Novels like Midnight Stories
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Midnight Stories, best match first.
- 1 Tales of Strange Happenings Among the People 民间诡事杂谈 Never enter a temple in the barren hills alone. Never talk about ghosts and spirits on a night road. Never bury the dead in the center of a burial plot. Pork butchers often can't draw their last breath when they die. The world is full of strange things. What seems ordinary can be deadly. Don't believe me? Turn around and take a look. 273Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Midnight Tales of the Strange 午夜怪谈录 A collection of a hundred folk tales of the supernatural, with one self-contained story per chapter. Every tale strikes at the heart of Chinese-style horror. Welcome to Midnight Tales. A word of warning: if you read late at night, be sure to lock your doors. Each chapter is a new story, told entirely in the first person. 109Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 The Haunting Broadcast 诡异广播 This is my first novel, and my writing still needs work. I’ve put a lot of thought into the plot, and I definitely won’t use AI. Read it if you like, and thank you! Updates will be irregular. I’m Little Black Umbrella. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 No Responsibility for Scaring You to Tears 吓哭不负责 [Traditional supernatural tales] [Ghost stories] [Chinese-style horror] [Based on true events] [Reader submissions] [Chilling when you think about it] [Bizarre tales] [Beyond the realm of science] [Plainspoken prose, no literary flourishes] [Just stories] Not for the faint of heart! Don’t read late at night! Folklore, haunted houses, eerie village incidents, urban vengeful spirits, supernatural curses, and even non-supernatural stories that are chilling when you think about them... A collection 24.1kReads9.3Score1.9kShelves
- 5 The Yin-Life Pawnshop 阴寿当铺 The Underworld Pawnshop: I Sell Ghostly Goods to Stay Alive Lu You's funeral shop stands at the coldest, most shadowy corner of the old street in the west of the city. For generations, the Lu family has dealt with the dead, but by Lu You's generation, they are cursed to die before turning thirty. By day, he sells incense, candles, and paper money for the dead. By night, he helps vengeful spirits who died unnatural deaths fulfill their wishes in exchange for extra days of life. On the first night 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Rule Horror: An Infinite-Flow Haunted Campus. Don't Trust Any Rule (2) 规则怪谈：无限流诡异校园，别相信任何一条规则（2） Rule Horror: The Infinite-Flow Haunted School. Don’t Trust Any of the Rules (2) 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Spirit Eyes 灵瞳 My mother wasn’t human. She carried me for fifteen years before giving birth to me... From the moment I was born, I was destined to be no ordinary woman. I was buried alive, beaten, looked down on, and ostracized. But all I want to say is: Thank you for treating me with such coldness. Because of you, I became an extraordinary woman, one step at a time! This world is home to more than just ghosts. There are demons, gods, and even several parallel dimensions. You can witness every kind of unbeli 71Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 8 Records of Artifact Containment 遗物收容志 Shen You runs an antique shop on the verge of bankruptcy. On the surface, he sells old things; in truth, he deals with “cursed objects.” A carved wooden comb arrives mysteriously in the mail. The instant he touches it, he sees the horrific scene of a woman having her head shaved in public a hundred years ago. Late that night, as if sleepwalking, he picks up the comb and begins to comb his own hair. With every stroke of its teeth, a strand of real hair comes away, while a tearing pain spreads acr 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 The Feng Shui King of the Underworld 江湖风水之王 On the day I was born, ten thousand demons emerged from the mountains, a hundred ghosts clawed their way out of their graves, and an immortal corpse guarded the way. My master, Daoist Jingxian, took me from a tomb and raised me for twenty years, only to fall under a curse and die a horrible death, skinned alive. Knowing he was going to die, my master left me a letter. First, he warned me not to seek out the killer. Then he urged me to stay away from the world. But I chose a third path, resolute 129Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 10 Rule Horror: The Infinite Loop's Haunted Campus, Don't Trust Any Rule 规则怪谈：无限流诡异校园，别相信任何一条规则 Rule Horror: An Infinite-Flow, Supernatural School. Don't Trust a Single Rule 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 I Deliver Takeout to the Underworld, From the Start I Earn Billions 我给阴间送外卖，开局奖励亿万 Humiliated in public by his ex-girlfriend while delivering takeout, with his seriously ill mother in the hospital and urgently needing money, Jiang Chen hits rock bottom. Just as he reaches the brink of despair, his phone chimes, and an app called Yin-Yang Delivery mysteriously installs itself! “Order from: a girl who drowned; item: a letter that was never sent; reward: underwater breathing (10 minutes).” “Order from: a chef who died in a car accident; item: a family recipe; reward: god-tier coo 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 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 120Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 The School of Terror 恐怖艺校 Also known as "The Horror Art School: I Fell in Love with a Taoist Priest" [Supernatural + Romance + Transmigration + Wild Imagination] During those three years at school, many strange and terrifying things happened. At midnight, a sinister atmosphere would descend over the school... The year Ye Xue'er attended art school, she fell in love with him at first sight and decided to follow him, staying by his side as they worked together to spread the art of Taoism far and wide... 