stories 我有36524个民间恐怖故事 Nalan Xi纳兰惜Mystery2.5M WordsCompleted [Standalone stories] [Supernatural suspense] [Folk horror] [Mountain spirits and monsters] [Adapted from real cases] [Rural legends] There is no main storyline. Each chapter is a self-contained story adapted from folk rumors, with eerie, gripping plots. Note: This story discourages superstition and encourages belief in science. It is entirely fictional, so just enjoy it as entertainment. 5.3kReads8.8Score266Shelves

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    ③A collection of stories that record various strange events, strange stories, and fantasy stories, with a variety of themes

18. 18 诡 Tales of Strange and Uncanny Things 诡怪杂谈录 Guest Seated on the Green Mountain青山坐客Mystery172k WordsOngoing This book chronicles all kinds of strange and uncanny happenings! It includes fantastical, imaginative stories about catching ghosts and banishing demons, as well as mysterious supernatural tales of detective work, investigations, adventure, and horror. Some are based on my own experiences, some on things I’ve heard, and some are made up. (Each story takes one chapter or a few chapters.) 1Reads—Score—Shelves
19. 19 灵 A Collection of Paranormal Tales 灵异杂谈集齐录 I Have a System我有一个系统啊Mystery138k WordsCompleted A new work is here, with a story in every chapter! Strange supernatural tales, eerie and thrilling adventures, dragons in the wilderness, or ghosts and spirits running wild: a fresh experience awaits you. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! —Reads—Score—Shelves
20. 20 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! 239.9kReads9.6Score30kShelves

