Looking for Eerie, Terrifying Stories with Lots of Tragedy and a High Body Count 求诡异，惊悚，刀子多，人死的快的书

1. 1 恐 Terrifying Nightmare: Extreme Survival in a Bizarre World 恐怖噩梦：我在诡异世界极限逃生 Young Bear年轻熊Mystery1.2M WordsOngoing [Infinite-flow, mildly scary, no romance] Wang Yan wearily opened his front door. Inside, he saw the woman next door holding and soothing a baby, staring at him in terror. “Sorry, I’ve got the wrong apartment.” He quickly apologized and backed out, then slammed the door shut. Standing in the pitch-black hallway, he found himself unable to decide what was more terrifying: seeing his female neighbor in his home, or seeing the baby who had died long ago… 410.7kReads9.4Score78kShelves

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   My recommendations are absolutely okay. I don't remember how the fourth one was, but I think it deserves a recommendation. The first one and "The Ghost House" are definitely okay. As for the others, it depends on personal taste. I got into them and thought they were flawless.

2. 2 道 The Supreme Daoist: Endless Slaughter 道门太上：无尽杀戮 Peeing Into the Wind, Soaking a Shoe迎风尿一鞋Mystery566k WordsCompleted Offer blood to Heaven and slaughter every evil. The arts of the Daoist sect shall be supreme! All the great paths under Heaven come from the Supreme One. The Supreme One has but one lineage: the Li family! (No female lead, no harem, no System, and not a story where the protagonist is completely invincible.) 8.7kReads9.3Score610Shelves
3. 3 法 The Peerless Mage 法师无双 Feiyi匪夷Mystery1.3M WordsCompleted A top sorcerer who once led the Heavenly Masters’ Court returns, only to be cast out by his powerful family. As he prepares to leave, he discovers that his younger female cousin has fallen victim to dark magic… 3.9kReads9.1Score483Shelves
4. 4 诡 The Haunted City of Dreams 诡梦迷城 July Wife七月妻Mystery1.5M WordsCompleted [Manhua adaptation and high-quality live-action audio drama now available] [Infinite progression + mystery + mind-bending puzzles + supernatural powers + paranormal horror. No System, no harem, no brainless plot. Read with caution if these are deal-breakers.] When I woke up, everything around me had become eerie and terrifying. My dead roommate called me, repeating over and over the struggle of his final moments... A pair of slender, snow-white legs appeared mysteriously on a bed in the boys' do 42.2kReads8.7Score4.7kShelves
5. 5 巡 The Yin-Walker 巡阴人 Feiyi匪夷Mystery1.7M WordsCompleted Applying makeup to the dead, reading the winds and assessing the land, preparing bodies for burial, and performing rites on the seventh day after death. Scorched corpses: cleaning the body, applying rouge, painting the features! Bodies cut in half at the waist: removing the organs, filling the cavities, and stitching the body back together! I was born into a family that made its living from the dead, so I grew up dealing with corpses. I’ve seen all sorts of bizarre ways to die and countless inex 8.4kReads9.1Score1.1kShelves
6. 6 诡EN The House of Dread 诡舍 The Sound of Wind and Rain at Night,夜来风雨声丶Mystery2.1M WordsCompleted [Infinite-flow + Mild Horror + Survival + One Female Lead] A driverless bus carried a group of cursed people to a strange black lodge… Inside the lodge stood a door stained red with blood. At regular intervals, the cursed were forcibly dragged through the blood-red door and into terrifying worlds, where they had to complete horrifying events… After Ning Qiushui survived one bizarre and terrifying story after another inside the lodge, narrowly escaping death each time, he discovered that none of 707.4kReads9.6Score103.9kShelves
7. 7 人 I'm in Malaysia, and I'm Going to Slay Ghosts and Demons 人在大马，我要斩鬼除魔 Tiger Who Eats Apples吃苹果的老虎Mystery422k WordsOngoing Moonlight flows like water, while daylight cuts like a blade. On the path to immortality, I slay the heavens' chosen ones. Clad in black, I grip the Tiger Soul blade, scale the heights of Cangwu, and stride across emerald waves. On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, the gates of the underworld open. When migrant workers venture abroad, they discover how dangerous the outside world can be. They encounter ghosts at ten thousand meters in the air, while the hot lands of Southeast Asia conceal 514Reads—Score—Shelves

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   Eerie and terrifying, humans are powerless against them.

