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- 1 Tales of the Strange from Luocha Haishi: The Mysterious Notebook 罗刹海市怪谈：诡秘笔记 There was once an ancient village surrounded by dense forests and mysterious mountains. The villagers believed that on full-moon nights, at dusk, a mysterious power filled the valley. This legend deeply fascinated all the young people who loved adventure. One day, a young traveler arrived in the village. He entered the teahouse and found it bustling, though nobody paid him any attention. He found a seat and sat down, thinking that perhaps the people here enjoyed listening to stories. Just as he —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 The Monkey King Strikes Back: Scavenger of the Starfields 猴王逆袭，星域间的清道夫 Far from the hustle and bustle, the star realms are no peaceful place. Evil forces run rampant, threatening their tranquility. Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, possesses extraordinary strength and wisdom. He decides to leave worldly conflicts behind and devote himself to cleaning up the star realms. With his unique moral code and wisdom, he becomes their interstellar janitor. In this complicated cosmic struggle, Sun Wukong will fight fiercely against all manner of immortals, demons, and monsters, wh 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 Thriller Game: I Get a Ghost Every Day from the Sign-In 惊悚游戏：每天签到一只鬼 When Zhao Jing wakes up, he finds himself chosen to enter a horror game. Forced into a dead end from the start, Zhao Jing struggles to survive under the threat of vengeful ghosts. Then his System awakens, granting him one ghost as a sign-in reward every day. Little by little, countless ghosts accumulate inside him. If he can’t see the ghosts, he’ll replace his eyes with a pair of ghost eyes. If he can’t hear them, he’ll replace his ears with a pair of ghost ears... Even he doesn’t know whether h 279Reads5.7Score—14d adds
- 4 Yuewei Headlines 阅微头条 [Ghosts]+ [Spirits]+ [Supernatural] Presented in the style of reports from the Thatched Cottage News Agency, this work brings to life the ghosts, fox spirits, mysterious beings, phantoms, extraordinary people, and strange events found in classical texts such as Notes from the Thatched Cottage. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 Quick Transmigration: The Good Times of an Ordinary Background Character 快穿之路人甲的美好时光 Quick transmigration + space + adorable pets + passerby + farming + patriotism Due to circumstances beyond her control, He Ke was forced to transmigrate at first, but later came to accept it calmly. She experiences the full range of human emotions. Everyone is the protagonist of their own life. Let’s explore this dazzling world of countless possibilities together. It’s all about adorable pets, role-playing as all kinds of characters, and a golden finger, and somehow disrupting the plot without e 78Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 6 Horror Descends: I Bind Myself to a Red-Clad Female Ghost from the Start 恐怖降临：开局绑定红衣女鬼 [Supernatural] + [System] + [Single female lead] A year ago, terror descended upon the world, reducing the global population by 90 percent. Only China, protected by its dragon veins, avoided complete collapse. The Maoshan Celestial Master set out to exorcise demons and uphold the Dao, taking his disciples down the mountain to slay monsters and demons. They never returned. By then, Lin Tian had spent ten years sweeping the grounds of Maoshan and had been signing in for ten years straight. “Ding! 1.7kReads7.7Score12914d adds
- 7 The Age of Terror: I Have a Demon Editor 恐怖时代：我有一个妖魔编辑器 Demons and monsters return, and humanity enters an age of terror that lasts eighty years. In this terrifying world, overrun with demons and monsters, humans can only live in base cities surrounded by towering walls. To fight back against the demons, everyone must choose a [Companion Demon Spirit] that resonates with their soul at birth. At eighteen, they awaken it, raise their spirit, and battle the demons. Ye Fan transmigrates by accident and awakens a Demon Editor. By editing demon materials, 3.4kReads8.4Score32414d adds
