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  1. 1 Horror on the High Seas 恐怖大航海 Sports2.6M WordsCompleted The print edition has been signed with a publisher. [Seafaring] [Survival] [Disasters] [Shipbuilding] [Talents] [Cthulhu] [One Female Lead] Everyone transmigrates, and Yang Yi, as a player, is forced to join a game where everyone must survive at sea. Some lucky players get special ships. Like the Iron Will, armed to the teeth. Like the Gale, which rides the wind and waves so fast it's never in sight. Like the Head-On, with its massive ram, charging fearlessly ahead. But Yang Yi's ship is called 303.1kReads9.4Score33.1kShelves
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  2. 2 Lord of the White Fog 白雾之主 Urban1.1M WordsCompleted [Not an invincible protagonist + progression novel + no System + Lovecraftian horror + not fast-paced wish fulfillment + follows the official route] Lu Ning wandered through the fog for two thousand years. When he finally emerged, he found that the world seemed to be sick. The sun was covered in tentacles, planets were blanketed in flesh, the moon had sprouted countless eyes, and even Earth was groaning and crying for help. The diseased, disaster beasts, and followers of evil gods ran rampant, w 79.8kReads9.1Score14.5kShelves
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  3. 3 My Left Eye Is from the Olden Days 我的左眼是旧日 Urban2.0M WordsOngoing [Lovecraftian horror + anomalous containment + supernatural powers + mystery + the uncanny] More than three hundred years ago, humanity received the "Pioneer Gilded Aluminum Plate" from a higher-dimensional world. Based on its pictographic writing, they provisionally translated its name as Shenhulu. At the same time, The entire world ascended to a higher dimension, and humanity evolved. Humans deciphered the arcane entities from higher dimensions recorded in Shenhulu. They also realized that the 74.8kReads8.7Score13.1kShelves
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  4. 4 The Gray Realm’s Devotee 灰界信徒 Mystery231k WordsCompleted After I was dismembered, my consciousness awoke in the restroom of an abandoned psychiatric hospital. A stranger's face stared back at me in the mirror. A phone lay on the sink, its screen displaying a message: “Welcome to the Ashen Realm Human Resources Department. Employee ID: 444. Your first performance target: survive tonight.” This is a bizarre world formed as the “Ashen Realm” seeps into reality. Grudges become rules, memories become currency, and humans are its cheapest disposable resourc 3Reads—Score—Shelves
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  5. 5 Time Is My Life 时间就是我的生命 Urban123k WordsCompleted Monsters roared outside the window, and Chen Fan could no longer leave. No matter how Anna tried to tempt him, he remained unmoved. There was only one reason: he had less than three hours left to live. Many years later, Chen Fan still remembered that night vividly. Without the thousand hours Anna had sponsored, how could he have witnessed the One Who Unifies All Things and brought an end to the age when monsters ran rampant? 3Reads—Score—Shelves
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  6. 6 We Got Our Marriage License from the Start, and My Wife Turned Out to Be a Master of Mysticism 开局领证,夫人竟是玄学大佬 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Metaphysics + livestream fortune-telling + wealthy CEO + devoted couple] Love story: A powerful mystic's soul drifted into another world. To stay alive, she had to bind her marriage fate to a man with purple qi. So the first time they met was at the civil affairs bureau. He said, “Marrying you was my grandmother's decision. We have no feelings for each other, so there won't be a wedding, and we won't live together after we marry.” She said, “No problem.” He said, “As agreed, we'll divorce in a 26.7kReads9.1Score4.1kShelves
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  7. 7 The Mask Burns at Daybreak 假面燃昼 Urban243k WordsCompleted The entire city has become a blood-red theater for the gods, and everyone is drawing lots to determine their fate. Jiang Zhao draws only a marginal role: a temporary actor. With no protagonist’s aura to protect him, he can only spend the three minutes after someone else exits the stage playing the dead, a hero, or even a god. Through countless acts of throwing himself into a role, he carves a path to survival for humanity, but with every victory, he forgets a little more of himself. “When I’ve b —Reads—Score—Shelves
