Novels like The Haunting One
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Haunting One, best match first.
- 1 Strange Tales: A Frightening Cycle of Reincarnation 诡话怪谈：惊悚轮回 [Infinite flow + mild horror + survival + no female lead] At midnight, chewing sounds echo from the morgue. A TV keeps replaying in an empty apartment. Fingers are hidden in the refrigerator... One bizarre, inexplicable incident after another comes for Zhuang Yuan after he boards a bus bound for the crematorium. To survive, Zhuang Yuan has no choice but to make himself as strong as he can... “Please board the bus. Passengers, do not ask the driver about the final stop...” 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 From the Start, Demons Devour My Heart, So I Devour Ten Thousand Demons 开局妖魔噬心，我反手吞噬万妖 Lin Changqing transmigrates here and discovers that, from the start, a demon has devoured his heart. Fortunately, he awakens the Devouring System. Demons rule the world, and humanity struggles to survive. The highest beings are known as Great Saints. Devour a “Blood Essence Pearl” to gain the ability Blood Qi, which can pierce the sky. Devour a “Bewitching Copper Bell” to gain the ability Bewitching Heart, which can confuse people’s minds. Devour a “White-Bone Demon” to gain the ability Jade Bon 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 The Soul-Calming Banquet 安魂席 Soul-Calming Banquet —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 The Strange World: I Slay Evil Gods with Martial Arts 诡异世界：我以武道弑诡神 After gray fog blankets the entire world, the Age of Spiritual Cultivation begins anew. Man-eating horrors and beasts that devour humans awaken one by one, bringing calamity to humanity. Even the immortals and Buddhas who once protected humanity have fallen in this era, enslaving people and forcing them to build temples and worship them. Spiritual cultivators, seemingly the only path open to humanity, are gradually falling into corruption as well. Hey! How dare you evil heretics eat our own kind 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 The Forbidden Gate 禁门 When I was six, I pulled a nail out of the depths of Yin Mountain. It had been driven into the Taiji symbol before a stone coffin. A dragon was carved into its head, and its eyes could glow. After I pulled it out, the woman inside the coffin sat up. Dressed in white and barefoot, she asked me: “Do you want to die, or do you want to live?” I said I wanted to live. She took me with her. Ten years. Spending nights in wells, practicing horseback riding on wooden stakes, and driving a copper coin 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Blood Trail Through the Spirit Realm 灵界血途 This is a mysterious and dangerous spirit realm, where the strong rule and all kinds of mysterious powers and strange creatures coexist. Ye Chen, an ordinary boy from a mountain village, embarks on the path of cultivation after an accident. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Demon Suppression Bureau: My Martial Arts Train Themselves 镇魔司：我的武学能主动修炼 Awakening in a pool of blood, Jiang Hao discovers that he has become a member of the Demon Suppression Bureau of Great Zhou. In this world, demons and monsters run rampant, ghosts roam among the living, and the human realm is like purgatory. He himself is caught in a swirling fog from the start, surrounded by danger. Fortunately, he discovers that his martial arts can cultivate on their own. “Dark Shadow Sword thinks your cultivation speed is pathetic. It couldn’t stand watching, so it put in so 32Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 8 Demons, Constables, and the Demon-Slaying Sword 妖邪，捕快，斩魔剑 [Doesn't kill indiscriminately] + [Not a saintly do-gooder] + [Plot-driven] + [Not a feel-good power fantasy] Among the myriad schools and sects, the Immortal and Buddhist paths possess vast, unfathomable divine power. Known to the world as the Great Dao of Longevity, they rank first! The Martial Path emphasizes killing and warfare but offers no immortality. Its methods are limited, making it the least remarkable of the myriad schools and sects, and the lowest-ranked. Feng Changqing starts out a 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 The Mysterious World: My Fists Can Reach the Divine 诡秘世界:我的拳头能通神 This is a world shrouded in mystery. In the Great Xia Dynasty, a great terror descends. Demons and monsters lurk everywhere, killing without a trace and throwing the world into chaos. Ordinary people have no place to survive against demons and monsters. All they can do is wait in terror for death to come. The immortals sit high above. Even as living beings are slaughtered, they let mortals fend for themselves, turning a blind eye and treating lives like weeds. Lin Fan transmigrates into this wor 25Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 10 True Tales of Terror 恐怖实录 When people get old, they grow frail, and the older they get, the more they want to look back on the past. There's no blessing a person can't enjoy, and no hardship they can't endure. I've lived through two dynasties. They say seeing is believing, but that doesn't mean everything you hear is false. There are plenty of things in this world that can't be explained. 18Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 On My Birthday, an AI Told Me My Best Friend Was Going to Kill Me 生日那天，AI告诉我闺蜜要杀我 On my birthday, an AI told me my best friend was going to kill me —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 From the Start as a County Magistrate, Demons Show Up to Deliver Takeout 开局做员外，妖魔前来送外卖 [Quickly Invincible] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Uncanny from the Start] [Powerhouse] [Wuxia Fantasy] Chen Yuan transmigrates into ancient times. After three years of hard work, he finally becomes a local magistrate. Just as he's about to marry, have children, and enjoy a wonderful life surrounded by servants, raising birds and walking his dogs, he discovers that this world is full of monsters! There's a snake with a human head that can call out people's names, an eerie two-headed woman, and a thic 13.4kReads8.8Score1.1kShelves
- 13 From Slaying Demons to Immortality 从斩妖开始长生不死 When you have unlimited time to cultivate, even an ordinary form of Tai Chi can let you command the Great Dao of yin and yang., Su Qin After waking up, Su Qin transmigrates to a world in chaos, overrun by demons. By spending his lifespan to infuse his martial arts, he can cultivate without limit. But a mortal's life lasts barely a hundred years. Fortunately, he can absorb the demons' lifespans to develop his techniques. Tortoise-Breathing Art, Black Tortoise Heart Sutra, Black Tortoise Secret Re 480Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 14 The Heavenly-Eyed Tomb Raider Farmer 天眼摸金小农民 The woman he loved married someone else. Just as the despairing young farmer Lin Dapeng was about to give up, he unexpectedly obtained the Compass of Fate... From then on, he robbed ancient tombs and searched for buried treasure, living carefree in the countryside. 497Reads—Score100Shelves
- 15 The Yin-Yang Ghost Emperor 阴阳鬼帝 In the ten thousand leagues of the netherworld and the three thousand leagues of the Weakwater River, even a feather cannot float, and a golden lamp sinks straight to the bottom. Ye Kai never had grand ambitions. He just wanted to study hard, get into college, and marry the campus beauty. But the yin-yang ghost arts left behind by Huainanzi changed his fate. After a series of unbelievable events, the turning of the wheel of destiny sent him down an unprecedented path of cultivation… 379Reads5.0Score102Shelves
- 16 The Yin-Walking Path 走阴门 On the day I was born, a thousand crows gathered overhead and a hundred ghosts surrounded our home. My mother died on the spot, and I was branded an ill omen! 1.9kReads6.7Score190Shelves
- 17 The Living Ghost King 活诡王 A mysterious fragment of a map, a strange jade gourd, a grandfather who vanished nineteen years ago, and a person dying mysteriously after every QQ message I receive. Together, they set off one bizarre and eerie event after another... To uncover the truth, I have no choice but to embark on a series of strange and perilous investigations. It seems as though I’m merely reacting to events, yet everything seems fated to happen. From a haunted dormitory to a ghost village deep in the mountains, and t 153Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 Sealing Demons in the Hundred Meridians: I Absorb Only the Most Ominous Things 百脉封妖：专吸大凶之物 My grandfather sealed all the more than one thousand terrifying yin entities he had captured in his life inside the acupuncture points all over my body. Even without opening my Third Eye, I can see things other people can’t, and even grab them with my bare hands! But ever since I was little, Grandpa has warned me never to let anyone discover my secret, or I’ll be killed... 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 Ghostly Hauntings 鬼诡 I chose to stay at school over National Day. That night, I chatted with the friend in the lower bunk until almost midnight. When I got up to use the bathroom, I realized her bed was empty... My roommate had gone to meet someone she’d met online, but without realizing it, she dragged our entire dorm into danger. I was the last person they called out by name. To stay alive, I had no choice but to contact her online date. Unexpectedly, the fog surrounding the incident slowly began to lift. From the 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 Immortality Begins with Extreme Path Cultivation 长生从极道修行开始 The Great Dao has crumbled, and demons and monsters run rampant. In this chaotic age, Zhao Sheng, who transmigrated from another world, relies on a cheat to cultivate the Ultimate Path and attain immortality. This is a System-powered Ultimate Path novel with one female lead and no abuse of the protagonist. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 On My Wedding Day, My Deceased Sister Texted: You Can't Marry This Man 婚礼当天，亡妹发短信：这人不能嫁 On her wedding day, her deceased younger sister texted her: Don't marry this man. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 I Allocate Points in a Bizarre World and Become a Demon God 我在诡异世界加点成为魔神 Hua Ze unexpectedly transmigrates to a strange world filled with all kinds of terrifying supernatural beings. After awakening a status panel and barely escaping with his life, he discovers that the horrors of this world have only just begun to reveal themselves. Martial artists seeking strength fuse themselves with the bloodlines of demon beasts, becoming demon warriors who wield their power. Ordinary people fighting terrifying supernatural beings use their own bodies to control them, becoming e 121Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 23 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 3.3kReads8.2Score213Shelves
- 24 Strange Tales of the Embroidered Uniform Guard 锦衣异闻录 After waking up from a car accident, Li Jin finds himself a low-ranking officer in the Ming Dynasty's Embroidered Uniform Guard. He thinks it's an ordinary transmigration, but from the start, the capital is blown sky-high. A nun carrying a longbow, A fairy hauling a wild boar, A princess climbing out of a coffin, Embroidered Uniform Guards who slay demons and exorcise evil... What kind of absurd version of the Ming Dynasty is this? 64Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 25 Attaining Immortality Through the Netherworld 从通幽开始长生 [No System]+ [No heroine]+ [Folk-cultivation] Jiang Wujiao gains the divine ability to commune with the netherworld and transmigrates to a world overrun by demons and monsters! He kills two ghosts from the start, absorbs their vital essence to strengthen his body, obtains cultivation techniques from fragments of their memories, and sets out on the path of cultivation! Using his divine ability to commune with the netherworld, he instantly enters the Dao, reaches the peak of Qi Refining in three m —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 Don't Read If You're a Coward! One Ghost Story Every Day! 胆小勿进！每天一个鬼故事！ A series of urban ghost stories Every chapter tells a different tale There’s sure to be one you’ll enjoy When the novels you’re following haven’t updated yet Read some urban ghost stories in the meantime 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 Live-Streaming a Mutilation Case: Capture the Killer or Die 碎尸案现场直播：拍到凶手才能活 [Livestream] + [Infinite Flow] + [Thriller] + [criminal investigation] + [plot twists] + [ensemble cast] In 1998, Wu Ailian, a student at Wuzhou University, went missing. Half a month later, her body was cut into more than 2,000 pieces. The killer was never caught. Thirty years later, a livestream begins. The gates of Wuzhou University, long since demolished, stand intact once more. Wu Ailian walks out through them. Anyone pulled into the livestream of the dismemberment case has only one way to 17.1kReads8.1Score2kShelves
- 28 Slay Demons to Gain Attribute Points: I Burn Them to Ash with My Flame Domain 杀妖魔能加点，我用火炎领域狂烧 [Spend points to boost cultivation] [No female lead + demons and monsters + ruthless decisiveness + immortal cultivation] (The story won't revolve around the Demon-Suppression Office. Ordinary people are livestock, penned and raised by demons and monsters.) "When in doubt, there's just one answer: kill." A hundred years ago, black mist shrouded the dynasty, and demons, monsters, and the uncanny ran rampant. “Flame Domain, activate!” Flames swirl around Ye Tian. He teleports into the midst of the —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 Xuanhuan: Demons and Monsters, I Have a Status Panel! 玄幻：妖魔，我有一个属性面板！ [Martial arts, immortal cultivation, demons, qi refiners, muscles, stat allocation, System, the strong, reckless heroes, feel-good fiction, sort-of feel-good fiction, scheming, righteous heroes, villains, the Myriad Worlds, the supreme primordial world.] This is a vast world where the strong can pluck stars and seize the moon above, move mountains and fill seas below, and where several kingdoms stand side by side. It is a world where the strong rule, demons run rampant, and human lives are as wo 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 I Hunt Demons in Liaozhai 我在聊斋捉妖怪 [Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio + Slow Burn + Fantasy + Xianxia + No System + N+1] [Everything here is fictional. Please don’t compare it to Taoism, Buddhism, or other religions.] As foreign capital seeped in, less than a tenth of Chinese civilization remained… Xu Lang, a modern young man with a terminal illness, transmigrated by chance to a fantastical, bizarre world… “By the power of the heavens, obey my command…” “…” “Monster, where do you think you’re going? Take my sword, from Xu L 2kReads5.6Score141Shelves
