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- 101 The Yin Walker: The Last Stick of Incense 走阴人：最后一炷香 Xu Zhaolin makes a living with his ears. He is a sound documentary field recorder, traveling through the countryside with a recorder on his back to document folk crafts on the verge of disappearing and the oral histories of the elderly. Three years ago, his twin brother, Xu Zhaochuan, vanished near the reservoir in Baishi Town. No one had seen him alive, and no body was ever found. Three years later, Xu Zhaolin returns to Baishi Town to record the final oral history of an old man. A stretch of b 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 102 No Hints in the Instance 副本无提示 [The rating just came in, and it will rise later] [Mild horror + varied horror styles + original scenarios + fresh, unconventional scenarios + intelligent characters + no female lead or romantic subplots] Have any of you watching heard of the elevator ghost game? They say that if you follow the instructions, you can reach another world. Chen Feng is a video creator whose content is playing all kinds of horror games found online. He occasionally livestreams, too. During a livestream of the elevat 76.8kReads7.8Score12.5k14d adds
- 103 The Weird Realm II: Room 414 Hospital 诡界II：414医院 [Infinite Flow + Supernatural Horror + Mystery + Paranormal + Survival + Dungeons] A hospital said to be impossible to escape, and a group of survivors who've narrowly escaped death time and again. What bizarre and uncanny tales await them as they open the doors to one patient room after another? Dear readers, follow the protagonist Lu Bai as he uncovers one hidden truth after another. Welcome to Hospital 414... 62Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 104 I Won’t Survive the Night 活不过今夜 At some point, a strange old beggar showed up in our neighborhood. The strange thing was, he never spent the money people gave him. He’d burn it or destroy it instead. Then one day, the woman downstairs was burned to death, and the butcher was brutally murdered. That was when I finally realized the truth. He wasn’t begging for money. He was begging for lives! 1.1kReads8.2Score10214d adds
- 105 Survived Eighteen Times: The Third Real Horror Movie 活过十八次：第三度真实恐怖电影 (Starring in Real Horror Movies) + (Infinite-Flow Supernatural Instances) If you happen to scroll through videos, Weibo, or Tieba and come across an invitation to the Third Degree Horror Movie, you will find yourself thrown into a horror movie, playing one of its characters. As the plot unfolds, bizarre, spine-chilling curses and eerie ghosts lurking everywhere will descend one by one. A village shrouded in a blood spring, a strange building, thirteen flights of stairs, a dark corridor, a silent 3.3kReads—Score39614d adds
- 106 My Days Working at a Funeral Home 我在殡仪馆工作的那些事儿 My name is Ling Yu. I work at a funeral home with Big Fatty. One day, a beautiful corpse wearing Chanel arrived at the funeral home. I stole the Chanel outfit and gave it to my girlfriend. Then a string of sinister things began to happen... Deaths kept piling up, closing in on Big Fatty and me step by step. How can we escape Death's pursuit? 2kReads5.9Score10614d adds
- 107 Netherworld Emperor: It All Begins with a Blood Coffin! 幽冥大帝：从血棺开始！ Mystery and the supernatural + horror + mind-bending deduction + wild imagination + Sichuan-Chongqing flavor After a flood, a blood-red coffin drifts down the river into our village... A strange song, eerie bloody handprints, a headless corpse, and somehow, I become the Great Emperor of the Netherworld... An accident reveals the secret of the Nine Fiends Blood Coffin and a grand scheme laid by the Great Emperor of the Netherworld. It all begins with the blood coffin, and everything will ultimate 728Reads—Score—14d adds
- 108 Mystery Revival: Speedrunning Evil Ghosts, Starting with the Starving Ghost 神秘复苏：从饿死鬼开始速通厉鬼 Ghosts cannot be killed. The only thing that can deal with a ghost is another ghost. The transmigrator Zhou Yuan awakens in the Knocking Ghost's domain at Linchang No. 11 High School. He is neither an ordinary person nor a ghost handler: he has directly become the consciousness of the Starving Ghost. A ghost infant writhes in his abdomen, and the instinct to devour everything surges like a tide. Outside the door, an A-class calamity-level evil ghost is hunting him down. He has read the original 597Reads6.6Score43114d adds
