Novels like The Internet Cafe Haunting
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Internet Cafe Haunting, best match first.
- 1 Eerie: Strange Folk Tales from Henan 诡异：从河南民间邪事开始 My name is Huang Biao. My family says a wandering Daoist priest gave me that name. Not only did he refuse payment, he knelt and kowtowed to me three times. Then my entire family of six died tragically. Searching for the truth, I fell into one mystery after another and endured one bizarre experience after the next. 197Reads7.5Score—Shelves
- 2 Yin Feast 阴食 I’m a food delivery guy, but not just anyone can eat the food I deliver. Only three kinds of people can. The first kind are those with an exceptionally strong aura of yin. The second kind are those who are about to die. And the last kind... All I can say is, don’t open the door! 44Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 3 Zero Hour 零点 Through the formal establishment of Unit 5619, code-named “Zero Point,” a team is tasked with protecting a group of scientists carrying out a mysterious mission as they explore the Great Abyss of the World in Lop Nur, the Ear of the Earth. Along the way, they encounter a sandstorm, and the ruins of a thousand-year-old city suddenly appear. They trace a DNA mutation and unravel the mystery of the beast-like transformation in the ancient Demon Luo Kingdom. Faced with an enigmatic prehistoric civil 1.7kReads8.1Score186Shelves
- 4 My Life as an Exorcist 我的驱魔生涯 How could ghosts possibly exist in this world? Ni Ge scoffed. “If there are no ghosts, then what am I, an exorcist, supposed to be? Decoration?” Heaven watches over all. I read feng shui and capture vengeful spirits. There’s never a shortage of that kind of work around me, Ni Ge. Have the vengeful ghosts in the underground palace gotten out? Heh, those things are practically immortal pills for cultivation! 5Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 5 Strange Tales with a Twist 怪味聊斋 By the banks of the River of Forgetfulness lives a ghost doctor who treats spirits. He has one rule: Anyone who seeks his care must follow three conditions. First, swim across the River of Forgetfulness. Second, tell him your story. Third, leave behind something you carry close to you. No one knows where he came from, or why he does this... 572Reads7.1Score103Shelves
- 6 Portrait of a Beauty 美人图 The wind and thunder stir, the four seas tremble, all because of a portrait of a beauty. 129Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 7 The Hilarious Daily Life of the Monster Apartment 妖怪公寓的搞笑日常 I, Hao Daxian, swear to Heaven that all I ever wanted was an ordinary life. But then a beautiful fairy literally fell out of the sky and claimed to be my junior sister?! That would be bad enough, but then an adorable dog girl showed up at my door looking to rent a room… And the most infuriating one of all is that rat spirit named Lu Tu. Could you please take off that Taoist robe? It looks so awkward, you know? 1.1kReads6.0Score299Shelves
- 8 Listening to Strange Tales at Night 夜听诡事 Whenever you're bored in your spare time, you can open my book and let it take you into a different world. This book is made up of a collection of short tales of horror, the supernatural, and ghosts and monsters. They will show you the warmth and coldness of the world, and reveal the selfishness and greed of human nature. Perhaps you'll find yourself in the stories and feel what the characters feel. As you read, set aside the weariness of body and mind for a while and immerse yourself completely 613Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 9 The Healing Scent of Herbs 药香怡人 With a letter of divorce in hand, she knocks her awful ex-husband flat. Just as she sets off, full of determination, toward a bright future, a sudden upheaval throws all her plans into disarray. It was only a rumor, so how did it come true? And how did things get so far that the emperor issued an order for their marriage, leaving her no way to escape? Gu Qingchi, you scoundrel, did you really not do this on purpose? Shen Mingzhu feels like she’s about to lose her mind. 28Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 10 You May Speak of Strange Forces and Chaotic Gods 子可语，怪力乱神 To Jiang Xiyan, ghosts come in two kinds: those who can speak and those who cannot. The first kind are all honest ghosts. They know the story of their lives and deaths and are content to be reborn. The second kind are vengeful evil spirits, bent on finding someone to take revenge on. Unfortunately, every client who comes to her door wants her to deal with evil spirits. But she really has no idea what these ghosts are thinking, aaah! Until one day, a fortune-teller started working part-time at he 133Reads9.0Score—Shelves
