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- 101 Living Next Door to Ghosts 与鬼为邻 After losing his job, he rented an apartment and thought he was starting a new life. He never expected ghosts to knock on his door in the middle of the night, only to discover that all his neighbors were ghosts. He wanted to leave, but faced a hefty penalty for breaking his lease. With no other choice, he decided to make the best of it. 13.9kReads8.6Score1k14d adds
- 102 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. 17Reads—Score214d adds
- 103 Rule Horror: Don't Look Back During 72 Hours in the Dorm 规则怪谈：宿舍72小时不要回头 A word of warning: this is terrifying, so timid readers beware. (No female lead, no cheats, no romance, game instances, infinite flow, horror, mystery) Eight university students who returned to campus early found a mysterious sheet of rules in their empty dormitory building: Rule One: No matter what strange “person” you see, don’t cry out or scream. Rule Two: No matter who calls you from behind, don’t turn around or answer. Rule Three: One of you is an impostor who will eat people in the middle 4.5kReads6.0Score37414d adds
- 104 The Skinning Ghost 扒皮鬼 (Traditional supernatural horror + extreme horror + multiple twists + mystery + entirely handcrafted) Lately, I've been having nightmares every night. A fortune-teller said I might have a ghost clinging to me. He told me about a forbidden folk ritual: Put on a pair of worn underwear over your head, and it will block a ghost's sight. That night, I got home and followed his advice, half believing it. My girlfriend came back to the room after washing up and stared blankly at where I was. "Where... 64.2kReads8.3Score7k14d adds
- 105 My Master Gave Me a Car for Investigating the Supernatural 师父传我一辆看事儿车 A thousand-year-old van? Built by hand from scratch [Traditional horror]➕ [Even more immersive as an audiobook]➕ [Uncovering the truth about my origins] Greetings, dear readers! [Traditional supernatural horror, primal fear] The original experience of horror is the fear a person feels when experiencing it firsthand. [First person, highly atmospheric] Give me a chance to tell this story from my own point of view. [Uncovering the truth about my origins] Along the way, I met many people. “The gates 14Reads—Score—14d adds
- 106 Thriller Game: Stealing the Horror Bride from the Start 惊悚游戏:开局抢走恐怖鬼新娘 [Livestream + Power Fantasy + Supernatural + Multiple Heroines] A horror game descends upon the world, and players are randomly chosen to enter it. While other players struggle to survive in the cracks of the horror game, Chu Fei unexpectedly discovers that he can obtain all kinds of clues for clearing stages and earn favorability from NPCs. Ghost Young Master: He not only stole my wife, he made it impossible for me to be a man! County Magistrate Zhang: He’s the key to solving my case. Never und 167Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 107 Hell Is Empty, and Evil Spirits Walk the Earth 地狱空荡荡，恶灵在人间 This is a horror novel centered on mystery, a traditional supernatural story with no System and no cultivation. The setup is lengthy, there are many mysteries, and the truth is revealed gradually. A mysterious apartment brings endless nightmares. To escape, you must complete the nine tasks assigned by the apartment. Hunted by evil spirits, mocked by ghosts, and consumed by resentment, everyone will be trapped in a terrifying cycle of death and rebirth, played out in blood. “All who are ruled by 486Reads8.6Score10014d adds
- 108 Thriller: I Became the Person in the Mirror 惊悚：我成为了镜中人 Yang Feng, who has no idea how he died, opens his eyes and finds himself in a world inside the mirrors. He can travel freely from one mirror to another. Whenever someone looks in a mirror, he appears and flashes them an eerie smile. This is a world already rotting away, doomed to destruction. And Yang Feng thinks he should hasten its end. So he chooses slaughter! Be destroyed! You ruined world! Humanity trembles before the being in the mirror! 21Reads7.9Score—14d adds
- 109 The Midnight Mantou Shop 午夜馒头铺 Have you ever noticed that some breakfast shops serve food that's delicious most of the time, but for a couple of days each month, it suddenly tastes dry and is hard to swallow? Have you ever wondered if perhaps that breakfast food was never meant for people to eat...? 377Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 110 One Goal: Stay Alive 唯一目标：活着 (Survival + high intelligence + deduction + no saintly protagonist + mild horror. Read with caution if you’re sensitive to these elements.) A stream of fire pierced the atmosphere and struck the ground. In an instant, the world was plunged into chaotic darkness, and the buildings of civilization people had once taken pride in became lifeless ruins. Yet among the ruins, one building