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  1. 1 Soul: The Guide 灵魂：引路人 Double Happiness Sauce双福酱Mystery272k WordsOngoing Lin Yue, 24, is a rookie detective with the Criminal Investigation Division of the Beijiang Public Security Bureau and a firm materialist. One rainy night, he receives a report: residents of an old apartment block claim they can hear knocking from inside an empty unit. After forcing their way in, he finds a woman’s corpse sealed inside the wall, hidden there for six months. The corners of her mouth have been slit up to her ears, and her death is grotesque. Even more disturbing, that night he h 1Reads—Score—14d adds
  2. 2 The Singing in the Tomb 墓室里面的歌声 Zhengyang New Moon正阳新月23k WordsCompleted The Singing in the Tomb —Reads—Score—14d adds
  3. 3 The Woman Who Crawled Out of the Dry Well 枯井里爬上来的女人 Zhengyang New Moon正阳新月31k WordsCompleted The Woman Who Climbed Out of the Dry Well —Reads—Score—14d adds
  4. 4 Strange Tales of the Maze City: Spirit Detective 迷城诡事之灵探 Wangcai Who Loves to Wander爱溜达的大旺财Mystery7k WordsCompleted Mysteries of the Haunted City: Spirit Investigator 1Reads—Score—14d adds
  5. 5 Tales of the Strange 聊斋那些事 Wolf Fang Potato狼牙土豆啊Mystery235k WordsCompleted Have you ever heard of a plain-language version of Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio? A scholar spends the night in an abandoned house and is welcomed into a beautiful woman's arms, only to discover that her face is a painted skin. A poor young man finds a fox. The fox says, “I’ll marry you, but you must never look at my tail.” At the mass graves outside town, someone tells stories every night. Anyone who listens disappears the next day. Don’t be afraid. These are all stories passed down by ou 3Reads—Score—14d adds
  6. 6 On My Wedding Day, My Deceased Sister Texted: You Can't Marry This Man 婚礼当天，亡妹发短信：这人不能嫁 Entering the Inkstone, Emerging from the Mountains入砚出山9k WordsCompleted On her wedding day, her deceased younger sister texted her: Don't marry this man. —Reads—Score—14d adds
  7. 7 Tales of the Countryside: My Grandma Was a Midwife 乡野怪谈之我的姥姥是稳婆 The Salt Granules Aren't Salty盐粒子不咸Mystery170k WordsOngoing At the foot of Mount Maqi, midwife Zhang Guilan spent her life delivering babies on nighttime roads. Other midwives delivered human babies. The ones she delivered were ghosts, demons, and wronged spirits from the wilderness. Road-blocking skin-sellers, water ghosts demanding souls, Pixihuzi repaying a debt of gratitude, and Li the Bald-Tailed Dragon making his presence known. She didn't believe in the supernatural when she was young. Only after surviving countless dangers did she understand t 147Reads—Score—14d adds
  8. 8 My Best Friend Urged Me to Get a Tattoo, But I Ended Up Tattooing Ghost Skin 闺蜜劝我纹身，可我竟然纹了鬼皮 Entering the Inkstone, Emerging from the Mountains入砚出山13k WordsCompleted My best friend urged me to get a tattoo, but somehow I ended up tattooing ghost skin on myself 86Reads—Score—14d adds
  9. 9 My Great-Grandfather Is a Vicious Spirit 我的太爷爷是凶煞 Ailibaba from Jiangnan Water Country江南水乡的艾丽爸Mystery312k WordsCompleted The male lead isn't invincible. He's just a pathetic rideshare driver, and if his great-grandfather hadn't shown up to protect him, he'd have died a thousand times over. You can pay respects to a thousand or so ancestors and not know who most of them are. But the ancestors you worship may choose to share their spirit with you based on how you treat them. Zhou Qingliang ended up worshipping a vicious great-grandfather. “Would you look at that, you came to me to build up your virtue in the afterli —Reads—Score—14d adds
