Novels like The Haunting One
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- 151 Mysterious Curse 1 神秘诅咒1 [Supernatural Mystery + Urban Cultivation + Folk Taboos + A Passionate Coming-of-Age Story] Enter a sinister world concealed beneath the bustle of the modern city! I have no control over life or death. My name is Zhang Wen. I thought getting into college would let me escape that bleak village in the southwest. Then my grandfather died suddenly, with these words written in cinnabar on his palm: "Dig three feet down at the southeast corner of the wall." I unearthed a bloodstained notebook. Its fir 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 152 National Fate Ghost Story: I Was Chosen to Enter an Infinite Dungeon 国运怪谈：我被选中参加无限副本 When the whole world is forcibly bound to supernatural scenarios and forced to watch them livestreamed, Longguo sends in three “freaks”: a con artist who exploits every loophole, a brute who believes only in his fists, and a medium who can commune with ghosts. They are thrown into a blood-red school where the rules are warped: arrive three seconds late and you die, run and you trigger a pursuit, while bones in the walls tick away the seconds. As players from other countries struggle to survive, 184Reads—Score—Shelves
- 153 The Supernatural Is Back! Hello, Supernatural Affairs Bureau? Someone's Scamming the Supernatural! 诡异复苏！喂诡管局吗这有人骗诡 [Eerie, No Female Lead, Horror, Northern Myanmar, Comedy, Sneaky Schemer, Cunning, Power Fantasy, Invincible, Please Don't Read If You Dislike It] This book is also called I Spent Those Years Running Scams in an Eerie World! and You Beast! You Even Scammed a Ghost! My name is Chunliang, with “Chunliang” meaning kind and honest. I'm exactly what my name says: a good person. What did I do wrong by accidentally transmigrating to this eerie world? I just want to give every eerie being a home! Welcom 1.1kReads6.7Score100Shelves
- 154 A Rural Guide to the Supernatural 乡野灵异手册 I was born in a remote village, with a faint red, triangular birthmark on my forehead. On the day I was born, every fish in the village pond died. After my birth, one strange event after another began happening in the village: cooked chunks of a corpse in an abandoned well, a neighbor's grandmother coming back from the dead, a doll that wept bloody tears. The villagers started calling me a harbinger of disaster, and everyone avoided me. 139Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 155 Top Secret: Paranormal Investigation Bureau 绝密：灵异事件调查局 To investigate and handle supernatural incidents, the nation established a special task force. All files, mission reports, and research are classified as the highest level of national secrecy. As a field operative, I was fortunate enough to take part in handling all kinds of cases: the madness of thousand-year-old corpses, the wonders of supernatural abilities, and incidents involving hybrids of spirits, demons, and monsters... 152Reads—Score—Shelves
- 156 The Martial Path Reaches the Divine: Starting with the Mo Family Fist 武道通神：从修炼莫家拳开始 [Decisive Killing] [Talent Plundering] [Extreme Path] [No Female Lead] [Cautious Early, Mad Midway, Reckless Late] [Slow Burn] The rating just came out. It'll go up later. At the end of a dynasty, officials and merchants collude, gangs run rampant, and cults stir up the people. Sects carve up the land, powerful clans set themselves up as kings, and the common folk suffer unbearably. Cao Wei is reborn into this world. His father died young, his mother has been ill for years, and his sister sold h 678Reads5.8Score102Shelves
- 157 Ghost Ming 鬼明 The sun and moon shine above, the mountains and rivers endure forever: glorious Great Ming, vast and mighty China. Could the Manchu Qing regime, huddled in a corner of the realm, really overthrow the Great Ming, which had ruled the land for centuries? What a weighty and profound question. Could it really happen? Even if it could, there must be some hidden secret behind it. In the first year of the Tianqi reign, a great drought struck the land. Officials drove the people to revolt, and uprisings 647Reads—Score102Shelves
- 158 Horror Urban Legends: An Unspeakable Fear 惊悚怪谈：不可名状的恐惧 Tomato Original, Mystery and Imagination, Supernatural Horror [Horror + Dark Style] [A collection of uncanny short stories, fear returns, Lovecraftian horror] [The gaze of an unknown presence. Good and evil lie in the human heart] Have you ever had a moment in everyday life that sent a chill down your spine? Perhaps it was hearing a cat cry while walking alone at night, the sound of marbles rolling across the floor upstairs, or a shadow glimpsed from the corner of your eye... Story One: Cat Syn 105Reads—Score—Shelves