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Strike It Rich by Opening the Coffin 开棺发财 [Handcrafted from scratch + Traditional supernatural horror + No System + No cultivation + Extremely scary + Based on true experiences] Paper figures carry the coffin, a black dog tosses the grave, and an old man falls in love with a ghost. An opened coffin is carried home, and a beautiful fairy follows through the door. My name is Qin Yang. I was down on my luck and only hoped to make money by opening coffins. I never expected that it would turn out to be such a high-risk profession. (Friends i 1.6kReads—Score134Shelves
- 15 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 658Reads8.0Score100Shelves
- 16 Thirty Years of Strange Tales from the Northeast 东北异事三十年 Forty years ago, the old man ventured into Ghost Mountain at night and negotiated with the ghosts, winning Dongshan Village forty years of peace. Forty years later, a lone grave has thrown the whole village into chaos. A tragedy from forty years ago has claimed nearly a hundred innocent lives! What started it all? Why has a corpse's white hair turned black, and what is the red-clad female ghost trying to point to when she appears at midnight? 178Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 17 The Corpse Carrier 背尸匠 My name is Fang Youde, and I was born in 1990. I enlisted in 2009. After two years of mandatory service, I volunteered to stay in the army for another three years. During that time, I received two third-class merits and one second-class merit, so I had quite a record of service. In 2014, for some reason, I left the military. Under the regulations on resettling discharged soldiers, the local government assigned me a job at a funeral home. That was where my career as a corpse carrier began. Corpse 8.1kReads8.3Score471Shelves
- 18 Notes on Strange Folk Tales 民间诡事札记 The countryside hides the strangest legends and lays bare the truest depths of the human heart. A single red embroidered shoe beneath an old pagoda tree holds a grievance and a hatred left unspoken. A strange peddler knocking at the door in the dead of night carries no ordinary goods in his pack, only old stories frosted over with time. A bronze mirror rising from an ancient well can reflect ghosts, but not the depths of the human heart... These curious tales scattered across bustling streets an 66Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 The Bizarre Paintings of Bianjing: Corpses Hidden in Ink 汴京诡画录：墨色藏尸 Records of Strange Paintings in Bianjing: A Corpse Hidden in Ink —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 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—Shelves
- 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 14.4kReads8.7Score1.6kShelves
- 22 The Terrifying School 极度恐怖校园 As the best university in the city, this school admits only outstanding students. But it also has many rules that are hard to understand: no studying after eight o’clock, and no leaving your dorm room after midnight. No matter who calls to you from the corridor, do not answer... The protagonists in this story are all independent, but their countless connections eventually bring them together. What secrets does this school hold? 247Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 Records of the Ghost Kiln: Porcelain Made from Human Bones 鬼窑录：人骨成瓷 Records of the Ghost Kiln: Porcelain Made from Human Bones 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 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—Shelves
- 25 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
- 26 Night Walks in Bianjing: The Smiling Corpse 汴京夜行录：笑面尸 Night Wanderings in Bianjing: The Smiling Corpse —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 The Spirit-Eating Notebook 噬灵笔记 [Infinite Flow + mind-bending puzzles + ghostly mysteries + survival] A strange notebook, and yet it is a doorway to hell. The cursed are haunted, hunted, and dragged into an endless abyss of terror. Ghosts close in at every turn, and death is just around the corner. No one can escape unscathed. A group of ordinary people bound together by a curse must awaken in the depths of despair, uncover the notebook’s secret, and put an end to this terrifying game with their own hands. Kill the ghosts, or 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 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. 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 The Real Crown Prince in the Funeral Home 义庄里的真太子 The True Crown Prince at the Yizhuang 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 Supernatural Horror: Someone Behind the Wall Is Calling My Name 惊悚灵异：墙里有人叫我的名字 Horror and the Supernatural: Someone in the Wall Is Calling My Name 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 Red Candles Shine on the Corpse, a Bride in Red Sends the Soul Away 喜烛照尸，红妆送魂 Wedding candles illuminate a corpse; red robes send a soul on its way 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 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 917Reads6.3Score100Shelves
