Novels like Tales of Strange Happenings Among the People
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- 101 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
- 102 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
- 103 Strange Yin-Yang Tales: A Half-Immortal’s Records 阴阳诡事：半仙诡录 [This is no ordinary supernatural story. It’s all about horror and suspense: no mindless power fantasy, just yin-yang taboos, the Grinning Fiend, the Ghost Bride’s Gown, eerie shadows in an ancient mansion, and the Mandarin Duck Pendant. If it’s not good, you can break my legs!!] There’s no shortage of bizarre happenings between the worlds of yin and yang. The Grinning Fiend: what unknowable resentment lies behind that sinister face? The thousand-year-old fox: what cunning schemes hide beneath h 1.2kReads—Score—14d adds
- 104 The Midnight Mantou Shop 午夜馒头铺 Have you ever noticed that some breakfast shops serve food that's delicious most of the time, but for a couple of days each month, it suddenly tastes dry and is hard to swallow? Have you ever wondered if perhaps that breakfast food was never meant for people to eat...? 377Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 105 The Doomed Witness 绝命证人 What is evil? Anything born of weakness is evil! Fang Ya survived a massacre that wiped out his entire family. Nourished by the flowers that bloomed from the seeds of evil, he resolved to become a police officer. Ahead of him lay countless baffling cases: A murder in a locked room at a wealthy family’s estate, a deranged artist who kills, a deadly game of love, a killer who hovers at the boundary between life and death to carry out euthanasia, the vicious crimes of a social group whose members a 30Reads—Score—14d adds
- 106 Part-Time Underworld Constable: A Taoist Priest Investigates Murders in the City 阴差兼职：贫道在都市查凶 A lazy, penny-pinching, down-and-out Taoist is forced to work off his debts as a part-time underworld officer! A reclusive old man dies mysteriously, ghostly passengers haunt the midnight subway, and vengeful spirits from cold cases return. The entire city turns out to be a giant formation for a fiend to refine evil spirits! Police captain: There are no ghosts or gods in this world! → I take it all back! Master Chen, save me! Black Impermanence: Slacking off costs you underworld merit; shirking 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 107 The Empty Car Beneath the Red Lantern 红灯笼下的空车 The Empty Carriage Beneath the Red Lantern —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 108 When the Mirror No Longer Reflects a Face 当镜子不再映脸 When Mirrors No Longer Reflect Faces 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 109 The Corpse Carrier 背尸工 My name is Chen Feng, and I work as a corpse bearer at a funeral home. After a class reunion, I spent the night with Jiang Lixin, the school beauty. I never expected to see her corpse at work the very next day, or that I'd have to carry her on her final journey... 5.6kReads7.0Score31514d adds
- 110 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! 20.6kReads8.9Score2k14d adds
- 111 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... 98Reads—Score—14d adds
- 112 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... 744Reads7.2Score11214d adds
- 113 The Deadly Taboos of Horror 惊悚死人禁忌 [Definitely not ordinary paranormal fiction. Focused on horror and suspense, not mindless wish fulfillment. Folk tales of the supernatural, ghost babies. If you don’t like it after reading, feel free to criticize it.] A mountain village shrouded in mystery is beset by one strange incident after another. A coffin that cannot be lifted at a funeral, children mysteriously drowning, and the question of why a water ghost has appeared. What truth lies behind the deaths? A baby’s anguished cries ring o 141Reads—Score—14d adds
- 114 The Fragrance of Corpses for Ten Miles 十里尸香 Most people receive gifts that are heartwarming or romantic. Even if they aren't a surprise, they're at least well-intentioned. But the gift I received when I turned twenty was a very real shock, and a curse. 1.9kReads8.2Score16114d adds
- 115 The Murder Cases of World Literature 世界名著杀人案 Everyone is born guilty. Some people start atoning from the moment they are born, while others keep on committing crimes. 621Reads8.6Score10014d adds
- 116 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… 6kReads9.2Score54414d adds
- 117 Ghost-Hunting Yin-Yang Master 捉鬼阴阳师 On the day I was born, the clear sky suddenly filled with lightning and thunder. A bolt struck a tree in our yard, and everyone in the village decided my birth was an ill omen. They all kept their distance. One villager accidentally offended me, and that night he mysteriously hanged himself. The body could only be taken down if someone knelt before me. On the day of his funeral, his brother died a violent death and the coffin fell to the ground. That was how the whole story began… 214Reads8.8Score10014d adds
