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- 51 Midnight Mystery Calls: I Seek Justice for the Dead 午夜诡单：我替亡者讨公道 My name is Yun Xi. I make a living taking bizarre midnight cases. The good news: I was born with an ancient artifact for guiding souls. Seven copper coins can identify people, objects, and the dead, while a red cord can bind ghosts and capture spirits. The bad news: it doesn’t level up by killing. I have to investigate a case’s karmic ties and guide the dead onward. It also stops working when the truth behind the karma is unclear, and its power is halved during the day. I thought this case wo —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 52 The Yin-Yang Geomancer’s Legacy 阴阳地师传 At ten years old, I slew a white serpent and subdued a hundred ghosts. The generals of the underworld called me “little brother.” Using feng shui, the art of Qimen, and Taoist magic, I solved one strange murder case after another! It all began with the corpse of a man in a cornfield! 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 53 Strange Little Tales from the Urban-Rural Fringe 城乡结合灵异小故事 This collection of little supernatural tales is drawn from stories told by elderly villagers and young people. It's hard to tell what's true and what's not, so just enjoy them as little stories to pass the time over tea. 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 54 The Rebirth Shop: I Handle Paranormal Cases at the Funeral Home 往生铺：我在殡仪馆处理灵异事件 My name is Chen Yang, and I run a funeral shop called Passing On in the outskirts of the city. By day, I sell wreaths and make paper effigies. My business is with the dead. At midnight, I burn incense and light candles, dealing with the “unclean things” that the living would rather avoid. 359Reads—Score—Shelves
- 55 Top Secret: Paranormal Investigation Bureau 绝密：灵异事件调查局 To investigate and handle supernatural incidents, the nation established a special task force. All files, mission reports, and research are classified as the highest level of national secrecy. As a field operative, I was fortunate enough to take part in handling all kinds of cases: the madness of thousand-year-old corpses, the wonders of supernatural abilities, and incidents involving hybrids of spirits, demons, and monsters... 152Reads—Score—Shelves
- 56 One Chilling Story Every Night 每晚一个惊魂故事 [One story per chapter] [Chinese-style horror] [Folk tales] [Urban vengeful spirits] [Haunted houses] [No main plot] Collected and adapted fictional tales of terror from all over, one story per chapter, each one different. No grand lectures, just bone-chilling tales rooted in everyday life. All adapted from strange folk tales passed down for years. They sound true, and the more you think about them, the more unsettling they get. Great for unwinding, but don't try to “unwind” alone in the dead of 1.1kReads—Score103Shelves
- 57 Red and White Banquets 红白席面 [Mild thrills] [A clever main cast] [One heroine] [No excessive saintliness] [All manner of evil spirits + mysterious practitioners with their own agendas] A sudden mishap at her father's funeral leads Li Sixian, a wealthy heiress, to be rescued by Gan Xin, a village banquet chef. She discovers the hidden side of the world, and, determined to spare her father the tortures of the City of Wrongful Death, she boldly chooses to become a ghost official while still alive. A rookie ghost official who k 14Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 58 White Russian Cemetery 白俄公墓 [Supernatural + Mystery + Horror + Forbidden Sites and Zone Exploration + Dark] While traveling, I passed through a small town called Beima and accidentally entered a strange internet cafe. The terrifying legend of a woman ghost hanging upside down, messages from an online friend dating back to 2001, an old school campus regarded as forbidden ground, a mysterious ghost village behind the school, and a cemetery that exists only in people's memories. Somehow, all of it seems connected to me. This 49Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 59 Severing the Dragon Vein 断命龙脉 The men of the Gu family never live past forty. After his father, Gu Mingyuan, dies, Gu Chenchuan follows a train ticket to Baihe, a bloodstained compass, and a few unfinished last words into the old trails of the Changbai Mountains. But the deeper he digs, the more he realizes that the Gu family has not simply been haunted or cursed. They have been caught in a living account, buried for many years, that refuses to let go. From Baihe to Tamen Peak, from the Changbai Mountains to an old well in t 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 60 With My Heart, I Question Heaven’s Heart 我以己心问天心 His master’s soul lamp is about to go out, but the Underworld Division has already come to claim his soul, and the Directorate of Fate has secretly altered his lifespan. The young Daoist Chen Shaowei travels from Yunzhou to the capital, uncovering the secrets of the Temple of Heaven, the black accounts of the Ghost Market, and old entanglements in Fengdu along the way. Only then does he realize that the ones devouring people are not a single person or one department, but an old web spanning both —Reads6.9Score125Shelves
