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- 51 The Coffin Prison 囚棺 The seventh-night return of the soul. A peaceful death is called a returning calamity; a violent death is called a returning evil spirit. On the day the evil spirit returns, the household is unsettled, and another death may follow. A man must be chosen to send the spirit away. After my second uncle hanged himself, I once had to send a spirit away. As a result, I was marked by it. 476Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 52 Ghosts Cannot Be Killed 鬼无法被杀死 [Fast-Paced + Episodic + Multiple Worlds: Supernatural, Beast Taming Battles, Fantasy, Post-Apocalyptic, Urban Romance, History...] Each world has a complete storyline of over 100,000 words. The first world is a “supernatural world”: supernatural phenomena return, and the human realm becomes a living hell as vengeful ghosts rise across the globe. The rules are: First, ghosts cannot be killed; only ghosts can deal with other ghosts. Second, gold can be used to imprison vengeful ghosts. Third, ord 39Reads—Score—14d adds
- 53 Don’t Call My Name at Midnight 半夜不要喊我名字 Believe it or not, this is a true story. She is Yang Xiaofan, dumped by a man who had been using her for her money, then left with nothing. With almost no savings left, she had no choice but to move into a deserted house. The mysterious landlord disappeared without a trace after his first appearance. After midnight, terrifying knocks and calls to summon spirits put her life in danger. A black cat that comes and goes appears at strange moments, then vanishes without a trace. Again and again, I wa 1.2kReads8.3Score—14d adds
- 54 Walking Between Yin and Yang, I Took Two Vengeful Ghosts as Aunts 行走阴阳，我认了两个厉鬼作姑姑 [Supernatural + Horror + Ghost Stories + Urban + Ghost Hunting + Taoist Magic] He was punching ghost dolls and kicking fox spirits at the age of three, and you tell me that's reasonable? He's a yin-yang master who took two vengeful ghosts as his aunts, and you tell me that's perfectly normal? You can already fly on a sword, and now you're telling me to believe in science and reject superstition? Beating up evil spirits at the funeral home, making a water ghost copy out the Tao Te Ching, and sicc 81Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 55 Yin-Yang Soul Guide 阴阳度魂师 Why do people live? For money? Power? Love? She didn’t know, nor did she understand why she was alive. Not until she took on one commission after another... 35Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 56 Ghosts Follow Every Top-Tier Star 顶流身后全是鬼 [Chinese-style Horror + Folk Legends + Entertainment Industry + Metaphysics + Episodic Stories + Mutual Salvation + Contemporary Romance] The first time Li Yueman saw top-tier star Su Zichen, she stared at him for a full ten seconds. His manager eyed her warily. “Miss Li, Mr. Su doesn't take photos with fans.” Li Yueman: “I wasn't looking at him.” “Then what were you looking at?” “The seven ghosts behind him.” The manager was speechless. Su Zichen, however, smiled. At last, someone could see the —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 57 White Terror 白色恐怖 [Wildly Imaginative Twists] + [Extensive Foreshadowing] + [Social Unrest] + [Mystery and the Supernatural] The campus, bustling by day, is eerily quiet at night... A group of girls playing with a spirit board in their dormitory happen upon the body of a woman who fell to her death. Rumors spread that a ghost is responsible. Then another girl is pushed down the stairs by an evil spirit in the teaching building! Panic grips the campus. Before long, a female teacher is killed by a ghost on camera a —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 58 Whispers of the Ghosts 鬼魅低语 [Standalone Stories] [Eerie] [Thriller] [Strange] [Wild Imagination] Worlds full of distortion and absurdity. Whether it's seemingly ordinary snippets of everyday life or strange phenomena that gradually come to light, everything sends a chill down your spine and grows more terrifying the more you think about it. 39Reads—Score—14d adds
- 59 The Bizarre Case Investigator 诡案惊探 [Mystery]+ [Supernatural]+ [Deduction]+ [Crime Solving]+ [Male lead versed in both Yin and Yang] After his girlfriend vanishes under bizarre circumstances and every effort to find her comes to nothing for two years, Qin Zhong loses heart and takes a job as a police officer at a remote township station. One day, he suddenly receives a bizarre case. The entire village of Niewa has vanished. As the investigation deepens, one strange Supernatural incident after another unfolds. Along the way, his pa 1.6kReads8.4Score18714d adds
