Novels like Elvira Sanatorium
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- 51 Funeral Shroud Shop Taboos: I Don't Sew Clothes for the Dead, but Souls for the Living 寿衣店禁忌：我缝的不是死人衣，是活人魂 Funeral Shroud Shop Taboos: What I Sew Isn't a Dead Person's Garment, but a Living Person's Soul 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 52 The Person Under the Bed, the Eye on the Wall, the Peeping Tom Outside the Door 床下的人，墙上的眼，门外的窥 The person beneath the bed, the eye on the wall, the peeping outside the door 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 53 The Upstairs Is the Underworld 楼上是阴间 The Upstairs Neighbor Is from the Underworld 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 54 Rule Horror: After My Coworker Lao Zhou Dropped Dead 规则怪谈：同事老周猝死之后 Rule Horror: After My Colleague Lao Zhou Dropped Dead 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 55 Sacrificial Red: Strange Tales from a Deep-Mountain Base Station 祭红·深山基站·诡事录 Offering Red: Strange Tales from a Remote Mountain Relay Station 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 56 The Haunted Solitary Mountain (Mountain Spirit) 孤山诡事（山鬼） Strange Tales of Solitary Mountain (Mountain Spirit) 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 57 After Hacking Into a Stranger's Photo Album and Finding Pictures of a Murder 黑进陌生人相册发现杀人照片之后 After Hacking Into a Stranger's Photo Album and Finding Pictures of a Murder 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 58 The Black Dog of Misty Mountain 雾山黑犬 Black Dog of Mist Mountain 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 59 Twelve Ghosts 十二鬼魂 Twelve Ghosts 17Reads—Score214d adds
- 60 Is Someone Hiding in Your Ceiling? 你家天花板有没有藏人？ Is Someone Hiding in Your Ceiling? —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 61 A Criminal Gang Moved into Our Neighborhood, and I’m Their Target 小区进了犯罪团伙，他们的目标竟是我 A Criminal Gang Moved Into My Neighborhood, and I Was Their Target —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 62 My Wife Says She Cheated on Me 老婆说她出轨了 My Wife Says She Cheated —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 63 Heimu Creek: Bloodstained Human-Skin Paper Spat Out in the Dead of Night 黑木溪：深夜吐出的带血人皮纸 Blackwood Creek: Bloodstained Human Skin Paper Spat Out in the Dead of Night —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 64 Rule Horror: Zhen Huan’s Reminder, Never Look into the Bronze Mirror 规则怪谈：甄嬛谨记勿照铜镜 Rule Horror: Zhen Huan, Remember Never to Look in the Bronze Mirror 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 65 What Came Back from the Mountains When the Fog Rolled In 浓雾起时，从山里跟回来的东西 The Thing That Followed Me Back from the Mountains When the Fog Rose 1Reads—Score114d adds
- 66 Transmigrated Woman, Stop Causing Trouble 穿越女，别作妖 Transmigrated Woman, Stop Making Trouble —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 67 Basement Floor B1-07 负一楼B1-07 Basement Level B1-07 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 68 Forbidden Zone Livestream: That Invitation Is Made of Human Skin 直播禁地：那封请柬，是人皮做的 Livestreaming in the Forbidden Zone: That Invitation Was Made of Human Skin —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 69 The Pocket Watch Murder Game: I Killed Myself 怀表杀局：我杀了我 The Pocket Watch Murder Plot: I Killed Myself —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 70 Shocking! I'm the Only Human in the Class 震惊！全班只有我是人 Shocking! I’m the Only Human in the Whole Class 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 71 When the Red Light Turns On, Please Die 红灯亮，请去死 The light is red. Go die. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 72 Rule Horror: No One at That School Is Allowed to Open Their Eyes at Midnight 规则怪谈：那所学校禁止在午夜睁眼 Rule Horror: That School Forbids You to Open Your Eyes at Midnight —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 73 The Landlord in the Wall, Watching Me Every Night 墙缝里的房东，每晚都在看我 The Landlord in the Wall Gap Watches Me Every Night 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 74 She Came Back After I Tore Up My Dead Wife's Photograph 撕碎亡妻遗照后，她回来了 After She Tore Up Her Late Wife’s Portrait, She Came Back 24Reads—Score—14d adds
