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  1. 151 The Deadly Delivery 致命快递 Little Potato小土豆Mystery10k WordsCompleted I’m a Buddhist: beautiful, kindhearted, rich, and gullible. I can’t stand to see the poor suffer. If my fried noodles cost seven yuan, I pay ten. That can have its downsides, though. For example, some penniless creep from the noodle stall might latch onto me. Or I might find my husband’s severed finger in my fried noodles. —Reads—Score—14d adds
  2. 152 Rule Horror: It Begins with Escaping the Asylum 规则怪谈：从逃出疯人院开始 Ink-Stained Writing Blade墨染文刀Mystery289k WordsOngoing [Rule-based horror + original scenarios + infinite flow + Chinese-style horror + survival + terrifying folklore + no heroine + supernatural resurgence] The elderly often say, “Don’t talk about people during the day, and don’t talk about ghosts at night. If a ghost knocks at midnight, whatever you do, don’t look back.” Behind the walls shrouded in thick fog, is it a school that educates the young, or an asylum where the inmates drink blood and eat flesh? Beneath countless hidden rules lies either 37Reads8.1Score—14d adds
  3. 153 Chronicles of Strange Folk Tales 民间怪谈事件录 Fei vs Yi非vs衣Mystery351k WordsCompleted Not for the faint of heart! Not for the faint of heart! Not for the faint of heart! The 1980s and 1990s saw one bizarre incident after another in Jubao Village: Zhao Laohei, who rose from the dead at the execution ground... The woman who hanged herself in town, her whole face turned a purplish black... The ghost child encountered during a game of hide-and-seek on the Ghost Festival... The terrifying bamboo fiend in the old bamboo grove... People and ghosts playing cards in a yin-yang card game.. 215Reads—Score—14d adds
  4. 154 The Ominous Coffin 凶棺 Zero Degrees零度Mystery2.7M WordsCompleted It all started with a coffin that floated up from the river... I thought it was a fortune dropped from the sky, but it turned out to be a disaster. After I pried open the coffin, I began to feel that something unclean had followed me home. My daughter grew stranger by the day. She was only three, yet she had already started developing! 125Reads—Score—14d adds
  5. 155 A Hundred-Year-Old Villager’s Tales of Ghosts and the Supernatural 农村百岁老人口述鬼怪奇谈 Blue Sky Who Writes and Shocks the Wind and Rain笔落惊风雨的蓝天儿Mystery278k WordsCompleted I grew up in the countryside, and whenever I had free time, I liked listening to centenarians in the village tell strange tales of ghosts and other uncanny events from days gone by. I have collected, recorded, and adapted these folk stories. There is no overarching plot. Each chapter is a standalone horror story. Not for the faint of heart!!! 32Reads—Score—14d adds
  6. 156 A Puppet Show Beneath the Embroidered Spring Blade 绣春刀下的傀儡戏 Eighth Master of Dou City斗城八爷30k WordsCompleted Puppet Show Beneath the Embroidered Spring Sabre 2Reads—Score—14d adds
  7. 157 Whispers of the Ghosts 鬼魅低语 Kongchan Mu空蝉沐Mystery244k WordsCompleted [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
  8. 158 60 Chilling Stories from Real Life 来自现实的60个惊悚故事 Popeye's Big Brother大力水手他哥Mystery509k WordsCompleted (Purely written by hand, not AI) Schemes! Poisoning! Possession! Framing... evil spirits! Returning from the dead! Ghosts! Curses... Terrifying and chilling stories based on real events, showing you the things that lurk in the dark world! Every story is a horror short drama! 21.3kReads8.9Score2k14d adds
  9. 159 The Most Terrifying Class on Campus 高校里最恐怖的班级 Zhen Nai Wants to Sleep真奈想睡觉Mystery2.0M WordsCompleted A classmate who had been dead for two years suddenly spoke in the group chat. At first, everyone thought it was someone's prank, until the first classmate died unexpectedly. Only then did they realize this was no prank... 792Reads—Score—14d adds
  10. 160 Tales of the Uncanny in Jiangnan 江南诡事录 Zhuge Laoliu诸葛老六Mystery577k WordsCompleted I was born in an old town in Jiangnan, and from childhood I loved hanging around beneath the eaves of the old teahouse. I would listen as Zhou the Blind sipped his strong tea and spun yarn after yarn, recounting the strange tales he had heard over most of his life. Half of what this book records came from the stories passed by word of mouth beneath the teahouse storyteller’s gavel; the other half came from what I saw and heard as I grew up wandering the streets and alleys of Jiangnan. Now the te 13Reads—Score314d adds
