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- 51 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
- 52 A Hundred-Year-Old Villager’s Tales of Ghosts and the Supernatural 农村百岁老人口述鬼怪奇谈 I grew up in the countryside, and whenever I had free time, I liked listening to centenarians in the village tell strange tales of ghosts and other uncanny events from days gone by. I have collected, recorded, and adapted these folk stories. There is no overarching plot. Each chapter is a standalone horror story. Not for the faint of heart!!! 35Reads—Score—14d adds
- 53 The King of Face Reading 观相之王 This novel is complex and brainy, not a lightweight read. If that’s not your thing, don’t read it. Ensemble cast + mind games + the supernatural + climbing the ranks and getting rich + foretelling good and bad fortune + solving mysteries through face reading and divination. “I’d like to ask about my health using the character ‘six.’” “Certainly. The character ‘six’ looks like a person dismembered into several pieces, with the head separated from the body.” Why are some people blessed with endle 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 54 Miaojiang Yin-Yang Gu 苗疆阴阳蛊 Miaojiang Yin-Yang Gu 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 55 The Immortal Hall Beyond the Pass: A Yin-Yang Master Guards Changbai Mountain 关外仙堂:阴阳先生守长白 Have you ever witnessed a weasel asking to be granted a title? What causes people to get trapped in a ghostly maze while walking mountain trails, or suffer from strange ailments that leave them feeling awful but can’t be diagnosed at a hospital? Trained in ancient shamanic arts, versed in the theories of yin-yang masters, and accompanied by an immortal serpent cultivating beneath the streams of Changbai Mountain, become a spirit medium who roams the White Mountains. The rules of Northeast China’ 14Reads—Score—14d adds
- 56 It's 2:30 A.M. Let Me Tell You a Story! 凌晨两点半,我来给你讲故事! Before I knew it, this book had passed 200 chapters. Time flies, and now the story is nearing its conclusion. It will end after just one million words. We’re currently in the rapid-update phase, with three chapters posted every day at 9 a.m. This book is a collection of folk horror stories set in the countryside. Each chapter is a standalone story, and every plot has been carefully crafted by the author. Comments from fellow readers are welcome. If you like it, add it to your bookshelf. 13Reads—Score114d adds
- 57 The Life-Devouring Ancient Formula 噬命古方 The Life-Devouring Ancient Formula 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 58 The Curse of the Manicure 美甲之咒 The Nail Art Curse 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 59 Chenyu Midnight Teahouse: A Collection of Strange Tales 宸宇午夜茶馆:短篇志怪故事集 Midnight. The tea boils. The lamps dim. When the city falls silent, stories from another world are just beginning. The Midnight Teahouse of Chenyu gathers dozens of Chinese-style tales of the strange and supernatural, told with the easygoing voice of a storyteller in an old teahouse. They unfold strange local happenings, the secrets of old houses, and eerie tales from the streets and alleys. Written in modern vernacular while carrying on the spirit of classical anecdotal tales, these stories wea 8.4kReads—Score44814d adds
- 60 Strange Tales from the Northeast Paranormal Investigation Bureau 东北民调局异闻录 This is an organization dedicated to investigating and handling all kinds of bizarre supernatural events. To avoid causing public panic, it was established under the name Bureau of Folklore Investigations. The novel reimagines and develops various supernatural legends from Northeast China. Its strange events and compelling stories are presented with a distinctive Northeastern sense of humor. All manner of mysterious incidents, mountain spirits, and ghosts are told here! 389Reads—Score—14d adds
- 61 Strange Little Tales from the Urban-Rural Fringe 城乡结合灵异小故事 This collection of little supernatural tales is drawn from stories told by elderly villagers and young people. It's hard to tell what's true and what's not, so just enjoy them as little stories to pass the time over tea. 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 62 Frightening Folk Tales of Ghosts and Monsters 民间吓人的鬼怪故事 This book collects folk tales about ghosts and monsters from China and around the world, both ancient and modern. They include deeply moving love stories, myths where good and evil are repaid in kind, and eerie tales that will leave you trembling with fear. We hope you enjoy them. This story is entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual events or people is purely coincidental. 24Reads—Score—14d adds