- 60 Who’s Watching You Sleep? 谁在看着你睡觉 A collection of horror stories, including The Haunting of the Girls' Dorm, The Peeping Eye, and The Abyss of the Locked Room: A Mother's Checkmate! I guarantee you'll be too scared to use the bathroom after reading them at night! Each story is 80,000 to 100,000 characters long. I'm a newcomer, and this is my first time writing on Tomato Novel! I hope you'll give me lots of encouragement! Your support is what motivates me to create more and better stories! 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 61 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—14d adds
- 62 The Ghost King Clings to Me: The Coffin Man Climbs into My Bed 鬼王缠身：棺人榻上来 I was born with pure yin, making me a walking piece of Tang Monk's flesh to ghosts and monsters. I was destined to die young. A fortune-teller said that if I wanted to survive, I had to enter into a ghost marriage with the Ghost King. On our wedding day, a blood moon hung high overhead. A hundred ghosts carried the bridal sedan, and the Ghost King and I consummated our marriage in a night of passion. From then on, a new presence remained by my side… In a world where flesh and time exist, the Bud 444Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 63 Go to Sleep, There’s Everything in Your Dreams 睡吧梦里啥都有 Heaven will entrust her with a great responsibility. First, it must show her a person's fortune, let her dream of the future, and change her fate. Good is repaid with good, and evil with evil. If retribution hasn't come, its time hasn't arrived. When the time comes, if Heaven won't deliver justice, she'll do it herself! Strive to grow stronger! Stronger still! Only then can she make people fear her and ghosts tremble. Only by becoming strong herself can she stand against all the injustice in th 342Reads9.1Score10014d adds
- 64 Spirit Eyes 灵瞳 My mother wasn’t human. She carried me for fifteen years before giving birth to me... From the moment I was born, I was destined to be no ordinary woman. I was buried alive, beaten, looked down on, and ostracized. But all I want to say is: Thank you for treating me with such coldness. Because of you, I became an extraordinary woman, one step at a time! This world is home to more than just ghosts. There are demons, gods, and even several parallel dimensions. You can witness every kind of unbeli 67Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 65 The Great Tomb of Ailao Mountain 哀牢山大墓 The Great Tomb of Ailao Mountain 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 66 Twin Fates of Yin and Yang 阴阳命双生 [A defiant, fight-first demon girl heroine VS a henpecked, scheming, dark-hearted, grudge-holding male lead who seems sweet as a glutinous rice ball on the outside] [Career first, romance second] The rating just opened, so it'll go up [The heroine has two fathers. This isn't a BL story, and the two fathers aren't close; there are scenes where they try to kill each other. They are not a couple. The father who gave birth to the heroine only did so after returning to life in another body, acting ou 2.3kReads7.5Score23414d adds
- 67 Ghost Stories by Night 鬼话夜谈 The story follows Chen Xingchen and Jiang Chuyan, who grew up together in a village. They hear tales of the supernatural from the village elders and experience a number of eerie events themselves. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 68 Grandpa Started the Trouble, Three Generations Must Pay 爷爷闯下的祸，三代来还 The trouble Grandpa caused will take three generations to repay. 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 69 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! 62Reads—Score—14d adds
- 70 Mysticism: An Evil Cultivator Poses as a God and Earns Boundless Merit 玄学：邪修扮神明，功德无量了 [Occult mysteries, feel-good and satisfying, strong heroine, male lead, no devoted lapdog] Qin Yu is the most wicked of gods, with a particular fondness for corrupted souls. By accident, she passed through a crack in a secret realm and ended up in another world, inside the body of a young woman. Then she became an impersonator of the Goddess of Fertility. Heh, an actual evil god pretending to be a fake deity? How interesting. There’s a vicious stepmother, a scheming stepsister, and an unfeeli 187Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 71 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—14d adds