  11. 161 Zhang Laosan Tells Stories 张老三讲故事 Little Pear Blossom O小梨花OMystery1.4M WordsCompleted Long, long ago, a strange calamity struck Kaoshan Village, deep in the old forests of Northeast China. Hunter Li Dashan kept watch over a coffin on a snowy night and encountered a weasel spirit that spoke like a human, asking him to give it a title. One careless remark from him exposed a bloody secret from twenty years earlier. When the statue of the Yellow Immortal on the ancestral hall’s altar split with bloody cracks on the night of a lunar eclipse, when a golden-haired weasel burst from a pe 8Reads—Score—14d adds
  12. 162 A Strange Tale Every Night 夜夜都有诡故事 Brilliant as a River of Stars灿若星河呀Mystery507k WordsOngoing [Extreme Supernatural Horror] [Ghosts, Fox Spirits, and Other Strange Creatures] [Not for Women] [Not for the Fainthearted] Based on personal experience and real events. The occult is science we have yet to touch; science is the occult we have already mastered. 22Reads—Score—14d adds
  13. 163 The Second Night: Zhaodi's Ghost Wedding 第二夜：招娣的阴婚 Twenty-Two Hours And Thirty-Three Minutes二十二時三十三分Mystery14k WordsCompleted The Second Night: Zhaodi’s Ghost Wedding 2Reads—Score—14d adds
  14. 164 Strange Tales of Folk Feng Shui 民间风水奇谭 Zhang Zidao张自道Mystery5.1M WordsCompleted In 2013, hundreds of thousands of fish died in Liaozhong Reservoir; ghosts roamed the streets of Tawan; a sinister market appeared in Wenguantun; and a Qing princess rode in a sedan chair outside Shenyang Imperial Palace. But could these all be the work of nature? I am a feng shui master. Over the past ten years, I've saved many people, and harmed some as well. I wrote this book to warn the world: “Feng shui can nurture people, but it can also kill.” But the law itself is neither good nor evil. 515Reads5.3Score10214d adds
  15. 165 One Ghost Story a Chapter: I Warned You, So Don't Blame Me 一章一个鬼故事，吓到你，别怪我 A Kid Who Loves Noodles爱吃面的小朋友Mystery634k WordsCompleted [Traditional Chinese paranormal + Chinese-style horror] [Folktales + eerie rural happenings] Collected from all over and adapted into fiction, these stories include all kinds of folktales and urban legends. They're like the scary stories sold at street stalls, told in plain, simple language, with details that become more terrifying the longer you think about them. Great for unwinding. Each chapter features a different cast of characters. Note: Believe in science and reject superstition. Don't ta 7.5kReads7.3Score39314d adds
  16. 166 Tales of Folk Monsters: Ghosts and the Supernatural! 民间怪谈录，灵异鬼怪！ Quiet Heart, Gentle Words安静心言Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted A forbidden book recording eerie tales and strange rumors from Chinese folk tradition · Wet footprints in an old house late at night · A stranger in an ancestral mirror · Footprints walking backward on the seventh night after a death · A packed audience in an abandoned theater What makes this book special: · Each story stands on its own · Based on real folk legends · Authentic Chinese horror atmosphere · Short and gripping, perfect for reading on the go Reading warnings: · Best read during the d 9Reads—Score—14d adds
  17. 167 Strange Tales: The Land of Silent Hauntings 异诡实录：诡寂之地 Yi Ping Ruyu衣屏汝雨Mystery139k WordsCompleted [Horror]+ [Mystery]+ [Instances]+ [Infinite Flow] “Knock, knock, knock...” Lin Baisui was jolted awake. A voice that sounded like her mother called from outside the door. “Open up, it’s Mom...” But Lin Baisui clearly remembered that her parents had died three years ago. So who was outside? 2Reads—Score—14d adds
  18. 168 I Earn KPIs in the Underworld 我在阴间赚KPI The Monk Who Rings the Bell at Dawn黎明敲钟的佛僧Mystery255k WordsCompleted I woke up after death and found myself working a job in the underworld. Other people’s KPIs are about sales. Mine is about doing evil. Driving people to despair, creating betrayal, harvesting fear: that’s the real currency of the underworld. Rank at the bottom? Your soul gets obliterated. Then I discovered that the reward for becoming the top salesperson is taking the King of Hell’s place. Looking at the evil ghost coworkers around me, willing to do anything for their performance reviews, I smil —Reads—Score—14d adds