  10. 10 Cultivating Buddhism and Taoism, I Befriend the Paranormal 佛道双修我与诡异为伍 Gong Jin公谨Mystery135k WordsCompleted No System, no harem, no goody-two-shoes protagonist, and either one or two heroines. Fresh out of college, Chen Xiao scraped by delivering takeout in his spare time. One night, he accidentally crossed paths with something unclean, and from then on, evil spirits clung to him relentlessly. Strange events kept happening, and misfortune followed him everywhere. On the road, he ran into a ragged wandering monk. Unable to turn a blind eye, Chen Xiao gave him a little help. He never imagined that this 5Reads—Score—14d adds
  11. 11 A Notebook of Ghost Stories 鬼故事手札 Mountains, Seas, Clouds, and Evening山海云夕57k WordsCompleted A Notebook of Ghost Stories 1Reads—Score—14d adds
  12. 12 The Ghost's Prophecy 鬼无谶 Qu Shen去甚Mystery370k WordsCompleted Half a bowl of clear water reflects the universe; a single spirit talisman commands ghosts and gods. I tread the Eight Trigrams path of yin and yang, wielding a wooden sword to slay demonic spirits. Once every three thousand years, the appointed day arrives. Three years before it, spring begins. Since ancient times, those bound by fate have met, and beyond the nine heavens stands the Three Pure Ones. The heavenly altar resounds with the melody of the horn, welcoming the sacred presence as it des 12Reads—Score—14d adds
  13. 13 Rule Horror: Abyss Metro 规则怪谈：深渊地铁 Did the Boss Go Bankrupt Today?老板今天破产了吗Mystery220k WordsOngoing [Rules-Based Horror + Infinite Flow + Suspenseful Mysteries + Deduction and Puzzles + Character Growth] The ticket gate spat out a blood-red ticket. It read: Welcome aboard the Abyss Metro. This train is bound for Level 18. That was the first time Cheng Chi learned that the subway he crammed onto every day could take him to hell. Every station brought new rules. The rules could change, deceive, and contradict one another. Some died in the glass reflections on the Mirror Platform. Some walked 6Reads—Score—14d adds
  14. 14 Tales of the Strange: King of Destruction 怪谈：破坏之王 Dragon Going Against the Current龙行逆水Mystery237k WordsOngoing The bane of everyone’s existence in the urban legend game is back. Whether you’re a monster or a demon beast, you’d better stay far away. Otherwise, everything’s going to go to pieces. I’m Hao Yun. The monsters all hate me, and I’m so sad... [Mystery + Imaginative Premises + Original Scenarios + Comedy + No Female Lead + Cunning Twists] 1Reads—Score—14d adds
  15. 15 I Have a Ghostly Wife 我有鬼娇妻 Feng Ting枫霆Mystery134k WordsOngoing [Mystery] [Comedy] Have you ever experienced something like this? I mean, asking for a wife at the bottom of a dry well! I live in a small village in the mountains, cut off from the outside world. No outsiders have visited in hundreds of years. Maybe it's because of a curse, but no baby girls have ever been born in our village. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
  16. 16 Haunted 撞邪 Young Master Shao Bao少鸨主Mystery290k WordsCompleted Can you guarantee that the people around you are really human? A lowly office worker had always kept his head down and worked in silence, until one day he accidentally discovered that his coworkers weren’t human at all… To stay alive, he has to pretend everything is normal, struggling to survive in the narrow cracks of this place day after day… 4.2kReads8.4Score30414d adds
  17. 17 Multiple Fears 多重恐惧 Little Shi Hears Nothing小世不闻Mystery401k WordsCompleted An invitation to a party brings together nine writers, each with a very different style. At the party, the novelist who invited them traps everyone inside and demands that each guest tell a story. With no other choice, they comply. One story after another unfolds at the party: will they reveal the clash of human nature or unleash ghostly terrors? Everything will come to light here. "This is my debut work. I hope you'll show it plenty of support." 9Reads—Score—14d adds
  18. 18 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 The Rainy-Night Postman雨夜邮递员6k WordsCompleted Taboos of the Abandoned Village: A Whistle in the Dead of Night, and a White-Cloth Corpse Spirit Comes Calling —Reads—Score—14d adds
