Novels like My Paranormal Case Files
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- 1 Special Operations Bureau 特事行动科 One thousand three hundred and ninety years ago, under the emperor’s direction, human adepts gained control of the “Void” and used it to create the “Wall,” which separated the real world from the anomalous one. After more than six centuries of effort by adepts from various schools, the anomalous remnants in the real world were finally purged, leaving humanity with a world of its own. Anomalous creatures became demons, ghosts, gods, and monsters in tales of the strange. As time passed, the adepts 1.8kReads7.0Score225Shelves
- 2 Eerie Tattoos 诡纹 My grandfather was a tattoo artist, but the things he tattooed were seriously sinister… 7.5kReads9.1Score783Shelves
- 3 The Corpse Collection Files 收尸档案 Since ancient times, the dead have been left with their bodies. But few people know that corpses hold many secrets that remain hidden from the world. Cursed corpses, living corpses, bodies left where they fell, vengeful corpses, bisected corpses... Every corpse has a story of its own! My name is He Yongheng, and I collect bodies for a funeral home. 3.8kReads9.0Score367Shelves
- 4 Bureau 747: Special Affairs Division Nine 747局之特殊事物处理九科 Do you really know the colleagues around you? What about your classmates and family? The person you've lived with for years, the one you know best, might not even be human! In this world, humans and demons coexist. Demons can live among you in all sorts of ways. “They” might be the man selling jianbing on the street, or they might be your boss! If a top special forces soldier hadn't awakened his family's bloodline in a panic while carrying out a highly classified special mission, and then joined 702Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 5 No. 81 on the Yellow Springs Road 黄泉路81号 Night blankets the city, and the things lurking in the shadows begin to stir. The raccoon dog granny who eats raw meat, the fitness girl with fish scales growing on her back. The wild foxes who approach people by the roadside, and the little convenience store in the cemetery. I've experienced all of these. And it all began after I witnessed a car accident... 42.1kReads9.2Score3.4kShelves
- 6 Folk Feng Shui Secrets 民间风水秘术 This story focuses on practical feng shui and fortune-telling. If you're looking for made-up drama, this isn't for you! Feel free to skip the first four chapters and start reading from Chapter Five. The adaptation will also start from Chapter Five, which should make it much easier to adapt. Thank you for understanding! (Traditional, no System, no wild flights of fancy, funny, not saintly! A technical, skill-focused story!) I was born in a poor mountain village. From a young age, I traveled aroun 27.1kReads9.4Score3.7kShelves
- 7 The Supreme Taoist: Subduing Ten Thousand Ghosts 道门太上：万鬼伏藏 Offer blood to Heaven and slaughter every evil. The Daoist arts are the strongest of all. The protagonist, Li Changsheng, masters the supreme arts of the Daoist sect and makes a solemn vow: he will not ascend until he has eliminated every demon and evil spirit under Heaven. He willingly seals his cultivation between Heaven and Earth, remaining in the mortal realm for thousands of years! 22.2kReads9.4Score1.7kShelves
- 8 I Am Intersex 我是阴阳人 My mother said that when I was born, her first reaction was to strangle me, because it was impossible to tell whether I was male or female. My grandmother called me a freak and a jinx, saying I would only bring shame on the family. It was then that my maternal grandmother, who had traveled all the way from the countryside to visit my mother, adopted me. So, by chance, I got to enjoy a pure childhood, free from scornful looks. Following my half-immortal grandmother, I unexpectedly discovered how 8.5kReads9.3Score1.3kShelves
- 9 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