8. 8 当 When the Uncanny Descends on the World, Death Is the End 当诡异降临世界，死亡即是终点 Qingyuan Vocational High School Prodigy庆元职高小天才Mystery2.5M WordsOngoing [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 390.6kReads9.3Score43.5kShelves

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   These are all great books, with lots of plot twists; they're the kind you can't put down once you start reading.

9. 9 雪 Snowflake Town 雪粒镇 Sister Corpse尸姐Modern Romance130k WordsCompleted [Ji Handeng, a fragile, sickly, dark-minded younger brother x Xu Qiongqiong, a kind, resilient older sister who loves money] [Modern romance + mutual salvation + healing + older woman/younger man romance + revenge + cover-up + high-stakes twists] Xu Qiongqiong and Ji Handeng are siblings with no blood ties. In a small, poor town full of secrets, they rely on each other and keep one another warm. Their days hold happiness and pain, darkness and budding affection. Their shared goal is to leave Xue 84.7kReads9.7Score11.5kShelves
10. 10 1EN The Last Bus on Route 13 13路末班车 Old Eighty老八零Mystery813k WordsCompleted 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! 13.5kReads9.2Score1.7kShelves
11. 11 十EN Ten Days to the End 十日终焉 Pest Control Team Member杀虫队队员Mystery3.2M WordsCompleted 2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat 1.7MReads9.9Score207.7kShelves
12. 12 我 There’s a Ghost Inside Me 我的体内有只鬼 A Black-Inked Blade一柄墨刀Mystery3.5M WordsCompleted Vengeful ghosts awaken, and a hundred ghosts roam the night. Jiang Xiao transmigrates into this world for no apparent reason and finds himself surrounded by demons and monsters. But then he discovers that his shadow can devour ghosts without limit and gain their abilities. [Successfully devoured the White Mist Ghost. Ability acquired: Mist Form] [Successfully devoured the Hanging Ghost. Ability acquired: Shackles] [Successfully devoured the Bronze Ghost. Ability acquired: Copper Skin] [Successfu 20.7kReads9.3Score2.4kShelves
13. 13 诡 The Haunted Tomb 诡坟 Sugar Quixote糖吉柯德Mystery2.2M WordsCompleted [This is no ordinary paranormal story. It's all about horror and suspense: no mindless wish fulfillment, forbidden yin-yang lore, no cultivation, and a ghost wife. If it's not good, you can break my legs.] People laugh at my family's poverty and say that all my blood relatives have died, so there must be a ghost in our house. I don't dare argue... because there really is a ghost buried in our ancestral grave! ...My name is Zhang Asi... I was born at four in the morning on the fourteenth day of t 40.2kReads8.8Score3.7kShelves
14. 14 请EN Call Me the Ghost Messenger 请叫我鬼差大人 The Cat from the Xu Family徐二家的猫Mystery2.1M WordsCompleted After the Eternal Night, terror returned. Ten miles of desolate graves, eerie singing. An old man searching for his arms, a headless baby... They kept piecing their bodies back together, unleashing an even more terrifying aura. In the wasteland, even a severed hand could destroy heaven and earth. In this world of darkness and despair, a post office appeared and vanished from view... A mysterious young man, a postal carriage traveling through the void... One blood-red letter after another became 102.6kReads9.5Score9.7kShelves
15. 15 宿 Dorm Survival: I Was Pulled into the Management Chat 宿舍求生，我被拉进了管理群 Rolling Eggs翻滚的蛋蛋Mystery4.8M WordsOngoing [Infinite-flow + no saintly heroine + System + survival + satisfying read] When Chen Bei woke up, he found himself in a dormitory survival game, bound to a dorm room. During the day, players had to venture out to gather supplies, grow stronger, and fortify their dorms. When night fell, all kinds of eerie and dangerous creatures appeared. The only way to survive was to hide inside the dorm. People and their dorms lived or died together! Unlike the others, Chen Bei had gained access to the game's 107.1kReads8.9Score8.7kShelves

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    1️⃣This book perfectly fits the requirements; it would be a shame not to die a few times every time you enter the game. 2️⃣This book has a dark, oppressive feel, and also has some dark elements.

