Novels like Strange Tales with a Twist
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Strange Tales with a Twist, best match first.
- 101 Lu Ban's Secret Art of Feng Shui 鲁班风水秘术 Carpenters revere Lu Ban as their patriarch. He left behind the Lu Ban Book, divided into two parts. The first contains carpentry techniques, while the second is a collection of secret spells, never to be shared with outsiders. The patriarch also left a curse: anyone who learns the spells in the second part must suffer one of the fates of being widowed, orphaned, childless, or disabled. That is why later generations called the second part of the Lu Ban Book the “Missing One.” In the old days, mo 5.9kReads9.1Score832Shelves
- 102 Wife, Are You Human or Ghost? 娘子你到底是人是鬼？ [Neither ghost nor god, neither human nor demon + no romance + a girl squad + no love stories, just monster-hunting] A delicate young lady and a little maid travel through mountains and rivers. The half-human, half-ghost lady loves to eat ghosts. Her golden, one-eyed gaze sees through spirits and monsters, while her maid is a skilled ghost cook who takes meticulous care of her. The lady wanders the mortal world in search of the missing half-inch of her heart. Without it, she cannot be human. Wh 4.9kReads9.4Score805Shelves
- 103 A Man-Eating Monster Asked Me to Marry It. Should I Say Yes? 一个吃人的妖怪，它竟然向我求婚了，要不要答应它 A man-eating monster proposed to me. Should I say yes? 79Reads—Score—Shelves
- 104 Thriller Game: I’m Really Not a Ghost 惊悚游戏：我真的不是鬼 [Horror + Livestreaming + Doomsday] The world has ended, and Earth is shrouded in mist, no longer fit for human habitation. At the same time, a horror game descended upon Earth. Every nightfall marked the start of the game! Only those chosen by the horror game had a chance to escape Earth! But... Only those who survived the horror game could escape Earth! After Wu Suowei was lucky enough to bind a survival System... Wu Suowei: “So I don't just look scary to people, I scare ghosts too?” Hanging G 971Reads8.7Score102Shelves
- 105 Taboo of the Living 2 活人禁忌2 Heaven Official's Blessing, no taboos under heaven. The second installment of Living People’s Taboos! 7.9kReads9.1Score1.2kShelves
- 106 Tomb Raiding: Immortality Begins with the Old Nine Gates 盗墓：从老九门开始长生不老 [Myriad Worlds Chat Group + Alternate Universe + No Female Lead + Everyone's Favorite + Group Darling + The Grave Robbers' Chronicles Series] Cong Ye had just saved up five million yuan and ended his twenty-year corporate slave career when he was hit by a car and killed right outside the office. Cong Ye: “...” Damn you, heavens! When he opened his eyes, he found himself on the streets of Changsha in 1921, transformed into an eight-year-old beggar. His situation was the very definition of going b 274Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 107 Fox Spirit Matchmaker: I Become the Demon King of Tushan 狐妖小红娘：我在涂山当妖王 When Su Mu woke up, he discovered that he had transmigrated into the world of Fox Spirit Matchmaker, where he had become a Demon King. From then on, the world was never quite the same... (I didn’t handle the protagonist’s personality very well at first, so please bear with it a little. It gets better later.) 1.4kReads8.9Score120Shelves
- 108 Dark Strange Tales: I'm a Demon NPC, So What If I'm a Little Ruthless? 黑聊斋：我是妖人NPC狠点咋了 Black Strange Tales is a dark, eerie, and terrifying cultivation game. It features martial arts masters like Left Thousand Households, as well as monsters and demons like the Black Mountain Old Demon and Nie Xiaoqian. Ji Chang transmigrates into a demon-ravaged, perilous game world and becomes a scholar in the Great Yu Dynasty. He's also the only Strange-Tale Investigator. Every time he verifies a bizarre tale or records an unusual incident, he gains a supernatural ability or spell. With the pow 4.9kReads8.9Score317Shelves
