Novels like Ghostly Tales of a Dark Village
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- 1 The Corpse Mother 尸母 Every year on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, a lantern made of human skin appears in the mass grave on Shiping Mountain. A little girl carrying a skull follows behind it at a leisurely pace. The girl is named Qiyue. Born with a corpse-bound yin fate, she has spent her life searching for the truth about her Corpse Mother’s past. When all the evidence points to a mysterious ghost village...! 55Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 2 His Serpent Tail Coiled Around Me 他的蛇尾缠上了我 72Reads—Score814d adds
- 3 Ghostly Qi Returns: Merging with the White Impermanence from the Start 鬼气复苏：开局融合白无常 In a world overrun by ghosts, the living and the dead coexist. Some humans can communicate with ghostly energy and become ghost tamers, using their powers to suppress the spirits that plague the world! At his graduation celebration, Su Chen is suddenly confronted by a puppet demon that appears onstage and begins reaping lives! At the critical moment, a System notification sounds: [Ding! A Level Four Puppet Demon has been detected!] [Would you like to fuse with White Impermanence?] Su Chen immedi 100Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 Tales of the Supernatural 人间灵异杂谈 Everyone has a colorful past, and what I’m about to tell you happened right here around me. It was strange and mysterious, so listen as I recount it all. 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 Life with the Black and White Impermanence 黑白无常同居的日子 Ever since Xie Liao landed a job as Black Wuchang, his daily life has consisted of going ghost-hunting with his best buddy, helping Meng Po brew soup, playing mahjong with Ox-Head and Horse-Face, and then discussing a raise with the boss, King Yama… 56Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 Underworld: Buddy, Want a Stable Job for Life? 地府：老铁，你想要铁饭碗吗！ If you got a Deification System, how would you recruit people? Li Ye waves a hand and declares that everyone should take the civil service exam. Join up, and you’ve got a secure job for life! A guaranteed livelihood and a career with a bright future. Dear readers, doesn’t that sound tempting? 421Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 7 I Broke Folk Taboos, Yet Became the Strongest Taoist Priest 触碰民间禁忌，我却成为最强道士 It all started when I got drunk and took a leak by a roadside grave. After breaking a rural taboo, one strange thing after another began to haunt me. My grandfather was a well-known spirit medium in the countryside of Yu Province, and our family worshipped fox spirits at a shrine. There are no peerless thunder techniques, no golden finger upgrades. Rural graves, ill omens when red and white festivities collide, spirit mediums making their rounds, the troops serving beneath the Mount Tai Goddess: 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 Designing Horror Games: Chu Renmei Terrifies the World 设计恐怖游戏，楚人美吓哭全球 [Horror Game + Mysterious Revival + Horror and Terror + Suspense and Mystery + Infinite Flow] The supernatural has spread across the globe. Some people become horror game designers, gaining the ability to fight vengeful spirits by designing horror games. Those who make it to the end will become gods of a new era. After transmigrating, Han Yu realizes that the world shrouded in the supernatural was originally a pure land, with no legends, films, or books about vengeful spirits. With so little sou 8Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 9 What Will the Next Story Be? 下一个故事会是什么？ A collection of episodic stories based on personal experiences. First person, rural life, the supernatural, mildly frightening, and terrifying when you think it over... episodic stories. The damp villages of the south conceal supernatural tales colder than snakes. Open this book, and you’ll enter a graveyard of memories: a forgotten puppy leaves muddy paw prints on a rainy night; the withered vines of gossip tighten around a young girl’s neck; a blond doll by the roadside carries a curse that cl 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 Everyone Else Livestreams with the Living, but I Livestream from the Underworld 别人直播通地气，我直播通地府 Jie Zhou, a Black Impermanence who unexpectedly acquired a livestreaming System, has given the mortal world a livestream with a truly unusual style! Exhilarating ghost hunts, all kinds of bizarre supernatural incidents... In the livestream chat: “There's a woman among the Impermanence of the Underworld!” “The streamer is brutal. Two quick punches and that ghost's been beaten out of shape.” “Streamer, you're awesome! So badass! Wait, isn't that my house?!” After beating a vicious ghost into a bal 14Reads5.1Score—14d adds
