Any Recommendations for Mystery and Supernatural Novels? 有没有悬疑灵异的推荐
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The Spirit Medium’s Journal: Strange Encounters on the Job 出马实录：我出马遇到的邪乎事儿
[Feng Shui and the Eight Trigrams + folk arcane arts + sorcery + Qimen Dunjia] I was born in a small county in Northeast China. My ancestors hunted fox spirits, killed yellow spirits, and soaked snakes in liquor. Our family also had a whole spirit retinue, so I was born destined to make my living this way. It was fate, so I went along with it and became a spiritual medium. Along the way, I encountered all kinds of bizarre, horrifying, and downright eerie events. [This story is adapted from real
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Fellow Daoist, Stay Alive, or This Poor Priest Won’t Be Able to Sleep 道友不死，贫道睡不着啊
Unorthodox paths have existed since ancient times! The righteous despise them, and the heretical sects reject them. Gu Xiu, proprietor of Zero Affairs, is an unorthodox cultivator registered with Bureau 749. Those in the mystic arts who want to show him respect call him the Celestial Evil Daoist. Those who don’t will kindly call him Old Demon Gu in their dying moments. “Our grudges are settled. Now, fellow cultivator, please go and die. Otherwise, I won’t be able to sleep!”
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After My Master Left, the Funeral Shop Became Connected to the Underworld 师父走后，白事店连通了地府
[Completed story + supernatural horror + funeral customs + no female lead] After my master passed away, I took over the funeral shop’s business. Only then did I realize that my master had tricked me. This funeral shop was actually connected to the underworld. It didn’t just handle business from the living world; it also had to take care of all kinds of requests from the dead. Wayward children, heartless parents, sinister relatives... The living are hard to deal with, and the dead are even harder
9.3kReads8.6Score1.3kShelves
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The Secrets Behind the Stars 明星背后的隐秘
From the big-eyed actress who sacrifices her children for wealth and status, to the martial-arts superstar who uses metaphysics to prolong his life; from the steel-cannon director who turns to metaphysics to conceive a child, to the wealthy actress whom tycoons treat like a human Pixiu, bringing her into the entertainment industry to attract wealth. Few people know how many sordid, dark truths lie beneath the entertainment world’s glittering facade! As a feng shui agent who has spent twenty year
351.1kReads9.2Score63.8kShelves
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The Daoist Descends the Mountain: The Revival of Eerie Energy 道爷下山之诡气复苏
The uncanny returns, throwing yin and yang out of balance. Ghosts and monsters roam by night, slaughtering people until the human world becomes a living hell. Everyone lives in constant fear. Only I emerge from a mountain Taoist temple. I cultivate the Great Way of Yin and Yang, wield the art of slaying the uncanny, and shatter all illusions and evil spirits. Evil spirits wreaking havoc? I will suppress them with Taoist arts. The uncanny tide spreading? I will cut it down with a single sword. De
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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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I Am the King of Hell Among Men, and No Ghost May Pass! 我，人间阎王，百鬼禁行！
[Traditional folk customs + no romance + slow burn + character growth + not a wish-fulfillment story + proceed with caution if that bothers you!] The night I was born, underworld messengers came to claim my life, and vengeful ghosts tried to seize my soul. But they didn’t know I was destined to be the Yin Emperor... I was born with the fate of the Ziwei Star! On the Cold Clothes Festival, a hundred ghosts surrounded our home, hoping to steal my fate and take over my body. To keep me alive, my
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The Northeast’s Top Yin Tattoo Master 东北第一纹阴师
[Mystery · Thriller · Modern · Horror · Urban · Supernatural] When I was eighteen, my dad died in a car accident. My mom took the compensation money and ran off with some pretty boy. To take care of my younger sister, I dropped out of school and got a job at a tattoo parlor. That was how I discovered a remarkable art: yin tattoos. They attract wealth, turn your luck around, and bring romance. They cure illnesses, ward off evil, and boost your career. My name is Yang Wei, and I’m the eighteenth-g
2.8kReads7.8Score177Shelves
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Chen Buqi, the Little Taoist 小道士陈不欺
Hello, everyone. My name is Chen Buqi. My professions include Taoist priest, locksmith, cook, phone repairman, driver, and tomb-raiding consultant…. I have too many to list them all. I was raised by my master and martial uncle! They were both incredible! I only learned that after coming back from my first year out in the world. Because I liked to play around, I also squandered a lot of techniques that people would have envied! Fortunately, I devoted myself to physiognomy and mastered two special
106.1kReads9.0Score7.2kShelves
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Late-Night Hot Pot Shop: Serving Only the Ghost Messengers 深夜火锅店：只为鬼差服务
Low-key version She dropped out of school at thirteen and worked as a chef until she was nineteen. With the savings Lin Ye had scraped together over those six years, he opened a hot pot restaurant. Who could have guessed his venture would get off to such a poor start, with business so slow the place was about to close? Just as he was wondering what to do next, two customers showed up on the restaurant's final night and changed his life... Grim Reaper: “Boss Lin, your hot pot is so spicy. It
35.2kReads9.1Score3.2kShelves
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My Surname Is Zhang, Like the Jade Emperor's 我姓张，玉皇大天尊那个张
Zhang Qingyuan, a livestreamer who explores haunted villages, dies right from the start. But when he enters the underworld, he discovers that his phone came with him and that he can livestream from beyond the grave... So first, he'll livestream himself beating up the father of the owner of Kuaidou, the platform's CEO. The guy kept calling him a feudal superstitious fool and banning his livestream room... The underworld, the ghost city of Fengdu, the Eighteen Levels of Hell, the Bridge of Helples
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Fellow Daoist, Why Is Your Human Emperor Banner Belching Black Smoke? 道友，你这人皇幡怎么冒黑烟啊？
Even unorthodox paths can lead to Heaven! This poor Daoist has always been a bit timid. If I don’t pull up the roots after cutting the grass, I won’t be able to sleep at night! Heh heh heh... I, He An, am your great calamity!
