Novels like One Chilling Story Every Night
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- 1 Midnight Terror: Tales of the Supernatural 午夜惊魂：民间鬼事录 [Folk Taboos + Rural Ghost Stories + Episodic Tales + Chilling on Second Thought] The village elders say that some things are better believed than dismissed. Liu Er, a bachelor, picked up a red wedding dress. That very night, he heard the sound of a suona, and a faceless bride knocked on his door and said, “Liu Er, I’ve come to marry you.” Before a dead person is buried, the guiding candle at the head of the coffin must never go out. Old Liu Guang died, the candle went out, and a crack appeared 4kReads—Score174Shelves
- 2 Untold Folk Horror Stories 没听过的民间恐怖故事 [Chinese-Style Horror] + [Folk Supernatural] + [Thriller and Suspense] + [Small-Town and Countryside] Corpse-driving bells in western Hunan... ghost artisans... mistaking someone else's grave... Nuo masks... These eerie tales scattered among the people conceal the most bone-chilling horrors... When you open this book late at night, you'll discover that the scariest legends have always sprung from real life in towns and villages. Fishermen passing the abandoned ferry at night always see a wom 223Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Terror at the Spirit Altar: A Feud Between Northeast China's Guardian Immortals and the Red-Clad Demon 堂口惊魂：东北保家仙与红衣煞的恩怨局 Terror at the Spirit Hall: The Feud Between the Northeast Guardian Spirits and the Red-Clad Evil Spirit —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Tales of Strange Village Affairs 2 村野诡事录2 Force open the hidden door of a timeworn old house and step into a bewildering rural mystery. This short story collection gathers strange and uncanny tales from the folk tradition. It faithfully recreates bizarre records buried by time, tearing away the disguise of everyday life to reveal extraordinary stories of human hearts entangled with spirits and monsters. Each tale is like a deep pool reflecting the moon, mirroring secrets hidden in the corners of villages and too sensitive to speak of. T —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Footsteps Outside the Door at Midnight 午夜门外脚步声 Footsteps Outside the Door at Midnight —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Great Escape from Hell 地狱大逃亡 A WeChat group, forty-four deadly tasks. People are constantly erased for failing to complete them. Maybe I'll be next... —Reads7.7Score—Shelves
- 7 After Raising Me, the Whole Village Is Waiting for Me to Die 把我养大后，全村都在等我死 After Raising Me, the Whole Village Is Waiting for Me to Die 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 The Mind Reader's Deadly Game 读心术师的致命游戏 The Mind Reader's Deadly Game 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 The Mystery of the Deep Well 深井迷局 The Mystery of the Deep Well —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 The Fox Immortal Is Coming for Me Tonight 今晚狐仙来找我 The Fox Spirit Is Coming to See Me Tonight —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Terror in Fengmen Village: The Red-Clad Bride's Curse 封门村惊魂:红衣新娘的诅咒 Terror at Fengmen Village: The Red-Clad Bride's Curse 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 The Night My Boyfriend Cheated, Five Ghosts Entered My Bedroom 男友出轨那晚，五只鬼魂进了我卧室 The night my boyfriend cheated, five ghosts entered my bedroom 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 The Life-Begging Lantern of Qixi 七夕乞命灯 The Life-Begging Lantern of Qixi —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 The Dragon Vein Seals the Demon: A Record of the Thousand-Year Seal at Guling 龙脉锁魔：谷岭千年封印录 Gu Ling Village in the Qinling Mountains lies at the “dragon's eye” of a dragon vein. Villager Li Gensheng comes back from the dead as an evil spirit, and strange events plague the village. The master and disciples of the Tianxin Sect join forces with Taoist priests from the Lingbao and Shenxiao sects to exorcise the evil. They uncover the secrets behind the Yinluo Sect's thousand-year seal and old grudges between sects. In the end, they destroy the remaining evil spirits and protect the dragon 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 The Eastern Wei Crown Prince's Tomb 东魏太子墓 The Eastern Wei Crown Prince’s Tomb —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 After Escaping the Horror Instance, the Female Ghost Followed Me Home 逃出恐怖副本后，女鬼跟着我回家了 After Escaping a Horror Instance, a Female Ghost Followed Me Home 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 Ghost Stories!! 鬼故事！！ [Standalone Stories] [Supernatural Suspense] [Folk Horror] [Mountain Spirits and Monsters] No overarching plot, just independent stories. There are always things in this world that seem absurd, yet truly exist. (Entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental.) 2.9kReads—Score101Shelves
- 18 A Collection of Short Folk Horror Stories 民间恐怖故事短篇集 Some old customs aren't about superstition. They're about staying alive. · Have you ever heard your grandmother's warning: Never pick up a red comb you find on the road? · Have you ever felt a sudden, inexplicable fear that your reflection might smile at you while you're looking in the mirror late at night? · Have you ever clearly heard the faint scrape of fingernails against the inside of a wall on a night when you're home alone? This book records the taboos people have forgotten, and the… re 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 Haunted by a Female Ghost, I Remove Her Head and Absorb Her Yin Energy 女鬼缠身，被我摘下头颅吸阴气 [Infinite Flow + Mild Horror + Survival + One Heroine] "The day the Dougui app installed itself on my phone, I was trapped in bed by something supernatural..." "With only three hours left on my life countdown, I entered the haunted realm to survive, only to meet a female ghost searching for a groom..." When someone gets caught up in a supernatural incident, an app called Dougui appears on their phone. At regular intervals, the Dougui app forcibly drags them into a haunted-realm trial, where they 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 One Ghost Story Per Chapter 单章一个鬼故事 A Collection of Short Ghost Stories [Not for the Fainthearted] An abandoned haystack, bloodstained pottery, a blood-soaked bridal gown... How many terrifying truths, buried by time, are hidden in these old folk artifacts? Every old object conceals a bone-chilling tale. Over 600 terrifying tales of folk horror. Please leave a review! Thank you, dear readers! 716Reads—Score105Shelves
