Novels like The House of the Dead
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The House of the Dead, best match first.
- 1 Three Calls to the Soul 魂起三声 The living harbor grievances, and the dead bear hatred. A curse is a deadly poison: to survive is to suffer. Death severs the path between the living and the dead; a long life is worse than a journey to hell. When the King of Hell says you will die at the third watch, he will not let you live until the fifth! Heaven sees all that people do, and every grudge will be repaid in the end. Do no wrong while you live, and you will reach old age with a clear conscience! 3Reads5.9Score—14d adds
- 2 The World Is a Ghostly Hell, Good Thing I Went Crazy Early 人间鬼蜮，还好我提前疯了 A funny, mildly frightening Lovecraftian folk-horror Infinite Flow story, with no System, a small ensemble cast, and no female lead. It all begins with a text message sent to everyone in despair. Step onto the platform of death and search for hope amid despair. Completed instances: "The Haunted Nursing Home" and "The Age of Peace and Chaos." These two instances form the main story of the first arc. Based on "The Taiping Book of Sorcery," left behind by the Great Sage of Learning, Zhang Jue, 30.6kReads8.4Score4k14d adds
- 3 Forbidden Words 禁语 An old saying warns of three taboos: the mouth, the heart, and the eyes. Abandoned at birth, I was taken in and raised as a son-in-law. From then on, I bore a dual fate and walked the path of the night. When I turned eighteen, one inexplicable thing after another began to happen…! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 Short Tales of Terror: A Collection of Strange Stories 短篇微恐：志怪故事集 Do you think the footsteps behind you when you walk alone late at night are just the wind? Do you think the unfamiliar object that suddenly appears in an old storage box is just something you forgot about? Do you think the blurry shadow that sometimes flickers across the mirror is just a trick of the light? This collection of strange tales has no blunt, bloody shocks. It is filled only with eerie everyday moments hidden in the folds of ordinary life. Each story stands alone, yet after you close 59Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 The Uncanny Path: Invasion of the Aliens 诡道：异形入侵 Aliens + ghosts + demons + parasites + lurking horrors. Maximum terror! The protagonist comes down from the mountain to investigate aliens and ghosts, honing his Daoist arts in real combat. Chapters 1–12 focus on aliens. From Chapter 13 onward, the story combines evil ghosts and aliens. Later, certain aliens will transform into demons, but the sense of oppression and the level of danger will stay just as high. The sect is the Hidden Immortal Sect, founded by Laozi’s disciple. Its history can be 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 Forbidden Tales of the Desolate Village: A Midnight Whistle, and a Shrouded Corpse Spirit at the Door 荒村禁忌：夜半吹哨，白布尸魂找上门 Taboos of the Abandoned Village: A Whistle in the Dead of Night, and a White-Cloth Corpse Spirit Comes Calling —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 Golden Spatula S14: I Have a Deck Tracker 金铲铲S14之我有牌库记牌器 The world has been invaded by the System, and Teamfight Tactics has taken over Earth! Everyone has to play Teamfight Tactics to survive! Want to quit and give up? Sorry, surrendering is the same as suicide! Finish in eighth place, and the player's life ends too! The game will continue until only one person is left on Earth! The champion can make one wish to the System! Will they bring all of humanity back to life, or rule the universe? 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 Human Prison 人牢 Supernatural fantasy stories often spring from the ugliness of human nature. Only against that ugliness can the light of kindness shine, leading the weary masses to bloom like lotuses in a raging fire. Not everyone has seen a ghost, but some people have unusual constitutions. Under the right conditions, they can truly feel that despair, that chill, that helplessness, that sorrow... —Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 9 A Record of Strange Tales and Eerie Events 奇闻诡事录 How many ghost stories have you heard? Or how many have your elders told you? We should remain skeptical of the unknown. What makes you think that everyone you've met in your life was human? There are things you haven't seen for yourself, things you've only heard about secondhand. This book tells the story of how I, an ordinary person who knew nothing, met a fortune-teller from my village at my second granduncle's funeral, setting the wheels of fate in motion. Why has an ancient emperor come bac 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 The Temple That Eats People 吃人的庙 The Man-Eating Temple 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 The Coffin Bearer 压棺人 Carriage duty, also known as sitting on the coffin, means that when a funeral procession takes a body to its burial site, someone must ride on top of the coffin all the way up the mountain. But not every coffin is fit to sit on. I agreed to ride on one to help someone out, never expecting it to bring me trouble... 530Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 12 Midnight in the Countryside 午夜乡村 My parents' job transfers sent me to live and study at my grandmother's house. Before bed, she warned me not to go and look, no matter what sounds I heard. From then on, one strange event after another came crashing into my life. Then, one day, my grandmother suddenly told me the secret about who I really was... 550Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 13 Multiple Fears 多重恐惧 An invitation to a party brings together nine writers, each with a very different style. At the party, the novelist who invited them traps everyone inside and demands that each guest tell a story. With no other choice, they comply. One story after another unfolds at the party: will they reveal the clash of human nature or unleash ghostly terrors? Everything will come to light here. "This is my debut work. I hope you'll show it plenty of support." 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 I Tamed the Paranormal 我把诡异收服了 Born with ghostly eyes, I share a desk with the City Lord of the Underworld. A vengeful female ghost wants me to kiss her, I take in a powerful underworld enforcer, and a princess from a thousand years ago swears an oath with me. Onstage, they sing of sorrow and grief. Beneath the stage, I capture every kind of evil. My name is Zhang Qiang. Watch me run rampant through the Underworld! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 15 The Strange Prison: Apostle 诡狱：神徒 [Infinite-flow + deduction + survival + supernatural] The sound of high heels clacking behind you. The scrape of fingernails coming from outside the door. The bathroom door pushed open by something uncanny. To uncover the reason his parents disappeared, Yang Xuan is forced to enter a series of strange, uncanny videotapes. Alongside a group of strangers he's never met, are they friends? Enemies? Or... And when the truth comes to light, what choice will he make? Become a god? Become a ghost? 40Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 16 The Midnight Bride 午夜新娘 A mysterious woman from the Qing dynasty lies buried in an ancient tomb where not a blade of grass grows. More than three centuries have passed, yet her body has not decayed and looks lifelike. Was she preserved so well by an ancient formula, or is there something more to it? Yin and yang are forever divided. Is this a rule that cannot be broken, or is it because they embraced at dawn that they could not see the dusk fall... 80Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 17 I Sell Haunted Cars and Keep a Hundred Evil Spirits at Bay 我！卖凶车，镇百煞！ A cursed car is a car in which someone has died. I'm a used-car dealer, and I only buy cursed cars! My journey in this line of work began with a cursed car I bought, one that nearly cost me my life... 305Reads6.1Score11214d adds
- 18 The Earring-Wearing Campus Beauty Seeks My Help in a Haunted World 耳环校花在诡异世界求助我 [Infinite-Flow + Dark Fairy-Tale from the Start + Mild Horror + No Female Lead] Eerie instances descend upon Blue Star. When people are chosen to enter an instance, a black line appears on their arm. They can only truly survive once it fades away. Just then, Bai Weiwei, a first-year college student and long-established rising star in the entertainment industry, posts a picture online showing off her 2.3-million-yuan emerald butterfly-fire earrings. The instances consequently determine that colle —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 The God of Slaughter's Wanted List 杀神通缉令 [Infinite Flow + Mindless + Illogical + Not a Feel-Good Story + Not Horror + The Author Is Truly Hopeless + Amateur Writing + Growing Hero + Two Male Leads] One wanted notice… and Zhang Zheng was sentenced to life in prison just like that… During his endless days, he had to complete wanted-person missions to shorten the time he would remain wanted… Only those burdened with grave sins would be chosen by the wanted notice and dragged inside… Heh… They say he’s guilty… But what crime has he committ 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 Notes from Another Realm 异境手记 Every story is a prism of twilight. When the collector turns to the final page, silhouettes of every story’s protagonists suddenly appear on the blank paper. The instant their fingertips touch, the embossed gold pattern on the handbook’s cover reverses into flowing dusk, drawing the reader into this endless twilight narrative as well. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 There’s a Library 有个图书馆 A job ad that appeared out of nowhere gave recently unemployed Wu Hao a glimmer of hope that life might get better. But that same job ad led him to the boundary between the human world and hell. 