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  8. 8 The Grand Magician 大奇术师 Urban2.5M WordsOngoing Rock and roll, Broadway, the city lights coming alive: an age known as golden. Prisoners, con artists, madmen: a bunch of hopeless cases. Reason, madness, writhing shadows: an ancient dream that has never awoken. Guns and cannons set the gears turning, while ancient mysteries stir back to life in blood. In this age on the verge of its end, our very existence is a miracle. 9.3kReads8.4Score1.3kShelves
  9. 9 Since When Did You Get to Rule This World? 这个世界什么时候轮到你们做主了 Urban424k WordsOngoing [The ratings just came in, and they’re going to soar] [Showing off in public] [Multiple heroines] [No toxicity or angst] [Divine and insane] [Highly intelligent villains] [Epic battlefields] The Evil Gods cast their gaze down from the stars. Their mutterings worm into the soul, and their corruption makes flesh betray the will. Cities writhe beneath their skins, while people mutate in ignorance. The Empire, the forbidden zones, and the rulers enthroned high above have long since written humanity 640.7kReads9.2Score100.7kShelves
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  10. 10 I Took the College Entrance Exam at a Funeral Home and Became a Cthulhu Hunter 高考进殡仪馆,我成了克苏鲁猎人 Urban465k WordsOngoing [Monster Hunter's Handbook] + [Devouring and Containment] + [Cthulhu] + [Superpowers] + [A protagonist with an unusual way of thinking] + [Gods Descend] In Year 001 of the New Era, Cthulhu appeared above the island nation and destroyed it in just half a day. As the world celebrated, humanity did everything it could to kill Cthulhu. From then on, monsters from the Cthulhu mythos ran rampant. In response, countries around the world established Monster Control Bureaus, recruiting people who had awa 6Reads—Score—Shelves
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  11. 11 Fate Beast Taming 命运御兽 Urban1.2M WordsCompleted [Beast Taming + Gu Insects + Assassin-Type + No Romance + Decisive and Ruthless + No Transformation + Cthulhu Mythos + Lone Wolf + Countless Hidden Trump Cards...] (No System, but he does have a golden finger!) The eerie invasion begins, and the Ten Evil Kings appear. The continent is in danger at every turn! Chen Fei, still a freshman, obtains the Killing Codex. As long as he kills, he can rapidly improve his demon beasts’ strength, aptitude, and skill proficiency. Restriction: He can only form 21.1kReads9.0Score2.5kShelves
  12. 12 Something’s Not Quite Right in This Cultivation World 这修仙界有点不太对劲 Eastern Fantasy371k WordsOngoing ([Chinese-style horror · eerie cultivation · not for the faint of heart] The immortal world is a lie. Beneath it lies a man-eating hell. If you like stories like Dao of the Bizarre Immortal, come on in. If you're looking for a power-fantasy progression story, this isn't for you.) Li Changsheng has a Heavenly Spiritual Root. He is the personal disciple of the Qingyun Sect's leader, the foremost talent of the younger generation, and everyone's envy: the future Daoist heir. His only flaw is that hi 1.5kReads8.2Score569Shelves
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  13. 13 The Nine Tripods Shrouded in Dust 九鼎蒙尘 Mystery644k WordsOngoing History student Chu Ye inherits his grandfather’s bronze compass, only to brush against the buried secrets of Huaxia: Reflections in mirrors begin devouring the living. A hundred-year-old shamanic corpse, wrapped in chains, crawls from the depths of the Yellow River. Ancient gods stir in Chang’an’s ley lines, fed by the dance of a noble consort. The bloodline ability he is forced to awaken, “Empathic Sense,” is both a key to glimpsing the truth and a curse that drives him toward madness: Each ti 14Reads—Score—Shelves
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  14. 14 The Haunting Realm Descends: I Transform into a Bloodthirsty Killer 诡境降临:我蜕变成嗜血杀人魔 Mystery237k WordsCompleted [The Strange Realm Descends + Cthulhu + Villain Persona + Decisive and Ruthless] When an alternate dimension known as the “Strange Realm” tore through reality, humanity glimpsed a blood-soaked ladder of evolution through the lens of fear. This world, crumbling by the day, is the final grave for the trembling cowards, the fertile soil where ambitious schemers cultivate their twisted desires, the evolutionary feast where the awakened seek out opportunity, the endless abyss where reason and sanity 23Reads—Score—Shelves
