Novels like Strange Tales of a Mountain Village
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- 51 The Daoist Half-Immortal 道门小半仙 [Fox Wife, Single Female Lead] [Pure Supernatural Horror, No Cultivation, No Invincibility, Intelligent Male Lead] The night I was born, it snowed all night despite the sweltering midsummer heat. The descendant of the Willow Immortal, one of the Five Great Immortals of the Northeast, and the current Celestial Master of Mount Longhu both came to my home. A fate marked by an evil dragon, rejected by Heaven? Then I'll defy Heaven itself. My grandfather used eight coffins, eight yin souls, and eight 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 52 Crossing the Calamity in Seven Days 七日渡厄 My name is Lin Ye. I’m a struggling author who makes a living writing rule-based horror stories. Then I receive an anonymous email. It contains nothing but a yellowed Republican-era theater ticket and a single line: “Come to the Du’e Theater within seven days, or the ‘rules’ you write will become the way you die.” The moment I step into the theater, time across the entire city begins looping in seven-day cycles. I wrote, “Don’t look in the mirror at midnight,” and the next day someone sees th 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 53 Cold Case Pursuit: The Workplace Abyss and the Silver-Haired Trap 悬案追凶：职场深渊与银发陷阱 The fatal fall from the rooftop wasn't suicide. Workplace bullying was just a cover! I, Lin Yan, a criminal investigation team captain, uncovered the truth: a 500,000-yuan loan, deleted surveillance footage, nursing-home residents, and exploited workers were all pawns in a silver-haired scam syndicate's scheme to rake in money! The mastermind not only controls the fraud network, but also has powerful protectors who can cover the whole sky... I take on the cover-up head-on and tear down those pro —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 54 The Heavens Tremble, the Earth Shakes 天惶惶地惶惶 “Just as you’ve spent all this time studying apes, I’ve spent all this time studying your kind: your traits, your intelligence, and the things that make up human nature. On this planet, I chose one person, and that person was you. Through you, I came to understand humanity completely. Why do I seem so familiar to you? Because I’ve been following you for more than twenty years. On a certain day in a certain month of a certain year, a woman appeared beside you. The weather was beautiful that day, 658Reads8.9Score12814d adds
- 55 Forbidden Tales of the Desolate Village: A Midnight Whistle, and a Shrouded Corpse Spirit at the Door 荒村禁忌：夜半吹哨，白布尸魂找上门 Taboos of the Abandoned Village: A Whistle in the Dead of Night, and a White-Cloth Corpse Spirit Comes Calling —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 56 Walking Marriage 走婚 A friend took me out to clear my head, and we ended up in a village. Not only was the whole village full of women, it even had a custom called “walking marriages”… 115Reads7.8Score—14d adds
- 57 Return from the Forbidden Zone: I Brought the Missing Back from the Warp 禁地归人之我从亚空间带回失踪者 Every year, a million people mysteriously vanish around the world, and none ever return. Then Zhong Jiale discovered that the window in his bedroom was actually a gateway to forbidden pocket dimensions! Ruined ghost cities, deep-sea prisons, apocalyptic exclusion zones, ancient ruins... Everyone else went in to die, but he went in to save people, seize treasures, and become a god! He rescued billionaires from hell and brought back relatives who had been missing for a century through a rift in ti 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 58 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 67Reads—Score—14d adds
- 59 The Azure Dragon's Secret Hoard 青龙秘藏 When I was born, a Azure Dragon coiled around me, and a fox demon knocked at the door... Can feng shui change a person's fate? If you'd like to learn about feng shui, read on. [Feng Shui and Qimen, folk esoteric arts, witchcraft and curses, Lu Ban's arts, Qimen Dunjia, Southern Mao and Northern Ma] All within this book. 2.6kReads7.4Score16314d adds
- 60 Bureau 749: A Yin Messenger on the Road to the Underworld 749局：黄泉走阴人 There is an organization that exists only in the darkness: Bureau 749. Founded in 1974, with no records and no official status, it is made up of scientists and people with supernatural abilities. It handles the dirtiest, most sinister, most forbidden affairs in the human world. Ghost soldiers march through the night, leaving nothing but empty skins in an entire village. The White God of Wealth kills anyone who worships him, taking their souls to feed evil. An ancient Buddha opens its mouth to de 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 61 Hounded by a Thousand Evils: Keep Your Distance 万邪缠身：生人勿近 The Exorcist Pavilion sits at the corner of an old alley. Ordinary people are not welcome, and it only takes cases involving people plagued by evil spirits. A red-clad ghost in an ancient well, a legless woman in an elevator, a slit wrist in the mirror, sobbing in a karaoke room, a bloody birth chart in a wardrobe, a shadow in the break room... Miaojiang gu sorcery, corpse-driving Taoists, and Nanyang black magic all take turns appearing. Jiang Xun: As long as you can pay the price, I'll snatch —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 62 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
