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- 101 A Thousand Years of Ghost Stories 千年鬼话 A Thousand Years of Ghost Stories: One Thousand and One Nights of Chinese Folk Ghost Tales is a spine-chilling collection steeped in folk tradition. This book brings together ancient folk legends and ghost stories from across China, featuring mysteries and uncanny events from different historical periods and regions. From eerie mountain forests and desolate old villages to bizarre corners of modern cities, every story holds little-known horrors and shocking revelations. The plots are mysterious 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 102 I Inherited a Joss Stick and Candle Shop 我继承了一家香烛店 Bai Linlin had just graduated when she was involved in a car accident that had been planned long in advance. After being discharged from the hospital, she had to use a wheelchair for a while, so she decided to take over the incense and candle shop her grandmother had left her. The shop served both the living and the dead, and business was far busier than Bai Linlin had expected. Especially business from the underworld. Fortunately, it was right up the alley of Bai Linlin, who came from a family 105Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 103 Climbing the Steps 拾级 Climbing the Steps 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 104 Snake Scales 蛇纹 When I was six, I came down with a strange illness. Dark red snake scales covered my body. They looked horrifying and revolting, and whenever it rained, they became unbearably itchy and painful. Everyone said it was payback for my father catching and killing snakes, and that he deserved to have a snake girl for a daughter. My family paid no mind to the gossip, but that night, a white snake suddenly coiled around me and demanded that I repay my blood debt… 111Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 105 I Am a Personal Effects Organizer 我是遗物整理师 No one would do the job of sorting through people’s belongings after they died, even for money, but young Chen Jiaren dares to take it on! She earns a living while beating up bad guys and putting evil people in their place. The story is incredibly satisfying! Mystery + deduction + no System + golden finger The heroine is focused on saving money 105Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 106 This Is a Legitimate Haunted House. There Are No Ghosts! None! 我这是正规鬼屋，没有鬼！没有！ No CP, occult mysteries, ghost-hunting, friendship, and a warm, cozy story (The rating is low because it just came out, but it’ll rise later.) The title the book-rating tool picked as the best: The Years I Took Odd Jobs to Keep the Haunted House Afloat If you see a different title, don’t be confused. They’re all the same book. With the job market so tough, Ning Yu had planned to inherit her family’s Taoist temple and live comfortably off her elders. Unfortunately, her master wouldn’t agree. He 139Reads8.4Score10614d adds
- 107 The Soul Ferryer Between Yin and Yang 阴阳渡魂人 Soul-snatching ghost weddings, bathroom hauntings, the legend of the red-clad senior, Thai black magic, ghost soldiers borrowing the road, man-eating mountain demons, nightmare fiends that enter your dreams, the mystery of the headless woman, a bizarre bride in an escape room, vengeful child spirits, games that summon ghosts, human organ trafficking, a shocking exhibition of human deformities, and long-lost Maoshan secrets... Do these things send a chill down your spine? - The truth is, this wor 177Reads9.2Score10214d adds
- 108 I’m Just an Ordinary Woman 我只是一个普普通通的女子 The rating has only just opened, so it’ll keep going up! [Supernatural + Strong Female Lead + Feng Shui and Metaphysics + Horror + Episodic Stories + Spiritual Qi Revival] A metaphysical ghost-hunting story featuring supernatural tales. The female lead is the strongest fighter, bar none! The pairing is with her master. Set against the backdrop of spiritual qi revival, the mortal world and the underworld work together. The world unfolds as the stories progress. The female lead has already been re 709Reads8.1Score11114d adds
- 109 My Wife Looks Like a Villain When She Hunts Ghosts 我老婆捉鬼时宛若一个反派 Everyone knew Lin Qing liked Pei Shiyu like crazy and had pursued him for three years. Everyone except Lin Qing herself. Everyone knew Pei Shiyu didn’t like Lin Qing, and that he’d married her only because his first love had married someone else. Everyone except Pei Shiyu himself. No one had faith in Lin Qing, and no one had faith in their marriage. Lin Qing didn’t care in the least. After they married, she ate when she was hungry and drank when she was thirsty. But gradually, she realized some 795Reads9.0Score10114d adds
