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- 1 A Young Feng Shui Master Betrothed to a White Tiger at Birth 少年风水师，出生就和白虎定亲 At the Human Skin Inn, a hundred ghosts carry a coffin. A yin corpse borrows a life. A demon child lies hidden in a Buddhist womb… From the moment I was born, my father pledged his life to arrange my engagement to a White Tiger. Because of that, I embarked on a little-known path… 5.9kReads9.2Score541Shelves
- 2 My Career in Funeral Services and the Supernatural 我的殡葬灵异生涯 After graduating, I joined the funeral industry and learned about its many secrets. I also encountered all kinds of terrifying, bizarre supernatural incidents. Let me tell you about some truly unusual tales of terror and the taboos of the funeral trade... The latest work by a free-spirited programmer. As always, the promise stands: suspense and horror taken to the extreme. 2.9kReads8.4Score246Shelves
- 3 Ghost Catcher of the Underworld 阴司鬼差 The ninety-nine ghost officials appointed by Qin Shi Huang have passed their positions down through the generations. Somehow, this generation’s post has come down to me. This isn’t myth or legend. It’s all real, and it’s happening right now... 646Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 4 Old Wei’s Supernatural Stories 老魏讲灵异故事 [Traditional Supernatural Tales] [Chinese-Style Horror] [Based on True Stories] [Reader Submissions] [Chilling on Second Thought] [Bizarre Tales] [Beyond the Realm of Science] [Plain, Simple Writing] [Just Stories] These stories were collected from various places by the author, then adapted and fictionalized, so no sources are listed. They’re all kinds of little ghost stories to listen to before bed: straightforward and easy to follow, perfect for unwinding and relieving stress. To keep reader 1.4kReads9.4Score210Shelves
- 5 A Decree from the Underworld 阴司有旨 Before Grandpa died, he gave me a strange ledger. The first page bore four eerie characters: “Filed with the Underworld.” And the entries weren't sums of money, but “lives.” I used that strange ledger to collect debts and settle accounts on Grandpa's behalf, and it was as if I'd become a living judge of life and death in the human world. Somewhere beyond mortal sight, everything had already been decreed... 22.3kReads9.1Score1.3kShelves
- 6 I Live in Fengmen Village 我住在封门村 My hometown shares its name with the legendary number-one haunted village in China: Fengmen Village. What’s more, our village also has a grandmaster’s chair. Whoever sits in it is doomed to die! It was 1997, and I had been accepted into the high school in town. Once summer vacation was over, I would finally be able to leave the place where I’d spent sixteen years. But what I never expected was for one terrifying incident after another to strike the village! Rats that ate human flesh, five-colore 712Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 7 Paranormal Livestream: Please, Stop Telling Stories 灵异直播：求求你别讲了 Lin Xiao, a horror-story streamer, accidentally transmigrates to a world with no supernatural stories. His story about a haunted taxi is met with protests from countless taxi drivers. His story about a human-meat barbecue shop leaves countless barbecue lovers too terrified to go near one. His school ghost story unexpectedly helps the police solve a cold case that has remained unsolved for years. What's more, he discovers that he can inherit a vast collection of Daoist magical artifacts and skill 480Reads7.3Score100Shelves
- 8 I'm Really, Really Terrifying After I Die 我死后真的真的巨凶 [The protagonist is a ghost] [Slightly dark] Chen Xi confessed his feelings to the class beauty and was rejected. Then someone murdered him, but she assumed he had killed himself over her. Fortunately, the supernatural revival had just begun, and Chen Xi transformed straight into a vengeful ghost. Who could have guessed that the class beauty would come to his home, take his things without permission, and even damage his mother's keepsake? At last, Chen Xi couldn't hold back any longer and struck 13.1kReads7.9Score1.1kShelves