- 63 Reincarnation Notes: An Extra Story, The Painted-Skin Debt 还魂笔记番外篇：画皮债 The Reincarnation Notebook: Extra Story: The Painted Skin Debt —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 64 The Temple That Eats People 吃人的庙 The Man-Eating Temple 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 65 The Ghost Candle Craftsman 诡烛匠人 In a narrow alley in the old part of town stands a candle shop that has been in the same family for three generations. No one knows that it only takes on business involving the cursed. Those driven to despair by ghosts, possession, or paranormal hauntings all come knocking on its door late at night. Zhong Ling, the third-generation heir, doesn't burn talismans or summon deities. He simply hands them a candle. “Light it. Before it burns out, either you die, or the truth comes to life.” Ghostly 13Reads—Score214d adds
- 66 Hauntings in Xiang Village 湘村诡事 The living leave shoes to see someone off; the dead leave shoes to send someone to their grave. After I picked up a pair of a beggar’s straw sandals, my grandfather hanged himself in the bamboo grove in the middle of the night... 137Reads7.0Score10714d adds
- 67 A Stranger's Path Through the Ghost World 鬼途陌路 Modern setting + horror + suspense + supernatural + strong female lead Hu Ying is a funeral makeup artist who just wants to earn a little money and lie flat. Who would have thought that after an accident, she’d be forced onto a one-way road where she’d have to live among ghosts? From then on, she uncovers conspiracies and fights evil cults, and somehow ends up at the very peak of life... 82Reads—Score—14d adds
- 68 The Person Under the Bed, the Eye on the Wall, the Peeping Tom Outside the Door 床下的人，墙上的眼，门外的窥 The person beneath the bed, the eye on the wall, the peeping outside the door 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 69 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
- 70 I Earn KPIs in the Underworld 我在阴间赚KPI I woke up after death and found myself working a job in the underworld. Other people’s KPIs are about sales. Mine is about doing evil. Driving people to despair, creating betrayal, harvesting fear: that’s the real currency of the underworld. Rank at the bottom? Your soul gets obliterated. Then I discovered that the reward for becoming the top salesperson is taking the King of Hell’s place. Looking at the evil ghost coworkers around me, willing to do anything for their performance reviews, I smil —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 71 The Dragon King’s Debt: A Ghost Marriage 龙王债，娶阴亲 During the Qingming Festival, I paid respects at the wrong grave. A high fever left me blind. My grandmother had always favored boys. To make my mother give birth to a son, she threw me into the back hills to be devoured by wild beasts. By sheer luck, I saved a white dragon from the mountains and survived. Grateful for saving his life, the white dragon gave me one of his eyes. He told me he would return to take it back once I came of age. But before I even reached adulthood, my life changed d 57Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 72 Taboos of the Dead 阴人禁忌 I was born in a graveyard and supposedly caused my birth mother’s death. As soon as I was born, the village’s old fraud of a fortune-teller took me away… 185Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 73 The Ghostly Side of Humanity: Mad Stories You Never Knew, Volume 1 鬼味人间：你不知道的疯人故事1 Believe me, this world has another face. What seems insane to you may be perfectly normal to someone else. The eerie, unsettling stories of human life, the sinister and unfathomable depths of the human heart, and tales of madness you’ve never heard before are all hidden in this book, Ghostly Flavors of the Human World. 3.2kReads9.2Score26114d adds
- 74 Horror Mountain Village: I Get a Golden Finger by Completing Quests 恐怖山村：我靠做任务得金手指 [System] [Horror] [A touch of romance] [White-lotus heroine] [Two male leads] Gu Xi enters a real-life scenario called “Horror Mountain Village,” but she doesn't even survive the first volume before the ghost bride kills her. She has barely been buried when someone comes to dig up her grave. After finally making it back to the village alive, she must face an enormous natural disaster. The fog from the mountain behind the village is spreading. What will become of the entire Dizang Village? With t 642Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 75 Maoshan Secrets: The Way of Yin and Yang 茅山秘录：阴阳道 Do you believe ghosts exist? The moment you ask that question, one might be listening. When he was five, he watched his home burn to ashes with his own eyes. Twenty-two years later, he became the seventy-third-generation direct disciple of the Maoshan Sect. His master said, “Go down the mountain. Gain experience and find the answers.” He thought it would be an ordinary journey down the mountain. He was wrong. In an ancient Jiangnan town, five young people died in the same dream, smiling, th 37Reads—Score—14d adds