- 110 Selling Ghosts 卖鬼 A new book is coming in July, titled: From the Start, I Cut Out the Rake of the Slit-Mouthed Woman Born in a yin year, yin month, yin hour, and yin place, with a yin ghost as the midwife. Yinjian had been sickly since childhood. Driven by hardship, he accidentally walked into a shop. From then on, he started a business selling ghosts. A weeping ghost knocks at the door. The Five Immortals demand a title and turn into beautiful older sisters. A skeleton friend who loves grave robbing. A five-star 259Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 111 365 Nights of Corpse Tales from the Gorge 峡江尸话365夜 The poorer and more desolate the land, the stranger the tales; deep in the gorges along the river, there are stories of the supernatural. My hometown lies in the mountains of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, in an area where several ethnic minorities live together. Before Liberation, it was a backward wilderness beyond the reach of government control. Over the long course of history, many baffling things happened here. After I was born, I heard plenty of chilling tales of strange happeni 117Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 112 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... 731Reads—Score—14d adds
- 113 I Need Leave to Go Home and Drive the Dead 我要请假回去赶尸 (Modern spiritual qi revival + strong female lead + ugly-and-poor comeback + an insanely powerful golden finger + logical) Xiao Chunli. A name straight out of an NPC roster. A 3-out-of-10 in looks, a humble family, an ailing father, and a mother who earns 1,800 yuan a month. At least Xiao Chunli got into college. Just as she was working at an electronics factory to earn her tuition, a virus infected her phone. The Underworld Agent app. And so... She went to school. “Counselor, I need time off to 22.2kReads8.4Score4.6k14d adds
- 114 Judge's Darling Wife, Behave Yourself: Your Husband Is a Jealous Man 判官娇妻安分点，你老公是醋精 [Metaphysics + domineering CEO + ghost hunting + revenge + everyone’s favorite + power couple + satisfying read + secret identities] My new novel, The Ghost King Spoils Her Sickly Husband, Shaking Both the Yin and Yang Worlds, is updating regularly. Come give it a read! Shen Ci spent over ten thousand years in Fengdu, eventually becoming a judge of the underworld. She never expected a botched soul-summoning to leave her stranded in the mortal world. Her unlucky ghost of a brother is being bullie 45Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 115 The Lovesick Lord of the Underworld Is Jealous Again Today 病娇冥王，今天又吃醋了 Su Wei never imagined that, after failing her tribulation and nearly losing her soul, she would be taken back to the Underworld by Xie Yanci, the King of the Underworld whom all three realms feared, and cherished as the apple of his eye. But his affection soon took a troubling turn. She showed a lost young immortal the way, only to find the King of the Underworld had frozen the entire Immortal Child Hall. She gave a wounded spirit bird a sip of immortal dew, and the next moment, the forest where 22Reads—Score—14d adds
- 116 Heir to the Spirit Medium 通灵师传人 Supernatural + ghost marriage + strong female lead power fantasy + horror stories + mystery. There are ghosts in every heart. Have you ever seen anything more terrifying than a ghost? It's not about walking a dark road too often and running into an evil spirit. The deadliest thing isn't knowing that it's a ghost. It's the utterly dark heart hidden beneath that perfect face. Shh... Don't make a sound. She's right behind you. Run. Don't look back. The story is even more terrifying than you ca 20Reads—Score—14d adds
- 117 Bone Flute 骨笛 My grandmother was a famous spirit medium throughout the surrounding villages. I was a child she picked up and brought home. People in the village said that on the night she carried me home, flutes sounded throughout the village until dawn. The next day, every peach tree in the village had withered. They called me an ill omen, but my grandmother always treated me well, and life went on quietly like that, until the day I turned sixteen. Then everything changed. 1.3kReads9.0Score12714d adds
- 118 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—14d adds
- 119 I Collected 99 Horror Stories 我收集了99个恐怖故事 [Short Story Collection] [Chinese-Style Horror] [Based on True Cases] [Uncanny Reality] [Horror Adventures] [Chilling] The stories of this world are half true and half false; the warmth and coldness of human nature make good and evil hard to tell apart. Light and shadow coexist, as do kindness and malice. If you’ve done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear when ghosts knock at midnight. But if ghosts and spirits really came calling, could you face them calmly? This book is a collection of 14.5kReads8.7Score1.6k14d adds
