Novels like Night Shift: Strange Tales of the World
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- 1 The Mummy 木乃伊 The heroine, A, is greedy, cold-hearted, and selfish by nature. She makes a living in Egypt appraising and trading ancient Egyptian artifacts. While searching for a specific mummy for an oil tycoon in the Middle East, she brings back a mummy suspected to be that of Pharaoh Phetlaman II of the Seventeenth Dynasty. Just as she is preparing to sell it for a high price, she discovers a startling change in the mummy. From then on, her fate begins to grow strange and perilous because of it. This stor 9.2kFavorites42.4kClicks/ch1.5kGifts
- 2 Ghost Stories of the Precious Pearl 宝珠鬼话 Sometimes I can see things other people can’t: messages from another world. One day, as Fox basked in the sun by the window, I watched his back and wondered if I should write them all down: the stories that belong to me, to Fox, to Qilin, and to that other world. This is a series of ghost stories, with each volume telling a complete tale. Part One: Tales of the Pearl Ghosts. Part Two: Fox Speaks of Demons. Both parts are complete. A few bonus stories for Fox Speaks of Demons will be add 22.1kFavorites96kClicks/ch619Gifts
- 3 Young Master Ming 冥公子 Young Master Ming is not surnamed Ming. He has never told me his real name. He is a dead man who was trapped for over a thousand years in a sinkhole in my hometown called “Yama’s Well,” and also a living skeleton who walks among the living wearing a portrait I painted as his skin. This is a series of supernatural tales, with each volume telling a complete story. 23.7kFavorites48.7kClicks/ch22.7kGifts
- 4 Fox Tales and Demon Ways 狐说魃道 I thought I was just running a little dessert shop that didn’t make much money, but strange things kept showing up there. I thought he was just an ordinary, slightly dimwitted fox spirit, but he was on brotherly terms with the King of the Underworld. I thought he was just a taciturn, naive drifter, but he was an ancient qilin who once plunged the whole world into chaos. I thought life was nothing more than earning and spending money, growing old, and dying, but who could have guessed... Latest 33.8kFavorites106.9kClicks/ch19.9kGifts
- 5 Beneath the Locust Tree 槐树之下 (This story has been contracted for publication. I posted two bonus chapters on Weibo, and the rest will probably only be available in the print edition.) Have you ever heard any ghost stories connected to locust trees? I have. They all happened back in the nineties. Even after I grew up and returned to my hometown, I could still find traces of the past beneath that tree, along with the shadow of that man. A note from the author: I'm not sure if writing this counts as breaking some kind of taboo 43.9kFavorites55kClicks/ch13.8kGifts
- 6 West of the Jade Gate 西出玉门 West Out of Jade Gate They say the earthen city you glimpse through the sandstorm late at night is the ghost of Jade Gate Pass. Feel free to check out my other completed novels. New novel: Theme: Traditional Chinese legends and folklore 231.5kFavorites396kClicks/ch204kGifts
- 7 Flesh and Bone Cage 肉骨樊笼 When the Shentu jade shatters, it transforms into nine seals. I will guard half the gates of the mortal realm. Theme: Legends from traditional Chinese culture. 191.2kFavorites263.1kClicks/ch392.9kGifts
- 8 The Grudge-Ringing Bell 怨气撞铃 Resentful Spirits Ring the Chimes A string of wind chimes that only the resentment of the dead can set ringing A drifting journey with no end in sight Author's note * I revised this once before, but since chapters marked VIP can't have their word count changed, I posted the revisions in the author's notes. Lately, lots of people have messaged me saying the repetition affects the reading experience, so I took the opportunity to delete it all at once. Let's keep the original, in its simplest fo 221.4kFavorites642kClicks/ch52.8kGifts