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 Grandpa Started the Trouble, Three Generations Must Pay 爷爷闯下的祸，三代来还 The trouble Grandpa caused will take three generations to repay. 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 23 Strike It Rich by Opening the Coffin 开棺发财 [Handcrafted from scratch + Traditional supernatural horror + No System + No cultivation + Extremely scary + Based on true experiences] Paper figures carry the coffin, a black dog tosses the grave, and an old man falls in love with a ghost. An opened coffin is carried home, and a beautiful fairy follows through the door. My name is Qin Yang. I was down on my luck and only hoped to make money by opening coffins. I never expected that it would turn out to be such a high-risk profession. (Friends i 1.6kReads—Score13414d adds
- 24 You Found Me 你找到我了 Modern Supernatural + Female-Led + Fresh Premise + All-Rounder + Wild Imagination + Reincarnation + Spirit Speech + Runes and Formations + Fictional Modern Setting + Pure Wish Fulfillment in the Middle and Later Parts Abandoned and cast out? No. Her god reincarnates for her, life after life. Following the usual formula and old clichés? No. The Heavenly Dao is nothing to her. An ordinary girl dealing with a life that’s a complete mess? No. Other people are the ordinary ones. She is the unique one 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 Folklore and the Supernatural: My Campus Crush Is a Fox Demon 民俗灵异：我的校花学姐是狐妖 [First-person narration + talking to myself + pure romance + supernatural + beast-girl] My name is Lin Mu, an utterly ordinary sophomore in high school. My only hobby is studying folk legends, and I dream of becoming a novelist. I thought my life would consist of skipping class to play video games and documenting weird internet stories, until one day, at an internet cafe, I saw Su Yu Jue, the aloof upperclasswoman who had everyone at school talking, with a pair of fluffy fox ears sprouting from 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 My Great-Grandfather Is a Vicious Spirit 我的太爷爷是凶煞 The male lead isn't invincible. He's just a pathetic rideshare driver, and if his great-grandfather hadn't shown up to protect him, he'd have died a thousand times over. You can pay respects to a thousand or so ancestors and not know who most of them are. But the ancestors you worship may choose to share their spirit with you based on how you treat them. Zhou Qingliang ended up worshipping a vicious great-grandfather. “Would you look at that, you came to me to build up your virtue in the afterli —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 27 Going Wild in a World of Ghost Stories, the System Says I've Become an Immortal 人在怪谈发癫，系统说我成仙 [Rules-Based Horror + Mismatched System + Mental Illness + Subverting Expectations + Comedy + National-Fortune Livestream] [No Female Lead, No Romance] Li Rui transmigrates into a rules-based horror world and is chosen to enter an instance. Good news: He’s bound to a System. Bad news: The System is from a cultivation realm. But faced with this situation, Li Rui, who is in a psychiatric hospital, says: “If you’re useless, don’t blame the cheat for failing you. The System’s not working right? Heh, 48Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 28 I'm a Tailor Who Can Sew Anything 我是个裁缝，什么都缝 [Ensemble cast + expansive worldbuilding + mind-bending twists + folk customs + breaking the fourth wall] Have you ever doubted, even for a moment, whether this world is real? If one day you discovered the truth about this world, what would you choose to do? Qin Yu made his choice. Once a Yin Courier who spent his days sewing clothes and his nights stitching corpses in a small two-story house, he embarked on a one-way journey bearing the fate of humanity on his shoulders. It all began with the T 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 29 By Order of Evil 奉邪之命 A supermarket. There are human heads beneath the freezers, severed arms stuck to the ceiling, and internal organs sealed inside the walls. Be careful. Don't wander off. 83Reads—Score—14d adds
- 30 Forbidden Livestream 禁忌直播间 When you open this book, The Forbidden Livestream, you may not believe that its story is based on real events! An allegedly unsolvable horror forum, a hapless programmer crushed by the 996 work schedule, and a third-rate female student detective who considers herself first-rate. What dazzling sparks will fly when all of them come together? Thriller or mystery? Human or supernatural? Be careful! Because from this point on, every step you take will keep you on the edge of your seat! 33Reads—Score—14d adds