- 109 The Skinning Ghost 扒皮鬼 (Traditional supernatural horror + extreme horror + multiple twists + mystery + entirely handcrafted) Lately, I've been having nightmares every night. A fortune-teller said I might have a ghost clinging to me. He told me about a forbidden folk ritual: Put on a pair of worn underwear over your head, and it will block a ghost's sight. That night, I got home and followed his advice, half believing it. My girlfriend came back to the room after washing up and stared blankly at where I was. "Where... 64.2kReads8.3Score7k14d adds
- 110 Shh, Please Be Quiet 嘘，请噤声 [Infinite Flow + Suspense + Horror, Not a Wish-Fulfillment Story] Chen Heng was going to die. Suffering from brain cancer, he had only three months left to live. But just as he gave up on treatment, he was unexpectedly swept into the so-called [Gods' Game], a game that promised to grant anyone's wish. It was an endless slaughter, and each round of the game could have only one winner. Why am I called a [Contender] when this is clearly a [Game]? Whose game is this? And who is watching us from behi 505Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 111 A Madman's Fate 癫人命 [The uncanny + mind-bending suspense + horror + fictional setting + no System] At the end of that rainy night, Chen Xiu gazes at the unfamiliar world before him. He discovers that the curses have taken everything from him, even himself. Curses and uncanny horrors run rampant before his eyes, while madness and fear relentlessly batter his heart. It says: “Having witnessed what the curse can do, you must also suffer its gifts.” It says: “The death curse descends upon past and present, twisting all 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 112 The Strange and Supernatural Things I’ve Heard and Seen 那些我所闻所见的灵异事 I’ll tell stories about the strange things that have happened to me over the years, along with the folk secrets and I Ching mysticism I’ve learned. At the start of each story, I’ll say whether I experienced it myself or heard it from someone else. I may not tell them in chronological order. I need to remember and organize everything, so I’ll just talk about whatever comes to mind. Things I experienced myself may be exaggerated, but they’re absolutely true. As for some of the stories I’ve heard, 2.4kReads—Score15614d adds
- 113 Midnight Terror: The Strange Radio Broadcast 午夜惊魂之电波诡事 In the winter of 1998, Liu Siyang, a broadcasting college graduate, was assigned to Shengjing Radio. He took over a long-dormant late-night program, named it Midnight Frights, and set out to tell the insomniacs of this old industrial city some unusual stories over the midnight airwaves. He unearthed three bizarre cases from the radio station’s archives and old police files: the sweeping sounds that never ceased after the death of “Big Black Tooth,” the library’s caretaker; the green powder stuff 37Reads—Score—14d adds
- 114 The Horror Industrial Park 恐怖工业园 You're a seasoned wage slave. One day, you're dragged into a [Weird and Absurd + Comedic and Witty + Not Brain-Dead + Not a Wish-Fulfillment Story + Exploring Human Nature + Enter at Your Own Risk] strange other world. You think that if you complete the System's tasks, you'll return to the real world. What you don't know is that this other world exists because of you... 15Reads—Score—14d adds
- 115 Mysterious Curse 1 神秘诅咒1 [Supernatural Mystery + Urban Cultivation + Folk Taboos + A Passionate Coming-of-Age Story] Enter a sinister world concealed beneath the bustle of the modern city! I have no control over life or death. My name is Zhang Wen. I thought getting into college would let me escape that bleak village in the southwest. Then my grandfather died suddenly, with these words written in cinnabar on his palm: "Dig three feet down at the southeast corner of the wall." I unearthed a bloodstained notebook. Its fir 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 116 Supernatural Revival: I Tamed a Cowardly Ghost from the Start 灵异复苏：开局我驾驭了胆小鬼 "If you could completely control the first evil spirit you encountered at no cost, then transmigrate to a mysterious world overrun by resurgent evil spirits, would you do it?" yes or no Of course, yes! Sun Lin was lying on his side in bed, scrolling through short videos, when he instinctively tapped yes. He saw choices like this countless times a day, but the next second, a vortex appeared on his phone and pulled him into this bizarre world. Ghosts cannot be killed. Only ghosts can deal with gho 162.5kReads7.0Score17.3k14d adds
