Novels like The Daoist Tradition of Northeast China
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- 51 Blood Night 血夜 The day before I killed my younger brother’s family, my parents were murdered too. At nine the next morning, the phone rang. “Is this Li Feng? Please come down to the police station!” “Sure.” After hanging up, I laughed. “You’ll never catch me!” —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 52 Ten-Dimensional Space 十维空间 Ten-Dimensional Space —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 53 The Lost Antelope 迷失的羚羊 Also known as: The Divine Girl or the Hellish Killer? Beware, Judgment Is at Hand [Mystery + deduction + supernatural + adventure] [Strong male and female leads, both devoted and decisive, with hearts of gold. Earlier mysteries will be resolved later.] [Episodic stories + an overarching plot] An immortal girl? A young man who runs a guesthouse on the grasslands? And a student in glasses who wanders everywhere? What brought them together? A man-eating flower in a strange cave, the cries of a baby —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 54 The Supernatural Events I Encountered in My Rental Apartment 我在出租屋遇到的灵异事件 One day, Du Shangfeng returned home and discovered that his once-gentle cousin had begun acting terrifyingly strangely. He was so frightened that he fled the house in the middle of the night. On the road, he ran into his college classmates Li Xiuchen and Pan Xiaowei, a girl from the Miao family. Together, they began investigating the matter. As they dug deeper, stranger and stranger things came to light: Why had their classmate Afu, who had moved away and whose house had been demolished, suddenl 7.7kReads8.3Score52414d adds
- 55 The Ultimate Ghost-Raising Master 极品养鬼师 [Adult] + [Adorable Pets] + [Sharp Tongue] + [Making Money] + [Secret Arts] Do you know how to raise ghosts? No worries, I do! Do you know how to catch ghosts? No worries, I do that too! Do you know where to find ghosts? No worries, I’ll take you there! Watch your step. Get in! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 56 A Terrifying New Year's Eve 惊悚除夕夜 On New Year’s Eve, I was driven mad by the nonstop kitchen noise from upstairs. I bombarded the tenants’ group chat with voice messages. “I just want to know which lunatic is cooking in the middle of the night! Are you making food for ghosts?” Someone replied almost immediately. “Don’t you know we make our New Year’s Eve dinner at midnight here in Hunan? It’ll be ready soon. Why don’t you come up and join us?” Then they sent a gruesome photo. The picture was quickly deleted. In its place came a —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 57 The Deadly Delivery 致命快递 I’m a Buddhist: beautiful, kindhearted, rich, and gullible. I can’t stand to see the poor suffer. If my fried noodles cost seven yuan, I pay ten. That can have its downsides, though. For example, some penniless creep from the noodle stall might latch onto me. Or I might find my husband’s severed finger in my fried noodles. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 58 Notes: Strange Happenings at the Crematorium 笔记：火葬场灵异事件 I work at a crematorium, and over the years I’ve had countless terrifying experiences that make your hair stand on end... I never believed in ghosts until my cousin introduced me to a job at the local crematorium. I began dealing with all kinds of corpses, and while cremating them, I also encountered all sorts of strange paranormal events. Because of my unusual constitution, “friends” who refuse to leave the human world for one reason or another keep coming to me. After all those spine-chilling 592Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 59 Even Evil Spirits Offer Me Cigarettes: I’m a Northeast Chinese Shaman 邪祟见我都递烟，我是东北出马仙 [Supernatural] + [Comedy] + [Ghost Hunting] + [No Female Lead] + [Folk Taboos] + [Not Invincible] + [No Cultivation] No specialist knowledge required; a collection of standalone stories. To support the temperamental Willow Immortal he worships at home, the spirit medium Zhao Dashun has scrubbed people’s backs at a bathhouse and set up a stall on an overpass. After capturing the Cat-Faced Granny, Zhao Dashun makes a name for himself in a single battle and sets out on the straight and narrow path 7.3kReads8.4Score75014d adds
- 60 Folk Tales 民间故事 Folktales 10Reads—Score114d adds
- 61 Tales of the Ghost Whisperers 驭鬼者传 From the start, I shouted at a female ghost from the Qing Dynasty, “Down with the Qing! Restore the Ming!” The rot of feudalism, rote education, twisted perversions, taking responsibility, and the collision of three souls. Who am I, really... Combat takes center stage, with strategy in support. This is no traditional supernatural story. It’s occasionally funny, serious when it needs to be and funny when it should be. A coming-of-age story w 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 62 My 1990s Field Notes on Folk Ghost Stories 我的90年代民间志怪见闻录 Jia Nanxing, a young man from a mountain village, chance upon a stone statue and has an extraordinary encounter. Facing all kinds of strange events in the world, “zombies, evil spirits, witchcraft”, he braves countless dangers and later meets Jiang Wangyou, a mysterious female classmate. As they cultivate, the two travel around the world dealing with supernatural