  19. 169 Records of the Underworld: The Blood-Jade Bride 幽冥录之血玉新娘 Little Pear Blossom O小梨花OMystery142k WordsCompleted Ming-Qing Alternate History · Reincarnation Curse · Flesh Mutation · Chilling on Second Thought “The bangle on your wrist isn't jade. It's your own throat bone from three hundred years ago.” On a stormy night, Su Wan, eldest daughter of the Su family in Qixia Town, receives a blood-red jade bangle sent by her younger brother, who vanished ten years ago. Her birth date is carved inside the bangle. In the package, soaked in rotten blood, lies half a finger bone wearing a jadeite ring. A corpse sur 2Reads—Score—14d adds
  20. 170 The Ghost Car: A Road to Survival in the Blood Realm 诡车：血境生路 Midnight深夜十二点Mystery84k WordsOngoing [Mystery and Deduction] [Horror and Strange Tales] [No System] [Light Brain Teasers] Si Chen wrote a novel called Strange Train. One day, when his inspiration ran dry, he inexplicably found himself inside the book. Aside from the rules of the setting, the story had changed beyond recognition! Passengers enter the train for all sorts of reasons, but they all share one name: Children of Calamity! Behind this train lies a Sin Gate, inside which is a New Era Pawnshop. It can be used to exchange not —Reads—Score—14d adds
  21. 171 Tales of Folk Ghosts 民间鬼故事说 My Name Is Xiaobai我名字叫小白Mystery564k WordsCompleted Each story stands on its own. Leave a comment about what you'd like to read, then pick whichever ones you like. There's no need to read them in order. Some parts are bound to be less well-written, but others may catch your interest, so browse around. 69Reads—Score—14d adds
  22. 172 The Human Dog 人形犬 Half a City of Fireworks烟火半城Mystery11k WordsCompleted After my sister was assaulted, she died a horrific death in a cabin in the back hills. My parents chopped up her body and fed it to the old dog they kept at home. After that, the old dog began to look more and more like my dead sister. Late at night, it would stand outside my room and call for me in my sister’s voice. 42Reads—Score114d adds
  23. 173 Six Relics to Banish Evil 六器渡邪 ZzzhzzZMystery109k WordsCompleted On a stormy night, the evil box passed down through my family shattered on its own, and I became a wanted fugitive accused of several murders. My only chance of survival was to recover the six cursed artifacts scattered across the Lin family. But they weren't treasures. They were instruments of torture, each one imprisoning the soul of someone our ancestors had tortured into becoming an artifact. Soul-harvesting rice from the Hungry Ghost Realm, a mending needle used to sew together a hundred —Reads—Score—14d adds
  24. 174 The Soul Caller 喊魂人 Spend the Rest of My Life Following the Dawn余生随曦Mystery256k WordsOngoing [Mystery and Supernatural + Folk Horror + Maoshan Taoism] My grandpa was a soul-caller, my dad was a soul-caller, and now I'm a soul-caller too. Whenever someone's soul goes missing within ten li, a kid cries in the middle of the night, or a strange smell of incense drifts from someone's courtyard, you can bet they'll come to my family for help. Grandpa always said, "If someone calls your name at night, don't look back. If someone by the water calls to you, run. And if you ever find yourself 2Reads—Score—14d adds
  25. 175 Ghost Stories at Three in the Morning 三更讲鬼 Bu Mingyu卜明语Mystery468k WordsOngoing This book recounts some strange events from the 1980s. One place holds far more than a hundred stories. Perhaps it would be more fitting for me to be a bystander, or a listener. I have written down the stories I heard to remember the past. You can simply take the people and events in these pages as a joke, if you like. Or you can read them as stories that invite self-reflection. Who knows... the characters in them might bear a resemblance to you. Or perhaps they reflect someone close to you. Wit 156Reads8.4Score—14d adds