- 109 Infinite Planes: Starting with Final Destination 无限位面：从死神来了开始 I battle wits with the invisible Reaper in the world of Final Destination. In the Three Kingdoms, where eunuchs hold sway, I bide my time and become sworn kin to the Ten Attendants, changing the course of history. In A Chinese Ghost Story, I dance with beautiful female ghosts... I don't know why I'm alive, or what keeps me going. Maybe I'm chasing the thrill of life and death in an instant. Maybe I'm searching for something exciting enough to make my frozen heart beat again... 4.9kReads8.9Score359Shelves
- 110 The Dragon King's Wife 龙王妻 On the night of the blood moon, the Dragon King takes a bride. Luo Anzhi was born a noblewoman, but fate swept her up and made her the Dragon King's wife. From then on, she set out on a path unlike anyone else's... 1kReads9.1Score360Shelves
- 111 The Soul Ferry Bell Shatters, and Ten Thousand Souls Return to Silence 渡魂铃碎，万魂归寂 The Soul-Ferrying Bell Shatters, and Ten Thousand Souls Return to Silence 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 112 Ultimate Notes: The Iron Triangle's Golden Finger 终极笔记之铁三角的金手指 Would the Iron Triangle have fewer regrets if they had a divine cheat added to the team? (The Lost Tomb: Ultimate Note, complete, Chapters 1–628) (The Lost Tomb: Sand Sea, complete, Chapters 629–687) (The Lost Tomb: Restart, ongoing, Chapter 693 onward) Highlights from the story Wu Xie says he has a cheat that makes corpses rise whenever he opens a coffin. The cheat girl says, “Why are you opening coffins for no reason?” Black Glasses says that if she can make Mute Zhang speak, he’ll pay her fiv 1.4kReads8.3Score173Shelves
- 113 Dragon-Suppressing Coffin 镇龙棺 The day Grandpa died, all the beasts paid their respects, and nine dragons carried his coffin... 2.5kReads8.9Score463Shelves
- 114 Horror Game: I’m Really Just a Doctor 恐怖游戏：我真的只是一名医生 [Long-form campus writing contest entry] [The only one on the entire site] Fu Bai is reborn as an NPC in a horror game. He considers himself an ordinary, normal person, yet players keep calling him the Murderous Ghost Doctor, the Mad Doctor, the Horror Doctor... Come on, he's a refined, cultured doctor with a rather wicked streak. How can people still criticize him like that? Oh? More players have arrived. Fu Bai swirls the blood-red wine in his left hand, toys with a scalpel in his right, and b 672Reads7.0Score115Shelves
- 115 From Minor Unorthodox Cultivator to Primordial Spirit Dao Lord 从旁门小修到元神道君 [Overpowered protagonist + ordinary mortal's journey + ruthless style + Immortal Gourd style + Deep Blue stat boosts + decisive and merciless + cautious cultivation + unorthodox methods + steady and prudent + cultivation + Daoist priest + Strange Tales + longevity + Primordial Spirit] In an immortal world, what could be better than being a young Daoist who admires beautiful women, loves flying swords, raises venomous insects, draws talismans, refines pills, and enjoys a long, carefree life? Unfo 15.5kReads8.3Score1.1kShelves
- 116 Thriller: Devote Yourself to Art and Become My Masterpiece 惊悚：献身于艺术，成为我的作品 (Includes livestreaming early on + a horror world + an invincible protagonist in the early chapters) A horror game descends, and Xi Wen is chosen to enter an instance. The boss gets killed right from the start, and things get more and more absurd! “Would you like to sign up to become the boss of the Sunshine Hospital instance?” Xi Wen looks at the words before him, feeling a little bewildered. And so, he becomes the boss of Sunshine Hospital, a place comparable to a beginner instance! Player 1: 3.2kReads8.4Score582Shelves
- 117 EN Heaven's Chosen Villain: I Can See People's Life Scripts! 天命大反派：我能查看人生剧本！ Villain + Script + Destiny + Decisive and Ruthless + One Female Lead + Adrenaline-Fueled Wish Fulfillment + Martial Arts + Fantasy Su Changqing transmigrates into a mixed martial arts world, proves himself the supreme martial arts saint, and starts out with the Tyrant Saber, the Indestructible Vajra Divine Art, and the Dragon-Elephant Prajna Skill, sweeping through the martial world! Hulong Manor! The Best in the World! Embroidered Spring Blades! A Chinese Ghost Story! Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils! 15.3kReads8.6Score843Shelves
