I've Recently Gotten Into Mind-Bending Horror Novels. Any Recommendations? 最近喜欢上了烧脑类型的恐怖小说能不能推荐？

1. 1 十 Ten Days to the End 十日终焉 Pest Control Team Member杀虫队队员Mystery3.2M WordsCompleted 2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat 1.7MReads9.9Score228kShelves

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   Show them all to me! All are rated 9.0 Or above. Theme category: suspense.

2. 2 怪 Strange Tales Livestream! 怪谈直播间！ Stone Giant Monster石头巨怪Mystery1.3M WordsCompleted Welcome to the Rules of the Strange. This is a battle of blood and fire, a test of wit and courage. The power of words cannot be resisted, and the eerie rules must not be broken. In a seemingly hopeless situation, find the one correct answer, break free of your constraints, and search for a way to survive. 173.8kReads9.7Score18kShelves
3. 3 杀 Murder Rules? I'll Take Them On, Crack Them, and Contain Them 杀人规则？我来，我破解，我收容 Stone Giant Monster石头巨怪Mystery1.1M WordsOngoing A piano on the roadside, left untouched. Offerings arranged neatly in a hallway. A creaking rocking chair at the mouth of an alley. A lonely hospital bed. This world is full of all kinds of uncanny objects, and even more uncanny people. Wei Lai has always been an atheist, until the day he receives a prediction of his own death. “Your time is up.” “You have 72 hours left.” 358Reads9.4Score—Shelves
4. 4 规 Rule-Based Horror? I Choose to Rebel 规则怪谈？我选择叛逆 Alas, Deep Love奈何情深Mystery1.5M WordsCompleted [A short drama adaptation of the same name is now available. You can watch it on the platform. Thank you for your support.] [Subverting expectations + no heroine + hilarious + sly schemer + rebellious + eerie + national fate] Rule-based horror descends upon Earth. The uncanny invades reality. Those chosen are sent into horror worlds, where they represent their respective nations and face the horrors within. Su Xiao is chosen by the horror world and entrusted with the task of representing the Dra 51.1kReads9.6Score6.6kShelves
5. 5 传 Legend Management Bureau 传说管理局 Pest Control Team Member杀虫队队员Eastern Fantasy1.4M WordsCompleted (No harem, no formulaic plot, no invincibility, no System, no brainless decisions, and no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if any of that bothers you.) Du Yu dies an untimely death right at the beginning of the story. Hoping to secure a better spot in his next life, he takes a job with the Bureau of Legendary Tales. His job is to return to legends that have gone off course and put their plots back on track. He never expected that the first mission assigned to an ordinary mortal like him would 208.5kReads9.6Score29.3kShelves
6. 6 别 Stop Running, There Are Monsters Everywhere Here 别跑了，这里到处是怪物 Doesn't Eat Konjac不吃魔芋Mystery1.3M WordsCompleted [Coming-of-Age Protagonist, Not a Wish-Fulfillment Story, Plot-Driven] On Lin Yi’s eighteenth birthday, his mother plunged a knife into his heart with her own hands. He thought he would die, but when he came to, Lin Yi discovered he was still alive. He was not only unharmed, but had even returned to the past. At first, Lin Yi thought it was all a hallucination. It was only when his mother picked up the knife on the table again that he finally realized the people sitting before him were not his p 20.5kReads8.9Score2.1kShelves
7. 7 狼 Werewolf: The Guardian Turns the Tables on Four Wolves from the Start 狼人杀：开局守卫翻盘四狼 Werewolf Game Whiz狼人杀小聪明Urban1.1M WordsCompleted [No cheat powers + Logic-Heavy + Werewolf + Male Lead with No Romance + Original, High-Quality Classic Deduction Games] Shen Xing takes part in a mysterious, individual werewolf competition show called “Babel.” Legend has it that the winner who reaches the top of this mysterious arena can touch the Door of Miracles and have any wish granted! Competition formats with distinct styles, fellow players harboring their own agendas, eerie and fantastical Tarot codenames, and baffling bonus puzzles… In 19.6kReads9.5Score2.3kShelves

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   I don't know if the werewolf type counts, but there is another book called "Werewolf: Sell Out All Wolf Teammates at the Start"

8. 8 午 The Midnight Ghost Market: Living People Keep Out 午夜鬼市，活人回避 The Drinking Monk吃酒和尚Mystery592k WordsCompleted [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 3.7kReads9.1Score219Shelves

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   🔥🔥 If you are timid, you accidentally entered it⚠️⚠️ Zundu is very scary. When I watched it, my hair stood on end. The creepy feeling made me afraid to even go to the toilet. Whoever watched it will know how scary it is!