- 10 True Tales of the Spirit Mediums: My Ten Years Serving at a Ghost Hall 出马仙纪实：我供奉鬼堂的那十年 My name is Zhou Tie. In this book, I'll tell the true story of my ten years running a spirit hall and serving ghosts. You've heard of spirit mediums... but have you heard of a ghost spirit hall? At eighteen, I established a ghost spirit hall and served ghost immortals! The presiding master was the sister my grandfather said had gone mad and died! This book has no female lead. It's not fantasy, and it's definitely not a cultivation novel! It's the true story of how I, born with an ominous yin con 86.4kReads9.6Score8.2kShelves
- 11 Supernatural: I Exorcise Ghosts with Force and Scare the School Beauty Out of Her Wits 灵异：暴力驱鬼，我把校花吓懵了 [Supernatural + comedy + System. If you read the first 30 chapters and don't laugh, come roast me!] On Zhang Wei’s first day of college, a blood-red sun hung in the sky and his entire class was dragged into a ghost realm. Just then, his Ghost-Teasing System awakened! With the whole class under a ghost’s curse, the campus belle, Lu Lianxue, had no choice but to reveal her hidden identity: a disciple of Longhu Mountain and a member of the Exorcism Bureau. But before she could show off her skills.. 29.8kReads9.1Score2.6kShelves
- 12 The Best Feng Shui Master on the Construction Site 工地最强建筑风水师 [If this caught your eye, it must be fate. Don't scroll away just yet.] This novel (campus opening + wild imagination + an expansive world) combines feng shui and the supernatural (using feng shui to weave the plot together), fantasy, magic, science fiction, parallel worlds, and time travel to the past. The pace picks up dramatically after Chapter 30, and the story strongly promotes traditional Chinese culture. Also known as From the Start with a Treasure Gourd to Help Me Destroy Demons Also kno 2.2kReads8.3Score265Shelves
- 13 The Ninth-Rank Demon Exorcist 九品驱魔人 When the sun sets, every door in the city is shut! Evil spirits open their eyes, and monsters run rampant! The Wei Constables mount the city walls, while exorcists draw their swords. An apprentice from a martial arts school stands proudly amid the demons, determined to protect one last sanctuary. 70.1kReads9.1Score7.6kShelves
- 14 Terror Descends: This Big Brother Is a Little Too Powerful! 惊悚降临：这个大哥有亿点猛！ Chen Xuanbei, nicknamed Dizang, accidentally transmigrates to a parallel universe where the supernatural has descended. With the Ten Yama Kings tattooed across his body and a massive reaper’s scythe slung over his shoulder, Chen Xuanbei declares, “Sorry, everyone. I’m claiming this territory!” The Slit-Mouthed Woman: “Hello, police? Someone sewed my mouth shut! Yes, they threw away my scissors too!” Sadako: “Hello, city management? Someone blocked up my well with concrete. I can’t get home!” Han 27.7kReads9.2Score2.7kShelves
- 15 From the Start, I Have Hundreds of Millions in Hell Money: I'm Invincible in the Age of the Uncanny 开局冥币亿万：诡异时代我无敌 [Supernatural horror + apocalypse + tycoon + ghost money + rules + comedy + no heroine + fast-paced power fantasy (buys a supernatural-horror site by chapter 7, keeps buying everything without dragging things out, and buys an entire city in 200,000 words) + mid-story twists + late-game rule deduction] The supernatural apocalypse arrives, and evil ghosts run rampant. Within the rules, ghosts cannot kill people. While countless people struggle to survive the apocalypse, carefully searching for a w 140.9kReads9.4Score15.2kShelves
- 16 The Celestial Master Is Here: Qimen Feng Shui Shakes the World 天师在此，奇门风水震天下 [Several short dramas have been adapted from this novel: Feng Shui Heavenly Master, The Grand Master of Qimen Feng Shui, The Heavenly Master Is Here, Qimen Feng Shui Shakes the World, Notes of a Folk Feng Shui Master, and others] Everything in this book is fictional. Just enjoy the story, don’t take it seriously, and don’t get too caught up in it... 248.3kReads9.1Score59.8kShelves