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    On the night of the Ghost Festival, a deaf mother-in-law delivered a baby to a pregnant woman who died unexpectedly. The baby looked in the direction of the underworld at first sight. On the night of Jiudaogou, even the ghosts shivered with cold. The deaf mother-in-law squinted her eyes and calculated: "On July 15th, I knocked on the door at midnight. It's the ghost of the dead who came to ask for help." Uncle Li held a dry cigarette in his mouth and pushed up his reading glasses: "Midwife? Deliver a dead person?" The abdomen of the female corpse in the yard was squirming strangely. When we were heating water and preparing scissors, the female corpse suddenly opened her eyes and stared directly at the deaf mother-in-law. A gurgling sound came out of her throat: "The child... Can't fall to the ground..." What's even more frightening is that all the twelve immortal family tablets enshrined in the deaf mother-in-law's house were turned towards the wall tonight. --- At night in Jiudaogou, wind and snow are frequent visitors, and the cold that penetrates into the bones makes even the old ghosts in the mountains shrink their necks and shiver. The fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month is a day that is even more sinister and filled with overwhelming Yin energy. As soon as it got dark, the deaf mother-in-law urged her son Wang San to unbar the door. In ordinary people's homes, no one wanted to bump into anything on this ghost festival night. But then, the fatal banging on the door came. "Boom! Boom! Boom!" It's not a knock, it's a bump. Dull, urgent, with a sense of indifference and death, it hits people's hearts. Wang San cursed and went to open the door. A swirling wind rushed in, stirring up snow foam all over the floor. The person outside the door, or rather the thing, fell straight in. Like a piece of hard wood, it hit the snow nest with a "dong" sound and made no move again. Wang San jumped back in fright. The deaf mother-in-law had already opened the cotton curtain and walked out, twisting a shiny old rosary in her hand. She didn't look at the human-shaped snow prints on the ground. She first raised her eyes to look at the dark sky, then squinted her eyes that had seen too many things, and silently pinched her sleeves with her fingers a few times. "On July 15th, I knocked on the door at midnight," her voice was low, with the characteristic hoarseness of an old man in the mountains, but her words were clear, "it's a dead ghost who came to ask for trouble." At this time, the door of the next door creaked, and Uncle Li walked over wearing a half-worn military coat, holding the copper pipe pot that he never left his body in his mouth. He knelt down, using the dim light from the room, and used the cigarette rod to push the snow away from the man's face. It was a young woman, her face was blue and white from the cold, and she had long since lost her breath. But the strange thing is that the thin clothes on her body have a high bulge on her abdomen, and the bulge is actually squirming slightly and rhythmically at this moment. Uncle Li pushed up his reading glasses that slid to the bridge of his nose, took a sip from his already extinguished cigarette holder, and said, "Midwife? Midwife a dead person?" Even for a rough guy like Wang San, his scalp also exploded at this moment. The wrinkles on the deaf mother-in-law's face deepened. She didn't answer. She squatted down and pressed her skinny hands on her squirming belly through her clothes. Cold, stiff, but something was definitely moving down there, struggling to get out. "Carry it into the West Room," the deaf mother-in-law stood up, her tone unmistakable, "San'er, heat up the hot water and prepare scissors, hurry up." She turned to Uncle Li and said, "Old Li Tou, could you please go to my hall and see what the immortals mean." The West Room is where the deaf mother-in-law usually handles "evil things". It has a faint smell of herbs mixed with incense all the year round. The female corpse was placed on the kang covered with old cotton mattresses, and the squirming in her abdomen became more and more obvious. Wang San trembled as he brought hot water and scissors, the rim of the basin made a clicking sound. Just when the deaf mother-in-law wiped the cold hands of the female corpse with a hot towel and was about to take action, the eyelids of the supposedly dead corpse on the kang suddenly trembled, and then opened suddenly! There was no dilated gray in the pupils, but a pair of extremely dark and deep eyes, staring straight into the deaf mother-in-law's face. The female corpse's purple lips moved, and a "gurgling" sound came from her throat, like the sound of a broken bellows. She squeezed out one word at a time: "The child... Can't... Fall..." Before she finished speaking, Uncle Li, who had gone to the main room to see the immortal family's memorial tablet, stepped in with a rare solemnity on his usually steady face, and even a trace of imperceptible surprise. He did not look at the female corpse on the kang, but said solemnly to the deaf mother-in-law: "Old sister, the memorial tablets of the Twelve Immortals' Family... Are all turned, facing the wall." The room was frighteningly quiet for an instant, with only the white steam evaporating from the hot water in the basin twisting silently. The wind outside the window howled even more shrillly, beating the window lattice like countless hands scratching. At the entrance of the hall where twelve orthodox immortals are enshrined with four beams and eight pillars, the tablets turned their backs on their own. What this meant was clear to both Deaf Granny and Uncle Li. The female corpse lying on the kang, with her belly twitching and her eyes open in warning, was probably not carrying a "child" that could be easily delivered. At this moment, the squirming in the belly suddenly became violent, as if something was impatient to break through the barrier of death and come to this ghost festival night where the wind and snow were blowing and the fairy family retreated.

21. 21 把 Give Me Back My Soul 把老子的魂魄还给我 The Key Bearer神持钥Mystery644k WordsCompleted My name is Lin Zhou, and I'm a security guard. After I lost my job, my childhood friend Erwa found me a high-paying security job at a hotel. I soon discovered that everything about the place was strange. There wasn't a soul around during the day, but at night it was bustling, sending chills down my spine. I tried desperately to escape the hotel, but no matter how far I ran, I couldn't get away... 152Reads6.8Score—Shelves

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    That's because I'm cowardly!! [Petrochemical][Petrochemical][Petrochemical]

