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- 51 A Billion-Dollar Collection of Horror Stories 一个亿恐怖故事集 A Collection of One Hundred Million Horror Stories [Standalone stories + supernatural horror + folk customs + feng shui and mysticism + heartfelt emotion + mild horror + timid readers beware] A hundred wildly different tragic fates await. When long-forbidden folk taboos passed down by the ancestors are broken, and eerie legends from the corners of the city quietly come true, the everyday world you know will begin to fall apart on the very next page. Whispers by the pillow, shadows beneath the wa 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 52 My Mockumentary Came True 我的伪纪录片成真了 Luo Luo thinks he's just one “good ghost” away from becoming famous. As a struggling paranormal content creator, he throws himself into digging up a sealed videotape. Hidden inside is an urban legend called the Mirror Palace Puppet, said to appear only between two mirrors facing each other. His followers skyrocket and his popularity soars. Luo Luo brags to the camera, “Guys, I'm totally cashing in on this wave of traffic!” Then he realizes that all the strange footage is starting to invade reali 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 53 Heir of Coffin Mountain 棺山传人 That day, Bai Liu, the grayish-yellow fox spirit, and the Five Immortals carried my grandfather into the mountains. Keeping the promise I had made at the Fox Immortal Temple, I embarked on an unseen journey between the worlds of yin and yang... 63Reads—Score—14d adds
- 54 I’m a Literary Genius in the Underworld, and the Three Realms Can’t Stop Reading 我在地府当文豪，三界追更乱套了 —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 55 I’m Meng Po’s Underling 3 我给孟婆当小弟3 The entanglements of past-life grudges lead to a meeting in this life. The final installment in the Granny Meng series. 2.2kReads7.2Score17614d adds
- 56 The Ultimate Yin Warden: The 90s-Era City God Is No Pushover 极品巡阴人：90后城隍不好惹 Ever heard of someone born in the '90s becoming a City God? I, Han Jiuling, was blessed with extraordinary talent and became a City God at twenty, making quite a name for myself in the underworld! Think it's all glory and success? On my patrols through the netherworld, I see countless souls who died miserable deaths, and not one of the shocking tragedies behind them was an accident. The villains are cute? Who said that? How many times have I been one step from death, barely escaping with my life 5Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 57 Liberating the Ruins 解墟 That night, I was working late at the museum when my reflection in a bronze mirror blinked at me. I was certain I hadn’t blinked. From that day on, I began seeing things I wasn’t supposed to see. Don’t look in mirrors after dark. Don’t turn around at midnight. Never accept anything handed to you by a paper figure. Those who break the rules don’t die. They become part of the rules, trapped in the same loop forever. A department that couldn’t be found in any public records tracked me down: the Bur 60Reads—Score—14d adds
- 58 Codename: Bone Butterfly 代号骨蝶 A young woman's body is pulled from a cold riverbank. The police's preliminary conclusion: accidental drowning. When the victim's twin sister, the sharp and composed forensic pathologist Ye Shuyun, touches the body that looks so much like her own, professional instinct cuts through her grief in an instant: abnormal fluid in the lungs, a hidden needle mark, a missing kidney... This was no accident! The victim was her younger sister, Ye Shuya, an investigative journalist determined to expose socie 16Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 59 Archive of Anomalous Cases 异常项目档案 [Engineering Mystery + Folk Customs and Tomb Raiding + Anomalous Projects] Duan Zhiyuan had spent seven years working on IT projects and had dealt with all kinds of unreasonable clients. Then one day, a client came to him with a bizarre request: Install an access control system at an abandoned well. The well had been sealed for years. There was no passage at its mouth, and nobody went in or out. But every night at 3:03 a.m., the old System generated a card-swipe record. The cardholder was 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 60 VR Game: Vengeful Spirits Appear in the Real World VR游戏怨灵现实显现 My new work is out! Come read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support keeps me writing, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 61 Tales of the Strange 聊斋那些事 Have you ever heard of a plain-language version of Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio? A scholar spends the night in an abandoned house and is welcomed into a beautiful woman's arms, only to discover that her face is a