- 8 Ghost Puzzle: I Get a Ghost Delivered Every Day 厉鬼拼图：每天送我一只鬼 (System) + (leveling up) + (ghost taming) “Ding! Today's gift has arrived: one ghost heart puzzle piece!” “Ding! Today's gift has arrived: one ghost skeleton puzzle piece!” “Ding! Today's gift has arrived: one ghost blood puzzle piece!” “Ding! Today's gift has arrived: one ghost glaring-eyes puzzle piece!” After transmigrating to an age when evil spirits were resurging, Bai Ye, whose soul had crossed over, received a System that gifted him one evil spirit every day. While ghost tamers were still 122Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 9 Horror Returns: I Feed Myself to Ghosts Just to Survive 恐怖复苏，我以身饲鬼只为活下去 The Starving Ghost breaks free, and three S-rank paranormal incidents erupt at once. The Ghost Riders' headquarters falls! While fleeing, Xia Feng is attacked by a ghost and mysteriously winds up in another parallel world. But this world still has ghosts! Ghosts cannot be killed. The only way to fight a ghost is with another ghost. The appearance of ghosts completely overturns materialism. As countless paranormal incidents unfold, regions across the globe begin to fall. Humanity is plunged into 6.8kReads8.4Score63114d adds
- 10 Horror Resurges: I Have a Ghost Bus 恐怖复苏，我有一辆鬼大巴 “My name is Jiang Yan. If you don’t want to die, get in my car.” On the way back to his village for a holiday, Jiang Yan successfully took control of a ghost bus and became a ghost-handler. What secrets lie hidden in the eerie village? What terror is sealed inside the pitch-black coffin? In a torrential downpour, ghosts roam the amusement park. Is this the beginning of everything, or the end? As a blood mist invades and the entire city is sealed off, despair closes in. Face death and fight t 6.8kReads7.5Score50814d adds
- 11 Horror Revival: While Others Struggle to Survive, I Command Ten Thousand Ghosts 恐怖复苏：别人都在求生，而我统御万鬼 [No female lead] Lin Jing joins the globally livestreamed survival show Ghost Realm Survival and unlocks a Ghost Taming System! As long as people admire Lin Jing, he earns Admiration Points, which he can use to draw prizes! While everyone else is trying to survive on the show, Lin Jing is commanding ten thousand ghosts! Water, food, talismans, spiritual weapons, enhancements... He's got everything! "Host has obtained Spiritual Energy Water. Drinking it will strengthen the body!" "Host has obtain 280Reads9.1Score10714d adds
- 12 I Am the Lord of Yama, Leading My Ghost Army to Sweep Across All Races 我，阎罗领主，率鬼军横扫万族 [Transmigration + System + Invincible + Reborn] Under the System’s control, billions of people transmigrate and are reborn on the Creation Continent as lords of their own territories. Every lord receives an initial building for recruiting troops. They can recruit units, grow their forces, plunder resources, and compete against the myriad races. To Xu Ye’s surprise, his initial troop-building structure is actually the Gate of the Underworld! It can summon countless ghosts to fight the myriad race 11.6kReads8.9Score1.2k14d adds
- 13 Xuanhuan: I Lead Hundreds of Millions of Yin Soldiers to Rebuild the Underworld 玄幻：我率领亿万阴兵，重建地府 Chen Qiye transmigrated into a fantasy world, only to find it crawling with countless vicious ghosts that preyed on people and stole their lives. Fortunately, the most powerful Underworld Emperor System awakened within him. Summon Heibai Wuchang to seize wandering souls and slay evil ghosts! Summon the Yin soldiers and generals, throw open the gates of the underworld, and set a hundred ghosts roaming by night! Summon judges and City Gods to punish evil, uphold good, and keep the mortal realm i 15.7kReads8.5Score1.3k14d adds
