Novels like Absolutely True Tales of the Supernatural
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- 151 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
- 152 Thriller Game: I Can Eavesdrop on Ghosts 惊悚游戏：我能偷听鬼话 [Infinite Flow] [No Female Lead] [Light Horror] [Multiple Twists] Six months ago, a blood mist sealed off Nandu City, trapping its ten million residents inside. Strange beings invaded the fog, and one abnormal incident after another unfolded. Lin Xu has no idea why he appeared in this city. A strange game appeared at the same time, forcing him to enter a horror instance every seven days, where death was all but certain. But the items he obtained in the game could be used against the strange enti 21.4kReads7.0Score2.2k14d adds
- 153 A Fading Lamp Shines on the Lonely Dead 残灯照孤冥 (Mystery + supernatural + no female lead) (Ghost case files + Taoist arts) (Tomato Original) The male lead is born under the fate of a lone star of calamity, destined to walk alone. A dying lamp lights the lonely darkness, and that darkness lights me in turn. 331Reads—Score—14d adds
- 154 I Transmigrated to Ancient Times with the Fuying Hall's Legacy 我带着伏英馆法脉穿越古代 Ghost hunting, exorcism, wuxia, ensemble cast, no System. The protagonist is a disciple of the Liuren Fuying Hall who has only recently started learning the arts and rarely applies himself. When his teacher takes on a mission, he transmigrates to another world in ancient times, setting off a series of events involving the supernatural, the martial world, and the rise and fall of dynasties. As the saying goes, when a nation is on the brink of collapse, demons and evil spirits are sure to emerge! 172Reads—Score13214d adds
- 155 Night-Shift Internet Cafe Attendant: The Woman in Red in the Men's Room Stall Hides a Ten-Year-Old Case 夜班网管：男厕隔间的红衣女，竟藏着十年旧案 Night-Shift Internet Cafe Attendant: The Red-Clad Woman in the Men's Restroom Stall Is Hiding a Decade-Old Case 61Reads—Score—14d adds
- 156 Carrying the Dragon Coffin 抬龙棺 The First Emperor's coffin was called the Dragon Coffin. By rights, everyone who carried the Dragon Coffin should have been buried alive with him. But my ancestor somehow escaped. Was the elixir of immortality really just a legend? And where did Xu Fu go after sailing east? My ancestor was the only person who knew the secret of Qin Shi Huang's mausoleum... 3kReads8.5Score30514d adds
- 157 My Wife Is the Asura King 我的老婆是修罗王 Enter a ghost marriage, command a hundred ghosts, recruit ten thousand immortals, return to Yuxu... A new disciple’s “Madman’s Diary” 41Reads—Score—14d adds
- 158 Terror in the Forbidden Zone of Hoh Xil 可可西里之禁地惊魂 The Hoh Xil region on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is as beautiful as it is cruel! A team of seven adventure enthusiasts will transmigrate into the mysterious, uninhabited region of Hoh Xil to explore it. Along the way, a series of bizarre, terrifying supernatural events unfold. Will they make it out of the wilderness? And yet... the ending turns out to be... utterly unimaginable... 1.8kReads—Score13614d adds
- 159 Paper Cutting to Prolong Life 剪纸续命 Three days after his master's death, Chen Zhi's name was pressed into a paper-cut figure. Someone cut paper outside his door late at night. A paper figure bearing his name appeared at the doorstep, and from then on, the blue-black mark on his hand began to seep inward along his veins. Paper can ward off evil and bind souls. And the darkest art of the Paper-Cutting Sect is called Name Binding. To stay alive, Chen Zhi can only follow the torn pages his master left behind, the black sand beneath t 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 160 The Haunted House of Resentment: A Bizarre Murder Case 怨气凶宅·诡异的凶杀案 The Haunted House of Resentful Spirits: A Bizarre Murder 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 161 The Outcast Ghost of Wancun Village 万丛村的边缘鬼 Some say death, the end of life, is the fairest thing of all because everyone dies. But in truth, unfairness is absolute, fairness is relative, and even the end can be unfair. There are homeless wanderers with nowhere to live and no place to call home, and there are the rich, with mansions everywhere. The same goes for ghosts: some are lonely spirits with "nowhere to be buried," while others are wealthy ghosts with burial grounds bigger than a kingdom... Wanderers are pitiful, and lonely ghosts 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 162 The Nuo Dancer's Ordeal 傩人难 Isolated and misunderstood, two people just alike meet because of fate. What kind of story will unfold? Will it be funny or terrifying? Everything takes place beneath a vast shadow. 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 163 The Number One Yin Messenger 第一阴差 Wandering souls, where will you linger? Three souls, come back at once; seven spirits, return! Lost soul, the gates of heaven open, the gates of earth open. A thousand-mile journey, let the child bring the soul home! The day I was born, strange signs appeared in the heavens. Misfortune plagued me from childhood, and it’s a miracle I survived this long. After I came of age, something happened that shattered everything I thought I knew. My dad told me he was the underworld’s bailiff in Spring City 132Reads—Score—14d adds
