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- 101 Terrifying Tales 惊魂诡事 Deep, silent alleyways, eerie, terrifying deserted villages, reed marshes choked with weeds... Every scene holds some of my most unforgettable memories! Everything that happens in this book is something I saw or heard myself. You can also read it as a story. Curious about the supernatural tales that have taken place in rural villages and mountain hamlets? Have you ever heard of or seen something that made your hair stand on end? If you find yourself sleepless in the dead of night, put on your he 314Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 102 Snake Scales 蛇纹 When I was six, I came down with a strange illness. Dark red snake scales covered my body. They looked horrifying and revolting, and whenever it rained, they became unbearably itchy and painful. Everyone said it was payback for my father catching and killing snakes, and that he deserved to have a snake girl for a daughter. My family paid no mind to the gossip, but that night, a white snake suddenly coiled around me and demanded that I repay my blood debt… 111Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 103 The Night of Sacrifice 献祭之夜 The Night of the Sacrifice 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 104 A Record of Stitching Corpses in Republican-Era China 民国缝尸录 Republican-Era Records of Corpse Stitching —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 105 Criminal Investigation: Major Crimes Unit, Part Three 刑侦之重案组第三部 Crime investigation + episodic stories + no female lead + understandable even if you haven't read the first two books Book One: Crime Investigation: Major Crimes Unit Book Two: Crime Investigation: Major Crimes Unit, Book Two The city bureau in Linghai is once again caught in turmoil, and the Major Crimes Unit led by Lin Mu is back in action. The former captain has become the sole suspect in a mass murder. What is the truth behind it all? 41.7kReads8.8Score2.3kShelves
- 106 The Strange Realm Archives 诡域档案 Six years ago, Comrade Peng Gang, an outstanding investigator in the Ministry of State Security of Huaxia and deputy director of the Seventh Bureau, met a strange death while on a mission. Six years later, several investigators go missing one after another. The case they were investigating is deeply strange and has countless connections to the case from six years ago. In response, the mysterious investigation team, Fifth Bureau, Ninth Division, begins looking into a series of cases in the realm 329Reads9.1Score—Shelves
- 107 Case Files of Unusual Investigations 异案调查录 Throughout the vast world, from ancient times to the present, there have always been mysterious events that humans cannot explain. And there is a group of people who endure countless hardships in their pursuit of the truth. The cases they investigate are all considered paranormal… 522Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 108 The Man in the Case 装在套子里的人 [Horror + Supernatural + Mystery + Adventure + Wild Imagination + Crime-Solving + Yin-Yang and Feng Shui] By a twist of fate, the criminal investigation squad led by Li Wei is paired with their archenemy Ouyang to solve cases. After a series of shocking major crimes, their terrifying ordeals turn the two former enemies into partners who would risk their lives for each other. Just when everyone thinks it is finally over, an even greater nightmare is only beginning... [The Hanger Murders] [A Ghost 1.6kReads8.4Score261Shelves
- 109 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... 736Reads—Score—Shelves
- 110 In Taoist Robes: I Counsel Students, Then Spirits 道袍加身：劝完学生劝鬼神 An art teacher unexpectedly becomes a Taoist exorcist. The colors in the classroom give way to the cinnabar of talismans, and one supernatural incident after another, once dismissed as impossible, begins to unfold. All the ghost stories he had heard were never mere fabrications. Beyond the mist where yin and yang meet lies a truth far more terrifying than anything on canvas. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 111 The Bloodthirsty Nanny 嗜血保姆 This is a story of criminals and police matching wits. Xiaocui, a serial killer, happens to meet a woman who looks exactly like her. So she pulls a switcheroo and takes the other woman's place. When she gets home, the man her parents introduce her to turns out to be a police officer. He has been investigating a long-unsolved case, and soon the two are locked in a battle of wits. Will the criminal finally be brought to justice, or will she escape once again and assume another identity? Read on an 58Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 112 404 Midnight Radio: The Underworld Frequency 404午夜电台之幽冥频率 [Mystery★Science Fiction★Supernatural★Wild Imagination★Social Commentary★A mind-bending story in every chapter] Have you ever been tuning through the radio frequencies at midnight when you suddenly heard a station that doesn't exist? The 404 Midnight Radio: Ghost Frequency broadcasts only on FM 404 MHz. It's a channel that doesn't exist on any broadcast spectrum and can't be received with ordinary equipment. You can't search for it or subscribe to it. You can only “stumble upon” it. The host, Li 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 113 Midnight Terror 午夜惊魂 It started one morning when I stepped outside and found a yuan at my doorstep. I didn't think much of it. The next morning, I found a ten-yuan bill at the door. I thought I was pretty lucky, finding money two days in a row. But on the third morning, when I opened the door and saw a hundred-yuan bill on the ground, I finally realized something was off. After that, strange things kept happening around me, and I began venturing into one forbidden zone after another, all in the name of staying alive 2.1kReads7.3Score148Shelves
- 114 The Northeast Mother-in-Law Murder Case 东北弑婆案 The Northeast Mother-in-Law Murder Case —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 115 749 Bureau: Strange Case Investigations 749局：奇案调查 Liu Shui experienced a supernatural event as a child, during which his only family member disappeared without a trace. As an adult, Liu Shui is recruited by Bureau 749, an agency dedicated to investigating supernatural events. Under the guidance of his superior, Han Jiu, he begins investigating a string of mysterious cases. A shadowy figure on the last bus, a vampire attacking a zoo, a master craftsman with a thousand faces who sells bizarre artifacts, an alien creature with extraterrestrial tra 2kReads8.9Score181Shelves
- 116 A Strange Tale Every Night 夜夜都有诡故事 [Extreme Supernatural Horror] [Ghosts, Fox Spirits, and Other Strange Creatures] [Not for Women] [Not for the Fainthearted] Based on personal experience and real events. The occult is science we have yet to touch; science is the occult we have already mastered. 22Reads—Score—Shelves
- 117 A Collection of Folk Ghost Stories 民间鬼怪故事合集 The faint of heart should stay away. This collection of ghost stories is all based on things I’ve seen and heard myself. Ghosts and monsters really do exist in this world. Call it superstition, or call it mysteries science has yet to explain. (Better to believe they exist than to assume they don’t.) 92Reads—Score104Shelves
- 118 Chinese-Style Horror Stories 中式恐怖小说 29Reads—Score—Shelves
- 119 Rental Notes 出租笔记 A city needs police officers, doctors, nurses, firefighters, sanitation workers, and many others to keep it safe and thriving. But that's only what you see on the surface. There are also people working behind the scenes for the city. They ask for no reward and care nothing for fame; they simply guard the city in silence. Some are injured, some are left disabled, and some die. Those who survive keep going. If it were up to you, would you sacrifice a few people to bring happiness to the majority? 1Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 120 Chronicles of the Supernatural 异灵实录 At three in the morning, check the list of the dead; let the ferryman guide your soul. Chinese horror stories, spirit-summoning, death notes. Some things can be explained, while other feelings defy description. A terror that makes you shudder as you think it over rises from the depths of your heart. After reading these 99 stories, you'll find yourself questioning your own life. There's a rumor that you should never stay in the last room on the ground floor of a hotel. The author once traveled ou 24Reads9.2Score—Shelves
- 121 The Years I Spent Locked Up at Xishan Base 我被关在西山基地的那些年 [Xishan Base, Book Two] [Containment fiction, no female lead] From the moment Chen Jiangwen set foot in Xishan Base, he was no longer an ordinary person. He left his mundane life behind, and from then on, he would face the deepest mysteries of the world. Terrifying, uncanny monsters; concepts that kill without a trace; supreme beings from beyond; or rebellion and strife within humanity itself. None of it had anything to do with Chen Jiangwen, because no anomaly could affect him. And yet it all h 2.7kReads7.7Score427Shelves