16. 16 全EN High Seas Survival: I Start with a Ghost Ship 全民大航海，我开局一条幽灵船 Newly Bought Peaches新买的桃子Sports2.6M WordsCompleted The print edition has been signed with a publisher. [Seafaring] [Survival] [Disasters] [Shipbuilding] [Talents] [Cthulhu] [One Female Lead] Everyone transmigrates, and Yang Yi, as a player, is forced to join a game where everyone must survive at sea. Some lucky players get special ships. Like the Iron Will, armed to the teeth. Like the Gale, which rides the wind and waves so fast it's never in sight. Like the Head-On, with its massive ram, charging fearlessly ahead. But Yang Yi's ship is called 272.1kReads9.4Score27.8kShelves
17. 17 国 National Fate Ghost Stories: The Horror Isn't Violent Enough 国运怪谈：害怕诡异不够暴力 Sweet Tea甘茶Mystery746k WordsCompleted [No Romance + Absurd Humor + Invincible + Comedy + National Fate + Reckless Tough Guy + Analects-Based Fighting + Meme-Filled] National Fate horror stories descend upon Blue Star, and Tang Gang becomes the Dragon Kingdom's third chosen one. While everyone else struggles to survive in the world of horror, he has already begun his rise to becoming the big boss of that world. The ghost from the household: “On the first night, he said, ‘If it's too hard to deal with, then don't deal with it,’ and fl 31.5kReads8.7Score4.5kShelves

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    You can take a look; these four books are all about quick and gruesome violence.

18. 18 开 From the Start, I Had a Trillion in Ghost Coins, and Every Vengeful Spirit Worked for Me 开局万亿冥币，厉鬼都是我员工 Fearless Elephant无畏象Mystery250k WordsCompleted [Also known as: I Use Ghost Money to Dominate the Horror World] The supernatural returned, and terror descended. A horror world invaded the globe in the form of a game. Yi Yuan unexpectedly transmigrated and was reborn before the horror game began. The first thing he did was buy every piece of ghost money in a funeral supply shop. Using his memories and ghost money, he quietly became the mastermind behind the entire horror world. While other players struggled desperately to survive, Yi Yuan alre 269Reads8.2Score103Shelves
19. 19 在 Making My Debut in the Horror Livestream 在惊悚直播中c位出道 Chuyue出月Modern Romance426k WordsCompleted [Mid-to-Short Campus Novel Writing Contest] Accidentally caught up in a horror livestream, Chu Yu chooses to live as boldly as she can. Her teammates: ...Yeah, she’s definitely bold enough. Once selected to become a horror streamer, you have to complete an endless variety of terrifying livestream challenges. To the viewers, the only difference is between dying and waiting to die. Somehow, Chu Yu manages to bring something new to the table. In a hotel where dawn will never come, she wields a bloo 479Reads9.1Score104Shelves
20. 20 惊 Thriller Game: Bro, You’re Scarier Than the Ghosts! 惊悚游戏：大哥你比鬼还凶！ Salted Fish Emperor咸鱼大帝Mystery333k WordsCompleted A year ago, a supernatural force descended upon Blue Star and swept across the globe in an instant through live death broadcasts! Lin Zhi, born under the star of misfortune and destined to be alone, enters the game. While others are tormented by D-rank flesh demons, he awakens his Calamity-Born Physique. While others flee for their lives, he makes the long-haired female ghost dance herself to sleep. In his battle with the Ghost Mother, he burns the entire instance to ashes, accidentally discover 567Reads9.1Score100Shelves
21. 21 恐 Horror's Edge: 100 Absolutely Terrifying Ghost Stories 恐怖边界：100个绝对惊悚的鬼谈 The Out-of-Control Editorial Department失控编辑部Mystery432k WordsCompleted [Standalone Stories + Supernatural Horror + Folk Customs + Feng Shui and Mysticism + Mild Frights + Shocking Twists] Horror tales beyond anything you could imagine. Each story is like a dark door swinging open, drawing you into moments that will make your skin crawl. Listen. A faint whisper, an indescribable shadow creeping closer. Danger by the river, terror in the cemetery, ghost babies in the maternity ward, evil headhunting magic, apparitions at the hot springs, a bloodstained umbrella... On 2.5kReads8.9Score192Shelves

