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- 1 The Terrifying Night Shift 恐怖夜班 My name is Li Sihua. Ever since I started working the night shift at Wanhua Group, strange things have kept happening: the sound of high heels in the dead of night, a shadow darting past in the hallway, the strange dripping sound in the women’s restroom... Here, you’ll face your deepest fears. The plot will make your brain work overtime and go beyond your imagination, so read with caution! 15Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 2 Re: Life Choices, Starting with the Glint-Glint Fruit Re：人生选项，开局闪闪果实 [The rating starts low, but will go up later] He transmigrated into the Re:Zero world, where the dangerous Witch Cult ran rampant and the eternal frozen-land beast was always plotting to destroy the world. Licht thought he’d spend his whole life as a nobody in this world, until he awakened the Life Choices System. [Congratulations, Host! You’ve opened the beginner’s gift pack.] [Obtained the Glint-Glint Fruit (no side effects).] Huh?! The original protagonist, Natsuki Subaru, transmigrated at th 57Reads5.9Score—Shelves
- 3 Notes from a Visitor to Another World 异界人笔记 [Infinite Flow horror + mild scares + mystery + single male protagonist + no romance] My father is Pei Shiwu, my mother is Zheng Baifen, and I’m Pei Zheng, who both loses and gains. At sixteen, I unexpectedly gained the ability to see ghosts. I fought evil, helped the vulnerable, and encountered one bizarre, fascinating tale after another. These are my notes. Come along and see what I went through. Got your seats ready? I’m about to reveal it all, one story at a time… 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 The Unnoticeable One 不可觉察之人 (The new book’s rating isn’t out yet.) Qi Yan has always believed that you can tell people apart from one another. Not by their looks or their voices. But by their little habits. Some people always turn their cup before drinking. Some always step off with their left foot. Some pause for half a second on a certain word when they speak. These things are hard to imitate. But lately, Qi Yan has noticed that some people have started acting a little strange. When the neighbor next door sees him, they —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Run! My Family Aren't Human 快跑，我的家人不是人 [No System] [Not a saint] [Infinite Flow] [mild horror] Just like any other evening after study hall, I opened the front door! The lights were off. My parents were lurking in the dark, waiting to devour my flesh. A guillotine blade hung over my head, held by my younger sister. My older brother had prepared a pot of fresh soup to go with his wine! Run! Run for your life! My family aren’t human! Your goal is to survive in this twisted world of humanity. 280Reads5.5Score114Shelves
- 6 Poison Before Bed 睡前毒物 Look up to the heavens and honor all living things; lower your head to write, and fear ghosts and gods. Good is repaid with good, and evil with evil. It’s not that retribution never comes, only that its time has not yet arrived. Absurd, terrifying, eerie, moving. I hope there’s a story that can frighten you, bring you to tears, and make you fall in love with it. 1.2kReads8.2Score215Shelves
- 7 Supernatural Horror Livestream Recordings 超级恐秘直播实录 Prophecies, bizarre murders, mystical feng shui, treasure appraisal, secret Taoist arts... My name is Lin Mo, and I'm from Fujian. By day, I run my family's antique shop, which is barely staying afloat. By night, I make money from tips and commission fees by livestreaming from haunted houses. For the first ten or so streams, I didn't even catch a glimpse of a ghost's hair. Then came my twentieth stream... During that livestream at the ancient Guiyin house in Quanzhou, the regulars in my chat and 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 Qingchuan Ghost School 青川鬼校 Ordinary high school student Su Bei takes shelter from the rain one day and discovers he is trapped in the abandoned grounds of Qingchuan Middle School, a place rumored to be haunted. It is no longer an empty ruin, but a living hell where time is warped, space behaves strangely, and real, terrifying ghosts lurk everywhere. There are no superpowers, no talismans or magical artifacts, and no apocalyptic technology. The only things Su Bei can rely on are his cool head, keen powers of observation, a 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 The Nightmare Tomb 魇冢 “No System + Not Mindless + Not a Power Fantasy + Not Invincible + No Harem + Infinite Flow + Mild Horror + Mystery + Plot-Driven” Cheng Mo’s girlfriend, Ye Yunqi, disappears after attending a funeral. That night, the elderly neighbor who had just been buried knocks on Cheng Mo’s door. From that day on, Cheng Mo is chosen by the Nightmare Realm and trapped in eerie instance worlds. Yet inside one of them, he finds a letter his girlfriend left behind in advance: Never turn your back on a 24Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 10 Specimens from a Dark Alley 暗巷标本集 A collection of mysterious, bizarre tales where dreams and reality intertwine. What lies hidden behind each story? Each chapter in this book is a story of its own, drawing us into boundless imagination. 