Haunted Village Horror Novels!! 荒村灵异，恐怖小说！！

1. 1 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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   🔥🔥Watch at your own risk if you're easily scared⚠️⚠️Zun Du is terrifying! My hair stood on end while I was watching it. The chilling feeling made me afraid to even go to the bathroom. You'll know how terrifying it is once you see it!!

2. 2 噩 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 Xiao Youqian萧有钱Mystery174k WordsCompleted [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, 2.1kReads8.9Score176Shelves
3. 3 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

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   That's terrifying! Friendly reminder: always turn on the lights when you're alone in your room at night. Don't say I didn't warn you!

4. 4 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
5. 5 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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   After watching it, I had nightmares for a week straight, with a dog chasing me.

6. 6 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
7. 7 民 The Republic-Era Book of Mysteries 民国诡秘录 Luo Biqingbu洛笔青簿Mystery205k WordsOngoing Sometimes, the one who takes your life isn’t a person at all, but an evil spirit or demon. And the one controlling those spirits from behind the scenes might well be human... In the chaotic Republican era, foreign powers encircled the nation, eager to invade China, while warlords fought among themselves at home, leaving the land in ruins. On the other side of the jianghu, evil spirits rose everywhere and ghosts ran rampant, while mysterious foreign religions invaded as well. After waking from a 907Reads—Score105Shelves

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   [Supernatural + Mystery + Republican Era Folklore] I highly recommend this novel, my absolute favorite. The supernatural atmosphere is amazing, the writing is superb, the plot is logically sound with constant twists and turns, the characters are well-developed, and the protagonist is incredibly intelligent. You won't be able to put it down! 😎

8. 8 豫 Strange Tales from Western Henan 豫西诡事 X Half-ImmortalX半仙Mystery1.4M WordsCompleted 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… 28.7kReads8.4Score3.6kShelves

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   The main focus is on authenticity; the author himself is a legitimate Taoist priest, and the book is full of his own experiences, along with a lot of knowledge, science, and practical tips.

9. 9 一 Painting Yin and Yang with a Single Stroke 一笔绘阴阳 The Waves Are a Whale's Tears海浪是鲸鱼的眼泪Mystery661k WordsOngoing As I gazed down the shadowy corridor and across the empty hall, the strange order of light and darkness stirred a fear of the unknown deep inside me. The elders always said, “The ancestral hall is home to spirits that have yet to depart.” “Don’t step on the threshold, don’t touch the ancestral tablets, and don’t whistle in the ancestral hall.” “The names on the tablets weren’t carved there. They moved in.” When the wind blew past the row of wooden windows, the latticework let out a mournful wail 211Reads—Score101Shelves

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   You could take a look at this book.

10. 10 阴 Yin-Yang Eye Realtor: Selling Haunted Houses in Chongqing 阴阳眼中介：我在重庆卖凶宅 Listening to the Wind in the Wilds山野聆风Mystery632k WordsCompleted A novel inspired by local Chongqing legends and historical anecdotes. This story is entirely fictional. As a child, the protagonist gained the ability to see yin and yang from a Qing dynasty skeleton. His family’s ancestral ledger is filled with secrets of old Chongqing. The folklore is meticulously researched, with traceable details ranging from place names and historical anecdotes to traditional remedies and feng shui formations. Each haunted house seems like a self-contained case, but in trut 194Reads8.3Score—Shelves
11. 11 天 Tianxuan Paranormal Affairs Office 天玄灵异事务所 Lantern-Bearing Wuchang提灯无常Mystery541k WordsCompleted - [Infinite Flow + Urban Supernatural + Chinese-Style Horror + Folk Legends and Hauntings + Celestial Master Exorcists + Heirs to the Daoist Tradition + Heterochromatic-Eyed Heroine + Haunted House Tales + Episodic Stories + Folk Taboos] - Hidden deep in the bustling streets is an inconspicuous supernatural affairs office called Tianxuan. - No one dares touch the folk taboos of this world. Haunted houses are plagued by unsolved horrors, abandoned villages and ancient mansions seethe with resentm 1.2kReads—Score101Shelves

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    The story is rooted in the lives of ordinary modern people: a recent graduate renting a haunted house, an elderly family member encountering a ghost, and strange occurrences happening frequently at a newly built construction site in a commercial district. Each eerie event is close to reality and chilling upon closer examination. The magical techniques are set in accordance with traditional folk customs, without being exaggerated or drastically altered. Vertical pupils to identify spirits, black fire to exorcise evil, and thunder seals to suppress evil each have their own functions.