- 61 My Ghostly Roommate 我的阴室友 [Paranormal mystery] [Updates daily, though not on a fixed schedule] [Thanks for your support ❤️] Over the summer after my college entrance exams, I kept having the same dream about my college dorm and roommates. Then I dragged my suitcase into Room 304 and saw those familiar yet unfamiliar faces, along with an empty bed. I was stunned. They were Yaoyao and Xinxin, the girls in the photo from my dream. Was the empty bed Qingqing’s? She hadn’t shown up for months after the school year began, so w 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 62 Lost Mountain Paranormal Society 迷山通灵社 [Traditional Supernatural] My name is Bai Shu, and I’m a medium. I deal with all kinds of spirits in my day-to-day life. A room in a rented apartment that must never be opened. A female ghost who hails a taxi to collect spirit money. A spirit that follows someone home from a car accident... The supernatural cases I take on might be happening right next door to you! 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 63 Terror of the Strange Invasion 诡侵惊魂 After unexpectedly losing my job, I applied for a dorm supervisor position in a factory women’s dormitory. But I soon discovered that the girls there were acting strangely enthusiastic… Crying in the middle of the night, a bizarre dormitory, strange girls, a room that doesn’t exist. In the deepest recesses of memory, a surreal world lies hidden… —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 64 The Bride in the Red Coffin 红棺里的新娘 The first book: horror, terror, and the uncanny. The sequel: comedy and humor! Two stories: The Bride in the Red Coffin + its sequel, also known as My Ghost Wife Keeps Trying to Scare Me to Tears. When crimson ripples spread across the deep pool, I finally saw the bone comb in the hands of the bride in the sunken coffin. Carved into it were my birth details, even though I had been missing for three years. Xu Xiaomo was drawn home by tales of the Sunk 182Reads—Score—Shelves
- 65 I Heard of Strange Things That Year: Never Read This Late at Night 那年听闻怪事，千万别深夜翻看 These stories are adapted and fictionalized from various experiences shared by friends. They are written in an accessible style and make for a good way to unwind. A reminder: reject superstition. This is all imaginative fiction. Any similarities to real events are purely coincidental, so don't take it seriously! 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 66 Haunted House Mysteries 鬼宅诡事 Haunted House Mysteries 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 67 The Thirteenth Eye 第十三只眼 As a kid, I was a mischievous little brat, and I once caused a whole lot of trouble. As a result, I hit the jackpot and ended up with three shadows. One black, one red, and one blue. I bragged about them plenty, even though I was the only one who could see them. One night, the red shadow slipped away from beneath my feet and sprinted into the darkness... I panicked and chased after it! If you run off, what am I supposed to brag about? You've been with me this long. The least you could do is say 36Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 68 Old Tales of the Dead Village 死人村旧事 Chen Ergou holds a stalk of grass and gently pokes at the paper money still smoldering in front of him. Behind him, a dense crowd of “people” from the village and beyond stands packed together... Hanwa, his belly slit open and his tongue hanging down to his chest; Sufen, naked, with raw flesh exposed; the Fat Taoist, whose limbs and head are covered with tightly packed stitches at the joints; Tian Da, his body stiff, a walking stick jutting from his wide-open mouth; Xiao Zhao, pale-faced and dri 185Reads8.4Score109Shelves