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Shadows in the Daylight 白昼暗影 The criminal he hunts is himself. The shadow he cannot escape is his only protector. Lin Mo, the police department’s star profiler, cracks one extraordinary case after another with his precise criminal psychology analyses. But he doesn’t know that every night, another self awakens: Shen Ye, a “dark vigilante” who fights violence with violence, hunting down criminals who escaped justice through Lin Mo. The massacre that destroyed his family when he was a child split ten-year-old Lin Mo’s mind, cr —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Life and Death Together: Redemption in a Century-Old Haunted Realm 浮生同生：百年诡域救赎录 In an instant, on an elevated highway on a rainy night, Lu Ye, a wage earner at the bottom of society, risked his life to save a stranger, Su Wan. The two of them plunged into a deadly crisis. An accident bound them to the only twin symbiosis System on the entire internet: [Shared Life]. Its rules were cruel and impossible to escape: they could not break the bond, survive alone, or clear a stage separately. If one lived, they both lived; if one died, they both died. From then on, two ordinary 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 One Thousand and One Modern Tales of the Supernatural 一千零一个，现代灵异故事 [Based on True Stories] [Folktales] [Horror and the Supernatural] The stories in this novel feel full of everyday life. The people and events in every story are portrayed in a realistic way, bringing to life the supernatural experiences of all the main and supporting characters. If you’re a horror story fan, don’t miss this novel. (If you get scared, call your best hapless friend over… so you can be scared together.) 5.2kReads7.0Score221Shelves
- 14 Forbidden Tales of the Desolate Village: A Midnight Whistle, and a Shrouded Corpse Spirit at the Door 荒村禁忌：夜半吹哨，白布尸魂找上门 Taboos of the Abandoned Village: A Whistle in the Dead of Night, and a White-Cloth Corpse Spirit Comes Calling —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 Rule Horror: The Final Sequence 规则怪谈：终末序列 [No CP] [Dual Protagonists] [Dark Fantasy] An ordinary high school student stumbles into a world of supernatural rules, uncovers the secrets behind them, gains supernatural abilities, and becomes a Sequence-Bearer! From primeval forests to eerie schools, from abandoned hospitals to worlds governed by rules... Only rules can kill rules. In the End Times, seeing isn’t always believing. You must wield the power of rules to kill their masters. That is the only way to survive! The blood and vengeance 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 Grandpa Started the Trouble, Three Generations Must Pay 爷爷闯下的祸，三代来还 The trouble Grandpa caused will take three generations to repay. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 Imprisoned 入狱 [Light Horror] [Infinite Flow] [Survival] [Original Instances] [Mystery and Twists] [No Female Lead] A sinister apartment building lays a curse on one group of people after another. None of them ever return. At regular intervals, they must return to a place called “Public Prison,” take the elevator to a terrifying world, and resolve a supernatural incident… Qin Xiu is unexpectedly chosen after nearly being wrongfully killed. He may have escaped death once, but trouble is surely waiting for 13Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 18 Rift in the Abyss: We Awakened the Old Ones 深渊裂隙：我们唤醒旧日支配者 In 1992, U.S. Army Major Austin takes charge of the top-secret project "Abyss Watch." One hundred and thirty meters beneath the desert, a strange fissure spreads madness into the world above. Five elite soldiers are ordered into the abyss, with Austin directing their investigation remotely. A videotape that appears out of nowhere exposes a horrific secret from the past: To spy on the secrets underground, the military sacrificed living people. A thousand meters below ground, an ancient stone gate —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 Don't Talk to the Comments 不要和弹幕说话 [Horror + Supernatural + Mystery + Mind-Bending + Anthology (first four volumes complete) + Dread That Gets Under Your Skin + Not for the Fainthearted + The Villain Is the Smartest Character in the Book + Growing Female Lead + No System, No Cheats, Plot-Driven] Have you ever replied to a historical comment on a video, even just for fun? Hu Jia accidentally comes across a web series from ten years ago. It depicts a real case from that same year, but its ending is completely different from what 19Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 20 Infinite Horror: I Can Sense Ghosts 恐怖无限：我能感知到鬼 [Infinite Flow, Not a Power Fantasy] [Slight Horror] [No CP] [Survival] [Escape] [Deduction] [Mystery] "Shh..." "There are ghosts in this world!" Those contaminated by the aura of Another World can only keep clearing one instance after another. They say that after clearing 13 instances, you can make a wish? Lu Ming discovers that ghosts aren't the only things he can sense. There's also... In this game of pursuit between humans and ghosts, he is forced into Another World, a realm teeming with evi 11.5kReads6.9Score1.1kShelves