12. 12 全 The Deep Sea for All: My Submarine Upgrades Without Limits 全民深海：我的潜艇无限升级 Autumn Wind and Evening Rain秋风晚雨Sci-Fi & Apocalypse852k WordsOngoing [Everyone’s Survival] + [Doomsday] + [Vehicle Upgrades] + [Gold Traits] + [Decisive and Ruthless] + [Giant Beasts] + [Cthulhu] + [Invincible Protagonist] + [Multiple Heroines] + [Only Women Allowed Aboard the Submarine] One morning, ten billion people around the world wake up to find themselves cast into an endless deep sea, each with a battered submarine. Above the surface are storms and lightning; in the depths lurk terrifying giant beasts. Lack of oxygen, crushing water pressure, and scarce r 145Reads5.1Score104Shelves
13. 13 全 Island Survival for All: I Am a Nuclear Submarine! 全民海岛求生：我是核潜艇！ I Just Love Eating Honey Peaches我就爱吃水蜜桃Sci-Fi & Apocalypse188k WordsCompleted Everyone transmigrates to the endless sea, starting with a broken wooden raft and a battered plastic fishing rod. They must struggle to survive amid raging winds, towering waves, and mutated beasts lurking in the deep. When Lin Che woke up, he was floating in the seawater, utterly bewildered. “Wait, wasn’t this supposed to be Global Survival? Where’s my raft? At least everyone else starts with a plank. I’ve got nothing but my underwear?!” Just as he thought he was about to drown, a cold prompt r 226Reads—Score—Shelves
14. 14 求 The Survival Game Hasn't Even Begun, and My Vehicle Is Maxed Out? 求生还没开始，我载具满级了？ The Nail Who Writes码字的钉子Sci-Fi & Apocalypse475k WordsCompleted A little game called Vehicle Simulator appeared out of nowhere. At first, everyone thought it was just a trash game designed to rip them off. They had no idea that seven days later, everyone would transmigrate into a road survival game, using the very vehicles from this trash game. Yu Zheng was reborn and knew exactly what was coming. “What? A hundred units of iron can buy one unit? Bought!” “What? A thousand units of special steel can buy one unit? Bought!” “What? A vehicle component blueprint 4.8kReads5.8Score367Shelves
15. 15 全 Everyone's Fortress Survival: My Watchtower Upgrades Without Limit 全民堡垒求生：我的炮楼无限升级 Xiao Zuofeng Is Patrolling the Mountain小钻风来巡山Sci-Fi & Apocalypse487k WordsOngoing The rating has only just opened, so it'll go up later! [Global transmigration] [Fortress upgrades] [Tower defense] [Zombies] [Decisive and ruthless] Without warning, billions of people around the globe entered a fortress survival game. From the start, everyone got a fortress and one random talent. Most people chose a property they owned, but Chen Ze had no money and his company had gone bankrupt, so he could only choose a random fortress. Other people got ordinary homes. Chen Ze got a World War 422Reads5.6Score103Shelves
16. 16 全 Global Sky Islands: I Stole the Only SSS-Rank Talent 全民空岛：我偷了唯一SSS天赋 Cang Xuan藏玄Sci-Fi & Apocalypse145k WordsOngoing [Floating-island survival + copycat powers + beast taming + multiple heroines + a laid-back power fantasy] Everyone else started with a broken island and a fishing rod. I stole the one and only SSS talent from the start! Ling Xiao awakened the talent Sovereign of Myriad Beasts. He had barely finished showing off when I copied it, destroying the original on the spot! A hundred billion people are fighting to survive on floating islands. The strong prey on the weak? Sorry, I copy talents. I’ve tu 15Reads—Score—Shelves
17. 17 全 Global Survival on Elevated Roads: I Have Divine Daily Intelligence 全民高架求生：我有神级每日情报 The Moon's Job Hunt月亮求职记Sci-Fi & Apocalypse407k WordsOngoing (Debut novel, new rating just released) [Everyone Transmigrates] + [Survival on an Elevated Highway] + [Vehicle Upgrades] + [Doomsday] Everyone around the world wakes up to find that humanity has collectively transmigrated into a survival game set on an elevated highway. Beneath their feet lies a cold, empty overpass. On either side, dense fog swallows everything, while the road stretches endlessly in both directions. Food, water, and fuel must all be scavenged. The survival of the fittest is th 118Reads5.4Score122Shelves
18. 18 全 Black Sea Survival for All: Riding an SSS-Rank Giant Whale from the Start 全民黑海求生：开局骑SSS巨鲸 Little Brother A一小阿哥Sports239k WordsOngoing [Global Survival]+ [Beast Raising]+ [Farming]+ [Ruthless and Decisive]+ [Invincible Protagonist] Everyone is dropped into the Abyssal Sea to fight for survival, starting with nothing but a rotten plank so flimsy they need permission just to turn over. In this poisonous sea, where temperatures plunge to minus forty degrees, weakness is a crime! While billions of players sell their souls for half a bottle of dirty water and become an all-you-can-eat buffet for water ghouls, Xu Jiang looks down at 4Reads—Score—Shelves
19. 19 规 Rules of the Strange: Playing as Taro from the Land of Light from the Start 规则怪谈，开局光之国扮演泰罗 Seven-Colored Auspicious Clouds1七彩祥云1Anime Fanfiction584k WordsOngoing [With Xia Country on a seven-game losing streak from the start, Chen Guang, who had just transmigrated here, was pulled into a Rule Horror instance. While complaining, he discovered that the instance was actually the Land of Light, and the role he was playing was none other than Ultraman Taro, the Land of Light’s crown prince and chief instructor, and the youngest of the Ultra Brothers.] Land of Light instance. “What? The player next door said his stomach hurt when I knocked, and he was killed o 1.2kReads7.4Score161Shelves
20. 20 当 When I'm in the Rules Horror Game, Nothing Is Forbidden 当我在规则怪谈百无禁忌 Xu Moqing徐墨卿Mystery542k WordsCompleted [No female lead + supernatural horror + mental illness + comedy + national destiny] My name is Su Ming, and I'm a transmigrator. I currently work at Qingshan Psychiatric Hospital, where I'm in charge of the important project of “being studied.” They keep saying I'm sick, but I know I'm fine. It's the world that's sick. After I escaped from the psychiatric hospital, I was chosen by Rule Horror to become Longguo's chosen participant, representing Longguo in the upcoming horror games. [Ding! The Ho 65.5kReads9.6Score7.5kShelves
21. 21 到 In Another World, I Use Taoist Arts to Empty My Enemy's Warehouse 到了异世，我用道术搬空仇人仓库 Ling Ling Qi Xuan泠泠七炫Modern Romance913k WordsCompleted An alternate history setting. Please do not compare this story with real history! Gou Yunshu, a modern Daoist exorcist, was betrayed by her best friend during an exorcism. She was struck down by heavenly retribution, killed by a bolt of lightning. She transmigrated into the body of a young girl in the Great Xia Kingdom of the Republican era and discovered that her grandfather had been captured by the Japanese army. To rescue him, she took her younger siblings, bought a house, and left Laolongtan 1.1kReads—Score—Shelves