- 118 Blood Wedding 血嫁 Ever since I received a strange hundred-yuan bill, every wedding I attend ends in bloodshed. The grooms have their throats slit, their blood splattering across the brides’ white gowns. Ten couples have died for no apparent reason, and I’m the only one who has seen the killer: the Grim Reaper, holding a scythe... A cold and aloof fiancé appears out of nowhere. A mysterious exorcist hides in a coffee shop. Strange supernatural incidents pull me into a terrifying, thrilling spiral. At last, the da 984Reads8.6Score11714d adds
- 119 The Corpse Leaps Over the Wall 尸跳墙 I’ve been blind since childhood, so I work as a massage therapist for the blind. Then one day, I met a terrifying woman who said she could restore my sight. The price was... 140Reads7.8Score—14d adds
- 120 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
- 121 The Spirit Burying Master 葬灵师 Every year since the year I was born, someone in the village has died. To keep me alive, Grandma arranged a marriage for me, and my betrothed was supposed to come for me when I came of age. On my eighteenth birthday, I discovered that the one who had come for me wasn't human... 147Reads7.9Score23314d adds
- 122 The Midnight Night Watchman 子夜打更人 As the saying goes, walk the night road often enough and you're bound to meet a ghost. I'm a night watchman, and walking the night road is my job. Over the years, I've encountered all kinds of bizarre and extraordinary things in the dark. If I told you about them one by one, your jaw would hit the floor. A word of warning: if you scare easily, read at your own risk! 1.8kReads7.2Score23414d adds
- 123 Lord of the Spirit Realm: From the Start, Bound to a Horror Short-Drama System 灵境主宰：开局绑定恐怖短剧系统 [Soul Transmigration to the Modern World + Cultivation Expert + Unhinged CEO + Demon-Fallen Buddhist Monk + Horror Short-Drama Instances + Yandere Villain + Love Rival Showdown] Li Xinghua, a Mahayana cultivator, was ambushed by a Buddhist monk who had fallen to the demonic path. Her soul transmigrated to the modern world, where she became a freshman at Huaqing University who had died from staying up too late. Stripped of her cultivation and stranded in an unfamiliar world with scarce spiritual 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 124 Ghost Game 鬼游戏 [Infinite-Flow + Horror Mystery + Supernatural + Ensemble Cast + Mild Horror + Strong Female Lead + Plot-Driven] The human heart is more terrifying than the paranormal. Grievances fill the human world, summoning the Grudge God. GQ2026.12.28. After a rain of blood, the Ghost Game appeared out of nowhere and began invading the human 45Reads—Score—14d adds
- 125 Fifth Watch 五更 The stories my grandpa used to tell me were probably meant to scare me into staying put, or maybe to lull me to sleep. He always told them with such conviction and vivid detail that I often found myself dreaming of the very scenes he had lived through. I met the old flower-growing woman on Yinshan Mountain, and one villager after another from Sangen Village. Their faces were gloomy and strange, and their deeds served as a warning, reminding us that “the gods are watching from three feet above yo 692Reads7.2Score10014d adds
- 126 Death on Delivery 死亡外卖 Never try to save money when ordering takeout! After ordering a meal that wasn't clean, strange events keep happening, and his coworkers begin dying one by one. Some takeout costs you money. Some takeout costs you your life. My other completed novel, The Hell Company, is over a million words long. Come check it out, dear readers~~ 2.5kReads8.7Score23414d adds
- 127 Horror Street 恐怖街 [Infinite Flow + Mild Horror + Mind Games + Original Worldbuilding + Tight Logic + Ensemble Cast + Cthulhu Mythos + Every Mystery Gets Solved + High-IQ Characters] On Zhongshan Avenue, a dilapidated bus carrying eight passengers drove into a sinister place… The missing passengers’ relatives wept and wailed, but their cries were helplessly swallowed by the tide of the times… As the years passed, the case file eventually lost its validity and became an unsolved cold case. But one passenger was not 1Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 128 My Years as a Yin-Yang Master 我当阴阳先生那些年 An entanglement of karma inherited from my ancestors and an ancient, wondrous book made me a Yin-Yang Master. From that day on, burdened by the curse of the Yin-Yang Master, I embarked on a path of slaying demons and suppressing ghosts. 3.8kReads8.2Score35914d adds