- 11 Slaying Demons and Ghosts Since High School 斩妖灭鬼，从高中开始 [Traditional Supernatural Horror] + [School Life] + [Ensemble Cast] + [Coming of Age] + [Not Overpowered] + [Passionate] It all begins with a student jumping from a school building. Liu Tianyu had expected to spend his student years in peace, but from that day on, his life was never quiet again. Peril at a haunted temple, a school turned into a sacrificial altar, a ghost city beneath the water: one challenge after another awaits. Watch as a group of students turn the tables amid the schemes of g —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 The Campus Beauty Called Me Out at Midnight to Deal With a Ghost, So I Became Bai Wuchang 校花半夜招撞鬼，我化身白无常 Ye Qiu taps a bowl with chopsticks at a crossroads in the middle of the night, never expecting to summon Bai Wuchang. Even more unexpectedly, Ye Qiu obtains Bai Wuchang’s token and becomes the new Bai Wuchang. At that moment, a campus belle livestreamer is playing a summon-a-ghost game in her stream after making a bet with her viewers. She sits in front of a mirror and combs her hair in the middle of the night. “See? Nothing’s happening. There are no ghosts in this world.” The streamer turns her 481Reads5.4Score—14d adds
- 13 Starting as a City God, I Rule the Underworld 从城隍开始，地府我为尊 What is the Underworld, and what gives you the right to reward the good and punish the evil? What is the Underworld? Let me tell you right now! The wrongs you cannot redress, the Underworld will redress. The people you cannot deal with, the Underworld will deal with. The karma you cannot bear, the Underworld will bear. In one sentence: right and wrong are clear, and the truth shines bright! Rewarding the good and punishing the evil is sanctioned by the Great Dao. That is the Underworld. Is that 182Reads5.4Score—14d adds
- 14 Beyond the Yellow Springs: The Underworld King's Little Meng Po 黄泉彼岸：冥王家的小孟婆 They say Qi Xi, the ruler of the Netherworld, is an aloof, otherworldly beauty of a man. They also say his moods are unpredictable and his methods cruel, and that anyone who offends him comes to a bad end. By accident, Meng Po Qing Chen sent a fragment of Qi Xi's nurtured soul into reincarnation. As punishment, she was forced to follow him to the mortal realm to find that fragment and make amends. Qing Chen expected the trip to the mortal realm to bring a host of cruel punishments. Instead, she 60Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 15 Summoning Spirits 招魂 “Old Liu at the village entrance is dead.” “I heard. He died horribly.” “Yeah. He ate himself.” Everyone in the village was talking about it. When I heard, I was stunned. What did they mean, he ate himself? I only understood after I went with my grandfather, a yin-yang master, to see Old Liu’s body. It looked as if something had ripped open his stomach. At a glance, aside from a stomach about the size of a human head, all his internal organs were gone! In his hand was half a severed intestine, a 435Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 16 Livestreaming the Underworld from the Start: Zhou-jie Actually Fell Asleep! 开局直播地府：周姐竟然睡着了！ [Underworld livestream + ghost officers + Sister Zhou as a moderator] Wu Feng is a Black Impermanence, guiding the dead, catching ghosts, and leveling up in his day-to-day life... One day, he obtains an Underworld Livestream System. By broadcasting his daily life in the underworld, he can earn popularity points to enter prize draws and redeem all kinds of items in the shop. From then on, a miraculous livestream room connects the world of the living and the underworld. A day in the livestream roo 151Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 17 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
- 18 Rule Horror: I’m Bai Wuchang, and I’m Slaughtering My Way Through the Dungeons 规则怪谈：我白无常在副本杀疯了 [Horror / National Fortune / Livestream / System / Deduction / No Heroine / Infinite Flow] A world of urban legends descends, and half of Earth’s population is forcibly chosen to become NPCs in its game instances. To rescue them, those selected as players must represent their countries and enter the instances. Clear a game, and you receive generous rewards. Fail, and the entire country is punished. But Bai Ge, chosen by the world of urban legends as a player, wasn’t having it: “Is this a bug? Yo 592Reads—Score10114d adds