painted skin. A poor young man finds a fox. The fox says, “I’ll marry you, but you must never look at my tail.” At the mass graves outside town, someone tells stories every night. Anyone who listens disappears the next day. Don’t be afraid. These are all stories passed down by ou 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 62 The Underworld Decree 阴职令 A wedding invitation, a register of the dead, and a journey as a guide between worlds. Chen Du was an ordinary young man, until the yin-difference title inherited from his ancestors swept him into the conflicts between the worlds of the living and the dead. Old scores beneath the locust tree, lost souls in the paper city, every debt had to be settled by his own hand. This is not a story about becoming an immortal. It is a cycle of repaying debts. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 63 Yin-Yang Collector 阴阳收敛师 Gu Changan was just an undertaker at a funeral home in Jiangcheng, with the ability to see the deceased’s final day whenever he touched them. He had thought his job was simply to tidy the dead and see them through the last leg of their lives. But a series of old cases made him realize that not every restless spirit was born from resentment. Someone was secretly severing the paths of the dead, altering causes of death, and erasing names, turning the deceased into malevolent ghosts wandering among 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 64 The Record of Calamity at the School of Ghostly Eyes 诡瞳之校厄录 Strange legends about the school's four forbidden zones have circulated through this ominous-looking place for years. Not long after Su Wen transfers there, an irreversible tragedy erupts once again. The moment she takes off her blindfold, unease and fear flicker in Su Wen's red eye. In the pupil that should have belonged to her twin sister, she sees nothing but endless ruins. What secrets does this school conceal? The instant the bell rings, the truth of the past flashes before everyone's eyes —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 65 Rule Horror: I'm an NPC, and I'm Going Crazy Again Today 规则怪谈：我NPC，今天也发疯 Others enter Rule Horror scenarios to survive. I got sucked in as an NPC, and the System even forces me to go crazy. If I don’t, I die. Fine, then I’ll go crazy for everyone to see. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 66 Subduing Evil 镇邪 There are always mysterious things in this world, yet people dismiss them as nonsense. Miaojiang gu poison, corpse-driving in western Hunan, Nanyang curses, the Flowerfall Cave Maiden, shamanic sorcery, and yin-yang demons are all forbidden taboos. You don't have to believe in them, but you must remain in awe. Above all, never profane them! When the taboo soul bell rings out in the sky and ancient horrors quietly awaken, the world teeters on the brink of disaster. Will there still be someone who 631Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 67 You Found Me 你找到我了 Modern Supernatural + Female-Led + Fresh Premise + All-Rounder + Wild Imagination + Reincarnation + Spirit Speech + Runes and Formations + Fictional Modern Setting + Pure Wish Fulfillment in the Middle and Later Parts Abandoned and cast out? No. Her god reincarnates for her, life after life. Following the usual formula and old clichés? No. The Heavenly Dao is nothing to her. An ordinary girl dealing with a life that’s a complete mess? No. Other people are the ordinary ones. She is the unique one 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 68 Welcome to Wenshi Hall 欢迎光临问世堂 [Traditional supernatural tales + eerie legends and heretical lore + mysteries of the past + the many sides of life + heartwarming healing] One female lead, no System, no harem, one-on-one romance. A satisfying story that isn't mindless, with plenty of comeuppance. The male lead has lived for a thousand years. The female lead is powerful and keeps growing stronger, and the main cast never holds her back. The grandfather doesn't die at the start. The first arc moves quickly. Its lingering mysteri 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 69 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, 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 70 I'm Just a Photographer, So Why Do I Keep Seeing Ghosts?! 我就是个摄影师，为什么总见鬼！ [Original Work] [First Published Here] [Supernatural Horror] [Mystery and Puzzles] [Chinese-Style Horror] [Folk Supernatural] [Light Transmigration] Photographer Lin Shen ventured alone to an abandoned manor in the wilderness, hoping to capture a series of supernatural photographs that could turn his career around. Instead, he was lost in a ravine forever. When he opened his eyes again, he had transmigrated into the body of He Xun, another freelance photographer. Like before, he made a living wi 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 71 A Guide to Raising an Evil God 邪神养成指南 The professor is passionately lecturing in class when, in the next moment, the floor caves in and black water floods the classroom. When she opens her eyes again, everything in the classroom is as it was. A ring of purplish bruises has appeared around her wrist. One campus ghost story after another begins to surface: A baby crying by the lake at midnight, bruises crawling across her roommate's body, and a pregnant senior student mysteriously falling to her death. Is it all coincidence, or reveng —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 72 The Heavenly Official's Edict 天官敕令 When Chen Qi awakens the long-lost “Word Spirit Edict” during a haunted-house livestream, he thinks it’s just a way to earn money to save his father. But when fragments of an antique bronze mirror reveal a thousand-year-old formation, and the technology group “Entropy” uses algorithms to optimize feng shui and kill, he realizes he’s been dragged into an ultimate war between traditional occult arts and modern technology. From malignant spirits in haunted houses to ghost soldiers on the march, and 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 73 Late-Night Convenience Store: What Are You Doing, Customer? 深夜便利店：客官你干嘛 Lin Mo thought the worst thing about working the night shift as a cashier at Nan Cheng Huimin Convenience Store was having a teammate go 0–8 in ranked, until he met the old woman in floral pajamas. She clutched a chipped enamel mug and bought only two bags of frozen dumplings and a packet of QQ candy. Her coins were caked with dirt, and she insisted he “cook the dumplings.” Then a hoarse voice called in an identical order, laughing so hard Lin Mo could feel his upper gums go cold. The creepiest 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 74 Curse of the Sinful Shadow: The Sinner's End 孽影咒怨之罪者的末路 In the shadowy corners of a bustling city, evil grows unchecked like a cancer. Driven by greed, some resort to the most despicable means to line their pockets, while others lose themselves in an abyss of desire, unable to climb out. Little do they know that retribution is already drawing near. Each sin has finally awakened a curse lurking in the unseen world. This is a horror story about evil and retribution. Every sinner pays a terrible price for their misdeeds, while the resentment hidden in t —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 75 Midnight in the Countryside 午夜乡村 My parents' job transfers sent me to live and study at my grandmother's house. Before bed, she warned me not to go and look, no matter what sounds I heard. From then on, one strange event after another came crashing into my life. Then, one day, my grandmother suddenly told me the secret about who I really was... 527Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 76 Spirit Investigation Society No. 97 探灵社97号 Mo Xiaoxin must be one of the poorest people in the city. Saddled with a two-million-yuan debt, she moves into a haunted house to save money, and from then on, walks the same path as ghosts. Or was it fate all along? He Yao: a Taoist priest? A rich heir? A police officer? Whatever his identity, from then on, he walks the same path as her. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 77 A Century of Housebound Echoes, Filled with the Wails of Kin 百年宅响，尽是至亲泣 —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 78 She Worshipped Her as a Goddess, Then Imprisoned Her Soul 敬她为神，困她为魂 —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 79 Tales of the Countryside: My Grandma Was a Midwife 乡野怪谈之我的姥姥是稳婆 At the foot of Mount Maqi, midwife Zhang Guilan spent her life delivering babies on nighttime roads. Other midwives delivered human babies. The ones she delivered were ghosts, demons, and wronged spirits from the wilderness. Road-blocking skin-sellers, water ghosts demanding souls, Pixihuzi repaying a debt of gratitude, and Li the Bald-Tailed Dragon making his presence known. She didn't believe in the supernatural when she was young. Only after surviving countless dangers did she understand t 145Reads—Score—14d adds
