Novels like The Forbidden Secrets of the Ghost Child
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- 1 Records of the Spirit World 通灵异录 Water can carry a boat, but it can also capsize it; a car can carry people, but it can also kill them! My name is Xu Yang, and I’m an orphan. A typical college graduate who ended up unemployed, I had no choice but to start an unlicensed taxi business. Little did I know, that decision nearly sent me to my grave... 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Welcome to Reincarnation Hell 欢迎来到轮回地狱 [Supernatural] + [Instances] + [Infinite Flow] + [One Female Lead] + [Not a Wish-Fulfillment Story] Do you believe hell exists in this world? I know most people probably don't. But I do! Perhaps somewhere in the world we know, in some unseen corner, there lurks a mysterious and unknown danger. Once you step inside, you'll be trapped in that terrifying world! Endlessly, over and over again! My name is Chen Sheng. This is my story. A story about the hell of endless reincarnation! 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 The Haunted Tower: Vengeful Ghosts Play You to Death 诡塔之猛鬼玩死人 Here, you must obey bizarre rules, dance with ghosts and monsters, and complete missions riddled with deadly traps in exchange for more time to live. The strange cannot be killed, and it has never made any sense. When fate becomes an invisible shackle, every choice brings you closer to the brink of collapse. Anyone who enters the tower is destined to live alongside the strange. This is a contest between human nature and despair, and a mad survival game against the strange. As the Blood-Red Sca 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 I’m Telling You, Don’t Open This Book. It Really Has Ghosts! 劝你别点开，这本书真有鬼！ [Short Stories] [True Ghost Stories] [Thriller] [Hair-Raising] An old man rises from the dead. A sorceress performs a ritual. Why has everyone in the village fallen silent? An abandoned hospital. Bloodstains congealed in the basement. What secret was the hospital hiding? An abandoned stillborn baby at school. Sobs ring out in the dead of night. When you pull back the dormitory curtains, why is there a twisted face staring back? Don’t click to request more updates! Be careful! Something might lat 54Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 The Real Death Cinema 真实死亡影院 A horror movie poster taken from a corpse's mouth has Luo An's name listed among its cast, drawing him into an endless series of horror films. He must play a character who could die at any moment and survive a never-ending stream of movies where the deaths are real. Only after his fan count reaches one hundred million will he have a chance to escape. This is the story of Luo An, a man with dissociative identity disorder, as he takes one step at a time toward becoming an award-winning actor. [Cin 1Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 6 The Game of Life and Death: I Have Eyes of Yin and Yang 生死游戏：我有一双阴阳眼 [Battle Royale] [Eerie] [Original Scenarios] [Psychological Mind Games] [Infinite Flow] [Squid Game] A programmer killing time at work accidentally clicks a “Answer Questions to Win 100 Million” pop-up. He plans to fill in the answers at random just to get rid of it, but before long, he receives an address for claiming his prize in person: an abandoned train station? When he opens his eyes again, a thousand people are gathered in an eerie hall beneath a blood-red countdown. Has the battle royale 6Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 7 The Crimson Round Table Game 猩红圆桌游戏 After death, a person weighs 21 grams less. Those 21 grams are a person’s consciousness. When emotions run especially high before death, that consciousness can become an obsession. Only those who die with exceptionally powerful emotions become obsessions, clinging to their last wish and struggling to remain in this world until they can fulfill it. 55Reads5.6Score—Shelves
- 8 A Collection of Supernatural Horror Short Stories 超级恐怖短篇小说合集 An ordinary office worker in the city buys an antique wooden comb on a whim, unaware that he has become entangled in a terrifying curse spanning a century. A new work, with one self-contained story per chapter. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 Horror Train: Starting at the Haunted Manor 恐怖列车：从诡异庄园开始 [Infinite-Loop Game + Thriller + Survival + Instances] A train bound for an unknown destination. Platforms where it could stop at any moment. A group of people willing to do anything to reach the final station, with no idea what awaits them ahead... Step off the platform and enter an unknown world. Complete the mission, and make it back alive! Someone once told Bai Ye that at the train's final station, all regrets could be laid to rest! But after one terrifying mission after another, Bai Ye grad 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 The Bizarre News Agency 诡报社 Open this door, and the human world becomes hell. Faith crumbles in an instant; hope vanishes in the blink of an eye. The living struggle, scream, and fight desperately to stay alive; the souls of the dead tremble, loathe, and repent. A game, a survivor, and a mysterious newspaper office known to no one. [Updates have never stopped. I keep my word.] 50Reads7.5Score—Shelves