- 69 Paper Cutting to Prolong Life 剪纸续命 Three days after his master's death, Chen Zhi's name was pressed into a paper-cut figure. Someone cut paper outside his door late at night. A paper figure bearing his name appeared at the doorstep, and from then on, the blue-black mark on his hand began to seep inward along his veins. Paper can ward off evil and bind souls. And the darkest art of the Paper-Cutting Sect is called Name Binding. To stay alive, Chen Zhi can only follow the torn pages his master left behind, the black sand beneath t 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 70 I Work as a Gravekeeper in an Unknown Cemetery 我在无名墓园当守墓人 [Infinite Flow + Mild Horror + Mild Suspense + Survival + Plot Twists] The protagonist isn’t a do-gooder, the villains aren’t idiots, the plot doesn’t drag, and every mystery gets resolved; An unnamed Taoist temple deep in the Hundred Thousand Mountains; A merchant ship adrift across a vast sea; A mysterious ruin in an ancient forest; An endless desert stretching beyond the horizon; Snow-capped mountains where the snow never melts; A breathtaking woman in red who is a ghost, and an entity that c —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 71 Tales of the Unextinguished Lights 不熄灯异闻录 More chilling than ghost stories, these tales recount the uncanny happenings secretly passed down by our elders! Children will be too scared to walk alone at night after hearing them, and adults will want to pay their respects to their ancestors. This is a book of taboos that the village elders tried to keep from being written! This collection of short stories features folk horror, supernatural mysteries, thrillers, legends, strange tales, and fantasy from across China and around the world. 23Reads—Score—Shelves
- 72 Ghosts, Help! Wait, How Do I Say I Can Eat Ghosts? 鬼啊救命，结果我会吃鬼怎么说啊 Help! There’s a ghost! I was just an ordinary office worker, living a dull nine-to-five life. Who could have imagined that this company outing would become the most terrifying experience of my life? The company decided to hold an unusual outdoor cookout in the mountains, supposedly to help everyone relax and get to know one another better. When our group arrived at the mountain, the sun was shining. Light filtered through the thick leaves, dappling the ground, while a gentle breeze carried the f —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 73 Terrifying Tales 惊魂诡事 Deep, silent alleyways, eerie, terrifying deserted villages, reed marshes choked with weeds... Every scene holds some of my most unforgettable memories! Everything that happens in this book is something I saw or heard myself. You can also read it as a story. Curious about the supernatural tales that have taken place in rural villages and mountain hamlets? Have you ever heard of or seen something that made your hair stand on end? If you find yourself sleepless in the dead of night, put on your he 308Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 74 My Date with a Vampire: Future and Past 我和僵尸有个约会之未来昔日 Jiang Tianyou, the Zombie God, and Ma Xiaoling, the exorcist Celestial Master, both vanished without a trace after the world-ending crisis several decades ago, leaving behind only an urban legend about their demon-slaying exploits. Years later, the winds of change rise again, and the gears of fate begin turning once more! Kuang Tianya, an exorcist girl bearing her family's mission, unexpectedly encounters Kuang Wuming, a mysterious young man who keeps his true abilities hidden, in a city seeth 22Reads—Score—Shelves
- 75 Ye Wuhen: Blood Rain Over the Jianghu 叶无痕之血雨江湖 Ye Wuhen: Blood Rains Over the Jianghu 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 76 My Tsundere Fox Wife 傲娇狐妻 My uncle told me that if I raised a fox well, I'd have no trouble finding a good wife. But before I could even make my fortune, a long-tailed bride came knocking at my door... 216Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 77 Grandma's Yin-Yang Notes 2 奶奶的阴阳笔记2 Mystery and the Supernatural + Copper Coins to Find the Way + Paper Effigies That Hear the Dead + Locust Wood to Bind Souls I work as a temporary hire at the Special Investigations Bureau in the Dragon Kingdom. I’ve seen madmen capable of rewriting fate. That day, a gigantic black hand came crashing down and the air froze. I thought I was as good as dead. But my mother burst out like a streak of red lightning. In the look she gave me over her shoulder, I saw reluctance, concern, and a fierce re 214Reads9.4Score—Shelves
- 78 Case Files of Unusual Investigations 异案调查录 Throughout the vast world, from ancient times to the present, there have always been mysterious events that humans cannot explain. And there is a group of people who endure countless hardships in their pursuit of the truth. The cases they investigate are all considered paranormal… 501Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 79 I Test-Sleep in Haunted Houses: My True Accounts of Ghostly Encounters! 我做凶宅试睡员，口述撞鬼实录！ [As long as you’re not afraid of ghosts, you can make money even while you sleep.] My name is Ma Jun. Two friends and I run a real estate agency. We make plenty of money, but we keep running into ghosts because all the properties we sell are haunted houses... 468Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 80 A Collection of 365 Strange Tales and Horror Stories 365个奇闻异事和恐怖故事合集 This is a series of short horror stories. The writing isn't the focus; it's all about telling the stories. [Standalone stories + horrors that grow worse the more you think about them + mystery and the supernatural + urban legends + haunted homes + folk tales + strange tales + feng shui and mysticism] Are you ready? When night falls, these terrifying stories will begin crawling into the ears of the living... 736Reads—Score—Shelves