- 17 Super Scary Livestream 超级惊悚直播 "Welcome, everyone, to the Supernatural Scary Live Stream. Before we start today's broadcast, I have to tell you that only three kinds of people can watch this stream: those with a heavy aura of yin energy, those who will die within seven days, and the third kind, which I can't discuss in detail. I can only give you one warning: watch your back!" 25.3kReads9.2Score3.3kShelves
- 18 The Language of the Three Corpses 三尸语 You’ve heard of people who died with their eyes open, but have you ever heard of a dead person whose mouth wouldn’t close? His grandfather’s death turns the life of a broke college student upside down. A corpse glares, a soul is hooked; a corpse opens its mouth, and disaster strikes twice. As one bizarre incident after another unfolds, he accidentally discovers that there’s far more to it than ghosts… 69.1kReads9.3Score10.7kShelves
- 19 The Dragon-Suppressing Coffin and the King of Hell's Fate 镇龙棺，阎王命 They severed my tendons and buried me alive in a sealed coffin, but they didn’t know I was born with the fate of the King of Hell! [Folk horror, feng shui and talismans, incense offerings] Feng shui and fortune-telling, painted-skin demons and spirit summoning, walking in the shadows and corpse driving, corpse-raising spells and curses, yin tattoos and talismanic needles, puppets controlled by strings, red doors sealed with wax, Dogs digging graves on Burial Mound Ridge, ghosts feasting in the R 310.8kReads9.4Score27.9kShelves
- 20 EN With a Fox Immortal, I Subdue a Hundred Ghosts 我以狐仙镇百鬼 The day I was born, nineteen bolts of thunder struck around our family’s courtyard. A fortune-teller said I was born a demon child, fated to suffer eighteen calamities in my life. Either someone else would die, or I would. As it turned out, the fortune-teller met his own calamity on the very day I was born. He carried me out of the village, and suddenly dropped dead! 748.4kReads9.4Score43kShelves
- 21 EN Another World: My Life Has Cheat Codes! 异世界：我的人生开了挂！ [Vampires, werewolves, technology, potions, ghosts, biohumans, divination, puppets, and every terrifying element you can imagine: this world has them all.] Lin En transmigrated into such a bizarre otherworld and became an apprentice at a potion shop. "Something is wrong with that man! He never uses anesthetic when performing surgery!" "That shop is a scam! The moment you go in, they find a pile of illnesses even if you are perfectly healthy!" "But wait, isn't that shop supposed to be the bes 138.3kReads9.6Score16.9kShelves
- 22 Strange Tales Livestream! 怪谈直播间！ Welcome to the Rules of the Strange. This is a battle of blood and fire, a test of wit and courage. The power of words cannot be resisted, and the eerie rules must not be broken. In a seemingly hopeless situation, find the one correct answer, break free of your constraints, and search for a way to survive. 173.8kReads9.7Score17.7kShelves
- 23 EN The Horrors Are Hard to Kill? Sorry, I'm the Truly Immortal One 诡异难杀？抱歉，我才是真正不死 This book has been signed for publication, so enjoy it with confidence. [Death Regression + Foreknowledge of the Future + Kill the Saintly One First + Dark Tone + Supernatural Resurgence] After accidentally transmigrating to a world invaded by the supernatural, Fang Xiu awakens the ability to return from death, also known as turning back time. Whenever he dies, time rewinds to just before his death. In this perilous and uncanny world, he could have laid low, but instead he chooses to announce to 231.9kReads9.5Score28.4kShelves
- 24 EN The House of Dread 诡舍 [Infinite-flow + Mild Horror + Survival + One Female Lead] A driverless bus carried a group of cursed people to a strange black lodge… Inside the lodge stood a door stained red with blood. At regular intervals, the cursed were forcibly dragged through the blood-red door and into terrifying worlds, where they had to complete horrifying events… After Ning Qiushui survived one bizarre and terrifying story after another inside the lodge, narrowly escaping death each time, he discovered that none of 707.4kReads9.6Score103.9kShelves