- 11 The Unkillable Weirdness 诡无法被杀 [No System + not a wish-fulfillment story + endless supernatural mystery instances + the blurb doesn't do it justice + be sure to finish the first instance, there are scares] My name is Zhuang Gui. I'm trapped in a place called Nightmare City. Every so often, I transmigrate in my nightmares to one strange tale after another, forced to struggle for survival. The entities here cannot be killed, and everyone is ruled by fear and despair. Only with courage and wisdom can you find a way out… 7Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 12 Rule Horror: Surviving the Haunted House 规则怪谈：诡宅求生 This book has a proper ending and a complete story, so you can start reading without worry. A blood-red sedan chair with no bearers carries nine strangers to a haunted mansion’s secret realm… Their first mission is to keep vigil for Old Lady Mao for three days. In the haunted mansion, anyone who breaks a death rule will be killed by a ghost. The rules can be obvious or hidden, making them impossible to guard against. Only those with exceptional wit can survive. The setting is eerie, terrifying, 670Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 13 The Haunted Classroom 幽魂教室 A mysterious classroom, 16 sets of desks and chairs, 16 sacrifices, and countless cycles of reincarnation. After taking the death exam again and again, how many people will ultimately escape alive? This is an eternal curse!!! 85Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 14 When Rule-Based Horror Arrives: From the Start, I Make a Move on My Female Boss 规则怪谈降临：开局强撩女上司 After waking up in the office, Li Tian found a strange note. It read: [Don't be late. Get to the office before eight in the morning.] [Your folders are all blue. If you find a red folder, ignore it.] [Don't look in the mirror while riding the elevator.] [Work ends at six every evening. Refuse to work overtime and leave the office by six thirty. Any consequences are your own responsibility!] [Don't make your female boss angry!] He thought it was a prank, never imagining that when one colleague ar 1.5kReads8.4Score219Shelves
- 15 Welcome Aboard the Hell Bus 欢迎乘坐地狱巴士 They died, yet somehow ended up on a bus. Can they really come back to life after fifty missions? Welcome aboard the Hellbound Bus, train GUI_511! This train will take you on an inconceivable, bizarre, and fantastical journey. A mysterious matriarchal village, a strange university dormitory, a terrifying hotel that eats people, a bizarre dried-corpse case, an unbelievable midnight subway... Behind every mission lies a story no one knows. Cause and effect always come full circle. See how two girl 256Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 16 The Eerie Amusement Park 渗人乐园 A mysterious game, terrifying trials, and a journey between reality and the game that brings you face-to-face with the truth of the world. Confront strange phenomena, break down the boundaries between good and evil, and experience the two sides of human nature. Is Eden Park truly a paradise for humanity, or a breeding ground for darkness...? Welcome to the Creepy Park. 20Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 17 Rule Horror: The Infinite Loop's Haunted Campus, Don't Trust Any Rule 规则怪谈：无限流诡异校园，别相信任何一条规则 Rule Horror: An Infinite-Flow, Supernatural School. Don't Trust a Single Rule 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 In the Underworld from the Start, and It Only Gets Darker! 开局在阴间，之后也阴间！ Dual Personalities + Infinite-Flow Horror + Cold Protagonist + No Saintly Savior + Poker Face + No Female Lead When he opened his eyes, Murong Yinghou found himself in a bizarre place. He had to enter one world after another, each filled with vengeful ghosts and curses. Relying on his absolute rationality, he cleared mission after mission and even became a hunter of evil spirits! Others admired and liked him for his intelligence. But they also feared him for his cold-bloodedness… 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 Surviving in a Haunted Mountain Village 在恐怖山村里活下去 Gu Xi enters a real-game scenario called “Horror Mountain Village,” where she's cast as a young bride sold into a remote mountain village to bring good luck to her sick husband. In just a few days in the village, the System's missions have her beating up her brother-in-law, smashing a family heirloom, and even catching her husband in bed with her maid... She's managed to offend every member of the family. She thought this was the limit of reckless behavior, but the missions that follow only get 729Reads8.2Score101Shelves
