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- 151 Midnight Tales of the Strange 午夜怪谈录 A collection of a hundred folk tales of the supernatural, with one self-contained story per chapter. Every tale strikes at the heart of Chinese-style horror. Welcome to Midnight Tales. A word of warning: if you read late at night, be sure to lock your doors. Each chapter is a new story, told entirely in the first person. 100Reads—Score—14d adds
- 152 Shh! Don't Open the Door! 嘘！别开门！ Shh! Don't open the door! 9.5kReads—Score24014d adds
- 153 Ghosts Knock at Midnight! 半夜鬼敲门！ Zhou Ming moved into an old, cheap apartment, unaware that it concealed a terrifying secret from twenty years ago. Every night at midnight, three knocks sounded on his door, right on time. But when he looked through the peephole, no one was there. Then, one rainy night, he looked through the peephole and saw a twisted, misshapen face staring fixedly at him… As he investigated further, Zhou Ming discovered that the apartment had once been home to Lin Xiaowan, a girl who had gone missing. Her d 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 154 The Super Spooky Classroom 超级惊悚教室 At a certain high school, an ordinary afternoon was supposed to mean nothing more than a routine chemistry lesson. No one could have imagined that a terrifying disaster would begin there, and that our lives would never be peaceful again. 5Reads—Score114d adds
- 155 The Other Side of Ordinary Things 寻常之物的背面 [Modern Urban + Everyday Objects + Supernatural Awakening + Psychological Horror + No Superpowers + Chilling on Second Thought + Slow Burn] The things within arm’s reach every day may be hiding a chill no one knows about. The shirt hanging on the balcony seems to shake the wrinkles from its shoulders in the dead of night. A well-used mug always has a strand of black hair resting at the bottom that no amount of washing can remove. Even the hook behind your bedroom door might quietly snag your sha —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 156 The Campus Nursery Rhyme Murders 校园童谣杀人事件 The Schoolyard Rhyme Murder Case —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 157 The Page Number Game 页码游戏 The Page Number Game —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 158 Terrifying Supernatural Encounters I've Experienced (2) 亲身经历的恐怖灵异事件（二） True Stories of Terrifying Supernatural Encounters (2) —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 159 The Dog That Was Eaten Has Returned 被吃了的狗又回来了 The dog that was eaten has come back 505Reads—Score614d adds
- 160 Tales of Strange Campus Happenings 校园诡事叙 Reader's guide: No romance. This isn't a wish-fulfillment story. It's more like a journal than a novel, with few dramatic twists. The story is told for the sake of telling it and follows the timeline. The supernatural elements are adapted from stories recounted by people the author once knew. Yuan Ruoying, a talented student in Class 16 of her second year of high school, attends a top school in the city. Her days are spent studying, following the same three-point routine. Life is busy but peacef 16Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 161 The Ghost Bride in the Coffin 棺中阴婚女鬼 [A blood-red coffin wrapped in scarlet silk traps a vengeful spirit; at the third watch, a ghostly wedding comes to claim its bride] During the reign of the Qianlong Emperor, the failed scholar Wang Feng was passing a mass grave at night when two blood-red lacquered coffins burst from the earth. Inside lay an uncorrupted corpse dressed in bridal robes: his fiancée, who had died suddenly three years earlier. That night, three thousand strands of black hair surfaced in the ancient well at the vil 29Reads—Score—14d adds
- 162 Horror Stories That Aren’t Scary 恐怖故事不恐怖 When the brakes of the last subway train shriek through the silence, the morgue elevator stops on its own at three in the morning, the reflection in a department store fitting-room mirror starts counting your buttons, and someone knocks on your rented apartment door like clockwork on rainy nights... The details everyone overlooks are beginning to fester: an extra knuckle suddenly appearing in the mirror, a faint wail at the end of the corridor, a mark on an old keepsake that is still wet. They a 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 163 I Faked an Illness to Skip the Team-Building Trip, Yet I Was the Happiest One in the Group Photo 部门团建我装病没去，合照里的我却笑得最开心 I pretended to be sick and skipped the department outing, yet in the group photo, I was the one smiling the brightest —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 164 The Pure Yin Groom 极阴新郎 The Extremely Yin Groom —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 165 The Night Watcher: Don't Look at the Corpse on the Operating Table 《守夜人：别看手术台上的尸体》 Night Watchman: Don't Look at the Corpse on the Operating Table 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 166 The Tenant in Room 404 出租屋的404号房客 The Tenant in Room 404 —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 167 How I Discovered My Neighbor Had No Shadow in a Luxury Apartment Complex 关于我在高档小区发现邻居没有影子这件事 How I Found Out My Neighbor Had No Shadow in a Luxury Apartment Complex —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 168 Something Sinister Lurks After Dark 深夜有诡 Strange Things Happen Late at Night —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 169 The Yin-Ghost Calamity 阴诡难 They all say I'm no good at cultivating the Dao, but my wife says I don't need to learn it anyway. She'll carry me... (If you don't want to read the setup, you can start from Chapter Three. It really works, trust me.) When I was ten, a ghost nearly killed me, but I was lucky enough to survive because of one. Yet the strange ordeal meant for me wasn't over... 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 170 Lost in a Matriarchal Society 误入母系社会 Lost in a Matriarchal Society 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 171 Ghost Market of the Underworld 阴间鬼市 The Ghost Market of the Underworld —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 172 Horror and Terror 恐怖惊魂 My girlfriend suddenly left me. Heartbroken, I went to a mountain village to teach, where I met a Miao girl who looked exactly like her. We were both plagued by an inexplicable mystery: being haunted by ghosts. With no other choice, we went to the terrifying Coffin Cave... 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 173 Jiangcheng Archives 江城档案 The day my grandfather disappeared, he left me a notebook. I’m Jiang Cheng, born during the yin hour, a discharged soldier. I’ve never opened my Third Eye and can’t draw talismans. My only skill is running a little faster than everyone else when ghosts come after me. 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 174 Spicy Corpse Snails 麻辣尸螺 Spicy Snail Corpses 112Reads—Score514d adds
- 175 New Year's Eve Red Envelope Challenge: After 12 People Joined, My Whole Family Was Doomed 除夕夜抢红包助力，拉满12人后我家全凉了 Racing to Claim Red Envelopes on Lunar New Year's Eve: After I Got 12 People to Help, My Whole Family Was Doomed —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 176 New Year's Eve Red Envelope Challenge: After 12 People Joined, My Whole Family Was Doomed, Part Two 除夕夜抢红包助力，拉满12人后我家全凉了第二部 Racing to Claim Red Envelopes on Lunar New Year's Eve: After I Got 12 People to Help, My Whole Family Was Doomed, Part Two —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 177 Substitute Doll: I Refuse to Become a Vessel for the Dead Girl 替身娃娃：我绝不做亡女容器 Substitute Doll: I Refuse to Become a Vessel for the Dead Girl —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 178 Don’t Open the Dormitory Door at Midnight 别在午夜打开宿舍门 Don't Open the Dorm Room Door at Midnight 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 179 Forbidden Curse: Spirit Touch Opens the Door to Terror 禁忌咒子：灵触开启惊悚之门 [Horror] [Fortune-Telling] [Ghost Hunting] [Feng Shui] [Read with Caution at Midnight] I, Bai Qingyun, was once just a Maoshan Taoist priest at the Hundred Spirits Hall. It wasn't until I went alone to investigate an incident and saw a boy hanging himself in a red dress that I realized the evil in human nature went far beyond what I had imagined. Behind every strange incident lies both the wickedness of human nature and a tragedy. As I traveled from one region to another, resolving one incident 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 180 When I Found Out the Princess's Mattress Was Stuffed with Human Flesh, I Had Already Become the 21st Layer 当发现豌豆公主的床垫人肉构成的，我已经成为第21层。 When I discovered that the mattresses in The Princess and the Pea were stuffed with human bodies, I had already made it to the twenty-first layer. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 181 Afterlife Notes: Blood Silkworms Raised on Babies 还魂笔记之血蚕饲婴 The Soul-Returning Notes: Blood Silkworms Feeding a Baby —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 182 Afterlife Notes Bonus Story: The Hundred Ghosts' Night Parade 还魂笔记番外篇：百鬼夜行 The Soul-Returning Notes: A Hundred Ghosts Roaming by Night —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 183 The Terrifying School 极度恐怖校园 As the best university in the city, this school admits only outstanding students. But it also has many rules that are hard to understand: no studying after eight o’clock, and no leaving your dorm room after midnight. No matter who calls to you from the corridor, do not answer... The protagonists in this story are all independent, but their countless connections eventually bring them together. What secrets does this school hold? 293Reads—Score—14d adds