- 164 The Unorthodox Horse-Riding Immortal 不正经的出马仙 Nine out of ten shamanic practitioners are frauds, and the other one is still cultivating. It’s both lucky and unlucky that I’m a shamanic practitioner who doesn’t cultivate immortality. I only like hanging out with my fox spirit companion, and I absolutely refuse to cultivate. 16kReads8.5Score1.3k14d adds
- 165 Grandma's Yin-Yang Notes 2 奶奶的阴阳笔记2 Mystery and the Supernatural + Copper Coins to Find the Way + Paper Effigies That Hear the Dead + Locust Wood to Bind Souls I work as a temporary hire at the Special Investigations Bureau in the Dragon Kingdom. I’ve seen madmen capable of rewriting fate. That day, a gigantic black hand came crashing down and the air froze. I thought I was as good as dead. But my mother burst out like a streak of red lightning. In the look she gave me over her shoulder, I saw reluctance, concern, and a fierce re 205Reads9.4Score—14d adds
- 166 My Wife Is a Snake 我的老婆是条蛇 When I was born, nine snakes were coiled around the roof beams. They called it Nine Dragons Sending a Son, and it meant I’d face eighty-one calamities before turning nine. If I could get through them, I’d enjoy great wealth and success. To keep me alive, my grandfather made me marry a snake as my wife. He also had me marry into someone else’s family and take their surname… 20Reads—Score—14d adds
- 167 The Strange and Supernatural Things I’ve Heard and Seen 那些我所闻所见的灵异事 I’ll tell stories about the strange things that have happened to me over the years, along with the folk secrets and I Ching mysticism I’ve learned. At the start of each story, I’ll say whether I experienced it myself or heard it from someone else. I may not tell them in chronological order. I need to remember and organize everything, so I’ll just talk about whatever comes to mind. Things I experienced myself may be exaggerated, but they’re absolutely true. As for some of the stories I’ve heard, 2.4kReads—Score15614d adds
- 168 Tales of the Supernatural 灵异怪谈 Yin-yang masters are fated to suffer the Five Evils and Three Deficiencies. Is there any way to escape their fate? A life-and-death romance with a bloodthirsty vampire zombie! After desperately searching for the Strange Records of Yin and Yang, he discovers it is all part of an even bigger conspiracy! The Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, bloodthirsty vampire zombies, an inn in the underworld, an ancient Warring States tomb, and the Strange Records of Yin and Yang all feature in Strange Tales of the S 1.6kReads8.8Score13914d adds
- 169 Department of Paranormal Investigations 神秘事件调查处 The Secret Incident Investigation Bureau, Book One As a child, Zhuge Yun was struck by lightning and branded with a thunder rune. During an archaeological excavation, he accidentally awakened the thunder element within himself. After joining the Ninth Division, under the Huaxia government’s secret agency, Bureau 749, Zhuge Yun and his teammates handled all kinds of supernatural incidents. The mysterious Poyang Lake Delta, ghost soldiers crossing the land, resurrected terracotta warriors in the M 4.4kReads8.4Score23214d adds
- 170 Tales of the Supernatural Among the Common Folk 感灵之民间异事 In the old days, there were all kinds of strange happenings in the villages of northern China: ghost stories, tales of immortals appearing, and encounters between humans and monsters. Here, you can read about the people and stories of the past. What kind of mischief will the intriguing huangpizi get up to? What stories did the elders tell children during the quiet nights of that bygone era? This book will take you back in time to see those curious old tales. The huangpizi aren’t the only ones he 4Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 171 Strange Tales from the Road 行路诡闻 [Folk customs and suspense | Episodic stories | Immersive accounts] There's an old saying: Walk the night road three times, and ghosts and gods will follow you. Writer Lin Sui travels around gathering material, recording the rural ghost stories he hears along the way in the old notebook he carries with him. He has no spirit-seeing eyes and can't draw talismans or chant incantations. Faced with those indescribable horrors, his only weapons are the pen in his hand and his instinct for survival. 