- 20 Nightmare Invitation 噩梦邀请 [Infinite flow, original instances, mild horror, no romance] An invitation sent from the Nightmare World drags a group of people into a haunted place, where they struggle desperately to survive. Those pulled into the Nightmare World have no idea what lies ahead. They only know they must do everything they can to stay alive. Fight the locals! Fight the ghosts! Fight the Nightmare World! Until... they escape the Nightmare World. 1.4kReads6.6Score104Shelves
- 21 Hell Is Empty, and Evil Spirits Walk the Earth 地狱空荡荡，恶灵在人间 This is a horror novel centered on mystery, a traditional supernatural story with no System and no cultivation. The setup is lengthy, there are many mysteries, and the truth is revealed gradually. A mysterious apartment brings endless nightmares. To escape, you must complete the nine tasks assigned by the apartment. Hunted by evil spirits, mocked by ghosts, and consumed by resentment, everyone will be trapped in a terrifying cycle of death and rebirth, played out in blood. “All who are ruled by 486Reads8.6Score100Shelves
- 22 The Classroom of Death 死亡教室 When you receive a strange letter of admission, you have set foot on a road of no return. No one can escape! At this university of death, the moment your name appears in bloody letters on the classroom blackboard, class has begun. And once class begins, you will enter an unknown world of terror, where you must face bizarre and horrifying ghosts. They will be everywhere, coming to claim your life. Even if you are lucky enough to survive that deadly class and return to the classroom, you will stil 1.9kReads7.1Score108Shelves
- 23 The Eerie Realm: It Starts with an Elevator 诡界：从电梯开始 [No System]+ [No Heroine]+ [Dungeon Progression]+ [No Saintly Protagonist]+ [Eerie]+ [Original Dungeons] Have you ever wondered? Beneath the neon lights and atmosphere of this city, things lurk that defy all reason. They were chosen by the Eerie [Elevator] and marked by a terrifying curse. Again and again, they must take part in death games, until death claims them. 57Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 Horror Movie System 恐怖电影系统 When people see someone standing at the pinnacle, all they can see is his brilliance. They envy his greatness, but never notice the shadows, sorrow, and blood-soaked bones beneath his feet. 330Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 25 Rulebound Illusion Realm: I Have a Recycling Bin 规则幻域：我有一个回收箱 [Genius] [Mind-bending] [Plot twists] [No heroine] [Mystery] [Suspense] Mu Chuan unexpectedly obtains a magical box that he can never get rid of, no matter how hard he tries. By a twist of fate, he enters a rule-bound illusion domain and becomes an emissary who walks between the domain and reality. The illusion domains have the highest death rates, and there’s too little information? No problem. I have a recycling box. Give me something good, and I’ll trade you information. Skills are too rare, 117Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 26 The Weird Domain: Escape from Skinless Village from the Start! 诡异领域：开局逃离无皮村！ [Infinite Flow + Mild Horror + Survival + Supernatural Instances + No Female Lead] Resentment that cannot be dispelled in the real world gathers to form new eerie domains. After being chosen, people are dragged into an eerie domain when they die unexpectedly. They can return to reality only by successfully completing the tasks inside. Only after escaping one terrifying eerie domain after another by the skin of his teeth does Lu Lin discover that the real world is also being infiltrated and taint 7.7kReads7.1Score554Shelves
- 27 Supernatural Horror: Someone Behind the Wall Is Calling My Name 惊悚灵异：墙里有人叫我的名字 Horror and the Supernatural: Someone in the Wall Is Calling My Name 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 Eerie: After Completing the Puzzle, I Somehow Ended Myself 诡异：凑完拼图莫名把自己终结了 [Mystery + Eerie + Deduction + Infinite Flow + Ensemble Cast + Flawless Logic] Have you ever felt despair? Lu Bai wakes up in a dim room, where a mysterious force orders him and several other poor souls to go on missions in one strange place after another. Complete a mission and live. Fail, and die. Black Dragon Pool, the old elm tree, the ancient well at the village entrance, the strange funeral home. After Lu Bai and his companions rack their brains, endure countless hardships, and narrowly es 142Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 29 Rule Horror: After Lights Out, Follow the Dormitory Rules 规则怪谈：熄灯后，请遵守宿舍守则 Rule Horror: After Lights Out, Please Follow the Dormitory Rules 34Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 How Dare She Cheat and Swindle Her Way Through a Horror Game! 