- 81 Master DS 大师DS I, Li Hai, encountered supernatural events while at university. With the help of Shen Muzhi, whom many people call Master Shen, I managed to rid myself of those “filthy things.” Later, when my childhood friend was plagued by supernatural happenings, I took him to seek Master Shen’s help again. These two incidents filled me with curiosity about Master Shen and his work, and somehow I ended up becoming his assistant. From then on, I investigated all kinds of supernatural events alongside Master Sh 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 82 Red-Clad Ghostly Shadows in the Abandoned Village 无人村红衣诡影 Zheng Bao loves searching for treasure. Once, he went treasure hunting in an abandoned village, where a terrifying and uncanny scene unfolded. As he delved deeper, he gradually uncovered a hidden story from his own past... 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 83 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! 21.3kReads8.9Score2kShelves
- 84 Strange Tales of Min Mountain 岷山异事 In the 1980s, businessman Mo Wenshan traveled to the Min Mountains to survey the market. By a twist of fate, he became entangled in a tomb-robbing case, setting off a series of strange and perilous ancient tomb expeditions. In the process, the secrets of the ancient Shu civilization, hidden for a thousand years, came to light… 199Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 85 The Horror Supply Shop 恐怖用品店 An adult shop in a cemetery, and a brick-thick guide to running an adult shop. I started running a bizarre little store. My very first customer wanted to buy my human skin... 265Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 86 Bureau of Supernatural Investigations 超自然事件调查局 A bizarre murder case draws me into the investigation of mysterious supernatural events: crew members on a deep-sea fishing vessel inexplicably slaughtering one another, immortals hiding in the city, legendary vampires, Nazi doomsday troops of a godlike race and their Aryan holy city, and a gigantic human-face structure on Mars. We are not alone in the universe, and human society is just as complicated. 358Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 87 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
- 88 The Ninth Heavenly Eye 第九重瞳 [Thrilling Puzzles + Horror Mystery + Supernatural Legends + Urban Superpowers + Intelligent Leads] A thousand years ago, on a stormy night, Xu Fu led over a thousand people eastward across the sea for the second time in nine years, seeking the immortal isle of Penglai. Along the way, towering waves swamped their ships and put them in peril. No one knew what had ultimately become of them. Yet after Xu Fu sailed east, reports of commoners being plagued by ghosts and evil spirits fell sharply over 421Reads8.3Score103Shelves
- 89 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. 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 90 Shattered Yin-Yang Jade 阴阳玉碎 [Supernatural + horror + suspense + first person + no idiots in the story + clever protagonist + a touch of angst] "I'm turning eighteen soon. I should die, too." Yu Yue and I are twin sisters, born eighteen years ago on Ghost Festival. A fortune-teller gave us each a jade pendant and said that on our eighteenth birthday, whoever's pendant broke would die. We're seventeen now, and suddenly both pendants have shattered. How can we possibly survive? 43Reads—Score—Shelves
- 91 Searching for the Herb of Immortality: I Nearly Became a Walking Corpse 为寻不死草：差点变行尸 [Tibetan legends + folk tales of the uncanny + suspenseful exploration + tomb raiding, no beauties, not a power fantasy, no formulaic tropes] Legend has it that Tibet is home to an herb of immortality, which comes in yin and yang varieties. If the living eat the yang herb, they can live forever; if the dead consume it, they can be resurrected. But anyone who eats the yin herb turns into a walking corpse. The herb of immortality is said to grow thousands of meters underground, in a place that T 205Reads—Score—Shelves