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 172 A Feng Shui Master with a Bachelor's Degree, Class of 2000 00后本科风水师 [The rating has just come out and will rise later. Updates are steady, so you can read with confidence, friends!] [Small-town supernatural tales + true experiences + folk legends + ensemble cast + thrilling adventures] I'm Fang Kai, a feng shui practitioner with a bachelor's degree, born in the 2000s. I never dreamed that after graduating from college, I'd end up on the path of catching ghosts. Think ghost-catching is all about fighting and killing? Wrong. It's just as much about dealing with pe 5kReads8.6Score37314d adds
- 173 A Debt-Ridden Wage Slave Inherits a Mansion, but the Tenants Aren’t Human 负债牛马继承豪宅，但租客不是人 Chen Mo, a wage slave on the brink of being crushed by loan sharks, receives a mysterious phone call just as he’s losing hope. To his surprise, he inherits a mansion worth 30 million from a distant relative. He moves in overjoyed, only to discover that one of the tenants isn’t even human. The more he learns, the more shocked he becomes. It turns out a huge conspiracy is lurking behind it all... 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 174 Ghost Corpse Refining, Bearer of a Deadly Fate 鬼炼尸，背命人 Song Yuanqing is a former soldier. After leaving the military, he turned down a government-assigned job and chose instead to become an adventure tour guide. Because of the dangers of the profession, people like him are also called “edgewalkers,” meaning they are always walking on the brink of death. In just a few short years, Song Yuanqing has guided clients through the Amazon rainforest and into Lop Nur, the “Sea of Death.” He has also traversed the Bewitched Marsh of Wawu Mountain, known as th 2.1kReads9.3Score21414d adds
- 175 Studying Neutrinos at the Funeral Home 我在殡仪馆研究中微子 ❎ Not for the faint of heart! Five-star horror rating. I’m a college student. To ease the burden on my family, I decided to find a part-time job near campus. By chance, I spotted a faded advertisement on a utility pole nearby. The job was keeping night watch at a funeral home, and the pay was great, so I took it. On my first day, the manager told me three bizarre rules for the funeral home’s night shift: I’d be the only one working overnight; never open the door for strangers; and never get invo 16.7kReads7.2Score2.4k14d adds
- 176 My Sister Went on a Trip to Nanyang and Disappeared! 我妹妹去南洋旅游，就失踪了！ My Younger Sister Went on a Trip to Nanyang and Disappeared! 25Reads—Score—14d adds
- 177 Lord of the Spirit Realm: From the Start, Bound to a Horror Short-Drama System 灵境主宰：开局绑定恐怖短剧系统 [Soul Transmigration to the Modern World + Cultivation Expert + Unhinged CEO + Demon-Fallen Buddhist Monk + Horror Short-Drama Instances + Yandere Villain + Love Rival Showdown] Li Xinghua, a Mahayana cultivator, was ambushed by a Buddhist monk who had fallen to the demonic path. Her soul transmigrated to the modern world, where she became a freshman at Huaqing University who had died from staying up too late. Stripped of her cultivation and stranded in an unfamiliar world with scarce spiritual 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 178 The Haunted Houses I’ve Experienced 我经历的凶宅 The older generation often says that people who die violent deaths cannot enter the cycle of reincarnation. Their souls endlessly haunt the places where they died, seeking substitutes. Only then can they be reborn. That’s why we often hear in the news about car crashes that keep happening at certain locations. Sometimes the place isn’t even a proper intersection, yet terrible accidents leave cars wrecked and people dead. Some streams aren’t even as deep as a person is tall, yet every year there 2.1kReads8.9Score19914d adds
- 179 I'm Xie, a Yin-Yang Guide, Not a Taoist Priest 阴阳开路人谢邀，不是道士 I've seen too many lonely spirits trapped in corners, unable to move on, and too many people hell-bent on harming others. Sometimes I can't tell whether I'm imagining it in the throes of a psychotic episode or witnessing something real. The truth is far darker than fiction. “Absurd” is the only word for it. 21Reads—Score—14d adds
- 180 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
- 181 Miss, Wait Up, Little Taoist 女施主：小道长留步 Witty and humorous + grounded in reality and rich in metaphor + ghost hunting and the supernatural A Taoist priest descends the mountain + an utterly doting big brother + a collection of short stories + long-term foreshadowing + guiding souls to the afterlife In 2026, I hunt ghosts and guide souls in the city. Only later did I realize that human hearts are far scarier than ghosts. I have just two kinds of clients: the living and the dead. The living pay me to solve their problems. The dead pay w 30Reads—Score—14d adds
