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- 51 The Ominous Coffin 凶棺 It all started with a coffin that floated up from the river... I thought it was a fortune dropped from the sky, but it turned out to be a disaster. After I pried open the coffin, I began to feel that something unclean had followed me home. My daughter grew stranger by the day. She was only three, yet she had already started developing! 125Reads—Score—14d adds
- 52 A Collection of Suspense Stories That Will Make You Think Twice 细思极恐的悬疑短篇故事集 A Collection of Suspenseful Short Stories That Will Send Chills Down Your Spine is an anthology combining lingering dread and horror, weaving a series of chilling worlds. Each story begins with a small detail from everyday life, then quietly reveals the shocking truth lurking beneath the calm surface, leaving readers with an indescribable chill and a deep sense of shock as they read... 177Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 53 The Yin Guardian: The Mysterious Divine Coffin Hidden Beneath the Mountain 守阴人:藏在山底的神秘天棺 After I encountered the Ghost Grandma, my dad died. Later, after I found my brother, my grandpa died too. Somehow, I became the last Keeper of the Yin. I thought all the calamities came from the Ghost Grandma, until I entered a cave deep in Wumeng Mountain and came across Kunlun sacred wood, ghost corpse flowers, and illusions I couldn't tell from reality. Only then did I realize that the Ghost Grandma was merely a decoy in a vast conspiracy. The celestial coffin beneath the mountain lies in sil 270Reads—Score1814d adds
- 54 Strange Tales, Volume 1 奇闻诡事录1 This is a collection of folk tales about the uncanny, strange accounts from across the land. Each chapter is a complete story, each tale a separate supernatural mystery, revealing the mysteries of yin and yang, folk taboos, and the obsessions of the dead. You never know when a casual remark might draw the attention of spirits lurking in the wilderness; when an old object you pick up might hold the memory of a tragic death; or when an everyday habit might already have crossed a forbidden boundary 20Reads—Score—14d adds
- 55 Dead City 死城 In this book, I’ll take you in search of the eerie things hidden in the city, and the terrifying taboos lurking in everyday life. 1.7kReads8.4Score25114d adds
- 56 At Midnight, Don't Stay in Room 404 午夜十二点,别住404 After transferring schools, Lin Xiaoman is assigned to the strangest dormitory of all: Room 404. On the first night, she sees a pair of soaking-wet slippers beneath her bed, but no one admits they belong to her. On the second night, the shared clock turns counterclockwise and stops at the moment Senior Chu fell from the building three years ago. On the third night, her reflection in the bathroom mirror moves three seconds behind her, and unfamiliar bloody marks appear on her wrist. Her roommates 23Reads—Score—14d adds
- 57 Medium's Notes: My Left Eye Can See Ghosts 灵媒笔记:我的左眼能见鬼 The Cangye lineage of the Southern Frontier unleashes chaos. The Cherry Blossom Curse, Yin Soil summoning, Ruin Spirits, and malevolent earth veins emerge one after another, leaving the seals protecting the land on the brink of collapse. In a desperate battle, pure Yang Heavenly Energy collides with the turbid qi of Yin Soil inside him, forming a yin-yang vortex whose blessings and dangers are impossible to predict. His old enemies flee into the Hundred Thousand Mountains, seeking a chance to p 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 58 Ghost in the Well: The Woman in Room 704 井底亡魂-704室的女人 Ghost at the Bottom of the Well: The Woman in Room 704 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 59 Zhang Laosan Tells Stories 张老三讲故事 Long, long ago, a strange calamity struck Kaoshan Village, deep in the old forests of Northeast China. Hunter Li Dashan kept watch over a coffin on a snowy night and encountered a weasel spirit that spoke like a human, asking him to give it a title. One careless remark from him exposed a bloody secret from twenty years earlier. When the statue of the Yellow Immortal on the ancestral hall’s altar split with bloody cracks on the night of a lunar eclipse, when a golden-haired weasel burst from a pe 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 60 Strange Tales from the Countryside 乡村诡故事 Before you start this book, a warning: if you scare easily, don't read it. If you live alone, be careful. Every short ghost story here is based on an ordinary person's real-life experience. Not a single word is made up. From the damp old alleyways of the south to the frozen, deserted villages of the north; from late-night overtime in office buildings to lights-out in university dorms; the taboos our elders forbade us to talk about, and the moments you dare not dwell on in the middle of the night 119Reads—Score—14d adds