- 75 Haunted House Sleep Test: The Agent Said Not to Be Afraid, This Manual Teaches You How to Torment Ghosts 凶宅试睡：中介说别怕，这本手册是教你怎么折磨鬼的 Haunted House Sleep Tester: The Agent Says, “Don’t Be Scared. This Manual Teaches You How to Torture Ghosts.” 56Reads—Score114d adds
- 76 My Dead Husband’s Memo: Don’t Look Back, Honey 亡夫备忘录：老婆别回头 Widow's Memo: Don't Look Back, Wife 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 77 Underworld Agent 地府经纪人 I was hit by a basketball at school and fell into a lake, but I survived and became an official employee of the Underworld. I also gained a Ghost Hunter System that helps the Underworld recruit talented ghosts, setting me on the path to turning my life around. 56Reads6.8Score414d adds
- 78 Out of Control 失控者 [Anthology stories + supernatural horror + folk customs + feng shui and mysticism + subtle scares + jaw-dropping twists] Open a paper box sealed away for many years, and one terrifying incident after another begins to surface. The massacre that wiped out an entire family in Nanhua Estate, and the deaths of everyone connected to the case! A bride in a red qipao appearing by your side in the dead of night! Strange legends circulate through a dilapidated high-rise, where hands reach out of the dark 39Reads—Score314d adds
- 79 The Haunted Grave 诡坟 I think I've been possessed! Right before the college entrance exam, I suddenly came down with a high fever that wouldn't break. I missed the exam and had to spend half a year recovering at home. During those six months, I found a job as a cemetery groundskeeper. My coworker, Old Zhang, saw how frail I was and how weak my yang energy seemed, and insisted on finding me someone to protect me. But he didn't tell me that my protector would be a female ghost!! Not only does she want to marry me, she 108Reads7.0Score514d adds
- 80 One Haunting a Day 一日一诡 Like people, supernatural entities can be good or bad, so the author can’t promise that every story will have an off-the-charts scare factor that keeps you up at night. The only guarantee is that all the stories are entirely fictional. If anything seems familiar, you’re on your own! 354Reads—Score10114d adds
- 81 I Live in Fengmen Village 我住在封门村 My hometown shares its name with the legendary number-one haunted village in China: Fengmen Village. What’s more, our village also has a grandmaster’s chair. Whoever sits in it is doomed to die! It was 1997, and I had been accepted into the high school in town. Once summer vacation was over, I would finally be able to leave the place where I’d spent sixteen years. But what I never expected was for one terrifying incident after another to strike the village! Rats that ate human flesh, five-colore 717Reads6.1Score4814d adds
- 82 The Underworld Calls Me Little Sir 地府叫我小先生 [Supernatural + mystery + power progression] Getting hit by a basketball and falling into a lake was bad enough. Even worse, I got killed by a basketball!! The Black and White Impermanence told me I still had seventy years left to live. To make it up to me, they offered me a job in the underworld. So I became an HR officer on the underworld’s permanent staff and even got a ghost recruitment System! As long as I help the underworld recruit talented ghosts, I can earn all kinds of abilities: talis 399Reads—Score—14d adds
- 83 There Are Ghosts in These Words 话里有诡 They say everyone has a few little secrets they can't bring themselves to talk about these days. But if you really want to hear something out of the ordinary, go find Old Bu. Old Bu runs a little tavern set inside an abandoned train carriage. From the day it opened, he laid down one rule: One interesting story in exchange for a night's worth of drinks. Sounds like a good deal, doesn't it? Too bad he doesn't give you much to drink, and the stories just keep getting stranger. An intelligent wristb 10Reads7.6Score614d adds
