Post-Apocalyptic, Eerie Wasteland, Cthulhu Mythos 末世诡异废土克苏鲁
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Surviving the Mist: Ascending to Godhood Through Mutation 迷雾求生:以异化术升格诡异之神
[Survival + Superpowers + Shelter + Eldritch Horrors + Sequences + Cthulhu] The moment Jiang Lin opened his eyes, he found himself in a world of survival amid the mist. The mist concealed countless dangers and opportunities. His only shelter was the rickety wooden cabin behind him. Ferocious beasts and monsters, along with eerie eyes and tentacles, filled him with despair. Fortunately, everyone could draw a supernatural talent to rely on. Fire control, flight, prophecy, synthesis, listening, det
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I Am Not the God of Drama 我不是戏神
The brand-new masterpiece by San Jiu Yin Yu, author of Slay the Gods | Winner of the Best Science-Fiction Web Novel Award at the Macau International Science Fiction Awards | A Chinese grotesque epic that turns the tide of an era After a scarlet meteor streaked across the sky, human civilization ground to a halt. From that day onward, humanity could no longer build a rocket, a nuclear bomb, an airplane, a car... The pyramid of civilization built upon modern science collapsed with a thunderous roa
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The Gods' Foolish Game 诸神愚戏
I have two principles in life: 1. I never lie. 2. I never believe anything anyone says, including myself. “Sir, I would like to point out that your second statement conflicts with the first.” “How so?” “If you never lie, why don’t you believe what you say?” “Oh, sorry. I forgot to mention that I don’t consider myself human.” “?” Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Cheng Shi, Cheng Shi who never lies. What, you’ve never heard of me? That’s all right. You simply haven’t been deceived by m
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High Seas Survival: I Start with a Ghost Ship 全民大航海,我开局一条幽灵船
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
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Lord Survival: Starting from a Deep-Sea Base 领主求生:从深海基地开始
[Lord] [Survival] [Doomsday] [Eerie] [Disasters] [Construction] [Farming] This is the graveyard of civilization, where the remains of countless worlds lie buried. The death of a civilization is as natural as the rising and setting of the stars. In this world surrounded by apocalyptic despair, staying alive has become an impossible wish. Hunger, darkness, chaos, monsters, eerie forces, ancient gods, the supernatural, mist, deities, sparks of hope, the deep sea, holy cities, and endless apocalypti
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Strange Tales from the Deep 深海诡事
In 1988, something bizarre happened aboard an international research vessel exploring unknown life in the depths of the ocean. A man and a woman aboard vanished under mysterious circumstances. When they returned to the ship, the woman was pregnant. The vessel then encountered one strange incident after another and nearly met its end. At last, a young man named Liang Yongsheng lifted the layers of fog. It turned out that the missing woman was actually...