incidents. The story features transmigration, antique appraisal, and adventure. Supernatural fantasy all in one, along with all kinds 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 63 Tomb of Terror: My Haunted Forest Expedition 古墓惊魂，我的恐怖森林探险之旅 Terror in the Ancient Tomb: My Adventure Through a Haunted Forest 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 64 Horror: Death Comes at Midnight 恐怖：夜半索命 I lived a routine life until the death of Old Chen changed everything. Beside his body lay a pile of handmade paper figures. One had been painted blood red and clutched in his stiff, dead hand. Blood-red words began appearing in the mirror: “Get out.” “He’s still in the building.” Then I received an ultimatum: his daughter needed a living substitute. Paper figures weren’t enough. Neither were his belongings. She wanted a living person in the building, someone warm and breathing. Tomorrow, at mid 17Reads—Score11014d adds
- 65 The Calamity Wardens' Apocalypse 压祟默示录 [Mystery and the supernatural + ensemble cast + first-person narration + Eastern mythology + Daoism] The copper coin a strange Daoist casually gave me turned out to be the legendary evil-repelling coin? Are the haunted mansion and the attacks by the walking corpses really because an evil fiend has emerged from seclusion? Or is there some other hidden truth? Is there more to the familiar New Year's Eve story than we know? Can some of the inexplicable things in modern life actually be explained? D 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 66 The Golden Snake Appears, and the Path to Immortality Is Proven 金蛇现，证道路 [Supernatural][Cultivation][Plot][Single Female Lead][Vast Worldbuilding] Bullied and humiliated throughout his early years, he was fortunate enough to encounter a sliver of opportunity and join the Shenxiao Sect. But the sect has fallen into decline, its halls in ruins. His old grudge remains unsettled, and revenge still lies far off, as distant as a thousand cloud-wreathed mountains. The road ahead is long, and demons and monsters lurk and run rampant along the way. What awaits him is a strang 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 67 There Are No Evil Dogs on Evil Dog Ridge 恶狗岭没有恶狗 There Are No Vicious Dogs on Evil Dog Ridge 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 68 The New Taiping Guangji: Records of Supernatural Survival 新太平广记：非自然生存实录 “Stay away from Duan Fei! He’s a jinx who meddles with yin and yang and throws the Three Realms into chaos!” The warning from the darkness is filled with despair. “So what if he’s a jinx? I’m going to uncover the secrets of the Six Paths behind him.” The voice is brimming with arrogance. “Uncover them? You’re pushing yourself into the cracks between the Three Realms, straight into the Six Paths’ deadliest abyss!” The whisper sinks into the bones. A deadly mystery spanning life and death acros —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 69 Old Alley Sound Repair: At Midnight Tonight, Qin Opera Calls the Souls 旧巷声修：今夜子时，秦腔引魂 [One Heroine + Sound Cultivation + Qin Opera + Livestreaming + Supernatural Mystery + Urban + Adventure] In modern society, information explodes across the world, and human negativity is amplified through social media, forming an immense “Tide of Resentment.” If no one guides and dispels it, within three years it will gather into a “Lament of Doomsday,” and the boundary between the worlds of yin and yang will collapse completely. Humanity’s power comes from “the Power of Wishes”: energy formed w —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 70 The Conspiracy Behind the Terrifying Calls 恐怖电话背后的阴谋 The conspiracy behind the horror phone 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 71 Redemption and Rebirth in the Darkness 黑暗中的救赎与新生 Salvation and New Life in the Darkness 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 72 Terror Underground: My Journey of Adventure and Growth 地道惊魂，我的探险与成长 Terror Underground: My Adventure and Growth —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 73 The Abandoned Wife's Desert Island Adventure 弃妇的荒岛冒险之旅 An Abandoned Wife's Adventure on a Deserted Island 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 74 Notes from Tomb Raids on Yin Mountain 阴山盗墓手记 A new work is here! Come read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 26Reads—Score—14d adds
- 75 You Were Told to Guard a Village, So Why Did You Make the City God Cry? 让你守个村儿，你把城隍打哭了？ After the old madman died, I always thought I was the only person left in the village. Then one year, two men showed up carrying a camera and said they wanted to film a documentary about walking marriages... 458Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 76 The Daoist in Blue 青衣道人 "A Feel-Good Taoist Power Fantasy + Unstoppable Domination of the City! + No Female Lead" "Building a Taoist Temple Alone + Holding Court in the Golden Triangle of Northern Myanmar + Looking Down on All Under Heaven!" Dressed in blue, with a black sword in hand, he slays gods when gods appear and vanquishes Buddhas when Buddhas come! The Thirty-Six Heavenly Powers and the Seventy-Two Earthly Arts! The Twin-Fish Jade Pendant, mummies, pyramids, lizardmen beneath the earth, A world unlike any othe 49Reads—Score—14d adds
- 77 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