- 72 Five-Year-Old Cutie Ye Xiaoman: Blows Up the Yin-Yang Realm 五岁萌宝叶小满：炸翻阴阳界 Five-year-old Su Xiaoman was born with yin-yang eyes and destined to be short of money... After her parents are tragically killed, a Daoist priest saves her, takes her in, and teaches her his skills. She eats the mountain temple out of house and home, so her master sends her down the mountain, saying, “Your family is in trouble.” With osmanthus candies in her pocket, she sets off to find her relatives. Gazing at a grand villa, she sobs, “Waaah... I've finally found a meal ticket for life...!” Sh —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 73 The Eerie Immortal’s Box 诡仙魔盒 [Mystery] + [Eerie] + [Xuanhuan] + [Thriller] + [Mind-Bending] + [One Female Lead] Chen Tong, a young man struggling to make a living in the city, returns to his hometown to attend his grandfather's funeral... But he unexpectedly discovers that his grandfather's death was shrouded in mystery. He comes into possession of a mysterious golden-thread nanmu box, and everything begins to turn Eerie... The grandfather of a female classmate from his village also dies. The monks and Taoist priests hired —Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 74 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 185Reads8.4Score10914d adds
- 75 Spirit Village 灵村 Thrills and the supernatural! There's an ancient village called Lingzhuang, also known as Bagua Village. I was born there. Lingzhuang is always shrouded in an atmosphere of terror: Enormous pythons, centipedes, black spiders, strange birds, and ferocious beasts roam about, attacking people... Lingzhuang is also rife with strange tales and bizarre happenings: A female ghost haunts the village; a cave in Longmian Mountain holds an arsenal from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom; a mysterious master live 69Reads—Score—14d adds
- 76 The Ghost-Eyed Diviner 鬼瞳女卦师 [Supernatural + mildly scary + ghost hunting + fortune-telling + strong female lead’s growth + supporting romance] When I was seven, an evil sorcerer attacked me. I lost my eyes, and my family was destroyed. Just as I’d reached a dead end, my master came to my rescue and taught me how to tell fortunes. To cure my eyes, my master took me every night to keep watch at the entrance to the road of the dead. Whenever a ghost set off on its journey, my master would shake a white banner and chant loudly 806Reads9.2Score10914d adds
- 77 Frightening Folk Tales of Ghosts and Monsters 民间吓人的鬼怪故事 This book collects folk tales about ghosts and monsters from China and around the world, both ancient and modern. They include deeply moving love stories, myths where good and evil are repaid in kind, and eerie tales that will leave you trembling with fear. We hope you enjoy them. This story is entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual events or people is purely coincidental. 24Reads—Score—14d adds
- 78 Notes from a Haunted House 凶宅笔录 A haunted house is a house where someone once met a violent death. Legend has it that people who die this way haven't yet reached the end of their natural lifespan, so they die with deep resentment. Anyone who moves in will suffer, at best, a life of misery, and at worst, a broken family and ruin. By a twist of fate, I became a dealer in haunted houses. They kept appearing, and one crisis followed another. Behind every haunted house lay a terrifying, secret story... By the time I wanted to turn 10.4kReads8.8Score22114d adds
- 79 The School of Terror 恐怖艺校 Also known as "The Horror Art School: I Fell in Love with a Taoist Priest" [Supernatural + Romance + Transmigration + Wild Imagination] During those three years at school, many strange and terrifying things happened. At midnight, a sinister atmosphere would descend over the school... The year Ye Xue'er attended art school, she fell in love with him at first sight and decided to follow him, staying by his side as they worked together to spread the art of Taoism far and wide... 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 80 After My Face Was Stolen, I Drew the Six Realms of Living Beings 我的脸被夺走后我画出六道众生相 My face was stolen. It wasn’t disfigured. It wasn’t disguised. My face was literally gone. To stay alive, I had no choice but to paint one new face after another onto my own. Human, ghost, demon, beast, god, immortal. Every face I painted gave me a new ability. As I tried to reclaim my original face, I gradually discovered that this world was far more complicated than it seemed. 96Reads—Score12614d adds
