Taboos of a Hundred Ghosts

Taboos of a Hundred Ghosts is a long-form supernatural suspense web novel by the author Qianjun Siliang, running to about 1.45 million characters and 457 chapters. Serialized online from 2016 and now complete, it unfolds in episodic form. The protagonist, Bai Wuji, is a man who wants nothing to do with ghosts and gods and only wishes for a quiet life—yet strange incidents keep coming to him: the last bus at night carries no living passengers, a WeChat group plays a deadly killing game, a actress keeps a child ghost, a series of murders by kuman thong curse, a young wife haunted by a ghost husband, a murderous spirit game passed down for centuries, and a hundred-year-old haunted house where nothing grows. From "I never want to get mixed up in any of this" to "since you are so bent on bothering me, don't blame me for beating your souls to scattering," Bai Wuji's attitude shifts through each forced intervention. The book is divided into relatively independent sections—"The Killing Game," "The Man-Eating Living Corpse," "The Heart Ghost," "The Ghost Granny," "The Haunted House in the Deserted Village," "The Makeup of Death," and others—each made up of several chapters forming a single case. It blends urban legends such as the haunted bus, the trial stay in a haunted house, and campus horrors with psychological terror born of human malice and rumor, with tight plotting and brisk pacing, horror atmosphere and black humor side by side. It suits fragmented reading and readers who love Chinese-style weird tales.