- 31 Mr. Ghost 鬼先生 On one summer vacation, I went home and experienced a bizarre event that changed my life. Afterward, I learned that I was special: I could see things ordinary people couldn’t. Later, my grandfather told me I was a stillborn child! A stillborn who had survived only after spending a full eighty-one days steeped in medicinal herbs mixed with his own mother’s flesh and blood! That was why I was born with the fate of a ghost, surrounded by countless spirits. This was no accident. It was a thousand-ye 321Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 Eat Mutton, Share the Sheep's Lifespan 吃羊肉，分羊寿 Eat mutton, share the sheep's years of life —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 From the Start, I Took My Colleagues Back to Town 开局带着同事回镇 I grew up in Luoyin Town, but when I was six, I fled the ancient town overnight with my family. The town's baleful energy sealed away all my memories of it, leaving only scattered fragments of terrifying nightmares. My parents vanished mysteriously many years ago, leaving behind just one final warning: Never return to the mountains, and never touch anything red. To uncover the truth behind their disappearance, I follow the clues in a fragmentary ancient text and return to Luoyin Town. I am the o —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 Eerie Descent: My Ghost's Powers Are a Little Strong! 诡异降临：我的诡，能力有点强！ The blood moon appeared, and the uncanny descended. With the help of a mysterious book, Yang Qi’an was forced to make a pact with a ghostly shadow puppet. He later discovered that it could create other little shadow puppets, each with different abilities. In a world overrun by the uncanny, they became powerful allies. Each little shadow puppet had unique skills and traits. Some excelled at close combat, others specialized in ranged attacks, and still others could cast powerful spells. By constan 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 Immortal and Undying: From Slaying Demons to Developing Martial Arts 长生不死：从斩妖开始推演武学 [Immortality]+ [Deduction]+ [Unstoppable Physical Might] Spend lifespan to endlessly deduce skills and martial arts. Temper the body to the extreme and tear demons apart with your bare hands! Song Bie is nothing more than an ordinary headsman. He has never seen the vastness of heaven and earth, and his lifespan is barely a century. Fortunately, he can gain his enemies’ remaining years by slaying demons. From the [Filth-Cleansing Beheading Blade Art] to the [Tai Sui Severing Blade Manual], from t 540Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 Slay Demons and Exorcise Evil: I Can Refine My Martial Arts Without Limit 斩妖除魔：我能无限推演武学 [Immortality] + [Deduction] + [Overwhelming physical strength] In the Great Zhou Dynasty, demons and monsters ravaged the land, and the people lived in misery. Amid this chaotic dynasty, Wang Yan unexpectedly transmigrated with a panel that let him endlessly deduce martial arts by consuming his lifespan. From [Iron Sand Palm] to [Heaven-Burning Creation Palm], from [Fire-Forged Golden Body] to [Indestructible Dragon-Tiger Diamond Body]... Wang Yan possessed the strength to lift mountains and sup 887Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 37 Yin-Yang Collector 阴阳收敛师 Gu Changan was just an undertaker at a funeral home in Jiangcheng, with the ability to see the deceased’s final day whenever he touched them. He had thought his job was simply to tidy the dead and see them through the last leg of their lives. But a series of old cases made him realize that not every restless spirit was born from resentment. Someone was secretly severing the paths of the dead, altering causes of death, and erasing names, turning the deceased into malevolent ghosts wandering among 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 Autobiography of a Folk Taoist Priest 民间道士自传 How should I describe the first half of my life as a folk Taoist priest? It’s a long story, and hard to tell. To sum it up, over the past few decades I have had a few drinks, smoked a few cigarettes, flirted with a few women, and felt a little melancholy. 1.2kReads8.7Score105Shelves