- 129 I Love Your Numbness, I Love Your Spice, I Love You Till My Stomach Gives Out 爱你的麻，爱你的辣，爱得老胃直拉胯 I love your numbing spice, I love your heat, I love you so much my stomach’s a mess 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 130 Mama Haha Won't Fly Anymore 玛玛哈哈不飞了 Mama Haha Won't Fly Anymore 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 131 Diary of a Crematorium Worker 火葬场女工日记 [Unsolved Case + Death Notes + Female Perspective] Through the eyes of a woman who works at a crematorium, this story clearly and thoroughly explains the final place people go, and what they experience along the way. Read it, and you'll learn everything a person goes through after death, before their soul leaves their body. The author delves into the crematorium to lay out a cross-section for readers, making it easier to understand and see everything clearly. This is the story of a woman who wor 6.7kReads9.1Score31314d adds
- 132 The Ghost Emerges from the Coffin 鬼出棺 Xie Bangui is secretly recruited into the Ghost Yamen and, on his master's orders, serves there, making a living by hunting demons and ghosts. Yet he has no idea that he carries a world-shaking secret. Leading the Ghost Yamen's warriors, Xie Bangui launches a night raid on a prison for evil spirits, fights a bloody battle on the execution platform against a demon, encounters a soul-snatching carriage, and cleverly breaks a skeleton lock. He survives evil spirits' attempts to claim his life, outw 1.6kReads9.1Score15214d adds
- 133 The Stone That Remembers the Light 会记住光的石头 The Stone That Remembers the Light 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 134 The Yin-Yang Exorcist 阴阳摸诡人 I have two mothers, and neither of them is alive. The moment I was born, a heavenly dog swallowed the moon, blood rained from the sky, every beast bowed its head, and ghosts wailed... 781Reads8.7Score10114d adds
- 135 A Heavy Sniper Rifle Storms Great Ming 一把大狙闯大明 Everyone else who transmigrates becomes a crown prince or a royal grandson, but by a twist of fate, Lin Chuan ends up as Fang Xiaoru's orphaned descendant, exiled beyond the frontier to serve as a scout. A mere grudge over the extermination of my entire clan? Nothing worth mentioning. Let me through the passes! Your Majesty! Lin Chuan is a special forces sniper, so carrying a powerful rifle is only reasonable, right? Pairing a Night Vision Scope with a Brocade Guard saber, wearing body armor und 34.1kReads8.8Score2.8k14d adds
- 136 The Security Chief's Final Shift 保安队长的最后一班岗 The Security Captain's Final Shift 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 137 Folk Tales of the Mountain Wilds 民间山野怪谈 A lifetime spent roaming the martial world, telling tales of ghosts and strange happenings from the countryside. Stories of spirits and monsters in the wilderness have always been a staple of people's conversations over tea, and folk tales about mountain ghosts and gods come in every variety. There is a kind of extraordinary man who can help people choose burial sites and homes, divine life and death, reveal the secrets of fate, dispel evil spirits, travel to the underworld, save lives, and ward 1.1kReads8.9Score15514d adds
- 138 Rule Horror: Don't Look Back During 72 Hours in the Dorm 规则怪谈：宿舍72小时不要回头 A word of warning: this is terrifying, so timid readers beware. (No female lead, no cheats, no romance, game instances, infinite flow, horror, mystery) Eight university students who returned to campus early found a mysterious sheet of rules in their empty dormitory building: Rule One: No matter what strange “person” you see, don’t cry out or scream. Rule Two: No matter who calls you from behind, don’t turn around or answer. Rule Three: One of you is an impostor who will eat people in the middle 4.5kReads6.0Score36514d adds
- 139 My Pale Life 我苍白的一生 My name is Zhang Yuan, though my childhood nickname was Ergou. I'm male, born in 1990. Everyone encounters all kinds of strange, inexplicable things in life. By the way, do you believe in ghosts? 495Reads8.4Score10114d adds
- 140 36,036 Terrifying Stories You’ll Regret Not Reading 不看后悔的36036个恐怖故事 [Standalone Stories] [Paranormal Events] [Unbelievable] [Forest Spirits] [True Cases] [Rural Ghost Stories] There is no overarching plot. Each chapter tells a self-contained story adapted from the encounters of a shamaness who can see spirits, and the strange, gripping tales surrounding each young friend she meets. 292Reads—Score—14d adds