- 122 Frightening Folk Tales of Ghosts and Monsters 民间吓人的鬼怪故事 This book collects folk tales about ghosts and monsters from China and around the world, both ancient and modern. They include deeply moving love stories, myths where good and evil are repaid in kind, and eerie tales that will leave you trembling with fear. We hope you enjoy them. This story is entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual events or people is purely coincidental. 22Reads—Score—Shelves
- 123 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—Shelves
- 124 Supernatural: My Years Hunting Ghosts at Bureau 749 灵异：我在749局打鬼那些年 The appearance of a white coffin and a red coffin at the construction site changed my fate. That night, I saw corpses that could move and a ghost that could steal a person's soul. They were all "deceiving" me, trying to make me die. What should I do... When you think the person behind you is a ghost, the real ghost may be the one standing in front of you... Once it's dark... don't read this!! 211Reads—Score—Shelves
- 125 Memoirs of the Kunlun Mountains, 1978 1978年昆仑山回忆录 In the autumn of 1978, Professor Zhang Wenli and his party arrived from Beijing in Yingdudaban to carry out a routine site survey lasting fifteen days. As a local assistant, I was honored to work alongside the professors from Beijing. But this ordinary survey was soon plagued by one unexpected incident after another... 5.2kReads8.8Score425Shelves
- 126 Marks of Guilt 罪痕 Is there always evil behind every crime? Real cases reveal the truth about human nature. [Crime Investigation] [Not a Web Novel] [Not a Wish-Fulfillment Story] Strange and major cases, from human flesh takeout and a cat corpse found in a belly to a body hanging in Xian Lake, are uncovered one by one across the country. 1.9kReads8.7Score211Shelves
- 127 The Detective Who Chases Killers 2 追凶神探2 A promising young executive can find himself only through a night of New Year’s Eve slaughter; A massage parlor worker who sheds tears of blood uses past kindness to make her clients turn on one another; Members of a club who torture animals with ancient instruments eventually turn their sights on one another’s families; A corpse in an abandoned house begins to speak, revealing a carefully laid plot to kill by proxy. And lurking in the darkness: schemes and desires. A dark godfather returns from 4.6kReads8.9Score397Shelves
- 128 Strange Tales of China 中国异闻录 Lanterns in the Dark, also known as Strange Tales from China, follows the success of Strange Tales from Thailand, which sold 100,000 copies. In this all-new work, the “master of suspense,” Yang Xingchu, takes you deep into the heart of Chinese folk customs. What tragic and moving tales of love and hate lie behind the legends passed down to this day? The things you have always taken for granted may not be what you think: Is a ghost marriage really a marriage to a dead person? Is every stretch of 110Reads7.8Score—Shelves
- 129 Bureau 749: Classified Files 749局绝密档案 Bureau 749: Do you want to know its secrets? The dead returning to life? Vampiric zombies? Clones? All will be revealed here. 826Reads7.4Score112Shelves
- 130 Major Paranormal Events in China 中国民间灵异大事件 Major Chinese Folk Supernatural Cases is based on real supernatural incidents. Its contents are terrifying, mysterious, eerie, and suspenseful, with no more scientifically reasonable explanation to this day! Each chapter of this book tells a supernatural fantasy tale, with bizarre, chilling, and gripping plots. We hope readers will tune in and enjoy! 301Reads7.2Score227Shelves
- 131 Hunting Notes from the Greater Khingan Range 大兴安岭狩猎笔记 Folk Horror / Period Fiction / Hunting Legend / Supernatural Northeast 1993, deep in the Greater Khingan Mountains. Snow seals off the mountains, and an endless sea of forest stretches in every direction. This is a blank spot on the map, a forbidden zone beyond the reach of the law. In a world of nothing but black and white, survival depends not on the law, but on the rules. Chen Ye, an abandoned baby raised by wolves, is known as “Wolf Boy.” Ten years ago, on a stormy winter night, the old hunt 1.1kReads7.5Score107Shelves
- 132 I Founded the Public Opinion Bureau from the Start 开局创立了民调局 The Civil Affairs Bureau, formally known as the Bureau of Folklore and Strange Occurrences, is responsible for investigating and handling supernatural events around the country, including folk customs, strange phenomena, feng shui, and urban legends. My name is Chen Shuo. I'm just a rookie who recently started working. Why have they suddenly put me in charge of an entire organization? The pressure is killing me... But I can only grit my teeth and get on with it! With the support of powerful fig 3.1kReads7.8Score201Shelves