- 182 The Strange Records of Xuanling 玄翎诡录 [Synopsis] [Chinese-Style Horror + Rule-Breaking + Ghost-Tormenting Face-Slapping + Ascension to Immortality + Episodic Story + 1v1 Sweet Romance + Past and Present Lives] Li Lingxi, the top student and campus beauty of Yaoxing University, looks pure and delicate, yet she is the only person who can see another world. The blood-red dormitory curtain that moves without a breeze in the dead of night, the stiff smiles of paper-doll vendors at the old street’s ghost market, the faint sobbing from the 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 183 The Yin and Yang of the Mist 迷雾阴阳 The Municipal Public Security Bureau's Special Cases Investigation Division, or Special Investigations Division for short, specializes in supernatural incidents that defy rational explanation. Shen Yanzhi, an officer in the division who is calm, rational, and skilled in talismans and spells, meets Lin Mo, a descendant of a family of yin-yang masters whose bloodline can suppress evil forces and whose gentle nature conceals a stubborn streak, while investigating a case. Together, they gradually un 29Reads—Score—14d adds
- 184 A Strange Tale Every Night 夜夜都有诡故事 [Extreme Supernatural Horror] [Ghosts, Fox Spirits, and Other Strange Creatures] [Not for Women] [Not for the Fainthearted] Based on personal experience and real events. The occult is science we have yet to touch; science is the occult we have already mastered. 22Reads—Score—14d adds
- 185 Searching for the Herb of Immortality: I Nearly Became a Walking Corpse 为寻不死草：差点变行尸 [Tibetan legends + folk tales of the uncanny + suspenseful exploration + tomb raiding, no beauties, not a power fantasy, no formulaic tropes] Legend has it that Tibet is home to an herb of immortality, which comes in yin and yang varieties. If the living eat the yang herb, they can live forever; if the dead consume it, they can be resurrected. But anyone who eats the yin herb turns into a walking corpse. The herb of immortality is said to grow thousands of meters underground, in a place that T 203Reads—Score—14d adds
- 186 Heaven's Secrets Forbidden: A Metaphysics Master's Art of Feng Shui and Yin-Yang 天机禁忌：玄门风水相师镇阴阳 Xu Daoyi was born with a pure Yang constitution, a once-in-a-century rarity. The Yang energy within him was so strong it could burn vengeful ghosts to ash. But this gift was also a death sentence. His master told him that unless he found a woman with a pure Yin birth chart before the Summer Solstice and united their Yin and Yang, he would explode and die seven days later. The seven-day deadline drew closer, and the Yang energy in his body surged higher every day. Xu Daoyi had saved countless liv 115Reads—Score15514d adds
- 187 The Spirit Medium of the Three Realms 三界通灵人 From spirit medium to spiritual cultivator to primordial spirit, I slowly unveil the mystery. Born with an extraordinary destiny, I endured trial after trial. A strip of red cloth, three chi and three cun long; the elders of the clan and the old spirits of the mountain. My grandmother was a famous village shaman, and the Fox, Yellow Weasel, Porcupine, and Python spirits accompanied me, making me a medium between yin and yang. I roam the Three Realms, helping people avert disaster and driving out 289Reads—Score—14d adds
- 188 Please Don't Give the Dead a Name 请不要替死者取名 Zhou Jin is on night duty in the morgue when a body arrives in freezer nine, registered one minute before it was brought in. The dead man has no facial features, no fingerprints to identify him, and yet the name written on his form is… Zhou Jin. After daybreak, one strange thing after another begins to happen. The security system no longer recognizes him. His coworkers gradually forget what to call him, and even his mother can no longer remember her son’s name. Yet every day at mealtimes, she 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 189 Someone New Appeared in the Footage 录像里多出一个人 The test shoot’s discarded footage was four seconds longer. Everyone in the frame held the same poses they had at the end of filming. No one moved. I counted three times. There were six people every time. But only five people had been there that day. On the hard drive my mother left behind, there was an empty folder with a four-character name: Do Not Fast-Forward. In the recycle bin was a deleted video, four minutes and twenty-five seconds long, which couldn’t be recovered. Our production crew w 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 190 Traces of Bound Spirits 缚灵迹 Mystery + supernatural + no harem. This is NOT a wish-fulfillment novel!!! The protagonist has no sect or powerful backer. He's just an ordinary man who sells animal feed. He thought driving a hearse would guarantee him a comfortable life, but he never imagined that everything had been arranged by someone else. Who deserves more trust, humans or ghosts? This is a question the protagonist must think through carefully. The villains aren't idiots who simply throw themselves to their deaths, and the 5.4kReads8.1Score46314d adds