- 33 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. 9Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 34 A Fading Lamp Shines on the Lonely Dead 残灯照孤冥 (Mystery + supernatural + no female lead) (Ghost case files + Taoist arts) (Tomato Original) The male lead is born under the fate of a lone star of calamity, destined to walk alone. A dying lamp lights the lonely darkness, and that darkness lights me in turn. 321Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 Rusty Sea, Red Thread: The Damp Evidence 锈海红绳：潮湿的罪证 Red Thread in a Rusty Sea: Damp Evidence of a Crime 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 Rule Horror: After Lights Out, Follow the Dormitory Rules 规则怪谈：熄灯后，请遵守宿舍守则 Rule Horror: After Lights Out, Please Follow the Dormitory Rules 34Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 Spirit Village 灵村 Thrills and the supernatural! There's an ancient village called Lingzhuang, also known as Bagua Village. I was born there. Lingzhuang is always shrouded in an atmosphere of terror: Enormous pythons, centipedes, black spiders, strange birds, and ferocious beasts roam about, attacking people... Lingzhuang is also rife with strange tales and bizarre happenings: A female ghost haunts the village; a cave in Longmian Mountain holds an arsenal from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom; a mysterious master live 75Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 Mysterious Curse 1 神秘诅咒1 [Supernatural Mystery + Urban Cultivation + Folk Taboos + A Passionate Coming-of-Age Story] Enter a sinister world concealed beneath the bustle of the modern city! I have no control over life or death. My name is Zhang Wen. I thought getting into college would let me escape that bleak village in the southwest. Then my grandfather died suddenly, with these words written in cinnabar on his palm: "Dig three feet down at the southeast corner of the wall." I unearthed a bloodstained notebook. Its fir 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 The Unborn Creditor 未出生的债主 The Unborn Creditor 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 The Corpse-Reading Detective 诡案读尸人 The Corpse-Reading Detective 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 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! 25Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 Nightmare of the Strange Realm 诡界噩梦 [Infinite Flow + Horror + Mystery + Survival] A strange ticket dragged Yan Yu onto a bus bound for the abyss. Only after stepping into the world of ghosts did he realize he had been drawn into one brutal survival game after another. Night falls, monsters roam, and every step is a choice between life and death. Yan Yu thought it was all a random twist of fate, never knowing that the destiny set in motion from the moment he was born had been quietly unfolding all along... 41Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 43 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~~ 2.4kReads8.7Score225Shelves
- 44 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—Shelves
- 45 Orders from the Underworld: The Last Delivery 阴间订单：最后一单 Orders from the Underworld: The Final Delivery 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 Crossing Souls on a Snowy Night: The Biggest Coward in Liaobei 雪夜渡魂.辽北第一怂人 Crossing Souls on a Snowy Night: The Biggest Coward in Northern Liaoning —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 Strange Tales of the Tang Dynasty: Blood and Tears of Tianshu 盛唐诡事录：天枢血泪 The Strange Cases of the Prosperous Tang: Blood and Tears of Tianshu 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 I Opened a Bathhouse in Republican-Era China: From the Start, I Had a Bloodstained Blue Garment 我在民国开澡堂：开局一件染血蓝 I Opened a Bathhouse in the Republic of China: From the Start, All I Had Was a Bloodstained Blue Shirt 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 Rule Horror: Every Rule Is Waiting for Me to Break It 规则怪谈：所有规则都在等我违规 Rule Horror: Every Rule Is Waiting for Me to Break It 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 The Corpse of a Mountain Village Woman 山村女尸 [Feel-Good Read + Urban + Suspense + Supernatural] He Xi is an ordinary security guard. One day, the west gate of Chaoxi Psychiatric Hospital desperately needs a guard. The pay is 30,000 yuan a month, but nobody dares take the job! Nobody else dares, but He Xi does! Only after arriving does he realize something is wrong. The west gate isn’t meant for people to pass through at all. It’s a gate for ghosts! 7.4kReads7.7Score341Shelves