- 118 Warring States: I Told You to Be a Playful Young Lord, but You Actually Defeated Bai Qi? 战国：让你当纨绔，你竟打败白起？ From the start, he had a fief of his own. He reclaimed farmland, built roads, smelted steel, and trained elite troops. The unscrupulous young lord: “Land, grain, wealth, beautiful women... I want it all!” Reborn in the state of Chu, he beats the state of Qin to a pulp! 609Reads8.8Score119Shelves
- 119 The Case Files of Shen Rufeng 沈如风探案录 There's only one truth. Follow Shen Rufeng and his colleagues as they piece together the clues and solve each case. The stories are mainly standalone cases. This is a new book by a new author, so please show your support. 1.5kReads—Score100Shelves
- 120 Tomb Raiding Adventures: From the Start, I Play the Qilin Boy! 盗墓探索：开局扮演麒麟小哥！ [System livestreaming, tomb raiding, invincible and hilarious: adventures in forbidden lands and restricted zones] [The Grave Robbers' Chronicles + The Outcast + Chinese Paladin] Lin Xiu transmigrates to a parallel world, binds himself to a System that has him play the part of Little Brother Qilin, and joins a tomb-exploration show. A Ning, Wu Xie, Wang Pangzi, the Iron Triangle, Wu Sansheng, Lei Zhanshen, Ye Cunxin, Bao'er-jie, Huo Xiu Xiu, Deputy Officer Zhang, As well as Uncle Jiu, Zhang Tian 68Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 121 Four-Dimensional Survival: I’m the Only One Who Can Predict the Future 四维求生:只有我能预测未来 [No female lead] He wakes up to find that the entire world has transmigrated. Everyone has entered a four-dimensional trial world. Each day, they get ten chances to open a door. What lies beyond could be a trove of supplies, or a parallel world, a time barrier, a wormhole, a desert, an ocean, an ice field, or a sea of stars. Fortunately, Jiang Zhe awakens the ability to foresee the future. See the future! [All things are silent. Don't blink after entering, or you'll lose your memories.] [Quantum 1.9kReads8.8Score259Shelves
- 122 My Horror Game Is Far Too Healing 我的惊悚游戏实在太治愈了 Lin Xiu was chosen to become a trial participant in a horror game. Born without the ability to feel fear, he gained the SSS-rank Evil God talent, Extreme Terror, from the start and began a life of unstoppable power-ups! When Lin Xiu’s trial was livestreamed across the internet, the viewers were stunned. “Oh my god, he’s stitching up the slit-mouthed woman’s wounds one stitch at a time. Who knew she was so beautiful?” “In Butcher Alley, where no living person dares enter, all the demons and monst 555Reads8.9Score100Shelves
- 123 Thriller Game: I Livestream as a Model Student for the Whole World 惊悚游戏：全球直播我做三好学生 [Horror Game + Supernatural + System + Invincible + Livestream] Horror games descended upon the world. The paranormal returned, and terrifying livestreams began. Those chosen were forced to endure one hellish ordeal after another. Here, only those who met the requirements could clear a game and return to the real world. From then on, humanity lived in constant fear and misery. Then one day, the tone of the horror-game forum, where people discussed strategies for clearing games, suddenly changed. 113Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 124 I Just Got Dumped, and Now I've Transmigrated into The Grave Robbers' Chronicles 我，刚失恋，穿进盗笔了 P.S. This book has no female lead, two male protagonists, and the CP is Xiaohua. Read at your own risk if that bothers you. The protagonist was a villain in his original world. He can be a little cold-blooded and a little crazy, and he's good at acting (putting on a front). It's angsty at first, then sweet. If that's not your thing, read at your own risk. There are hidden plotlines. If you can't stick with the angsty parts at the beginning, you can skip straight to Chapter 22. The angst lasts un 1.3kReads7.7Score129Shelves
- 125 The Clue System: No Criminal Can Escape 提示线索系统之犯罪分子无处可逃 (Urban crime investigation + System + mystery and deduction + team investigations.) The protagonist, Song Mozhou, unexpectedly awakens a System that provides clues to criminal cases. Follow along as he solves one baffling case after another with the System’s help. This is a pure crime-solving novel, with no romance, featuring a series of standalone cases. All cases and characters in this book are fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Here’s hoping you’ll enj 264Reads—Score—Shelves