- 21 The Corpse Collector 收尸人 I invite you into a story that is humorous yet still terrifying… 307Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 A National Collection of Folk Ghost Stories and Horror Tales 全国民间鬼怪恐怖故事集 I collect folk tales about ghosts, zombies, and monsters from across the country, then adapt them into short stories. Please leave plenty of comments and suggestions. If you have material to share, feel free to send it in. Your support is what keeps me motivated to update! I'm planning to organize the stories by province, starting with Guangxi. 30Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 Tales of the Strange from the Countryside 村野诡事录 Unearth long-buried secrets of the countryside and venture through the mists shrouding its remote villages in this collection of short stories drawn from vivid folk tales of the supernatural. These stories bring back strange tales and eerie incidents forgotten by time, peel away the trappings of everyday life, and reveal chilling truths where human nature and ghosts intertwine. Each story is like a dim lantern in the dead of night, lighting the murky shadows deep in the countryside. The blend of 84Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 Chronicles of the Village Yin 乡阴纪事 Everyone in the village avoids me, saying my birth chart is yin and that I attract evil spirits. The dead come to collect their debts, paper effigies take people's places, and one strange thing after another happens in the countryside. Later, I discover that every one of these incidents is connected to a door inside my body. Something has been locked behind it for over a decade. It's waking up... Someone wants to seal it for ten years using one of my eyes. When the seal fails ten years from now, —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 Shadows Upon Shadows in the Old Mansion 古宅之幽影重重 Shadows Haunt the Old Mansion —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 Puppet Theater: A Marionette's Soul-Stealing Strings 木偶戏·提线索魂 Puppet Theater: The Strings That Snare Souls —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 The Road Home Gate: Infinite Hauntings 归途Gate：无限灵异 Lin Gui works the late-night shift at a convenience store. One day, a black-and-white icon suddenly appears on his phone, and he can't delete it: “Gate.” When the countdown reaches zero, he is dragged into paranormal instances parallel to reality: Hanako in an abandoned Japanese hospital, a mirror-dwelling ghost girl at a Korean school, the flying-head curse of Thailand, the deep-sea whispers of Cthulhu... Every instance comes from a real-world horror legend. The rules are brutal: die inside an —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 A Collection of Folk Ghost Stories from Guangdong 广东民间鬼故事集 The ghosts you think you see are unsolved cases. The stories you think you hear are debts left unpaid. Lin Qi, a PhD in folklore, receives an anonymous manuscript titled "A Collection of Folk Ghost Stories from Guangdong". When he opens the first page, he discovers that these are no made-up tales: The oil-paper umbrella from Guangchanglong: open it, and someone disappears; The steps at Yongfang Hall: at three in the morning, they can never be counted correctly; Eight coffins beneath Liwan Plaza: 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 Don't Borrow the Road at Night 夜里别借路 Nobody reads my book. Don't click on it, or you'll regret it. ... Please, whatever you do, don't click on it. I worked so hard to write 100,000 words, and nobody reads it. Don't click on it. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 My Master Broke a Taboo and Made Me Paint Eyes on a Paper Figure 师父犯忌讳，竟让我给纸人画眼睛 My master broke a taboo and actually asked me to paint eyes on a paper effigy —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 The Silk Road's Haunted Trail: A Gansu Paranormal Journal 丝路诡途：甘肃探灵笔记 Murong Che, a folklorist, travels to Gansu and is drawn into a tragic tale of tangled lives between the living and the dead. At a ferry crossing haunted by wronged souls, vengeful ghosts cling to him, and misfortune never lets up! [Ding! A request for help has arrived from the Haunted Ferry Crossing!] To soothe the restless spirits, he struggles to survive at every turn. In a village of colorful houses, a wronged female ghost appears night after night, beautiful and sorrowful, but not malicious. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 Strange Happenings in the Cornfield 玉米地里的怪事 Strange Happenings in the Cornfield 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 A Couple of Ghost Stories 鬼故事一二则 Have you ever encountered anything unbelievable in your daily life? Strange slipper sounds in the middle of the night, or the eerie sound of fingernails scraping? Have you experienced or heard anything like that? Each chapter is a standalone ghost story, based on the author's own experiences or stories told by people around them. Those who scare easily should read with caution. We accept no responsibility if you get scared to death... 