- 117 Bone Flute 骨笛 My grandmother was a famous spirit medium throughout the surrounding villages. I was a child she picked up and brought home. People in the village said that on the night she carried me home, flutes sounded throughout the village until dawn. The next day, every peach tree in the village had withered. They called me an ill omen, but my grandmother always treated me well, and life went on quietly like that, until the day I turned sixteen. Then everything changed. 1.3kReads9.0Score12714d adds
- 118 Yin and Yang: The Book of Life and Death 阴阳：生死簿 Lin Zhao spent ten years as an outer disciple Taoist at Longhu Mountain and learned only one spell: the Soul Summoning Art. > Until one night, the voice of Heaven rang out in his mind: “Ten zhang ahead, a wronged spirit seeks help.” > Following the voice, he found an old woman clutching a black cat and sobbing that her son had gone missing. > He formed a hand seal to investigate and discovered that the cat's eyes reflected the scene of her son's death: the neighbor butcher's hideous face. > When —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 119 Rule-Based Survival: I Can Foresee Death 规则求生：我能预知死亡 [Infinite Flow, mild horror, terrifying dungeons, no romance, survival, not a saintly protagonist] One night, Chen Feng was walking through an abandoned park after finishing his shift at the crematorium when something strange happened. There was clearly no one behind him, yet he heard faint footsteps. At first, he thought he was imagining things, but when he listened closely, the footsteps were still there, gradually drawing nearer. They sounded as though they were deliberately mimicking his own 22.5kReads7.6Score2.2k14d adds
- 120 The Vengeful Ghost Curse 怨诡咒 (Traditional supernatural horror + No System + Not a power fantasy + Deduction + Suspense) My coworker died. He died in his own bathtub. By the time the police arrived at his home, his corpse had already begun to rot and stink. His limbs had been gnawed down to the bone, and the coroner found undigested flesh in his stomach. That very night, I received a WeChat message from my dead coworker. It said I was next... 19.3kReads8.6Score1.4k14d adds
- 121 Welcome to the Real Nightmare Game 欢迎进入真实噩梦游戏 [Infinite Flow] [Horror Dungeons] [Plot-Heavy] [Mind Games] [No Romance] [Mystery and Escape] [Supernatural] Zhao Ding woke with a start in the middle of the night, only to find that his familiar bedroom had become strangely unfamiliar. The walls had turned old and yellow, inexplicable dust had appeared in his slippers, and eerie knocking echoed through the silent night... Listening to the strange knocking outside, Zhao Ding had no idea that the world beyond his door was no longer reality. The m 33.8kReads8.1Score4.2k14d adds
- 122 Thriller Game: I Have a Haunted House 惊悚游戏：我有一座恐怖屋 [Mystery + Supernatural + Livestreaming + Wild Imagination] Chen Yu's escape room business is on the verge of closing when he suddenly awakens a System, and everything changes. As long as he gathers Fear Points, he can exchange them for all kinds of rewards! “Congratulations, Host, you've received the Sadako scenario!” “Congratulations, Host, you've received the Ju-on scenario!” “Congratulations, Host, you've received the The Shining scenario!” 9.2kReads5.4Score85614d adds
- 123 Heaven's Secrets Forbidden: A Metaphysics Master's Art of Feng Shui and Yin-Yang 天机禁忌：玄门风水相师镇阴阳 Xu Daoyi was born with a pure Yang constitution, a once-in-a-century rarity. The Yang energy within him was so strong it could burn vengeful ghosts to ash. But this gift was also a death sentence. His master told him that unless he found a woman with a pure Yin birth chart before the Summer Solstice and united their Yin and Yang, he would explode and die seven days later. The seven-day deadline drew closer, and the Yang energy in his body surged higher every day. Xu Daoyi had saved countless liv 115Reads—Score15514d adds