- 14 Tales of Strange Happenings in Snow City 雪城志异 A collection of short tales of the strange and supernatural, including ghost stories and even stories about aliens! Each story is only a few hundred words, so you can finish one in no time. Strange happenings and supernatural tales, demons and ghosts, tree spirits and fox fairies! Let your imagination run wild! Everyone is welcome to read! 29Reads—Score—14d adds
- 15 Midnight Fortune-Teller: Humans Keep Away, Ghosts Come Forward 午夜算命师：人回避，鬼上前 Everyone knows about fortune-telling, but have you ever heard of telling fortunes for ghosts? Just because you've never heard of something doesn't mean it doesn't exist. If you ever come across a fortune-telling shop with its doors still open in the middle of the night, don't go looking for excitement. Because the people waiting in line might not be people… 35.4kReads9.0Score2.6k14d adds
- 16 Thriller Game: Inheriting My Ancestors' Trillion Netherworld Coins from the Start 惊悚游戏：开局继承祖宗万亿冥币 [Horror game + terror returns + power fantasy] A horror game descends upon the world, and Chen Xun is unexpectedly chosen as a player. Break a game rule, and you die. At that very moment, Chen Xun successfully activates the System and inherits nine trillion Underworld Coins from his ancestors. In the Blood-Red Train 404 dungeon, Chen Xun becomes the most distinguished Platinum Member. In the Bloody Kindergarten dungeon, Chen Xun simply buys the entire kindergarten. Inside the dungeons, his rules 48.4kReads9.1Score7k14d adds
- 17 Terror Descends: This Big Brother Is a Little Too Powerful! 惊悚降临：这个大哥有亿点猛！ Chen Xuanbei, nicknamed Dizang, accidentally transmigrates to a parallel universe where the supernatural has descended. With the Ten Yama Kings tattooed across his body and a massive reaper’s scythe slung over his shoulder, Chen Xuanbei declares, “Sorry, everyone. I’m claiming this territory!” The Slit-Mouthed Woman: “Hello, police? Someone sewed my mouth shut! Yes, they threw away my scissors too!” Sadako: “Hello, city management? Someone blocked up my well with concrete. I can’t get home!” Han 27.6kReads9.2Score2.8k14d adds
- 18 Thriller Game: From the Start, I Urge the Ghost Courtesan to Reform! 惊悚游戏：开局劝鬼花魁从良！ [Horror game + comedic mild horror + infinite-flow + livestream + no heroine + the protagonist doesn’t act human + everyone is clever + everyone lies + original game scenarios] [The only novel online to tell the story of what happened before the horror game invaded!] [Horror scenario “Ghost Brothel” fully loaded. Players, please get ready!] Lin Xun, a hack screenwriter, is transported into a horror game. Unblockable horror livestreams spread across the internet, turning this into a terrifying sp 5.6kReads9.3Score61214d adds
- 19 Come On, I Was Already Invincible Before This Horror Game Even Started! 不会吧，我都无敌了，恐怖游戏才来？ “Three years, then another three years. Ten years have passed. System, I’m already invincible. Where’s that horror game you promised me?” Lin Chen came to this world ten years ago, and the horror game managed to avoid him for nine of them. But it couldn’t avoid him forever. Lin Chen entered the horror game, a game with a 99% death rate, and turned it into a speedrun. 5.9kReads8.5Score54514d adds
- 20 The Age of Terror: I Begin as a Gravekeeper 恐怖时代，从成为守墓人开始 [Reborn] + [Eerie] + [Underworld Official Ranks] + [Ghost Control] + [A Little Farming] + [Tomb Construction] An era of terror descended, and a death game began. This was a world where ghost controllers and the eerie coexisted. In his previous life, Chu Qing had been on the verge of becoming the First-Rank Underworld Official, King Chujiang. He was reborn in the future, back to the very beginning of the eerie era. The old rules were on the verge of collapse. Who would rule the dark dawn? Chu Qin 88.3kReads8.9Score7.8k14d adds