- 184 Bureau 749: A Yin Messenger on the Road to the Underworld 749局：黄泉走阴人 There is an organization that exists only in the darkness: Bureau 749. Founded in 1974, with no records and no official status, it is made up of scientists and people with supernatural abilities. It handles the dirtiest, most sinister, most forbidden affairs in the human world. Ghost soldiers march through the night, leaving nothing but empty skins in an entire village. The White God of Wealth kills anyone who worships him, taking their souls to feed evil. An ancient Buddha opens its mouth to de 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 185 Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio: The Paper Bride 聊斋灵异故事：纸妻 Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio: The Paper Wife 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 186 Don't Look Down, There's a Ghost Beneath You 别低头，地下有鬼 Don't Look Down, There's a Ghost Below —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 187 Paranormal Ghost Story: The Lingering Yin Debt 灵异鬼故事：残阴债 A Ghost Story: The Lingering Yin Debt 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 188 Don't Touch That Red Coffin 别碰那口红棺 Don't Touch That Red Coffin 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 189 The Iron Coffin in Black Dragon Pool 黑龙潭的铁棺 The Iron Coffin in Black Dragon Pool 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 190 My Best Friend Urged Me to Get a Tattoo, But I Ended Up Tattooing Ghost Skin 闺蜜劝我纹身，可我竟然纹了鬼皮 My best friend urged me to get a tattoo, but somehow I ended up tattooing ghost skin on myself 93Reads—Score214d adds
- 191 The Girl in Red from the Village 村寨红衣女孩 The Girl in Red from the Village —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 192 Cat Sacrifice: She Lives in a Cat’s Eyes 猫祭：她住在猫的眼睛里 Three collections of horror stories: "Cat Sacrifice: She Lives in the Cat’s Eyes", "Snake Curse: The Evil of Qingshi Town", and "The Dying Magic Cube: An Embrace That Never Arrives". Each story is 80,000 to 100,000 characters long. I hope you enjoy them! Thank you all for your support! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 193 The Water Ghost 水鬼 Water Ghost 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 194 The Eerie Portrait at the Wake 守灵夜的诡异遗像 The Eerie Portrait at the Wake 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 195 Matters of the Underworld 冥事 Do you believe there are ghosts in this world? As an outstanding product of nine years of compulsory education, I certainly didn't. But ever since I started working as a security guard at Hongqi Factory, I do! I thought it was just an ordinary factory, but who would have guessed that... 299Reads—Score—14d adds
- 196 The Labyrinth Case 迷宫案件 The Labyrinth Case —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 197 The Seventh Locked Room: Prisoners of Time 第七重密室之时间囚徒 The Seventh Secret Room: Prisoner of Time —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 198 Countdown at the Haunted House 凶宅倒计时 Haunted House Countdown 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 199 Slaying Demons and Ghosts Since High School 斩妖灭鬼，从高中开始 [Traditional Supernatural Horror] + [School Life] + [Ensemble Cast] + [Coming of Age] + [Not Overpowered] + [Passionate] It all begins with a student jumping from a school building. Liu Tianyu had expected to spend his student years in peace, but from that day on, his life was never quiet again. Peril at a haunted temple, a school turned into a sacrificial altar, a ghost city beneath the water: one challenge after another awaits. Watch as a group of students turn the tables amid the schemes of g —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 200 Whispers of the Ghosts 鬼魅低语 [Standalone Stories] [Eerie] [Thriller] [Strange] [Wild Imagination] Worlds full of distortion and absurdity. Whether it's seemingly ordinary snippets of everyday life or strange phenomena that gradually come to light, everything sends a chill down your spine and grows more terrifying the more you think about it. 39Reads—Score—14d adds