- 81 Treasure Hunting in the Deep Mountains: A Thrilling Journey on the Brink of Death 深山寻宝，生死边缘的惊险之旅 Treasure Hunting Deep in the Mountains: A Perilous Journey on the Edge of Life and Death 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 82 Chronicles of Strange Events 异事簿 When I was eight, I accidentally drowned. The village's mad Taoist came to my house and told my parents to give me a grand seven-day funeral with gongs and drums. After seven days, I would return to life. During the funeral, lightning flashed every day and the rain poured without stopping. Everyone in the village said it was a bad omen. On the seventh day, strange phenomena suddenly appeared in the sky. The mad Taoist returned to my house, told me to take the moon in the sky as my godmother, and 35Reads—Score—14d adds
- 83 My Road to Riches with a Taoist Who Sees Yin and Yang 我和阴阳眼道士的暴富之路 After graduating from college straight into unemployment, Su Nian was at the end of her rope when she stumbled into a company specializing in the mystical arts and somehow became a ghost-hunting master. While other people relied on their cultivation to hunt ghosts, she got by on talismans given to her by a female ghost possessing her. It was barely enough to keep food on the table. Who could have guessed that an ordinary ghost hunt would provoke a century-old ghost, which branded her with a de 34Reads—Score—14d adds
- 84 Girls’ Dorm Rule Horror: Survive! 女寝规则怪谈：请活下去！ The Dormitory Girls’ Rules of the Strange: Survive! 102Reads—Score314d adds
- 85 A Collection of Spine-Chilling Stories 惊骇故事集 The world is in turmoil, with strange and wondrous things hiding everywhere. Mysteries deep in the starry sky remain unsolved, while shocking cases unfold around a small town. Science fiction and suspense perform a double act, as Lovecraftian murders rise with the tide. The secrets in people’s hearts are hard to fathom. Just wait and see this collection unleash its waves of terror. The horror here is bizarre and grotesque, not some childish little scare. In an abandoned village shrine, a white- 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 86 A Survival Guide to Strange Tales: The Headless Girl's Evolution 【怪谈生存指南】无头少女进化论 [Main Plot] [Mild Horror] [Eerie Otherworld] [Urban Legends] [Beloved Girl, Everyone's Favorite] [Content Warning: The female lead is an aloof, low-energy type with a gravity-like personality, and this is a reverse harem.] What do you do when you accidentally end up in the Otherworld? This awful place is full of bizarre rules and monsters. One wrong move, and your whole team gets wiped out! There's the woman in red in the stairwell, the headless monster in the classroom, the cat-faced monster th 1.4kReads—Score19014d adds
- 87 I'm the New King of Hell, Roaming the Mortal World to Vanquish Demons and Catch Ghosts 我，新阎王，混迹人间降妖捉鬼 Su Nianting, a modern woman, transmigrates and wakes up inside a coffin. She reaches out to push, but the coffin is nailed shut and won't budge. Everything around her is silent, and her shouts are swallowed by endless darkness. Sweat runs down her cheeks. The thin air inside the coffin is mixed with the stench of decay... At this critical moment, Su Nianting summons all her strength and focuses her mind on her hands once more. She pushes hard, and with a bang, the coffin lid blows open. Fresh ai 25Reads—Score21414d adds
- 88 Visitor from Hell 狱下来客 A modern supernatural mystery. Not wish fulfillment, not brainless, and no System. In this life, you pass countless people on the street. What makes you so sure they're all human? I never believed in this stuff either, until my landlord tricked me into moving to a place called Happy Community. The people around me didn't seem to be people at all. Footprints on the ceiling, dolls made of human skin, bloated drowned giants, people raising zombies, mother-and-child ghosts... Just how many secrets l 596Reads8.0Score10014d adds
- 89 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 —Reads6.9Score12514d adds
- 90 Something Wicked Lurks Behind Me 背后有诡 A game I played because I couldn’t sleep late at night somehow led me to experience paranormal events. Were these incidents one by one the work of people, or something supernatural? From then on, the paranormal seemed bound to me. Wherever I went, strange events followed. Survive. 139Reads—Score—14d adds