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  15. 15 A Lunatic in Peacetime, a War Machine at the End of the World 盛世精神病,末日战斗机 Urban1.0M WordsCompleted [No female lead + eerie happenings + multiple personalities + comedy + slow burn + everyday life] A red moon appears, and contamination descends. Most people in the world become mentally ill, carrying mental contamination. Xiao Liang is a mentally ill man who has been contaminated but hasn't gone mad. He uses his dissociative identities to beat eerie creatures, and moonlights as a one-stop murder-and-body-disposal service. Only when a god dies beneath his own iron shovel does he realize that he 11.8kReads9.1Score1.7kShelves
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  16. 16 Growing Cursed Plants to Survive: Cultivating an Evil God After Reaping Death 种诡求生,从死亡丰收后种植邪神 Mystery3.8M WordsCompleted [Unconventional farming, scavenging corpses, burying the dead to grow the strange, hardcore tomb building, slow burn, tons of female ghosts] Everyone transmigrated to a world of filthy soil, where they had to grow the strange to survive. Su Ye had always believed that you reap what you sow. He never expected that in this world of filthy soil, growing a ghost bride could give him a strange wife, while growing a ghost groom could give him a strange husband. Who could resist that kind of temptat 30.4kReads8.8Score4.1kShelves
  17. 17 The Impostors Are Coming, and I Can No Longer Tell 伪人来袭,我已分不清 Mystery720k WordsCompleted [Uncanny Horror + Lovecraftian Terror + Impostors + A Ghost Wife to Raise + Madness + Exorcism Through Materialism. No cultivation, no System. One heroine, but female supporting characters too. Read with caution if that's not your thing.] Think carefully about everyone you saw today. Can you be sure that “they” were all human? Don't panic. There's no need to answer too quickly. First, take a deep breath and try to recall the unnatural details. For example, someone repeatedly greeting you with th 6.6kReads8.9Score561Shelves
  18. 18 The Old Days Return: Have I Become Humanity's Pillar? 旧日归来,我成人类支柱了? Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.9M WordsOngoing [Eerie] [Cthulhu] [Doomsday Descends] [Rebuilding Civilization] [Cultural Relics] [Culture] Xu Chen felt that studying history in this parallel universe had no real prospects, so after some maneuvering, he switched to medicine. He never expected that he had just jumped straight into the fire. What awaited him was fear in its most direct form. After a certain island nation dumped wastewater into the sea, unspeakable horrors arose from the depths. Eerie symptoms began appearing one after another, 41.4kReads9.2Score3.5kShelves
  19. 19 Reborn as a Great Noble: A Carefree Diary in Another World 转生大贵族,异世界放纵日记 Eastern Fantasy4.2M WordsOngoing [Western fantasy + multiple heroines + the uncanny + Lovecraftian horror + elves + reborn in the womb] The darkness and distortion lurking beneath the civilized world, and the eerie whispers heard only in the dead of night! The day the sea mists rose, the world became an isolated island. At first, I thought I had been reborn into an era of backward technology. There were no phones, computers, Wi-Fi, or anything like that. Fortunately, I was exceptionally handsome and easy to get along with, so 129.1kReads9.2Score12kShelves
  20. 20 Throne of the Sequence King 序列王座 Urban4.3M WordsCompleted “In the end, everyone will die. Only you will remain, ascending to the divine throne of the Sequence. Carry the lanterns of our hopes with you, and go face the winds of fate from the Primordial Calamity.” [Completed] [A travelogue across many nations + Sequence powers + gods and colossal beasts + divine arts of the Great Dao + modern cosmic horror + protagonists across multiple timelines] [No System, no harem. Not for readers who skim. Many characters die, so proceed with caution.] In 1755, the 49.5kReads8.7Score4.9kShelves
  21. 21 You’re a Priest, So Why Are You Pulling Out an Axe in Battle? 你一神父,战斗的时候掏斧头干嘛 Sports1.6M WordsCompleted [Dark World] [Soulslike] [Survival] [Single heroine] [Cthulhu] [Building and upgrading] [Exceptional talents] Players arrive in a dark world that devours people. Fortunately, everyone has a shelter, where a burning flame protects them. But to survive, they must raise their torches and venture into the darkness, facing even more terrifying monsters. Zhao Gan seems lucky: his shelter is a Church of Light. With a little effort, he can even expand it: Tower of Light: Let a mighty flame blaze and roa 3.8kReads8.4Score378Shelves