- 31 A Late-Night Convenience Store Survival Guide 深夜便利店生存指南 Basic Premise Time: 24 hours on the fifteenth day of every lunar month Location: 7-Eleven, Branch No. 444 (doesn’t exist on any map) Core Conflict: The convenience store is a “buffer zone” between the worlds of the living and the dead, and some of its customers are “nonhuman beings.” 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 32 Codename: Bone Butterfly 代号骨蝶 A young woman's body is pulled from a cold riverbank. The police's preliminary conclusion: accidental drowning. When the victim's twin sister, the sharp and composed forensic pathologist Ye Shuyun, touches the body that looks so much like her own, professional instinct cuts through her grief in an instant: abnormal fluid in the lungs, a hidden needle mark, a missing kidney... This was no accident! The victim was her younger sister, Ye Shuya, an investigative journalist determined to expose socie 16Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 33 Slaying Demons and Ghosts Since High School 斩妖灭鬼，从高中开始 [Traditional Supernatural Horror] + [School Life] + [Ensemble Cast] + [Coming of Age] + [Not Overpowered] + [Passionate] It all begins with a student jumping from a school building. Liu Tianyu had expected to spend his student years in peace, but from that day on, his life was never quiet again. Peril at a haunted temple, a school turned into a sacrificial altar, a ghost city beneath the water: one challenge after another awaits. Watch as a group of students turn the tables amid the schemes of g —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 34 Living Human Pillar 活人桩 Bridge and road construction inevitably disrupts the local feng shui. If a malign force is encountered, an expert must be called in to counter evil with evil at the site of the incident, driving two living human stakes into the ground. 664Reads8.7Score10014d adds
- 35 You Want Me to Catch Ghosts? 你让我去抓鬼？ My name is Lin Fan. I'm twenty-two, and I graduated with a college diploma in marketing. While other graduates had job offers in hand and were charging ahead, I graduated straight into a pit of misery. I was two months behind on rent, my pockets were emptier than my face was clean, and my only possession was a beat-up electric scooter that clanked at the slightest touch and looked ready to fall apart at any moment. Five yuan per delivery. I raced around in the wind and sun, but I couldn't plug t 41Reads—Score21514d adds
- 36 The Funeral Bearer of the Desolate Village 荒村送葬人 When the suona sounds, it sends off neither ghosts nor gods. It only buries the player. Nineteen years old, a severed finger, a lonely tower, and a deadly Three Corpses Seal in his belly. Behind him, a skin-flaying demon. Before him, red coffins and mist. Not a single person beside him could be trusted. Driven to the brink, he blew the battered suona he’d found. The tune was off-key, yet it shook the underworld. Since this world insists on making me a sacrifice, I’ll be the corpse-piper who send 3.2kReads8.2Score20614d adds
- 37 Before the Strange Things Begin 在一切诡异之前 [Supernatural resurgence + horror + no System + semi-infinite survival + no saintly protagonist + not dark + no female lead] When ghosts invaded reality, a group of survivors gained the protection of the “Rules.” They became employees of the “Rules,” and to keep enjoying their protection, they had to complete tasks. But the power of the “Rules” was limited... I didn't really care about any of that. I didn't want to bother figuring out what was the cause and what was the effect. So what if this w 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 38 I Make My Living Off the Dead 我靠死人吃饭 [Funeral Customs] + [Supernatural] + [Feng Shui and Taoist Arts] Warning: Do not try to learn the incantations or chants in this book. You do so at your own risk. Based on real events, with some details about people and places adjusted. The dead refuse to close their eyes, a black cat wails at a grave, sobbing comes from down a well, a widow holds a funeral vigil in tears at midnight, an old man kneels before his son... Behind these eerie happenings lie even more poisonous human hearts. 129.3kReads8.7Score10.4k14d adds
- 39 The Embroidered Shoes of Death 死亡绣花鞋 I have a friend who dreamed he was getting intimate with a beautiful woman. The next morning, he woke up in a mass grave with a female corpse beside him! My name is Luo Tianlin, and I’m an antiques dealer who specializes in collecting antiques that have “gained a spirit.” The drum used to take the dead as concubines; the bloodsucking jade bracelet; the Book of Life and Death that calls the roll, and more. I want them all! 89Reads—Score—14d adds