大胆！她在惊悚游戏里坑蒙拐骗 [Light horror + easygoing comedy + System; horror, suspense, supernatural, and infinite-loop game dungeons] A quick heads-up: the novel has a male-male side pairing, so please read with that in mind. Yu Lan woke up in an unfamiliar place. After “persuading” the boss to help her get rid of a scumbag, she somehow cleared the game. System: [Welcome to the game world. Congratulations, you have qualified as a player. Sign this consent form, and I’ll be your System.] Yu Lan: [What do you mean, you’ll 1.3kReads8.4Score162Shelves
- 31 The Corpse-Reading Detective 诡案读尸人 The Corpse-Reading Detective 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 I Work as a Mortuary Makeup Artist 我在殡仪馆做化妆师 I used to be a stylist on film and television sets. After reality put me through the wringer, I stumbled into a job as a mortuary makeup artist. Every day, I face all kinds of bizarre corpses, and they have shown me another world... 717Reads8.2Score100Shelves
- 33 Midnight Oracle 午夜神谕 Shh… It’s late. Turn out the lights. Once you step through this door, the world of lies behind you. Whatever you see there, don’t tell anyone. Don’t scream… Stay alive, and you’ll understand everything. As an “ordinary” residential community security guard, Chen You has endured one midnight after another: the church bells ring out twelve long echoes in succession; in an empty post office, the PA system switches on by itself and mutters ancient prophecies; an estate that sho 25Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 The Paranormal Investigation Bureau Needs Talents Like Me 怪谈调查科需要我这样的人才 [Handcrafted from scratch!]+ [Vengeful Ghosts Return]+ [Supernatural Escape]+ [Killing Patterns]+ [Rule Horror]+ [Mystery and Twists]+ [There’s a Romance, but It’s Not the Focus] [Please Give Me a Chance to Tell a Ghost Story] Doppelgängers, dismemberment cases, vengeful ghosts, whatever you do, don’t look back, a deadly exam, zoo horror stories… The world is being invaded by the supernatural, and ordinary humans can no longer survive. Lu Ming, a rookie at the Paranormal Investigation Bureau, di 94Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 Rule Horror: Every Rule Is Waiting for Me to Break It 规则怪谈：所有规则都在等我违规 Rule Horror: Every Rule Is Waiting for Me to Break It 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 Rule Horror: The Last One to Leave the Classroom After Evening Study 规则怪谈：晚自习最后离开教室的人 Rule Horror: The Last Person to Leave the Classroom After Evening Study 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 Death Began at School 死亡从学校开始了 Ghosts are the product of an imbalance between yin and yang. In this vast world, people are all different in character, and their souls are just as varied after death. The virtuous return to pure lands and enjoy the blessings of the afterlife; the wicked and violent turn into vengeful spirits, their resentment gathering until it takes the form of a ghost. These specters wander between yin and yang, but most conceal their forms and rarely appear before the living. [No cultivation, no System, no h 307Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 Rule Horror: Hope Children’s Welfare Home 规则怪谈：希望儿童福利院 [No national fortune] + [No livestreaming] + [No female lead] + [No romance] + [Purely original survival instances] + [Just a tiny bit of horror] There is no more miserable way to die than while taking a dump. Worse still, after dying, you discover that you're sitting in a strange station. A creepy ticket seller on the train The unspeakable secret of the Hope Children's Welfare Institute A mysterious fourth person in a happy family Strange happenings hidden at summer camp A quiet mountain villag 803Reads8.6Score101Shelves
- 39 Shh, Please Be Quiet 嘘，请噤声 [Infinite Flow + Suspense + Horror, Not a Wish-Fulfillment Story] Chen Heng was going to die. Suffering from brain cancer, he had only three months left to live. But just as he gave up on treatment, he was unexpectedly swept into the so-called [Gods' Game], a game that promised to grant anyone's wish. It was an endless slaughter, and each round of the game could have only one winner. Why am I called a [Contender] when this is clearly a [Game]? Whose game is this? And who is watching us from behi 510Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 40 Rule Horror: Infinite Instances, A Grimoire of the Eerie 规则怪谈：无限副本，诡异图鉴 [Infinite-flow + instances + no romance + eerie + suspense + mind-bending + horror + supernatural + imaginative suspense] Worried there aren't enough instances to keep you reading? This book will satisfy you. At three in the morning, the eighth rule at