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    This is terrifying beyond belief 😭 I was so scared I couldn't go to the bathroom at night! Anyone understand?! I should have watched it during the day 😭😭

22. 22 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 3.5kReads9.1Score217Shelves
23. 23 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 1.9kReads9.0Score137Shelves
24. 24 全 Global Haunting: I Became the Last City God 全球诡异入侵：我成了末代城隍 Mr. Deer Runs Really Fast鹿先森跑的贼快Urban689k WordsCompleted Rifts in the Nether Ruins tear reality apart, and demons from another realm descend. Awakened scientists shoulder guns and cannons, while practitioners of ancient arts emerge from seclusion with swords in hand. And I, Chen Mo, will revive the ancient traditions of western Hunan. At the Sunken Mausoleum's underwater palace, I slay a giant alligator with my sword and seize its water-fiend pearl. At the summit of Huping Mountain, I summon the Tang dynasty's Mountain-Quelling Sword and destroy the 2Reads—Score—Shelves

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    [Tomato Bestseller - Folk Suspense] 📚 --- *Global Bizarre Invasion: I Became the Last City God* — A chilling yet thrilling folk suspense masterpiece that will send chills down your spine and get your blood pumping! --- 🔥 Synopsis: A global invasion by otherworldly beings has unleashed demonic rifts. I, Chen Mo, a 25-year-old temporary worker at a folk archive, wake up to find myself the last "Last City God" of China. With incense offerings extinguished and the divine order collapsed, I wield a scroll of the *Yuan River Tusi Contract*, embarking on a path of revenge for Eastern deities deep in the mountains of western Hunan! --- ✨ Worldview - Double Invasion: · External Invasion: The Netherworld Rift tears through reality, otherworldly demons descend, and scientifically awakened individuals face a bloody battle! · Internal Invasion: The erosion of rules creeps in, folk tales become reality, and only the authority of the divine can break through! The fundamental truth: The ancient contract, broken after the "severing of the connection between heaven and earth," is about to reappear in the mortal realm! --- 👤 Protagonist: Chen Mo, the Last City God: • He starts with only two skills: "distinguishing right from wrong" and "communicating with the spirits of the underworld," and his jurisdiction is limited to a small town. • By repairing the "contract network," he subdues the White Impermanence, the Willow Tree Spirit, the Fox Girl, the Mountain God, the Water God… and builds the most humble yet hardcore "City God's Office." • From a ninth-rank acting City God to a first-rank righteous god, I let the entire Xiangxi hear the bells of the divine revival! --- 📖 Main Storyline - Four Volumes of Epic: Volume 1: The Humble God Resumes His Incense Offerings (Rooted in the Yuan River, Breaking the Dragon Pool Lock) Volume 2: The Contract Reconnects, the Night Parade of Spirits (Dominating Western Hunan, Establishing the City God's Prestige) Volume 3: The Underworld Regains Glory, Touring the Land (Towards the Whole Country, Confronting the Outer Gods) Volume 4: Mountains and Seas Are Peaceful, A New Chapter in Mythology (Reshaping Order, Creating the Future) --- 🎭 Featured Units - Folk Horror: · The Century-Old Curse of the Ghost Bride in the Red Wedding Dress · The "Water Monkey" with Seven Fused Child Souls in the Dry Well · The Paper Dolls' Night Parade on the Old Stage, the Faceless Bride in the Mirror · Behind every strange event lies forgotten folk blood, tears, and warmth--- 🌟 Reading Highlights: ✅ In-depth Cultural Exploration: Authentic Western Hunan Folk Customs + Ancient Mythological Research, a wealth of knowledge to satisfy! ✅ Explosive Pace: Unit-based strange events + main storyline progression, suspense galore, and a constant stream of thrilling moments! ✅ Vivid Characters: The sharp-tongued White Impermanence, the gentle Liu Ling, the shrewd fox spirit… the team's daily life is both heartwarming and exciting! ✅ Broad Scope: From a small town to the whole country, from local deities to the collision of global mythologies! --- 📢 Tomato Reader Exclusive Recommendations: · For suspense lovers who enjoyed "Mysterious Resurgence" and "I Have an Adventure House," this one is even more "folkloric"! · Tired of system-based cultivation novels? Experience the hardcore growth path of "becoming a god through incense offerings + contract repair"! · The episodic structure plus the main storyline makes it easy to jump in anytime, and you won't be able to stop reading even if you stay up all night! --- 💬 Reader Reviews: "I thought it was just a small-scale farming story about a city god, but it expanded to a whole-human mythology reboot!" "The Ghost Bride episode made me cry. It's supposed to be a horror story, but the ending was incredibly moving." "I could read a hundred chapters about the daily lives of Bai Wuchang and the fox girl! The team interactions are so interesting!" --- 📌 Keywords: #FolkSuspense #Shinto #XiangxiSecrets #Episode #EntireGroupGrowth #KexueChineseStyle #BehindTheScenes--- 🎯 Suitable for: · Suspense enthusiasts with a deep cultural background · Readers who enjoy team growth and daily interactions · Those with imaginative ideas interested in "Chinese deities" · Those who want to read unconventional modern ghost stories + mythological revival themes! --- 🌄 Last sentence: When otherworldly demons tear the sky apart, when Western gods descend upon the city— Don't forget, in the mountains and rivers of this land, lies the oldest guardian pact of the East. And I, Chen Mo, the last City God, will revitalize the world and restore order to the universe—⬇️ Click to read and enter the awe-inspiring world of Xiangxi's strange tales and the reawakening of the divine path! (6,000 words daily, quality guaranteed, welcome to the pit!)