- 124 The Myriad Phenomena Restoration Bureau 万象修复局 [Urban Mystery + Folk Horror + Unusual Profession + Conceptual Restoration + Ensemble Cast + No System] When a city begins to forget “fire,” when the names of the dead appear on paper effigies, when streets vanish from the map overnight... Some things can be fixed when they break. But what if what's broken is a “concept” shared by all humanity? Shen Yan is an antique restorer and a member of the Bureau of Universal Restoration. He can restore the things this world is forgetting. 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 125 Mount Mang Beneath the Mirror 镜下邙山 Mount Mangshan Beneath the Mirror 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 126 Awakened to Martial Arts, I Can Copy Other People's Combat Instincts 觉醒武道，我能复制别人的战斗本能 Awakening the Martial Way, I Can Copy Other People's Combat Instincts 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 127 At the Cemetery, I Find a Pair of Red High Heels 人在公墓，捡到一双红色高跟鞋 Wang Jin finally graduated. He never expected that after studying civil engineering, he'd end up in a tomb, landing a job as a security guard at a high-end cemetery. He figured he'd work there for a few years, save some money, and then leave. But on his very first day, he found a pair of red high heels outside the security office. An ordinary person with no worries might have thrown them away. Someone more cautious might have grown suspicious. But Wang Jin was neither. He looked around, saw no o 1.5kReads8.0Score12814d adds
- 128 Who Can Put an End to the Supernatural? 谁能终结灵异 [Mysterious Worldbuilding]++ [Evil Spirits Resurface]+ [Ghost Tamer]+ [No Female Lead]+ [No Cultivation] A quick plug for my new novel, “Terminal Cancer: To Stay Alive, I Borrow Lifespans from Ghosts Like Crazy.” I hope you’ll show it some support, folks. The evil spirits in this book have consciousness and thoughts, so their danger levels are adjusted accordingly. Please don’t compare them with the spirit rankings in Mysterious. My name is Jiang Gan... I’m a sophomore at Provincial University. 4.8kReads7.7Score31614d adds
- 129 My Career in Funeral Services and the Supernatural 我的殡葬灵异生涯 After graduating, I joined the funeral industry and learned about its many secrets. I also encountered all kinds of terrifying, bizarre supernatural incidents. Let me tell you about some truly unusual tales of terror and the taboos of the funeral trade... The latest work by a free-spirited programmer. As always, the promise stands: suspense and horror taken to the extreme. 2.9kReads8.4Score24314d adds
- 130 I Work as a Mortuary Makeup Artist 我在殡仪馆做化妆师 I used to be a stylist on film and television sets. After reality put me through the wringer, I stumbled into a job as a mortuary makeup artist. Every day, I face all kinds of bizarre corpses, and they have shown me another world... 717Reads8.2Score10014d adds
- 131 Grandma’s Ghost Stories 听奶奶讲灵异故事 I was raised by my grandmother. The bedtime stories I heard as a child were all supernatural events she had experienced herself. They scared me so badly I was afraid to go to the bathroom, but I could never resist listening to the end. What I didn't know was that the more stories I heard, the more likely they were to come true, and that I had plenty of secrets of my own. 152Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 132 What Do You Mean the Corpses I Sew Together Are All Cursed? 什么叫我缝的尸体都是大凶之物？ [Chinese folk customs] [Corpse seamster] [Traditional supernatural horror] [A clever protagonist who isn’t an idiot] My name is Chen Yang. I’m a mortician, or rather... a corpse seamster. I can sew up corpses no one else can. I can take jobs no one else dares to accept. I’ve handled all sorts of bizarre cases: people who jumped from buildings in red clothes, corpses missing arms and legs, and even one person who was holding their own head... Everyone says the corpses I sew up are all terribly un 219.6kReads9.1Score29.1k14d adds
- 133 The Age of Declining Spirituality: The Last Taoist of the Mystic Sect 末法时代，玄门最后一个道士 Following his master’s dying wish, Chen Bufan leaves the Daoist temple where he has lived for twenty years and steps into the modern city below the mountain for the first time. Amid the overwhelming culture shock, he keenly senses the first hint of an “ill omen” belonging to this age. 4.3kReads—Score22114d adds