- 9 I Might Have Changed the Wrong Fate 我可能改了个假命 When I was little, my mom asked a Taoist priest to tell my fortune. He said I'd face a calamity at 26, and that he'd come help me get through it the day before my 26th birthday. When the day finally came, the priest really did show up to change my fate. He even gave me a “Fate-Changing Ruler” and told me I had to change the fates of seven people with different destinies to survive the calamity. Otherwise, I'd only have five years left to live. So much for changing my fate for me! Did he only cha 76Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 10 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! 116Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 11 No. 81 on the Yellow Springs Road 黄泉路81号 Night blankets the city, and the things lurking in the shadows begin to stir. The raccoon dog granny who eats raw meat, the fitness girl with fish scales growing on her back. The wild foxes who approach people by the roadside, and the little convenience store in the cemetery. I've experienced all of these. And it all began after I witnessed a car accident... 42.1kReads9.2Score3.4kShelves
- 12 My Years as a Feng Shui Consultant in the Entertainment Industry 我在娱乐圈当风水顾问的那些年 Corpse-oil lipstick, raising little ghosts, summoning fox spirits, tattooed talismans: some celebrities will stop at nothing to get famous and go viral. My name is Chen Tian. I'm a feng shui consultant who moves in entertainment circles, specializing in handling the aftermath for celebrities who rose to fame through supernatural means. 140.4kReads9.0Score27kShelves
- 13 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 1.9kReads9.0Score137Shelves
- 14 After the Goddess Died Tragically, I Drew My Sword and Slayed Ghosts! 女神惨死后，我拔剑斩鬼！ That day, I received a strange food delivery order. A goddess who had died a tragic death was begging me for help. After that, I became a spirit courier. I clear the way for wronged souls and guide the dead on their final journey! 40.5kReads9.2Score3.4kShelves
- 15 The Seventy-Two Earthly Fiends Transformations 地煞七十二变 The seventy-two transformations of the Earthly Fiends each grant a supernatural ability. A mysterious book with a yellow cover sent Li Chang'an back to the ancient world. Every demon he killed earned him a new ability. Painted-skin ghosts, zombie kings, spider demons... one after another fell beneath his sword. Communing with the netherworld, swordsmanship, demon-slaying... one supernatural ability after another emerged from the book. After he wiped out a hundred ghosts and looked around with hi 37.7kReads9.3Score4.5kShelves
- 16 I Learn to Slay Ghosts on a Paranormal Forum 我在怪谈论坛学斩鬼 [The printed edition of Strange Tales Forum is in production] [The short drama adaptation of Strange Tales Forum is in production] Gao Shen joined a strange tales forum by chance. The forum often posts eerie stories, describing every detail so vividly that they seem to have really happened. Users who reply seriously analyze the source of each incident and discuss how to deal with it. They even address each other as Heavenly Masters, Soul Tamer 50.1kReads8.7Score6.4kShelves
- 17 Fourteen Years of Hunting Ghosts (Complete in Five Volumes) 十四年猎诡人（全五册） Li Yifan’s spine-chilling ghost-hunting chronicles! A contemporary Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio! A spine-chilling record of ghost hunts! First posted on Tieba, it topped 100 million views within three months! The acclaimed mystery writer Li Yifan’s breakthrough work, now with the unpublished continuation added! Every ghost was once a living person. I’m a professional ghost hunter. I turn the compass, circle the place with red 11.8kReads9.6Score2.2kShelves
- 18 True Tales of the Spirit Mediums: My Ten Years Serving at a Ghost Hall 出马仙纪实：我供奉鬼堂的那十年 My name is Zhou Tie. In this book, I'll tell the true story of my ten years running a spirit hall and serving ghosts. You've heard of spirit mediums... but have you heard of a ghost spirit hall? At eighteen, I established a ghost spirit hall and served ghost immortals! The presiding master was the sister my grandfather said had gone mad and died! This book has no female lead. It's not fantasy, and it's definitely not a cultivation novel! It's the true story of how I, born with an ominous yin con 86.4kReads9.6Score8.2kShelves