25. 25 诡 Eerie Revival: I Became Invincible by Making a Pact with a Ghost Bride 诡异复苏：我与鬼新娘契约无敌 Mr. Deer Runs Really Fast鹿先森跑的贼快Mystery341k WordsCompleted [Urban legends] [Mystery] [Ghost-wife ally] [Reborn] [Transmigration] [Urban fantasy] [Another World] [Traditional cultivation] I transmigrated to the Northern Song Dynasty as a sickly young Taoist, only to find a thousand-year-old tree demon blocking my door from the start. My master bound me to a spiritual soulmate in a desperate attempt to save us both. The result? A temperamental, absurdly powerful, tsundere and yandere Red Fiend Ghost Queen. Jia Tianzhen was livestreaming his own death-def 11Reads—Score—Shelves
26. 26 诡 The Supernatural Has Returned? Sorry, I’m the Supernatural 诡异复苏？不好意思我就是诡异 Inspiration Brainstorm Explosion灵感脑洞大爆炸Mystery1.9M WordsOngoing Not an invincible power fantasy, not a dark story. Read with caution if these aren't your thing. [No Female Lead] [Wasteland Horror] [Infinite Fusion] [Doomsday] [Not a Dark Story] The whole world fears the supernatural. I'm the only one who sees it as a puzzle piece in my evolution. Thirty years after the Great Rift, supernatural tales run rampant, folk customs are revived, and indescribable calamities roam the wasteland. Gu Yi wakes up to find himself the lowest-ranking pollution cleaner outsi 68.6kReads8.6Score7.4kShelves

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    The overall structure is excellent, and the content is also quite good and refined, unlike other novels that drag on and are written haphazardly as they come to mind.

27. 27 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 416Reads8.7Score—Shelves

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    😱😱😱😱Help! These horror novels by Juejuezi are absolutely terrifying. The fear of the deserted village is off the charts. I was too scared to breathe while reading them. I felt a chill down my spine, as if I was being dragged into an endless abyss. Do not read if you are easily scared!

28. 28 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 6.1kReads8.5Score324Shelves
29. 29 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! 116Reads8.5Score—Shelves
30. 30 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 2.5kReads9.1Score236Shelves

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    It was terrifying beyond belief; I was too scared to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night. I wish I had watched it during the day.

