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- 1 Terror Descends: I Transmigrated to a Strange World 惊悚降临，我穿越到诡异世界 After transmigrating to another world two and a half years ago, Lin Fan had been living a quiet life until he received a mysterious note warning him of danger. Trapped in a predicament where he was doomed to die within seven days, he gradually awakened new abilities and a special constitution as he searched for a solution. He learned the Dao, moving from passive survival to actively seeking the truth, and recalled his past and present lives. With the help of the remnant soul of a red-clad vengef —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Hellish Dimension: A World of Fantasy 地狱空间之幻想世界 After dying in an accident, I became a revenant in the realm of hell. Ruthless and decisive, I walk the line between life and death. I fight for items and rewards, all to improve my chances of survival. How precious ordinary life in the real world is. Every quiet, uneventful day in the real world must be won back with my life. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 I Become a God by Collecting the Paranormal 我靠收录诡异成神 Mild Horror + No Golden Finger + No Female Lead + Wild Imagination + Supernatural Powers Yan Feng was a slacker college student who accidentally got hold of a mysterious black book after helping an old woman cross the street. From that moment on, he was swept into the vortex of a strange world, where he faced one choice after another and resolved one conflict after another. “That’s right, I’m all for slacking off, but that’s in the human world.” With that, he shoved the jumping ghost beside him —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Terror at the Nursing Home: Ghostly Echoes Claim Lives 深夜疗养院惊魂，鬼影回声夺命 [Mystery + suspense + horror] Deep inside Echo Sanatorium, abandoned for thirty years, lies the truth behind the death of photographer Cheng Ye’s mother. An old envelope marked “Don’t go” leads him to this forbidden place, shrouded by remote mountains and rumors. They say that anyone who hears the echoes after nightfall will have their soul snatched away. Cheng Ye sneaks inside, only to encounter restless spirits: the “Echo Ghosts.” They reappear in the likeness of the dead, their cries reverber —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Rule Horror: I Can Exploit Hidden Rules to Perfection 规则怪谈，我能完美利用隐藏规则 The horror realm descends, and everything must follow the rules! After hundreds of years, the horror realm has appeared once more. Sun Kai transmigrates into it by accident and becomes one of the first contestants carrying the fate of Xia Nation. If they win, they survive, and Xia Nation’s fate improves, bringing benefits to all its people. If they lose, they die, Xia Nation’s fate declines, and the horror realm descends upon reality. Unlike the others, Sun Kai can see hidden hints that no one e 1.8kReads—Score187Shelves
- 6 The Eastern Wei Crown Prince's Tomb 东魏太子墓 The Eastern Wei Crown Prince’s Tomb —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 The Train I Drive Leads to the Abyss 我开的火车通往深渊 My name is Lin Muhai. I'm twenty-one and a trainee train driver at the Ancheng Locomotive Depot. Before my first run, I heard a woman's voice in the crew waiting room. "One sleeper, two sleepers, three sleepers..." She counted to six, then paused. "Lin Muhai, it's your turn to count." 23Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 Terror in the Desolate Village 荒村惊魂 I entered a village inhabited entirely by women. I thought I’d found a man’s paradise, but after a series of bizarre events, I realized things weren’t so simple… 158Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 9 The Recipient After Death 死后收件人 I'm a courier for a residential complex. Since last month, I've been receiving packages addressed to the dead. An empty apartment building, recipients whose accounts were closed long ago, parcels that no one ever claims. The property manager says I'm seeing things. My coworkers say I've been cursed. The police checked every security camera, but say everything looks normal. That is, until I opened the first package for a dead person. Inside was only a note: [You're next.] 