- 126 The Grave Robbers' Chronicles 9 盗墓笔记续9 After the Zhang Family Ancient Building incident, Zhang Qiling went to the Bronze Gate, while I returned to Hangzhou to keep running Third Uncle’s business. I thought it was all over, but who knew it was only the beginning. Chen Wenjin appeared again. A mysterious map was hidden among Huo Xiangu’s belongings, and a third Ghost Seal had surfaced. Perhaps we wouldn’t have to wait another ten years: the ultimate secret was already within reach. 2.7kReads8.7Score366Shelves
- 127 We're All Freaks, So Why Do You Stand Out So Much? 大家都是变态，为何你如此突出 [Ninjutsu] + [Thriller] + [Scheming] + [Extremely twisted] + [No female lead] [Some scenes may offend certain readers. Proceed with caution. Self-righteous do-gooders, please don't bring real-world morality into a fictional world!] Bai Ge has survived in the Thriller World for two and a half years when he suddenly gets a Ninjutsu System. Complete missions, and he can gain the power of ninjutsu. Spirit Doll: “This human is so cruel! I just couldn't afford the delivery fee, and he ripped my eyebal 1.8kReads9.0Score224Shelves
- 128 The Confucian Sword Immortal: Ten Years of Study, Righteousness Sweeps Across the Heavens 儒剑仙：读书十年，浩气荡青天 After transmigrating into the body of a down-and-out scholar, Chen Ning studies diligently, determined to travel to the capital and sit the imperial examinations. It is only when he accidentally touches his maid's fox tail that he discovers this world is nowhere near as simple as it seems! Luckily, Chen Ning awakens the Confucian Sage System in time, allowing him to slay demons and study every day. [You studied the Analects and grasped a divine ability: Purple Qi at Your Side] [You recited The G 12.1kReads9.2Score1.1kShelves
- 129 Mysterious Space 神秘空间 Qin Mu is a big name in the Mysterious Space. His surname is Qin, his given name is Mu, his courtesy name is Half-Mad, his title is the Black-Hearted Recluse, and his codename is Raven. People call him the Immortal Black Market Dealer. Wherever he goes, he leaves nothing behind, like a swarm of locusts passing through. With a strange mask on his head and a black robe on his back, he cheats women and children alike, and swindles young and old. Welcome to the Mysterious Space. Join Qin Mu as he tr 843Reads8.8Score101Shelves
- 130 Journey to the West: From the Start, I Was Blessed by a Glimmer of the Dao Ancestor’s Gaze 西游：开局被道祖的一缕目光赐福 The world of Journey to the West, where all living things survive like ants, where demons swallow immortals to show their might, where the history of the immortals stretches from ancient times to the present, and mighty beings plot against all living things! A transmigrator is born with golden finger prompts, then journeys through endless mythical wonders! 14.8kReads8.9Score788Shelves
- 131 Tales of Strange Happenings in Snow City 雪城志异 A collection of short tales of the strange and supernatural, including ghost stories and even stories about aliens! Each story is only a few hundred words, so you can finish one in no time. Strange happenings and supernatural tales, demons and ghosts, tree spirits and fox fairies! Let your imagination run wild! Everyone is welcome to read! 29Reads—Score—Shelves
- 132 Tomb Hunting in the Wilderness 荒野寻墓 [Tomb Raiding Is Illegal, So Don’t Try It Yourself] [Tomb Raiding + Mystery + Appraisal + Human Nature + Rules] In the 1990s, with nowhere else to turn, I joined a tomb-raiding gang and embarked on a perilous quest to find ancient tombs. We searched the towering mountains for a vanished kingdom that had stood for a thousand years. Could the sacrificial rites of the ancient Shu civilization really grant eternal life? The deceit and scheming in the antiques trade showed me how cold the world could 59.5kReads9.3Score4.8kShelves