31. 31 西 Ghost Stories of the Southwest 西南鬼事 Young Scholar from Nanshui南水小生Mystery800k WordsCompleted This is a collection of ghost stories from southwest China, made up of a series of medium-length tales. Some may be part of your childhood, some may be stories you've told yourself, and others may be stories you've never heard. Today, let Xiao An tell you these strange and wondrous tales, one by one. 101Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Short, simple ghost story

32. 32 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. 4.2kReads8.8Score217Shelves

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    Eerie and terrifying horror novels

33. 33 民 Folk Tales: One Chapter, One Horror Story 民间怪谈一章一个恐怖故事 Alone Through the Cold Autumn独过寒秋Mystery845k WordsCompleted [Anthology of stories] [Folklore horror] [Supernatural horror] [Village legends] [Chinese-style horror] [Old-time storytelling] There is no overarching plot. Each chapter is a standalone horror story adapted from folk tales, with eerie, unsettling plots that grow more terrifying the more you think about them. Note: This story discourages superstition and encourages belief in science. It is entirely fictional, so just enjoy it as a bit of fun. 26.1kReads7.5Score1.2kShelves
34. 34 第 The Fourth Law 第四法则 Fourth Law第四法则Urban277k WordsOngoing This is not a wish-fulfillment novel, and the characters won’t be made stupid. I refuse to pander to the fast-food market. This is a long-running serial with steady updates and at least a million words. I will never abandon it! I’m writing this book with the ambition of creating a masterpiece, focusing on logic and quality, never churning out filler! The paranormal arc in the first 25 chapters is the book’s main storytelling approach. Around chapter 50, the narrative shifts to an ensemble cast. 41Reads—Score—Shelves

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    [Add one to your bookshelf][Add one to your bookshelf] Not a traditional zombie story, but a thriller, suspense, supernatural, and post-apocalyptic sci-fi tale. [Add one to your bookshelf][Add one to your bookshelf][Add one to your bookshelf][Add one to your bookshelf] The logic is sound, not a mindless AI wish-fulfillment novel. A long-running serial with stable updates. Highly recommend reading a couple of chapters to test the waters! [Add one to your bookshelf][Add one to your bookshelf]

35. 35 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... 243Reads8.7Score—Shelves

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36. 36 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 912Reads8.8Score108Shelves
37. 37 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 522Reads8.8Score—Shelves
38. 38 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 5kReads9.0Score204Shelves
39. 39 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 829Reads8.9Score105Shelves
40. 40 斩 Slay the Gods: Yang Jian's Proxy, Commanding the Ghost Eye from the Start 斩神：杨间代理人，开局驾驭鬼眼 Cold-Blooded Temp Worker冷酷临时工Male-Channel Fanfiction260k WordsOngoing After transmigrating into the Slay the Gods world, Su Chen becomes Lin Qiye's classmate. At a bizarre temple, he encounters the man who brought the entire supernatural era to an end. From then on, he becomes the spokesperson for Ghost-Eyed Yang Jian. As long as he earns emotion points, he can unlock all kinds of supernatural abilities. A ghost's firewood cleaver in his left hand, coffin nails in his right. He spreads a ten-layer ghost domain with a flick of his hand, while ghostly shadows follow 2kReads7.0Score214Shelves
41. 41 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 201Reads8.8Score—Shelves

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42. 42 恐 Horror Invasion: From the Start, I Ate the Starving Ghost 恐怖入侵，开局吃掉饿死鬼 Please Give Me a Lanzhou请给我一支蘭州Mystery651k WordsOngoing A simple-minded village guardian, yet born with the nature of a ghost. Chen Huang knows who treats him well, but he doesn't understand himself or the world around him. He doesn't realize that, in this world where terror has returned, people can die at any moment. In the little village, man-eating evil spirits feast in the darkness of despair. In the town, layers of ghostly shadows leave almost everyone with no way out. In the psychiatric hospital, eerie human skins wander the halls at night. Aga 94.8kReads8.1Score8.7kShelves
43. 43 从 I Became Haunted by Evil Spirits After Starting Out as a Corpse Burner 从当烧尸匠开始恶鬼缠身 Midnight Mirror午夜镜子Mystery1.5M WordsCompleted To escape an arranged marriage, I took a job burning corpses at a funeral home. Old Li, who handled the bodies, actually brought a prostitute to the funeral home. That woman later died, leaving a red high heel at the entrance... The next day, Old Li died. A red high heel had pierced through the center of his forehead... With my father's help, I learned that before she died, the woman had been pregnant. Someone had cut the baby out of her and turned them into a Mother-Child Demon. After that, t 5.7kReads8.3Score483Shelves