alone remained standing, like a watchtower surveying all the darkness. Beneath the apocalypse, strange phenomena we 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 111 The Girl Is Spoiled Rotten by Her Weird Boy Group in a Rules-Based Horror World 女孩在规则怪谈里被男团诡异狂宠 Completed [No CP + mystery and deduction + a wealthy young woman uses her incredible brain to solve puzzles] The Queen’s level is too high. The eerie beings are crying and trying to force-quit. When the eerie beings descended, a mysterious organization began buying up coins at exorbitant prices, making them almost impossible to find. A one-yuan coin could buy a three-million-yuan house, or be used to contract an eerie being to serve you for life. After a high-IQ girl transmigrates into a book ca 49Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 112 The Empty Car Beneath the Red Lantern 红灯笼下的空车 The Empty Carriage Beneath the Red Lantern —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 113 When the Mirror No Longer Reflects a Face 当镜子不再映脸 When Mirrors No Longer Reflect Faces 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 114 The Corpse Carrier 背尸工 My name is Chen Feng, and I work as a corpse bearer at a funeral home. After a class reunion, I spent the night with Jiang Lixin, the school beauty. I never expected to see her corpse at work the very next day, or that I'd have to carry her on her final journey... 5.6kReads7.0Score31514d adds
- 115 Soul Reaper 收魂人 To stay alive, I had no choice but to marry a two-headed monster. But I never expected her to be a Rakshasa with two souls. My fate was utterly transformed, and I embarked on a perilous path full of thorns, surrounded by demons and spirits... 744Reads7.2Score11214d adds
- 116 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—14d adds
- 117 Ghost Stories of the Southwest 西南鬼事 This is a collection of ghost stories from southwest China, made up of a series of medium-length tales. Some may be part of your childhood, some may be stories you've told yourself, and others may be stories you've never heard. Today, let Xiao An tell you these strange and wondrous tales, one by one. 101Reads—Score—14d adds
- 118 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? 39Reads—Score—14d adds
- 119 The Number One Yin Messenger 第一阴差 Wandering souls, where will you linger? Three souls, come back at once; seven spirits, return! Lost soul, the gates of heaven open, the gates of earth open. A thousand-mile journey, let the child bring the soul home! The day I was born, strange signs appeared in the heavens. Misfortune plagued me from childhood, and it’s a miracle I survived this long. After I came of age, something happened that shattered everything I thought I knew. My dad told me he was the underworld’s bailiff in Spring City 132Reads—Score—14d adds
- 120 The Corpse Leaps Over the Wall 尸跳墙 I’ve been blind since childhood, so I work as a massage therapist for the blind. Then one day, I met a terrifying woman who said she could restore my sight. The price was... 140Reads7.8Score—14d adds
- 121 Folk Taboos and Strange Tales 民间禁忌怪谈 Ever since I was a kid, I thought my grandpa was strange. Whenever he had nothing to do, he liked to wander deep into the old forest. Then one day, he brought a little girl back from the woods, and I discovered the secret he was hiding. From then on, I tried to get away, but only became more deeply entangled... 667Reads8.3Score10014d adds
- 122 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
- 123 The Autobiography of a Yin Walker 一位走阴人的自传 Adapted into a full-cast audiobook on Tomato Listen. [This story is based on the true account of someone who walks between the worlds of the living and the dead. The horror is off the charts, so timid readers beware!] Have you ever heard of someone who walks between the worlds of the living and the dead? I'm the only son in three generations of the Guo family. My name is Guo Lideng. I've had the yin-yang eyes since I was a child, and can see things ordinary people cannot. As an adult, I stumbled 5.7kReads7.1Score32514d adds
- 124 I Buy Antiques at the Ghost Market 我在鬼市收古董 I opened an antique shop. One day, a customer told me about a temple that was said to have a way of getting hold of fine goods. The temple had strange rules: it only opened at midnight, and everyone had to leave before three. I found a treasured bronze mirror there, and from then on, one bizarre event followed another. I nearly got crushed to death by my own shop sign; the golden retriever at home suddenly went berserk and chased me, snapping at my heels; and my health kept getting worse by the 227Reads8.3Score1514d adds