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The First Book by Fei, the Sheep Village Fugitive 羊村在逃沸的第1本书
(Created with AI. Readers, please go easy on me.) In the late 19th century, rusted gears and the whispers of ancient gods from the deep sea tore open a rift in human civilization. The down-and-out young Lu Zhaoming stowed away aboard the mysterious exploration ship Mistveil to save his terminally ill younger sister, only to be dragged into an abyssal catastrophe spanning a hundred years. When mutated tentacles tear through the steel deck, the searing pain in his palm lets him glimpse memories of
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Ten Days to the End 十日终焉
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
1.7MReads9.9Score231.4kShelves
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The House of Dread 诡舍
[Infinite-flow + Mild Horror + Survival + One Female Lead] A driverless bus carried a group of cursed people to a strange black lodge… Inside the lodge stood a door stained red with blood. At regular intervals, the cursed were forcibly dragged through the blood-red door and into terrifying worlds, where they had to complete horrifying events… After Ning Qiushui survived one bizarre and terrifying story after another inside the lodge, narrowly escaping death each time, he discovered that none of
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The Supernatural Returns, and the Eternal Night Begins 灵异复苏,永夜降临
[Supernatural horrors descend + no System + fresh worldbuilding + survival + semi-infinite-flow + no do-gooder protagonist + not dark + supernatural abilities] In the best years of his life, amid the exuberance of youth, Su Yuan thought his days would remain peaceful and beautiful forever. Then a line of bloody text appeared on the blackboard during evening study. [In the silent night, a terrifying ghost appears outside your dorm room... How long will it take to kill you?] Everyone thought it wa
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A Strange and Mysterious World: Selling Medicine with My Left Hand, Wielding Electromagnetism with My Right 奇诡世界:左手卖药,右手超电磁
[Sequences + Martial Artists + Electromagnetic Force + Mad World + Potions] Jiang Yang transmigrates into a strange and uncanny world and joins a gang. Just after becoming the boss of a local branch, he is caught up in an anti-gang crackdown; Later, he becomes an apprentice at a potion shop, embarking on an utterly (grass-growing) life. [Supreme Forbidden Sequences]: Electromagnetic Force, Door, Spotless Void, Magic, Mechanic, Happy Thief, Side-Effect Incantation… [Guardian Sequences]: Snow
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Deicide Learning In A Psychiatric Hospital 我在精神病院学斩神
A must-read hit on Tomato Novel | Original novel of the hit anime Slay the Gods | IP influence on the China Online Literature Influence List | 2023 China Good Novel Have you ever wondered whether monsters from ancient myths lurk beneath the neon-lit city? Have you ever wondered whether gods stand watch over humanity atop the moon hanging high above us? Have you ever wondered whether extraordinary people walk among us in our bustling modern cities, acting in the gods’ stead? In the society ruled
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I Imprisoned the Entire Paranormal World and Turned It Over to the State 我关押整个诡异世界上交国家
A mysterious force has awakened, and a world of the uncanny has descended. Here, you can encounter demons from strange tales, ghosts from horror stories, and even ancient gods from myths and legends! Everyone in this uncanny world lives in fear and trepidation. But Jiang Che discovers that he can see strange prompts. And so... He works as a caregiver at the Yellow Springs Hospital, a waiter at an underworld hotel, and a network administrator at a reincarnation internet cafe... He even builds a p
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A Zombie's Hiking Diary 丧尸的徒步旅行日记
[Leisurely Travels + Everyday Storylines + No Romance] [Content note: No fighting or drama, and the protagonist isn't cold-blooded, going on killing sprees, or antisocial. This is purely a story about taking walks!] When the apocalypse broke out, Yu Qingxian chose to die. But her attempt failed, and she became a zombie. She had been socially anxious and depressed in life, so she decided to travel on foot. Since everyone was a zombie anyway, she didn't feel so afraid anymore.
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Oh No! The Little Zombie Accidentally Became a Big Shot 糟糕!小丧尸一不小心就成了大佬
[Apocalypse x food hoarding x devoted couple x sweet romance x little zombie heroine x super badass, high-output hero] Torrential rain, typhoons, tsunamis, thunderstorms, the disappearance of Earth's magnetic field, zombies, monsters, supernatural abilities, and more... Congratulations, you've entered the main storyline of the apocalypse. The whole world is about to be reshuffled. From here on, survival depends on your life, your luck, and yourself. - While everyone else is still screaming in a
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Call of Cthulhu Roleplaying: I Have Extraordinary Wisdom 克苏鲁跑团:我有极致的智慧
[Cthulhu Roleplaying] [Mystery] [Infinite Flow] [Plot Twists] [No Golden Finger] [No Female Lead] What matters most in a roleplaying game? The strength to take on ten opponents at once? The wisdom to notice the smallest details? The determination to never give up? Or the luck to always escape danger? When Lu Nanke woke up, he found himself inside a roleplaying game world with 500 attribute points to distribute among his eight stats. After a brief moment of thought, Lu Nanke resolutely put ev
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Sequence: God Eater 序列:吃神者
[Tomato 2026 Male-Focused Fiction Most Popular Author, Ranked Number One] Published in print, quality guaranteed. An alternate high-martial world, ensemble cast and political intrigue, no nested plot twists, a slow-paced story with a grand setting. Readers all say it gets better the further you read. Giant birds swallow the sun, and all things undergo dramatic change. Strange, immortal gods, and humanity's superpowered sequences. Everyone wants to become a god in this world, but they have no ide
940.3kReads9.3Score119.4kShelves
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Pillar Project 支柱计划
[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,
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Anomaly Containment Center: You're Containing a Human Like Me? 诡异收容所,你收容我一个人类?