- 21 If You're Afraid to Die in a Horror World, What Makes You Think You Can Win? 在恐怖世界怕死，你凭什么想赢啊 [Infinite Flow]+ [Death Game]+ [Apocalyptic Survival]+ [Horror Mini-Worlds] Warning: This may not be well written, so think carefully before diving in! In the orderly world we know, have you ever imagined a chaotic world that was its opposite? Yun Xiao was snatched from his sleep and brought into such a world. Here, there are no laws, no order, no humanity… In short, there are no rules at all. All that exists are terrifying mini-worlds where you can grow stronger! At first, he thought this was 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 The Otherworldly Netherworld 异站冥途 A bus bound for reincarnation, visible only to those on the brink of death. Every stop beyond the platforms brings an unknown crisis. At the Netherworld bus stop, queue up and board; the living get off, the dead stay behind. To find his long-lost girlfriend, Zhao Jichuan unhesitatingly boarded the bus. In an ocean of blood and tears, in a world of pain and fear, betrayal was commonplace and screams were nothing unusual. Just as he was about to despair, he thought he saw a ray of light... 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 The Eerie Game: From the Start, I Picked Up a Top-Tier Star 诡异游戏：开局捡个顶流女星 [Horror game + dark tone + unscrupulous tactics + Infinite Flow + one female lead] Could the strange creature Gu Changqing brought out of a haunted villa really be a top-tier star and a high-level player in the horror game? And does she really need to form a "deep connection" with Gu Changqing and devour his "life essence" to maintain her human form...? 7Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 24 I Was a Ghost Officer, but Now I Only Want a Promotion 身为鬼差的我，后来只想升官 I wield the Register of the Underworld as a ghost officer, commanding the power to seize souls. Everyone says the King of Hell is the supreme ruler of the netherworld, but to me, he is merely a stepping stone. The underworld is vast, and the Nine Hells are deep. Is that really the limit of my ambition? I want to break the Nine Hells’ shackles, shatter the chains between yin and yang, ascend to the realm of the Great Emperor, and rule the netherworlds of all realms. Only then will my lifelong wis 31Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 25 I Work as a Gravekeeper in an Unknown Cemetery 我在无名墓园当守墓人 [Infinite Flow + Mild Horror + Mild Suspense + Survival + Plot Twists] The protagonist isn’t a do-gooder, the villains aren’t idiots, the plot doesn’t drag, and every mystery gets resolved; An unnamed Taoist temple deep in the Hundred Thousand Mountains; A merchant ship adrift across a vast sea; A mysterious ruin in an ancient forest; An endless desert stretching beyond the horizon; Snow-capped mountains where the snow never melts; A breathtaking woman in red who is a ghost, and an entity that c —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 Infinite Eerie Domains: Starting with a Haunted Classroom 无限诡域：从诡异教室开始 [Infinite Flow]+ [Fake terror]+ [Ghosts kill people]+ [Emotionless]+ [Mild horror] Late at night, Su Wang receives a strange black letter that appears out of nowhere in his home. Its four blood-red survival rules reveal a terrifying, unknown realm. In the blink of an eye, he is forcibly dragged into a strange study hall at Chenfeng High School, where he and six strangers are trapped together. The one unbreakable rule is carved into the blackboard: Keep quiet. One survivor loses control, makes a 31.9kReads8.0Score4.3kShelves
- 27 Terrifying Tales 惊魂诡事 Deep, silent alleyways, eerie, terrifying deserted villages, reed marshes choked with weeds... Every scene holds some of my most unforgettable memories! Everything that happens in this book is something I saw or heard myself. You can also read it as a story. Curious about the supernatural tales that have taken place in rural villages and mountain hamlets? Have you ever heard of or seen something that made your hair stand on end? If you find yourself sleepless in the dead of night, put on your he 314Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 28 This Is a Rule Horror Story, So Why Are You Making Me Dance on a Grave? 