- 19 Taoist, Spare Us! Zombies, Ghosts, and Monsters Are Freaking Out! 道士请饶命，僵尸鬼妖慌麻了！ [Supernatural] [Feng Shui and Folk Customs] [Ghost Hunting and Corpse Suppression] [Transmigration] [No System] Chen Yang, a Taoist who used to sweep temple floors, transmigrates to a world without Taoist priests and discovers that he has become the village idiot tasked with guarding the village. The village chief says, "My dead father is causing too much trouble. You have to get in the coffin and keep him company!" Chen Yang replies, "Trouble? That's right up my alley. I'll have your dad settle 107Reads—Score12114d adds
- 20 Folk Tales of the Supernatural II: Journey to the Underworld 民间异闻录二：下阴 Have you ever wondered how the dead make their way to the underworld? How do you know there aren't ghosts right beside you? I'm a fortune-teller, and also a guide. By day, I move through the city like everyone else. But at night, I light a lamp and send ghosts on their way... If you happen to see me, don't come near. The place around me is where ghosts dwell... 6.7kReads9.3Score63514d adds
- 21 I Collected 99 Horror Stories 我收集了99个恐怖故事 [Short Story Collection] [Chinese-Style Horror] [Based on True Cases] [Uncanny Reality] [Horror Adventures] [Chilling] The stories of this world are half true and half false; the warmth and coldness of human nature make good and evil hard to tell apart. Light and shadow coexist, as do kindness and malice. If you’ve done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear when ghosts knock at midnight. But if ghosts and spirits really came calling, could you face them calmly? This book is a collection of 14.5kReads8.7Score1.6k14d adds
- 22 The Divine Mortician 神葬师 I am the peerless Divine Burial Master. I use heaven and earth as my coffin to bury every ghost and god in the world, and feng shui formations to safeguard the nation’s fortune for generations to come. The world honors me as the National Feng Shui Master. Bureau 749 regards me as its pillar of support, and I trounced the Kiku Sect. Yet in the ultimate battle ten years ago, I won but still lost everything. With my cultivation gone, all I could do was return to my hometown and wait to die. Then, o 28Reads—Score—14d adds
- 23 Grandma’s Ghost Stories 听奶奶讲灵异故事 I was raised by my grandmother. The bedtime stories I heard as a child were all supernatural events she had experienced herself. They scared me so badly I was afraid to go to the bathroom, but I could never resist listening to the end. What I didn't know was that the more stories I heard, the more likely they were to come true, and that I had plenty of secrets of my own. 152Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 24 Old Village Stories 山村旧事 A strange mountain village. Bizarre events sparked by natural and man-made disasters. And, it turns out, a secret lies hidden behind it all... 33.6kReads9.1Score2.3k14d adds
- 25 A Ghost Catcher's Livestream from the Start, This Stream Is Brutal 开局鬼差直播，这直播间太狠了吧 [Live Streaming + Ghost Hunting + Interaction Between Yin and Yang] “Welcome to my livestream! I’ll be taking you on a journey between the worlds of the living and the dead. Hop on!” Gu Hui is a ghost bailiff from the Underworld who accidentally obtained the Underworld Crossover Livestream System. Watch him capture souls, hunt ghosts, deliver dreams, and explore the various departments of the Underworld. He’ll take you on a tour of both worlds. Millions tune in to the Underworld livestream as he 5Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 26 The Girl Born of a Corpse with a Yin Fate 尸生阴命女 On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, a human-skin lantern appears at the mass grave on Shiping Mountain. A little girl cradles a skull and slowly follows behind the lantern. The girl is called Qiyue. Born from a corpse and destined to live among the dead, she grows up determined to uncover the truth about her corpse-mother’s origins. When all the clues point to a mysterious ghost village...! 1.5kReads8.6Score17514d adds
- 27 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