- 19 Taboo of the Living 活人禁忌 When I was nine, I found myself in mortal danger! To save me, my grandfather made a decision that would change my life forever... 16kReads9.2Score2.1kShelves
- 20 Selling Clothes by Day, Sewing Corpses by Night 白天卖衣服，晚上缝尸体 [Traditional supernatural horror, folk terror, decisive and ruthless] I rented an apartment where someone had died, hoping to save money, only to be plunged into endless darkness... My terrifying girlfriend has a mouth full of sharp teeth and haunts me day and night; A headless vengeful infant on the highway frantically tries to steal people’s heads; A horrifying internet celebrity livestreams herself peeling off people’s faces, while the comments turn eerie; At a Cat Immortal shrine in a strang 51.9kReads9.2Score6.2kShelves
- 21 Reverend, Stop Pretending. I Know You Can Use Immortal Arts 道长别装了，我知道你会仙术 At Zhongnan Mountain, people knew only that it was home to the Quanzhen Sect. Few knew that at its foot stood a dilapidated Taoist temple. That day, the people of Gujing Temple burst onto the scene. From then on, their name would resound throughout the land! 186.2kReads9.2Score13.7kShelves
- 22 He Kills, Never Saves: This Taoist Is Wickedly Righteous! 只杀不渡，这个道士正到发邪！ [Supernatural + Mazu + folk customs + deity processions + Guanjian Shou + yin-yang taboos] People in Fujian often say, “If the powers above won't agree, just ask Mazu.” Born with an extremely weighty fate, Lin Haien was conceived on Qingming and born on the Winter Solstice. He has a yin-yang constitution and a spirit-sensitive body. Lost souls and wandering ghosts torment him, all hoping to take over his body and replace him. To give him even the slimmest chance of survival, his midwife grandmot 116.6kReads9.2Score9.7kShelves
- 23 You Hired Me to Collect Bodies, So I Dissected My Ex-Girlfriend 让你当收尸人，你直接解刨了前女友 In anatomy class, the corpse turns out to be my ex-girlfriend... After that, I went through all sorts of unbelievable things. A bus that only goes up, never down, and runs straight to a reservoir. An old scholar tree in the hospital, lush with branches and leaves, that swallows people whole. A giant catfish by the Qingshui River, begging people for help every night. And a deadly brothel hung with human skin, open for business without end. It went on and on, as if it would never come to an end... 62.6kReads9.4Score2.3kShelves
- 24 The Folk Feng Shui Master 民间风水之王 The Nine Cauldrons Dragon Palace, the Secret Files of the Yellow Springs, the Snow Mountain Corpse Demon, the Yin-Yang Inn... Ever since I borrowed a life from the underworld, I have known no peace. Every time I borrow a life, it becomes a deadly game. After each desperate struggle and narrow escape, I wait for the next secret order from the underworld so I can keep living. Just when I thought I'd escaped the clutches of fate, I discovered that Heaven had prepared a coffin for me too! 52.2kReads9.4Score6kShelves
- 25 The Underworld Detective 阴间神探 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 73.7kReads9.4Score8.8kShelves
- 26 The Eerie Spirit Medium: My Doll Can Really Manifest Spirits 诡异降神师：我的娃娃真能显灵 [Ghosts in the Book!] [Dark Tone!] [Villain Protagonist!] [Urban Supernatural!] [Horror Aesthetic!] [Invincible from the Start!] A sinister doll saws someone to pieces, a red-clad vengeful ghost claims lives at the airport, a hundred ghosts hunt people down along a ten-mile street, the dead rise again in a crematorium, and corpses dance wildly in an abandoned hospital... None of these things happened to me. They are all stories I wrote. My name is Yang Ning. I am an heir to the Ling Men, a profe 131.2kReads9.5Score11.5kShelves
- 27 Super Scary Livestream 超级惊悚直播 "Welcome, everyone, to the Supernatural Scary Live Stream. Before we start today's broadcast, I have to tell you that only three kinds of people can watch this stream: those with a heavy aura of yin energy, those who will die within seven days, and the third kind, which I can't discuss in detail. I can only give you one warning: watch your back!" 25.3kReads9.2Score3.3kShelves