- 120 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? 293Reads—Score—14d adds
- 121 The Rouge House 脂楼 The Rouge Tower —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 122 Hong Kong’s Yin Chronicles: The Domino Curse 香江陰錄：骨牌劫 Hong Kong Yin Chronicles: The Bone Tile Calamity —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 123 Netherworld Emperor: It All Begins with a Blood Coffin! 幽冥大帝：从血棺开始！ Mystery and the supernatural + horror + mind-bending deduction + wild imagination + Sichuan-Chongqing flavor After a flood, a blood-red coffin drifts down the river into our village... A strange song, eerie bloody handprints, a headless corpse, and somehow, I become the Great Emperor of the Netherworld... An accident reveals the secret of the Nine Fiends Blood Coffin and a grand scheme laid by the Great Emperor of the Netherworld. It all begins with the blood coffin, and everything will ultimate 728Reads—Score—14d adds
- 124 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
- 125 A Life-and-Death Pact Between the King of Hell and Me 我和冥王的生死契约 "Half mystery + half comedy + the worlds of yin and yang + a male lead who is a cunning, devoted deity of the underworld + a kind, steadfast, brave mortal heroine + every character is clever" One lottery ticket, one contract, and from that moment on, my three souls and seven spirits belonged to him. I took something that was never mine, so I have to do good deeds, travel between the worlds of yin and yang, give away all my money, risk my life to repay him, and even give myself to him… He laid on 524Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 126 The Chinese Streamer 华夏女主播 A slow-paced story. If you like fast-paced novels, you may want to think twice~ My name is Ye Qingruan. I was born in a mountain village that favored sons over daughters, and my biological father abandoned me on the mountain behind our home as soon as I was born. A passerby who became my adoptive father found me and took me in. But when I was seventeen, someone broke his hand, and my whole world came crashing down. Desperate to scrape together money for his medical bills, I gritted my teeth and 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 127 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—14d adds
- 128 Night Tales: One Eerie Story Every Night 夜话：每晚一个诡故事 Unravel the chilling logical paradoxes hidden in everyday details. Each story is an artistic reimagining of a real social event from recent years. Every late night conceals secrets unknown to others. Each chapter is a standalone story, with a brisk pace, tight storytelling, and no dull moments. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 129 The Sealed Cave Behind the Mountain: I Became the Village's Soul Guardian 后山囚洞：我成了全村守魂人 After accidentally entering a century-old forbidden site in the back mountains, Jiang Ningyue unexpectedly inherits a fated duty and becomes the village’s only soul guardian. A deep, secluded prison cave suppresses countless wrongfully dead spirits. Ancient village rules conceal secrets unknown to outsiders, while turmoil erupts along the boundary between Yin and Yang, and one eerie calamity follows another. Generations of cave guardians have borne endless suffering, and a century of tangled gru 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 130 Strange Tales, Volume 1 奇闻诡事录1 This is a collection of folk tales about the uncanny, strange accounts from across the land. Each chapter is a complete story, each tale a separate supernatural mystery, revealing the mysteries of yin and yang, folk taboos, and the obsessions of the dead. You never know when a casual remark might draw the attention of spirits lurking in the wilderness; when an old object you pick up might hold the memory of a tragic death; or when an everyday habit might already have crossed a forbidden boundary 20Reads—Score—14d adds