- 133 After the Divorce, I Became the Artist He Could Never Hope to Win Over 离婚后我成了他高攀不起的画家 After the Divorce, I Became the Painter He Could Only Dream of Marrying 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 134 They Stole My Family Home. I Awakened a Truth-Telling System and Gave Those Ungrateful Wretches a Thorough Face-Slapping 老宅被抢，我觉醒真话系统，狠狠打脸白眼狼 My Ancestral Home Was Seized, So I Awakened a Truth-Telling System and Gave the Ungrateful Backstabbers a Thorough Face-Slapping 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 135 Demon Slayer: Taking Over Kokushibo’s Body from the Start 鬼灭：开局夺舍黑死牟 A shut-in dies of a terminal illness and takes over Kokushibo's body in the world of Demon Slayer. To survive and make up, just a little, for the regrets he had while watching the anime, he decides to live on in this world as Kokushibo... 2.6kReads9.3Score354Shelves
- 136 The Six-Fingered Exorcist 六指诡医 Born with six fingers on his left hand, he was called a jinx by his family. His father died the day he was born, and misfortune followed him everywhere as he grew up. He endured discrimination and contempt. When he turned eighteen and suffered his third half-cycle tribulation, even his beloved grandparents died. From then on, the protagonist was forced to wander. While struggling to stay alive, he investigated the truth behind the mysteries. Caught in an endless struggle between life and death, 4.7kReads9.2Score820Shelves
- 137 Seal of Merit 功德印 A thousand years later, the former demoness bears a Merit Seal and embarks on a new life, guiding people toward goodness and accumulating merit. Little does she know that the very first person she meets is so wicked he draws the wrath of both gods and men. Get him to mend his ways? Forget it. I might as well die again. 202Reads9.1Score—Shelves
- 138 Followed by Ghosts 与鬼随行 Immersive, terrifying, and packed with suspenseful mystery and deduction. I have a strange world, and I want to take you there! After the college entrance exams, I took a fatal blow meant for my friend and lost my sight. By chance, I ended up at a bizarre vocational college. My classmates are dying one after another under strange circumstances, and there seems to be a much bigger secret behind it all. This world seems so strange... so strange... I have to solve the mind-bending challenges one by 3kReads—Score303Shelves
- 139 Dark Face Reading 黑相术 After I lost my sight, a matchmaker set me up on a date, and I met a girl. She wasn’t human… One night, as we slept, I touched her tail. 24kReads8.9Score2.9kShelves
- 140 First Day of School: The Teacher Dies Before My Eyes 开学：老师死在面前 [Supernatural + Horror + Ensemble Cast + Smart Characters + Infinite Flow + Decisive and Ruthless + Teamwork] On the first day of school, the moment Class 4's homeroom teacher, Mr. Bai, mysteriously committed suicide in the classroom, everyone's worldview was completely overturned by what they saw. A bleeding blackboard, blood-red words appearing out of nowhere: it was as if a novel had become reality. Everyone in the class would be forced to take on all kinds of deadly missions. They could neit 28.2kReads8.9Score2.6kShelves
- 141 Everyone's Becoming a Hero, So I Had No Choice but to Become the Great Demon King 都在成为勇士，我只好当上大魔王 A mysterious phenomenon descends, and people in the real world are randomly transported to another realm, where they become warriors, hunt ferocious monsters, and rescue princesses. Yun Ye, blessed with perfect prompts about his fate, is transported to another world. He becomes the disciple of the only surviving demigod Dragon Knight in that realm, awakens as an all-element holy class, and becomes a great demon king who retains his complete self! 7.4kReads8.8Score697Shelves
- 142 Wandering Through the Heavens 漫步诸天 After waking from a dream, I found the world had changed. Here, gods and ghosts exist, along with demons and monsters. There is a Celestial Realm and an Underworld, Dragon Palaces in the Four Seas, ghostly women who paint their faces, fox spirits and snake demons. Tigers and wolves can become bloodthirsty, savage demons, while plants and trees can gain spirits and yearn for love... A fox spirit, grateful for his kindness, offers herself to him. A lonely female ghost offers to share his bed. A D 46.2kReads8.4Score3kShelves