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    Supernatural horror novels from that era

22. 22 永 The Water Stain That Never Dries 永远拧不干的水渍 Clear Ink Seal清墨印6k WordsCompleted The Water Stain That Never Dries —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    A five-book series of horror short stories, all under contract. The stories are short, fast-paced, and full of twists and turns. 1. *The Everlasting Water Stains*: The bathroom of an old apartment building is perpetually leaking, the rags can never be wrung dry, and the water stains spread day after day, slowly bringing to light long-buried secrets within the old house. 2. *The Sober Darkness*: Extreme psychological thriller, the protagonist maintains his sanity in boundless darkness, tearing through layers of mystery to see the dark side of humanity. 3. *The Crimson Flower Cup*: A crimson rose sprouts from the ruins of a dilapidated building. As it blooms, a series of bizarre old events are slowly revealed. 4. *The Sticky Echoes of the Basement*: A deep basement holds the secrets of time. An old clock keeps ticking backward, the trapped person keeps tracing their age, and strange things begin to happen. 5. *The Night Shift Clerk's Countdown*: A 24-hour convenience store night shift worker's phone countdown keeps ticking; with each second less, danger draws closer. The entire story is set against a realistic supernatural backdrop, with a fantastic atmosphere. It's safer to read during the day, and horror lovers looking for something to read should definitely give it a try.