  22. 22 The System Keeps Getting Creepier, but I’m a Good Priest 系统越来越诡异但我是个好牧师 Eastern Fantasy2.8M WordsCompleted [A System That Makes You Stronger by Talking People into Things] [Cthulhu] [Western Fantasy] [Comedy] [No Harem] Teammate A: Rupert, you have the priest’s [Blessing], right? Rupert: I’ll play the [Demon’s Murmurs] on repeat for you. It’s basically the same thing. You’ll be fearless. Teammate B: Rupert, you must have the priest’s [Holy Shield], right? Rupert: I’ll stick a [Void Tentacle] into you. Don’t mind its looks, it’ll protect you. Teammate C: Rupert, you have the priest’s [Holy Healing Aur 30.2kReads8.6Score4.8kShelves
  23. 23 The Evil God’s Ranch 邪神牧场 Urban3.2M WordsCompleted [No System]+ [No Heroine]+ [Cthulhu]+ [No Tired Tropes] (Also known as: Sequence: Ascension to Godhood) The Dark Prison has merged with reality, and bizarre creatures are invading the world through the “Gates.” An organization has quietly emerged, calling themselves the Wardens. They keep the bizarre creatures behind the “Gates,” and capture and contain any that make it into the world. Lu Xiao accidentally fell into the Dark Prison and lived there alone for three years. After the Wardens discove 70.5kReads9.2Score7.7kShelves
  24. 24 The Black Fog Descends: I Am the Forbidden One 黑雾降临:我为禁忌 Urban733k WordsCompleted [Sequences] [Cthulhu] [Slow burn] [No female lead] Sixteen years ago, a blood-red meteor tore across the dawn and descended upon the world. No one knew how terrifyingly strange the world humans knew would become because of its arrival. From that day on, a black fog that engulfed the entire world descended. Among humanity, people with immensely powerful abilities known as Sequence holders began to appear. With a wave of their hands, they could destroy cities and mountains, but the world had alrea 5.5kReads8.9Score705Shelves
  25. 25 My Sequence Is Corrupted? With a Heart of Light, What More Is There to Say? 序列被污染?我心光明复何言 Mystery514k WordsCompleted [Pathway Sequences] [Local Cthulhu Mythos] [No Female Lead] [Exploration-Focused] [No System] [Not a Power Fantasy] “Your role is the Fortune Teller!” “[Play] your role well. It’s the key to [surviving] and even [escaping this place]!” “To get into character, first offer a stick of incense to the [Three Pure Ones]!” Qin Yangming wakes up in a sealed room with no memory. A card tells him to offer a stick of incense. He looks at the three conjoined, bloodied fingers... As more and more bizarre mon 2.7kReads8.8Score300Shelves
  26. 26 A Strange Honkai: Star Rail: The Road to Salvation Begins From Zero! 诡异崩铁,从零开始的救世之路! Anime Fanfiction1.2M WordsOngoing [Over one million words, rated 9.2. Quality guaranteed] [An eerie world invasion + plot-driven story, original storyline with no filler based on existing plots + developing a territory and rebuilding civilization + monsters from the Classic of Mountains and Seas] This world has been polluted. The twisted, deranged Nous; the “Abundance” covered in tentacles; Fuli, chanting strange incantations; Nanook, pounding the planet with a shattered skull... The Aeons have been corrupted by the eerie forces 755Reads9.3Score102Shelves
  27. 27 As the Occult Withers, I Endure; As the Old Gods Die, I Live Forever 诡秘凋零我不朽,旧神逝而我永生 Eastern Fantasy1.0M WordsCompleted (Longevity + Cthulhu + Changing Eras + Attribute Points + Ultimate Villain!) In the Middle Ages, when strange corruption ran rampant, he became the mad pontiff who terrorized half a continent. In the age of science, after the Old Gods fell, he became a living legend who walked the mortal world. Even when humanity left the surface of the planet and reached for the stars, no one could deny the existence of this undying old monster who had endured across the ages! “First, I have to survive the 21.1kReads8.5Score2.3kShelves
  28. 28 I Just Want to Rest in Peace, but the God of Fun Has Set Their Sights on Me! 想安息的我被乐子神盯上了! Urban1.6M WordsCompleted [Creatures from a Cthulhu Mythos World + Light Novel + Evil God Protagonist + Stirring Up Trouble + The Author Has Gone Mad + One Heroine (Bro, This Diet Coke Has No Sugar)] Also known as I Tricked My Unlucky Uncle into Becoming a Legendary Investigator and Why Is My Tomboy Friend So Fragrant? “Hello, we'd like to learn about Mr. Hunter's life.” “If you're asking me, you've come to the right person. I know him very well.” “What kind of person was he?” “An unruly kid who loved wandering around al 14.2kReads9.2Score1.8kShelves