- 11 I'm a Little Spirit Medium 我是小神婆 [Mysticism + supernatural + crime-solving + powerful protagonist + resolving mysteries + hidden origins + folk customs] I'm an abandoned baby, picked up from a trash can by my shaman grandmother. Growing up under her influence, I always wanted to become an even more powerful shaman than she was. Because of my unusual fate, strange and bizarre things, sometimes terrifyingly uncanny, are always happening around me... What happened to the female ghost who fell in love with someone else's body? Did 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 The Turncoat 变臣 A farm boy, as humble as a weed in the fields. After surviving the lightning tribulation, the world shifts, and dragons and fish dance amid the changing winds and clouds. To protect his family, loved ones, and friends, the simple-hearted boy has no choice but to climb higher, step by step. One word, change, speaks volumes of helplessness. When he looks back, his original convictions remain unchanged, but the world is no longer what it was. 19Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 13 Infinite Hunter 无限猎人 A young man who died unjustly enters an evolutionary dimension. Driven by the need to survive, he keeps evolving through one complex scenario after another: the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin, Journey to the West, the Knights of the Round Table... The missions in each scenario are varied and perilous. He successfully becomes a hunter, one who enters these scenarios to acquire all kinds of evolutionary abilities. But he eventually discovers that as a hunter, he is merely another kind of prey. What 112Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 14 Don't Talk to the Comments 不要和弹幕说话 [Horror + Supernatural + Mystery + Mind-Bending + Anthology (first four volumes complete) + Dread That Gets Under Your Skin + Not for the Fainthearted + The Villain Is the Smartest Character in the Book + Growing Female Lead + No System, No Cheats, Plot-Driven] Have you ever replied to a historical comment on a video, even just for fun? Hu Jia accidentally comes across a web series from ten years ago. It depicts a real case from that same year, but its ending is completely different from what 19Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 15 The Hundred Venerables Record: Tales of Another Day 百崇录：异日谈 A sealed ancient scroll has come to light once more: "The Hundred Abominations: Tales of Strange Days". Its faded, uncanny writing: written in blood? Annotated in tears? No one can say. All that remains are over a hundred strange accounts, each word sinking into the bone, all told by the “ill omens” lurking among humankind. Some nest in the dark corners of people's hearts, watching for greed; some lie in the shadows of the streets, drinking in sobs; others haunt desolate wilderness and ancient h —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 Before I Started Selling Buddha Amulets in Thailand 我在泰国卖佛牌前传 My name is Fang Gang. I put on a borrowed amulet from a Thai temple without thinking, never expecting it to contain a “ghost,” and a female one at that! Thai amulets, Kuman Thong, raising child spirits, black magic, possession and hauntings, witchcraft duels… The most sinister is Southeast Asian witchcraft, but in the end, what's more terrifying: ghosts or people? 1kReads7.7Score144Shelves
- 17 One Thousand and One Modern Tales of the Supernatural 一千零一个，现代灵异故事 [Based on True Stories] [Folktales] [Horror and the Supernatural] The stories in this novel feel full of everyday life. The people and events in every story are portrayed in a realistic way, bringing to life the supernatural experiences of all the main and supporting characters. If you’re a horror story fan, don’t miss this novel. (If you get scared, call your best hapless friend over… so you can be scared together.) 5.2kReads7.0Score212Shelves
- 18 The Thirteenth Eye 第十三只眼 As a kid, I was a mischievous little brat, and I once caused a whole lot of trouble. As a result, I hit the jackpot and ended up with three shadows. One black, one red, and one blue. I bragged about them plenty, even though I was the only one who could see them. One night, the red shadow slipped away from beneath my feet and sprinted into the darkness... I panicked and chased after it! If you run off, what am I supposed to brag about? You've been with me this long. The least you could do is say 36Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 19 Divine Inheritance 神传 My mother went up the mountain for three days, and when she came back down, I was born. Ever since then, she has gone up the mountain once every month, on the third. I thought she was going to see my father, until one day I followed her... 1.4kReads8.7Score174Shelves