- 134 Northeastern Folk Taboos 东北民间禁忌 The black soil of the Northeast holds too many stories, and hides too many rules. If you hear someone call your name in the middle of the night, never look back. On New Year’s Eve, if a dumpling wrapper breaks, it’s for the “good brothers” to eat. If you meet a woman in red while walking at night, remember to pull your hat down low... These taboos passed down by the older generation are superstition if you don’t believe in them. But if you break them, they become a ghostly gateway that leads str 1.6kReads—Score10314d adds
- 135 Fate of the Yin Realm 阴缘逆命 I was born with an extremely yin fate, making me the fattest piece of meat in the eyes of yin creatures. When I was thirteen, Li Xiaopang’s father, who lived next door, suddenly died away from home. On the night his body was brought back, someone knocked on our front door… A hand covered in livor mortis reached for my throat. Grandpa traded half his life to keep me alive. Before he left, he gave me a note telling me to go to Haizhou City, a hundred li away, and find a female master surnamed Shen 24Reads—Score—14d adds
- 136 Rule Horror: Every Rule Is Waiting for Me to Break It 规则怪谈：所有规则都在等我违规 Rule Horror: Every Rule Is Waiting for Me to Break It 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 137 Stealing Faces 偷脸 One day, a stranger added me on QQ and told me my girlfriend was a man. I called him an idiot. Then my girlfriend died, and when she died, she really did become a man. Her head had been cut off and sewn onto the neck of a male corpse... 225Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 138 The House of the Dead 空亡屋 There is a kind of house in this world whose door is always half open and half closed. The open half is for the living to enter. The closed half is for the dead. This kind of house is called a House of the Lost. As it happens, I'm the owner of one. In three years, I've encountered both clingy ghosts and evil people who cling to ghosts. 780Reads8.7Score12514d adds
- 139 The Corpse of a Mountain Village Woman 山村女尸 [Feel-Good Read + Urban + Suspense + Supernatural] He Xi is an ordinary security guard. One day, the west gate of Chaoxi Psychiatric Hospital desperately needs a guard. The pay is 30,000 yuan a month, but nobody dares take the job! Nobody else dares, but He Xi does! Only after arriving does he realize something is wrong. The west gate isn’t meant for people to pass through at all. It’s a gate for ghosts! 7.7kReads7.7Score35314d adds
- 140 I'm a Bar Owner, Forced to Catch Ghosts 我，酒吧老板，被迫营业捉鬼 [Horror + supernatural + semi-invincible + no System + not brainless + ruthless decisiveness] I’m Heibai, an utterly ordinary bar owner. I only wanted to live a quiet life, but one commission and one problem after another keep landing on my doorstep. Curse magic, a drug-induced dreamless sleep, a yin-yang wedding, a deadly text message... As the Underworld descends, little Jiangcheng becomes a den of danger, and one strange incident after another unfolds. Well, looks like I can’t hide my abiliti 1.2kReads8.8Score11014d adds
- 141 The Mysterious Returns 诡秘复苏 Night falls, and the supernatural returns. In the city, eerie creatures whisper among themselves. In the darkness, evil spirits stir restlessly. A ghostly race car hurtles through the night, causing countless bizarre crashes. A midnight songstress whose songs plunge the whole city into nightmares. The White Reaper, an angel by day and a demonic butcher by night. And the Evil God Night Infant, who looks harmless but grows fat by devouring ghosts. Xu Wen was an ordinary detective until he acci 1.2kReads5.7Score6814d adds
- 142 Eerie Descent: Nobody on the Subway Is Human 诡异降临：地铁里都不是人 [!!! NOT A POWER FANTASY !!!] [No golden finger + No Romance + No Leveling Up + No Items + No System] [Infinite Flow + Mystery and Horror + Every Character Is Smart] Important warning: If you are riding the subway right now, be sure to check underneath your seat and make sure there isn’t a corpse lying there! A mysterious subway train, with eighteen stops along its route. At every stop, the passengers must face a bizarre instance! A cruise ship sailing alone across the sea, with nowhere to dock 3.8kReads7.3Score66514d adds