- 80 The Unusual Tenant in My Home 我家的特殊房客 Lighthearted, funny, supernatural abilities, no System, and mostly everyday life. Ding Yang has had a close friend for years: a stunningly beautiful woman. As someone who transmigrated into another person's life, passing up such a gorgeous woman would be a waste of life. He arranged to have barbecue with Wu Xinyue that evening, but somehow he was dragged to a cemetery in the northern suburbs and haunted by a woman in red. She wanted his help investigating the cause of her death. Wu Xinyue flatly —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 81 All Those Years I Took on Commissions 我做委托的那些年 Mother-and-child temple demons? Jumping corpses from mountain villages? Flying-head demons? Strange monsters and spirits? A ghostly bride? No, they’re all props and actors! An analysis of human nature? A tragic life? A bittersweet romance? No, they’re all just scripts! Is this the male lead’s real-life experience? No, it’s a microfilm! If you don’t understand my Daoist arts, then I happen to know a few moves myself! 4Reads7.6Score—14d adds
- 82 The Great Yong's Number One Thief Catcher 大雍第一贼捕 In the Great Yong Dynasty, he had the most valuable pair of hands. There was nothing he couldn't steal: secret palace artifacts, masterpieces by renowned artists, even sealed chambers. That is, until a female constable caught him red-handed at a crime scene one night. The day after the shackles went on, the authorities offered him a way out: solve cases to atone for his crimes. The merit-and-penalty ring on his wrist recorded each case he solved. Every time he used his borrowed authority, anothe 26Reads—Score—14d adds
- 83 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
- 84 Chaos Invades the World, and I Become a God by Mediating Disputes 全球混沌入侵，我靠调解成神 Light is not necessarily pure, and darkness may hold warmth. The answer lies in a truth deeper than the abyss. When the only hope of saving the world points down a dead-end path with no chance of survival, will you still have the courage to wager everything on a faint glimmer of light? 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 85 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
- 86 The Tomb-Keeper's Shaman Boy 守陵巫童 My name is Shen Yan, the lowliest tomb-guarding shaman boy on Mount Cangwu. A vengeful spirit in white bit my neck, leaving behind a black, snake-shaped mark. She said I had forty-nine days left to live. I thought that was as bad as things could get. Until my fellow disciples sold me out, and the tomb warden sealed off the mountain to hunt me down. Until the remnant soul of a Martial Emperor, who had slept beneath the earth for a thousand years, began coveting my cinnabar-bloodline body. One w 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 87 I Hunt Ghosts at the Funeral Home: The Supernatural Descends 我在殡仪馆斩鬼：诡异降临 Two souls in one body. I'm an undertaker, so it's only natural I know a few tricks! A female ghost clings to me from the start! But I never expected it to lift the veil on a mysterious supernatural world... [System + transmigrate + Supernatural Awakening + High-Martial Urban Fantasy + Unhinged + Satisfying + Lighthearted Humor + Passion + Invincible + Ascension to Godhood + No Romance + Supernatural Invasion] The collapse of the Underworld's order has unleashed supernatural horrors upon the huma 15Reads—Score—14d adds
- 88 The Transmigrators' Alliance: Dedicated to Tearing Apart Twisted Plots 穿越者联盟，专拆变态剧本 After waking from a deep sleep, Qin Weiwei, an information architect at the Ministry of State Security, finds herself the frail, dying legitimate daughter of the Minister of Personnel. But she is horrified to discover this is no transmigration. It is a cage. After entering the palace, she discovers she is not alone. Chu Huaiyu, a widow who carves silverware with shards of broken porcelain; Su Jingyao, an orphan who arranges flowers with the precision of a chemistry experiment; and Lu Zhaoyue, a 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 89 Seven-Day Captivity: The Prison of Consciousness 七日囚：意识牢笼 Under financial pressure from rent, repairs to the old family home, and more, Su Jin accidentally discovers a new substance. Under its influence, his roommate Lin Xiaoxiao gradually becomes a stranger, and the world begins to change. A series of journeys of exploration, survival, and resistance unfolds… 2Reads—Score114d adds
- 90 True Strange Tales from the Folk 民间真实奇异怪谈 At midnight every night, we’ll take you through the door of forbidden secrets for spine-tingling thrills and mind-bending twists. Are you brave enough to test your limits? From folk ghost stories to strange urban cases, from deserted village houses to sealed train compartments, every tale is an immersive horror adventure. Just when you think you’ve uncovered the truth, the story suddenly turns upside down. The killer could be right beside you, and the deadliest danger is often hidden where you l 18Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 91 The Last City God: Turning the Taboo on Its Head in Mountain City 末代城隍：我在山城逆转禁忌 Three years after his grandfather went missing, Shen Shu, who films videos about intangible cultural heritage, found a sheet of yellow paper in an old trunk. It bore just one sentence: Don’t go to the Old Stone Bridge. But his camera had already captured a white figure beneath the bridge. From that night on, the old rules of the mountain city, torn down, forgotten, and exploited for profit, came looking for him one by one. Shen Shu could see taboos others couldn’t, and even reverse them. But eve 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 92 The Yin-Yang Hotel: Waiting for My Bride to Return 阴阳酒店之等我的新娘回来 This is a suspenseful supernatural mystery. Keep reading boldly, and surprises abound! “Where is this place? How did I get here?” Mu Jiuchi walked forward one step at a time. She had no idea what had happened to her or how she had ended up in this unfamiliar place. The darkness all around her made her walk in fear. Then a light appeared ahead, and she headed toward it. The distant light turned out to be coming from a hotel. Mu Jiuchi made her way to the hotel. At the entrance, she saw four 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 93 The Human Soul 人魄 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 94 Peering into Immortality: The Eye That Sees Through Illusions 窥仙：破妄之眼 Gu Xian, a college student, never imagined that his closest roommate would vanish completely from everyone's memories overnight. His classmates don't remember him, he's missing from the photos, and even their social media history has been erased. Gu Xian is the only person in the world who remembers that he ever existed. At that moment, a pale blue-white light blazed in Gu Xian's eyes. He saw another face of the world: the hidden realm of cultivation, concealed beneath ordinary cities and foreve —Reads—Score18214d adds
- 95 Shadows in the Mountain Mist 迷山雾影 Have you ever seen a monster? A creature that exists only in legend... Suddenly appearing in the human world, thirsting for blood and slaughter, treating human lives like ants... In ancient times, whenever a "heavenly dog devoured the moon," people would bang drums and gongs, hoping to drive away the dog eating the moon... Today, human satellites roam through space, and humans have even set foot on that bright moon hanging in the sky, going so far as to declare that its surface is unsuitable for 988Reads8.2Score11714d adds
- 96 Welcome to the Global Wonderland of the Bizarre 欢迎来到全球怪诞乐园 [You have never entered a strange-tale realm like this before] [This is an adventure game that spans dimensions] [This is a collection of mind-bending stories beyond the limits of scientific understanding] [This is an unusual and uncanny book unlike any other] [Welcome to: The Global Wonderland of the Bizarre!] 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 97 A Northeastern Taoist in the City 东北道士在都市 This book contains some Taoist cultural elements. It is entirely fictional, so please do not imitate it. Zhao Tiesheng is a young Taoist priest raised in the Qingxin Temple deep in the Changbai Mountains. Born with the “Yin-Yang Path” fate, he can see ghosts by nature. His eight characters are extremely yin, yet contain a trace of pure yang, making him a once-in-a-century anomaly. When he turned eighteen, his master ran off, leaving him three thousand yuan, an old Taoist robe, and a parting in 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 98 The Haunted House Salesman 凶宅推销员 My name is Wang Hao, and I work at a real estate agency that only opens late at night. The boss is beautiful, but she's rarely around. My coworker is a creepy Taoist who drags me out every night at 2:30 to spy on the apartment across the street. There's also a little girl with purple hair who keeps throwing pink slippers at me. My job is to inspect haunted houses, because I can see those "things." I only wanted to save up enough to put my younger sister through school. That was until a thousa —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 99 Strange Tales of Houqiu 厚邱怪谈 This is a novel only those who have truly seen ghosts can understand. When water reaches the brim, it spills; when the moon is full, it wanes. If you learn too many of the world’s secrets, the only person you’ll hurt in the end is yourself. Some people are born able to see strange things, or to experience what ordinary people never do. Such people are either born with a defect or destined for a difficult life. So, would you be willing to have a pair of Yin-Yang Eyes? 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 100 The Housewife Detective Case Files 名侦探主妇事件簿 After her husband cheats, a housewife unexpectedly discovers she has a talent for detective work? Join a famous Japanese high school detective and a certain compensated-dating girl detective to crack a baffling cold case!! Watch me turn my life around and rewrite my destiny against all odds! —Reads—Score—14d adds