- 20 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. 1.7kReads8.4Score251Shelves
- 21 The Lu Ban Book 鲁班书 "The world knows only about Gongshu Ce, not the Book of Lu Ban. Gongshu Ce originated from the Book of Lu Ban, but only carried on its outward form. My family, however, possesses a peerless edition of the Book of Lu Ban. My ancestors were carpenters for generations. By my time, the craft had fallen into decline, but my family never gave up. Even I took over my father's carpentry business after graduating from university, following the usual path. Outsiders only know that my family works as carpe 1.5kReads8.7Score234Shelves
- 22 Midnight Terror 午夜惊魂 It started one morning when I stepped outside and found a yuan at my doorstep. I didn't think much of it. The next morning, I found a ten-yuan bill at the door. I thought I was pretty lucky, finding money two days in a row. But on the third morning, when I opened the door and saw a hundred-yuan bill on the ground, I finally realized something was off. After that, strange things kept happening around me, and I began venturing into one forbidden zone after another, all in the name of staying alive 2.1kReads7.3Score148Shelves
- 23 The Live-Action Werewolf Game 真人版狼人杀游戏 When Fu Qing wakes up, he finds himself in a sealed room. Nine other people have suffered the same fate. They are about to play a game of Werewolf, and only the winner will be allowed to leave. Suspicion takes root in everyone’s heart as a life-or-death contest is about to begin. 5Reads7.5Score—Shelves
- 24 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—Score134Shelves
- 25 The Bride in the Red Coffin 红棺里的新娘 The first book: horror, terror, and the uncanny. The sequel: comedy and humor! Two stories: The Bride in the Red Coffin + its sequel, also known as My Ghost Wife Keeps Trying to Scare Me to Tears. When crimson ripples spread across the deep pool, I finally saw the bone comb in the hands of the bride in the sunken coffin. Carved into it were my birth details, even though I had been missing for three years. Xu Xiaomo was drawn home by tales of the Sunk 182Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 The Infinite Haunted House 无限诡异屋 [Original eerie instances + infinite-level progression + handcrafted + no female lead + slow burn] Qiao Ze collapses in front of a mirror, where his reflection wears a smile like that of an impostor. Along with a group of people from all over the world, he is dragged into the same sealed, bizarre incident. A deformed child crawling like a beast, A demonic baby still attached to half an umbilical cord, A pregnant woman with two heads, An impostor whose mouth stretches from the corners to the back 126Reads—Score123Shelves
- 27 A Thousand Years of Ghost Stories 千年鬼话 A Thousand Years of Ghost Stories: One Thousand and One Nights of Chinese Folk Ghost Tales is a spine-chilling collection steeped in folk tradition. This book brings together ancient folk legends and ghost stories from across China, featuring mysteries and uncanny events from different historical periods and regions. From eerie mountain forests and desolate old villages to bizarre corners of modern cities, every story holds little-known horrors and shocking revelations. The plots are mysterious 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 Selling Ghosts 卖鬼 A new book is coming in July, titled: From the Start, I Cut Out the Rake of the Slit-Mouthed Woman Born in a yin year, yin month, yin hour, and yin place, with a yin ghost as the midwife. Yinjian had been sickly since childhood. Driven by hardship, he accidentally walked into a shop. From then on, he started a business selling ghosts. A weeping ghost knocks at the door. The Five Immortals demand a title and turn into beautiful older sisters. A skeleton friend who loves grave robbing. A five-star 259Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 29 After Losing My Memory, One Terrifying Ghostly Incident After Another 失忆后恐怖鬼事接连不断 (An alternate world. No tired tropes, no invincible protagonist, no plagiarism, entirely original. Any similarities will be changed immediately. Comedy, deadpan humor, no official pairing, a touch of horror, and characters with sound values.) Accidentally drawn into a paranormal incident: a girl whose mouth has been sealed shut, the walking dead with no eyes to see, monsters covered in tumors that crawl along the ground... Is the world turned upside down, or is this an elaborate hoax carefully s 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 Bureau of Supernatural Investigations 超自然事件调查局 A bizarre murder case draws me into the investigation of mysterious supernatural events: crew members on a deep-sea fishing vessel inexplicably slaughtering one another, immortals hiding in the city, legendary vampires, Nazi doomsday troops of a godlike race and their Aryan holy city, and a gigantic human-face structure on Mars. We are not alone in the universe, and human society is just as complicated. 358Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 31 Girls' Dormitory 女生宿舍 Every school has its share of ghost stories, especially places steeped in yin energy, like the girls' dormitory... I'm a veteran who used to be an atheist. But it wasn't until I became a security guard at Taiping School that I learned the truth...! 209Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 32 The Terrifying School 极度恐怖校园 As the best university in the city, this school admits only outstanding students. But it also has many rules that are hard to understand: no studying after eight o’clock, and no leaving your dorm room after midnight. No matter who calls to you from the corridor, do not answer... The protagonists in this story are all independent, but their countless connections eventually bring them together. What secrets does this school hold? 293Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 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. 54Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 A Horror Story Lives Next Door 你的隔壁住着恐怖故事 Have you ever noticed how horror lurks everywhere in your everyday life? Listen. Listen closely... Where does horror come from? Nothing is scarier than reality. The unknown parts of our real lives, and the anxieties and desires we feel about them, are the greatest sources of horror. 12.3kReads9.4Score2kShelves
- 35 The Yin Tattooist 纹阴师 Tattoos are said to be mysterious totems carried on one’s back. I’m a traditional tattoo artist. Over the years, strange things have happened while I tattooed my clients. The terrifying secrets weighing on my heart have kept me tossing and turning, unable to sleep. Now I’ll tell you, bit by bit, what I experienced firsthand. Some tattoo designs inked on the body might actually be living things that can move. 531Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 36 Half-Yin Woman, Bride of the Dragon King 半阴女，嫁龙王 I was working the night shift at a hospital when I got into a car accident on my way home and fell into a deep coma. Beneath a blood-red crescent moon, a pair of cold hands lifted me from the car. Half-conscious, he pulled me into his arms. From then on, a handsome man kept appearing beside me as if from nowhere. He said I was his wife and forbade me from getting close to any other man. If I ignored his warning, I would have to face the consequences. Refusing to believe him, I got engaged to som 34Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 37 Frightening Folk Tales of Ghosts and Monsters 民间吓人的鬼怪故事 This book collects folk tales about ghosts and monsters from China and around the world, both ancient and modern. They include deeply moving love stories, myths where good and evil are repaid in kind, and eerie tales that will leave you trembling with fear. We hope you enjoy them. This story is entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual events or people is purely coincidental. 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 The Great Yan Female Chieftain 大燕女土司 Other people's farming stories are all about fighting with awful relatives. Xin Luo's farming life starts on hard mode... If she can't win the chiefs' support and become the head of the dong, will she be tied up, skinned, and burned alive as a human torch? As the only legitimate heir of the head of Xiyi's Xizhou Dong under the Tusi, Xin Luo says, “It's just farming, right? If we're doing this, let's go big. Everyone under my rule will have a home, food on the table, and clothes to wear!” 239Reads8.4Score112Shelves
- 39 Eerie Instances: Today, Too, I Must Be a Good Ghost 诡异副本：今天也要好好做诡 [No CP] [An unsettling perspective. Readers who can't accept eerie beings killing people, please stay away] [Writing this to satisfy my own cravings, please go easy on me] Lin Yan was a surgeon in life. After death, he became an eerie entity studying at the Abyss Echo Academy. To stay alive, Lin Yan diligently enters instances and works hard. 7.4kReads6.9Score646Shelves