- 63 The Years I Spent as a Spirit Medium 我当出马仙的那些年 Eighteen years ago, a weasel brought me two eggs. Eighteen years later, after my grandmother passed away, I officially became a spirit-medium disciple, venturing into the mortal world with an entire retinue of spirits. 437Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 64 The Yin-Yang Master of the Living World 阳间阴阳先生 I was an ordinary first-year college student. Then one incident gave me a whole new understanding of the world. From that day onward, I walked between the realms of yin and yang. 2.9kReads—Score11014d adds
- 65 Old Tales of Strange Happenings 民间旧诡事 The woman in red who knocks on doors late at night, the soul-binding bones beneath the locust tree, the copper-bell curse in an old house in an abandoned village... These old tales of the uncanny, scattered across the countryside, are the idle chatter of old folks and stories sealed away by time... 42Reads—Score—14d adds
- 66 Come Listen to a Ghost Story! 来听诡故事! The chime of midnight is the switch that starts each story. Hidden here are 365 eerie legends from every corner of the world. Maybe it's the strange sobbing in the night-shift office during overtime, a stranger's long hair beside your pillow in an old residential complex, or a passenger in a white dress who vanishes in front of a cemetery. One short ghost story every night, tearing through the everyday facade to reveal the chilling truth beneath. Do you dare open this collection of midnight tale 42Reads—Score514d adds
- 67 True Stories of Spirit Mediums in Northern Liaoning 辽北出马仙实录 A true story about a man who cultivated his mind and spirit deep in the mountains, then emerged from an ancient cave to make a name for himself across the land. It follows his transformation from an ordinary college student into a bona fide shamanic disciple, and offers some guidance to fellow cultivators still grappling with this destined path. I hope this lamp of mine will light the way ahead for everyone fate has brought here! A true story about shamans from Northeast China. Any resemblance t 556Reads7.6Score—14d adds
- 68 Is It Too Much for a Fortune Teller Like Me to Know a Little Yin-Yang Magic? 我一个算命的会点阴阳术不过分吧 [Maoshan Arts + Ghost Hunting + Face Reading + Powerful Connections + Walking Between the Yin and Yang Worlds + Team] Zhao Yang's grandfather made him study three books from a young age: the Zhouyi, the Ma Yi Divine Physiognomy, and a third book with no cover, whose contents were handwritten. After his grandfather passed away, Zhao Yang inherited his mantle. But now that cremation was the norm, all he could do was read people's feng shui, barely earning enough to get by. Just as he was thinking 302Reads—Score—14d adds
- 69 The Yin-Yang Master Keeps Coming and Going 阴阳先生她走来走去 There are 360 trades, and not one of them puts enough food on the table. What to do? Do them all! The protagonist is an orphan adopted by a feng shui master. But before he even turns sixteen, his master dies, leaving him alone with eight younger orphan disciples. To keep the family fed, the protagonist has no choice but to dabble in everything. (It's set in a partly fictional world. The overall timeline still follows modern history, but the author has a bad memory, and sometimes can't be bothere —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 70 Record of Folk Traditions 民俗传承录 My knowledge is limited! I’ve organized the memories of my working life into a memoir and written down some of them. If you’re interested in feng shui, geomancy, or the arts of fate and divination, take a look. It’s all practical information. If you’d rather hear stories, you can read the memoir. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 71 The Mystic Arts Curse Master 玄门咒神 On the day Yang Xuan was supposed to get engaged, a blood-red coffin inexplicably appeared in his home. Inside lay a beautiful woman with skin like jade. On the first day, his father died. On the second day, a yin-yang master told Yang Xuan: If he wanted to survive this calamity, he had to consummate his marriage with her... 114Reads—Score—14d adds