- 21 Global Ghostmasters: There Are Hundreds of Millions of Ghosts Inside Me 全球御鬼：我的体内有亿只鬼 [Looting bamboo shoots + ghostly resurgence + ghost taming + one female lead + comedy = 100,000 new words every week?] The comic of the same name, Global Ghost Tamer: I Have Hundreds of Millions of Ghosts Inside Me, is now available on Fanqie. Lin Mo was playing games in class when he transmigrated to a parallel world overrun by ghosts. With the worst talent of all, he unexpectedly gained the Defense-Breaking System. As long as he could make a ghost lose its composure, he could force it into a c 72.4kReads9.4Score9.8k14d adds
- 22 Horror Arena: From the Start, a Red-and-White Collision Scares the World to Tears 恐怖擂台：开局红白撞煞吓哭全球 A horror arena has descended upon Blue Star. Each nation must summon a terrifying entity to fight for it. The winners will see their national fortunes flourish and endure for all eternity. The losers will see their national fortunes decline, their resources and territory plundered, and their dignity stripped away. To claim victory, nations everywhere summon horrors native to their lands. The Sakura Nation has the Slit-Mouthed Woman, the Red Cape, the Four Great Female Ghosts, and the Hundred Gho 19.1kReads9.2Score1.8k14d adds
- 23 Horror Tavern: I Only Raise the Most Ferocious Creatures 恐怖酒馆：我只养大凶之物 Tucked away in a quiet alley is a strange tavern that can grant your wishes, as long as you’re willing to set up a terrifying idol in your home... 6kReads9.4Score80414d adds
- 24 Super Scary Livestream 超级惊悚直播 "Welcome, everyone, to the Supernatural Scary Live Stream. Before we start today's broadcast, I have to tell you that only three kinds of people can watch this stream: those with a heavy aura of yin energy, those who will die within seven days, and the third kind, which I can't discuss in detail. I can only give you one warning: watch your back!" 25.3kReads9.2Score3.3k14d adds
- 25 The Language of the Three Corpses 三尸语 You’ve heard of people who died with their eyes open, but have you ever heard of a dead person whose mouth wouldn’t close? His grandfather’s death turns the life of a broke college student upside down. A corpse glares, a soul is hooked; a corpse opens its mouth, and disaster strikes twice. As one bizarre incident after another unfolds, he accidentally discovers that there’s far more to it than ghosts… 68.4kReads9.3Score10.6k14d adds
- 26 Rule Horror: My Family Isn't Normal 规则怪谈：我的家人不正常 [Horror + mystery + livestream + national fate + System] The supernatural returns, and rule-based horror games invade countries around the world. As one chosen by fate, Zhou Bai represents the Great Xia Kingdom in a horror game. The first scenario is a family of four. [You live with your wife and your parents. But remember, there are only three people in your home.] [You can trust your wife, unless she takes off her red hair clip.] [You and your wife have never had a child. If you hear a baby cr 46.1kReads9.4Score5.7k14d adds
- 27 The Eerie Spirit Medium: My Doll Can Really Manifest Spirits 诡异降神师：我的娃娃真能显灵 [Ghosts in the Book!] [Dark Tone!] [Villain Protagonist!] [Urban Supernatural!] [Horror Aesthetic!] [Invincible from the Start!] A sinister doll saws someone to pieces, a red-clad vengeful ghost claims lives at the airport, a hundred ghosts hunt people down along a ten-mile street, the dead rise again in a crematorium, and corpses dance wildly in an abandoned hospital... None of these things happened to me. They are all stories I wrote. My name is Yang Ning. I am an heir to the Ling Men, a profe 135.6kReads9.5Score11.8k14d adds
- 28 Rule-Based Horror? I Choose to Rebel 规则怪谈？我选择叛逆 [A short drama adaptation of the same name is now available. You can watch it on the platform. Thank you for your support.] [Subverting expectations + no heroine + hilarious + sly schemer + rebellious + eerie + national fate] Rule-based horror descends upon Earth. The uncanny invades reality. Those chosen are sent into horror worlds, where they represent their respective nations and face the horrors within. Su Xiao is chosen by the horror world and entrusted with the task of representing the Dra 50.1kReads9.6Score6.3k14d adds