- 40 One Horror a Day 一天一个惊悚 One terrifying tale every day, and a different world each time. Just because you haven't seen it from in front of your phone doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Enough chatter. See you in the book, everyone. 9Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 41 The Fatal Rule 致命法则 A rich guy in the group chat sent out a red envelope and said the person who got the most money had to play a game with him. The game turned out to involve the class belle... 319Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 42 The Demon Cult: Everyone But Me Is an Undercover Agent 魔教，除了我全是卧底 After transmigrating as the Holy Son of the demonic Sacred Spirit Cult, Ye Wushuang wasn’t happy at all. Because someone had poisoned him with over five hundred doses of more than a hundred different kinds of slow-acting poison. Even worse, everyone in the entire Sacred Spirit Cult was an undercover agent except him. The elders and disciples, the cult leader, even the Grand Supreme Elder: all of them were undercover agents. Ye Wushuang: This is too much! What are you undercover agents even after 332Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 43 Infinite Challenge Game 无限挑战游戏 He was an ordinary loser: no house, no car, nothing to show for himself, and a terminal illness that burdened his whole family. Then, one day, a stroke of luck fell into his lap. The goddess he had secretly loved for years suddenly invited him to a secret location to get a room. But just as they met, she was assassinated by a mysterious attacker who appeared out of nowhere... He was dragged into a deadly game full of endless challenges. To save the goddess and find a cure for his illness, he had 655Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 44 Stay Away, Spirits 阴人勿扰 Someone dug up our family grave and put the newlywed daughter-in-law who’d just died in their family in there. My uncle told me to go get her out in the middle of the night... 477Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 45 The Years I Spent as a Shepherd 我当羊倌那些年 A noodle shop packed with customers uses eels dug out of graves. A scrawny yellow dog is willing to develop gallstones for the sake of its master. A man-eating catfish has a water-swallowing pearl in its belly, while the teeth of an ancient corpse have turned to jade. As an heir to the grave-robbing treasure-seeking trade, I transmigrate through mountains and forests in search of heavenly treasures. People call those of our trade shepherds… 2kReads8.1Score243Shelves
- 46 Fifth Watch 五更 The stories my grandpa used to tell me were probably meant to scare me into staying put, or maybe to lull me to sleep. He always told them with such conviction and vivid detail that I often found myself dreaming of the very scenes he had lived through. I met the old flower-growing woman on Yinshan Mountain, and one villager after another from Sangen Village. Their faces were gloomy and strange, and their deeds served as a warning, reminding us that “the gods are watching from three feet above yo 728Reads7.2Score100Shelves
- 47 At the Cemetery, I Find a Pair of Red High Heels 人在公墓，捡到一双红色高跟鞋 Wang Jin finally graduated. He never expected that after studying civil engineering, he'd end up in a tomb, landing a job as a security guard at a high-end cemetery. He figured he'd work there for a few years, save some money, and then leave. But on his very first day, he found a pair of red high heels outside the security office. An ordinary person with no worries might have thrown them away. Someone more cautious might have grown suspicious. But Wang Jin was neither. He looked around, saw no o 1.5kReads8.0Score128Shelves
- 48 Republic-Era Notes on Summoning Evil 民国招邪笔记 Chinese-Style Horror + Episodic Mysteries + Ancestral Taboos + Republican-Era Suspense + Cursed Objects That Claim Lives Each supernatural case wraps up in three to five chapters. The pace is breakneck, with no dragging things out! Folk-horror elements: red wedding gowns, ancestral halls, midnight opera troupes... If you’re a scaredy-cat, read during the day. If you’re brave, listen to the audiobook at night for the full dose of terror. 78Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 My Master Gave Me a Car for Investigating the Supernatural 师父传我一辆看事儿车 A thousand-year-old van? Built by hand from scratch [Traditional horror]➕ [Even more immersive as an audiobook]➕ [Uncovering the truth about my origins] Greetings, dear readers! [Traditional supernatural horror, primal fear] The original experience of horror is the fear a person feels when experiencing it firsthand. [First person, highly atmospheric] Give me a chance to tell this story from my own point of view. [Uncovering the truth about my origins] Along the way, I met many people. “The gates 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 The Eagle-Turtle Helmet 鹰鼋盔 Zhao Yingjian is a country boy who takes his studies seriously, but he also gets into fights and has a girl he secretly admires... Yingjian's neighbors, Uncle Shi and Grandpa Zhang, followed the descriptions in an ancient book and used two rubies to recreate a weapon with special powers: the Eagle-Turtle Helmet. When Yingjian was down on his luck, he stole the helmet, and a series of amusing and bizarre events unfolded from then on... A verse says: Clad in brocade, a clear heart shines bright; e 5Reads—Score—Shelves