这是规则怪谈，你让我坟头蹦迪 [The eerie descends + no saintly do-gooder + survival escape + no System + high IQ] When Chen Mo wakes up with no memories, he finds himself aboard a battered bus with seven strangers, men and women alike. The bus is headed for a tunnel called Yellow Springs, and that is where Chen Mo enters a world of rule-based horrors. Not only must Chen Mo search for clues and fight to survive in this perilous world of bizarre rules, he must also recover every memory he has lost. After enduring countless har —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 I Pretended to Be a Master for Fifteen Years, Then I Really Met a Ghost 我装了十五年大师，真撞鬼了 [Folklore Mystery + Chinese-Style Horror + Deduction + No Female Lead + A Tight-Knit Trio] My name is Han Ye. I've been pretending to be a master for fifteen years. I read the feng shui of burial sites, exorcise spirits, summon souls, and relay messages from the dead. If the pay is good enough, there's no job I won't take. Everyone says I can communicate with the world of the dead and understand ghosts and spirits. Only I know the truth: I have no idea whether ghosts even exist. I only know 12.8kReads—Score980Shelves
- 30 The Temple That Eats People 吃人的庙 The Man-Eating Temple 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 The Rebirth Shop: I Handle Paranormal Cases at the Funeral Home 往生铺：我在殡仪馆处理灵异事件 My name is Chen Yang, and I run a funeral shop called Passing On in the outskirts of the city. By day, I sell wreaths and make paper effigies. My business is with the dead. At midnight, I burn incense and light candles, dealing with the “unclean things” that the living would rather avoid. 350Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 Soul Alliance 魂盟 Starting February 6, 2025, two updates every day, posted promptly at 8 p.m. [Horror instances + no System + growth + brains + Infinite Flow + fake female lead] I stand in an unfamiliar place, surrounded by an eerie atmosphere. My memories are like shattered puzzle pieces, impossible to put back together. Who am I? Why am I here? The blank spaces in my memory are like bottomless black holes, swallowing my sanity. The only thing I can clearly recall is a vague figure in my mind. What connection do 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 Horror Urban Legends: An Unspeakable Fear 惊悚怪谈：不可名状的恐惧 Tomato Original, Mystery and Imagination, Supernatural Horror [Horror + Dark Style] [A collection of uncanny short stories, fear returns, Lovecraftian horror] [The gaze of an unknown presence. Good and evil lie in the human heart] Have you ever had a moment in everyday life that sent a chill down your spine? Perhaps it was hearing a cat cry while walking alone at night, the sound of marbles rolling across the floor upstairs, or a shadow glimpsed from the corner of your eye... Story One: Cat Syn 105Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 Strange Tales from the Countryside 乡村诡故事 Before you start this book, a warning: if you scare easily, don't read it. If you live alone, be careful. Every short ghost story here is based on an ordinary person's real-life experience. Not a single word is made up. From the damp old alleyways of the south to the frozen, deserted villages of the north; from late-night overtime in office buildings to lights-out in university dorms; the taboos our elders forbade us to talk about, and the moments you dare not dwell on in the middle of the night 120Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 Bet Your Life at the Haunted House 诡舍赌命 A horror-shelter fanfiction. You were once a reader, but now you're trapped in the story. You know how it ends, yet you're creating new deaths and new chances to survive. In this eerie shelter, the line between reality and fiction has long since blurred. The only thing that's clear is the deadly danger: one wrong step, and there's no coming back. 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 The Water Ghost 水鬼 Water Ghost 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 The Seventh Night After Death 头七 My grandfather said that whoever a hanged person sees last is the one they’ll come back to haunt. When I was twelve, the village hired a troupe to perform ghost plays. I went to play with them, never imagining that the troupe’s leading performer was hanging from the beam right behind me. 22Reads7.7Score—Shelves
- 38 I Heard of Strange Things That Year: Never Read This Late at Night 那年听闻怪事，千万别深夜翻看 These stories are adapted and fictionalized from various experiences shared by friends. They are written in an accessible style and make for a good way to unwind. A reminder: reject superstition. This is all imaginative fiction. Any similarities to real events are purely coincidental, so don't take it seriously! 