Novels like Old Wei's Ghost Stories
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- 1 The Ghost Party I Experienced for Myself 亲身经历过的“阿飘派对” A firsthand account of an “Afterlife Party” 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 My Fate Is Pure Yin, Even Ghosts Fear Me as I Cultivate the Dao 我命格全阴，鬼都怕我修道 I was born on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when the gates of hell opened. All four pillars of my birth chart were yin, and my fate was full of holes. My grandmother called my soul back three times before I could be born without becoming a ghost. My father kept a butcher's knife under my pillow. With its blade facing outward, it kept ghosts outside away; tucked beneath my pillow, it held my own soul in place. At three, a drowned ghost knelt at the foot of my bed and begged to borrow my 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 Shh, Let Me Tell You a Ghost Story 嘘，让我讲个怪谈给你听 [Childhood nightmares + episodic tales + thrillers + the supernatural + horror mysteries + short stories + no main plot + folk customs] [In the style of a childhood magazine.] Contains graphic descriptions of violence. Not suitable for minors! Beneath the deepest night, fear quietly awakens. In the twisted, bizarre tale of The Orphan’s Grudge, who is the killer? You or me? What new form will The Snail Girl we all know take this time? What different tales await in Baby Soup and The Clown’s Amusem 920Reads—Score11614d adds
- 4 A Collection of Horror Stories 恐怖话本集 In this world full of mystery and the unknown, fear follows like a shadow. The Collection of Horror Tales will take you into a series of bone-chilling worlds. Every chapter and every new story is a window opening onto a dark abyss. I’m Paopao Xiaolong, and your follows are what keep me going. 187Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 Short Folk Horror Stories 短篇民间恐怖故事 A new work is here! Welcome to read my stories on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy them. Your support inspires me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! The contents of this collection are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 One Horror Story Every Night 每晚一个恐怖故事 A supernatural ghost story every night. Beware of ghosts knocking at your door in the dead of night. 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 Painted Walls 画垣 When my village was demolished, I returned to sort through the belongings left behind by my grandfather, a painter, and took away a cigarette case decorated with mysterious patterns. The old house had long since been razed, but every nightfall, the entire village reappeared among the ruins. Maybe what my grandfather painted back then wasn’t a painting at all… 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 The Terrifying Hospital 恐怖的医院 The Terrifying Hospital 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 Strange Tales and Wild Talk 诡话乱谈 What can you see in a mirror at midnight? Have you ever entered the world on the other side? When you hear a door being unlocked in the hallway in the dead of night, does that really mean nothing is happening?… This is a collection of horror stories. They may be terrifying, eerie, or downright absurd. If you enjoy horror, you should find something to your taste in this book, enough to send a little shiver through your mind… 34Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 I Livestream Folk Taboos for the Supernatural: Bonus Story, A Ghost Marriage 我给诡异直播民俗禁忌番外冥婚 I Livestream Folk Taboos to the Supernatural, Extra: A Ghost Marriage —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 The Previous Tenant Who Often Came Knocking with a Cat 经常带着猫来敲门的上一任租户 The previous tenant who often knocks on the door with a cat —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 99 Short Ghost Stories 99个短篇鬼故事 Tang Cheng is an ordinary young man fascinated by supernatural events. He loves seeking out ghost stories to satisfy his curiosity. He sets out on a journey to find 99 terrifying ghost stories, gradually uncovering the strange conspiracies and mysterious events hidden behind them. As he investigates further, Tang Cheng begins to notice that some things are connected to him. Before the final mystery is solved, he must piece together all the clues and uncover the truth. The story explores the comp 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 A Wedding Invitation Made of Human Skin 人皮婚笺 To escape a violent man, I hid inside a coffin in a mass grave, only to unexpectedly sign a marriage contract with a ghost. From that day on, he appeared in my dreams every night. The birthmark that had suddenly appeared on my neck burned day after day, and I could see the deathly aura surrounding everyone around me. No one can escape the cause and effect that governs life and death, just like that bone-chilling encounter on that night. A lonely girl weeping in the night, nightmares in the women 86Reads8.1Score10014d adds
- 14 I Livestream Folk Customs and Taboos for the Eerie 我给诡异直播民俗禁忌 [Rule-Based Horror + Folk Mystery + Interactive Livestream + A Battle of Human Nature] I’m Lin Mozhu, a materialist and owner of a funeral-clothing shop. I was livestreaming to sell my wares, but somehow turned my customer group into a gathering place for the dead. Paper figures need their eyes dotted, funeral clothes need spells embroidered on them, and the viewers’ comments are full of bizarre requests. Forced to keep the business going, I discover that my family’s decrepit old shop is actuall —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 15 Midnight Livestream 午夜直播 Other people livestream to make money. I livestream to stay alive. When you see me on stream, you need to be careful. Shh, don't look back... There's a ghost there. 1.9kReads6.7Score19814d adds