- 143 Horror Game: From the Start, the Skin Bride's Bones Terrified the World! 恐怖游戏：开局皮嫁骨吓哭全球！ [Handcrafted with Traditional Techniques, No AI] [No Female Lead] [Mild Horror] The horror game has arrived! Lin Ye transmigrated here and was selected to take part in designing a global horror game. He had planned to bring out the "Ghost Bride" to save Daxia, only to discover that its culture hadn't been lost at all! Traditional Daxia ghost stories had been used to death, and the whole nation was in despair! Daxia had suffered ten straight losses. The supernatural was invading, and the land was 1MReads8.7Score216.8k14d adds
- 144 Global Haunting: I Became the Last City God 全球诡异入侵：我成了末代城隍 Rifts in the Nether Ruins tear reality apart, and demons from another realm descend. Awakened scientists shoulder guns and cannons, while practitioners of ancient arts emerge from seclusion with swords in hand. And I, Chen Mo, will revive the ancient traditions of western Hunan. At the Sunken Mausoleum's underwater palace, I slay a giant alligator with my sword and seize its water-fiend pearl. At the summit of Huping Mountain, I summon the Tang dynasty's Mountain-Quelling Sword and destroy the 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 145 Rule Horror: Don't Look Back During 72 Hours in the Dorm 规则怪谈：宿舍72小时不要回头 A word of warning: this is terrifying, so timid readers beware. (No female lead, no cheats, no romance, game instances, infinite flow, horror, mystery) Eight university students who returned to campus early found a mysterious sheet of rules in their empty dormitory building: Rule One: No matter what strange “person” you see, don’t cry out or scream. Rule Two: No matter who calls you from behind, don’t turn around or answer. Rule Three: One of you is an impostor who will eat people in the middle 4.5kReads6.0Score37414d adds
- 146 The Immortal’s Path of a Funeral Garment Shop Owner 寿衣店老板的修仙路 An Accidental Ghost Cultivator Begins His Path to Immortality Luo Ze is an art teacher at an art training school. After 30 years of teaching, he has become a renowned teacher with students all over the place. After a car accident, he unexpectedly transmigrates 20 years into the past, only to find himself possessing the body of a 19-year-old who runs a funeral clothing shop. While providing someone with a complete funeral service, he unexpectedly acquires an ancient bronze mirror of unknown origi 25Reads—Score—14d adds
- 147 Rule Horror: Something Is Wrong with My Old Family Home 规则怪谈：我家老宅有问题 Rule Horror: There's Something Wrong with My Family's Old House —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 148 My Master Gave Me a Car for Investigating the Supernatural 师父传我一辆看事儿车 A thousand-year-old van? Built by hand from scratch [Traditional horror]➕ [Even more immersive as an audiobook]➕ [Uncovering the truth about my origins] Greetings, dear readers! [Traditional supernatural horror, primal fear] The original experience of horror is the fear a person feels when experiencing it firsthand. [First person, highly atmospheric] Give me a chance to tell this story from my own point of view. [Uncovering the truth about my origins] Along the way, I met many people. “The gates 14Reads—Score—14d adds
- 149 Rule Horror: Beware Your Family 规则怪谈：小心你的家人 A world of urban legends descends upon the globe, forcing everyone into game instances. The only way to survive is to follow the rules. Li Xunyan was still busy plastering the streets with missing-person notices for her mom when she stepped into the instance called [Mom's Favorite]. Li Xunyan: ...I'm starting to panic a little. Want to survive? Want to find your missing parents? Clear the instance, and you'll get the answers you seek. Beginner instance [Mom's Favorite] is now open. Be sure to fo 2.7kReads8.7Score30814d adds
- 150 The Corpse Keeper 守尸人 The morgue is where life and death meet. At this boundary, there are many taboos to heed. I grew up beside a hospital morgue, and I'll tell you about the hospital's taboos from a different perspective. Taboo 1: If you see a patient being resuscitated, don't gather around to watch. Taboo 2: If a patient's family throws away something the deceased used while alive, don't toss your own trash on top of it. Taboo 3: If you hear a cat meowing at night, don't go outside to look, whether you're a patien 891Reads6.3Score10214d adds