  19. 19 Opening the Sparrow Gate 开雀门 Wild Tales from the Heavenly Realm天方野谭Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted While my mother was carrying me, I was sitting upright in her womb. The doctors all said the birth would be difficult, but my grandmother traded my life to a spirit messenger. My Xuanwu even went so far as to strip off his skin and bones for me! My relatives sought out one master after another to protect me, but sadly, they all said the good fortune I was born with was nowhere near enough to keep me alive. If I wanted to survive, I had no choice but to embark on the path of cultivation. From Sha 34Reads7.1Score—14d adds
  20. 20 Rift in the Abyss: We Awakened the Old Ones 深渊裂隙：我们唤醒旧日支配者 Elder Sugar Is So Sweet糖长老很甜Mystery35k WordsCompleted 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—14d adds
  21. 21 The Heavenly Master of Zhuyou 祝由天师 Green Fish CC青鱼CCMystery2.5M WordsCompleted After my grandfather dies, I inherit the art of Zhuyou and become a ghost doctor who wanders the mortal world. I've treated the living, tormented by evil ghosts, and helped the wronged spirits bullied by wicked people. As I encounter more and more evil entities, I learn more of Zhuyou's secrets. I get drawn deeper into it all, with less and less control over my own fate. A corpse alive in a mass grave, an evil spirit kept in an old mansion, a fingerless woman who steals people's lifespans. Every 140Reads6.5Score—14d adds
  22. 22 Shadows in the Daylight 白昼暗影 One Night to Bathe the Heart一夜沐心Mystery198k WordsOngoing 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—14d adds
  23. 23 The Otherworldly Netherworld 异站冥途 No Stars Beneath the Moon月下不见星Mystery164k WordsOngoing 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... 17Reads—Score—14d adds
  24. 24 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 Mumu Can't Sleep木木睡不着Mystery261k WordsCompleted 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! 11Reads—Score—14d adds
  25. 25 The Coffin Prison 囚棺 Yan Qizi颜期子Mystery968k WordsCompleted The seventh-night return of the soul. A peaceful death is called a returning calamity; a violent death is called a returning evil spirit. On the day the evil spirit returns, the household is unsettled, and another death may follow. A man must be chosen to send the spirit away. After my second uncle hanged himself, I once had to send a spirit away. As a result, I was marked by it. 476Reads8.5Score—14d adds
  26. 26 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 Why Is That这是为什么Mystery244k WordsOngoing [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...? 9Reads8.0Score—14d adds
  27. 27 The Ghost Wedding Palanquin of Qingfeng 青峰鬼轿 The Dazed Little Sprite迷迷糊糊小精灵43k WordsCompleted The Ghost Sedan from Qingfeng 1Reads—Score—14d adds
  28. 28 You Expect a High Schooler Like Me to Marry a Thousand-Year-Old Female Ghost? 你让我一个高中生娶千年女鬼？ Waiting by the Phone for Her守着电话等她Mystery102k WordsOngoing The white cat my classmate casually picked up during evening study turned out to be a Huang Xian spirit that had cultivated its way to enlightenment. After I so much as glanced at it, it wanted to take my internal organs. To stay alive, I had no choice but to enter a ghost marriage and wed a ghost bride... 25Reads—Score—14d adds
  29. 29 The God in the Cage 笼中之神 North and South Aren't Things, Are They?南北不是东西吧Mystery155k WordsOngoing This is a requiem for prisoners, echoing between the abyss of reality and illusion. When the prison of consciousness is exposed, will you choose to sink into a sweet lie, or awaken to a cruel truth and be destroyed? The answer was already decided from the very start of the search. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
  30. 30 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
  31. 31 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 Are You an Elephant?你是大象吗Mystery263k WordsOngoing [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—Score98014d adds