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 Curious Tales 奇闻杂记 Have you heard of beds that make you bow your head, ghosts in the mirror, faces hidden by hair, blasting hills apart, ghostly sleep paralysis, coffin shops, casting curses and planting ghosts, glamorous tales of corpse-driving, snake demons appearing, the Eight Diagrams and mystical arts, or physiognomy from the Book of Ma Yi? Traveling far and wide through mountains, rivers, foreign lands, bustling cities, and remote villages, I visit strange places, record my findings, and bring them together. 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 Ghost Stories My Grandparents Told Me 爷爷奶奶说过的鬼故事 My new work is out! You're welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 My Boyfriend Won't Let Me Throw Away the Paper Doll I Found 我捡的纸人，男友不让扔 My boyfriend won’t let me throw away the paper doll I picked up. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 The Old Residential Compound: The Loop 老小区：循环 Old Residential Complex: Loop —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 Grandma Is the Cat-Faced Old Woman 奶奶是猫脸老太 Grandma Is the Cat-Faced Old Woman 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 Supernatural Mystery: The Haunted Bus of Western Hunan 悬疑灵异故事｜湘西鬼大巴 Mystery and Supernatural Story | The Haunted Bus of Xiangxi —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 Supernatural Mystery: The Ballad of the Lonely House 悬疑灵异故事｜孤宅童谣 Mystery and Supernatural Story | The Nursery Rhyme of the Lonely House —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 Hook in the Mist 迷雾之钩 The mist over Qinglan Reservoir never lifts. A pendant and fishhook engraved with the date 1962.7.15 don’t catch fish; they catch the living and the dead. Three years ago, documentary photographer Shen Bozhou’s heart stopped for ten minutes when he jumped into the reservoir to save his partner, who had plunged into the water under mysterious circumstances. Ever since, he has been haunted by visions from beneath the surface. Now he has returned to finish the film he left incomplete, only to find —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 The Black Cat Crosses the Coffin on the Night of Return 还魂夜黑猫过棺 The Black Cat Crosses the Coffin on the Night of the Return —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 Short Horror Mystery: Scissors 短篇悬疑恐怖故事｜剪刀 Short Mystery Horror Story | Scissors 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 Listening to Dashua Tell Terrifying Ghost Stories 听大耍讲恐怖鬼故事 [Horror + supernatural + folk tales + stories submitted by readers + plainspoken prose + episodic stories + based on real events] Note: The stories above are adapted from material the author gathered from various sources. All character names are pseudonyms. Believe in science and reject superstition. These stories are for entertainment only. Do not take them seriously!!! 437Reads—Score117Shelves
- 45 The Night Ghost Walks 夜鬼行 “Yitian, your old man’s time is almost up. I don’t think I’ll make it through tonight. You’ll have to walk the road ahead on your own. I can’t go with you anymore. There’s something I’ve kept from you all this time. I didn’t tell you because I thought it was for your own good, but now it’s time you knew the truth. Our family isn’t ordinary. Starting with your great-grandfather, every man in our family has been a yin-yang master. That’s how I know exactly how long I have to live. We also have a b 425Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 Yun Che: The Seven Lamps of the Paper Effigy Maker 云澈：扎纸人的七盏灯 Yun Che: The Seven Lamps of the Paper Effigy Maker —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 Let Me Tell You a Little Story. It’s Not Scary at All: Season One 我讲个小故事，一点儿都不吓人·第一季 Fear should lie buried in the subconscious, fading without a trace, yet it always leaves signs in everyday life. The alley where the sunset hides, the corner turned away from the neon lights, the wealthy woman sitting outside a cafe and giving passersby a malicious sidelong glance: all these traces show that when people enter the darkness beyond the reach of sunlight, fear instantly swells like a shadow and engulfs them. Come, step into my stories and experience fears that grow more terrifying t —Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 48 Midnight Paranormal Short Stories 午夜灵异小故事 Midnight Tales of the Supernatural 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 The Thousand and First Story 第一千零一个故事 Each story stands on its own. In every story, there is someone named Chen Mo. He is never the same person, yet on different nights, he always finds himself caught up in different strange happenings. Old buildings, rainy nights, long-distance buses, funeral homes, elevators, schools, haunted houses... When the truth comes to light, the living are colder than ghosts, and the past runs deeper than death. Welcome to The Thousand-and-First Story. The next story may already have begun. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 Record of Jiangnan's Haunted Towns 江南魇镇录 “My name is Jiang Nan. My former boss paid 250,000 to buy my life. He said my Four Pillars are all Yin, making me the perfect sacrifice for someone with the finest destiny.” He never expected me to survive. And he never expected my old granny to be the last spirit medium for miles around. She gave her life to shield me from my death tribulation, then placed the family heirloom, the Twelve Methods of the Xuan Sect, in my hands. She left me with a prophecy she could have told me sooner: “You can’t 2Reads—Score—Shelves