- 72 Surviving in a Strange World, I Became a Pawnshop Owner 诡异世界求生,我成了典当铺老板 [Rules-Based Horror + Lovecraftian Horror + Business-Building + Progression System] When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes back at you. You there, get in here! I’m an internet-addicted teenager. I was planning to stay up all night and finish a horror novel when I was unexpectedly dragged into a bizarre survival world. There was a mysterious pawnshop, an abacus that could talk, and on my very first deal, I got swindled by a Level One supernatural item: the Ghost Bride... 53Reads—Score—14d adds
- 73 Tales of the Strange from Yutai 渔台志异 Some things are better believed than dismissed. Some people are better left unoffended. Some roads are better avoided, even if it means taking the long way around. That's what the old folks tell you. And that's what this book wants to tell you, too. 23Reads—Score—14d adds
- 74 My Ghostly Roommate 我的阴室友 [Paranormal mystery] [Updates daily, though not on a fixed schedule] [Thanks for your support ❤️] Over the summer after my college entrance exams, I kept having the same dream about my college dorm and roommates. Then I dragged my suitcase into Room 304 and saw those familiar yet unfamiliar faces, along with an empty bed. I was stunned. They were Yaoyao and Xinxin, the girls in the photo from my dream. Was the empty bed Qingqing’s? She hadn’t shown up for months after the school year began, so w 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 75 The Daoist Arts Compendium: Flirting with Ghosts in the Underworld 道术灵册我在冥界调戏鬼 Supernatural and bizarre incidents keep happening, along with the use of all kinds of talismans, spells, and Taoist arts. Follow me, Lin Feng, as I promote traditional Chinese Taoism. Lin Feng was raised from childhood by his grandfather, Lin Yousheng, a renowned Taoist priest. The story takes place in a small town in the 1980s and 1990s. Before turning thirteen, Lin Feng had little interest in his grandfather's identity as a Taoist priest, but at thirteen, he began his journey down the Taoist p 3Reads—Score114d adds
- 76 Thirty Years of Strange Tales from the Northeast 东北异事三十年 Forty years ago, the old man ventured into Ghost Mountain at night and negotiated with the ghosts, winning Dongshan Village forty years of peace. Forty years later, a lone grave has thrown the whole village into chaos. A tragedy from forty years ago has claimed nearly a hundred innocent lives! What started it all? Why has a corpse's white hair turned black, and what is the red-clad female ghost trying to point to when she appears at midnight? 172Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 77 The Spirit-Sealing Corpse Shroud 镇灵尸衣 On the day I was born, ghosts surrounded our home. I only survived because a master gave his life to save me. Only later did I learn the truth: I was born on a yin year, yin month, and yin day, making me a Yin Child. My master said that anyone born under all three yin signs would have a life full of misfortune and spend their days wandering from place to place. 133Reads—Score—14d adds
- 78 Tales of Strange and Unusual Events: Supernatural Happenings in Everyday Life 奇闻异事录之生活中的灵异事件 This place has it all: remarkable people living ordinary lives, paranormal oddities happening right beside us, deadly places explored by thrill-seekers desperate to make a living, startling customs and secret tales from every corner of the land, mythical beasts and evil creatures found only in legend, and eerie coincidences so uncanny they make your scalp crawl. It's no exaggeration to say I've experienced every kind of paranormal event you can imagine, and plenty you can't. I used to be an adve 922Reads—Score—14d adds
- 79 Memoirs of a Spirit-Medium Taoist 出马道士回忆录 First establish a spirit-medium altar, then head to Bayu to study the ritual arts. A Qingwei disciple, holding the rank of Dujiao, with a white crane in his cave. A book of real experiences, true stories, and popular science! Everything in this book comes from my own real experiences and true stories! This book only covers things that really happened. It contains no fantasy or cultivation tales! 7Reads—Score114d adds
- 80 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 316Reads8.8Score10314d adds
- 81 One Hundred Thousand and One Folk Horror Stories 十万零一个民间恐怖故事 A collection of short horror stories in an episodic format, with a new story every chapter. No dragging things out! Haunted houses in the countryside, mountain spirits, urban legends, old customs and taboos... Every kind of Chinese-style horror is covered, with nonstop thrills and no filler. Anti-superstition disclaimer: This story is entirely fictional. Believe in science and read rationally. Please don’t apply it to real life~ 291Reads—Score1014d adds
