Novels like Midnight Terror: Tales of the Supernatural
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- 51 The Strange Happenings of Shazao Village 沙枣村诡事 Adili is assigned to take up residence in Shazao Village. Before him, seven village cadres had mysteriously met their ends in this remote Gobi settlement. His own uncle had “died in the line of duty” there, but the case file gave no more than a cursory mention of the cause of death, with no evidence to be found. At midnight, donkey hooves sound across the sand, pausing after every seven steps. A red-eyed evil donkey crouches before a grave and calls softly: “Climb on. I’ll take you to find your —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 52 Married to an Evil Spirit: The Red Veil of Huaian Village 嫁煞：槐安村的红盖头 Married to a Malevolent Spirit: The Red Veil of Huaian Village —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 53 Xuanhuan: Why Do I Keep Running into Weird Things?! 玄幻：我也不想碰见怪事啊！ [Transmigration + sweet romance + modern cultivation + the uncanny + farming] Young master Rong Jinghe, who was just an ordinary classmate, suddenly transmigrates with Qiao Chuchu and is told she has to be his girlfriend? The tragedy of the Deng family is shrouded in mystery. Must this unlucky girl, Qiao Chuchu, be the one to deal with every family’s troubles? The ghosts that have haunted this place for years can’t be driven away by the exorcists you’ve hired all this time, so now a young girl l —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 54 I Ran into an Old Friend at the Village Entrance, Only to Learn I'd Been Dead for Ages 村口遇发小，才知我早已猝死 I Ran Into My Childhood Friend at the Village Entrance, Only to Learn I’d Died Suddenly Long Ago —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 55 The Missing Third Hand 消失的第三只手 The Missing Third Hand 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 56 The Blue-Faced Corpse Demon: An Exorcist’s Tale from the Mountains of Central Shandong 青面尸魈：鲁中山区降妖记 The Green-Faced Corpse Demon: Exorcisms in the Mountains of Central Shandong 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 57 Hauntings on the Qingshui River: A Copper Coin Flower Blossoms from an Eight-Year-Old Corpse’s Chest 青水河诡事：八岁童尸胸口开出铜钱花 The Strange Happenings of Qing Shui River: A Copper-Coin Blossom Sprouts from an Eight-Year-Old Corpse’s Chest —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 58 My Roommate Vanished: The Last Recording from Room 604 我的室友蒸发了：604的最后录像 My Roommate Vanished: 604's Final Recording —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 59 The Horror Never Ends 恐怖不断到来 Ghosts are real if you believe in them, and nonexistent if you don't! Unemployed, I stumbled into a fancy supermarket by chance. The beautiful owner offered me a high salary and great benefits, with just one requirement: I had to protect her around the clock! From then on, one eerie event followed another, and terror kept closing in. It turned out everything was because of... 1.3kReads5.0Score13014d adds
- 60 I've Said Eight Hundred Times That My Surname Is Ma, But I'm Not Chu 说八百遍我姓马但不是出 [Feel-good power fantasy + rebirth + ghost hunting + horror + System + Northeastern Chinese dialect + comedy + fighting + face-slapping + scheming] The male lead was born into the Ma family of Northeast China. He was an obscure nobody until an accident awakened the power within him. His grandfather took him back to their old village to learn the Ma family's abilities. From then on, wherever there are ghosts, he's sure to be there. 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 61 Northeast China Paranormal Cases: Calling Spirits 东北灵异事件:问灵招魂 Northeast Paranormal Incidents: Calling Spirits and Summoning Souls —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 62 A New Tale of Song Dingbo: The Faceless Ghost 宋定伯新篇之无面鬼 A New Tale of Song Dingbo: The Faceless Ghost 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 63 Old Tales of Gushui 4: The Scales of Conscience 沽水旧闻4：良心秤 Old Tales of Gushui 4: The Scales of Conscience —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 64 Old Tales of Gushui 5: The Three-Ghost Mystery 沽水旧闻5：三鬼奇案 Old Tales of Gushui 5: The Strange Case of the Three Ghosts —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 65 Old Tales of Gushui: The Jade Toad of the Ghost Market 沽水旧闻：鬼市玉蟾记 Old Tales of Gushui: The Jade Toad of the Ghost Market —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 66 Old Tales of Gushui 9: The Wonton Tale 沽水旧闻9：馄饨记 Old Tales of Gushui 9: The Wonton Tale —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 