- 76 Terrifying Supernatural Events I Experienced Myself 亲身经历的恐怖灵异事件 Terrifying supernatural encounters I experienced firsthand 8Reads—Score114d adds
- 77 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! 7.7kReads7.7Score35314d adds
- 78 Surviving in a Haunted Mountain Village 在恐怖山村里活下去 Gu Xi enters a real-game scenario called “Horror Mountain Village,” where she's cast as a young bride sold into a remote mountain village to bring good luck to her sick husband. In just a few days in the village, the System's missions have her beating up her brother-in-law, smashing a family heirloom, and even catching her husband in bed with her maid... She's managed to offend every member of the family. She thought this was the limit of reckless behavior, but the missions that follow only get 699Reads8.2Score10114d adds
- 79 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
- 80 The Yin Guardian: The Mysterious Divine Coffin Hidden Beneath the Mountain 守阴人：藏在山底的神秘天棺 After I encountered the Ghost Grandma, my dad died. Later, after I found my brother, my grandpa died too. Somehow, I became the last Keeper of the Yin. I thought all the calamities came from the Ghost Grandma, until I entered a cave deep in Wumeng Mountain and came across Kunlun sacred wood, ghost corpse flowers, and illusions I couldn't tell from reality. Only then did I realize that the Ghost Grandma was merely a decoy in a vast conspiracy. The celestial coffin beneath the mountain lies in sil 270Reads—Score1814d adds
- 81 Afterlife Notes: The Eyeless Locust Tree Maiden Bonus Story: Blood Silkworm Thread 还魂笔记之无眼槐娘番外：血蚕丝 Afterlife Notes: The Eyeless Locust Tree Maiden Bonus Story: Blood Cocoon Silk 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 82 The Spirit-Sealing Corpse Shroud 镇灵尸衣 On the day I was born, ghosts surrounded our home. I only survived because a master gave his life to save me. Only later did I learn the truth: I was born on a yin year, yin month, and yin day, making me a Yin Child. My master said that anyone born under all three yin signs would have a life full of misfortune and spend their days wandering from place to place. 133Reads—Score—14d adds
- 83 The Water-Taming Beast 镇水兽 They say a fish couldn't possibly survive for seventy years, yet this one has been wreaking havoc for just as long! What lies beneath the waters of the Mian River, so shocking that it has dragged so many people down to their deaths? The surface of the rivers you see may seem calm, but you might not know that in those terrifying, eerie depths, a water guardian beast could be lurking, striking at lives as fragile as moths before they even know it's there, like a demon on the hunt... 701Reads8.8Score10214d adds
- 84 A Working Stiff's Ghost-Hunting Diary 牛马捉鬼日记 Mystery + Supernatural + Comedy. Slow burn; impatient readers, enter at your own risk!!! My name is Qin Fang. I was an ordinary, downtrodden wage slave, until one day, on a whim, I spent a whopping five hundred yuan at a street stall on a nine-story pagoda ornament. My peaceful life was turned upside down. Now, on top of slaving away at work all day and suffering for a measly few thousand yuan, I have to serve the pagoda spirit, Lord Bai, every night. I’m forced to hunt ghosts and subdue demons 15Reads—Score—14d adds
- 85 Exorcising Ghosts on Livestream: My Grandpa Really Is a Charlatan 直播驱鬼：我爷爷真是神棍 [Livestreaming + Yin Eight Sects + goofy master-and-disciple antics + no female lead] Reborn into this world, Lin Du inherits only one thing: three notebooks of scams and a box of fake ritual implements left behind by his con-artist grandfather. His grandfather, Lin Banxian, was a famous local swindler who never encountered a real ghost in his life. Lin Du learned his “craft” from him as a child: draw talismans by tracing templates, chant spells to a rap beat, and perform rituals using modified 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 86 Notes on Returning Souls: The Eyeless Huai Tree Maiden 还魂笔记之无眼槐娘 The plum rains have swollen every brick in Green Tile Alley. When Lin Yan grips her grandmother’s death notice and opens the door to the old house, the sixty-year-old locust tree in the courtyard seems to be watching her through its cracked bark. The year her great-great-grandmother planted it, three children went missing from the alley. During all the years her grandmother kept watch