- 159 The Laughing Underworld Chronicles 笑冥录 “If an almanac could turn you into a ghost right on schedule, but the price was wearing a dead person’s clothes once a day, would you use it?” Top-voted answer (by the poster “Lord Wuchang Has No More Years of Life Today”): “Thanks for the invite. I’m in the underworld, just got off the night shift.” 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 160 World of Despair: Forging a Throne of Terror with My Body 绝望世界：我以体魄铸就恐惧王座 [Thriller]+ [Dark]+ [Mindless Power Fantasy]+ [Reckless Brawler]+ [Dark Mythology of Yanhuang] Li Xuan wakes up to find that demons and evil spirits are running rampant, controlling people's minds and commanding life and death. The terrifying myths of Yanhuang, the twisted truth of history. When Li Xuan sees the eerie creature before him, he turns his right hand into a blade and stabs it dozens of times in a row. “Quit grinning at me. If I say I'm going to beat you to death, then I'm beating you 15Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 161 A Century of the Supernatural 百年灵异 This is a truly unusual book, recording the supernatural events that took place in a village over the course of a century. These events are unlike traditional tales of ghosts, fox spirits, demons, and immortals. There is none of the vulgar promotion of superstition or idealism found in popular culture. Instead, the book is filled with the world's strangeness and unknowns, leaving readers baffled. After the shock and terror, you can't help but question and imagine what lies beyond, and find yours 8Reads9.1Score—Shelves
- 162 I Inherited a Funeral Shop During the Hundred Ghosts' Night Parade 百鬼夜行时，我继承了一家冥铺 Lu Ci thought all his grandfather had left him was an old shop on the verge of closing. Then, one rainy night, the first customer walked through the door and bought a stack of spirit money. The next day, that very “ghost currency” appeared in someone else’s account. From then on, the shop, open only at night, began receiving one unusual customer after another: some sought wealth, some wanted to buy a life, and some only wished to exchange something for a long-overdue truth. At the end of the lon 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 163 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 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 164 The Corpse Keeper 守尸人 The morgue is where life and death meet. At this boundary, there are many taboos to heed. I grew up beside a hospital morgue, and I'll tell you about the hospital's taboos from a different perspective. Taboo 1: If you see a patient being resuscitated, don't gather around to watch. Taboo 2: If a patient's family throws away something the deceased used while alive, don't toss your own trash on top of it. Taboo 3: If you hear a cat meowing at night, don't go outside to look, whether you're a patien 917Reads6.3Score100Shelves
- 165 Horror: Death Comes at Midnight 恐怖：夜半索命 I lived a routine life until the death of Old Chen changed everything. Beside his body lay a pile of handmade paper figures. One had been painted blood red and clutched in his stiff, dead hand. Blood-red words began appearing in the mirror: “Get out.” “He’s still in the building.” Then I received an ultimatum: his daughter needed a living substitute. Paper figures weren’t enough. Neither were his belongings. She wanted a living person in the building, someone warm and breathing. Tomorrow, at mid 17Reads—Score110Shelves
- 166 Don't Look Back During Evening Study at School 学校晚自习别回头 Don’t Look Back During Evening Study at School 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 167 Summoning Spirits 招魂 “Old Liu at the village entrance is dead.” “I heard. He died horribly.” “Yeah. He ate himself.” Everyone in the village was talking about it. When I heard, I was stunned. What did they mean, he ate himself? I only understood after I went with my grandfather, a yin-yang master, to see Old Liu’s body. It looked as if something had ripped open his stomach. At a glance, aside from a stomach about the size of a human head, all his internal organs were gone! In his hand was half a severed intestine, a 428Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 168 Records of Yin-Yang Mysteries 阴阳异闻录 The newly dead have their brows painted and faces made up; those long dead have their skin painted and bones carved. The people around you may not be human, and the stories you've heard for years may be more than just stories. 440Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 169 I Am the Martial God of the Mortal Realm, Starting as a Prison Guard in the Demon Suppression Bureau 我，人间武神，从镇魔司狱卒开始 Lu Xiu transmigrated to a world overrun by monsters and demons, becoming a trainee Demon Suppression Officer. He thought he was in for a life of nine-to-five work and constant danger. Instead, he unexpectedly discovered that he could use points to alter the passage of time for anything, and even deduce new techniques from his own cultivation arts. [Ding! Technique deduction successful: Savage Elephant Art has become the peerless Divine Elephant Suppressing Hell Force!] [Ding! Technique modificat 313Reads7.5Score—Shelves
