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- 151 The Spirit-Suppressing Coffin 囚灵棺 I was curious about the coffin necklace around my boyfriend's neck. Before I could even touch it, he broke up with me on the spot. I complained about it to the viewers in my livestream, but then a fortune-telling streamer suddenly joined the call and warned me: “Break up with him right now. Your boyfriend is wearing a Spirit-Binding Coffin!” From that day on, eerie nightmares, a mysterious female ghost, and my boyfriend's secrets... One strange event after another began to unfold. Just when I th —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 152 Horrifying Hauntings: Ghost Stories 恐怖灵异诡:鬼故事 Do you really think stories are just stories? In fact, behind every story lies a real event! In this book, I wrote a story about the last bus on Route 24. To experience what it would really feel like, I set myself a goal: for seven days straight, I'd ride the last Route 24 bus from its starting point to its final stop, then ride it all the way back. And that's where the story begins...! 361Reads—Score—14d adds
- 153 Tales of the Supernatural 灵异怪谈 Yin-yang masters are fated to suffer the Five Evils and Three Deficiencies. Is there any way to escape their fate? A life-and-death romance with a bloodthirsty vampire zombie! After desperately searching for the Strange Records of Yin and Yang, he discovers it is all part of an even bigger conspiracy! The Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, bloodthirsty vampire zombies, an inn in the underworld, an ancient Warring States tomb, and the Strange Records of Yin and Yang all feature in Strange Tales of the S 1.6kReads8.8Score13914d adds
- 154 Major Paranormal Events in China 中国民间灵异大事件 Major Chinese Folk Supernatural Cases is based on real supernatural incidents. Its contents are terrifying, mysterious, eerie, and suspenseful, with no more scientifically reasonable explanation to this day! Each chapter of this book tells a supernatural fantasy tale, with bizarre, chilling, and gripping plots. We hope readers will tune in and enjoy! 301Reads7.2Score22714d adds
- 155 Cheers Curse: Anyone Who Mishears It Dies 干杯咒:听错的去死 “That American exchange student says ‘Cheers’ to me in his dreams every night, until I realize he misheard ‘Go to hell.’” In the graduate dormitory, Dennis grows paler by the day, and the doctors can’t figure out why. Then Mina brings back the exorcist’s verdict: Seven years ago, a girl whose foreign boyfriend cheated on her jumped from this building. Every night, her shattered head presses against Dennis’s ear and repeats “Cheers” in English... But when we reach the tenth repetition, the corner —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 156 Bao Dadan’s True Accounts of Ghost Encounters 包大胆撞鬼实录 “You’ve heard of people who are ‘bold beyond belief,’ but have you ever seen someone scare a ghost into shutting itself away?” My name is Bao Dadan. It’s not a stage name, it’s my real name. My friends say I’m missing a screw, but they changed their minds after seeing it for themselves: I talked the “haunting female ghost” the landlord warned me about into silence; I roasted a “human-faced fish” deep in the mountains with pepper until it shrieked; even the “Slit-Mouthed Woman” covered her mask a —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 157 The Deadly Mirror Image in the Symmetrical Bathroom 对称浴室的死亡镜像 “At three in the morning, I saw my ‘future husband’s’ face in the mirror, and three days later, he ran me over with his SUV until I was nothing but scraps.” My landlady told me in a hushed voice that if I recited an incantation to a mirror at midnight for 49 days in a row, I’d see my destined partner. On the 47th day, her son’s twisted smile appeared in the mirror. I screamed and fled the apartment, but at the intersection he ran over me four times, reversing each time. The police said he kept s —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 158 Horror Sketches 恐怖素描 “The day I was accepted into art school through the recommendation program, I drew the killer who murdered Teacher Zhou with my own hands: the faceless woman who had been draped over my back for three whole months.” In the dead of night, a blizzard battered the studio windows with a crackling roar. I curled up in the bathroom and vomited, but a pale body slowly emerged in the mirror. Her long hair wound around my neck, her rotting fingertips stroked my spine, and where her face should have been. 