- 82 Heaven and Earth Dote on Me as I Cultivate the Dao 天地宠我来修道 This story is entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual events or people is purely coincidental! Li Feiran, a cultivator chosen and favored by Heaven and Earth, is actually a coward? She's just a little weak. We can simply open a few more meridians for her! But what if opening her meridians turns her into a walking feast? Well, that's up to her! Who am I? Where am I? What am I cultivating? Master, please take a good look at my face, form a party for me, and protect me for another eighty or a 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 83 Taoist, Spare Us! Zombies, Ghosts, and Monsters Are Freaking Out! 道士请饶命,僵尸鬼妖慌麻了! [Supernatural] [Feng Shui and Folk Customs] [Ghost Hunting and Corpse Suppression] [Transmigration] [No System] Chen Yang, a Taoist who used to sweep temple floors, transmigrates to a world without Taoist priests and discovers that he has become the village idiot tasked with guarding the village. The village chief says, "My dead father is causing too much trouble. You have to get in the coffin and keep him company!" Chen Yang replies, "Trouble? That's right up my alley. I'll have your dad settle 109Reads—Score914d adds
- 84 The Yin Guardian: The Mysterious Divine Coffin Hidden Beneath the Mountain 守阴人:藏在山底的神秘天棺 After I encountered the Ghost Grandma, my dad died. Later, after I found my brother, my grandpa died too. Somehow, I became the last Keeper of the Yin. I thought all the calamities came from the Ghost Grandma, until I entered a cave deep in Wumeng Mountain and came across Kunlun sacred wood, ghost corpse flowers, and illusions I couldn't tell from reality. Only then did I realize that the Ghost Grandma was merely a decoy in a vast conspiracy. The celestial coffin beneath the mountain lies in sil 270Reads—Score1814d adds
- 85 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 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 86 Tales from the Folkways of Northeast China 东北民间轶事录 [The new book, The Northeast Folk Tales: An Account of Zhong Kui, is now being serialized] [Ensemble cast + folk legends + the customs and character of Northeast China] The land and skies of the Northeast; its folk customs and its people Set in the rural Northeast of the 1990s, this book is adapted from remarkable folk legends and true events widely told across the vast lands of Northeast China. It recounts the hardships protagonist Xu Liang faced in his youth, along with the many legendary expe 3.4kReads8.8Score40914d adds
- 87 Chen the Blind Man's Notes on Blind-School Divination 陈瞎子的盲派笔记 As a boy, Zeng Xiaoxian met Chen the Blind, a blind fortune-teller, and witnessed the uncanny art of "living your life like a divination." He didn't calculate birth charts. Just from the wear on a sleeve or the mud on a shoe sole, he could tell a person's fortune. After becoming Chen the Blind's successor, Zeng Xiaoxian watched his master mysteriously disappear in a heavy snowstorm, leaving behind only three bamboo divination slips. Years later, at a bizarre logistics company, Zeng Xiaoxian dis 422Reads8.0Score10414d adds
- 88 My Years in the Funeral Business 我干白事儿那些年 The funeral services provider Gouqie runs a one-stop funeral business on a shoestring. Uncle Yang is attacked, bringing the Chenxing List to light. A perfectly ordinary funeral services provider is drawn onto the path of spirit-mediumship. Gouqie has seen every side of the human world, yet is pulled into another supernatural realm. This isn't transmigration. Funeral shops, funeral homes: Gouqie's business keeps growing, and so does the number of enemies! Meng Qin, the Chenxing List, the Qia 756Reads7.6Score10214d adds
- 89 After My Master Left, the Funeral Shop Became Connected to the Underworld 师父走后,白事店连通了地府 [Completed story + supernatural horror + funeral customs + no female lead] After my master passed away, I took over the funeral shop’s business. Only then did I realize that my master had tricked me. This funeral shop was actually connected to the underworld. It didn’t just handle business from the living world; it also had to take care of all kinds of requests from the dead. Wayward children, heartless parents, sinister relatives... The living are hard to deal with, and the dead are even harder 9.4kReads8.8Score1.1k14d adds