over it, she would bury bloodstained silver locks beneath its roots in the dead of night. The last page of her g 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 87 Route 44 Ticket Seller 44路售票员 In 2005, an 18-year-old bus conductor mysteriously dropped dead on the bus. The cause of death was unknown. In 2009, a last bus hit and killed a pregnant woman at an intersection, even though its brakes had not failed. In 2014, a woman suddenly pulled out a sanitary pad on the bus and slapped the driver in the face with it, despite showing no signs of mental illness. On the last Route 44 bus, I've seen far too many strange and bizarre things, and heard all kinds of spine-chilling rumors. Unless 56Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 88 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
- 89 The Keeper of Fate 守命人 Five years ago, my brother became addicted to gambling and racked up 700,000 yuan in debt. To pay it off, he went to Xiangxi’s Corpse-Hiding Cave to carry corpses and gamble with his life. 819Reads7.2Score14714d adds
- 90 Coming for My Life on the Seventh Night? I Can Command the Most Ominous Creatures 头七索命？我能御大凶之物 Anyone who makes money from the dead knows there are three kinds of corpses you must never handle. First, don’t take the bodies of people who died violently or are missing limbs. Such corpses carry baleful energy, damage your fortune, and bind you to karmic debts. Second, don’t take a corpse that has been left unattended for seven days after death. After seven days, the flesh has begun to decay and the soul has nowhere to settle. Disturb it, and you may find yourself haunted by evil things. Thir 243Reads—Score—14d adds
- 91 Married to a Snake 蛇嫁 My mother died in difficult labor while giving birth to me. As they were lowering her coffin into the grave, a white snake coiled around it. The pallbearers fled in terror, and when the coffin hit the ground, I crawled out of my mother’s corpse. Ever since, the great white snake has pursued me relentlessly, insisting I bear him a whole brood of little white snakes. What am I supposed to do? 93Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 92 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 119Reads—Score—14d adds
- 93 Exorcist: From the Start, I Encounter the Great Black Buddha Mother 除魔人：开局遇到大黑佛母 Original title: Exorcist: Starting Out by Encountering the Great Black Buddha Mother [Supernatural] + [System] + [Narrow Escapes] + [Film, Animation, Books, and TV] + [the Myriad Worlds] + [Not a Power Fantasy] + [Thriller] + [Horror] The male lead, born under an ill-fated destiny, faces a life-and-death calamity but is unexpectedly chosen by the System. He transmigrates through various parallel worlds to carry out missions to exorcise demons and uphold justice. When you transmigrate and encount 169Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 94 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
- 95 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
- 96 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 107Reads7.8Score—14d adds
- 97 Tales of Feng Shui and Tombs 风水墓事 My name is Gu Xiaochuan! I went to move a woman’s grave, and then… 8.4kReads8.7Score81414d adds
- 98 The Spirit Medium Qing Xuan 出马仙清玄 A strip of red cloth, three feet and three inches long. The old hall's people and horses, the old hall's immortal. Whip the horse down the mountain, and make your name known throughout the land. I was born in 1990 in an ordinary village in a northeastern province. When I was three, a great deity said I would one day take up the incense and become a spirit medium. I didn't believe in fate, but in the end, I did become one. Over the years, I've worked as a chef, served as a leader, and entered the 1.1kReads7.2Score10314d adds
- 99 The Knife Seller 赊刀人 The Knife on Credit tradition is documented in historical records as far back as the Song Dynasty. Back then, these sellers were not yet called Knife-on-Credit sellers; they were known as fortune-tellers who sold their wares. They never sold their knives outright, only lent them on credit. When they handed one over, they would leave behind a prophecy. Once it came true on the appointed day, they would return to collect payment. “You'll be blessed with a son two years from now. Keep these scissor 7kReads7.1Score26414d adds
- 100 The Strange Tribulation: The Daoist Shaman's Deadly Fate 诡劫：道巫凶命 [No System] [Mild Horror] [Taoist Priest] [Female Lead] [There have been too many coincidences along the way. It feels like someone has been setting me up.] After losing my memories, life became incredibly difficult... The bizarre and terrifying things I encountered nearly drove me to a breakdown... Every strange, eerie event put me in danger, yet somehow I survived time and time again. Then one day, I met an expert who gave me a new understanding of my own fate... [What kind of conspiracy lies 2Reads—Score—14d adds