- 170 Infinite 無限 You think it's a story, but you never expected it to be... From the birth of humanity to the birth of the universe, I think you know better than anyone whether it's a story. And here, “story” is just a metaphor. And 145Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 171 A Collection of Spine-Chilling Stories 惊骇故事集 The world is in turmoil, with strange and wondrous things hiding everywhere. Mysteries deep in the starry sky remain unsolved, while shocking cases unfold around a small town. Science fiction and suspense perform a double act, as Lovecraftian murders rise with the tide. The secrets in people’s hearts are hard to fathom. Just wait and see this collection unleash its waves of terror. The horror here is bizarre and grotesque, not some childish little scare. In an abandoned village shrine, a white- 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 172 I Came from the Underworld to Deal with Those Who Defy the Rules 我从地府来，专治规则不服 I Came from the Underworld to Make the Rules Behave 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 173 From Constable to Smashing Every Demon and Evil Spirit in the Heavens 从捕快开始打爆满天妖魔崇邪 Gu Changqing transmigrates to a world overrun by demons and haunted by monsters. From the start, he nearly has his yang essence drained by an ugly female ghost. Fortunately, a talisman in his arms destroys the ghost, and in the process activates his Point-Adding System. From then on, the world gains a Demon Suppressor who is devoted to slaying demons and exorcising evil. Fox spirit: “Young master, spare my life, and I’ll let you experience the thousand kinds of tenderness of our spirit f 2.8kReads8.0Score135Shelves
- 174 The Forbidden Island of Human Nature 人性禁岛 I couldn’t get a ticket for the Spring Festival, so I took an unlicensed car home. I never expected the woman in the car to keep staring at me. I wanted to call the police... [Deep Dive] The horrifying truth behind going missing after getting into the wrong car during the Spring Festival. Don’t ride in unlicensed cars carelessly, because it’s not just your money that disappears, but your life! 1kReads8.6Score100Shelves
- 175 Surviving in a Strange World, I Became a Pawnshop Owner 诡异世界求生，我成了典当铺老板 [Rules-Based Horror + Lovecraftian Horror + Business-Building + Progression System] When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes back at you. You there, get in here! I’m an internet-addicted teenager. I was planning to stay up all night and finish a horror novel when I was unexpectedly dragged into a bizarre survival world. There was a mysterious pawnshop, an abacus that could talk, and on my very first deal, I got swindled by a Level One supernatural item: the Ghost Bride... 48Reads—Score—Shelves
- 176 Notes from Tomb Raids on Yin Mountain 阴山盗墓手记 A new work is here! Come read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 26Reads—Score—Shelves
- 177 Tales of the Strange 怪谈 [A Born Ghost-Busting Saint vs. A Bewitching Beauty Bound by a Sinister Fate] [Case-by-Case Stories + Criminal Investigation + Folk Legends + Ghost Hunting + An Overarching Plot + Horror + Two Powerful Leads + Fighting Side by Side] "Corpses become curses, souls become gu; strange cases arise, and every road is hard to tread." Zhang Miao was short of water in his five elements, and before he was even born, he was given a "water ghost" as his godmother. As a result, he awakened a special constit 2.1kReads8.5Score130Shelves
- 178 Carrying the Dragon Coffin 抬龙棺 The First Emperor's coffin was called the Dragon Coffin. By rights, everyone who carried the Dragon Coffin should have been buried alive with him. But my ancestor somehow escaped. Was the elixir of immortality really just a legend? And where did Xu Fu go after sailing east? My ancestor was the only person who knew the secret of Qin Shi Huang's mausoleum... 2.9kReads8.5Score297Shelves
- 179 Grandma’s Ghost Stories 听奶奶讲灵异故事 I was raised by my grandmother. The bedtime stories I heard as a child were all supernatural events she had experienced herself. They scared me so badly I was afraid to go to the bathroom, but I could never resist listening to the end. What I didn't know was that the more stories I heard, the more likely they were to come true, and that I had plenty of secrets of my own. 159Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 180 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. 87Reads—Score—Shelves
- 181 Netherworld Emperor: It All Begins with a Blood Coffin! 幽冥大帝：从血棺开始！ Mystery and the supernatural + horror + mind-bending deduction + wild imagination + Sichuan-Chongqing flavor After a flood, a blood-red coffin drifts down the river into our village... A strange song, eerie bloody handprints, a headless corpse, and somehow, I become the Great Emperor of the Netherworld... An accident reveals the secret of the Nine Fiends Blood Coffin and a grand scheme laid by the Great Emperor of the Netherworld. It all begins with the blood coffin, and everything will ultimate 683Reads—Score—Shelves