9. 9 东 Northeastern China's Forbidden Secrets 东北禁忌手札 Jun Lan君阑Mystery122k WordsCompleted [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 892Reads8.8Score108Shelves
10. 10 噩 The Sound of Nightmares: 60 Horror Stories That Wake You from Your Dreams 噩梦之声：60个做梦吓醒的恐怖故事 Xiao Youqian萧有钱Mystery174k WordsCompleted [Standalone Ghost Stories + Supernatural Horror + Not for the Faint of Heart + Rural Tales] When night falls, terrifying ghostly figures emerge. Step into all kinds of bizarre and unbelievable tales, and spend your nights screaming! Haunted houses, ghostly shadows outside the window, a deadly lipstick, someone beneath the mattress, an umbrella that hunts people... Every corner conceals inexplicable phenomena and secrets that will fill you with dread! Every page will make your hair stand on end, 1.9kReads8.9Score215Shelves
11. 11 恐 Horror's Edge: 100 Absolutely Terrifying Ghost Stories 恐怖边界：100个绝对惊悚的鬼谈 The Out-of-Control Editorial Department失控编辑部Mystery432k WordsCompleted [Standalone Stories + Supernatural Horror + Folk Customs + Feng Shui and Mysticism + Mild Frights + Shocking Twists] Horror tales beyond anything you could imagine. Each story is like a dark door swinging open, drawing you into moments that will make your skin crawl. Listen. A faint whisper, an indescribable shadow creeping closer. Danger by the river, terror in the cemetery, ghost babies in the maternity ward, evil headhunting magic, apparitions at the hot springs, a bloodstained umbrella... On 2.6kReads8.7Score216Shelves
12. 12 夜 Ghostly Whispers at Midnight 夜半鬼语 Millennium-Old Monster千年老妖Mystery87k WordsCompleted [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 6.6kReads9.0Score255Shelves
13. 13 死 Death Game Countdown 死亡游戏倒计时 A City Sharing the Light与光同城Mystery1.5M WordsOngoing Ning Ye was just an ordinary game booster, renting a small room and making money by playing games for other people. So, what’s the highest level a game booster can reach? Dominating high-ranked matches against other boosters? Taking on pro players? Leaving one-trick specialists with nowhere to go? For him, all that was just routine. What he never expected was that one day, he would become a deity’s game booster. … Want to get rich overnight? Want to reach the pinnacle of life? Want all kinds of 3.1kReads8.6Score377Shelves

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    It shouldn't be considered scary, but it's definitely brain-burning.

14. 14 诡 The Horrors Are Hard to Kill? Sorry, I'm the Truly Immortal One 诡异难杀？抱歉，我才是真正不死 Six Gourds六个葫芦Urban2.0M WordsCompleted This book has been signed for publication, so enjoy it with confidence. [Death Regression + Foreknowledge of the Future + Kill the Saintly One First + Dark Tone + Supernatural Resurgence] After accidentally transmigrating to a world invaded by the supernatural, Fang Xiu awakens the ability to return from death, also known as turning back time. Whenever he dies, time rewinds to just before his death. In this perilous and uncanny world, he could have laid low, but instead he chooses to announce to 323.7kReads9.5Score39.2kShelves

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    The first book has the potential to become a god. While it is brain-burning, the other supporting characters are very real and the characters are very three-dimensional. The second book is "Never Compromise", the masterpiece among the rule ghost stories. [Top][Top][Top][Top][Top][Top][Top][Top][Top][Top][Top][Top][Top][Top][Top][Top][Top][Top][Top][Top]