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 I Livestream Through My Eyes 我用眼睛来直播 Through my own eyes, I'll show you viewers the most authentic scenes of horror. No complicated streaming equipment, no carefully arranged sets. Everything I see is exactly what the viewers in the livestream can see. Have you ever seen a livestream quite like this? As long as my eyes remain open, this terrifying livestream, which will only end with my death, will never go off the air. 158Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 The Yin-Yang Mortal World 阴阳尘世 Yin and yang are opposing yet balanced forces, like Heaven and Earth, the sun and moon, darkness and light. At some point, the balance of yin and yang in the mortal world was broken. Strange paranormal phenomena known as “Corruption” spread across the world. To maintain the balance between the yin and yang realms and cleanse the world of “Corruption,” the onmyoji came into being. As Luo Yin, an onmyoji, delves deeper into the paranormal and supernatural incidents plaguing the mortal world, she d 7Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 41 Ghosts in the High-Rise, Yet You Still Want Me to Go Undercover as a Security Guard 大厦闹鬼，你还让我去做卧底保安 My name is Ma Rui, and I’m a police cadet. Recently, a series of bizarre cases have taken place inside an office building: a little finger in a food delivery order; hair in a steamed bun filling; bloodstained banknotes; a strange tile cat; and a headless woman’s corpse in a woven sack… To solve the cases as quickly as possible, the police need to send an undercover agent into the building to work as a “night security guard.” So I took on this important assignment! 873Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 42 Spiritual Qi Revival: My D-Rank Ability Is Just a Little Too Powerful 灵气复苏：我的D级异能有亿点强 1.1kReads7.3Score108Shelves
- 43 The Bizarre Case Investigator 诡案惊探 [Mystery]+ [Supernatural]+ [Deduction]+ [Crime Solving]+ [Male lead versed in both Yin and Yang] After his girlfriend vanishes under bizarre circumstances and every effort to find her comes to nothing for two years, Qin Zhong loses heart and takes a job as a police officer at a remote township station. One day, he suddenly receives a bizarre case. The entire village of Niewa has vanished. As the investigation deepens, one strange Supernatural incident after another unfolds. Along the way, his pa 1.6kReads8.4Score186Shelves
- 44 Fierce Netherworld: Starting as a Rainy-Night Killer 凶冥空间：从雨夜杀人魔开始 [Infinite Flow + The Weird Arrives, No Heroine] Could the beautiful new neighbor really be a serial killer who strikes on rainy nights? Gu Li sees through her disguise, only to get dragged into an even stranger space. Black fog rolls in and terror descends. To survive, Gu Li searches for a way to clear each instance, solving puzzles like mad and escaping certain death. But after completing a series of missions, he discovers that the weird has already arrived in the real world, and a supernatural 5.3kReads7.1Score365Shelves
- 45 A Madman's Fate 癫人命 [The uncanny + mind-bending suspense + horror + fictional setting + no System] At the end of that rainy night, Chen Xiu gazes at the unfamiliar world before him. He discovers that the curses have taken everything from him, even himself. Curses and uncanny horrors run rampant before his eyes, while madness and fear relentlessly batter his heart. It says: “Having witnessed what the curse can do, you must also suffer its gifts.” It says: “The death curse descends upon past and present, twisting all 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 My Roommate Is Two Thousand Years Old 舍友两千岁 Zhong Helian discovers that her roommate, with whom she shares an apartment, isn't alive at all, but is a two-thousand-year-old zombie. After going through one perilous adventure after another, she gradually comes to understand him better. Did they meet by chance, or are they bound by the karma of a past life? The world has always had a hidden side. Perhaps some demons and spirits are living right beside us. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 Never Go to the Old House 千万不要去古宅 Na Ling and Bao Datong were looking for a thrill, so they drove around robbing old houses. One day, they came across a photo of Fengmen Village online and went there to steal a Grand Tutor's chair. They sold it to Li Wei, a chamber of commerce boss, but because the chair was haunted, he resold it to the speculator Meng Guozhao. During the handoff, Na Ling secretly kept the jade marrow hidden inside the chair. After leaving Fengmen Village, Na Ling traveled to Anhui, where he stumbled upon the an 7.8kReads8.6Score233Shelves
- 48 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? 247Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 Horror: Death Comes at Midnight 恐怖：夜半索命 I lived a routine life until the death of Old Chen changed everything. Beside his body lay a pile of handmade paper figures. One had been painted blood red and clutched in his stiff, dead hand. Blood-red words began appearing in the mirror: “Get out.” “He’s still in the building.” Then I received an ultimatum: his daughter needed a living substitute. Paper figures weren’t enough. Neither were his belongings. She wanted a living person in the building, someone warm and breathing. Tomorrow, at mid 17Reads—Score110Shelves
- 50 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—Shelves