67 Old Tales of Gushui 2: The Phantom in the Opera Trunk 沽水旧闻2：戏箱魅影 Old Tales of Gushui 2: The Phantom in the Opera Trunk —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 68 Old Tales of Gushui 3: The Tale of the Mirror 沽水旧闻3：镜中记 Old Tales of Gushui 3: The Tale in the Mirror —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 69 Old Tales of Gushui 6: The Crying Next Door 沽水旧闻6：隔壁的哭声 Old Tales of Gushui 6: The Crying Next Door —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 70 Old Tales of Gushui 7: Li Laowai Hunts Demons 沽水旧闻7：李老歪捉妖 Old Tales of Gushui 7: Li Laowai Hunts a Demon —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 71 Old Tales of Gushui 8: Chen Ergou Steals a Jade Ruyi by Night 沽水旧闻8：陈二狗夜盗玉如意 Old Tales of Gushui 8: Chen Ergou Steals a Jade Ruyi by Night —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 72 Old Tales of Gushui 10: The Shadow Peddler 沽水旧闻10：影子货郎 Old Tales of Gushui 10: The Shadow Peddler —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 73 Old Tales of Gushui 11: Chen Ergou's Encounter with Evil 沽水旧闻11：陈二狗撞邪 Old Tales of Gushui 11: Chen Ergou Encounters Evil —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 74 Old Tales of Gushui 12: Outwitting Daoist Zhang 沽水旧闻12：智斗妖道张 Old Tales of Gushui 12: A Battle of Wits with Zhang the Demon Taoist —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 75 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—14d adds
- 76 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—14d adds
- 77 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—14d adds
- 78 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—14d adds
- 79 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—14d adds
- 80 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—14d adds
- 81 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—14d adds
- 82 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! 395Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 83 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! 4.7kReads7.3Score20614d adds
- 84 The Flayed Double 剥皮替身 The Flayed Doppelganger —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 85 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—14d adds
- 86 Short Horror Mystery: Scissors 短篇悬疑恐怖故事｜剪刀 Short Mystery Horror Story | Scissors 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 87 Strange Tales from Songlinggou 松岭沟异闻录 Tales of the Strange from Songlinggou —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 88 Lost in a Matriarchal Society 误入母系社会 Lost in a Matriarchal Society 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 89 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
- 90 The Old House's Vengeful Ghost 老宅鬼魅戾影 The Vengeful Ghosts of the Old House —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 91 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 —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 92 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—14d adds
- 93 The Filing Cabinet on Basement Level One 负一层的档案柜 The Filing Cabinet on Level B1 —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 94 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
- 95 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
- 96 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—14d adds
- 97 Strange Happenings on a Country Road at Night 乡间夜路诡事 As you walk along a country road at night, have you ever heard strange footsteps? This book collects a series of rural supernatural tales set in deserted villages and old houses, telling of eerie incidents passed down by word of mouth that no one dares investigate too closely. With no reliance on exaggerated descriptions, it uses details drawn from everyday life to send a bone-deep chill through you. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 98 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 13Reads—Score314d adds
- 99 The Funeral Bearer of the Desolate Village 荒村送葬人 When the suona sounds, it sends off neither ghosts nor gods. It only buries the player. Nineteen years old, a severed finger, a lonely tower, and a deadly Three Corpses Seal in his belly. Behind him, a skin-flaying demon. Before him, red coffins and mist. Not a single person beside him could be trusted. Driven to the brink, he blew the battered suona he’d found. The tune was off-key, yet it shook the underworld. Since this world insists on making me a sacrifice, I’ll be the corpse-piper who send 3.2kReads8.2Score20614d adds
- 100 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... 324Reads6.6Score—14d adds
