Novels like One Chilling Story Every Night
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- 101 Old Tales of Gushui 13: The Return of the Soul 沽水旧闻13：回魂记 Old Tales of Gushui 13: The Tale of the Returning Soul —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 102 Old Tales of Gushui 14: How a Fake Daoist Caught a Real Ghost 沽水旧闻14：假道士巧拿真鬼 Old Tales of Gushui 14: How a Fake Taoist Caught a Real Ghost —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 103 Old Tales of Gushui 16: Li Laowai's Third Visit to the Ghost Court 《沽水旧闻16：李老歪三探鬼衙门》 Old Tales of Gushui 16: Li Laowai's Third Visit to the Ghost Yamen —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 104 Old Tales of Gushui 17: The Real and Fake Li Laowai, Introduction 《沽水旧闻17：真假李老歪》导语 Tales from Gushui 17: The Real and Fake Li Laowai, Introduction —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 105 Old Tales of Gushui 18: The Disappearance of Xiao Ergou 《沽水旧闻18：消失的小二狗》 Tales from Gushui 18: The Disappearance of Xiao Ergou —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 106 Old Tales of Gushui 15: Chen Ergou Raises Hell on Ghost Festival 《沽水旧闻15：陈二狗大闹中元节》 Tales from Gushui 15: Chen Ergou Raises Hell on the Ghost Festival —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 107 Old Tales of Gushui 19: A Dark Walk to Extend His Life 《沽水旧闻19：走阴续命》 Tales from Gushui 19: Extending Life Through a Yin Journey —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 108 Obsessive Spirit Master: Muxue 执念师暮雪 I am Mu Xue, a grudge exorcist who walks between the realms of yin and yang. An ancient mirror reveals the demons in people’s hearts; a bronze bell awakens old injustices and buried hatred. A red-clad female ghost combs her hair at midnight. A murderous driver picks up passengers late at night. A ghost in the mirror dies in your place... Every ghost who refuses to be reincarnated hides a life that has been crushed to pieces. I don’t guide the dead to the afterlife. I only help them get justice 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 109 Chenyu Midnight Tea House: A Collection of Folk Tales of the Strange 宸宇午夜茶馆：民间志怪故事集 [This is a collection of standalone stories, with one strange tale per episode, divided into several volumes. The volumes are updated in parallel, not one after another. They’re updated together, updated together, updated together.] One pot of hot tea, two realms of yin and yang, and late-night conversations at the third watch. Take a seat in the Midnight Teahous 5.8kReads—Score264Shelves
- 110 Afterlife Notes Bonus Story: Rouge Well 还魂笔记番外篇：胭脂井 Afterlife Notes: Bonus Story: The Rouge Well —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 111 Driver of the Underworld 幽冥司机 Bus Route 206 is hiring a night-shift driver. Liu Hao eagerly applies, only to discover that the job not only pays well but also has short hours. It’s only after he signs the contract that he realizes there’s something wrong with the bus… Strange passengers and eerie lost property leave Liu Hao wondering if he’s driving the last bus of the underworld! 391Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 112 The Paranormal Cases I Experienced Over the Years 那些年，我经历的灵异事件 [Standalone Stories] + [Supernatural Horror] + [No System] Ten years ago, after graduating from college, I happened to get a job driving a taxi. I never expected to encounter a whole series of bizarre and terrifying events! It wasn’t until later that I learned I was born with a yin fate and a pair of yin-yang eyes, but someone had sealed them when I was young. I’ve written more than a dozen stories so far, and there’s plenty to read! 4.5kReads7.3Score206Shelves
- 113 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. 44Reads—Score—Shelves
- 114 The Flayed Double 剥皮替身 The Flayed Doppelganger —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 115 Infinite Flow: Surviving the Game by Eating Fetal Dumplings 无限流：从吃胎婴饺开始求生游戏 [Two male leads + horror + hilarious comedy + mind-bending puzzles + lots of sweetness] My name is Jiang Yunyin, and I'm an apprentice mortician. I never thought I'd die one day by “freezing to death in a bathroom.” After I died, I came to the Horror World. To be reborn, I began taking on the horror trials the System told me about. It was supposed to be just a survival game, but it was far more difficult than I imagined. A maternal and child health hospital where women's wails and babies' cries 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 116 Infinite Games: From Street Fighter to Life 无限游戏：从街霸到人生 The night after the college entrance exam, Lin Wu's life had barely begun before it ended. A car crash. Of the forty-two people in the vehicle, thirty-eight died. When she woke up, she found herself in a world called “Real Game.” The rules are simple: three lives, twelve game worlds, and twelve game coins. Collect them all, and you can trade them for one wish, including the chance to change the past. But this isn't a game. If you die, you really die. Iori Yagami from The King of Fighters '97 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 117 The Pure Yin Groom 极阴新郎 The Extremely Yin Groom —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 118 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—Shelves
- 119 The Tenant in Room 404 出租屋的404号房客 The Tenant in Room 404 —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 120 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—Shelves