[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
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My Left Eye Is from the Olden Days 我的左眼是旧日
[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
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Cthulhu, Call Me the King of the Occult 克苏鲁,请叫我诡秘之王
Synopsis: [Mysterious forces return + System + unhinged protagonist + containment] Chen Xiao accidentally transmigrates to another world and awakens the [Mysterious Eye] System. At that moment, the other world is being invaded by powerful, indescribable mysteries. Chen Xiao discovers that his System just happens to be able to counter them! As the Mysterious Eye opens, Chen Xiao draws ever closer to the truth of this world: What are the mysteries? Where did they come from? Where have the immortal
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On My Deathbed, I Sat Bolt Upright: The Old Ones Were Me All Along 垂死病中惊坐起,旧日竟是我自己
[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
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First-Year Internship—And You Went to Site 749 to Contain Monsters?! 大一实习,你跑去749收容怪物
[Decisive killing] [How could any monster be good?] [All monsters deserve to die] [Ruthless] During his sophomore summer vacation, Lu Ding had planned to use the time to take an internship and earn some living expenses. Who could have expected that the construction site where he interned would excavate a bleeding stone? The workers fled one after another, but Lu Ding charged in with a rotary hammer. After transmigrating to this world nearly twenty years ago, Lu Ding’s golden finger, the Monster
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Horror: I Created the Anomaly Containment Association 惊悚:我打造了异轨收容会
[Horror + Satisfying Power Fantasy + Director’s Tall-Tale Style] Horror games descended upon Blue Star, turning into one eerie dungeon after another. The monsters inside stepped into the real world, and from then on, the world was overrun with the uncanny. Only by conquering every dungeon could humanity stop the supernatural from consuming the world. Otherwise, the eerie realms would merge with reality and turn the human world into a living hell! Shen Yu bound himself to an Anomaly Containmen
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My Ten Years Working at the Xishan Base 我在西山基地工作的那十年
Anomaly containment, an overpowered protagonist? No. High IQ. One heroine. Some heartbreaking plot twists. Beijing, Xishan, 3,000 meters underground: hundreds of anomalous objects. A digital Earth that drifted through space for ten thousand years; a woman who transmigrated a thousand years into the past and died during the Shang dynasty; a colossal stone pillar that appeared on the North China Plain; Yan Emperor and Yellow Emperor, who have survived for four eras; a pen that can improve people’s
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Strange Tales Containment Center 怪谈收容中心
“Young man, what do I look like to you?” A strange, unsettling voice rings out. The weasel sits in humanlike fashion inside the containment room, its eyes glowing a faint green as it stares at the young man before it, seemingly unable to understand why he is so... excited. “You look like a blue-eyed, blond-haired little girl!” Wang Jin watches the weasel’s shocked expression as its body keeps changing shape, and gives it a meaningful smile.
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Abyssal Mutation Files 深渊畸变档案
[Dark] + [Behind the Scenes] + [Ensemble Cast] + [Lovecraftian] + [No Female Lead] + [No System] There was no mystery here once, until I came along. They are underground, in the sky, and in the deep sea. Before I knew it, I had become one of them... “They crave power, but I am the opposite, because I am power.”