- 131 Zhang Laosan Tells Stories 张老三讲故事 Long, long ago, a strange calamity struck Kaoshan Village, deep in the old forests of Northeast China. Hunter Li Dashan kept watch over a coffin on a snowy night and encountered a weasel spirit that spoke like a human, asking him to give it a title. One careless remark from him exposed a bloody secret from twenty years earlier. When the statue of the Yellow Immortal on the ancestral hall’s altar split with bloody cracks on the night of a lunar eclipse, when a golden-haired weasel burst from a pe 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 132 Today, the Heavenly Master Is Still Trying to Pass as Ordinary 今天天师也在努力装普通人 [An early work. The secondary couple is a BL pairing, so beware if that’s not your thing] Tang Miao comes from a family of ghost hunters. Her parents suddenly disappeared, and she has secretly been investigating what happened to them ever since. While studying English at university, she gets involved in a case and meets forensic pathologist Xu Jinghong and squad leader Mo Shao. After a series of twists and turns, Tang Miao becomes a consultant to the criminal investigation team. Will they uncove 221Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 133 The Yin-Yang Artisan 阴阳诡匠 [Author's note: This book has no System and isn't mindless. Most of the events… really happened. Do not try any of the customs or taboos described here! Any consequences are your own responsibility!] It's better to offend the King of Hell than a poor carpenter. When you've worked as a carpenter long enough, you'll inevitably encounter all sorts of terrifying, bizarre accidents and stories. Sometimes, we're part of them ourselves. I used to think my grandfather was just an eccentric old carpenter 1.1kReads6.3Score10214d adds
- 134 The Neighbor Auntie’s Secret 邻居阿姨的秘密 Each volume is a standalone horror story. Read them in any order. Open one at random and plunge straight into terror for a frightening reading experience anytime, anywhere. The scares never stop. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 135 Fifth Watch 五更 The stories my grandpa used to tell me were probably meant to scare me into staying put, or maybe to lull me to sleep. He always told them with such conviction and vivid detail that I often found myself dreaming of the very scenes he had lived through. I met the old flower-growing woman on Yinshan Mountain, and one villager after another from Sangen Village. Their faces were gloomy and strange, and their deeds served as a warning, reminding us that “the gods are watching from three feet above yo 728Reads7.2Score10014d adds
- 136 The Ghost-Hunting Chronicles of Chang'an 长安御鬼行 (A bold, dashing female Yin-Yang Master from Chang'an + The sharp-tongued, arrogant King of Ten Thousand Ghosts) Ye Yaoniang is a renowned Yin-Yang Master in Chang'an. Born with Yin Eyes and extraordinary abilities, she walks between the worlds of yin and yang. Clad in red and armed with a golden blade, she roams the land, vanquishing demons and slaying ghosts without batting an eye. Even the ghost officials of the underworld show her respect. One day, she accidentally takes a sharp-tongued Ghos 7Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 137 EN Otherworldly Merchant 阴间商人 I’m a merchant who specializes in collecting sinister, supernatural objects. Anything that belonged to the dead is valuable! In the hands of ordinary people, these things can bring anything from a haunting to the ruin of an entire family. But in my hands, they can help you get promoted, make a fortune, defy fate, and meet every need a client could have. Want to know why? Shh. If you’re brave enough, come hear about the first terrifying deal I took after entering the business... 188Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 138 Death Train 死亡列车 Alice, Iron Tyrannosaurus, the Living Dead, Bloodcurdling Terror... A black train rolls through the wreckage! It carries passengers, lucky or unlucky, into one blood-soaked world after another. 64Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 139 Terrifying Supernatural Happenings 恐怖灵异怪事 A terrifying paranormal ghost story. There is a Zhao Family Village in the Funiu Mountains, where many terrifying supernatural incidents have taken place in the ravine west of the village. Several people have been frightened to death, and many nearby residents shudder at the very mention of the ravine. Even the villages around it have experienced many inexplicable events. I used to be afraid. I wanted to write about them but didn't dare. Whenever I thought about putting them into words, terror w 670Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 140 Hearse 灵车 A hearse is a vehicle used to transport coffins or urns. You could also call it a vehicle exclusively for the dead. I was a bus driver for four years, and for all four years I kept a secret bottled up inside. Now I'll tell you firsthand about the terrifying things that happen on trains, things you don't know about. Maybe you've never heard of hearses being converted into buses, but the buses you've ridden may not have carried only the living... 1.5kReads8.0Score14114d adds