  29. 29 I Slept for Ten Thousand Years and Woke Up an Ancient God 一睡万年,醒来发现自己已成古神 Eastern Fantasy423k WordsCompleted [Ancient gods + Lovecraftian horror + lordly territory-building + civilizational evolution] One day, Wang Chan transmigrated and became a baby Godzilla. He also had a black sun for a birthplace, so he could hardly have it better. Every day, he did nothing but eat and sleep, and sleep and eat. Then one day, when he finally emerged, the mortals of countless worlds saw a creature... 108,000 zhang tall, surrounded by boundless rivers of molten flame, with the sun and moon above its head and the unde 6.8kReads9.1Score496Shelves
  30. 30 Death Rewind: I See Through Everything and Slaughter Without Restraint 死亡回溯:洞悉一切的我嘎嘎乱杀 Eastern Fantasy2.0M WordsOngoing (No heroine, no invincibility, no brainless protagonist, plot-driven, a protagonist who eats people. Things get really exciting after he breaks through to the Nascent Soul realm!) Ye Xiang transmigrates into a Lovecraftian cultivation world and develops an eye condition. The world he sees is unlike the one ordinary people see: perception turned upside down, Buddha statues made of insects. The Great Dao has vanished, towers of corpses float in the air, and two dark moons hang overhead. What is re 2.1kReads9.0Score194Shelves
  31. 31 Investigator from the Start, Surrounded by Evil Gods! 开局调查员,我的身边全是邪神! Eastern Fantasy397k WordsCompleted [Mysterious and supernatural + Female Eldritch Horrors + Technology + Potions...] Reborn in a world filled with strange horrors, Jun Xiao becomes the strongest investigator in Harlan City after two and a half years of hard work. He thinks that once he pays off his mortgage, he can relax and coast through life. But as he does, he discovers that more and more evil gods are gathering around him. Gehros: Jun Xiao is my only family. Nobody can take him away from me. Kraken: Hello, Teacher. Marry me! 2.8kReads9.0Score377Shelves
  32. 32 I'm an Actor in Another World 我在异界当演员 Urban1.1M WordsCompleted [Showbiz + Actors + Cthulhu + Lord of the Mysteries + Steampunk Machinery + Incarnations + Role-Playing] I am a screenwriter, manipulating fate from behind the scenes. I am a knight, pursuing justice and fairness. I am an alchemist, seeking the truth. I am a profane priest, deceiving the gods. I am a magical thief, stealing my way through adventures. I am an actor, taking on a thousand forms. 9.7kReads9.0Score929Shelves
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  33. 33 An Evil God Doll from the Start: Do I Even Have a Choice? 开局邪神人偶,我有的选吗 Urban628k WordsCompleted Evil gods run rampant! Monsters are everywhere! Luo Ya transmigrates to a world of "Dollmasters." Here, people awaken different powers by imprinting their souls onto dolls, using them to resist the rampage of evil gods and monsters. But what Luo Ya never expected was to transmigrate into a doll on the verge of being scrapped, only to be contracted by a little girl?! Fortunately, the God-Tier Sign-In System activates. [Ding! Sign in by contracting with a girl. Reward: the power of an evil god, ac 156Reads8.7Score105Shelves
  34. 34 Surviving at a Haunted Sea Lighthouse: Building the Ultimate Shelter 诡海灯塔求生:打造最强庇护所 Sports135k WordsOngoing [Lighthouse Survival] + [Cthulhu] + [Apocalypse Survival] Everyone transmigrates, and Lin Feng is forced to take part in a survival game. In an endless black ocean, a solitary lighthouse becomes the home people depend on to survive. Countless bizarre creatures and supernatural forces emerge from the darkness, while fear and despair follow close behind. Everything from before is gone, leaving everyone with just one goal: hold the lighthouse and do whatever it takes to stay alive! A heart-pounding 7Reads6.6Score—Shelves
  35. 35 The Ghost Baby Became a Yin-Yang Master 鬼婴做了阴阳先生 Mystery309k WordsCompleted I was never meant to be born. I’m an infant spirit, yet also a human being, and I became a yin-yang practitioner! I went to a third-rate art college, hunted ghosts, encountered fox demons, and became a disciple of the City God. I just want to write down the extraordinary things that happened to me in this life. You can decide for yourselves whether they’re true. I recommend reading through Chapter 77, skipping the chapters after that, and going straight to the ending. —Reads—Score—Shelves
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