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A Dog Named Wang Meiju Can Actually Cultivate Immortality 一条名叫王美菊的狗竟然会修仙
An ensemble fantasy with an Eastern setting + high-concept, multi-threaded storytelling + a rejection of fate + unflinching tragedy + a war epic + moral dilemmas + weighty literary style + vivid imagery + intense emotional tension + multiple perspectives Beneath the Red Lotus is not a wish-fulfillment story. It has none of the play-the-pig-to-eat-the-tiger tricks, none of the overpowered hero’s unstoppable domination, and none of the harem-collecting fantasies. It is a war epic with “love” as it
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After Being Sacrificed, I Became the Evil God's Wife 被献祭后我成了邪神老婆
An expedition to survey an ancient village, a sinister plot, and a bizarre sacrificial ritual. These events left university student Qi Chuan haunted by an evil spirit. One by one, his friends died in freak accidents. To escape the spirit and return to a normal life, he had no choice but to venture into one nightmare-filled night after another. His memories began to fade, and he had no idea that his fate had been sealed from the very beginning. Content warning: The protagonist has no golden finge
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The Unspeakable Cultivation Game 不可名状的养成游戏
[Dual male leads + adored by all + Lovecraftian horror + the uncanny returns + coming-of-age + no female lead] P.S. This is a pick-your-ship story with multiple love interests. See how the plot develops: whoever the kid naturally ends up with will be his CP. If nobody does, the kid stays happily single. P.P.S. The protagonist is being raised by others! P.P.P.S. The girls are lovely, but there are no romantic sparks between them and the male lead! . For a long time, Shi Xuan thought he had escape
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Simulating All Things: I Created a Cthulhu World 推演万物:我塑造了克苏鲁世界
[Worldbuilding + Dual Systems + Behind-the-Scenes Story + No Female Lead] Fang Ying transmigrates into a world where anyone can become a god, and everyone has the chance to create a world of their own. Some open up high-martial worlds and become the Martial Ancestors of their realms. Some establish cultivation worlds and become immortal emperors revered through the ages. Others watch their worlds shatter, then perish and fade into nothingness. After transmigrating back, Fang Ying wields the [Ded
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The Supernatural Has Returned? Sorry, I’m the Supernatural 诡异复苏?不好意思我就是诡异
Not an invincible power fantasy, not a dark story. Read with caution if these aren't your thing. [No Female Lead] [Wasteland Horror] [Infinite Fusion] [Doomsday] [Not a Dark Story] The whole world fears the supernatural. I'm the only one who sees it as a puzzle piece in my evolution. Thirty years after the Great Rift, supernatural tales run rampant, folk customs are revived, and indescribable calamities roam the wasteland. Gu Yi wakes up to find himself the lowest-ranking pollution cleaner outsi
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Apocalypse Game: Killing My Girlfriend on Day One 末日游戏:开局手刃校花女友
[Game Stats] [No Romance] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Invincible Protagonist] [Absolute Egoism] [Pure Wish Fulfillment] No saintly heroes allowed!!! After surviving ten years of the apocalypse, Lin Ziluo was reborn on the day the apocalypse game arrived. When he came to, the first thing he did was kill his campus crush, the girlfriend who had betrayed him and ruined his life for ten years. Unexpectedly, he activated a System that could grant him countless golden fingers. His first golden finger: Ab
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Mystery Returns: From the Start, I Command a Terrifying Ghost 神秘复苏,开局驾驭诡异厉鬼
[Eerie Revival] + [Vengeful Ghosts Descend] + [Ruthless and Decisive] My name is Liu Qing. By the time you read this, I’ll already be dead. I heard some people can have ghosts tattooed onto their bodies. No, actually, the only ones who can have ghosts tattooed on them are probably ghosts themselves. There’s a collector whose museum is filled with all kinds of supernatural oddities. On that eerie highway, a bus crept forward. And so Liu Qing’s story began... Liu Qing: Are you kidding me? If I wan
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