- 78 I Wait for Someone by Day, But Who Do You Wait for at Night? 白日等一人，黑夜你等谁？ “In life, we wait for all kinds of things, big and small. Gradually, people forget what they were waiting for.” I opened a milk tea shop in S City called “Waiting for Someone.” By day, we have bittersweet love stories, and you wait for your beloved. By night, we have eerie urban legends, and you wonder: who are you waiting for? It’s raining in S City again. That mysterious woman with the broad forehead has appeared once more. Is she the one you’ve been waiting for... 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 79 The Celestial Register of Mystical Insight 洞玄天箓 [Alternate history] + [No female lead] + [Daoist arts] + [Ghosts and monsters] (The male lead is no overpowered hero. Readers looking for an indulgent power fantasy, proceed with caution.) The Taishang Ganying Pian says: perform three hundred good deeds to become an Earth Immortal; those who seek to become Celestial Immortals must perform one thousand three hundred. To prove his Dao and attain its fruit, Zhang Yuandong travels alone through a chaotic age, slaying demons and vanquishing evil, ear 158Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 80 The Paranormal Crimes Investigation Bureau 邪案调查科 Have you ever longed to uncover the mysterious truths hidden in the darkness? The Department of Strange Case Investigations takes you deep into the unfathomable abyss of bizarre cases, embarking on a thrilling adventure. The book presents a series of spine-chilling mysteries and uncanny events. Some are terrifying moments the author experienced firsthand, with a very real fear that clings like a bone-deep curse and leaves you shuddering. Others are bizarre tales heard through the grapevine, wher 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 81 A Collection of Folk Supernatural Tales, Part One 民间灵异事件合集（上） Collection of Strange Supernatural Tales from the Countryside, Part One 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 82 Chronicles of the Ashen Earth 烬土录 You can try it, but I wouldn’t recommend it. The book was signed too early, so I can’t change the title anymore. It can only be called Records of the Ashen Earth now. I originally wanted to change it to The Mountain Keeper: I Slay Demons with My Sharp Tongue. Synopsis Deep in the Qinling Mountains lies a town called Ashen Earth, where generations have served as mountain keepers. I, Chen Nian, had kept watch for seventeen years, but on the day the peachwood tablet shattered, my entire clan tre 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 83 This Ghost Story Is Pretty Interesting 这个鬼故事有点意思 The rating for this new book has just come in. It'll go up later, so don't worry and enjoy! [Standalone Stories] [Supernatural Horror] [Urban Legends] [Strange Tales from the Countryside] [Based on True Stories] [Tales of Spirits and Strange Creatures] [Love Between Humans and Ghosts] There is no overarching plot. Every chapter is a standalone story. Some stories are adapted from real cases, some are compiled from urban and rural legends, and some… some are completely made up by the author. Come 5.1kReads8.4Score41514d adds
- 84 The God in the Cage 笼中之神 This is a requiem for prisoners, echoing between the abyss of reality and illusion. When the prison of consciousness is exposed, will you choose to sink into a sweet lie, or awaken to a cruel truth and be destroyed? The answer was already decided from the very start of the search. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 85 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
- 86 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
- 87 The Hanging Charm 魅巾悬 No romance + fantasy and the supernatural + mild horror + modern-day imaginative premise + episodic plot + feel-good power fantasy Liu Yixian, with a high forehead and a broad, square face, was taken in as an apprentice by Daoist Wu in the twelfth year of his life, setting him on an extraordinary path. A thousand-year-old fox or a century-old ginkgo: which one will win Yixian’s heart? A blood-red sickle stabbed the ghost seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, maybe twenty times. The ghost couldn’t take 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 88 Sewing Up Corpses at the Funeral Home, Until I Stitched Up My Blind Date 殡仪馆缝尸，缝到相亲对象 I learned corpse sewing from my grandma as a child. Before I even graduated from vocational school, funeral homes everywhere were clamoring to hire me. My monthly salary was 100,000 yuan, plus commission. Everyone said it was easy money, but nobody knew that a corpse seamstress stitches flesh and skin while laying restless souls to rest. My very first job went horribly wrong. When the body bag opened, I recognized that face at once. Wasn’t she the girlfriend who had slept beside me last night? A 1.5kReads6.9Score11914d adds
- 89 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