- 91 After Divorcing, the Metaphysics Master Had Everyone Begging Her to Save Them 玄学大佬离婚后，全员跪求我救命 [Reborn + fortune-telling + ghost-catching + crime-solving + satisfying female-led story] In her previous life, Qiao Yuan married into a wealthy family out of gratitude for a lifesaving favor. Her mother-in-law made things difficult for her, her sister-in-law humiliated her, and her husband refused to share her bed for the entire two years of their marriage. Given another chance, she tossed down the divorce papers and went home to inherit her grandfather’s legacy. She read faces, told fortunes, 28Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 92 Little Dongbei 小东北 Nature has yin and yang, and society has good and evil. An imbalance between yin and yang brings chaos, but so does drawing too sharp a line between good and evil. When righteousness dwells within, evil cannot intrude. When yin is balanced and yang is secure, the spirit is at peace. Your path is yours to choose: follow your nature, let go of judgment, and wisdom will shine. The Dao moves by returning to its source. In a word, avoid extremes and don't make the same mistake twice... 339Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 93 Thirty Years of Strange Tales from the Northeast 东北异事三十年 Forty years ago, the old man ventured into Ghost Mountain at night and negotiated with the ghosts, winning Dongshan Village forty years of peace. Forty years later, a lone grave has thrown the whole village into chaos. A tragedy from forty years ago has claimed nearly a hundred innocent lives! What started it all? Why has a corpse's white hair turned black, and what is the red-clad female ghost trying to point to when she appears at midnight? 178Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 94 The Eerie Coffin in Deep Waters 深水诡棺 When I was ten, I fell into a well. Deep in the water was a coffin. After I saw it, I was plagued by nightmares and fell ill. My grandfather gave me a piece of deadwood to protect my life, and I miraculously recovered! From then on, strange and supernatural events followed one after another, and all kinds of mythical beasts from the Classic of Mountains and Seas came after me! Even stranger, a mysterious neighbor moved in next door. He was fair-skinned, beautiful, and long-legged, with a mastery 191Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 95 The Most Terrifying Class on Campus 高校里最恐怖的班级 A classmate who had been dead for two years suddenly spoke in the group chat. At first, everyone thought it was someone's prank, until the first classmate died unexpectedly. Only then did they realize this was no prank... 792Reads—Score—14d adds
- 96 The Seventh Night After Death 头七 My grandfather said that whoever a hanged person sees last is the one they’ll come back to haunt. When I was twelve, the village hired a troupe to perform ghost plays. I went to play with them, never imagining that the troupe’s leading performer was hanging from the beam right behind me. 22Reads7.7Score—14d adds
- 97 A Blind Date Turns into a Ghost Hunt: CEO, There’s Someone Hanging in Your Bedroom 相亲变捉鬼：霸总你卧室挂了个人 [Comedy + supernatural + metaphysics + wealthy-family feuds + a sharp-tongued heroine] Lin Qingjiu, a metaphysics expert, is forced to leave the mountain after her unlucky sect is stripped of its Taoist status. She bears the responsibility of clearing her entire sect's name. To save her seriously ill master, she accepts the Lin family's arrangement: a blind date. But the blind date turns into a ghost hunt, her date ends up in the hospital, and Lin Qingjiu ends up at the police station. Lin Q 331Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 98 One Horror a Day 一天一个惊悚 One terrifying tale every day, and a different world each time. Just because you haven't seen it from in front of your phone doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Enough chatter. See you in the book, everyone. 9Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 99 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—14d adds
- 100 Reading Faces 观相 My grandfather is deaf, my grandmother is mute, my father is blind, and my mother is a fool! I was born with four white eyes, with tiny pupils that make me look like a ghost! I didn’t know why misfortune kept haunting our family, until one day, I met him... 447Reads8.9Score—14d adds