- 28 The Horror Realm: Entering the Strange World from a Psychiatric Hospital 惊悚领域：从精神病院进入诡世界 (The hardcover edition has been published!) [Infinite Flow] [Original Horror Instances] [Mild Horror] “Chen Ji murdered his mother a week ago and spent three days with her corpse before he was arrested.” “You have been diagnosed with schizophrenia and are about to be transferred to a psychiatric hospital for supervision.” “Do you have anything to say?” The black-haired boy before them slowly raised his head, his expression calm. “I’ll say it again.” “The thing I killed wasn’t my mother...” “It w 335.3kReads9.5Score66.6kShelves
- 29 The Language of the Three Corpses 三尸语 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
- 30 Vivid as Life 栩栩若生 A fortune-teller said I was born destined for greatness, the reincarnation of the Flower Goddess, with the power to turn stones into gold and command flower spirits and tree sprites. Once I came of age, my family was sure to prosper. But when I was twelve, I came down with a strange illness. My fever wouldn’t break, and I kept seeing terrifying visions... In a dream, I met an old woman who told me to find an expert with supernatural powers to save my life. Millet to summon souls, altars and form 19.7kReads9.5Score3.4kShelves
- 31 The Dragon-Suppressing Coffin and the King of Hell's Fate 镇龙棺，阎王命 They severed my tendons and buried me alive in a sealed coffin, but they didn’t know I was born with the fate of the King of Hell! [Folk horror, feng shui and talismans, incense offerings] Feng shui and fortune-telling, painted-skin demons and spirit summoning, walking in the shadows and corpse driving, corpse-raising spells and curses, yin tattoos and talismanic needles, puppets controlled by strings, red doors sealed with wax, Dogs digging graves on Burial Mound Ridge, ghosts feasting in the R 310.8kReads9.4Score27.9kShelves
- 32 Born of a Corpse, Carried in a Ghost's Coffin 尸生子，鬼抬棺 In ancient, remote places, all kinds of strange and terrifying things are bound to happen. And these things happen around Hua Jiunan. In fact, Hua Jiunan is part of them. For instance, he was born from a corpse! 212.8kReads9.6Score25.1kShelves
- 33 Ghosts in the Apocalypse: I Became the Strongest Ghost Tamer 百鬼末世：我成了最强御鬼师 [A Full 1,000 Types of Ghosts] Mysterious ghosts include Jin Buhuan, the White Bone Bodhisattva, the Earthly Branches War Lord, and the Blood-Drop Plum Blossom. The powerful ones include Asura, Rakshasa, the Butcher, the Martial Champion, and the Emperor. The eerie ones include Painted Skin, the Red Robe, the Chubby Baby, the Coroner, the Flower-Waisted Bride, the Embalmer, and the Ever-Burning Lamp. Every type has its own evolution path: Drowned Ghost → Water Monkey → Kappa → ? (There’s more af 115kReads9.5Score9.8kShelves
- 34 The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: Northern School 北派盗墓笔记 [Published in print and available online] [The Beipai Notes horizontal-screen drama is now streaming] [Tomb Raiding + Mystery + Antiques] I'm a poor kid from a mountain village in Northeast China. In the early twenty-first century, hoping to make something of myself, I joined a northern tomb-raiding crew. From south to north, I've seen every side of the underworld and crossed paths with people from all walks of life. Over the years, I went from a young man to a middle-aged one. My drinking got b 957.1kReads9.6Score121.4kShelves
- 35 EN With a Fox Immortal, I Subdue a Hundred Ghosts 我以狐仙镇百鬼 The day I was born, nineteen bolts of thunder struck around our family’s courtyard. A fortune-teller said I was born a demon child, fated to suffer eighteen calamities in my life. Either someone else would die, or I would. As it turned out, the fortune-teller met his own calamity on the very day I was born. He carried me out of the village, and suddenly dropped dead! 748.4kReads9.4Score43kShelves