the convenience store is written in blood. Wu Yan only wants to earn eight hundred yuan for a night shift, but he receives an illustrated book that turns its own pages. Rules-based horrors, urban legends, Nanyang curse magic, memetic contamination 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 Fierce Netherworld: Starting as a Rainy-Night Killer 凶冥空间：从雨夜杀人魔开始 [Infinite Flow + The Weird Arrives, No Heroine] Could the beautiful new neighbor really be a serial killer who strikes on rainy nights? Gu Li sees through her disguise, only to get dragged into an even stranger space. Black fog rolls in and terror descends. To survive, Gu Li searches for a way to clear each instance, solving puzzles like mad and escaping certain death. But after completing a series of missions, he discovers that the weird has already arrived in the real world, and a supernatural 5.3kReads7.1Score365Shelves
- 42 Infinite: Pampered by Ghosts in a Horror Game 无限：在惊悚游戏中被鬼灵团宠 [Not for the Faint of Heart + Terrifying and Thrilling + No CP] Third-year college student Si Mu unexpectedly gets a black watch and becomes a ghost summoner. From the start, he draws the title “Goddess of Luck,” and sure enough, all kinds of resentful ghosts and vengeful spirits come calling. They sit at the foot of your bed in the middle of the night to “keep you company,” and endless ghostly mazes lead you through all kinds of surreal worlds... Being the ghosts' favorite is simply wonderful! 223Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 43 Classroom of Despair 绝望教室 What began as a prank voting game set off a string of tragedies. One classmate after another died, yet the voting continued. I knew that maybe I would be the next one to die… 671Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 44 Death on Delivery 死亡外卖 Never try to save money when ordering takeout! After ordering a meal that wasn't clean, strange events keep happening, and his coworkers begin dying one by one. Some takeout costs you money. Some takeout costs you your life. My other completed novel, The Hell Company, is over a million words long. Come check it out, dear readers~~ 2.4kReads8.7Score225Shelves
- 45 The Night-Sealed Door 夜封门 Seven months pregnant, the woman was brutally hounded to death, and her seven-month-old baby was thrown into a well. Her wronged soul is cut off from the road ahead, and evil spirits come to claim their due. The gates of hell swing open, and the underworld seals its doors in the dead of night. 2kReads8.3Score159Shelves
- 46 The Haunted Inn 恐怖旅店 A new graduate faces the toughest job market in years and, with no other options, applies for a night receptionist position at an inn. On my first day, I was told that the job had two requirements. First, I must not speak to the guests. Second, I must not leave the front desk. 513Reads8.0Score103Shelves
- 47 Horror Academy: Dormitory 404 恐怖学院：404凶舍 A sensational incident once occurred at the academy. It was later completely covered up. Five years later, the academy opened its doors again. 2kReads—Score181Shelves
- 48 The Strange World: Luckily, I'm Good at Exorcising Demons with Physics 诡异世界：正好本人擅长物理驱魔 [Infinite worlds + no System + horror + no national destiny competition + no livestreaming + bloodline + get stronger by fighting monsters] A mysterious door. A group of people forced to enter. Countless worlds overrun by the uncanny. Five years ago, his younger sister was taken by the Gray Realm. Wang Anle, who bears a Taotie tattoo, spent five years searching for her. He made his living exorcising spirits, until a chance opportunity finally let him enter the Gray Realm. Only then did he disc 3Reads7.6Score—Shelves
- 49 It Begins with a Figure in the Mirror 从镜中人影开始 [Eerie phenomena descend + no System + escape by following the rules + fighting evil with evil + semi-infinite flow + brotherly bonds] As the Heavenly Dao declines, eerie forces revive. Bai Ren and Bai Jian pray to the gods, but the only ones who answer are their future selves… The terrifying Hell Apartment issues deadly missions, the government’s Anomaly Control Bureau struggles to hold the line, and mysterious forces stir up a storm. The struggle between salvation and destruction has never 65Reads—Score103Shelves
- 50 Escape from Hell's Apartment 逃离地狱公寓 [Pure Deduction and Escape]+ [Infinite Flow]+ [No Golden Finger]+ [Mild Horror]+ [Two Male Leads] No female lead, no items, no cheats, just pure adventure and survival. If that’s not your thing, please don’t read. Ever since Lu Chao accidentally stumbled into this apartment building, he has been on the run. Every so often, the residents have to go out to designated locations to complete missions. Their targets are all ghosts, and they can only survive by carefully following the rules of each mis 4.8kReads6.8Score521Shelves