- 16 Midnight Tales of Terror 午夜惊悚怪谈 Is the world really as you see it? When night falls, the uncanny follows close behind. It’s dark... Come with me into a bizarre and fantastical world, and experience the most spine-chilling sights hidden deep within your heart. This book is haunted. Ordinary mortals, stay away! 24Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 I Rule the Underworld 阴司任我行 Can you see spirits? I don't know what I did to deserve this, but the souls I've never met before come in all shapes and forms. Being around them is like meeting all kinds of people in everyday life. Every day, I witness strange stories and bizarre ways of expressing themselves. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 One Thousand and One Horror Stories 一千零一个恐怖故事 Horror stories to keep you company as you fall asleep every night, and keep you awake until dawn! These addictive tales span folk legends, schools, cities, hospitals, and more. Whatever kind of horror story you want, you’ll find it here. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 The Ghost Gate Path 鬼门道 A corpse that terrifies the living, a mysterious tomb in an abandoned village, Miaojiang Gu sorcery, eerie corpse-driving rituals, the Five Immortals of Northeast China… A notebook passed down through the generations records the strange events experienced by three generations of the Sun family. Now it has come into my hands. When I opened it, a baffling paranormal case unfolded before me. You can only understand what lies behind it all by experiencing it yourself… —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 A Modern Narrative of Supernatural Horror 灵恐现叙事 Original horror and paranormal fiction. Horror stories are only meant to help everyone unwind, not to make you more afraid. We welcome discerning readers to come and help answer everyone’s questions... 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 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—14d adds
- 22 Eighteen Floors, Which One Will You Go To? 十八层楼，你去哪一层 A guide to the underworld takes you deep into its Eighteen Levels of Hell, untangling layer upon layer of mystery to uncover the truth. People are born with both good and evil in them. Our natures are similar, but our habits set us apart. One kind thought, one evil thought: the human heart is fickle. Is it for love? Or for gain? One can be doomed for all eternity! Eighteen levels of hell, eighteen forms of punishment, eighteen representative cases, all enough to shake you to the core! Which floo —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 23 A Ye's Paranormal Investigation Diary: The Office Building Elevator 阿野探灵日记：办公楼的电梯 A Ye's Paranormal Investigation Diary: The Office Building Elevator —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 24 The Midnight Ringing Story 午夜凶铃故事 A new work is here! Welcome to read my stories on Fanqie Novel. I hope you enjoy them. Your support is what motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 Ghosts Are So Scary! Learning to Slay Them in a Supernatural World 有鬼好怕怕，我在灵异世界学斩鬼 [Horror novel. Not for the faint of heart.] Do you believe there are ghosts in this world? If not, where did the word “ghost” come from? Have you ever experienced despair? The world I live in is filled with it. My name is Li You'an. If you’d like to hear my story, come take a look at my world. Twenty kilometers beyond the cemetery, countless hands clawed their way out of the earth. The world changed, becoming strange and unfamiliar. Ghosts ran rampant, the gates of the underworld swung wide ope —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 Ancestral Secret Arts: I Alone Subdue a Hundred Ghosts 祖传秘术：我一人镇百鬼 In 1999, on the eve of the new century, a young man named Lu Ming drowned during a bizarre outing to the countryside. Yet his soul did not depart. Instead, it was drawn by a mysterious force back to his old home in a remote mountain village. He discovered that this seemingly ordinary ancestral home was actually a secret base belonging to the Yin-Yang Lu Clan, a family whose secrets had been passed down for generations. The Lu family were reclusive heirs to arts such as divination, exorcism and t 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 27 The Borrowed-Life Formation in the Wilds 山野借命局 While working away from home, I get the news that my grandfather has passed away, so I return to the mountain village I left many years ago. I thought I was just coming back to clean out the ancestral home and take care of the funeral. But the moment I stepped into the village, I realized that something strange was going on everywhere. Footsteps circle endlessly outside the wall in the middle of the night. Gray-white hems quietly peek through cracks in the earthen walls. Behind the window pape —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 The 444th Horror Story 第444个恐怖故事 Every chapter is a standalone horror story. [Modern Mystery] [The More You Think About It, the More Terrifying It Gets] [Folk Horror] [Rule Horror] [Monstrous Thrills] It's all here. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 29 The Terrifying Supernatural Events I Experienced (5) 亲身经历的恐怖灵异事件（五） Terrifying Supernatural Events I Experienced Personally (5) —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 30 Don't Be Afraid, She's the Person Closest to Me 别怕，她是我最亲密的人 [Handcrafted from Scratch] [Flesh-and-Blood Vengeful Ghosts] [Chinese Horror] [Character Growth] [Not Mindless Wish Fulfillment] [Tightly Plotted] [Absolutely Ruthless] [50,000-Word Outline] If you were given the chance to change your fate, would you rather keep working hard as a delivery driver, or suddenly become a 182-centimeter-tall, golden-haired older man who never has to worry about food or clothing? Yu Fa had no choice. He was forced to transmigrate into the latter. But before he could e —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 31 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. 42Reads—Score—14d adds