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 159 Paranormal Podcast 灵异播客 “What’s the most convincing paranormal story you’ve ever heard? As a paranormal podcast host, I thought I was just collecting urban legends, until a laugh that wasn’t mine came through my headphones. While I was adjusting the audio track, a shrill whisper seemed to breathe right into my ear, and a new waveform mysteriously appeared in the recording software. An expert told me, ‘That’s another audio signal. It isn’t human.’ Worse still, after I said, ‘Don’t come looking for me through my headphon —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 160 The Hypnosis Trap: The Forgotten Bloody Hand 催眠陷阱:被遗忘的血手 “I caused my husband and child’s deaths with my own hands, then spent an entire year forgetting them. The truth only tore through my memories as I fell, after my psychiatrist pushed me onto the rooftop.” The travel magazine from a year ago, the coffee cup that appeared out of nowhere in the living room, the unfamiliar father and son in the photo frame... I thought I was simply suffering from depression, until I encountered those blood-soaked hands during hypnosis and realized that forgetting was —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 161 The Night Shift Passage: An Invitation from the Dead 夜班通道:亡者邀请函 “Every night at ten, I open the supermarket’s rolling shutter right on time, never knowing that another world lies hidden at the end of the aisles: a black-gang nightclub that was burned to the ground. For two years, I watched my coworkers ‘disappear’ one by one. Even their names seemed to be erased, until Wang Tao grabbed my arm in the emergency exit, and a girl crawling with maggots in the Golden Ballroom pressed close to my ear and said, ‘Welcome to Brother Feng’s club. All the guests here... 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 162 My Dead Friend 死去的好友 “I inherited my childhood friend’s billion-dollar fortune, but then received a call from him in the middle of the night. Yang Zhiyi, the man I’d pushed off a cliff with my own hands, gripped my throat with dirt-covered hands and asked me, one word at a time, in the mirror: ‘Why are you scheming against even my ghost?’” A staged mountaineering accident, a ‘will’ pieced together from lines in short videos: I thought I’d gotten away with a perfect murder, until a pair of glasses mysteriously appear —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 163 A Midnight Invitation to the Yin-Yang Eyes 阴阳眼的午夜邀约 “I’ve seen with my own eyes a boy with yin-yang eyes, blessed by Guanyin, get torn at by a shadow in a cemetery. I’ve heard Teresa Teng’s songs drifting out of a bakery’s refrigerator. And in a restaurant attic, I once came across a bloodied face embedded in the floor. But the creepiest thing of all is the ‘little ghost’ in my son’s playroom, growing up on the ‘fragrance’ it smells.” Notes written during a late-night cemetery exploration, a wandering spirit in cloth shoes in the kitchen during a —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 164 The Strange Happenings on Little C’s Moments 小C的朋友圈诡事 “My social media feed hides the truth behind seven cases of the living encountering evil spirits: Reporter Xiao Chen’s right shoulder is covered in bruises marked with the bite prints of an infant spirit; a junior student is chased to her apartment by a split-headed zombie on Halloween; tenant Xiao Chang waves through the window to a boy with no eyes every night at ten... The creepiest thing is the severed-hand granny who suddenly reaches out in front of a meat grinder at the market at three in —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 165 The Watcher Beyond the Cat’s Eye 猫眼外的凝视者 “That night, at dawn, the ‘person’ outside my peephole stared into my eyes for a full three minutes, until I realized its pupils weren’t moving.” A late-night food delivery buzzer jolted me awake, but there was no one outside the door. It wasn’t until I crushed the eyeball stuck to the peephole that the news began reporting a series of dismemberment murders in this very building. Even more terrifying, when I approached the peephole with trembling hands to check, that bloodshot eye was still pres —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 166 Nobody Working the Night Shift at This Company Is Human 公司里上夜班的都不是人 “You are absolutely not allowed to linger after work.” That was the rule my boss personally gave me on my first day. But when I returned to the office late at night to pick up the engagement ring, the elevator showed an overload despite being empty, the printer started spitting out a death certificate bearing my name, and on my social feed, my girlfriend was smiling sweetly as she posted an engagement photo with my boss. Even more terrifying, I kicked a corpse on the fourth-floor stairwell. That —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 167 The Woman You Must Never Cross 最不能得罪的女人 Seven years ago, a yellow weasel slipped into my bed in the middle of the night and said it could help me get revenge. I agreed three times. Two bachelors hanged themselves in the village, the tongues of the village shaman’s entire family of four were torn out, and the son of the village chief, whose whole family of eight had been wiped out, went mad. It wasn’t until I got on the bus bound for the county town that I realized none of the passengers had feet. They were all dead people who had “sho —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 168 Terror on a Snowy Night 雪夜惊魂 I’ll never forget that winter night when a blizzard trapped me on the top floor of the seventh floor. The keycard unlocked Room 744 with a beep, and the smell of mold mingled with the cold, stinging my nostrils. The 340,000 yuan in my backpack weighed heavily on my shoulders. I snapped the three deadbolts shut behind me, only to hear a soft click from the aluminum window frame. Have you ever seen a figure hanging upside down outside a seventh-floor window? Its entire face was pressed against the —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 169 No One Escapes 谁也逃不掉 “That haunted building took four of my friends twenty years ago. Now it’s finally come for me.” Trembling, I stood in the bedroom of Li Lisha’s home, watching Wang Yuanyuan smile at me from outside the window. But she had hanged herself twenty years ago... Even more terrifying, I suddenly realized something: back then, the five of us went to the Lotus Haunted House together, and I was the only one who made it out alive... Now a rotting hand is squeezing my neck from behind, and I hear the whispe —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 170 What Happens If You Smoke While Mining? 在下矿时候抽烟会发生什么 Have you ever seen three hundred corpses tumbling in boiling water? I have. On my first night down the mine, I ran into an old miner whose whole body was ice-cold. He shared a cigarette with me, until I felt the bones at his severed wrist. As I ran for my life, the entire tunnel suddenly filled with stones draped in red cloth. A dead person sat atop every stone, their faces peeling away, and they were all pointing me down the same path. At the end, a huge pit held a pool of boiling water, bubbli —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 171 Sacrifice at the Haunted School Festival 诡校祭品 Please follow these rules: 1. Whether it is day or night, do not make eye contact with any teacher you see. If you accidentally do, don't worry. The first time, the teacher will let it slide. 2. The dormitory lights go out at ten. Once they do, do not speak. Go to bed quietly, close the doors and windows, and draw the curtains. There will be nothing outside. If there is, ignore it. 3. Someone will inspect the dorms at night. If you encounter them, close your eyes and pretend to be asleep. You mi —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 172 Peeping Is a Crime 偷窥有罪 On what seemed like a peaceful night, I, an ordinary shut-in, was unexpectedly swept into a vortex of terror unlike anything I had ever known. Every evening, through my telescope, I watched Li Weiwei, the yoga instructor who lived in the building opposite. It was a secret, thrilling pleasure. But then came that eerie night, and everything was turned upside down. Li Weiwei's graceful figure moved as usual among the pavilions in our residential compound, but the shadow of a woman in red had appear —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 173 Spirit Medium 跳大神 “I watched with my own eyes as an actor performing a spirit-summoning ritual fell to his death onstage. That night, the whole village blocked the guesthouse entrance, sickles in hand. The Qing dynasty ghost said, ‘The foreigners must die,’ but when Anton was unconscious with a high fever, the villagers knelt in the torrential rain and kowtowed to my leg bone.” The heavy rain washed open a mass grave beneath the wasteland, and skeletal hands clutching rusty rifles pierced the earth. The resentful 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 174 I Blundered into a Horror World, Only to Find That All the Bosses Were Lamps 误入恐怖世界,没想到BOSS全是灯 I stumbled into a world of horror, only to find that every BOSS was a lamp. 