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 When the Paranormal Invaded, My Sister and I Had Only Each Other 诡异入侵，我和姐姐相依为命 [Eerie Invasion] + [One Female Lead] + [Thriller] + [Heartbreaking] Grandma said the sun used to be golden, and blankets dried in its warmth smelled lovely. I've lived for ten years and never seen a sun like that. The night the blood moon appeared, the sky turned red. Ever since, the sun has never been warm again. It hangs there, pale and wan, its edges faintly tinged red, like a half-open eye. A light red fog hangs in the air all year round, and two-thirds of the population has already been inf —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Daily Horror Stories: The Uncanny Invades the Human World 侵入人间每日恐怖故事 [Horror + folk legends + ghost stories + paranormal terror + spine-chilling tales to enjoy with a meal + mysteries + no female lead + short folk horror stories] Read one every day and feel the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end. 90Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Mystery Revival 神秘复苏 Kill and loot, and you’ll strike it rich; build bridges and mend roads, and you’ll die without a body! At twenty-seven, Bi Tao was an intern at a cancer hospital. After being diagnosed with a terminal illness, he discovered... the familiar world had changed! The world grew increasingly bizarre, and horror slowly returned! Monsters ran rampant, and ghosts wreaked havoc. Watch as he takes control of fate and turns the tide! 116Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 13 The Strange Happenings of Shazao Village 沙枣村诡事 Adili is assigned to take up residence in Shazao Village. Before him, seven village cadres had mysteriously met their ends in this remote Gobi settlement. His own uncle had “died in the line of duty” there, but the case file gave no more than a cursory mention of the cause of death, with no evidence to be found. At midnight, donkey hooves sound across the sand, pausing after every seven steps. A red-eyed evil donkey crouches before a grave and calls softly: “Climb on. I’ll take you to find your —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Strange Tales: The Secret History of Spirit Hauntings 诡事异闻录：灵祟秘史 By chance, the protagonist visits relatives in a remote mountain village, only to find an eerie atmosphere hanging over the place. The villagers behave strangely, and at night there are odd sounds and flickering lights. While investigating, the protagonist discovers an ancient book describing mysterious rituals, setting off a string of supernatural events... —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 I Was Surgically Transformed into a Pig 我被整容成了一头猪 I Was Made to Look Like a Pig Through Plastic Surgery 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 Infinite Flow: Surviving the Game by Eating Fetal Dumplings 无限流：从吃胎婴饺开始求生游戏 [Two male leads + horror + hilarious comedy + mind-bending puzzles + lots of sweetness] My name is Jiang Yunyin, and I'm an apprentice mortician. I never thought I'd die one day by “freezing to death in a bathroom.” After I died, I came to the Horror World. To be reborn, I began taking on the horror trials the System told me about. It was supposed to be just a survival game, but it was far more difficult than I imagined. A maternal and child health hospital where women's wails and babies' cries 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 The Deadly Classroom 致命教室 During morning study hall, a stranger with the username Punisher added the entire class to a WeChat group. From then on, all kinds of bizarre things began happening... 621Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 Forbidden Curse: Spirit Touch Opens the Door to Terror 禁忌咒子：灵触开启惊悚之门 [Horror] [Fortune-Telling] [Ghost Hunting] [Feng Shui] [Read with Caution at Midnight] I, Bai Qingyun, was once just a Maoshan Taoist priest at the Hundred Spirits Hall. It wasn't until I went alone to investigate an incident and saw a boy hanging himself in a red dress that I realized the evil in human nature went far beyond what I had imagined. Behind every strange incident lies both the wickedness of human nature and a tragedy. As I traveled from one region to another, resolving one incident 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 Naruto: I Rule the Ninja World by Borrowing Ghosts' Power 火影：我靠借鬼称霸忍界 Zhou Yang's golden finger is simple: touch someone, and their ability becomes his. From the little fool at Konoha Hospital to an S-rank missing-nin hunted by the entire shinobi world, he got by through “borrowing.” Borrowing Kakashi's Chidori, Minato's Flying Thunder God, the Uchiha's Sharingan... borrowing every technique under the sun to build up his own power. Until he saw bloodline clans monopolizing the path to advancement, the great nations treating