- 40 From the Abandoned Infants’ Ward 来自弃婴岗 Because she wasn’t a boy, she was abandoned on the second day after birth. After barely surviving to adulthood, she was constantly pressured to give birth to a boy… Her name was Wang Duozi. Wang Hushi, who happened to be passing by, found her at the place where abandoned babies were left and took her home. Her name meant “more children, more blessings.” The place was where female infants were buried, a secret known to everyone in the village. Wang Duozi seemed tough and lucky, but she had onl 348Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 41 Spirit Investigation Society No. 97 探灵社97号 Mo Xiaoxin must be one of the poorest people in the city. Saddled with a two-million-yuan debt, she moves into a haunted house to save money, and from then on, walks the same path as ghosts. Or was it fate all along? He Yao: a Taoist priest? A rich heir? A police officer? Whatever his identity, from then on, he walks the same path as her. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 42 Love on Route 11 情迷11路 While other people are born with jade in their mouths, I was born with a stone in mine. After my first love dumped me, the little stone around my neck went missing too, and I became a walking jinx. Dogs chased me whenever I went out, I got rear-ended on my bike, and even my chances at love disappeared. I became an unwanted old maid, so I gritted my teeth, stamped my foot, and went to the city to work as a bus driver. By a twist of fate, though, I ended up driving the number 11 night route. And t 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 43 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!!! 83Reads5.5Score—14d adds
- 44 The Ghost Fan's Grave: Crossing the Yin-Yang Divide 鬼扇坟之阴阳渡 I saw a ghost for the first time when I was five. Using a ghost fan and a pair of eyes that could see through evil, my grandfather led me into the crack between the worlds of yin and yang. From then on, I became someone who mended fissures, patching up secrets that the living should never see and the dead could never tell. This is a story about eyes that see through evil and a ghost fan, two souls sharing one body and the Six Fiends, sacrifice and protection. From the first ghostly wail in Yinsh 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 The Yin-Yang Twin 阴阳双生人 [Mild Horror + The Supernatural] Ming Ye grew up living in a cemetery. Her parents went missing seven years ago and were eventually found dead under bizarre circumstances in the mountains. Seven years later, she became an emergency room doctor. One midnight, she met the Taoist priest Xu Baoyang on a bus as he was out catching ghosts. Later, while tracking clues about his missing master, Xu Baoyang came to the hospital where Ming Ye worked and discovered that a strange hospital orderly had set up 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 46 Medium's Notes: My Left Eye Can See Ghosts 灵媒笔记：我的左眼能见鬼 The Cangye lineage of the Southern Frontier unleashes chaos. The Cherry Blossom Curse, Yin Soil summoning, Ruin Spirits, and malevolent earth veins emerge one after another, leaving the seals protecting the land on the brink of collapse. In a desperate battle, pure Yang Heavenly Energy collides with the turbid qi of Yin Soil inside him, forming a yin-yang vortex whose blessings and dangers are impossible to predict. His old enemies flee into the Hundred Thousand Mountains, seeking a chance to p 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 47 The Haunted House: The Evil God Descends 诡舍：邪神降临 [A Strange House fanfiction + horror + survival + infinite loop] Ning Qiushui sealed the Gray Sun, bringing the calamity of the old world to an end. But the Heavenly Dao demands balance between yin and yang. With the old evil destroyed, an even more powerful evil god was born. After lying dormant for ages, the Strange House's blood-red door appeared once more. The blood-red door swung open. Yin and yang were reversed, the underworld fell, and the six paths were severed. A new generation of S 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 48 Dead City 死城 In this book, I’ll take you in search of the eerie things hidden in the city, and the terrifying taboos lurking in everyday life. 1.7kReads8.4Score25114d adds
- 49 The Coffin Prison 囚棺 The seventh-night return of the soul. A peaceful death is called a returning calamity; a violent death is called a returning evil spirit. On the day the evil spirit returns, the household is unsettled, and another death may follow. A man must be chosen to send the spirit away. After my second uncle hanged himself, I once had to send a spirit away. As a result, I was marked by it. 476Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 50 Lost in a Haunted Village 误入恐怖村 An original story. Hope you enjoy it! Lu Chao stumbled into this village by chance, and in doing so, stepped onto a road with no return. Only those chosen by it can see it and enter it. Once chosen to become a resident of the village, there is no going back. The only way to leave is to be cursed by it and killed. To escape, Lu Chao has no choice but to embark on one adventure after another… 282Reads8.1Score—14d adds
