Novels like Ghost Stories at Three in the Morning
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- 1 Thriller: A Prophecy of Fortune and Misfortune, Su Tong's Eerie Encounter 惊悚：开具趋吉避凶，苏通诡异 The supernatural end times return, and a terrifying game descends. Bai Lei was born with the ability to predict good and bad fortune. After a disaster left him homeless beneath an overpass, he was unexpectedly chosen, bound to his nation’s destiny, and entered the terrifying game. Inside a dilapidated Taoist temple, Bai Lei’s left eyelid twitched. He took an exorcising copper coin sword down from a roof beam. Passing a hundred-year-old parasol tree haunted by spirits, Bai Lei’s right eyelid 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 The Yin Beauty, Spirit Medium 阴美人通灵师 New story: Red Wedding Dress, Marrying a Yin Bride. If you enjoy supernatural stories, give it a try. I promise you won’t be disappointed. My name is Wu Ruyuan. When I was twelve, my father died unexpectedly. My grandmother and the rest of my family all called me a jinx and said I had caused his death. They threw me out, but my great-aunt took pity on me and brought me in. She told me I was the head of the Wu family. That day, I dreamed of our ancestor. When I went to visit the ancestor’s grave, 21Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 3 The Ghost Matchmaker's Pact: Forcing a Living Soul into Marriage 鬼媒契之强配生魂 The Ghost Matchmaker's Pact: Forcing a Living Soul into Marriage 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 Tales of Strange and Mysterious Happenings Among the People 民间诡秘奇闻录 Night had fallen. “Ghost,” an ancient and mysterious word. It might not be a monster with a green face, fangs, and a lolling tongue, nor a vengeful spirit bent on claiming a life. It could be a chill wind sweeping through a hallway, a strange reflection flashing across a mirror, or a bone-chilling whisper from nowhere in the dead of night. This collection of strange tales is woven from countless moments like these. It gathers short stories from different places and eras. Some come from word of 8Reads—Score114d adds
- 5 Unutterable Livestream: My Live Chat Comes from the Future 不可言说直播：我的弹幕来自未来 At the end of the barrage, his future self stares back at him from the ruins. The bronze mark spreading across his arm points to the mystery of Huaxia's lost "suppressor artifact." When the Nine Stars align, the legendary Mausoleum of the First Emperor opens its doors to explorers around the world, and a battle for national destiny is on the verge of breaking out. Will he become a slave to the rules, or decipher the codes of the universe? This is a journey of self-redemption across time and spa 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 Folk Tales of Ghosts 民间鬼故事会 Don't blame me if you get scared to tears. Every night, enjoy a folk ghost story or a rules-based horror tale to accompany you to sleep, improve your sleep quality, and give your courage a workout. It's your spiritual sustenance. You have to read one every day. 105Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 Short Ghost Stories for Bedtime 睡前短篇鬼故事 [One ghost story per chapter, short ghost stories, bedtime horror, not for the fainthearted, folk tales of the uncanny, Chinese-style horror, chilling on reflection, no escape from death] One ghost story every night. Hope it helps you sleep. Improve your sleep quality. 5.2kReads—Score28714d adds
- 8 Folk Tales of Ghosts 民间鬼事 Tales of the Supernatural 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 The Woman Across the Hall 对面的女人 The Woman Across the Street —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 Fight Your Way Out of Madman Town 杀出狂人镇 What would you do if you were reborn and found yourself at a crime scene? What if you discovered that you had been reborn as a homicidal maniac? What if that maniac woke up whenever you fell asleep? How would you survive in a town full of homicidal maniacs, cannibals, and terrifying ghosts? After escaping the town by the skin of your teeth, what would you do when you discovered that everything about your background was fake? Corpse-type, madman-type, spirit-type... What is the truth about the wo 35Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 11 Tales of the Strange from the Countryside 村野诡事录 Unearth long-buried secrets of the countryside and venture through the mists shrouding its remote villages in this collection of short stories drawn from vivid folk tales of the supernatural. These stories bring back strange tales and eerie incidents forgotten by time, peel away the