- 125 The Strange Gate Subdues the Eight Wastelands 奇门镇八荒 My name is Yang Yufan. I was born with a pair of yin-yang eyes, and my grandfather taught me the arts of the Qimen. I thought that becoming an inheritor of the Qimen tradition would make me a fortune-teller... But who could have guessed that I’d end up as one of the saints guarding the Eight Wastelands? I’ll tell you the story of what happened in my own words! 10Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 126 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.. 215Reads—Score—14d adds
- 127 I’m an Actor in a Horror World 我在恐怖世界当演员 [Infinite Loop + Death Games + Horror Worlds + Original Scenarios + No Female Lead] (The protagonist has limits he won’t cross + System (mostly useless) + Items + The protagonist isn’t superhuman) If you were asked to act in a real horror movie, would you be willing? Guan Long is one lucky guy: he was chosen to take part in one terrifying film after another. There’s the bizarre rest stop on the highway, another “floor” that suddenly appears on a rooftop, and eerie voices calling from elevators, 623Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 128 Cursed Grudge 怨咒 [Warning: After leaving this unfinished for ages, I can't write what comes next, and I really don't want to pad it out and ruin the feel of the earlier chapters. I've decided to shelve it, so please don't read.] When I was sixteen, an evil spirit latched onto me and changed my fate. I brought disaster upon my parents and family, then my relatives and friends. Anyone who came near me would die violently in the street, bleeding from every orifice and meeting a horrible end. A fortune-teller calcul 373Reads9.3Score10414d adds
- 129 Ghost Game 鬼游戏 [Infinite-Flow + Horror Mystery + Supernatural + Ensemble Cast + Mild Horror + Strong Female Lead + Plot-Driven] The human heart is more terrifying than the paranormal. Grievances fill the human world, summoning the Grudge God. GQ2026.12.28. After a rain of blood, the Ghost Game appeared out of nowhere and began invading the human 43Reads—Score—14d adds
- 130 I’m Really Not Blind 我真的不是瞎子 As the old saying goes: Dogs can see things people can't. I'm not a dog, but I can see things normal people can't. 344Reads8.5Score6914d adds
- 131 The Ghost-Hunting Qingfeng Lodge 捉鬼清风居 “Clear Breeze Hall” is a shop specializing in exorcising demons and driving away ghosts. A strange couplet hangs by the door: First line: If you’re free of disaster and trouble, don’t come in. Second line: If you’ve got ghosts or demons, come on in. The shop’s owner is a 21-year-old young man named Zhang Qingfeng, the thirty-ninth-generation heir of the Zixiao Sect. Some say the owner is obsessed with money and cares about nothing else. Others say he’s a living bodhisattva who came into the worl 6kReads8.8Score49014d adds
- 132 Who Can Put an End to the Supernatural? 谁能终结灵异 [Mysterious Worldbuilding]++ [Evil Spirits Resurface]+ [Ghost Tamer]+ [No Female Lead]+ [No Cultivation] A quick plug for my new novel, “Terminal Cancer: To Stay Alive, I Borrow Lifespans from Ghosts Like Crazy.” I hope you’ll show it some support, folks. The evil spirits in this book have consciousness and thoughts, so their danger levels are adjusted accordingly. Please don’t compare them with the spirit rankings in Mysterious. My name is Jiang Gan... I’m a sophomore at Provincial University. 4.8kReads7.7Score31614d adds
- 133 Traces of Bound Spirits 缚灵迹 Mystery + supernatural + no harem. This is NOT a wish-fulfillment novel!!! The protagonist has no sect or powerful backer. He's just an ordinary man who sells animal feed. He thought driving a hearse would guarantee him a comfortable life, but he never imagined that everything had been arranged by someone else. Who deserves more trust, humans or ghosts? This is a question the protagonist must think through carefully. The villains aren't idiots who simply throw themselves to their deaths, and the 5.4kReads8.1Score46314d adds
- 134 Journey to the West: Buddhism’s Golden Age? This Is the Dharma-Ending Age! 西游：佛门大兴？这是末法时代！ I transmigrated into Journey to the West and witnessed the Jing River Dragon King’s head fall to the ground! [The Host has witnessed a calamity from Journey to the West. Choice System activated.] [Choice One: Ignore Journey to the West and live as an idle prince. Reward: one 9,000-year Peaches of Immortality.] [Choice Two: Actively assist Buddhism and advance the Tang dynasty’s pilgrimage to the West. Reward upon completion: the status of a Buddha.] [Choice Three: Ensure that in later generation 34Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 135 I Love Your Numbness, I Love Your Spice, I Love You Till My Stomach Gives Out 爱你的麻，爱你的辣，爱得老胃直拉胯 I love your numbing spice, I love your heat, I love you so much my stomach’s a mess 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 136 Mama Haha Won't Fly Anymore 玛玛哈哈不飞了 Mama Haha Won't Fly Anymore 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 137 The Curtain Rises: Humans and Ghosts Share the Stage 幕启·人鬼同台 The Curtain Rises: Humans and Ghosts Share the Stage 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 138 Diary of a Crematorium Worker 火葬场女工日记 [Unsolved Case + Death Notes + Female Perspective] Through the eyes of a woman who works at a crematorium, this story clearly and thoroughly explains the final place people go, and what they experience along the way. Read it, and you'll learn everything a person goes through after death, before their soul leaves their body. The author delves into the crematorium to lay out a cross-section for readers, making it easier to understand and see everything clearly. This is the story of a woman who wor 6.7kReads9.1Score31814d adds