- 92 The Paper Effigy Shop Catches Ghosts Now and Then 纸扎店偶尔也捉鬼 In a quiet village stood an ancestral shop that made paper offerings. Its owner was a young man named Lin Yu. He was 23, and had been idling away his days in the shop since he was 18. He was a terrible student, had no lofty ambitions for the future, and lived like a contented couch potato. Lin Yu spent his days tinkering with the paper figures and horses in the shop, occasionally chatting with the village elders. Life was as calm as still water. Then one evening, that peace was broken. A mysteri 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 93 The Sixth Man's Strange Tales 老六诡事 A collection of true stories about all kinds of inexplicable, supernatural events personally experienced by people around me. Just think of it as my attempt to pass off some tales as Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio! Not for the faint of heart! Not for the faint of heart! Not for the faint of heart! I’m repeating it three times because it’s important! I don’t make up stories. I’m simply passing them along! 72Reads—Score—Shelves
- 94 Case Files of the Unusual: New Century 异案调查录2：新世纪 A century marks one hundred years. In this new century, technology and information are advancing at breakneck speed, and all kinds of bizarre cases are springing up everywhere. News of them spreads faster than ever before. A boy who can only walk by hopping, another person's face appearing in the village well, a human shadow appearing on a factory warehouse wall in the middle of the night, and more... Only the Unusual Cases Investigation Bureau can handle this series of bizarre incidents... 53Reads—Score—Shelves
- 95 What Kind of Security Guard Is Responsible for Catching Ghosts? 谁家保安还负责抓鬼啊？ Baiyun Residential Complex is an upscale neighborhood, but the countless strange tales and ghost stories surrounding it have made many people wary of the place. The story begins when Li Si applies for a job as a security guard there... 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 96 Chronicles of the Supernatural 异灵实录 At three in the morning, check the list of the dead; let the ferryman guide your soul. Chinese horror stories, spirit-summoning, death notes. Some things can be explained, while other feelings defy description. A terror that makes you shudder as you think it over rises from the depths of your heart. After reading these 99 stories, you'll find yourself questioning your own life. There's a rumor that you should never stay in the last room on the ground floor of a hotel. The author once traveled ou 24Reads9.2Score—Shelves
- 97 At the Cemetery, I Find a Pair of Red High Heels 人在公墓，捡到一双红色高跟鞋 Wang Jin finally graduated. He never expected that after studying civil engineering, he'd end up in a tomb, landing a job as a security guard at a high-end cemetery. He figured he'd work there for a few years, save some money, and then leave. But on his very first day, he found a pair of red high heels outside the security office. An ordinary person with no worries might have thrown them away. Someone more cautious might have grown suspicious. But Wang Jin was neither. He looked around, saw no o 1.5kReads8.0Score141Shelves
- 98 I Have a Book That Suppresses Ghosts 我有一本镇鬼书 [Wild imagination + ghost taming + fighting ghosts] [Punching Japanese Onmyoji in the face + kicking Satanist exorcists] During the Eastern Jin dynasty, the unorthodox Taoist Song Dingbo sealed more than a hundred evil ghosts that plagued the world inside a notebook. After his death, the notebook was buried with him in a grave on Yunwu Mountain. As the years passed, the grave was damaged one day in 2012, releasing all the ghosts. Li San, who happened to be on a mission nearby, was accidentally p 27Reads—Score—Shelves
- 99 Paranormal Investigation Bureau: Heretic 诡事调查局：异端 [Supernatural + Suspense + Mystery + Urban + Two Male Leads + No System + No Female Lead + Healing Each Other] Pingcheng. An ancient city with more than two thousand years of history and culture. It’s impossible for a city this old to have no strange happenings at all. And where there are strange happenings, someone has to solve the mysteries. I met him because of a bizarre case. A corpse starved down to skin and bones, a young woman whose soul has been sucked out, spontaneous combustion for no 663Reads8.5Score107Shelves
- 100 Folk Tales: A Daily Dose of Horror 民间怪谈：每日恐怖奇说 Which is more terrifying, humans or ghosts, or perhaps something unseen and even more frightening? With its distinctive narrative style, this book brings readers a series of spine-chilling horror stories. In this book, you will follow different protagonists into worlds filled with terror and eerie unease. From mysterious ancient buildings to remote, desolate places, and from ordinary everyday life to bizarre supernatural phenomena, every story is packed with unexpected twists and horrifying mome 338Reads—Score—Shelves