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44. 44 我 I'm a Funeral Officiant, So Summoning Immortals Is Only Natural 我个殡葬司仪，会请仙也很正常吧 Dragon-Taming Pool御龙潭Mystery1.2M WordsCompleted [One heroine + the author conducted on-site research at funeral homes, crematoriums, and cemeteries, striving for realistic details + traditional supernatural tales + professional knowledge of funerals and spirit-medium practices] (The humorous setups and parody scenes in this book, as well as the original Qingfeng spirit-medium altar, where spirits other than ancestors are invited to take up residence, were published with the approval of the author's own guardian spirits. Readers, please believ 38.7kReads9.4Score3.8kShelves
45. 45 都 The Yin-Yang Master of the City 都市阴阳天师 The Big Cabbage in the Snow雪地里的大白菜Mystery3.4M WordsOngoing Traditional supernatural horror. The protagonist starts out as a Celestial Master, turns into a purple-eyed zombie midway through, and transforms whenever he can’t win. If that bothers you, please give this a pass. Zhou Yuanqing studied under a purple-robed Celestial Master and chose to join Bureau 749, handling supernatural cases across the country: evil spirits, zombies, mountain demons, Japan’s Kiku School, Nanyang curse practitioners… In places ordinary people cannot see, battles of magic ha 30.9kReads8.1Score2.4kShelves
46. 46 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… 69.1kReads9.3Score10.7kShelves
47. 47 恐 The Haunted Teahouse: I Only Sell Objects of Ill Omen 恐怖茶馆：我只卖大凶之物 Lord Salted Fish咸鱼君Mystery1.7M WordsCompleted The world is divided between yin and yang. Some people do business with the living, while others trade with the dead. I deal in the business of the dead, but I don’t sell coffins, paper money, funeral clothes, or paper effigies. What I sell are things you’ve never seen before, things far stranger still… 31kReads9.2Score2.9kShelves
48. 48 天 The Celestial Master Is Here: Qimen Feng Shui Shakes the World 天师在此，奇门风水震天下 Big Eggplant大茄子Mystery6.3M WordsCompleted [Several short dramas have been adapted from this novel: Feng Shui Heavenly Master, The Grand Master of Qimen Feng Shui, The Heavenly Master Is Here, Qimen Feng Shui Shakes the World, Notes of a Folk Feng Shui Master, and others] Everything in this book is fictional. Just enjoy the story, don’t take it seriously, and don’t get too caught up in it... 248.3kReads9.1Score59.8kShelves
49. 49 麻 The Feng Shui Master in Hemp Clothes 麻衣风水师 Idler A Qi闲人阿七Mystery2.2M WordsCompleted I was born with twelve fingers, and my hands have no palm lines. A fortune-teller said I had the rare fate of a heaven-cursed debt collector, doomed to bring death to everyone around me. To save me, Grandpa decided to return to the martial world and defy fate. He arranged three marriages for me, but on the night of the engagement, he died. Eight evil spirits came to take him away! 72.3kReads8.7Score5.1kShelves
50. 50 佛 The Amulet Shop 佛牌专事店 The Little Lamb Who Wants to Fly要飞的小羊Mystery390k WordsCompleted [No female lead + two male leads] My name is Zhou Yi. I’m a broke loser who just graduated from college and can’t even find a decent job. Then a shop owner called and asked me to interview for a sales clerk position. At last, I found a job that could keep food on the table. But the things sold in this shop were nothing like ordinary merchandise. They even seemed a little sinister. Still, I needed to make a living, so I gritted my teeth and stuck with it. I never imagined that this job would plun 11.3kReads9.0Score1.5kShelves

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