- 139 The Ghost Emerges from the Coffin 鬼出棺 Xie Bangui is secretly recruited into the Ghost Yamen and, on his master's orders, serves there, making a living by hunting demons and ghosts. Yet he has no idea that he carries a world-shaking secret. Leading the Ghost Yamen's warriors, Xie Bangui launches a night raid on a prison for evil spirits, fights a bloody battle on the execution platform against a demon, encounters a soul-snatching carriage, and cleverly breaks a skeleton lock. He survives evil spirits' attempts to claim his life, outw 1.6kReads9.1Score14414d adds
- 140 The Stone That Remembers the Light 会记住光的石头 The Stone That Remembers the Light 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 141 My Crush Is Terrified! My Horror Comics Have Come to Life 吓疯Crush！我的恐怖漫画竟成真 Crush is terrified out of his mind! My horror comic has actually come true 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 142 The Double Fiend 子母双煞 The Mother-and-Child Fiends —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 143 The Ghost King Is Sealed Inside Me, Yet I’m a Good-for-Nothing 体内封印鬼王，我却是个废柴 A rainy night in a cemetery, a man-eating black cat, a man searching for his late daughter, a school guard hanged on the stairs, a wedding coffin sealed with red paper, a grotesque face hiding in a mirror... What secrets lie behind it all? What other mysterious events will Wang Shier, the gravekeeper, have to face? As terror and dread slowly close in, those secrets seem to be steering his fate. (The stories in this book are all adapted from real events. If anything sounds familiar, it is pure co 7Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 144 Stealing Faces 偷脸 One day, a stranger added me on QQ and told me my girlfriend was a man. I called him an idiot. Then my girlfriend died, and when she died, she really did become a man. Her head had been cut off and sewn onto the neck of a male corpse... 225Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 145 The Security Chief's Final Shift 保安队长的最后一班岗 The Security Captain's Final Shift 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 146 The Demon in the Coffin 至棺重妖 The new novel, The Fragrance of the Living Dead: Handling Ghostly Affairs Among the Living, is now being serialized. The excitement never stops, with new chapters every day. If you enjoy it, please support the author, Ye Wei. Thank you all! [Mystery + Horror + Supernatural + Folk Tales of the Strange + Female Ghosts + Monsters + Mountain Spirits + Corpses] This is a strange little village hidden deep in the mountains... Ever since he was nine and encountered the dead rabbit crouched on his windo 1.6kReads9.2Score11214d adds
- 147 The Maoshan Occultist 茅山诡术师 My name is Fang Gang. I was stolen the moment I was born. From then on, my life unfolded into an epic tale, as turbulent as it was mysterious. 379Reads8.6Score5814d adds
- 148 Strange Demons at the Teahouse: Tales of a Hundred Flavors 茶肆异妖，百味诡谈 [Mysticism + Satisfying Read + Supernatural + Strange Tales] The Many-Flavored Teahouse in Liuyi Lane is mysterious and uncanny. It only serves tea at night. What’s brewed is fragrant tea; what’s savored is the human heart. The proprietress, Liu Xu’er, and her young sidekick, Qing Cen, hunt ghosts, subdue demons, and catch evildoers. Their only focus is building their business. But one moment of bad judgment leads them to take on a job for an unlucky man. He’s been set up, and one misfortune aft 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 149 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
- 150 I Am Not a Paper Spirit 我不是纸仙 A paper effigy is made by folding paper into the shape of a person, so it can take on another's sins, endure their punishment, and bear the consequences of their karma. I was an orphan from a young age, adopted by my master. He was a paper effigy maker, and when I was nineteen, I learned his craft. That set me on a road of no return and turned me into a jinx. Before long, I brought about my master's death. Through one mistake, I turned a “Lovers' Fold” into a “Life-Damaging Fold,” creating a pap 50Reads7.6Score—14d adds