- 61 After My Face Was Stolen, I Drew the Six Realms of Living Beings 我的脸被夺走后我画出六道众生相 My face was stolen. It wasn’t disfigured. It wasn’t disguised. My face was literally gone. To stay alive, I had no choice but to paint one new face after another onto my own. Human, ghost, demon, beast, god, immortal. Every face I painted gave me a new ability. As I tried to reclaim my original face, I gradually discovered that this world was far more complicated than it seemed. 96Reads—Score12614d adds
- 62 Old Tales of Strange Happenings 民间旧诡事 The woman in red who knocks on doors late at night, the soul-binding bones beneath the locust tree, the copper-bell curse in an old house in an abandoned village... These old tales of the uncanny, scattered across the countryside, are the idle chatter of old folks and stories sealed away by time... 42Reads—Score—14d adds
- 63 Come Listen to a Ghost Story! 来听诡故事! The chime of midnight is the switch that starts each story. Hidden here are 365 eerie legends from every corner of the world. Maybe it's the strange sobbing in the night-shift office during overtime, a stranger's long hair beside your pillow in an old residential complex, or a passenger in a white dress who vanishes in front of a cemetery. One short ghost story every night, tearing through the everyday facade to reveal the chilling truth beneath. Do you dare open this collection of midnight tale 42Reads—Score514d adds
- 64 Yin-Yang Headhunter: I Find Jobs for Ghosts, and They Ask Me Out 阴阳猎头:我给诡找工作,诡问我处不处对象 On the day he was laid off, Jiang Ye received a death notice: in thirty days, someone would throw him off a rooftop. To stay alive, he was forced to take a job at Yin-Yang Headhunting Co., Ltd., a company that specializes in finding jobs for ghosts. Every time he finds a job for a ghost, he unlocks part of the truth behind his own death. Every time he fails, another corpse spot appears on his body. Once they cover him from head to toe, the company will devour his soul. Every high-level order com 2.4kReads8.4Score36714d adds
- 65 My Sister Went on a Trip to Nanyang and Disappeared! 我妹妹去南洋旅游,就失踪了! My Younger Sister Went on a Trip to Nanyang and Disappeared! 27Reads—Score—14d adds
- 66 The Prison of Hair 发丝之狱 Prison of Hair —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 67 Growing Back a Severed Finger 断指增殖 Severed Finger Proliferation —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 68 The Corpse Plague 尸瘟 Corpse Plague 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 69 Someone New Appeared in the Footage 录像里多出一个人 The test shoot’s discarded footage was four seconds longer. Everyone in the frame held the same poses they had at the end of filming. No one moved. I counted three times. There were six people every time. But only five people had been there that day. On the hard drive my mother left behind, there was an empty folder with a four-character name: Do Not Fast-Forward. In the recycle bin was a deleted video, four minutes and twenty-five seconds long, which couldn’t be recovered. Our production crew w 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 70 Visitor from Hell 狱下来客 A modern supernatural mystery. Not wish fulfillment, not brainless, and no System. In this life, you pass countless people on the street. What makes you so sure they're all human? I never believed in this stuff either, until my landlord tricked me into moving to a place called Happy Community. The people around me didn't seem to be people at all. Footprints on the ceiling, dolls made of human skin, bloated drowned giants, people raising zombies, mother-and-child ghosts... Just how many secrets l 596Reads8.0Score10014d adds