- 28 I Just Became a Netherworld Reaper, and Then the Rule-Based Horror Arrived 刚成为地府阴差，规则怪谈就降临 [Rules Horror + Invincible + No Hiding His Strength + No Heroine + Original Horror Scenarios + National Destiny + No Frustrating Setbacks] Jiang Yu accidentally kicked the bucket. But who could have guessed that the Underworld would hire him as a Soul Reaper? Just then, rules-based horror descended. Jiang Yu, now a Soul Reaper, was chosen. “Now this is what I call a performance bonus!” After learning the specifics of the horror world, Jiang Yu grinned from ear to ear. And so, a ruthless figure e 35Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 29 Here Comes the Blockhead 二货驾到 Chen Xiaoguo is eating spicy hot pot when a soul reaper accidentally drags her to the underworld. To make it up to her, the King of Hell says he can let her be reborn in another world. You think what comes next is the usual transmigration, a strong female lead, and another world? No! No! No! Our unconventional Chen Xiaoguo has decided she's severed her ties to the mortal world, so she stays in the underworld, eating and drinking for free, and gets treated like royalty! Tremble, underworld! 173Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 30 Demons of the Northern Mountain 北山有妖 When I was twenty, someone killed me. My killer dumped my body at Beishan, a thousand miles away… 2kReads7.5Score24314d adds
- 31 The Fox Seeks a Wife 狐讨妻 When I was born, I fell gravely ill. To save my life, my father sold me to a white-haired fox. Fifteen years later, the fox came to collect its debt and demanded I repay it by becoming its disciple. From then on, I began encountering all kinds of bizarre things I could never have imagined. I thought the fox and I had nothing more than a simple debt to settle, but later I discovered a shocking secret hidden beneath it all. 401Reads9.0Score10014d adds
- 32 The Corpse-Reading Detective 诡案读尸人 The Corpse-Reading Detective 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 33 The Coffin of Life and Death 生死棺材 In our line of work, there’s a type known as the miscellaneous school. They follow unorthodox paths, dabbling in everything but mastering nothing. They have no sect above them and no helpers below them, and nobody takes them seriously. I’m an heir to the miscellaneous school, yet I turned their world upside down and left them in chaos. Only when I decided to retire did I discover a shocking mystery hidden within me... 491Reads8.7Score10014d adds
- 34 The Golden Bait Project 黄金鱼饵计划 [Modern mystery, dark crime, twist-filled power fantasy] Cornered with no way out, he came up with a plan: the Golden Fish Bait scheme. He deliberately posted huge amounts of fake gold online, posing as a wealthy recluse to lure greedy thieves to his door. He set up layers of mechanisms, surveillance cameras, and traps in advance, hoping to take the thieves down and get the money he needed to save his life. But once the hunters took the bait, everything spiraled out of control. The intruders wer 4Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 35 The Yin Messenger's Wife 阴差夫人 Twin sisters, one human and one ghost. My parents were brutally murdered before my eyes. I sought help from a ghost-catching official to avenge them, but he demanded I catch three thousand ghosts for him. I never imagined I would end up becoming a ghost-catching official myself... 3.7kReads9.0Score32514d adds
- 36 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
- 37 The Night-Sealed Door 夜封门 Seven months pregnant, the woman was brutally hounded to death, and her seven-month-old baby was thrown into a well. Her wronged soul is cut off from the road ahead, and evil spirits come to claim their due. The gates of hell swing open, and the underworld seals its doors in the dead of night. 2kReads8.3Score15914d adds
- 38 The Lu Ban Book 鲁班书 "The world knows only about Gongshu Ce, not the Book of Lu Ban. Gongshu Ce originated from the Book of Lu Ban, but only carried on its outward form. My family, however, possesses a peerless edition of the Book of Lu Ban. My ancestors were carpenters for generations. By my time, the craft had fallen into decline, but my family never gave up. Even I took over my father's carpentry business after graduating from university, following the usual path. Outsiders only know that my family works as carpe 1.5kReads8.7Score23414d adds
- 39 The Witch Seeks the Veins and Calms the Soul 巫师寻脉镇魂 A man in a red robe isn't necessarily a groom. He might be a shaman, known as a Duangong. The protagonist, Liu Chunqiu, is the youngest shaman in southwestern Hubei. Other people wear red to marry. He wears red to drive out ghosts. Other people pray to Buddha and beseech the gods. He invites the gods to possess him. His master asks him to find and recover the lost lineage of shamanic arts. From then on, the protagonist performs Duangong rites day and night to heal the sick and ward off evil, and 122Reads—Score1114d adds