- 191 Supernatural: My Years Hunting Ghosts at Bureau 749 灵异：我在749局打鬼那些年 The appearance of a white coffin and a red coffin at the construction site changed my fate. That night, I saw corpses that could move and a ghost that could steal a person's soul. They were all "deceiving" me, trying to make me die. What should I do... When you think the person behind you is a ghost, the real ghost may be the one standing in front of you... Once it's dark... don't read this!! 216Reads—Score—14d adds
- 192 Paranormal Encounters: What I Saw and Heard 灵异事件之所见所闻 No System + no transmigration + no power fantasy + no harem + no invincible protagonist + no sweet romance + no clichés + no female lead + no cultivation. Important notice: if this isn’t for you, don’t read it. If this isn’t for you, don’t read it. If this isn’t for you, don’t read it! Do you believe there are things in this world that science cannot explain? Have you ever experienced anything supernatural yourself? Treat the events in this novel as stories, and remember: Fear and respect the sp 129Reads—Score—14d adds
- 193 The Double Fiend 子母双煞 The Mother-and-Child Fiends —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 194 I Asked You to Write a Horror Play, So Why Did You Have to Add a Deity? 让你写诡剧，您非要往里加神人？ He Mo has always believed that eerie plays, with their dark, disturbing themes and wall-to-wall negativity, are bound to drive actors to a mental breakdown if they perform in them for too long. So he insists on adding a few absurd characters and comic plotlines to lighten things up. The more the theater objects, the more it proves he's doing the right thing. It shows that he's exposed the theater's intention to torment its actors through eerie plays. The more the actors object, the more it prove 1.1kReads—Score17014d adds
- 195 The Young Feng Shui Master 少年风水师 When I was ten, my grandfather built a coffin for himself with his own hands... From that moment on, the heavens shattered and all realms fell into chaos. [The 2021 feng shui and fantasy masterpiece!] 624Reads8.1Score13414d adds
- 196 Northeastern Folk Taboos 东北民间禁忌 The black soil of the Northeast holds too many stories, and hides too many rules. If you hear someone call your name in the middle of the night, never look back. On New Year’s Eve, if a dumpling wrapper breaks, it’s for the “good brothers” to eat. If you meet a woman in red while walking at night, remember to pull your hat down low... These taboos passed down by the older generation are superstition if you don’t believe in them. But if you break them, they become a ghostly gateway that leads str 1.6kReads—Score10314d adds
- 197 The Fox Spirit's Secret Curse: From the Imperial Exams to a Yin-Yang Crisis 灵狐秘咒：从科考路到阴阳危机 The Fox Spirit’s Secret Curse: From the Imperial Examination Road to a Yin-Yang Crisis —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 198 My Years in the Funeral Business 我干殡葬的那些年 People light candles, ghosts blow out the lamps. The dead return at midnight, corpses rise in funeral halls, and ancient relics lie buried for thousands of years. In my years working in the funeral business, I’ve encountered plenty of strange and uncanny things. The living walk the roads of the living world, and the dead walk the roads of the underworld. But sometimes, not everyone on the underworld’s roads is a ghost, and not everyone on the living world’s roads is human… 50.4kReads9.2Score5k14d adds
- 199 Chronicles of Strange Folk Tales 民间怪谈事件录 Not for the faint of heart! Not for the faint of heart! Not for the faint of heart! The 1980s and 1990s saw one bizarre incident after another in Jubao Village: Zhao Laohei, who rose from the dead at the execution ground... The woman who hanged herself in town, her whole face turned a purplish black... The ghost child encountered during a game of hide-and-seek on the Ghost Festival... The terrifying bamboo fiend in the old bamboo grove... People and ghosts playing cards in a yin-yang card game.. 215Reads—Score—14d adds
- 200 My Job at the Horror Radio Station 我在恐怖电台任职这件事儿 [Folklore] [Supernatural] [Short Story] [No Superpowers] [No Rule-Based Horror] [Not a Wish-Fulfillment Story] [Not for the Faint of Heart] The author is working hard to make a living. 22Reads—Score414d adds
