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  1. The Underworld's Guide 黄泉送阴人 Suspense Mystery231k WordsOngoing Have you ever seen someone running through the mountains in the dead of night so fast their feet leave afterimages? Have you ever seen a courier arguing with them in the dark? I'm a deliveryman, but what I deliver isn't what you might imagine… 22.5kClicks19Favorites317Recs
  2. Death Notice 死亡通知 Suspense Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted In Country A, I receive three letters every day. There is no sender or address, only a tiny grinning ghost face. The day after a letter arrives, someone dies, and the crime scene looks exactly like the photograph inside. Detective Wu Jian, an elite investigator, and I searched far and wide, eventually narrowing our suspects to the "Haunted House" on Khao San Road. But inside, we encountered something unclean, and another murder took place in the process. 17.3kClicks35Favorites124Recs
  3. The Yin Master of Qimen 奇门阴师 Suspense Mystery440k WordsOngoing My name is Wang Kaile, and I'm a landscape designer. I'm going to tell you about all the strange, unsettling things that happened to me while I was working on various projects. They gradually affected my life, too... 15.2kClicks21Favorites0Recs
  4. Evil Spirits, Begone 诸邪退散 Suspense Mystery147k WordsOngoing My name is Chen Lao Jiu, and I am a Daoist from a folk tradition. How much do you know about the secrets of folk Daoist lineages? Wandering Immortals, Yellow River corpse divers, folk fortune-tellers, Flower Cave Maidens of western Hunan... The lineages may seem loosely connected, but they conceal secrets no one dares speak of! Read Evil Spirits, Be Gone, where a folk Daoist personally reveals the forbidden secrets of folk Daoist lineages! 9.2kClicks77Favorites255Recs
  5. Longmen Mysteries 龙门诡事 Suspense Mystery53k WordsOngoing Have you ever heard of a donkey loafer? Have you seen a hundred ghosts weeping at a grave? Have you seen a fig tree sprout from flat ground? Do you know about wild immortals seeking a title? Then do you know about wild men seeking a title as they cultivate immortality? Do you know about ghostly squints? Have you heard of ghost pills? This book takes you into the eerie tales of a small mountain village in Longmen, Luoyang! 1.9kClicks4Favorites0Recs
  6. Folk Tales of the Supernatural 民间阴事 Suspense Mystery69k WordsOngoing Six is yin, and nine is yang. The sixth day of the sixth month is the Double Yin Festival. The ninth day of the ninth month is the Double Ninth Festival. I was born on the sixth day of the sixth month, the Double Yin Festival. When I was twenty-three, my mother was taken away by a hundred ghosts. From then on, I inherited my grandfather's mantle and began encountering all kinds of strange and unusual things... 1.7kClicks6Favorites0Recs
  7. The Great Wilderness Bone-Gathering Record 大荒拾骨录 Fantasy221k WordsOngoing The final age of a world where gods and humans live side by side. Not long after Heaven and Earth were first established, the rules remained unsettled. Primordial deities, ancient gods, powerful cultivators who rose to greatness after the world's creation, mighty primordial beasts, and mortal tribes beginning to awaken all coexisted. The systems of the Heavenly Court and the Underworld had yet to be fully established. The spiritual energy of Heaven and Earth was gradually growing thin, and the d 1.5kClicks1Favorites0Recs
  8. Twenty Years of Strange Tales 二十年奇谈怪闻 Suspense Mystery28k WordsOngoing In the depths of winter, the Daqing River surges and steams; springs along the Yellow River burst forth without end; a fortune-teller's only son dies unexpectedly; an uncorrupted female corpse from the era of the Five Barbarians' upheaval waits a thousand years; and at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Boxers bombard the Dragon King Temple... One chilling legend after another, one strange and uncanny tale after another. The Dragon King of Tuhai, the Yellow River springs, a drifting female corpse, 1.4kClicks4Favorites120Recs
  9. Xuan Yi's Record of Subduing Demons 玄一荡魔录 FantasyCompleted 11 1.2kClicks1Favorites22Recs
  10. Tales of the Six Realms: The Snake's Grudge 六合怪谈之蛇怨 Suspense Mystery44k WordsOngoing The wise do not speak of the strange, the powerful, or the supernatural; what lies beyond the four quarters is left undiscussed. A group of kids' reckless actions shatter the village's tranquil life. Events buried for hundreds of years will finally come to light. Is it a world overrun by monsters, or has human nature grown worse? What secrets lie behind the village's past? Can the elders' tight-lipped silence, and the understanding passed down through generations to never speak of it, keep the t 940Clicks3Favorites0Recs
  11. Ghostly Eyes: Nonhumans Want to Possess Me 诡眼:非人类想上我身 Suspense Mystery22k WordsOngoing It possesses people. It slips into the hearts of the cruel and the kind alike, taking over their bodies. Once possessed by it, you are no longer human. It rejoices in people's deaths. It deceives and mocks people. My name is Huang Jiangli. My grandfather, Huang Shihua, chose it while leafing through the Compendium of Materia Medica. I've been able to see it ever since I was little. That's right, my right eye can see nonhuman things. 456Clicks1Favorites0Recs
  12. Spirit-Driving Master 驱灵相师 Suspense Mystery136k WordsOngoing My fate is marked by a ghostly curse. Feng shui energy disperses around me, and I bear a curse that makes me a ghost in body and a human in fate. According to my fortune, I won't live past thirty. My grandfather traded years off his own life for the first twenty years of mine, while my grandmother suffered three calamities for my sake, sacrificing her own life force. To break the curse, I set out on the path of ghost hunting. Flying corpses in western Hunan, ghost ships in the South Sea, the Qil 348Clicks8Favorites0Recs
  13. The Years I Ate from the Underworld 我吃阴间饭的那几年 Suspense MysteryCompleted Ten miles of desolate villages, lone graves scattered across ruined burial grounds. Resentful spirits curse the living, shrouded in mournful mist and sorrowful clouds. The past is filled with old memories, grief, and suffering. The evil in people's hearts is worse than any demon. 260Clicks1Favorites0Recs
  14. The Last Evil-Banisher 最后一个破煞师 Suspense Mystery237k WordsCompleted [Feng Shui] [Folk Traditions] [Lu Ban Craft] Sha began as negative energy formed naturally in the world. Once people witnessed how dangerous it could be, some began using feng shui, curse-reversal rituals, and evil spirits to create all kinds of sha and harm others. Where there are sha that harm people, there are also those who break them and save lives. These people are called sha breakers. By the time I entered this profession, hardly anyone even knew it existed. I only stumbled into it becaus 46Clicks3Favorites0Recs

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