  32. 32 Yin-Yang Ghost Arts Master 阴阳鬼术师 Chong Xiayueban虫下月半Mystery1.3M WordsCompleted Some bargains are too tempting to take; accepting them might cost you your life. After Old Wang downstairs died, people around me kept inexplicably trying to give me money, and these offers of money were often followed by death. To stay alive, I had no choice but to learn the secret arts Old Wang left behind, stepping into a mysterious underworld... 491Reads7.9Score10214d adds
  33. 33 The Bride from the Underworld 来自阴间的新娘 Black General黑将灬Mystery1.6M WordsCompleted On the night my neighbor got married, the bride died because of me… 1.1kReads6.8Score10314d adds
  34. 34 Grandpa Started the Trouble, Three Generations Must Pay 爷爷闯下的祸，三代来还 The Rainy-Night Postman雨夜邮递员9k WordsCompleted The trouble Grandpa caused will take three generations to repay. 3Reads—Score—14d adds
  35. 35 The Southeast Asian Medium 东南亚通灵先生 Wild Goose Before the Hall堂前雁Mystery441k WordsCompleted Under duress, I embedded a woman's corpse inside a Buddha statue in a temple. After I was framed, Master Dad taught me Southeast Asian spirit-medium arts. From that day on, the world I saw was no longer inhabited by the living alone... 3.5kReads8.4Score42414d adds
  36. 36 Patroller of the Living World 阳间巡逻人 Ninth Master of East City城东九爷Mystery1.3M WordsCompleted Stories of spirit babies have circulated in the countryside of Sichuan and Chongqing for generations. When a baby dies, its lingering resentment can turn it into a ghost. Spirit babies were most common during the height of the one-child policy. As a child, I fed crows, which left me with an unusually strong aura of yin. Spirit babies often mistook me for one of their own, so someone later raised a ghost to protect me. On top of that, I have to work for the Underworld Bureau just to stay alive. 506Reads7.3Score—14d adds
  37. 37 Strange Tales from the Northeast Paranormal Investigation Bureau 东北民调局异闻录 Year After Year一年有一年Mystery609k WordsCompleted This is an organization dedicated to investigating and handling all kinds of bizarre supernatural events. To avoid causing public panic, it was established under the name Bureau of Folklore Investigations. The novel reimagines and develops various supernatural legends from Northeast China. Its strange events and compelling stories are presented with a distinctive Northeastern sense of humor. All manner of mysterious incidents, mountain spirits, and ghosts are told here! 403Reads—Score—14d adds
  38. 38 The Temple That Eats People 吃人的庙 The Rainy-Night Postman雨夜邮递员16k WordsCompleted The Man-Eating Temple 1Reads—Score—14d adds
  39. 39 Horror Urban Legends: An Unspeakable Fear 惊悚怪谈：不可名状的恐惧 A Few Pages Last Night昨夜浅书Mystery305k WordsCompleted 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 108Reads—Score—14d adds
  40. 40 After My Face Was Stolen, I Drew the Six Realms of Living Beings 我的脸被夺走后我画出六道众生相 Watching Snow on a Sunny Day晴天看雪Mystery186k WordsOngoing My face was stolen. It wasn’t disfigured. It wasn’t disguised. My face was literally gone. To stay alive, I had no choice but to paint one new face after another onto my own. Human, ghost, demon, beast, god, immortal. Every face I painted gave me a new ability. As I tried to reclaim my original face, I gradually discovered that this world was far more complicated than it seemed. 96Reads—Score12614d adds
  41. 41 Chronicles of Strange Events 异事簿 Mu Yixi木易兮Mystery1.3M WordsCompleted When I was eight, I accidentally drowned. The village's mad Taoist came to my house and told my parents to give me a grand seven-day funeral with gongs and drums. After seven days, I would return to life. During the funeral, lightning flashed every day and the rain poured without stopping. Everyone in the village said it was a bad omen. On the seventh day, strange phenomena suddenly appeared in the sky. The mad Taoist returned to my house, told me to take the moon in the sky as my godmother, and 35Reads—Score—14d adds