- 133 A Freshman at College, and I’m Already Eating Monsters at 749 刚大一的我，在749吃妖怪 [Ruthless] [Monsters are so delicious] [Let’s take a bite first] “The blind fortune-teller said I’m doomed to be a lone star, bringing bad luck to anyone I get close to? Bah! That’s only because I haven’t eaten my fill!” Lin Chou isn’t a transmigrator, but he got stuck with a transmigrator’s hellish starting scenario. While others fought for their lives against ghosts, he drooled over them. “Mmm, this wailing blood jade is crunchy, with a hint of chicken! That grudge amalgamation tastes like cha 5.4kReads7.5Score345Shelves
- 134 The Prison of Extreme Punishment 极刑之狱 [Graphic crime investigation + a vomit-inducing masterpiece] The Gentle Chair, a sleep aid invented by a corrupt Ming official; a Pixiu treasure chest that can only be opened by sacrificing the Grave-Robbing Finger; a coffin-boat Gu child secretly admired by a top student; a sinister wine cup made from a woman's body! Come explore a series of bizarre, shadowy cases. 4.4kReads8.8Score571Shelves
- 135 His Wild Rose Blooms Without Restraint [Criminal Investigation] 他的野玫瑰肆意盛放【刑侦】 Flirtatious beauty Jiang Qian, owner of a bar & Lu Yu, an aloof, celibate, secretly passionate detective squad captain “Your love at first sight was something I’d planned for a long time.” [Both leads are each other’s one and only + equally strong leads + happy ending + sweet romance, no angst] . On the night an intimate-photo scandal broke, a murder took place at the Rose Bar. Lu Yu rushed to the scene and found white roses scattered across the floor, soaked red with blood. The suspect was Jian 352Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 136 Eyes of the Abyss: Season 2, Part 1: River of Beasts 凝渊之眸.第二季.1，野兽之河 I'm a special crimes detective. And I'm the most ordinary one among the countless detectives out there. This is both a collection of criminal cases and a record of memories. This novel features me, my mentor, and my best friend. Like me, they're unique yet utterly ordinary. We once strode boldly forward, full of confidence and ambition. We once pieced together clues and pursued criminals through the fog. And we also knew sorrow and uncertainty, hesitating and losing our way. My mentor once told 221Reads9.4Score—Shelves
- 137 Death Trip 死亡旅行 Before graduation, everyone wanted to take a graduation trip that was a little different, so one of my rich classmates rented an old, rundown cruise ship. On the first night aboard, the rich kid posted a raffle in the group chat: “I’ve prepared a grand prize for everyone. Entries close at midnight. We’ll reveal the luckiest winner tomorrow morning!” I was just about to open the link when an anonymous text came in. “Open it and you die.” 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 138 The Nether God Never Returns: Learning Soul-Calming with the Gods 冥神不归：带着神明学镇魂 [Urban Imagination + Supernatural Ghost Control + Passionate Ensemble Cast + Extreme Twists] My childhood friend disappeared for four days. When he appeared again, he had become a monster that devoured people. And inside me, an ancient Nether God who had watched over the Three Realms awakened. As the supernatural returned and the dead beyond the city entered the underworld, I was dragged into a game of gods and mortals. The Soul-Suppressing Bureau's Thirteenth Squad? They are the line of defense 57Reads—Score—Shelves
- 139 Crime Scene 犯罪现场 My name is Shen Yuan. I'm twenty-three, and although I only recently graduated, I've already spent three years with the criminal investigation squad. In those three years, I've seen countless vicious murderers. I've also seen hypocrites slaughter people in the name of justice. Human nature is fundamentally good. But when a kind person raises a butcher's knife, you won't even get the chance to kneel. 722Reads7.6Score102Shelves