22. 22 人 A World Out of Balance 人间失衡 Xiao Youqian萧有钱Mystery94k WordsCompleted [Mind-bending suspense + short stories + no overarching plot + crime + criminal investigation + shocking twists + stories of ordinary people] The deepest wounds are often inflicted by those closest to us. A bloody case at an old family home, shrouded in mystery. Who is the real killer? After her father dies of illness, her sister-in-law sells her to northern Myanmar! The body of a baby girl is found in the woods. A kidnapping case turns into a murder investigation. Who would target an innocent i 232Reads8.3Score—Shelves
23. 23 循 The Loop 循环 Drunken Seventh Master醉了的七爷Mystery133k WordsCompleted From losing everything to striking it rich overnight, Wang Hao wins at the gambling table for five days straight. But there are no free lunches, and in the end, his greed will make him pay a terrible price! In a single night, Wang Hao vanishes without a trace. Awei, Wang Hao's friend, reports him missing to the police, then secretly investigates his whereabouts. Unexpectedly, one eerie incident after another follows! Someone who died more than twenty years ago reappears! As he digs deeper, he di 256Reads8.3Score—Shelves
24. 24 失 Out of Control 失控者 lookMystery100k WordsCompleted [Anthology stories + supernatural horror + folk customs + feng shui and mysticism + subtle scares + jaw-dropping twists] Open a paper box sealed away for many years, and one terrifying incident after another begins to surface. The massacre that wiped out an entire family in Nanhua Estate, and the deaths of everyone connected to the case! A bride in a red qipao appearing by your side in the dead of night! Strange legends circulate through a dilapidated high-rise, where hands reach out of the dark 26Reads—Score—Shelves
25. 25 我 I Was a Detective in the Republic of China 我在民国当侦探 Sun Mingyuan孙铭苑Urban146k WordsCompleted [Republican-era investigations + Anthology stories + Male leads + Strong leads + Folk customs] Gao Ren has been having an awful run of luck lately. He accidentally offended a rich young master and nearly got thrown in jail! Luckily, while making his escape, he ran into a gullible little Taoist priest. The little priest wasn’t just good-looking, he was also willing to be Gao Ren’s money tree! He could perform rituals and solve baffling cold cases, too! Gao Ren stuck close to the little priest, se 238Reads8.9Score—Shelves
26. 26 访 Spirit-Seeking Case Files 3: The Grudge of the Wronged 访灵笔录3：冤亲赋 Mr. Tipsy酩酊和先生Mystery195k WordsCompleted [Mystery] [Supernatural] [Strong Duo] [Lighthearted] [Episodic Stories] [Ghostly Tales] [Ensemble Ghost-Hunting] "Love gives rise to sorrow; love gives rise to fear." "An evil spirit lives inside my body. I don't know when it will devour me." A naked woman's corpse is discovered in an underground parking garage, her chest stuffed with weeds and her organs missing. A string of murders throws the entire city into panic! Quan Ning accidentally gets caught up in this bizarre case. As clues gradually 36Reads7.9Score—Shelves
27. 27 访 Spirit-Seeking Case Files 1: The Road to the Yellow Springs 访灵笔录1：黄泉路 Mr. Tipsy酩酊和先生Mystery202k WordsCompleted [Mystery] [Supernatural] [A Powerful Duo] [Lighthearted] [Episodic Stories] [Ghostly Tales] [Ensemble Cast Hunting Ghosts] "The road to the Yellow Springs stretches for thousands of miles. The living and the dead are separated, with only fate to reunite them in another life." Quan Ning got into a car accident on a mountain road. As he lay on the brink of death, a man claiming to be a ghost judge from the underworld offered him a chance to live. "I'll lend you ten years. Interest is three percent 108Reads8.6Score—Shelves