- 141 My Funeral Clothing Shop Only Takes Orders from Ghosts 我开的寿衣店，只接鬼订单 The day Zhang Zaizai took over the funeral clothing shop his grandfather left behind, he discovered it wasn’t an ordinary funeral business at all. The ledger was an order system for the underworld, the paperweight was a soul-pinning nail that kept vicious ghosts at bay, and even the “New Order” alerts from the delivery app came from “Mr. Li in Bed 3 of the morgue.” “Ding! Order accepted. Task: Deliver a peachwood comb to the Midnight Hair-Combing Ghost. Rule: Do not meet her eyes while combing h —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 142 Grudge-Locked Patterns 怨气锁纹 Dai Xiaochao, the protagonist, is a college graduate in architecture from the 1990s. Under heavy financial pressure, he moves into a tenement building where a locked-room murder took place two years earlier. Surveillance was scarce in those days, so the police had to investigate door to door, and the case made little progress. Then the ancient Taotie jade pendant inherited by Dai Xiaochao’s family, along with its Taotie patterns, begins to react... And that is where the story begins. 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 143 Lighting the Sky Lantern 点天灯 Just how terrifying is corpse-driving in western Hunan? After failing the college entrance exam, I stumbled into the corpse-driving trade. Who could have guessed that on my very first job, I would run into... 712Reads8.3Score10314d adds
- 144 An Unmarked Lonely Grave 无名孤坟 My grandfather buried my mother by our front door. Every night after that, a woman would stand outside our house... 1.2kReads8.8Score10114d adds
- 145 The Old Ancestress Actually Ascended from Another World! 老祖她是飞升过来的！ (No CP) Tao Shisan spent thousands of years cultivating, and was just about to become immortal. But when she ascended, she somehow wound up back before Liberation. Not only did she inherit a corpse, she also inherited a mountain of debts left behind by its original owner. Oh, what a hard life this old ancestor has! What? You say this is a rare opportunity, that she transmigrated and it’s a good thing? If it’s such a good thing, whoever wants it can have it. She certainly doesn’t! What a joke. Sh 27.8kReads8.3Score4.8k14d adds
- 146 Two Maidens Ferry Spirits, but the Ghost Immortal Hasn’t Earned Enough Merit to Keep Her Head 双姝渡灵，鬼仙功德不够头掉了 [Criminal investigations]+ [Supernatural fantasy]+ [Can understand plants and animals]+ [Female-female romance] (Plot-focused, with little emphasis on the romance) After the only flower of the other shore in the world gained sentience, it sneaked into the cycle of reincarnation and was reborn as police detective Xiao Yun. During a mission, she was gravely injured, and her soul left her body, turning her into a ghost. To rebuild her body, she must find the ghosts lost by the Underworld and earn 82Reads—Score10214d adds
- 147 The Corpse Keeper 守尸人 The morgue is where life and death meet. At this boundary, there are many taboos to heed. I grew up beside a hospital morgue, and I'll tell you about the hospital's taboos from a different perspective. Taboo 1: If you see a patient being resuscitated, don't gather around to watch. Taboo 2: If a patient's family throws away something the deceased used while alive, don't toss your own trash on top of it. Taboo 3: If you hear a cat meowing at night, don't go outside to look, whether you're a patien 891Reads6.3Score10214d adds
- 148 The Yin-Yang Shop's Grim Reaper 阴阳店之鬼差 "There is a shop tucked away on a street corner. It has no name, and every nightfall, all sorts of people can be seen coming and going. A tycoon worth hundreds of millions, a madman begging on the street, a gambler with one arm... Here, you can see human nature stripped bare. A wife pawned for money, a zombie who went into hiding in the mountains for love, a ghost imprisoned by the living... The human heart is endlessly varied, and the world is full of every kind of life. Nothing is impossible. 458Reads9.2Score10514d adds
- 149 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
- 150 Lord Ghost Emperor, Your Wife Was Struck by Lightning Again 鬼帝大人，夫人又被雷劈死了 [Underworld Civil Servant] × [Unhinged Ghost Emperor VS Quirky Girl] × [Hilarious + Suspense + Devoted Love + Past and Present Lives] [Before You Read] Unhinged Ghost Emperor × Sarcastic Female Lead, past and present lives, love-triangle drama ahead A day in the life of an underworld civil servant: dealing with eccentric ghosts, investigating cold cases, and eating Granny Meng’s special dark cuisine Everyone’s got a punchline: Bai Shijiu, the chatterbox ghost official: “Xiaoman! I’ve got fanfict 590Reads7.7Score10814d adds