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 175 The Haunted Inn 惊魂旅馆 An unexpected downpour drowned out the sounds of murder. Late at night, in a remote inn, a corpse lay sprawled across a bed, blood pouring from all seven orifices. The killer seemed to be hiding among the guests, none of whom trusted one another: a police officer, a writer, a psychiatrist, a celebrity, a fan, a college student... Every one of them had something to hide. After a second murder, the line between the dead and the living grew increasingly blurred. Everyone was a suspect, and everyone 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 176 Out of Control 失控者 [Anthology stories + supernatural horror + folk customs + feng shui and mysticism + subtle scares + jaw-dropping twists] Open a paper box sealed away for many years, and one terrifying incident after another begins to surface. The massacre that wiped out an entire family in Nanhua Estate, and the deaths of everyone connected to the case! A bride in a red qipao appearing by your side in the dead of night! Strange legends circulate through a dilapidated high-rise, where hands reach out of the dark 35Reads—Score—14d adds
- 177 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... 32Reads—Score—14d adds
- 178 House for Rent: Haunted 凶宅出租 Firsthand experiences and true cases from a real estate agent, adapted supernatural incidents from haunted houses. Each chapter is a standalone paranormal story, uncovering the secrets behind haunted houses and the tangled struggles of human nature. 471Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 179 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. 1.9kReads8.2Score16514d adds
- 180 I'm Xie, a Yin-Yang Guide, Not a Taoist Priest 阴阳开路人谢邀,不是道士 I've seen too many lonely spirits trapped in corners, unable to move on, and too many people hell-bent on harming others. Sometimes I can't tell whether I'm imagining it in the throes of a psychotic episode or witnessing something real. The truth is far darker than fiction. “Absurd” is the only word for it. 21Reads—Score—14d adds
- 181 The Immortal’s Path of a Funeral Garment Shop Owner 寿衣店老板的修仙路 An Accidental Ghost Cultivator Begins His Path to Immortality Luo Ze is an art teacher at an art training school. After 30 years of teaching, he has become a renowned teacher with students all over the place. After a car accident, he unexpectedly transmigrates 20 years into the past, only to find himself possessing the body of a 19-year-old who runs a funeral clothing shop. While providing someone with a complete funeral service, he unexpectedly acquires an ancient bronze mirror of unknown origi 21Reads—Score—14d adds
- 182 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
- 183 The Vengeful Ghost Great-Grandma Wants to Kill My Daughter, but My Pure Yang Infant Shatters a Century-Old Blood Pact 厉鬼太奶想杀我女,我纯阳婴镇碎百年血契 A Vengeful Ghost of a Great-Grandmother Wants to Kill My Daughter, but My Pure-Yang Baby Shatters a Century-Old Blood Pact 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 184 Uh-Oh, I've Turned a Creepy Game into Reality 坏了,玩到真的诡异养成游戏了 Have you ever played a truly eerie creature-raising game? Have you ever had a heart-pounding life experience? “Red wedding dress, paper shoes for the dead, a ghost in the mirror...” Which of these ghosts would you choose to raise? When Wu Wen clicked the place button and saw the red-clad figure appear before him, only one thought remained in his mind. “Crap, I've actually started playing a real supernatural creature-raising game!” The game Ghost Encounter has been making games for twenty years. 3.8kReads8.6Score31314d adds
- 185 The Blood-Red Bun Shop 血色包子铺 The buns I sell have already sent two customers to their deaths. And yet my shop is still packed with customers. Just as the police run out of leads in the case, there is a third person who dies after eating one of my buns... 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 186 Painting Yin and Yang with a Single Stroke 一笔绘阴阳 As I gazed down the shadowy corridor and across the empty hall, the strange order of light and darkness stirred a fear of the unknown deep inside me. The elders always said, “The ancestral hall is home to spirits that have yet to depart.” “Don’t step on the threshold, don’t touch the ancestral tablets, and don’t whistle in the ancestral hall.” “The names on the tablets weren’t carved there. They moved in.” When the wind blew past the row of wooden windows, the latticework let out a mournful wail 209Reads—Score10114d adds
- 187 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
- 188 After My Brother Was Crushed by a Tycoon Family, I Summoned the Ten Kings of Hell to Claim Their Lives 弟遭豪门碾杀,我引十殿阎罗索命 After his younger brother is crushed to death by a powerful family, he summons the Ten Kings of Hell to claim their lives 16Reads—Score—14d adds