- 90 Supernatural: I Bring Home an Old Immortal in Inner Mongolia 灵异：我在内蒙领老仙儿 My name is Li Tianshu. I was originally called Li Chengcai. I was sickly from childhood and plagued by hardship. I was so familiar with the gates of death that even the King of Hell knew my face. My grandparents said I had been cursed just like my great-grandfather, and planned to abandon me in the mountains to be raised by wolves. It was my maternal grandfather who gave me back my humanity and renamed me Li Tianshu, hoping Heaven would forgive me and free me from the curse. From then on, my fat 322Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 91 The Old Corpse: Strange Happenings in the Mountains 老尸：山中诡事 A thousand skeletons pillow the moonlit stele, their shadows sealed. Autumn tombs wear rosy clouds, blood soaking the steps. The boiling cauldron cooks souls, a thousand years of grievance. A grand feast for ghosts, with every skeleton withered. In the utter silence, corpse oil lights the candle. In a place shrouded from the world, a rotting hand pushes open the door. A lingering soul adorns the dressing table, a spider transformed into a hairpin. A name sinks beneath the mirror, maggots become 155Reads—Score—14d adds
- 92 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
- 93 True Tales of Ghost Encounters: Paranormal Files 撞鬼实录之灵异档案 Li Yuanfeng was born with unusual eyes and ears. It was those eyes that helped him solve one bizarre case after another... One shocking tragedy after another, desperate screams for help, a terrifying game at a university in the dead of night... A man embedded in a wall... A child used as a sacrifice... The secrets of an ancient, haunted house... What are the voices from the well trying to tell us?... How can severed limbs be pieced back together?... A pair of eyes that can see through every cycl 326Reads8.8Score10314d adds
- 94 The Judge’s Brush: I Use Daoist Arts to Subdue Yin and Yang 判官执笔：我以道法镇阴阳 One case, one solution. Episodic stories, fast pacing, easy to get into. Wang Zhen was born with a fate tied to the Underworld, and holds the Judge’s Brush in his hand. He can see through the boundary between yin and yang, judge wicked spirits, and draw talismans with a fingertip. His strokes make them come alive. Curses that steal lives, girls in red at school, ghostly shadows in hospitals... One eerie, bizarre case after another, one vengeful spirit after another claiming lives. While others g 422Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 95 Old Wei's Ghost Stories 老魏讲鬼故事 [Traditional Supernatural Tales] [Chinese-Style Horror] [Based on True Events] [Submitted by Readers] [Chilling on Reflection] [Bizarre Tales] [Beyond the Bounds of Science] The eerie Buddha statue seen when mountaineers are trapped in a ghostly loop, a face appearing on the wall in the middle of the night, a “person” using their own head as a ball during evening study at school... I have always believed that horror stories should be short, sometimes ending on a cliffhanger, sometimes becoming 1.5kReads—Score10814d adds
- 96 This Taoist Priest Is the Crown Prince 这个道士是太子 A domineering, unruly crown prince who gave the civil and military officials endless headaches, filled the people with grievances, and made his peers jealous yet helpless was finally sent up the mountain to become a Daoist by imperial decree... That day, officials of every rank cried out, “Long live the wise emperor!” Their voices soared into the clouds... That day, firecrackers thundered and gongs and drums blared throughout Chang'an... On Cranecry Mountain, the deposed crown prince, now a Daoi 1.6kReads5.6Score11914d adds
- 97 Nighttime Tales from the Old Mountain Village House 山村老宅夜事 After my grandfather passed away, I returned alone to a remote mountain village to take over the century-old ancestral home. Before I left, the village elders warned me again and again: under no circumstances should I break the old house's four taboos. Don't stare into the mirror in the old house late at night. Don't answer calls from outside the courtyard at midnight. Don't open the small back-garden door at three in the morning. And never go upstairs on a stormy night. I dismissed it all as ol 260Reads—Score—14d adds
- 98 The Heavenly Master's Memoirs of Spirits and Illusions 天师自传灵幻录 After I was tricked into going to northern Myanmar, my organs were harvested and I died... After being reborn, I somehow became a celestial master. By a stroke of luck, I subdued my first demon. Later, I went to Laos... where a seductive female ghost, still alluring despite her age and with long, slender white legs, pinned me beneath her feet. [This story is entirely fictional. Please do not imitate it or believe in superstition!] —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 99 Urban Hauntings: My Paper Knife Can Pierce Illusions 都市诡异：我的纸刀能破妄 The rating has just been released, so it may still go up. Zhang Ping, an unemployed advertising copywriter, is attacked by a paper figure with a slit mouth in his shared apartment on a stormy night, at the lowest point in his life. On the verge of death, he desperately throws out an old piece of yellow paper he has carried for years, unexpectedly activating a fragment of the ancestral “Blade of Illusion-Breaking” and a mysterious “Night Watchman System.” The System turns terrifying supernatural 3Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 100 The Lost Pool in the Mirror 镜中迷潭 That night, I stepped into the elevator. The doors opened four times. Each time, it was the fourth floor. The fifth time they opened, there was a hall of mirrors outside. In countless mirrors stood countless versions of me. Only one of them was smiling. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