small countries like weeds, and count 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 Ghost Tattoo Seal, Forbidden Arts of the Yellow Springs 鬼纹印，黄泉禁术 From the start, he was bound in marriage to a ghost. After a series of twists and turns, he met a master. To stay alive, Yin Linchuan followed an old Taoist priest to catch ghosts and ward off evil, slaying demons and vanquishing monsters. From then on, he embarked on the path of catching ghosts and driving away evil... —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 Afterlife Notes Bonus Story: Rouge Well 还魂笔记番外篇：胭脂井 Afterlife Notes: Bonus Story: The Rouge Well —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 The Horror Never Ends 恐怖不断到来 Ghosts are real if you believe in them, and nonexistent if you don't! Unemployed, I stumbled into a fancy supermarket by chance. The beautiful owner offered me a high salary and great benefits, with just one requirement: I had to protect her around the clock! From then on, one eerie event followed another, and terror kept closing in. It turned out everything was because of... 1.3kReads5.0Score130Shelves
- 23 The Boarding School Deep in the Mountains 大山深处的寄宿学校 This is a fully enclosed school built deep in the mountains. Strange things began happening as soon as she arrived. Just how many secrets is she hiding? And why is the school tucked away in the mountains? It all began the day she transferred. 679Reads8.4Score131Shelves
- 24 The Paranormal Files 诡异档案 An exclusive exposé by an eyewitness on the paranormal files of China’s secretive investigative organization, Bureau Nine! This book chronicles the past and present of its paranormal cases, revealing one bizarre and fantastical incident after another. The Corpse-Worshipping Cult, the Black God Cult, Nanyang sorcery, Yunnanese Gu magic, Chinese Taoist arts, reincarnated living Buddhas: let the author guide you into a real land of the supernatural and uncover the many unknown secrets hidden all ar 537Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 The Exam Begins: Cheating Is Forbidden 考试开始：禁止作弊 I know. You keep wondering whether this world is real. When you're alone late at night, you feel inexplicably lonely and start thinking about the meaning of life. Actually, your guess is right. This entire world is a dream. Why do you think that seeing is believing? Why do you think what you hear and touch is real? You go about your life every day as usual. But it never occurs to you that nothing you do is truly your own choice. An invisible hand is controlling you from behind the scenes. Family 66Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 26 Raising Affection in a Haunted World 我在诡异世界刷好感度 The supernatural descended, and the old order was gradually rebuilt. Countless people died gruesome deaths in the supernatural realm. Everyone feared it and kept their distance... Until Zhang Huai was chosen. Huh? A mature nurse, a tsundere little girl... This supernatural realm isn't scary at all. Everyone just needs to get along! When someone interviewed Zhang Huai and asked, “You've been through so many instances. What do you think of them?” Zhang Huai smiled faintly. “Everyone in there 163Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 27 The Half-Baked Feng Shui Master: I Became a Legend Through Hands-On Ghost Hunting 半吊子风水师：撞鬼后靠实操封神 Lin Jingran, nicknamed Dogshit, is the most hopeless half-baked feng shui master in the old district. He has no real skills and is a coward, getting by on the old notes his grandfather left behind. That is, until his childhood friend kneels before him, crying that the secondhand house he bought is haunted and his wife and son are close to dying. For two thousand yuan, Lin Jingran steels himself and goes over. He steps on wet hair as soon as he walks in, hears a woman crying by his ear, and watch 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 Horror and Terror 恐怖，惊悚 A classmate by the bed calls out softly. A cat's cries echo through the woods. Shadows flicker at the edge of the street. A piercing scream comes from inside the restroom. Are all the things you see and hear real? And are they all human? 712Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 Tales of the Monstrous 怪形异传 In the forbidden zone of the Taklamakan Desert, the Cradle Project’s experimental base has become a living hell after its vacuum energy spiraled out of control. An unknown flying-saucer-shaped creature, covered in transparent, wet streaks, breaks through the barrier. It devours researcher Chen Ming in an instant and escapes into the ventilation ducts, leaving behind only a few drops of blood to announce the coming disaster. Three hours later, Chen Ming returns “unharmed.” His face is pale, his g 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 New Tales from the Strange Studio: Folk Stories 新聊斋夜话【民间故事集】 New Tales of the Strange: A Collection of Folk Stories is a doorway to a mysterious world, taking you between ancient legends and modern-day strange tales. Each story springs from real memories passed down among the people, carefully refined into gripping short fiction. Here you will find ghastly apparitions, struggles with desires hidden deep in human nature, and strange rural tales that, though forgotten, remain vivid. Unexpected twists lie on every page, and every chapter will leave you holdi 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 The Evil Well 邪井 [Apocalyptic supernatural + horror and suspense + adventure and growth] The world changes. Humans and ghosts coexist, An evil, uncanny ancient well, A shy young man, The world grows corrupt, and a hundred ghosts revive. Will it bring salvation or destruction? 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 Welcome to the Lost Theater of Horror Games 欢迎来到恐怖游戏迷途剧场 [Rule-Based Horror + No Female Lead + Horror + No National Destiny + No Livestreaming] When the cold prompt of the System sounds in his ear, Mo Yan is forced into the horror game Lost Theater. One bizarre instance after another unfolds: Deadly nursery rhymes, the dollhouse, Paradise Retirement Home, ghost weddings... Within each instance, the rules are the only currency for survival, while human nature is an even deadlier trap lurking behind the monsters. Old songs echo night after night, and th 19Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 Reincarnation Notes: An Extra Story, The Painted-Skin Debt 还魂笔记番外篇：画皮债 The Reincarnation Notebook: Extra Story: The Painted Skin Debt —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 Horror Survival: It Begins When I Move Into a Hotel for the Dead 恐怖求生：从住进死人旅馆开始 My inn caters to the dead! Want a room as a living person? That depends on whether your life is tough enough! I don't want money. I want haunted objects, and the more vicious, the better! And no matter what kind of deity you are, take my advice: don't go near Room 207! Otherwise... you'll have to deal with the consequences! 50Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 35 Tales of Strange Happenings Among the People 民间诡事杂谈 Never enter a temple in the barren hills alone. Never talk about ghosts and spirits on a night road. Never bury the dead in the center of a burial plot. Pork butchers often can't draw their last breath when they die. The world is full of strange things. What seems ordinary can be deadly. Don't believe me? Turn around and take a look. 273Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 Driver of the Underworld 幽冥司机 Bus Route 206 is hiring a night-shift driver. Liu Hao eagerly applies, only to discover that the job not only pays well but also has short hours. It’s only after he signs the contract that he realizes there’s something wrong with the bus… Strange passengers and eerie lost property leave Liu Hao wondering if he’s driving the last bus of the underworld! 395Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 37 A Collection of Folk Supernatural Tales 民间灵异收录 A string of strange experiences in my childhood, combined with the paranormal tales told by the older generation, left me both terrified of and curious about another kind of existence in this world. Though I live in a modern city, I firmly believe in phenomena science cannot explain. By a stroke of fate, I took up a profession no ordinary person could understand. From then on... the veil over the other side of the supernatural world began to lift. 44Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 The Haunting of the New Home 搬家诡事 [Mystery + Thriller + Supernatural + Horror + No Female Lead + Smart Protagonist] His name was Yi Jibo. After he was wrongfully imprisoned, his mother fell ill and died. To pay off his gambling debts, his father sold her ashes to the Japanese through a crematorium driver. To get his mother's ashes back, Yi Jibo went to work at a Japanese funeral home. And so he burned Japanese corpses while searching for his mother's ashes… 19Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 A Collection of Bizarre Horror Stories 怪诞恐怖故事集 My stories have magic, blood and