23. 23 夜 The Night Shift Clerk's Countdown 《夜班店员的倒计时》 Clear Ink Seal清墨印9k WordsCompleted The Night-Shift Clerk's Countdown 4Reads—Score—Shelves
24. 24 血 The Crimson Flower Cup 血色花盏 Clear Ink Seal清墨印10k WordsCompleted Blood-Red Flower Cup —Reads—Score—Shelves
25. 25 清 Lucid Darkness 清醒的黑暗 Clear Ink Seal清墨印6k WordsCompleted Clear-Eyed Darkness 1Reads—Score—Shelves
26. 26 地 The Clammy Echoes of the Basement 地下室的黏腻回响 Clear Ink Seal清墨印11k WordsCompleted The Sticky Echoes of the Basement 1Reads—Score—Shelves
27. 27 百 March of a Hundred Ghosts: I Take the Hungry Ghosts to War 百诡行军：我带饿鬼上战场 Bai Suzhen白素针儿Mystery308k WordsCompleted [Comedy] [Adventure] Bilige was a half-baked shaman who had somehow ended up in the army. His companions included a Shaanbei fat man who'd eaten himself up to two hundred jin during a famine, a long-legged Northeastern squad leader who would grab a cleaver at the slightest provocation, and a Sichuan opera actor who never told the truth. Together with Wang Laihe, a hotheaded young man who couldn't read a single character, and a little hungry ghost who did nothing but bare its teeth and shout “Hun 163Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Even if it means staying up all night, I'll still watch it! A hundred ghosts march, hungry ghosts go to war, endless evil is hidden in the smoke of battle, and patriotism is perfectly blended with supernatural suspense.

28. 28 破 Breaking Hell: The Celestial Master Returns 破狱：天师归来 Songhu鬆湖Sci-Fi & Apocalypse388k WordsCompleted After ten years in prison, the day he gets out, he discovers he’s completely out of step with the world. There are no bustling streets or lights in every window. The streets lie abandoned, the cities are dead, and the air reeks of rot and blood. Monsters that are neither human nor ghost roam everywhere: stiff bodies, fangs and claws, and a thirst for blood. The military can’t defeat them, the police can’t hold them back, and human civilization is on the brink of collapse. Even more absurdly, peo 6Reads—Score—Shelves
29. 29 霜 Crown of Frost and Ash 霜与烬之冠 Songhu鬆湖Female-Channel Fanfiction341k WordsCompleted At her engagement ceremony, the man she loved pushed her into an abyss. Three years later, she returned wearing a silver-frost mask. This time, she would crown his empire with her own hands, then stain that crown red with his blood. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
30. 30 我 My Lady Doesn't Believe in the Supernatural 我家夫人不信邪 Young Master Fuling炥灵公子Mystery276k WordsCompleted I believe in metaphysics, but she doesn’t. We got married just to prove each other wrong. I wanted to hang a portrait of the Three Pure Ones, but she refused, so after a huge argument, I decided to write down all the true events that have happened over the years: my dad got into trouble after eating a snake, my grandma suddenly started eating pork knuckle and cursing, Gao Dabao lost a hand in an elevator accident, Feng Ershuang was grabbed by a ghost, and their cousin mysteriously went mad and d 91Reads—Score—Shelves

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    A folk suspense novel that blends the warmth of everyday life with a touch of suspense. The collapse and relocation of Yingtai Town, along with the shattered old ancestral tablets, unveils the entanglements of generations: a father, driven by greed, cooks and kills a white snake, only to be met with a hundred calls of his name from behind on his way home, a sudden turn of the head leaving him terrified; a grandmother, a vegetarian for thirty years, is possessed by a spirit after dismantling a shrine, devouring pork knuckles and cursing her entire family; a middle school boy breaks red bowls and chopsticks, only to find a severed hand dangling in the elevator. The latter half delves deeper into the secrets of the "child spirit's fate," comparing ancient texts on fortune-telling, handwritten folk documents, and files on a series of disappearances. A twelve-year-old child vanishes into thin air in the middle of the night, leaving only the words, "I won't go back." The tragic family ties intertwine with mystical destiny, leaving the reader increasingly unsettled.

31. 31 阴 The Underworld Calls Me Little Sir 阴司叫我小先生 Jiang Xue'er姜雪儿Mystery137k WordsOngoing From the day he was born, he was unlike ordinary people. He could pass freely between the worlds of the living and the dead. Whenever Hei Bai Wuchang encountered him, they would bow and step aside, respectfully addressing him as Young Master. Others said he was born with the ability to communicate with the underworld and blessed with an extraordinary fate. Only the gods of the underworld knew that behind their respect lay an unmistakable wariness. As the years passed, the events sealed away for 4Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The plot is fast-paced and full of suspense! The protagonist, "Little Master," has a novel and unique setting in the underworld, making for a very enjoyable "invincible" story. The writing is smooth, and the supernatural atmosphere is well-crafted; it's definitely a promising book. Updates are stable, and I highly recommend it to readers who enjoy suspense and supernatural genres—you won't regret it!

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