  26. 176 A Thousand Years of Ghost Stories 千年鬼话 The Little Toad Carrying an Umbrella扛伞的小蛤蟆Mystery328k WordsCompleted A Thousand Years of Ghost Stories: One Thousand and One Nights of Chinese Folk Ghost Tales is a spine-chilling collection steeped in folk tradition. This book brings together ancient folk legends and ghost stories from across China, featuring mysteries and uncanny events from different historical periods and regions. From eerie mountain forests and desolate old villages to bizarre corners of modern cities, every story holds little-known horrors and shocking revelations. The plots are mysterious 2Reads—Score—14d adds
  27. 177 The Black Dog of Misty Mountain 雾山黑犬 Passing Through October路过十月13k WordsCompleted Black Dog of Mist Mountain 11Reads—Score—14d adds
  28. 178 Twelve Ghosts 十二鬼魂 Passing Through October路过十月34k WordsCompleted Twelve Ghosts 17Reads—Score214d adds
  29. 179 Horrifying Hauntings: Ghost Stories 恐怖灵异诡：鬼故事 Hong Jiu洪氿Mystery426k WordsCompleted Do you really think stories are just stories? In fact, behind every story lies a real event! In this book, I wrote a story about the last bus on Route 24. To experience what it would really feel like, I set myself a goal: for seven days straight, I'd ride the last Route 24 bus from its starting point to its final stop, then ride it all the way back. And that's where the story begins...! 361Reads—Score—14d adds
  30. 180 One Thousand and One Modern Tales of the Supernatural 一千零一个，现代灵异故事 Chen Shide陈师得Mystery1.3M WordsCompleted [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.) 5.2kReads7.0Score21214d adds
  31. 181 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 Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms桃花十里Mystery407k WordsCompleted [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—14d adds
  32. 182 A Collection of Folk Tales 民间故事会合集 Reader01读者01Ancient Romance795k WordsCompleted Open this book, and you’ll find that its folk legends and tales are unlike any you’ve read before. These stories are full of fantasy: some are terrifying, some suspenseful, some explore the ugliness of human nature, and others deal with karmic retribution. In this vast world, what hidden folk tales and legends do you know? Step into an ancient, mysterious world and join the author in discovering and experiencing these extraordinary folk stories! 22Reads—Score—14d adds
  33. 183 Afterlife Notes Bonus Story: The Corpse Stitcher 还魂笔记番外篇：缝尸匠 The Monk Who Rings the Bell at Dawn黎明敲钟的佛僧9k WordsCompleted Afterlife Notes: Bonus Story: The Corpse Stitcher 1Reads—Score—14d adds
  34. 184 Ghostfire Beneath the Red Silk 红绸下的鬼火 Eighth Master of Dou City斗城八爷20k WordsCompleted Ghost Fire Beneath the Red Silk —Reads—Score—14d adds
  35. 185 Ghostly Shadows Beneath the Threads 丝线下的鬼影 Eighth Master of Dou City斗城八爷18k WordsCompleted Ghostly Shadows Beneath the Threads 2Reads—Score—14d adds
  36. 186 Sewing Up Corpses at the Funeral Home, Until I Stitched Up My Blind Date 殡仪馆缝尸，缝到相亲对象 Summer Clear SkySummer晴空Mystery2.3M WordsCompleted I learned corpse sewing from my grandma as a child. Before I even graduated from vocational school, funeral homes everywhere were clamoring to hire me. My monthly salary was 100,000 yuan, plus commission. Everyone said it was easy money, but nobody knew that a corpse seamstress stitches flesh and skin while laying restless souls to rest. My very first job went horribly wrong. When the body bag opened, I recognized that face at once. Wasn’t she the girlfriend who had slept beside me last night? A 1.5kReads6.9Score11914d adds
  37. 187 Cherry-Colored Lies 樱桃色的谎言 Eighth Master of Dou City斗城八爷20k WordsCompleted Cherry-Colored Lies —Reads—Score—14d adds
  38. 188 Jiang Chu and Mugwort 姜楚与艾叶 Mountain Inn Qinghuan山野旅馆清欢Marriage & Romance30k WordsCompleted Jiang Chu and Ai Ye —Reads—Score—14d adds
  39. 189 A Desolate Grave in the Mountains 山野荒坟 Mountain Inn Qinghuan山野旅馆清欢Modern Romance25k WordsCompleted A Desolate Grave in the Wilderness —Reads—Score—14d adds
  40. 190 Hong Kong’s Yin Chronicles: The Domino Curse 香江陰錄：骨牌劫 Yang Zai楊載13k WordsCompleted Hong Kong Yin Chronicles: The Bone Tile Calamity —Reads—Score—14d adds
  41. 191 Horror: Death Comes at Midnight 恐怖：夜半索命 I'll Light a Candle Tomorrow Night明晚点蜡烛Mystery215k WordsCompleted 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—Score11014d adds