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Livestream Fortune-Telling: The Unknown D-Lister Takes the Internet by Storm 直播算命：十八线小透明爆红全网
[Two male leads + livestreamed fortune-telling + ghost hunting + entertainment industry + episodic stories] Lu Jin, a minor celebrity, was blacklisted after refusing to submit to unspoken rules and beating up a greasy old man. Faced with a huge breach-of-contract penalty and the dissolution of his studio, he chose to take poison. A short-lived young Celestial Master was reborn in his body. Having gained a life for free, he had no choice but to start livestreaming fortune-telling and earn money t
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My Wife Is a Snake 我的老婆是条蛇
When I was born, nine snakes were coiled around the roof beams. They called it Nine Dragons Sending a Son, and it meant I’d face eighty-one calamities before turning nine. If I could get through them, I’d enjoy great wealth and success. To keep me alive, my grandfather made me marry a snake as my wife. He also had me marry into someone else’s family and take their surname…
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Who'd Have Thought This Guy Was a Ghost-Catching Taoist Master? 这货居然是捉鬼天师
The protagonist, Wang Yang, is a gifted Taoist with a fragment of Emperor Fengdu's soul hidden within him. He has trained in the mountains since childhood, and Black and White Impermanence are his childhood friends. One day, after blowing up his master's alchemy furnace out of sheer boredom, he is kicked off the mountain to gain experience. At the foot of the mountain, he meets his martial uncle. On the way, he hears that the Taoist world is holding a new disciple tournament, so he heads there t
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The Yin and Yang of the Mist 迷雾阴阳
The Municipal Public Security Bureau's Special Cases Investigation Division, or Special Investigations Division for short, specializes in supernatural incidents that defy rational explanation. Shen Yanzhi, an officer in the division who is calm, rational, and skilled in talismans and spells, meets Lin Mo, a descendant of a family of yin-yang masters whose bloodline can suppress evil forces and whose gentle nature conceals a stubborn streak, while investigating a case. Together, they gradually un
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The Spirit Medium's Hall: Let's See What This Client's Deal Is 出马鬼堂：我看看这缘主怎么个事
My name is Zhou Tie. In this book, I'll tell the true story of my ten years running a spirit hall and serving ghosts. You've heard of spirit mediums... but have you heard of a ghost spirit hall? At eighteen, I established a ghost spirit hall and served ghost immortals! The presiding master was the sister my grandfather said had gone mad and died! This book has no female lead. It's not fantasy, and it's definitely not a cultivation novel! It's the true story of how I, born with an ominous yin con
45.4kReads9.6Score3.7kShelves
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My Years as a Feng Shui Consultant in the Entertainment Industry 我在娱乐圈当风水顾问的那些年
Corpse-oil lipstick, raising little ghosts, summoning fox spirits, tattooed talismans: some celebrities will stop at nothing to get famous and go viral. My name is Chen Tian. I'm a feng shui consultant who moves in entertainment circles, specializing in handling the aftermath for celebrities who rose to fame through supernatural means.
87.2kReads9.0Score12.1kShelves
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The Midnight Ghost Market: Living People Keep Out 午夜鬼市，活人回避
[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
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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!