- 143 Major Crime Investigation Files 刑侦大案录 6.5kReads6.9Score424Shelves
- 144 Cataclysm: Everyone in the World Has Gone Blind Except Me 灾变：除我以外，全球人类失明了 The sky shattered, and humanity across the globe went blind. Everyone became sightless! Chen Ran: “Am I the only one who can see now?” But this was only the beginning of Earth's death. One apocalypse after another followed: a jungle apocalypse, a fog, a mirror in the sky, a future water world… And Chen Ran was the only one who knew what was coming. 501Reads8.8Score134Shelves
- 145 Fourteen Years of Hunting Ghosts (Complete in Five Volumes) 十四年猎诡人（全五册） Li Yifan’s spine-chilling ghost-hunting chronicles! A contemporary Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio! A spine-chilling record of ghost hunts! First posted on Tieba, it topped 100 million views within three months! The acclaimed mystery writer Li Yifan’s breakthrough work, now with the unpublished continuation added! Every ghost was once a living person. I’m a professional ghost hunter. I turn the compass, circle the place with red 11.8kReads9.6Score2.2kShelves
- 146 Journey to the West? No! Hear My Decree, Monks: March West to Spirit Mountain 西游？不！传贫僧法旨，西征灵山 At Little Leiyin Temple, Tang Sanzang recites a rebellious poem. At Eagle Sorrow Stream, the White Dragon sends a false letter? At Lion Camel Ridge, the demons arrange themselves by rank, while Tang Sanzang speaks fervently of his lifelong ambition? What would happen at the end of Journey to the West if Tang Sanzang grew stronger every time he took on a new disciple? Sun Wukong: “I'll storm Leiyin Temple and destroy Mount Ling. If I leave and never return, then so be it!” Zhu Bajie: “Tathagata's 8.4kReads9.0Score813Shelves
- 147 The Weird Path to Immortality: I Become a God in a Strange World 诡道长生：我在诡异世界封神 [Eerie] [Gu cultivation] [A completely revamped power system] The blind Lin Hun is a corpse collector, a white-clad servant in his ninth life at the Demon Suppression Bureau. Born ill-fated, he cultivates the eerie path with his crippled body. He spends his days collecting, stitching, and refining corpses, surrounded by the Eerie. Then he unexpectedly awakens the divine Eerie art, "The Lifespan-Boiling Gu Cultivation Method": Use lifespan as fuel, boil up supernatural abilities, and cultivate Gu 23.2kReads8.2Score2.6kShelves
- 148 The Escape Begins After School 放学后开始逃跑 On the night the high school entrance exam results were announced, Bai Meng had just received his acceptance letter from a prestigious city high school and was riding a wave of excitement. Then, without warning, the excitement made him so dizzy that before he could even settle down on the sofa, everything went black. When he came to, he was at Tianwang High School. It was a strange place. Once the school day ended, it was time to run for your life! 5.2kReads9.1Score840Shelves
- 149 Livestreaming in a Horror Game: I Charm a Beauty and Become a Legend 我在惊悚游戏中直播撩美人封神 [Infinite-horror game + livestream] The unhinged Jun Li was successfully tricked by his second personality into entering an infinite-horror game. Jun Li could only protest that he was weak, pitiful, and helpless, and wanted to hug himself. The Main System: There’s a curse I don’t know whether I should say! When “weak” Jun Li entered the infinite-horror world, he suddenly found himself becoming the game’s public enemy by accident. He even topped the list of players everyone most wanted dead. Jun 91Reads9.2Score—Shelves
- 150 Playing the Black-Hearted Lotus in a Death Game 在逃生游戏中做朵黑心莲 Bai Youyou is delicate and beautiful, admired by men and called a “green tea bitch” by women. Then one day, she is suddenly captured by a survival game and successfully joins it. Before long, the game has a new black-hearted schemer: early on, she hangs around the experts, whimpering and calling them “big brother.” Later, she has them calling her “Daddy”! 1.6kReads9.1Score191Shelves