trappings of everyday life, and reveal chilling truths where human nature and ghosts intertwine. Each story is like a dim lantern in the dead of night, lighting the murky shadows deep in the countryside. The blend of 84Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 Tales of Monsters and the Supernatural 怪力乱神集 Confucius said, “The Master does not speak of strange phenomena, physical prowess, disorder, or spirits!” He taught people not to speak lightly of ghosts and gods, not because he disbelieved in them, but because they should be treated with reverence. Careless words might offend them! Confucius’s attitude toward ghosts and gods is worth learning from. As the saying goes, “There are gods three feet above your head.” Do ghosts and gods really exist? The author dares not make a rash claim. Yet many 16Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 13 A Ghost Story Every Day 每日一遍鬼故事 Can't sleep? Come on in. After reading this, you won't want to sleep at all. Listening makes the stories even more immersive. There are all kinds of tales: eerie, supernatural, touching, and more. A new story every day. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 I Drive the Train to Hell 我驾驶通往地狱的列车 [Infinite Flow, Plot-Driven, Mild Horror, No Female Lead, No System, Not Invincible, Read at Your Own Discretion...] I'm Lin Yu, and my world is under attack from terrifying vengeful ghosts! Man-eating evil spirits, a terrifying swimming pool, human skin in a deserted village, a strange manor, vengeful water ghosts... One unimaginable horror story after another is gradually turning real-life events into perilous journeys, and I... we have no right to refuse. It all began one night when an old 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 15 The Grudge of West Alley 西巷怨 The Grudge in West Alley 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 Huaiyin Crossing Extra: Ten Years Later, the Evil Spirit Returns, Ferrying the Dead 槐阴渡番外：十年归煞·渡亡人 Huaiyin Crossing: Bonus Story, A Malignant Spirit Returns After Ten Years, Ferryman of the Dead —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 The Ancient Demon-Suppressing Temple: The Ma Family’s Hidden Secret 镇妖古刹：马家遗秘 The Ancient Temple That Suppresses Demons: The Ma Family's Hidden Legacy —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 Ghost Stories: The Painted Soul Mystery 鬼话怪谈：画魂迷局 Ghost Stories: The Painted Soul Mystery 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 Ghost Stories: The Evil Shadow Beneath the Temple 鬼话怪谈：寺下邪影 Ghost Stories: Evil Shadows Beneath the Temple —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 Ghost Stories: The Monster’s Shadow Beneath the Stone Lion 鬼话怪谈：石狮下的妖影 Ghost Stories: The Demon Shadow Beneath the Stone Lion —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 Ghost Stories My Grandparents Told Me 爷爷奶奶说过的鬼故事 My new work is out! You're welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 The Seventh Roommate 第七个室友 The Seventh Roommate —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 23 My Boyfriend Won't Let Me Throw Away the Paper Doll I Found 我捡的纸人，男友不让扔 My boyfriend won’t let me throw away the paper doll I picked up. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 24 The Delivery Request 快递委托 Courier Request —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 The Haunted Village: Terror in the Dead of Night 荒村诡事：暗夜惊魂 Longing to uncover her family's history, Lin Xiao returns to her rural hometown with her boyfriend, Su Ran, only to stumble into the terrifying whirlpool of strange events in an abandoned village. Bizarre incidents happen one after another. Uncle Zhang is kindhearted but frightened, Aunt Liu loves spreading gossip, Ergou is tangled in complicated relationships, and the mute old woman is shrouded in mystery. Can they find the truth somewhere between science and the supernatural, and escape the ho —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 Haunted House Sleep Tester: Case File No. 0 凶宅试睡员0号档案 [Realistic survival + haunted-house horror + a battle of wits and human nature + one male lead] Bankrupt and tens of millions in debt, Lin Mo is forced to work as an overnight tester in haunted houses. A rotting face floats in a leaking bathtub, marbles roll in the attic amid a child's sobs, and a reflection in the wardrobe mirror locks a hand around his throat… The eerie rules are death sentences: look in the mirror at midnight, and always answer a knock. But compared with ruthless loan sharks, 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 27 The Book of a Hundred Ghosts: Don't Sleep Too Deep Tonight 百鬼夜行簿：今晚别睡太沉 [200 short stories × everyday distortions × suffocating terror] Even more densely packed with spine-chilling moments than Zero-Degree Horror! 