- 140 Rule Horror: I Report This! The School's Teaching Aids Are All Made from Students 规则怪谈：我举报！这学校的教具都是拿学生做的 Rule Horror: I’m reporting this! The school’s teaching aids are all made from students 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 141 The Paper Effigy Shopkeeper Is Not to Be Messed With 纸扎铺老板不好惹 [A So-Lazy-He’d-Die Bottom (Sheng Qing) × A Green-Tea, Jealous Hades Top (Yan Nanque)] [Two Male Leads + Both Powerful + Fantasy Ghost-Hunting + Sweet Romance] Three thousand years ago, Sheng Qing was a human-world guardian deity who wanted for nothing. Three thousand years later, to make ends meet, he had no choice but to drag his long-neglected, badly atrophied body to open a paper-offering shop near a graveyard in Jingcheng. On the shop’s opening day, restless spirits took turns showing up. T 21Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 142 The Death Inn 死亡民宿 On the first night after checking into the guesthouse, the owner died. But at midnight that same night, Lu Shou actually received a text from the owner. “Please be sure to follow the rules of the Deerhorn Guesthouse. Find the landlady’s dowry box before five tomorrow morning, and you can leave with the deputy manager, an orange cat.” “Otherwise, you’ll be stuck here forever.” Lu Shou broke out in a cold sweat, utterly baffled. “I clearly took his phone. How can he still text me?” —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 143 The Silent Echo 沉默的回声 Five years ago, in Room 601 of Ningchuan High School, a girl was found hanged from a bathroom pipe. Her eyes bulged, her tongue was missing, and strange words had been written in blood on the mirror: “He… is back.” Five years later, the sealed cold case was suddenly reopened. Trainee criminal investigator Qin Chuan took over the investigation, never expecting that this bizarre murder would also uncover another buried case: the “South Campus Disappearance.” A deadly game of hunting, lying dormant 54Reads—Score—Shelves
- 144 Eyes of the Abyss: Season 2, Part 2: Cold Blood Boils 凝渊之眸.第二季2：冷血沸腾 351Reads9.4Score—Shelves
- 145 Anomaly Containment: Why Am I Already on the Containment List? 异常收容：怎么我先上收容名单了 [Supernatural + military. No clichés, no invincibility, no System, no transmigration, no face-slapping.] Midnight square dancing, ghost monks offering living sacrifices, corpse puppets performing ghost operas... This world is full of anomalies! My name is Xu Fei, and I've had an exceptionally stable mind since childhood. A pack of cigarettes gave me the ability to block evil spirits from sensing me. With the nation and my teammates at my back, I do everything I can to uncover the truth behind th 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 146 The Horror Night-Duty Booth 恐怖值班亭 Back around the 2000s, I worked as a security guard at an apartment complex. The complex had a strange rule: [After midnight, do not leave the security booth.] It made no sense, but I always kept it in mind, until the day one of my coworkers died! That night, a woman in a skirt knocked on the security booth window… 30Reads—Score—Shelves
- 147 After I Lost My Memory, a Woman Just Like Me Appeared at Home 失忆后，家里出现和我一模一样的女人 I've lost my memory. Since then, people have kept showing me all kinds of evidence and implanting all sorts of memories in my mind. But I feel like an outsider looking in on my own past, unable to relate to any of it. One day, I came home and found a woman fast asleep on the sofa. What terrified me was that she looked exactly like me! 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 148 Paper Bride 纸新娘 Rumor has it that I tried to seduce the Lin family's young master, failed, and then killed him in the village's paper-offering shop. To save my life, I agreed to marry Master Lin, who had raised me for ten years. On our wedding day, Master Lin laid his hands on me. "Darling, did you know I've wanted you for many years?" Of course I knew. I'd been looking forward to this day even longer than he had. 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 149 Crimson Wish 绯红之愿 I bought a cursed object, hoping to summon a ghost and make a pact with her so I could go to the Ghost City and find out what happened to my missing master. The summoning went unusually smoothly, but the moment she appeared, the powerful yin energy pouring out of the magic circle sent me flying several meters and knocked me to the ground. She stood quietly in the middle of the circle, dressed in a bright red bridal gown and phoenix crown, with her red veil neatly covering her head and her hands —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 150 Summer Vacation of Terror 暑假惊魂记 I can see things other people can't. I've never let it show. I didn't want anyone to think I was a freak. Until that summer vacation... Two classmates and I made plans to go swimming. I saw something in the water. I was terrified. But they insisted on going in, and I couldn't stop them... —Reads—Score—Shelves
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