15. 15 无 Infinite Rebirth: Conquering Another World from Scratch 无限重生：从零开始的异世界攻略 Old Gentleman of the Tavern酒馆老绅Mystery450k WordsOngoing [Brain-Burning + Mind-Blowing Ideas + A Fresh New Genre + Wild and Unrestrained + Utterly Rebellious] Psionic ascension, mechanical ascension, genetic ascension: which is the strongest? Bah! Only kids have to choose. I want them all! What a disaster! Heaven gave Zhang Haoran the ability to reload infinitely, but who could have guessed that transmigrating would be set to hellish difficulty? Even worse, he had absolutely no control over his save points. Every reload was a new opportunity. His main 271Reads8.9Score—Shelves

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    Highly recommended is a suspenseful and brain-burning novel, with constant twists and turns, suspenseful brain-burning, humorous writing style, and compact plot. Zhang Haoran was confused at first and traveled to a different world. From the beginning of life and death, he gradually entered the extremely complicated puzzle behind it, and gradually explored the secrets hidden behind everything. Just like a fog, the final plots are all connected with each other, with no sense of separation. Every character, even every villain, is closely connected with the main plot, a game within a game, a mystery within a mystery, and every twist and turn further promotes the exploration of the plot. This kind of reasoning-style plot progress is interlocking and multiple lines go hand in hand. It is really a rare masterpiece!

16. 16 一 I Woke Up with 40 Murder Cases on My Hands 一觉醒来：我背上了40起命案 No Joy无喜Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted Chen Xiao wakes up to find everything around him strangely unfamiliar. The only thing beside him is a diary. He thinks it might explain his current predicament, but as he reads, he begins to doubt whether its contents are real. It is clearly a record of crimes committed by “himself.” Just as Chen Xiao is about to read on, the piercing wail of police sirens downstairs jolts him awake, and he can't help imagining the worst... 37.2kReads9.3Score4.2kShelves

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    The first one wasn't too scary, but it left me confused. The second book is even more incomprehensible as it is written by a mentally ill patient. The third book is about revenge. Theme categories: suspense, push and pull, crime solving. Recommended star rating: five stars.

17. 17 一 Confessions of a Mentally Ill Person 一个精神病人的自述 Multiply by Two乘二Mystery169k WordsCompleted Sometimes I wonder what I am, what the world is, and what my existence means to it. Am I an NPC? Or just a virus that doesn't matter? A virus, yes. I feel like I've caught some kind of virus, or maybe I've always been one. My name is Zhang Shun. I'm an ordinary person, and on an ordinary day, I suddenly saw things no one else could see... 1.6kReads9.3Score400Shelves
18. 18 阴 The Underworld Detective 阴间神探 Old Nine of the Daoist Sect道门老九Mystery1.9M WordsCompleted My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 82.7kReads9.4Score10.3kShelves

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    They are all masterpieces with high scores of 9.0 Or above and are well worth watching. First of all, the first one is Detective Conan. It is a novel about human detectives that is very suitable for one person to read. It has strict logic and is like a modern version of Detective Conan. It is very worth reading.

19. 19 我 I'm Zhang San, and I Want a Word with the Rules of the Paranormal! 我张三，要和规则怪谈谈谈！ The Luo in Luo Xiu罗修的罗Mystery3.1M WordsCompleted [Horror + eerie + hilarious + satisfying + national fortune = a serious novel] The Supreme Rules descend, selecting multiple people at random from each country to become Ascenders and take part in the Ascension Exam! Those who perform well earn high scores and even extra rewards. They can improve their own abilities and bring unexpected ascension to their country. But fail the exam, and death may be waiting for you, along with endless torment. Even your country may be beset by supernatural event 8.4kReads9.0Score1kShelves
20. 20 规 Rule Horror: My Family Isn't Normal 规则怪谈：我的家人不正常 White Beard白胡子Mystery1.2M WordsCompleted [Horror + mystery + livestream + national fate + System] The supernatural returns, and rule-based horror games invade countries around the world. As one chosen by fate, Zhou Bai represents the Great Xia Kingdom in a horror game. The first scenario is a family of four. [You live with your wife and your parents. But remember, there are only three people in your home.] [You can trust your wife, unless she takes off her red hair clip.] [You and your wife have never had a child. If you hear a baby cr 49.3kReads9.4Score6.7kShelves
21. 21 规 Rule Horror: Beware Your Roommate's Girlfriend 规则怪谈：请小心你室友的女友 Half a Liang of Salt盐巴半两Mystery1.2M WordsCompleted [No heroine + not wish fulfillment + not invincible + unsettling + horror + suspense + plot-driven] [The livestreaming element is only a tiny part of the story. The focus is on horror and suspense, so feel free to dive in] There are only two people left in your school dorm: you and your roommate. Your roommate suddenly brings home an incredibly attractive person they met online, leaves you some money, then hurries off. Now you're alone in the room with your roommate's gorgeous online date... Wou 34.9kReads9.0Score3.6kShelves