200 stories turn “elevators, dolls, and old cameras” into mouths that devour people: The elevator doors open. Dare you look at the “neighbor” on the 18th floor? (Don't be scared. The story is short, so short you won't have time to run.) —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 The Last Bus on Route 114 114路末班车 At 11:40 p.m., the last No. 114 bus sets off right on schedule. Veteran drivers all say this bus carries the dead, not the living. I took the job as a substitute driver for the high pay, never knowing that I’d been marked from the very first minute behind the wheel. Midnight weeping, passengers who keep boarding over and over, an old stretch of road that never ends, shadows that multiply at every stop... The passengers grew stranger by the minute, and the world outside the bus grew more sinister 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 29 My Perfect Husband Is Actually a Psychopath 我的完美丈夫竟是个变态 My Perfect Husband Is Actually a Psychopath —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 30 Ailao Mountain: The Ninth Dragon 哀牢山：第九龙 Ailao Mountain: The Ninth Dragon —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 31 Qinling Mysteries: The Death of the Mountain Keeper 秦岭诡事：守山人之死 Strange Tales of the Qinling Mountains: Death of the Mountain Keeper —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 32 Chronicles of the Qinling Mysteries 秦岭诡事录 Chronicles of Strange Tales from the Qinling Mountains —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 33 Huaiyin Crossing: The Cursed Pagoda Tree 槐阴渡·阴槐咒 Huaiyin Crossing: The Cursed Yin Locust Tree —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 34 I Inherited a Murder Mystery Game Shop from the Start, and All the Staff Are Vengeful Ghosts 开局继承剧本杀店，员工全是厉鬼 While others inherit family fortunes, Jiang Ye inherited a haunted shop. Freshman Jiang Ye was forced to take over the script murder game shop his second uncle left behind, a business on the verge of bankruptcy. To his surprise, he became bound to the [Register of a Hundred Ghost Employees]. From then on, while others caught ghosts to exorcise evil, he caught them to put them to work. A hanging ghost at the front desk, a water ghost running the air conditioner, and a red-clad vengeful ghost acti —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 35 Old Apartment Complex: The Strange Dream 老小区：诡异梦境 The Old Residential Compound: Eerie Dreams —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 36 You Get Stronger by Hunting Ghosts and Slaying Demons, So Why Call Me a Corpse Collector? 捉鬼杀妖就变强，你叫我收尸佬？ [Urban Mysteries] [Folk Legends] [Supernatural] [Thriller] [Adventure] When Chen Sanqi woke up, he had been reborn in 2008, in a construction-site dormitory in Beijing. Time had turned back, and the world seemed to be the same one he knew, yet it had become almost unrecognizable. The good news: his good buddy, Fatty, was still alive. The bad news: ghosts really did exist in this world. Traditions had been lost, charlatans ran rampant, and the supernatural kept multiplying with the evil thoughts 23.3kReads6.3Score2.5k14d adds
- 37 Life at a Crossroads 岔路人生 If you could truly live your life over again, would you regret the choices you made? Shen Que never imagined there could be a real answer to that question. That day, the subway stopped at 5:42 p.m. Two people with the same name and the same face, each having lived through twenty-seven years that were almost, but not quite, the same, appeared before him at once. Only then did he learn the truth: Every truly important choice could allow another version of your life to keep going. They weren' —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 38 The Grudge: A Dire Omen on the Dark Web Livestream 咒怨直播暗网凶兆 Curse, Grudge, Livestream, Dark Web, Ominous Sign —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 Eerie Descent: I Risk My Life to Become a Horror, Achieving Eternal Immortality 诡异降临：我舍命化诡，无极永生 [Rule-based instances + the uncanny + revenge + ascending to godhood and ruling the world + infinite flow + self-love] “Bang!” The head of an eighteen-year-old transmigrator from another world slammed into the corner of a table. “Yu Ling, this wouldn’t have happened if you hadn’t come! If you hadn’t come, I wouldn’t have had to do this!” Blood gushed from his temple, obscuring his right eye before running down his face and dripping onto the floor. “You want to gather power and ascend to heaven? —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 40 Handsome Guys' Address Book 帅哥通讯录 On the first day of the Lunar New Year in 2025, I revised this synopsis. As long as I'm alive, I'll keep updating this novel. I'll write ten million words to prove that I was here in this world, and that I could still write. Right now, I'm on oxygen and taking medicine, and my body feels awful. Spending New Year's alone doesn't seem like a big deal anymore. Being able to write makes me incredibly happy. A virus damaged my heart, but I haven't given up. To my readers, I love you all. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 41 Don't Turn It On Until the Rain Stops 雨停之前，别开机 Don't Turn It On Until the Rain Stops 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 42 The Show Isn't Over: No Ghosts in Red 戏未落幕：红妆无鬼 The Show Isn't Over: No Ghosts in Red —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 43 Night Voyage on the Yellow River 黄河夜行船 Before he died, Grandpa told me something strange: “Whatever's in the river, never fish it out.” I didn't listen. The next day, I fished a corpse out of the Yellow River. It smiled at me. Only then did I learn that the Shen family had been retrieving bodies for generations, not to recover the dead, but to guard something far more terrifying in the Yellow River. The River Crossing Register listed every rule the Shen family had to follow, but the more I read, the less sense they made: Why had no R —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 44 Tales of the Strange in Bluestone Alley 青石巷诡事录 [Supernatural] [Light Horror] [Episodic Stories] [Chinese Folk Customs] Deep in Qingzhou’s Qingshi Alley lies a ferry inn unknown to anyone. Its owner, Shen Du, exists beyond life and death. He has survived for a hundred years, all to dispel the obsessions of the departed. Behind every strange and uncanny event that comes to light are debts of humanity buried for a hundred years. A headsman’s rusty blade, a performer’s jade, salt smugglers bringing disaster, a canal guild’s water tokens, a night 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 I Heard My Scumbag Blind Date Killed Me 听说相亲渣男杀死了我 [A bizarre tale. In real life, please don’t date people with mental illnesses or scumbags!] Aunt Six introduced Xia Zhiwei to someone, but the man turned out to be a complete lunatic. He said he could see ghosts everywhere. As luck would have it, the director of a psychiatric hospital happened to pass by and reminded him to take his medication! Help, her blind date is mentally ill... Xia Zhiwei went to confront Aunt Six. What, Aunt Six died last year?! Yan Wangzhi said in a crazed voice: Are you 21Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 46 Folklore and the Supernatural: My Grandpa Took Me on Ghostly Errands 民间灵异：我爷爷带我行差鬼事 My second uncle and I followed my grandfather in the business of dealing with ghosts. Guiding spirits, seeing them off, cleansing houses. Into the mountains, into caves, under the water... —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 47 The Empty Apartment Next Door 没人住的隔壁 The Unoccupied Apartment Next Door 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 48 Watching People Through a Crack in the Door 《门缝看人》 The Eye at the Door Crack 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 49 Ten Lifetimes of Reincarnation: The Bottom-Ranked Outer Disciple Strikes Back 十世轮回，外门倒数的我杀回来了 Shen Zhuye’s family owned the last incense and candle shop in Qingxi Town. One day, he opened the account book and found three words on the final page that hadn’t been there before: One Question Owed. The words in the account book could ask questions on their own. That night, someone knocked at the door. The food delivery was half a bag of pond mud. As a chill crept in through the crack beneath the door, a man in white shielded him from disaster and spoke eight words: You have one year left to 190Reads—Score14314d adds
- 50 A Dreamlike Life: What Do You Mean I'm a Nightmare? 浮生入梦，什么叫我是梦魇？ [Infinite Flow] [Fantasy] [May Have a Female Lead] [Not Mindless] [Mild Horror] A quiet day, a fleeting night: this is one person's day. A quiet day, nightmares at night: this is Bai Ye's day. On an ordinary afternoon, Bai Ye receives a message from an online acquaintance, and the nightmare that once belonged only to him begins to spread. He peels back the trappings of the dream. The truth hidden for years lies inside that old, peeling notebook. At the top of the stairs on the rooftop, his h 1Reads—Score—14d adds