- 71 Tales of the Strange from Yutai 渔台志异 Some things are better believed than dismissed. Some people are better left unoffended. Some roads are better avoided, even if it means taking the long way around. That's what the old folks tell you. And that's what this book wants to tell you, too. 24Reads—Score—14d adds
- 72 The Godslayer of the Countryside 乡村弑神者 [Chinese-style horror + not a power fantasy + more terrifying the more you think about it] When I was eight, my maternal grandfather took my two uncles and me to Chang'an Village to help harvest rice. Not long after we arrived, someone died under mysterious circumstances. Worried something might happen to me, my grandfather told my eldest uncle to take me home first. Before we left, he repeatedly warned us not to speak to anyone we met on the road. My eldest uncle agreed, and we hurried back. Ha 735Reads8.9Score10514d adds
- 73 Grudge-Locked Patterns 怨气锁纹 Dai Xiaochao, the protagonist, is a college graduate in architecture from the 1990s. Under heavy financial pressure, he moves into a tenement building where a locked-room murder took place two years earlier. Surveillance was scarce in those days, so the police had to investigate door to door, and the case made little progress. Then the ancient Taotie jade pendant inherited by Dai Xiaochao’s family, along with its Taotie patterns, begins to react... And that is where the story begins. 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 74 Republic-Era Notes on Summoning Evil 民国招邪笔记 Chinese-Style Horror + Episodic Mysteries + Ancestral Taboos + Republican-Era Suspense + Cursed Objects That Claim Lives Each supernatural case wraps up in three to five chapters. The pace is breakneck, with no dragging things out! Folk-horror elements: red wedding gowns, ancestral halls, midnight opera troupes... If you’re a scaredy-cat, read during the day. If you’re brave, listen to the audiobook at night for the full dose of terror. 78Reads—Score—14d adds
- 75 Folk Horror Taboos 民间恐怖禁忌 Do you know the stories old people tell? Do you know there are many things in folk tradition that people say must not be spoken of? Do you know what the elders say about dreams? The elders say there are things you mustn't talk about at night. Did you know that? 121Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 76 Shattered Yin-Yang Jade 阴阳玉碎 [Supernatural + horror + suspense + first person + no idiots in the story + clever protagonist + a touch of angst] "I'm turning eighteen soon. I should die, too." Yu Yue and I are twin sisters, born eighteen years ago on Ghost Festival. A fortune-teller gave us each a jade pendant and said that on our eighteenth birthday, whoever's pendant broke would die. We're seventeen now, and suddenly both pendants have shattered. How can we possibly survive? 39Reads—Score—14d adds
- 77 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 1.3kReads9.0Score—14d adds
- 78 You Fake Taoist, I Didn’t Know You Were the Real Deal! 骗子道士,没想到你是真会啊! [Ghost stories + hilarious comedy + urban legends] As the supernatural resurges and the world descends into chaos, Lin Yu, a fake Taoist, awakens the Dao Ancestor System. He exorcises ghosts to earn merit, which he uses to draw character cards and take on the forms of Taoist disciples from across the myriad worlds. Faced with all kinds of vicious, uncanny, and sinister ghosts, he transforms into a holy master of myriad realms, the Thunder Lord... Wang Lingguan, the Three-Eyed Deity... becoming e 37.4kReads6.5Score5.8k14d adds
- 79 I Heard of Strange Things That Year: Never Read This Late at Night 那年听闻怪事,千万别深夜翻看 These stories are adapted and fictionalized from various experiences shared by friends. They are written in an accessible style and make for a good way to unwind. A reminder: reject superstition. This is all imaginative fiction. Any similarities to real events are purely coincidental, so don't take it seriously! 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 80 Tales of the Uncanny in Jiangnan 江南诡事录 I was born in an old town in Jiangnan, and from childhood I loved hanging around beneath the eaves of the old teahouse. I would listen as Zhou the Blind sipped his strong tea and spun yarn after yarn, recounting the strange tales he had heard over most of his life. Half of what this book records came from the stories passed by word of mouth beneath the teahouse storyteller’s gavel; the other half came from what I saw and heard as I grew up wandering the streets and alleys of Jiangnan. Now the te 13Reads—Score314d adds