28. 28 恶 Dark Tales 5: The Power Game 恶谭5：权势局 The Out-of-Control Editorial Department失控编辑部Mystery243k WordsCompleted [Mystery + Criminal investigation + Deduction + Case-by-case mysteries + The depths of human nature + No romance + Focused on solving cases] [Beneath the power, there is nothing but desire] A dismembered body is found in an alley, its bones and flesh mixed with pork. The brutal method of killing is appalling, and the victim’s wife has vanished without a trace! A popular young star dies mysteriously in a luxury hotel. The crime scene is covered in blood, but a malfunctioning surveillance system l 110Reads9.2Score100Shelves
29. 29 恶 Dark Tales 4: Tides of the Sea of Hate 恶谭4：恨海潮 The Out-of-Control Editorial Department失控编辑部Urban175k WordsCompleted [Mystery + Criminal investigation + Deduction + Case-by-case mysteries + The depths of human nature + No romance + Focused on solving cases] [Love and hate are poison. In excess, they consume flesh and blood and devour the soul.] A student at a foreign studies university carries explosives into a classroom, causing a tragedy that shocks the entire city! A wealthy boy vanishes on a rainy night, and his body surfaces in the river the next day. But the circumstances of his drowning are riddled with 191Reads9.3Score103Shelves
30. 30 恶 Dark Tales 3: The Abyss of Desire 恶谭3：欲望渊 The Out-of-Control Editorial Department失控编辑部Mystery209k WordsCompleted [Mystery + criminal investigation + deduction + episodic cases + the depths of human nature + no romance + solving cases] [Desire is a wildfire, hard to contain once it spreads. It burns away reason, leaving only ashes behind.] Young Jiang Tingxu was presumed to have died by suicide, but years later he suddenly reappears and mercilessly kills the family members he once knew. A bizarre family history begins to come to light... The shocking discovery of several skeletons brings Longxue Village, a 178Reads9.2Score109Shelves
31. 31 恶 Dark Tales 2: The Fame and Fortune Circuit 恶谭2：名利场 The Out-of-Control Editorial Department失控编辑部Mystery267k WordsCompleted [Mind-bending mystery + criminal investigation + deduction + episodic stories + the depths of human nature + stunning twists + hard-core sleuthing] “Where fame and fortune reign, disputes are sure to arise.” A woman's corpse hidden inside a Buddha statue in an ancient temple, a mysterious online celebrity, and a group of suspects with tangled connections: Tan Zheng takes on a baffling murder case. As the investigation deepens, he discovers that the case is far more complicated than it first appe 244Reads9.3Score104Shelves
32. 32 访 Record of the Spirit Seekers 2: Farewell to the Mortal World 访灵笔录2：入世辞 Mr. Tipsy酩酊和先生Mystery196k WordsCompleted [Mystery + supernatural + powerful partners + lively humor + episodic stories + ghostly tales + an ensemble cast hunting ghosts] “Nothing brings greater joy than meeting a new friend; nothing brings greater sorrow than parting from a loved one.” A chance encounter with a beauty on Ghost Wasteland Mountain turns out to be a deadly ghost's attempt to claim a soul! Karmic ties from a past life and entanglements in this one: whose mistake is it, and whose fate? Quan Ning and Yin Cangyi are accidenta 38Reads7.9Score—Shelves
33. 33 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 456Reads9.3Score—Shelves