- 39 The Haunting of the New Home 搬家诡事 [Mystery + Thriller + Supernatural + Horror + No Female Lead + Smart Protagonist] His name was Yi Jibo. After he was wrongfully imprisoned, his mother fell ill and died. To pay off his gambling debts, his father sold her ashes to the Japanese through a crematorium driver. To get his mother's ashes back, Yi Jibo went to work at a Japanese funeral home. And so he burned Japanese corpses while searching for his mother's ashes… 19Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 Old Lu's Lone Edge 老箓孤锋 The family has fallen into ruin, and its legacy lies in disgrace. As a descendant of Celestial Master Xu Xun, Xu Xuan has spent half his life in grief and partings. His father and elder brother died, his relatives and friends passed away, and the world mocked him as dull-witted and unworthy of carrying on the family tradition. Yet no one knows that an ancient power lies sealed in his blood. When the enemy of old comes to his door in the twilight of life, kneeling to beg forgiveness, is it genu 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 A Call from Three Lives, A Call Three Times 三生来电，三声来电 The heroine's family fortune is seized through the schemes of three utterly evil forces: bandits, the military, and merchants. Her parents are wrongly accused and die in prison, while she is repeatedly violated by bandits beside their funeral altar, until she takes her own life before her parents' spirits. In a time of chaos, human lives are worth no more than weeds. The heroine can only become a vengeful ghost, embarking on a century-long revenge spanning three lifetimes. She calls the three f 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 The Grudge-Bearing Spirit Cinema: The Life-or-Death Exam 怨灵电影院【生死考题】 [Light Horror + Exam Questions + Puzzles and Paths to Survival + Fresh New Infinite-Flow Scenarios] The Cursed Cinema is home to the accursed. Whenever a new movie premieres on the silver screen, a group of actors enters the door of death in search of the door to survival... It wasn't until Qi Yuan filmed his first horror movie that he realized acting according to the script was only the beginning, and the exam questions weren't the end. Only the final escape, solving the puzzles and finding the —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 Tales of Terror from the Ghost Contract 诡契惊魂录 Lin Shen lives an ordinary life until the inexplicable deaths of his parents drag him into endless darkness. His mother hangs herself from an ancient locust tree in Fengmen Village, while his father leaves behind a blood-written message saying, “Don’t touch the bronze mirror,” before setting himself on fire. After inheriting the ancestral Book of Yin Contracts, Lin Shen is forced to make pacts with vengeful ghosts. He gains the ability to communicate with spirits, but becomes trapped in a double —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 The Super Spooky Classroom 超级惊悚教室 At a certain high school, an ordinary afternoon was supposed to mean nothing more than a routine chemistry lesson. No one could have imagined that a terrifying disaster would begin there, and that our lives would never be peaceful again. 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 A Notebook of Ghost Stories 鬼故事手札 A Notebook of Ghost Stories 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 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—Shelves
- 47 The Yin-Yang Agent: Fate Changer 阴阳代理人之改命师 When I was seven, I thought I would grow up like any ordinary child, get a job, and start a family. But after I accidentally touched a gourd and released something unclean, my life changed forever. To ordinary people, fate seems mysterious and uncanny, but for me, it is how I make my living. Fate masters are people who can trade and alter destinies! A century of wealth and honor, an emperor's destiny spanning a millennium, a miraculous immortal's fate lasting ten thousand years... I pursued thes 537Reads7.0Score101Shelves
- 48 Hook in the Mist 迷雾之钩 The mist over Qinglan Reservoir never lifts. A pendant and fishhook engraved with the date 1962.7.15 don’t catch fish; they catch the living and the dead. Three years ago, documentary photographer Shen Bozhou’s heart stopped for ten minutes when he jumped into the reservoir to save his partner, who had plunged into the water under mysterious circumstances. Ever since, he has been haunted by visions from beneath the surface. Now he has returned to finish the film he left incomplete, only to find —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 EN Invincible Demon Slayer 我从斩妖司开始无敌 Fang Mu transmigrated to another world and became a Demon-Slayer. In a world plagued by demons and monsters and crawling with the uncanny, countless unknown dangers and terrors lurk. The outside world is too dangerous, so Fang Mu hides inside the Demon-Slaying Bureau, earning various rewards by slaying demons and monsters while secretly building up his strength. To gain the power to protect those he cares about, he has no choice but to keep pushing past his limits and growing stronger… 661Reads5.4Score101Shelves
- 50 Eerie Revival: I Have a Merit System 诡异复苏：我有功德系统 When guardians eventually become new calamities, how can a cage of flesh and blood contain madness? When gloom devours hope, has despair itself become the most powerful ghost? Watch as Jiang Chen uses the righteous path to suppress ghosts and cleanse the mortal world. Is this out-of-place righteousness the final glimmer of dawn, or merely an arrogant joke? 5Reads—Score—Shelves