- 81 I Wait for Someone by Day, But Who Do You Wait for at Night? 白日等一人,黑夜你等谁? “In life, we wait for all kinds of things, big and small. Gradually, people forget what they were waiting for.” I opened a milk tea shop in S City called “Waiting for Someone.” By day, we have bittersweet love stories, and you wait for your beloved. By night, we have eerie urban legends, and you wonder: who are you waiting for? It’s raining in S City again. That mysterious woman with the broad forehead has appeared once more. Is she the one you’ve been waiting for... 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 82 One Horror a Day 一天一个惊悚 One terrifying tale every day, and a different world each time. Just because you haven't seen it from in front of your phone doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Enough chatter. See you in the book, everyone. 7Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 83 I Won’t Survive the Night 活不过今夜 At some point, a strange old beggar showed up in our neighborhood. The strange thing was, he never spent the money people gave him. He’d burn it or destroy it instead. Then one day, the woman downstairs was burned to death, and the butcher was brutally murdered. That was when I finally realized the truth. He wasn’t begging for money. He was begging for lives! 1.1kReads8.2Score10214d adds
- 84 Ghost Stories from the Coffin Shop 棺材铺灵异故事 By fate's design, I went from being a truck driver to a shop assistant at a coffin shop. Little did I know that this one decision would send me down a completely unconventional path, making me earn my living from what people call the business of the underworld! 7.3kReads7.8Score32714d adds
- 85 Ghost Stories at Three in the Morning 三更讲鬼 This book recounts some strange events from the 1980s. One place holds far more than a hundred stories. Perhaps it would be more fitting for me to be a bystander, or a listener. I have written down the stories I heard to remember the past. You can simply take the people and events in these pages as a joke, if you like. Or you can read them as stories that invite self-reflection. Who knows... the characters in them might bear a resemblance to you. Or perhaps they reflect someone close to you. Wit 156Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 86 The Man Buried Upside Down 倒着埋的人 The Man Buried Upside Down 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 87 One Hundred Thousand and One Folk Horror Stories 十万零一个民间恐怖故事 A collection of short horror stories in an episodic format, with a new story every chapter. No dragging things out! Haunted houses in the countryside, mountain spirits, urban legends, old customs and taboos... Every kind of Chinese-style horror is covered, with nonstop thrills and no filler. Anti-superstition disclaimer: This story is entirely fictional. Believe in science and read rationally. Please don’t apply it to real life~ 291Reads—Score1014d adds
- 88 Climbing the Steps 拾级 Climbing the Steps 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 89 Who’s Watching You Sleep? 谁在看着你睡觉 A collection of horror stories, including The Haunting of the Girls' Dorm, The Peeping Eye, and The Abyss of the Locked Room: A Mother's Checkmate! I guarantee you'll be too scared to use the bathroom after reading them at night! Each story is 80,000 to 100,000 characters long. I'm a newcomer, and this is my first time writing on Tomato Novel! I hope you'll give me lots of encouragement! Your support is what motivates me to create more and better stories! 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 90 Tales of the Unextinguished Lights 不熄灯异闻录 More chilling than ghost stories, these tales recount the uncanny happenings secretly passed down by our elders! Children will be too scared to walk alone at night after hearing them, and adults will want to pay their respects to their ancestors. This is a book of taboos that the village elders tried to keep from being written! This collection of short stories features folk horror, supernatural mysteries, thrillers, legends, strange tales, and fantasy from across China and around the world. 17Reads—Score214d adds