- 36 EN Another World: My Life Has Cheat Codes! 异世界：我的人生开了挂！ [Vampires, werewolves, technology, potions, ghosts, biohumans, divination, puppets, and every terrifying element you can imagine: this world has them all.] Lin En transmigrated into such a bizarre otherworld and became an apprentice at a potion shop. "Something is wrong with that man! He never uses anesthetic when performing surgery!" "That shop is a scam! The moment you go in, they find a pile of illnesses even if you are perfectly healthy!" "But wait, isn't that shop supposed to be the bes 138.3kReads9.6Score16.9kShelves
- 37 The Xie Family's Short-Lived Son Has Lived to a Hundred 谢家的短命鬼长命百岁了 [Screen adaptation rights sold] The lid of a dead person's coffin won't lie flat because they had an unresolved longing in life. Given time, that longing turns into a demonic obsession, and unless it is resolved, their descendants will suffer. Yan Sanhe's job is to release the dead from their obsessions. One day, she gets hounded by Third Master Xie, who claims to have one. Yan Sanhe says she doesn't deal with the living. Third Master Xie replies, “Everyone says I won't live long. Just think of 125.4kReads9.6Score17kShelves
- 38 Strange Tales Livestream! 怪谈直播间！ Welcome to the Rules of the Strange. This is a battle of blood and fire, a test of wit and courage. The power of words cannot be resisted, and the eerie rules must not be broken. In a seemingly hopeless situation, find the one correct answer, break free of your constraints, and search for a way to survive. 173.8kReads9.7Score17.7kShelves
- 39 EN Legend Management Bureau 传说管理局 (No harem, no formulaic plot, no invincibility, no System, no brainless decisions, and no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if any of that bothers you.) Du Yu dies an untimely death right at the beginning of the story. Hoping to secure a better spot in his next life, he takes a job with the Bureau of Legendary Tales. His job is to return to legends that have gone off course and put their plots back on track. He never expected that the first mission assigned to an ordinary mortal like him would 168.1kReads9.6Score21.5kShelves
- 40 EN Call Me the Ghost Messenger 请叫我鬼差大人 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
- 41 EN A Freshman Internship, and You Go to Bureau 749 to Contain Monsters 大一实习，你跑去749收容怪物 [Decisive killing] [How could any monster be good?] [All monsters deserve to die] [Ruthless] During his sophomore summer vacation, Lu Ding had planned to use the time to take an internship and earn some living expenses. Who could have expected that the construction site where he interned would excavate a bleeding stone? The workers fled one after another, but Lu Ding charged in with a rotary hammer. After transmigrating to this world nearly twenty years ago, Lu Ding’s golden finger, the Monster 525.3kReads9.5Score41.9kShelves
- 42 EN The House of Dread 诡舍 [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
- 43 EN The Gods' Foolish Game 诸神愚戏 I have two principles in life: 1. I never lie. 2. I never believe anything anyone says, including myself. “Sir, I would like to point out that your second statement conflicts with the first.” “How so?” “If you never lie, why don’t you believe what you say?” “Oh, sorry. I forgot to mention that I don’t consider myself human.” “?” Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Cheng Shi, Cheng Shi who never lies. What, you’ve never heard of me? That’s all right. You simply haven’t been deceived by m 519.6kReads9.7Score67.5kShelves
- 44 EN I'm Not a God of Theater 我不是戏神 The brand-new masterpiece by San Jiu Yin Yu, author of Slay the Gods | Winner of the Best Science-Fiction Web Novel Award at the Macau International Science Fiction Awards | A Chinese grotesque epic that turns the tide of an era After a scarlet meteor streaked across the sky, human civilization ground to a halt. From that day onward, humanity could no longer build a rocket, a nuclear bomb, an airplane, a car... The pyramid of civilization built upon modern science collapsed with a thunderous roa 1.7MReads9.9Score178.8kShelves
- 45 EN Ten Days to the End 十日终焉 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 1.7MReads9.9Score206.4kShelves