  42. 42 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
  43. 43 Tales from the Countryside: One Ghost Story Per Chapter 乡野怪谈一章一个鬼故事 Fiendish Butcher鬼蜮屠夫Mystery485k WordsCompleted A collection of standalone stories, one tale per chapter [Horror] [Supernatural Tales] [Rural Legends] [Folktales] [Based on True Cases] If you don't want to follow a long novel, this anthology of the best, core horror stories is just right for you! Bring along your unlucky friends, and don't go anywhere, because you could get "scared out of your wits" at any moment. 34Reads—Score10114d adds
  44. 44 Yin-Yang Travels in a Mountain Village 山村阴阳行 Writing About the Realm提笔论江山Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted My name is Chen Jiujin, and I'm a wandering tradesman. To put it plainly, when someone has a haunting on their hands, they hire me to take a look. This time, I came to Zhou Family Village. A seventeen-year-old girl had been followed by something foul. She drank chicken blood, dug up graves in the middle of the night, and kept repeating the same words: “Give me back my life.” I thought it was just an ordinary wandering ghost. But I was wrong. The thing inside that girl's belly wasn't a ghost. It 2.7kReads6.4Score22114d adds
  45. 45 Professional Funeral Watcher 职业守灵人 Deep Love Always Ends in Heartbreak深情总被殇Mystery962k WordsOngoing At funerals, there is a ritual called “keeping vigil.” I am a professional vigil keeper. People pay me to keep watch over their dead. Over the course of my career, I have witnessed far too many touching stories and tragic circumstances. But most of all, I have encountered strange and terrifying events. And it all began the first time I saw a ghost while keeping vigil... 194Reads6.9Score13714d adds
  46. 46 The Seventh Night After Death 头七 Ma Nanshan马南山Mystery1.3M WordsCompleted 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—14d adds
  47. 47 I'm Just a Photographer, So Why Do I Keep Seeing Ghosts?! 我就是个摄影师，为什么总见鬼！ Carefree Little Idler逍遥小闲人Mystery307k WordsOngoing [Original Work] [First Published Here] [Supernatural Horror] [Mystery and Puzzles] [Chinese-Style Horror] [Folk Supernatural] [Light Transmigration] Photographer Lin Shen ventured alone to an abandoned manor in the wilderness, hoping to capture a series of supernatural photographs that could turn his career around. Instead, he was lost in a ravine forever. When he opened his eyes again, he had transmigrated into the body of He Xun, another freelance photographer. Like before, he made a living wi 4Reads—Score—14d adds
  48. 48 A Fading Lamp Shines on the Lonely Dead 残灯照孤冥 Seven Days in a Dream入梦七天Mystery503k WordsCompleted (Mystery + supernatural + no female lead) (Ghost case files + Taoist arts) (Tomato Original) The male lead is born under the fate of a lone star of calamity, destined to walk alone. A dying lamp lights the lonely darkness, and that darkness lights me in turn. 331Reads—Score—14d adds
  49. 49 The Haunted Coffin 诡棺 Heir of Mount Longhu龙虎山传人Mystery1.5M WordsCompleted When the coffin opens, the living are doomed to grief! My sister-in-law hanged herself, but no one could take her body down from the white cloth... As it turned out, I had been burdened with a mission from the very beginning, one that would push me down a strange and sinister path! 713Reads—Score10114d adds
  50. 50 The Yin Guardian: The Mysterious Divine Coffin Hidden Beneath the Mountain 守阴人：藏在山底的神秘天棺 Still Sleepy睡不醒觉觉Mystery134k WordsOngoing After I encountered the Ghost Granny, my dad died. Later, I found my older brother, and then my grandpa died too. Somehow, I became the last Guardian of the Yin. Later, I discovered that it wasn't the Ghost Granny behind it all, but another conspiracy hidden from view. [Entirely written by hand, no AI writing!] 225Reads—Score—14d adds

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