- 121 Room 204 204号房 Room 204 —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 122 Midnight Tales of Strange and Unusual Things 午夜奇谈异闻录 Lin Xia, an archaeology student, discovers a cracked bronze mirror in an abandoned ancient temple in Gansu. Engraved on its back are the words, “See the demons within your heart, and your soul shall return to the Yellow Springs.” That night, Lin Xia shines a phone light at the mirror in the dormitory, only to see the reflection of a younger brother who drowned in childhood. In reality, his brother’s portrait sits by the bedside... As bizarre events unfold one after another, an ordinary life is —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 123 Strange Tales from Songlinggou 松岭沟异闻录 Tales of the Strange from Songlinggou —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 124 Lost in a Matriarchal Society 误入母系社会 Lost in a Matriarchal Society 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 125 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—Shelves
- 126 The Old House's Vengeful Ghost 老宅鬼魅戾影 The Vengeful Ghosts of the Old House —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 127 The Impostors: The Whole World Is Fake, and I'm the Only Real Human 伪人：全世界都是假的，只有我是真人 Impostors: The Whole World Is Fake, and I'm the Only Real Person 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 128 Midnight Terror! Is There Someone in the Mirror? 夜半惊魂！镜里有人？ A Midnight Fright! Someone in the Mirror? —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 129 The Filing Cabinet on Basement Level One 负一层的档案柜 The Filing Cabinet on Level B1 —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 130 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—Shelves
- 131 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—Shelves
- 132 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. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 133 Chenyu Midnight Teahouse: A Collection of Strange Tales 宸宇午夜茶馆：短篇志怪故事集 Midnight. The tea boils. The lamps dim. When the city falls silent, stories from another world are just beginning. The Midnight Teahouse of Chenyu gathers dozens of Chinese-style tales of the strange and supernatural, told with the easygoing voice of a storyteller in an old teahouse. They unfold strange local happenings, the secrets of old houses, and eerie tales from the streets and alleys. Written in modern vernacular while carrying on the spirit of classical anecdotal tales, these stories wea 8.1kReads—Score419Shelves
- 134 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 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 135 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—Shelves
- 136 Paranormal Ghost Story: The Lingering Yin Debt 灵异鬼故事：残阴债 A Ghost Story: The Lingering Yin Debt 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 137 Don't Touch That Red Coffin 别碰那口红棺 Don't Touch That Red Coffin 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 138 The Iron Coffin in Black Dragon Pool 黑龙潭的铁棺 The Iron Coffin in Black Dragon Pool 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 139 Midnight Convenience Store: Every Sale Sets Fate in Motion 午夜便利店：售出即因果 I inherited my grandmother’s convenience store, a shop that only opens at midnight. It doesn’t sell water or food. It only sells old objects tainted by karma. Old combs, old wallets, old rings… Every item conceals a life and a trail of sins… Buy an item, and you must bear the consequences of your own misdeeds. I’m cold and taciturn. I never sympathize, and I never go easy on anyone. Some beg for mercy through their tears; others kneel and repent. I simply say: All sales are final. You bear the c 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 140 Keeper of the Hearth: I Receive the Immortals in Northeast China 守灶人，我在东北领仙 A Northeast Chinese folk-custom tale about inviting celestial spirits. The Hearth Guardians protect homes and drive out evil, delivering hard-hitting tales of spirit warriors. The last Hearth Guardian holds the line in Northeast China! He commands celestial spirit troops, subdues vicious ghosts across the land, handles the strange affairs of spirit mediums, and protects the peace and warmth of the human world. Let no evil draw near! You know about the spirit mediums of Northeast China, but if yo 3Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 141 Grandma's Tales of Strange Happenings in the Village 奶奶讲的乡村诡事 Grandma's Tales of Strange Things in the Countryside 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 142 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
- 143 Tales of the Uncanny in Jiangnan 江南诡事录 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 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 144 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
- 145 Tales of Folk Monsters: Ghosts and the Supernatural! 民间怪谈录，灵异鬼怪！ 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 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 146 Tales of Folk Ghosts 民间鬼故事说 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—Shelves
- 147 The Haunted Hearse 灵车诡事 I'm an ambulance driver for the dead. When I first started the job, Third Master told me a few rules every hearse driver must follow. Then one day, to pay off my loan, I transported a bizarre corpse... 316Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 148 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
- 149 Midnight Horror Stories 午夜恐怖小故事 A collection of mildly scary horror stories!! Hope you enjoy them!! Thank you, everyone!! There are more than two protagonists. There are lots of them!! Welcome, and enjoy!! 25Reads—Score—Shelves
- 150 Afterlife Notes Bonus Story: Embroidering Souls 还魂笔记番外篇：绣魂 The Soul-Returning Notes: Embroidered Souls 1Reads—Score—Shelves