- 29 There’s a Ghost Inside Me 我的体内有只鬼 Vengeful ghosts awaken, and a hundred ghosts roam the night. Jiang Xiao transmigrates into this world for no apparent reason and finds himself surrounded by demons and monsters. But then he discovers that his shadow can devour ghosts without limit and gain their abilities. [Successfully devoured the White Mist Ghost. Ability acquired: Mist Form] [Successfully devoured the Hanging Ghost. Ability acquired: Shackles] [Successfully devoured the Bronze Ghost. Ability acquired: Copper Skin] [Successfu 20.7kReads9.3Score2.4k14d adds
- 30 EN Call Me the Ghost Messenger 请叫我鬼差大人 After the Eternal Night, terror returned. Ten miles of desolate graves, eerie singing. An old man searching for his arms, a headless baby... They kept piecing their bodies back together, unleashing an even more terrifying aura. In the wasteland, even a severed hand could destroy heaven and earth. In this world of darkness and despair, a post office appeared and vanished from view... A mysterious young man, a postal carriage traveling through the void... One blood-red letter after another became 102.2kReads9.5Score9.6k14d adds
- 31 Born of a Corpse, Carried in a Ghost's Coffin 尸生子，鬼抬棺 In ancient, remote places, all kinds of strange and terrifying things are bound to happen. And these things happen around Hua Jiunan. In fact, Hua Jiunan is part of them. For instance, he was born from a corpse! 213.6kReads9.6Score25.4k14d adds
- 32 I Turned the Horror World Into a Raising Game! 我把惊悚世界玩成养成游戏！ A mysterious force descended upon Earth, giving rise to another world of terror. Everyone was forcibly sent into the world of horror games on their eighteenth birthday. While everyone else was immersed in fear, struggling to survive in the cracks between life and death, Qin Nuo discovered that he could earn System rewards by influencing the ghosts’ emotions. And every time he completed a dungeon, he could establish his own business in the world of horror. So he became a food runner at the Yin Sp 113kReads9.5Score12.3k14d adds
- 33 EN A Freshman Internship, and You Go to Bureau 749 to Contain Monsters 大一实习，你跑去749收容怪物 [Decisive killing] [How could any monster be good?] [All monsters deserve to die] [Ruthless] During his sophomore summer vacation, Lu Ding had planned to use the time to take an internship and earn some living expenses. Who could have expected that the construction site where he interned would excavate a bleeding stone? The workers fled one after another, but Lu Ding charged in with a rotary hammer. After transmigrating to this world nearly twenty years ago, Lu Ding’s golden finger, the Monster 513.4kReads9.5Score39.7k14d adds
- 34 EN Misty Rain Tower 烟雨楼 [The print edition is now available nationwide at all major retailers] "Traditional xuanhuan" "No harem" In the land of Jiuzhou stands a tower called the Misty Rain Tower. Its master, Li Qingzhi, is hailed as a peerless prodigy, holding life and death in his hands beneath the cover of night. Yet what the world doesn’t know is that someone else stands behind the Misty Rain Tower, its true founder. Using the guise of a spoiled young master as cover, he manipulates the winds and clouds and plots ac 868.8kReads9.6Score66.1k14d adds
- 35 EN Learning to Slay Gods in the Psychiatric Hospital 我在精神病院学斩神 A must-read hit on Tomato Novel | Original novel of the hit anime Slay the Gods | IP influence on the China Online Literature Influence List | 2023 China Good Novel Have you ever wondered whether monsters from ancient myths lurk beneath the neon-lit city? Have you ever wondered whether gods stand watch over humanity atop the moon hanging high above us? Have you ever wondered whether extraordinary people walk among us in our bustling modern cities, acting in the gods’ stead? In the society ruled 992.2kReads9.9Score158.5k14d adds