- 141 Thriller Game: Slaughtering the Entire Village from the Start 惊悚游戏：开局屠杀全村村民 [Romance + not overpowered + one female lead] A mysterious cloud suddenly appears at Jinghai City's Central Primary School in Gaojing. Ye Tianming's father, the head of the universe's number one meteorology team, hurries to the scene with the entire team. A man dies mysteriously in the mist. His son, Ye Tianming, arrives at the scene wearing a suit and tie. The boy's consciousness grows hazy. When he wakes again, he finds himself transmigrated to the day of the college entrance exams. A strange —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 142 Thriller: There's a Ghost in My Phone 惊悚：我的手机里有鬼 A month ago, my younger sister mysteriously disappeared at a subway station. A day ago, the police pulled a headless female corpse from the river. A DNA test confirmed it was my sister, Xu Yuan. A minute ago, my dead sister walked in carrying a cake topped with a human head. White ghost candles stuck out of its crown, and longevity noodles made from its innards were served to celebrate my birthday. A minute later, I was chosen by a supernatural app's blood pact and plunged into a world of ghosts 3.1kReads—Score42114d adds
- 143 Folktales of the Mountains and Wilds 民间山野怪谈 The hidden truths behind ten major unsolved mysteries, revealing a host of terrifying taboos that will send chills down your spine! 13.8kReads9.1Score92214d adds
- 144 The Vengeful Spirit Notebook 凶灵笔记 I've slept in a coffin since I was little. It wasn't until the woman in red appeared that I learned the truth. I was born on Ghost Festival. I don't want to die. 1.3kReads8.7Score23214d adds
- 145 12:17 A.M., Please Confirm Your Name 零点十七分，请确认你的姓名 In Qiheng City, people don’t simply disappear. First, the city erases their names, then convinces everyone they never existed. At 12:17 a.m., a fire alarm suddenly went off in a residential building in Qiheng City that had only sixteen floors: “Someone is trapped on the seventeenth floor.” Zhou Jiming, an engineer who inspected fire safety systems, checked the building plans, stairwell height, elevator programming, and exterior facade. Every piece of evidence proved that the seventeenth floor di 17Reads—Score17014d adds
- 146 Ghosts in Pieces 散装见鬼 Do you believe there are ghosts in this world? I think that question is as impossible to answer as whether there are dragons in this world. The answer you hear most often is: Believe in them, and they exist. Don’t believe in them, and they don’t. But if you ask me, my answer is simple: Yes! Not because I believe, but because I can see them. Of course, I wasn’t able to see them from birth. It all goes back to the strange experience I had when I was six... 20Reads—Score—14d adds
- 147 The Grave Relocation Master 迁坟师 You've heard of yin-yang masters, fortune-tellers, and feng shui masters. But have you ever heard of a grave relocation master? Do you know how relocating a grave can affect the deceased's descendants? My name is Chen An, and I'm a grave relocation master. I've spent my whole life dealing with graves and bones. I've seen clients strike it rich after relocating a grave. I've seen clients rise to high office after relocating a grave. I've also seen clients whose entire clan died out after relocati 10.5kReads9.0Score91214d adds
- 148 The Yin and Yang of the Mist 迷雾阴阳 The Municipal Public Security Bureau's Special Cases Investigation Division, or Special Investigations Division for short, specializes in supernatural incidents that defy rational explanation. Shen Yanzhi, an officer in the division who is calm, rational, and skilled in talismans and spells, meets Lin Mo, a descendant of a family of yin-yang masters whose bloodline can suppress evil forces and whose gentle nature conceals a stubborn streak, while investigating a case. Together, they gradually un 29Reads—Score—14d adds
- 149 Horror Cinema: My Teammate Is Yukino Yukinoshita 恐怖影院：我的队友是雪之下雪乃 [The rating has only just come out, and it’ll rise later] [Infinite Flow] + [Mild Horror] + [Horror Dungeons] + [Anime Crossover, Multiple Heroines] “Welcome to the Nightmare Screening Room. Here, you’re not an audience member sitting in the theater. You’re a participant in a real horror movie!” Guan Hong accidentally stumbles into a bizarre horror theater. There’s no popcorn here, only endless survival missions and vengeful evil spirits ready to peel off your skin at any moment. First screeni 1kReads6.2Score10414d adds
- 150 Horror Gallery: I Paint with Urban Legends 恐怖画廊：我以怪谈作画 [Ghosts + Horror + Strange Tales + Thrills + Humor + Comedy + Mystery + The Supernatural + Urban Setting + No Female Lead (One Female Lead)] College student Xu Hancheng inherits the art gallery his missing grandfather left behind. But there’s something strange about the paintings in the gallery. A bloodthirsty, crazed beauty; a portrait of a girl with stitches around her neck; a nurse sculpture that makes your knees tremble... Every painting is an urban legend hiding countless secrets. To find h 517Reads8.2Score10214d adds