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    Chai Feng is here to recommend a book📖. Guest, you want to read something scary and brain-burning. I wonder if the following novels with rules and ghost stories are in line with your appetite. [Chigua] I suggest you read it with your brain. [Chigua]

22. 22 恐 Folk Horror [The Fake Master Who Shocks a Hundred Demons] 恐怖民俗【冒牌大师震百妖】 Lantern-Bearing Wuchang提灯无常Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted The thing Liu Buyi, a fake master, regrets most in his life is learning how to “draw talismans with soy sauce” from a short video. Because the corpse that should be lying quietly in front of him is now using a soy-sauce-dipped finger to write his name on the coffin lid. Meanwhile, his half-baked beauty of a partner, An Xun, is munching on sunflower seeds and enjoying the show. “Didn't you say you had Yin-Yang Eyes?!” Liu Buyi's voice trembles. Seeing how unconcerned she looks, he almost passes o 621Reads—Score109Shelves

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    🦇"Horror Folklore [Fake Master Shocks Hundreds of Demons]" unlimited streaming + horror folklore + light comedy + survival + unit drama + single female protagonist + intensive entertainment! Not stuck! Worth a look! The story is very independent! Almost finished🦇🦔

23. 23 人 Invitation to a Personality Analysis 人格分析邀请函 Tian Mingxi天铭熙Mystery105k WordsOngoing You, Me, and Him · Invitation Tonight at 7:00 p.m., the white room in Jing'an Apartments. We’re waiting for you to solve the mystery. Let’s get this out of the way: once you finish this script, you’ll go mad. The bad news: you are Chen Ke, Shadow, and Tianming. Player 1: Your character card: Reader Mission: Find the real author Player 2: My character card: Chen Ke Mission: Tear up the murder-mystery invitation Player 3: His character card: Tianming Mission: Stop the other two Opening lines: You 2Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Suspense, brain-burning, horror, a novel with a killer script, 3 perspectives, 5 puzzles, can you be the only one to solve the puzzle? Analysis room 1022963406, the decryption is red pot

24. 24 地 Highway to Hell 地狱公路 Shi He Isn't Suitable矢禾不是适合Mystery504k WordsOngoing “Only sinners may set foot on this road and face the trials of Hell. Only those who pass the trials can wash away their sins and be reborn.” Class A accidentally enters another world on the way to their autumn outing. There is only one road here, a one-way street known as the Hell Road. It is a world that only sinners can enter. The way back has vanished, and the only way to survive is to walk the length of the road and complete one trial after another along the way. “Have you forgotten already? 23Reads7.1Score—Shelves

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    This, this, this!! The first one is a bit suspenseful, brain-burning and scary, the second one is a bit scary and a sports survival game, and the third one is a bit suspenseful+brain-burning. All three books are very interesting and you can read them!!!