- 32 The Blood Mill 血磨坊 Mom is a zombie. Dad has a pure Yang constitution. And I was born as a walking delicacy for monsters. Demons run wild across Changbai Mountain. To summon heavenly thunder and subdue the demons, the entire village became living dead. 42Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 33 The Years I Spent Flipping Haunted Houses 倒卖凶宅那些年 A house where an unnatural death has occurred is known as a haunted house. Such places are dangerous and eerie, and few people would dare buy one. My job is to buy them cheap and sell them high, pocketing the difference. Everyone thinks the money comes easy. Little do they know this is a line of work where you risk your life every day! 204Reads6.6Score10914d adds
- 34 Folk Tales: Ghost Stories 民间：鬼故事 My new work is here! Everyone is welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 30Reads—Score—14d adds
- 35 A Ye's Paranormal Investigation Diary: Room 514 at the Old Hotel 阿野探灵日记：老宾馆514号房间 A Ye's Paranormal Investigation Diary: Room 514 of the Old Hotel —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 36 A Ye's Paranormal Investigation Diary: Spending the Night in a Haunted House 阿野探灵日记：凶宅试睡 A Ye's Paranormal Investigation Diary: Spending the Night in a Haunted House —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 37 On My Wedding Day, My Deceased Sister Texted: You Can't Marry This Man 婚礼当天，亡妹发短信：这人不能嫁 On her wedding day, her deceased younger sister texted her: Don't marry this man. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 38 My Dopamine Black Market: Midnight Collection of Folk Horror 我的多巴胺黑市：午夜民间惊悚集 I’m the owner of the Midnight Dopamine Black Market. I don’t sell antiques or talismans. I deal in just one thing: those few thrilling seconds when your heart stops after waking from a midnight dream. There’s only one rule for entering this black market: trade your courage for the dopamine you desire. Here you’ll find folk horrors that make your scalp crawl: a headless sacrifice beneath the old locust tree at the village entrance, paper figures carrying a bride in a sedan chair, and the “passing 21Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 A Collection of Urban Legends and Folktales 民间都市传说合集 This work is a collection of urban legends and folk tales from around the world, mainly introducing how to experience these urban legends. They are all real. After each urban legend, there’s a short story, some real and some fictional. I hope you enjoy them. 183Reads—Score—14d adds
- 40 Strange Tales from Candle Bridge 烛桥异闻 [Supernatural]+ [Xuanhuan]+ [Tomb Exploration] The story takes place in a rural village called Shizhu Village. Told from the perspective of the protagonist, Fang Jidou, it recounts how his father and grandmother ward off evil and avert disasters for their neighbors. The village built a Candle Bridge to support production, but someone disrupted its feng shui, unleashing a series of strange events. Some people saw things in their dreams, some heard rumors, and some experienced them firsthand. Ther 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 41 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 147Reads—Score—14d adds
- 42 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." 29Reads—Score—14d adds
- 43 A Ye's Paranormal Investigation Diary: The Woman in the Rental Apartment 阿野探灵日记:出租屋里的女人 A Ye's Paranormal Investigation Diary: The Woman in the Rental Apartment —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 44 A Ye's Paranormal Investigation Diary: The Last Bus on Route 73 阿野探灵日记：73路末班车 A Ye's Paranormal Investigation Diary: The Last Bus on Route 73 —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 A Ye's Paranormal Investigation Diary: The Dripping Sound in the Old House 阿野探灵日记：老宅滴水声 A Ye's Paranormal Investigation Diary: The Dripping Sound in the Old House —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 46 Terrifying Supernatural Encounters I've Experienced (4) 亲身经历的恐怖灵异事件（四） True Stories of Terrifying Supernatural Encounters (4) 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 47 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. 679Reads8.4Score13114d adds
- 48 Grandma's Yin-Yang Eyes 奶奶的阴阳眼 When I was little, I didn’t understand anything. I just thought it was fun. I remember when Second Grandma died, even Second Grandpa, who slept beside her, didn’t know. But Grandma woke Dad up and told him to go pay his respects... 672Reads7.8Score10314d adds
- 49 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—14d adds
- 50 The Hauntings of the Paper Effigy Shop 纸扎店诡事 The mysterious shopkeeper Su Damei can communicate with the worlds of the living and the dead and ward off evil spirits. She runs an inconspicuous paper-offering shop, yet keeps getting caught up in bizarre incidents. Her adorable pet, Big Black Cat, is no ordinary cat! It can see ghosts and make snarky comments, and it’s Su Damei’s ghost-hunting partner. Cat lovers, rejoice! With Northeastern Chinese folk customs and a collection of short, episodic stories, each chapter brings a self-contained 36Reads—Score—14d adds