- 84 The Last Soul-Quelling Master 最后一个镇魂师 I grew up at my grandfather's house in the countryside. He was the most respected suona player in our village. One day, Li Dashan, a fellow villager, beat his pregnant wife to death and came to ask my grandfather for help. My grandfather tried everything he could, but still couldn't calm the resentment of Li Dashan's wife. In the end, he had no choice but to play a suona dirge to forcibly pacify her soul. On the night of the Lantern Festival, Li Dashan and his family turned into vengeful ghosts 116Reads8.5Score1014d adds
- 85 The Years I Spent as a Funeral Mourner 我当哭丧人的那些年 Some people must be mourned loudly when they are laid to rest. Otherwise, according to old folk customs, it is considered an act of filial impiety. After I was born, everyone in my family except my grandfather died because of me. My grandfather fell gravely ill, and to earn money for his treatment, I had no choice but to join Zhang the Elder, a man from my village, as a professional funeral mourner. From then on, I set out on a path of mourning with no return! 126Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 86 Tales of the Supernatural 民间怪谈录 [Rural Horror Stories + Anthology + Folk Horror Tales + Chinese Supernatural] Supernatural happenings are most likely to occur in mountain villages, and the stories we've heard may well have really happened. In the eerie night wind, Granny Hao, the midwife who receives the dead, is like a messenger from the underworld, guiding the spirits of helpless mothers and children home. Locust trees commune with spirits, and poplars attract yin energy. Beneath the village's ancient trees lie secrets that 810Reads8.9Score6014d adds
- 87 The Midnight Gravekeeper 午夜守墓人 A desolate mountain. An ancient tomb. A woman in white. A blood-red moon at midnight. A corpse monk on the move. I’m a high school senior. With the college entrance exam just around the corner, I suddenly came down with a fever that wouldn’t break and missed the test. After recovering at home for more than half a year, I found a job guarding the gate at a cemetery. Seeing how frail I was and how weak my yang energy was, Old Zhang, the gravedigger, found me a protector. But she wasn’t human. She 5.6kReads8.5Score30414d adds
- 88 Ghost Sightings at the Nightclub 夜场见鬼录 A Long is a DJ at a bar with a legendary “Stage of Death.” Many people have died there under mysterious circumstances. The cause of death could never be determined, and some bodies were never even found! The strange incidents stopped only after the bar was shut down. As the legend of the deaths gradually faded from memory, someone opened the stage once more! After that, disaster struck again and again! A terrifying ghostly figure appears in the girls’ dormitory, a faceless baby clings to a chand 242Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 89 Tales of a Haunted Village 荒村怪谈录 [Rural Mysteries + Folk Customs + Chinese-Style Horror + Feng Shui and the Supernatural + Anthology + Shocking Twists] There is an old well in Jiulitun that has been sealed for thirty years, and one eerie incident after another keeps occurring. Why has a little girl become unbelievably strong and deranged? Why do villagers keep drowning, and why is the village taboo so difficult to speak of? It all goes back thirty years... 262Reads8.7Score1914d adds
- 90 Midnight Wonders 午夜惊奇 At the stroke of midnight, amid a terrifying atmosphere, strange ghost stories begin to unfold! A bluish-white hand suddenly appears on the window in the middle of the night. Is it looking for someone to take revenge on? A bus still running in the dead of night: does it lead to the world of the living or to hell? The shapewear hanging in the wardrobe at home is made of human skin! During the Qingming Festival, a figure appears in the glass of the bathhouse. After returning to her room, a beautif 426Reads8.7Score3414d adds
- 91 Midnight Terror: Human Nature Stories That Will Haunt You 午夜惊魂：让人细思极恐的人性故事 At midnight, let's listen together to the little stories that circulate all around us. Maybe they're true. Maybe you've heard them too, or even experienced them yourself. Those moments that grow more terrifying the more you think about them go perfectly with the pitch-black night beyond the window. Red brick walls are common in many places. But we've never stopped to wonder: why are those bricks so red, so vivid? Rideshares at night aren't necessarily safe. Passengers have their concerns, and dr 537Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 92 The Haunted Cabinet Opens by Itself Every Night, Long Hair Drags People Inside 凶柜夜夜自开，青丝缠人拖入柜 The sinister cabinet opens by itself every night, and strands of black hair coil around people and drag them inside. 33Reads—Score—14d adds