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    Now I keep my eyes open until dawn, and I feel unsafe even if I turn on the light in the middle of the night! [Petrochemical][Petrochemical][Petrochemical]

34. 34 阴 The Yin-Yang Hot Pot Restaurant 阴阳火锅店 Yan Huo炎火Mystery806k WordsCompleted I took over a hot pot restaurant from my second uncle. He told me never to serve customers a yuan yang hot pot after midnight! After I took over the place, everything I believed in began to crumble... One night, I wasn't paying attention and served a couple a yuan yang hot pot. The next day, I saw in the newspaper that the couple had died! They'd jumped to their deaths together! After that, every night at midnight, a strange couple would appear in my restaurant and ask me to make them a yuan yan 1.6kReads7.7Score—Shelves
35. 35 我 I Might Have Changed the Wrong Fate 我可能改了个假命 Knife in the Sleeve袖里刀Mystery808k WordsCompleted When I was little, my mom asked a Taoist priest to tell my fortune. He said I'd face a calamity at 26, and that he'd come help me get through it the day before my 26th birthday. When the day finally came, the priest really did show up to change my fate. He even gave me a “Fate-Changing Ruler” and told me I had to change the fates of seven people with different destinies to survive the calamity. Otherwise, I'd only have five years left to live. So much for changing my fate for me! Did he only cha 76Reads8.9Score—Shelves
36. 36 阴 The Netherworld Inn 阴间客栈 Sun Jiu Hutu孙九糊涂Mystery814k WordsCompleted My name is Qin Yu. While on a business trip, I checked into a uniquely styled inn called the Yin Room Inn. It even offered “special services” in the middle of the night. Little did I know it was an inn from the underworld. I began having nightmare after nightmare, and my friends kept getting into trouble... 2.4kReads9.0Score137Shelves
37. 37 我 My Years as a Buddhist Nun 我当师太的那些年 Gold Is Money金子就是钞票Mystery1.6M WordsCompleted I was born a girl with a Pure Yang fate into a family of feng shui masters. For generations, my family had practiced feng shui in the countryside. My grandfather had hoped his eldest grandchild would be a boy, so he could pass down his skills to the eldest son and grandson. But I turned out to be a girl. Grandfather never took a liking to me, so my parents could only take me to live in the city. No one expected that, during the Ghost Festival in the year I turned twenty-five, Grandfather would s 373Reads8.7Score—Shelves
38. 38 我 I Run a Paper Effigy Shop 我有一间扎纸店 Er Lei二雷Mystery806k WordsCompleted I Have a Paper Effigy Shop tells the story of the protagonist, Liu Dabao, who runs a shop making paper effigies. One day, a guy named Li Xunhuan asked me to burn him a villa and gave me a jade pendant, saying someone would come to collect it later. That evening, a woman came to pick up the pendant and gave me a thousand yuan. But who could have guessed that the next day, the money vanished and turned into a pile of white paper! Was it ghost money for the dead? Were Li Xunhuan and that woman both 130Reads8.7Score—Shelves
39. 39 都 It's All the Haunted House's Fault 都是凶宅惹的祸 Nightfall夜色Mystery907k WordsCompleted I'm a mystery writer. In search of inspiration, I moved into a house rumored to be haunted. Every night, a horribly disfigured face appeared in the window, and outside, the rotten corpse of a woman hung from a tree. I realized then that this really was a haunted house! Gradually, my family began acting strangely, and we even found a mummified corpse sealed inside the wall for years! As I investigated further, I came across something even more terrifying… 110Reads8.7Score—Shelves
40. 40 万 Corpse-Walking Notes 2: The Myriad Forms Celestial Palace 《赶尸笔记2》万象天宫 Dream's Evil梦之邪Mystery112k WordsCompleted Corpses driven along by corpse herders are known in the martial world as "corpses traveling ten thousand miles." It is said that in the Xiangxi region, some people make a living herding corpses. The Corpse Sect is one such group. Qin Shuang runs a funeral business; Brother Jiu has ties to both the underworld and the police; Haozi has just gotten out of prison; Baldy makes his living robbing and relocating tombs; and mute A-Wu is a skilled fighter shrouded in mystery. What kind of extraordinary s 104Reads8.6Score—Shelves
41. 41 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… 83.1kReads9.3Score15.1kShelves

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    The elders in rural areas often say that "the soul of the deceased weighs on the coffin" because they are afraid that the soul of the deceased will be reluctant to leave home when it returns, disturbing the living relatives. After my grandfather passed away that year, we kept vigil at night. The elders specifically asked me to place the blue shirt he often wore next to the coffin, saying that it would rest in peace for his soul and make it easier for him to leave.

42. 42 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

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    A horror thriller that is too good to put down.