20.5kReads9.2Score2.6kShelves
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The Supernatural Returns, and the Eternal Night Begins 灵异复苏，永夜降临
[Supernatural horrors descend + no System + fresh worldbuilding + survival + semi-infinite-flow + no do-gooder protagonist + not dark + supernatural abilities] In the best years of his life, amid the exuberance of youth, Su Yuan thought his days would remain peaceful and beautiful forever. Then a line of bloody text appeared on the blackboard during evening study. [In the silent night, a terrifying ghost appears outside your dorm room... How long will it take to kill you?] Everyone thought it wa
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Fellow Daoist, Who Are You Talking To? 道友，你在和谁说话？
Also known as The Whole Cast Are Evil Immortals and The Whole Cast Are Evil Immortals: I Have a Temple for Cultivating Immortals [No Angst] [Unhinged] [High Stakes from Start to Finish] There is a rumor of a temple somewhere in the world, with a patch of magical soil inside. Just treat a person as a "seed" and plant them in the soil, and they can become an immortal. Li Shiwu has spent ten years seeking immortality. At last, he finds the temple and plants himself in the soil, but he never expecte
195.8kReads9.0Score20.7kShelves
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My Gunplay Is the Way: I Use an M1911 to Exorcise Ghosts 枪法即道法，我用M1911驱鬼
(Just got a rating) (harem) (urban high martial arts, supernatural mysteries, Taoist priest, multiple heroines, daily life, ghost-hunting with firearms, urban supernatural abilities, SCP-like, no System, solving cases, tomboy, childhood friends, tsundere) “Have you made up your mind?” “I have.” Wu Kui picks up the document and signs his name. “A true hero, and so young!” “No. I just don’t want to be kept in the dark.” To protect Wen Wan, an innocent girl with a rare Yin fate who is repeatedly ta
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A Record of Yin-Yang Ghost Hunting 阴阳抓鬼实录
[High-intensity warning! This is not fiction, but a true record from the depths of the countryside!] Think the “filthy things,” “spirit collisions,” and “ghosts walking walls” the old folks talk about are just legends? It wasn't until I inherited my grandfather's tattered book of exorcism records that I understood reality is far more spine-chilling than any story. The sound of a woman crying by the reservoir in the middle of the night, tombstones moving by themselves in a desolate graveyard, a d
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The Haunted Shroud 诡寿衣
My family sells burial clothes. Every seven days, a woman comes to order a set. Only at the end did I discover she had been ordering burial clothes for all four members of my family.
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The Folk Ghost Hunter 民间捉鬼人
This novel tells the true story of an old man from our village. His name was Li Zhengyu, and he was an extraordinary practitioner of the occult. Born in a small village in the mountains of Lingnan, he became tainted by yin energy after being haunted by the ghosts of a mother and daughter, and repeatedly encountered supernatural beings. By chance, he met a master of Daoist arts and began his journey of cultivation, changing the course of his life. Evil Maoshan curses, poison and witchcraft, treas
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Secret Folk Arts for Exorcising Ghosts 民间捉鬼秘术
A calamity when I was fourteen changed my whole life. Then, at eighteen, I was set firmly on the path of yin and yang, where I mastered top-tier secret arts and went ever farther along the road of slaying demons and vanquishing evil.
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Strange Tales from Western Henan 豫西诡事
You may think I’m telling a story, but these are things I’ve experienced firsthand over the past ten-odd years. You don’t have to believe me, but are you sure everyone you’ve met was human? Science can’t explain everything…
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Strange Tales from a Desolate Village 荒村异闻
In Baihuai Village, nestled deep in the mountains, strange things happen every year when the rain falls without pause during the seventh lunar month. There is the tattered red cloth that hangs year-round from the ancient pagoda tree at the village entrance, the forbidden grounds in the hills behind the village that no one is allowed to approach, and the indistinct figures that appear only at midnight...
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Lan the Demon Hunter 捉妖人蓝
This world is home to demons, ghosts, and true cultivators. A top cultivator died at the hands of a tree demon that should never have been able to kill him. The bodies of seven drowned students all pointed with their right hands toward the same spot beneath the water. In a desolate mountain, the powers of the Earth God, Mountain God, River Goddess, and City God all answered to the same woman. Lan Yifang had seen plenty of things like these. Before dealing with anything strange, he always made
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Collected Records of the Way 行道集录
I am a descendant of Taigong. The gods need not stand aside. Following his ancestors' teachings, Lü Bugu practices the Dao, destroys demons and evil, and uses his mortal body as a hammer to temper his Daoist heart and refine his arts. The Great Dao is not found in famous mountains and ancient temples. The mortal world tempers the heart, and the Great Dao is never walked alone.
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I Am a Female Sorcerer 在下女术师
The night Bai Zhou returned home to inherit the funeral-clothing shop, someone tried to murder her... From the moment she came back from the dead, she was swept up in one eerie, chilling case after another. A dead old woman wandering through a funeral hall; vengeful spirits who died violent deaths scrambling to find substitutes; a sinister temple in the mountains where people are killed; evil spirits crying out for justice during a performance of Judge Bao... Watch Bai Zhou learn the Taoist Five
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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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The Best Feng Shui Master on the Construction Site 工地最强建筑风水师
[Campus opening · Wild imagination · Feng Shui Mysticism · Supernatural Strange Events · Hu, Huang, Bai, Liu, and Hui (Spirit Mediums) · Bureau 749 · Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Mohism, and Legalism · Gu Poison Duels · Qimen Dunjia · Mohist Mechanisms · Lu Ban Craft · Reincarnated Living Buddha]! Cultivate righteousness to uphold heaven and earth, and keep a touch of bandit spirit to put petty men in their place. Nurture seven parts chivalry to roam the world, and carry three parts roguishne
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Long Night: Prometheus 长夜：普罗米修斯
After stealing fire for humankind, Prometheus was punished by the gods and chained to a mountain. When superpowers are no longer myth but science, how will people respond? How should the one who stole fire for humanity be treated? If ordinary people gain superpowers without restriction, will it be a blessing or a disaster? How much longer will the night last? Featuring science fiction, superpowers, espionage, mystery, romance, combat, horror, and more. This is the author's first work, so please
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