  42. 192 Severing the Dragon Vein 断命龙脉 You Mortals Don’t Understand你们凡人不懂Mystery221k WordsOngoing The men of the Gu family never live past forty. After his father, Gu Mingyuan, dies, Gu Chenchuan follows a train ticket to Baihe, a bloodstained compass, and a few unfinished last words into the old trails of the Changbai Mountains. But the deeper he digs, the more he realizes that the Gu family has not simply been haunted or cursed. They have been caught in a living account, buried for many years, that refuses to let go. From Baihe to Tamen Peak, from the Changbai Mountains to an old well in t 1Reads—Score—14d adds
  43. 193 Corpse Money: Thoughts for the Afterlife 尸钱想后 Eighth Master of Dou City斗城八爷48k WordsCompleted Corpse Money, Posthumous Thoughts 1Reads—Score—14d adds
  44. 194 I Came from the Underworld to Deal with Those Who Defy the Rules 我从地府来，专治规则不服 Ribbit Hahahaha蛙哈哈哈哈33k WordsCompleted I Came from the Underworld to Make the Rules Behave 1Reads—Score—14d adds
  45. 195 Strike It Rich by Opening the Coffin 开棺发财 Sharp Little Knife锋利的小刀Mystery109k WordsOngoing [Handcrafted from scratch + Traditional supernatural horror + No System + No cultivation + Extremely scary + Based on true experiences] Paper figures carry the coffin, a black dog tosses the grave, and an old man falls in love with a ghost. An opened coffin is carried home, and a beautiful fairy follows through the door. My name is Qin Yang. I was down on my luck and only hoped to make money by opening coffins. I never expected that it would turn out to be such a high-risk profession. (Friends i 1.6kReads—Score13414d adds
  46. 196 One Hundred Thousand and One Folk Horror Stories 十万零一个民间恐怖故事 Wolf Fang Potato狼牙土豆啊Rural Life1.8M WordsOngoing A collection of short horror stories in an episodic format, with a new story every chapter. No dragging things out! Haunted houses in the countryside, mountain spirits, urban legends, old customs and taboos... Every kind of Chinese-style horror is covered, with nonstop thrills and no filler. Anti-superstition disclaimer: This story is entirely fictional. Believe in science and read rationally. Please don’t apply it to real life~ 304Reads—Score10114d adds
  47. 197 I Work as a Gravekeeper in an Unknown Cemetery 我在无名墓园当守墓人 Yao Yao Wei瑶瑶魏Mystery119k WordsOngoing [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—14d adds
  48. 198 Hush! It's Here 嘘！它来了 Xi Han玺晗Mystery472k WordsCompleted Stray cats appear on campus, awakening a curse of murder sealed away for fifty years. Long ago, cats protected the school by killing rats, but when their numbers grew too large, they were burned alive. Their resentment coalesced into a nine-lived shadow cat. It uses humans to wreak havoc, draining the vitality of the living in a blood sacrifice to avenge its burning. Strange incidents, gruesome deaths, vengeful spirits demanding lives night after night: the only way to survive is to destroy all 189Reads—Score—14d adds
  49. 199 The God-Eater Girl Has an Immortal Body 神蚀少女拥有不死之身 Treading Snow on a Secluded Mountain幽山踏雪Ancient Romance931k WordsCompleted [Chinese-Style Horror + Master and Servant + Immortality + Cthulhu + Dual Female Leads] Is having an immortal body really a wonderful thing? Watching your family die, your friends leave, and your beloved pass away: that's the price of immortality. But I refuse to accept that. So I'm going to make my beloved become a god alongside me, and then we'll never have to part. Who could have imagined that after countless hardships, the brutally cruel path to godhood was nothing more than a game the gods 160Reads—Score10114d adds
  50. 200 Studying Neutrinos at the Funeral Home 我在殡仪馆研究中微子 A MuyaoA沐瑶Mystery1.3M WordsOngoing ❎ Not for the faint of heart! Five-star horror rating. I’m a college student. To ease the burden on my family, I decided to find a part-time job near campus. By chance, I spotted a faded advertisement on a utility pole nearby. The job was keeping night watch at a funeral home, and the pay was great, so I took it. On my first day, the manager told me three bizarre rules for the funeral home’s night shift: I’d be the only one working overnight; never open the door for strangers; and never get invo 16.7kReads7.2Score2.4k14d adds

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