25. 25 黑 Dark Survival Game 黑暗生存游戏 Cao Cao Is Never Late曹操不迟到Sports1.6M WordsCompleted You wake to find darkness engulfing the world outside. A storm rages, strange bloodstains seep into the corners of the walls, mournful cries ring in your ears, and a figure outside the window never leaves. You and countless other survivors huddle in fear inside your own ten-square-meter shelters. Starving, you open the door a crack and peer outside. [Chance of catching a cold from the rain after going outside: 100%] A cold isn't a disease. It just lowers your immunity and increases your chance o 1.3kReads8.7Score148Shelves
26. 26 我 I'm Sick, and as It Happens, Everyone Else Is Too 我有病，巧的是大家都有病 A Scholar With a Wooden Knife儒生配木刀Urban1.0M WordsCompleted You discover that you’re sick and go to the hospital for a checkup. A plague breaks out, and by chance you become infected and turn into a pig... When you wake up, you realize it was just a dream. But when you leave home and see pigs filling the streets, you suddenly realize that everyone in the world is sick... This is a sick world. 1.3kReads8.8Score108Shelves
27. 27 包 The Legend of Judge Bao: The Mystery of Wolf’s Den 包公传之狼穴疑案 No Ordinary Idler可非闲人Historical108k WordsCompleted Just after Bao Zheng takes up his post as magistrate of Dingyuan County, he encounters several difficult cases. At first, he believes a pack of wolves is responsible for the murders. But after a thorough investigation, he discovers an unspeakable secret lurking behind them. 2.4kReads6.8Score106Shelves

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    I just saw a newly released book. The characters are three-dimensional and full, the logic is clear, and the reasoning is strong. You can read it.

28. 28 惊 Horror Academy 惊悚学院 The Sound of Wind and Rain at Night,夜来风雨声丶Mystery564k WordsOngoing [Not for beginners + Mind games + Character growth + Slow pace + Descent into darkness] A world filled with curses and evil spirits... A mysterious and eerie academy of terror... A terrifying female ghost who has followed me since childhood... The moment I received that bloodstained admission letter, the gears of fate began to turn, right on schedule... My name is Jin Buhuan, and I'm a Ghost Tamer. I'm going to school now... and I'll feed my female ghost while I'm at it. 96Reads9.2Score—Shelves

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    These books are pretty good

29. 29 规 Rule Horror: I Am the Horror Story 规则怪谈：我即怪谈 Wish You Happiness祝你快乐呀Mystery1.7M WordsOngoing In 2017, supernatural tales descended upon Earth. Conventional weapons couldn't harm them, and humanity struggled to survive. Rule-based supernatural tales became humanity's last lifeline. Tens of thousands of chosen ones around the world were selected. If they won, the supernatural tales would vanish from reality. If they lost, the rule-based tales would descend upon the world. This was a war between humanity and the supernatural. Chen Shao, a patient suffering from bone cancer, became one of t 171.2kReads9.6Score34.7kShelves
30. 30 超 Super Scary Corporation 超级惊悚公司 Night of the Soul灵魂之夜Mystery100k WordsOngoing Would you like to see all kinds of monsters and spirits? Would you like to meet figures from mythology? Was it really Sun Wukong who wreaked havoc in the Heavenly Court? Were humans really molded from clay by Nuwa? Are angels really the guardian deities people imagine them to be? Come with me and uncover the truths hidden in this world. (Later on, characters from various novels will be introduced, such as Zhang Qiling, Xiao Yan, Tang Shan, and others. If there are any characters you'd like to se —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    It's absolutely brain-burning. If you miss even a short paragraph, you may not be able to understand the subsequent development.

31. 31 1 The Last Bus on Route 13 13路末班车 Old Eighty老八零Mystery813k WordsCompleted I'm the driver of the last bus on Route 13. Every night at eleven, I have to make a run to the suburbs. This book is addictive, so don't blame me if you can't put it down! In this novel, even the sharp-tongued readers who always guess the plot right will find themselves repeatedly proven wrong. You might find yourself asking, “What's going on? What's going on?” Don't doubt your sanity. Just keep reading. A story that keeps you on edge, here to save readers suffering from a reading drought! 17.4kReads9.2Score2.2kShelves
32. 32 不 An Unacceptable Game 不能接受的游戏 Lin Xiyi林汐翼Mystery151k WordsOngoing [Chinese-style supernatural horror + infinite flow + mystery-solving and deduction + comedy] All I could do was play games, and I was a complete failure at everything else. Just before that fateful choice, I was sure I pressed Close, but instead I opened a game I couldn't accept. —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Please give me some advice from the big guys [I'm about to cry]

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