- 91 My Master Gave Me a Car for Investigating the Supernatural 师父传我一辆看事儿车 A thousand-year-old van? Built by hand from scratch [Traditional horror]➕ [Even more immersive as an audiobook]➕ [Uncovering the truth about my origins] Greetings, dear readers! [Traditional supernatural horror, primal fear] The original experience of horror is the fear a person feels when experiencing it firsthand. [First person, highly atmospheric] Give me a chance to tell this story from my own point of view. [Uncovering the truth about my origins] Along the way, I met many people. “The gates 14Reads—Score—14d adds
- 92 In This Life, the Divine Lord Searches for the Ten-Thousand-Year-Old Banyan Spirit 这一世,神君为寻万年小榕灵 This story has just begun. If you enjoy it, please leave a five-star rating. If you don’t, quietly moving on is the kindest thing you can do. I’m grateful to every reader. Slow-paced + Invincible Protagonist + Daoism + Ancient Romance + Reincarnation + Cultivation + Sweet Romance + Fates Entwined Across Two Lives + No System + Reincarnated Banyan Tree Spirit In her previous life, a young spirit born from a ten-thousand-year-old banyan tree had only just taken human form when she was accidentally 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 93 A Collection of 365 Strange Tales and Horror Stories 365个奇闻异事和恐怖故事合集 This is a series of short horror stories. The writing isn't the focus; it's all about telling the stories. [Standalone stories + horrors that grow worse the more you think about them + mystery and the supernatural + urban legends + haunted homes + folk tales + strange tales + feng shui and mysticism] Are you ready? When night falls, these terrifying stories will begin crawling into the ears of the living... 731Reads—Score—14d adds
- 94 Red-Clad Ghostly Shadows in the Abandoned Village 无人村红衣诡影 Zheng Bao loves searching for treasure. Once, he went treasure hunting in an abandoned village, where a terrifying and uncanny scene unfolded. As he delved deeper, he gradually uncovered a hidden story from his own past... 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 95 After Losing My Memory, One Terrifying Ghostly Incident After Another 失忆后恐怖鬼事接连不断 (An alternate world. No tired tropes, no invincible protagonist, no plagiarism, entirely original. Any similarities will be changed immediately. Comedy, deadpan humor, no official pairing, a touch of horror, and characters with sound values.) Accidentally drawn into a paranormal incident: a girl whose mouth has been sealed shut, the walking dead with no eyes to see, monsters covered in tumors that crawl along the ground... Is the world turned upside down, or is this an elaborate hoax carefully s 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 96 60 Chilling Stories from Real Life 来自现实的60个惊悚故事 (Purely written by hand, not AI) Schemes! Poisoning! Possession! Framing... evil spirits! Returning from the dead! Ghosts! Curses... Terrifying and chilling stories based on real events, showing you the things that lurk in the dark world! Every story is a horror short drama! 21.3kReads8.9Score2k14d adds
- 97 Maoshan Ghost Arts: Kill, Never Deliver Souls 茅山鬼术,只杀不度 When I was twelve, my father was killed by someone using an evil technique, and my mother took her own life. I was adopted by relatives and suffered endless abuse. In the end, their entire family died horribly, leaving me an orphan. The villagers regarded me as an omen of misfortune. To stay alive, I stole offerings meant for the dead, only to attract an evil ghost, which bought my life with a hell banknote. At the critical moment between life and death, my master, Old Guo, saved me, took me in 246kReads8.8Score23.9k14d adds
- 98 The Strange Rural Tales My Aunt Told Me 姑姑给我讲的农村怪事 When I was little, I was timid, but I still loved listening to my aunt tell stories. Today, I'm sharing with you the stories she told me. I'll do my best to keep writing, and I hope you'll support me. 15Reads—Score—14d adds
- 99 The Rouge House 脂楼 The Rouge Tower —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 100 Hong Kong’s Yin Chronicles: The Domino Curse 香江陰錄:骨牌劫 Hong Kong Yin Chronicles: The Bone Tile Calamity —Reads—Score—14d adds

















