- 40 Old Tales of the Dead Village 死人村旧事 Chen Ergou holds a stalk of grass and gently pokes at the paper money still smoldering in front of him. Behind him, a dense crowd of “people” from the village and beyond stands packed together... Hanwa, his belly slit open and his tongue hanging down to his chest; Sufen, naked, with raw flesh exposed; the Fat Taoist, whose limbs and head are covered with tightly packed stitches at the joints; Tian Da, his body stiff, a walking stick jutting from his wide-open mouth; Xiao Zhao, pale-faced and dri 174Reads8.4Score10914d adds
- 41 Rule Horror: The Last One to Leave the Classroom After Evening Study 规则怪谈：晚自习最后离开教室的人 Rule Horror: The Last Person to Leave the Classroom After Evening Study 21Reads—Score—14d adds
- 42 Horror Survival of the Nation: From the Start, I Inherit the Netherworld 惊悚国运：开局继承阴曹地府 A terrifying, eerie game descends upon Blue Star, while countless strange and uncanny beings quietly spread across the world. Five players are selected from each country and bound to their nation as they enter various instances. When they clear an instance, their country receives a reward that can be used to fight the uncanny. Li Fan, an escaped mental patient who had long been bound to the Underworld System, is chosen to enter the game. And so, the game takes a sudden turn... Gambler: Let me go 73Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 43 I Became a Ghost Officer at Seven, and Now the Supernatural Has Arrived? 七岁刚成鬼差，诡异就降临了？ (Supernatural horrors + horror + ghost officers + dungeon instances + teammates + showing off and face-slapping + invincible protagonist + pets + little ones) The supernatural horrors will descend in three months. Seven-year-old Chu Ge wants to gain power to protect his family and his country, so, encouraged by his supernatural companions, he becomes a junior ghost officer. Since he’s just a little one, the ghost officers are willing to bring him along, but little Chu Ge has to catch ghosts on h 447Reads9.0Score10014d adds
- 44 The Corpse Keeper 守尸人 The morgue is where life and death meet. At this boundary, there are many taboos to heed. I grew up beside a hospital morgue, and I'll tell you about the hospital's taboos from a different perspective. Taboo 1: If you see a patient being resuscitated, don't gather around to watch. Taboo 2: If a patient's family throws away something the deceased used while alive, don't toss your own trash on top of it. Taboo 3: If you hear a cat meowing at night, don't go outside to look, whether you're a patien 891Reads6.3Score10214d adds
- 45 The Soul-Returning Soup 还魂汤 I was born in a remote village. The day my mother gave birth to me, she died a horrible death! I was born disabled, missing an arm, and with a red birthmark shaped like a coiled snake on my foot. My master said I had been cursed by an evil spirit, and that the curse could only be lifted if I found the one who cast it. Otherwise, I wouldn’t live to see twenty... 96Reads—Score—14d adds
- 46 Soul Reaper 收魂人 To stay alive, I had no choice but to marry a two-headed monster. But I never expected her to be a Rakshasa with two souls. My fate was utterly transformed, and I embarked on a perilous path full of thorns, surrounded by demons and spirits... 765Reads7.2Score11614d adds
- 47 The Yin-Walking Incense Master 走阴女香师 Ever since I can remember, there has been a paper doll on my bed every night. With straight bangs and a bob, a pale face with rosy cheeks, a round face and almond-shaped eyes, it was clearly made to look just like me. As I slowly grew up, the paper doll “grew up” too… 316Reads9.0Score10514d adds
- 48 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
- 49 Folk Taboos and Strange Tales 民间禁忌怪谈 Ever since I was a kid, I thought my grandpa was strange. Whenever he had nothing to do, he liked to wander deep into the old forest. Then one day, he brought a little girl back from the woods, and I discovered the secret he was hiding. From then on, I tried to get away, but only became more deeply entangled... 667Reads8.3Score10014d adds
- 50 Honghuang: I Am the Yin Heavenly Son. Gods and Buddhas, Prepare to Die 洪荒：我，阴天子，请诸神佛赴死 Jiang Qian transmigrated into the Primordial World and became the Yin Son of Heaven, ruler of the underworld. He obtained the Underworld Investiture of the Gods System, setting him on an endless path through tribulations. “As for our origins, my underworld came into being alongside heaven and earth. We are the true lineage of the Father God. Even you, Hongjun, owe me a debt of karma!” “As for our foundations, we hold the Book of Humanity and govern reincarnation. We rule the paths of humanity an 882Reads6.8Score—14d adds