- 93 Ghostly Whispers at Midnight 夜半鬼语 [Rural + Supernatural + Ghost Stories] Back when my grandfather was young, he learned carpentry. As Old Zhao put it, a sixth-grade carpenter these days was worth half a scholar. But things were different back then. Carpenters belonged to one of the lowest trades. They had to carry their tools around every day, get up before dawn and stay out until the middle of the night, traveling from village to village to find work. And because they went so many places, and made coffins and dealt with the dea 5kReads9.0Score20414d adds
- 94 A World Out of Balance 人间失衡 [Mind-bending suspense + short stories + no overarching plot + crime + criminal investigation + shocking twists + stories of ordinary people] The deepest wounds are often inflicted by those closest to us. A bloody case at an old family home, shrouded in mystery. Who is the real killer? After her father dies of illness, her sister-in-law sells her to northern Myanmar! The body of a baby girl is found in the woods. A kidnapping case turns into a murder investigation. Who would target an innocent i 224Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 95 The Midnight Ghost Market: Living People Keep Out 午夜鬼市，活人回避 [Mystery + supernatural + ghost market + narrow escape from death] My name is Tang Chao. I’m a broke young man scraping by in the antiques business, with hundreds of thousands in debt hanging over me. An ordinary porcelain-buying deal led me to pick up a strange Jun ware bowl at an unexpectedly low price. I thought I’d found a bargain. Little did I know, it was the beginning of my nightmare... On a bus, I met a burly man calling himself Jue Mingzi, who warned me that “a calamity is sure to befal 3.6kReads9.1Score20814d adds
- 96 The One Who Borrows Lives from the Underworld 阴间借命人 [Standalone Stories + Supernatural Horror + Suspense + Folk Customs + Playful Tone + Ensemble Cast + Nonstop Ghost-Hunting Thrills!] Ever since I borrowed a life from the underworld, I’ve known no peace. My name is Quan Ning. I’m a lawyer, and one day I was in a car accident on a mountain road. As I lay dying, I saw a ghostly judge from the underworld come to claim my soul. I struck a deal with him and borrowed a sliver of hope for survival. The price of this life I borrowed was becoming 2.5kReads9.1Score23614d adds
- 97 The Woman in the Closet 柜子里的女人 The Woman in the Cabinet 49Reads—Score—14d adds
- 98 Northeastern China's Forbidden Secrets 东北禁忌手札 [Extreme horror + a folk-horror story set in the countryside] In a remote mountain village, deep within the forest, countless taboos remain unknown to outsiders. The people here follow ancient rules of life and death: pregnant women must never encounter a coffin, and anyone who dies of old age at a hundred years old is destined to become an evil spirit. But in a single day, the old Yu family breaks both taboos, drawing every kind of demon and ghost to their door! At midnight, someone hears the s 912Reads8.8Score10814d adds
- 99 Tales of Strange Happenings in the Countryside 乡村诡事录 The strange happenings in a mountain village. I was born and raised in the countryside. Deep in the mountains, there are always ghosts and spirits, and my village was no exception. Heaven, earth, black, yellow, the cosmos vast: demons and ghosts send shivers down your spine. One year, the start of spring fell on the fifteenth day of the eighth month. That year, so many strange things happened. Just bringing them up is enough to scare people. Meeting the Black and White Impermanence on a night wa 2kReads9.0Score13614d adds
- 100 Secret Art: I Transmigrate and Fight to Survive in a Bizarre World 秘法穿越:我在诡异世界极限逃生 Secret Art Transmigration: My Extreme Escape in a World of the Uncanny 92Reads—Score114d adds