tears, the evil side of human nature, and the horror you’re looking for. 1. Mother’s Bottles and Jars: A single drop of blood can turn one grain of rice into a whole pot of rice. A hundred drops can conjure a bicycle... What kind of magic is hidden in the bottles and jars Mother prepared for him? 2. The Toilets in Dreams: If you fall asleep while desperate to pee, you’ve surely dreamed of all kinds of toilets. If you write down the toilets you see in your dreams, 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 Horror Revival: This Streamer Is the Real Deal 恐怖复苏：这主播能处 As horror returns, streamer Chen Ping'an awakens the Ghost Exploitation System. Every day, he's either exploiting ghosts or on his way to exploit ghosts. When he runs into a ghost, his first thought is whether he can make money off it. If there's a profit to be made, he won't spare even a ghost. 117Reads5.1Score—Shelves
- 41 Afterlife Notes Bonus Story: Secrets of the Haunted House 还魂笔记番外篇：凶宅秘录 Afterlife Notes: Bonus Story: The Haunted House’s Secret Records —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 Hook in the Mist 迷雾之钩 The mist over Qinglan Reservoir never lifts. A pendant and fishhook engraved with the date 1962.7.15 don’t catch fish; they catch the living and the dead. Three years ago, documentary photographer Shen Bozhou’s heart stopped for ten minutes when he jumped into the reservoir to save his partner, who had plunged into the water under mysterious circumstances. Ever since, he has been haunted by visions from beneath the surface. Now he has returned to finish the film he left incomplete, only to find —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 A Game You Can Only Join After Losing Your Memories 失去记忆才能参加的游戏 [No System] [No Female Lead] [Fast-Paced Challenges] [Puzzles and Deduction] [Suspenseful Twists] (Volume One: Primarily puzzle-solving, deduction, and mind-game challenges, with 25 games in total.) (Volume Two: Primarily short suspense and horror stories with twists, interspersed with some simpler puzzles, across 9 stories.) (Volume Three: Primarily resolves the main plot. If the final two chapters don't blow you away, I'll lose! Just read the ending of Chapter 247: even if you haven't read the 71Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 My Sister-Obsessed Guardian: Becoming a God in a World of the Uncanny 护妹狂魔我在诡异世界封神 [Gory violence + System + dungeons + no female lead + no saintly do-gooder + slow burn + global livestream + doting big brother] Chen Mo: The bizarre world is supposed to be hell for humanity, right? But I always feel like they’re friendlier than humans. They’re not scheming or plotting against each other, and they’re completely open with me. Every one of them calls me Little Boss and scurries along behind me. I have no idea why. All the Ghost Kings: (ಥ﹏ಥ) As long as you’re happy, Your Highness 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 I Entered a Horror Story 我进入了恐怖故事 When Shen Yu opens his eyes, a villa shrouded in darkness comes into view. This is where the game begins. When staying up late becomes forbidden, going to the bathroom alone brings misfortune, and your roommate turns into a monster, the unknown conditions for death have yet to be unlocked. What will you choose? 431Reads6.6Score106Shelves
- 46 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—Shelves
- 47 The Compendium of a Hundred Ghosts 百诡收容录 (Collecting and fighting ghosts + rule-based horror + tactical battles + ensemble cast + multiple heroines) A Book of a Hundred Ghosts lives within his soul. If he doesn't collect ghosts, the book will devour its Host, starting with his left hand, piece by piece, until there's nothing left. But every ghost he captures earns him a ghost-binding card from the book. The ghosts belong to the book, but he can borrow their abilities. He grows stronger, too. So he travels through one rule-bound horror 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 Tomb of the Living 活人墓 The village needed a new road, so they had no choice but to demolish a grave. After that, one strange thing after another began happening in the village... 52Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 49 Afterlife Notes: Blood Silkworms Raised on Babies 还魂笔记之血蚕饲婴 The Soul-Returning Notes: Blood Silkworms Feeding a Baby —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 Afterlife Notes Bonus Story: The Hundred Ghosts' Night Parade 还魂笔记番外篇：百鬼夜行 The Soul-Returning Notes: A Hundred Ghosts Roaming by Night —Reads—Score—Shelves