43. 43 午 Midnight Wonders 午夜惊奇 Qiao Dou Ma Dai QAQ桥豆麻袋QAQUrban171k WordsCompleted At the stroke of midnight, amid a terrifying atmosphere, strange ghost stories begin to unfold! A bluish-white hand suddenly appears on the window in the middle of the night. Is it looking for someone to take revenge on? A bus still running in the dead of night: does it lead to the world of the living or to hell? The shapewear hanging in the wardrobe at home is made of human skin! During the Qingming Festival, a figure appears in the glass of the bathhouse. After returning to her room, a beautif 420Reads8.7Score—Shelves
44. 44 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 2.3kReads9.0Score163Shelves

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    Blame me for not having a strong heart [Petrochemical][Petrochemical]

45. 45 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... 295Reads8.7Score—Shelves
46. 46 午 Midnight Terror: Human Nature Stories That Will Haunt You 午夜惊魂：让人细思极恐的人性故事 Gold Is Money金子就是钞票Mystery142k WordsCompleted At midnight, let's listen together to the little stories that circulate all around us. Maybe they're true. Maybe you've heard them too, or even experienced them yourself. Those moments that grow more terrifying the more you think about them go perfectly with the pitch-black night beyond the window. Red brick walls are common in many places. But we've never stopped to wonder: why are those bricks so red, so vivid? Rideshares at night aren't necessarily safe. Passengers have their concerns, and dr 599Reads8.8Score—Shelves
47. 47 民 Tales of the Supernatural 民间怪谈录 Qu Gaofeng曲高峰Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted [Rural Horror Stories + Anthology + Folk Horror Tales + Chinese Supernatural] Supernatural happenings are most likely to occur in mountain villages, and the stories we've heard may well have really happened. In the eerie night wind, Granny Hao, the midwife who receives the dead, is like a messenger from the underworld, guiding the spirits of helpless mothers and children home. Locust trees commune with spirits, and poplars attract yin energy. Beneath the village's ancient trees lie secrets that 1.1kReads8.9Score105Shelves
48. 48 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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    The paper-making shop deep in the old alley always lights up at midnight, with red candles reflecting the smiling eyes of paper figures, and paper money rustling in the wind. Grandma Wang said that every paper lantern is tied to a wandering spirit, and the buyer of the lantern must pay half a lifetime. Last night I took a peek inside the shop and saw that the paper man had put on my clothes. His fingertips were poking through the crack in the door. A small whisper came from his throat: "It's your turn to accompany me..."

49. 49 民 The Folk Feng Shui Master 民间风水之王 Miao Qimiao苗棋淼Mystery3.0M WordsCompleted The Nine Cauldrons Dragon Palace, the Secret Files of the Yellow Springs, the Snow Mountain Corpse Demon, the Yin-Yang Inn... Ever since I borrowed a life from the underworld, I have known no peace. Every time I borrow a life, it becomes a deadly game. After each desperate struggle and narrow escape, I wait for the next secret order from the underworld so I can keep living. Just when I thought I'd escaped the clutches of fate, I discovered that Heaven had prepared a coffin for me too! 50kReads9.4Score5.9kShelves

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    This is truly a breath of fresh air among folk horror novels! The monks use Taoist methods to overcome evil spirits, and the game between demons and human nature is particularly exciting and full of atmosphere. The setting is rigorous and there are many foreshadowings, and the plot becomes more exciting as you go to the end. Those who like hard-core wits and stories about monsters can give it a try.

50. 50 聊 Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio: I Asked You to Repay Your Debt, Not Paint Skins and Ghosts 聊斋：让你还债，没让你画皮画鬼 On Jiufeng Mountain九峰山上Eastern Fantasy125k WordsOngoing [Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio + Bizarre Cultivation + No System + Subverting Expectations + Folk Supernatural Tales + Becoming a God Through Painting + Dark Tone + Lovecraftian Horror + Clever Protagonist + Decisive and Ruthless + Not Mindless Wish Fulfillment] Transmigrating into Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, I find myself trapped in the deadly predicament of The Painted Skin from the start, and saddled with an unpayable debt to the dead? Don't panic. I have a White Bone Brush tha 506Reads—Score—Shelves

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