- 90 365 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 130Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 91 Soul Q&A 灵魂问答录 I have memories of a past life, and I'll share everything I know: how to escape the cycle of reincarnation, how to find liberation, how to elevate your soul to a higher dimension, how to be reborn while retaining your memories... It's all here. Readers can also ask questions in the comments, and I'll answer most of them. If you're wondering whether any of this is real, of course, I'll only say that this is a work of fiction. (Minors should read this book with a guardian, to avoid mistaking it fo 106Reads9.3Score1214d adds
- 92 One Stick of Incense to Worship the Gods, an Outlaw Exorcist: Zhang Wulang! 一香祀神法外狂徒,端公张五郎! This book is a work of fiction. The rituals, incantations, and water-based magic performed by Duangongs are invented for the story. Do not imitate them. What you read here is a story, not a craft. Cherish life and trust in science. Read the final chapter, and you will see with your own eyes what lies at the end of tearing down altars and temples. I transmigrated to the late Qing dynasty and became an outlaw. In other words, a man beyond the reach of the law. My skills came from ancient times, b —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 93 In Taoist Robes: I Counsel Students, Then Spirits 道袍加身:劝完学生劝鬼神 An art teacher unexpectedly becomes a Taoist exorcist. The colors in the classroom give way to the cinnabar of talismans, and one supernatural incident after another, once dismissed as impossible, begins to unfold. All the ghost stories he had heard were never mere fabrications. Beyond the mist where yin and yang meet lies a truth far more terrifying than anything on canvas. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 94 Maoshan Ghost Arts: Kill, Never Deliver Souls 茅山鬼术,只杀不度 When I was twelve, my father was killed by someone using an evil technique, and my mother took her own life. I was adopted by relatives and suffered endless abuse. In the end, their entire family died horribly, leaving me an orphan. The villagers regarded me as an omen of misfortune. To stay alive, I stole offerings meant for the dead, only to attract an evil ghost, which bought my life with a hell banknote. At the critical moment between life and death, my master, Old Guo, saved me, took me in 241.7kReads8.8Score23.5k14d adds
- 95 City Supernatural Shelter: I Balance the Books and Vanquish Ghosts Across the Land 都市收容所:我靠查账平了天下鬼 On the third day after passing the civil service exam and starting my new job, I finally learned that my department was a containment facility specializing in urban anomalies. The section chief slapped a stack of old case files onto my desk. "Xiao Shen, settle the mess this building left behind thirty years ago." I opened the first page. It read: "The last person who investigated these accounts is buried behind the hill." 3Reads6.4Score18514d adds
- 96 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 116Reads—Score15514d adds
- 97 The Book of Lu Ban 鲁班书 My whole family was cursed with a spell of loathing. My parents attacked each other for no reason, and my grandmother died trying to break up the fight. The next day, my parents were in a car accident. My grandfather told me our family was being targeted, and that we had to leave if we wanted to survive. I was forced to leave home and live under someone else’s roof. But he still wouldn’t leave me alone. All I could do was take up the Luban Book my grandfather left behind and fight my way to surv 2kReads8.0Score22714d adds
- 98 The Heart House: Chen Ping’s Journey to Change His Fate Through Numerology 心宅:陈平的象数改命记 My new work is now available! Please head to Tomato Novel to read it. I hope you enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 99 Medium's Notes: My Left Eye Can See Ghosts 灵媒笔记:我的左眼能见鬼 The Cangye lineage of the Southern Frontier unleashes chaos. The Cherry Blossom Curse, Yin Soil summoning, Ruin Spirits, and malevolent earth veins emerge one after another, leaving the seals protecting the land on the brink of collapse. In a desperate battle, pure Yang Heavenly Energy collides with the turbid qi of Yin Soil inside him, forming a yin-yang vortex whose blessings and dangers are impossible to predict. His old enemies flee into the Hundred Thousand Mountains, seeking a chance to p 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 100 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... 452Reads8.5Score—14d adds

















