- 189 Paralyzed by Terror: The Shadow That Smelled of Tobacco 鬼压床惊魂-那具带着烟草味的黑影 Terrifying Sleep Paralysis: The Shadow That Smelled of Tobacco 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 190 The Tiger Skin: Three Years After My Mother Died, Someone Knocked at My Door in the Dead of Night 皮打虎:我娘死后三年,深夜来敲我家门 Leather Tiger: Three Years After My Mother Died, Someone Came Knocking at My Door Late at Night 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 191 Calling Spirits in the Ruined House: My Seven-Year-Old Brother Mysteriously Fell from a Building, and a Shadow in White Came After Him 荒坯房叫魂:7岁小弟莫名坠楼,白衣黑影缠上了他 A Spirit-Calling Ritual in a Derelict House: My Seven-Year-Old Brother Mysteriously Fell from the Building, and a Shadow in White Is Haunting Him 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 192 Night-Shift Internet Cafe Attendant: The Woman in Red in the Men's Room Stall Hides a Ten-Year-Old Case 夜班网管:男厕隔间的红衣女,竟藏着十年旧案 Night-Shift Internet Cafe Attendant: The Red-Clad Woman in the Men's Restroom Stall Is Hiding a Decade-Old Case 61Reads—Score—14d adds
- 193 A Collection of Terrifying Tales 恐怖惊魂故事录 [Traditional supernatural tales] [Strange happenings late at night] [Whispers of the uncanny in your ear] [Based on true events] [Urban horror] [Thrilling and chilling] One ghost story for every chapter, all set in the dead of night. Come and read... 607Reads—Score—14d adds
- 194 Chronicles of Strange Folk Tales 民间怪谈事件录 Not for the faint of heart! Not for the faint of heart! Not for the faint of heart! The 1980s and 1990s saw one bizarre incident after another in Jubao Village: Zhao Laohei, who rose from the dead at the execution ground... The woman who hanged herself in town, her whole face turned a purplish black... The ghost child encountered during a game of hide-and-seek on the Ghost Festival... The terrifying bamboo fiend in the old bamboo grove... People and ghosts playing cards in a yin-yang card game.. 216Reads—Score—14d adds
- 195 There Are Ghosts in These Words 话里有诡 They say everyone has a few little secrets they can't bring themselves to talk about these days. But if you really want to hear something out of the ordinary, go find Old Bu. Old Bu runs a little tavern set inside an abandoned train carriage. From the day it opened, he laid down one rule: One interesting story in exchange for a night's worth of drinks. Sounds like a good deal, doesn't it? Too bad he doesn't give you much to drink, and the stories just keep getting stranger. An intelligent wristb 8Reads7.6Score—14d adds
- 196 Did I Ruin This Account by Training It? 我这号是练废了? [Infinite flow + horror and the supernatural] Most stories are adapted from real events, told as a collection of ensemble, episodic tales. No formulaic plots, no invincible characters, no mindless stupidity. Bizarre situations? Soap-opera drama? They all reveal the distortions of the human heart and nature! Every night at midnight, you’ll enter a dream and explore the secrets of a strange otherworld. Featured chapters: The blurb can’t do them justice, so read the story! [Dream-Eating Syndrome - 91Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 197 Ghostly Eyes 鬼灵瞳 A reclusive man known as Little Master, along with several strange people brought together by coincidence but united by their shared interests, gradually uncovers a history buried for many years: the five great clans of the ancient world and the Yin-Yang adepts who could do anything. It seems that fate has long been leading them into one thrilling fantasy adventure after another... 1kReads9.1Score10314d adds
- 198 Tales of Strange Creatures in a Northeastern Mountain Village 东北山村野怪谈 Deep in the mountains of the Northeast, evil lurks in the old forests, and strange things abound in deserted villages. The elders say, “Every mountain has a mountain god, every forest a forest spirit. You can’t fight them, and you can’t escape them.” One eerie Northeast folk tale after another, one terrifying night in the mountain villages after another. It all begins with a heavy snowfall. 2.5kReads—Score10714d adds
- 199 Who Wore That Blue Robe? 谁穿了那件蓝衫 Who Wore That Blue Shirt? 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 200 The First-Eye Feng Shui Master 第一天眼风水师 This is not your typical feng shui story. If that bothers you, please move along. Inside you’ll find the most terrifying human demons and ghosts, horrifying infant spirits, bewitching female ghosts, thousand-year-old flood dragons, and even a ghastly face that will make your heart race... There are no tired formulas here, so be patient. The further you read, the better it gets… The story begins on the day I was born. On the day of my birth, every last one of the chickens and ducks my family k 17.7kReads8.9Score1k14d adds

















































