Looking for Slightly Scary Horror Novels, Not Chinese-Style Horror 求恐怖小说微恐的不要中式恐怖
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Rule Horror: Working at the Krusty Krab from the Start 规则怪谈：开局在蟹堡王打工
[Nationwide survival livestream] [No golden finger, no System, pure deduction] [No romance, only family and friendship] (Important note up front: the author has a penchant for doting on male characters, but there is no romance, no romance.) An unknown signal is received, and Blue Star comes under the influence of an unidentified outside force. People are randomly selected from every country to take part in a deadly “game”? As everyone knows, those selected are all once-in-a-century unlucky soul
17.7kReads8.4Score2.5kShelves
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Could I Really Get Canceled in a Rules-Based Horror Game? 我还能在规则怪谈里塌房不成？
[Infinite-Flow + Rules-Based Horror + Horror Game + Strong Female Team + A Group of People With Questionable Sanity] Just before their debut, the group Shili belonged to was betrayed by a bandmate, who framed them for bullying. Their debut fell through, while the bandmate won netizens’ sympathy and relaunched her career to great success. To this day, Shili’s social media accounts are still flooded with abuse from the other girl’s rabid fans. As luck would have it, in the third year after the com
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I'm a Medical Student, So Isn't Dissecting an Evil God Perfectly Reasonable? 我医学生，解剖邪神很合理吧？
Lu Bei, a graduate student at Chaoge Medical University, is chosen by a horror game and enters one of its instances. He draws a talent all his own: dissection. While everyone else is doing everything they can to find a way to survive, Lu Bei has already begun researching the dissection of evil gods. Zombies attack. All the players are building bases, stockpiling supplies, and forming gangs, terrified that their strongholds will be overrun. Yet Lu Bei ventures out alone to catch a few zombies and
17.4kReads8.9Score3.2kShelves
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Northeastern China's Forbidden Secrets 东北禁忌手札
[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
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The Sound of Nightmares: 60 Horror Stories That Wake You from Your Dreams 噩梦之声：60个做梦吓醒的恐怖故事
[Standalone Ghost Stories + Supernatural Horror + Not for the Faint of Heart + Rural Tales] When night falls, terrifying ghostly figures emerge. Step into all kinds of bizarre and unbelievable tales, and spend your nights screaming! Haunted houses, ghostly shadows outside the window, a deadly lipstick, someone beneath the mattress, an umbrella that hunts people... Every corner conceals inexplicable phenomena and secrets that will fill you with dread! Every page will make your hair stand on end,
1.9kReads8.9Score215Shelves
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Ghostly Whispers at Midnight 夜半鬼语
[Rural + Supernatural + Ghost Stories] Back when my grandfather was young, he learned carpentry. As Old Zhao put it, a sixth-grade carpenter these days was worth half a scholar. But things were different back then. Carpenters belonged to one of the lowest trades. They had to carry their tools around every day, get up before dawn and stay out until the middle of the night, traveling from village to village to find work. And because they went so many places, and made coffins and dealt with the dea
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Is It Too Much to Trick an Evil God into Being My Husband? 开局骗个邪神当老公，不过分吧？
[Infinite-flow + two male leads + strong leads + cool-headed, rational beauty as the bottom x an evil god who rejects it, then comes back for more] 1v1, both pure When he held the blade to his throat, Li Xian wasn’t afraid. When he opened his eyes again in an infinite world where survival was almost impossible, Li Xian wasn’t surprised. When he learned he had to play the role of a bride, Li Xian paused in confusion, then calmly accepted it. But when he heard what his skill was, he finally lost h
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I Wrote a Fairy Tale and Forged the Twilight of the Gods 写个童话，铸成诸神黄昏
One day, countless [Gates] suddenly appeared across the world. At the same time, a power known as [Truth] began to echo through the human realm. Some awakened the Truth of Isaac Newton, father of mechanics, and learned the sky-rending magic of manipulating gravity. Some awakened the Truth of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the nuclear bomb demon, and could turn an entire city to lifeless ruins with a wave of their hand. Some awakened the Truth of Li Bai, the immortal banished from heaven, and could d
63.4kReads9.3Score5.3kShelves
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Infinite Flow: Using the Saintly System to Reform a Mad Villain 无限流：用圣父系统感化疯批反派
[Dual male leads + imaginative infinite survival game + livestreaming + Saintly System + rekindled romance] [A crazy, lovesick, murderous demon in public but a lovestruck girl at heart as the top VS a seemingly saintly, clever bottom with a hidden dark side] Zhang Chuliang binds himself to the Saintly System. His mission is to save the future ultimate villain. After he and the Saintly System work tirelessly, they finally succeed in reforming the villain and turning him into the perfect, devoted
24.1kReads9.6Score3.6kShelves
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Rule Horror: All of You, Turn into Birds 规则怪谈：你们都给我变鸟
[No heroine + mystery-solving + brains over brawn + interstellar + livestreaming + national destiny + power fantasy] Rules-based horror descends upon Earth. Those selected are sent into a bizarre world to face challenges on behalf of their respective countries. While every other contestant fights for their country, one gentle young man says his wish is for everyone to get along peacefully. Everyone: "Peaceful my ass! Do you think this is kindergarten?" Then they watch as this mild-mannered young
17.5kReads9.3Score2.1kShelves
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Tales of Strange Happenings in the Countryside 乡村诡事录
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
2.3kReads9.0Score148Shelves
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Midnight Wonders 午夜惊奇
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
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The Midnight Gravekeeper 午夜守墓人
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
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The Years I Spent as a Funeral Mourner 我当哭丧人的那些年
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!
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The Soul-Caller at Midnight 夜半叫魂人
My grandfather was the last soul-caller in the village. Before he died, he warned me: no matter whose voice I heard calling my name in the middle of the night, I must never answer. Then, late one night, I heard my mother calling anxiously from outside the door. I was just about to respond when a cold hand clamped over my mouth from behind. When I turned around, I saw my grandfather, who had been buried three days earlier.
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