- 182 My Years Slaying Demons at the Vegetable Market 我在菜市口斩妖除魔那些年 Li Changsheng woke up to find himself an executioner at the vegetable market in the Great Ming Dynasty! As demons ran rampant across the eight-hundred-year-old Ming Dynasty and heaven and earth underwent a tremendous upheaval, he discovered that executing death-row prisoners earned him all kinds of rewards! Qi-reading, qi cultivation, divination, death substitution, paper effigy creation, concealment, face-changing, puppetry, medicine, mechanical arts... Across tens of thousands of years and the 1.4kReads7.1Score120Shelves
- 183 The Strange World of Wuxia 诡异大武侠 Lin Bai transmigrates. The eerie creatures have come to the village, too. Staring at the copy of the Golden Bell Shield manual in his hands, he lets out a mournful cry. “I haven't even had time to train, and the eerie creatures are already here? This makes no sense.” At its peak, the Golden Bell Shield can summon a golden bell that offers absolute defense. When mastered, the Cloud-Reaching Palm can overturn mountains and seas. The Tathagata Palm, Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Source, the Ei 162Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 184 Rules of the Rest Stop on a Stormy Night 暴雨夜服务区规则怪谈 Rules of the Rest Stop on a Stormy Night 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 185 Thirty Years of Strange Tales from the Northeast 东北异事三十年 Forty years ago, the old man ventured into Ghost Mountain at night and negotiated with the ghosts, winning Dongshan Village forty years of peace. Forty years later, a lone grave has thrown the whole village into chaos. A tragedy from forty years ago has claimed nearly a hundred innocent lives! What started it all? Why has a corpse's white hair turned black, and what is the red-clad female ghost trying to point to when she appears at midnight? 178Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 186 Eerie Apocalypse: Rising from the Demon Hunter’s Path 诡异末世：从猎魔人开始崛起 [Eerie Apocalypse + Exorcism + Savior + Fresh Setting] After the Day of Lights Out, people in this world began going mad. Dismembered bodies, skinned corpses, headless bodies: bloody murders became frequent. On the first day after Gao Chi transmigrated, the familiar figure of his father dismembered his mother. Then he chased Gao Chi with a kitchen knife. Could anything be more absurd? Later, Gao Chi discovered that people were going mad because strange beings had invaded. The uncanny ran rampant 73Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 187 EN Flesh Forging: My Martial Arts Suppress Demons 肉身横练：我以武道镇杀妖魔 All living things suffer, and evil spirits run rampant. In this world, where human lives are worth less than grass, Ling Yun transmigrates into it. He also brings along a [Modifier]. In his hands, any martial art can be modified to its utmost potential! Tiger Saber Technique, Diamond Body, Iron Shirt… I’ll max them all out! Facing all manner of monsters and demons, Ling Yun’s muscles bulge as he speaks in a chilling voice: “Evil spirits? All I want to know is whether you can take a beating!” 417Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 188 I’m an Actor in Horror Movies 我在恐怖电影中做演员 A bizarre horror movie poster transports Wang Yan into the world of the film. Playing a bit-part character who could die at any moment, he struggles to survive in a terrifying movie that feels all too real. By making clever use of the rules, he eventually sets out on the path to becoming an award-winning actor. (Horror infinite survival + suspense + serious tone + characters with brains + possible romance. There is no System, to be clear, no System!) 17Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 189 I Livestream Through My Eyes 我用眼睛来直播 Through my own eyes, I'll show you viewers the most authentic scenes of horror. No complicated streaming equipment, no carefully arranged sets. Everything I see is exactly what the viewers in the livestream can see. Have you ever seen a livestream quite like this? As long as my eyes remain open, this terrifying livestream, which will only end with my death, will never go off the air. 158Reads—Score—Shelves
- 190 I Practiced Medicine at Jing'an Bureau for Thirty Years 我在靖安司悬壶三十年 Ye Ping transmigrates to a world overrun by demons and monsters, becoming a night watchman in the Celestial Profound Peacekeeping Office, which hunts down demons and vanquishes evil. He carries a companion Green Pouch, and whenever he saves someone, he can obtain the most precious thing in that person’s life. Miraculous pills, peerless techniques... With skilled hands, he heals every illness; with a steadfast heart, he slays demons and monsters. He is a god among mortals, and the calamity of all 1.1kReads7.5Score109Shelves
- 191 The Acupoint Upgrade System from the Start 开局获得了穴位升级系统 A slow-burn story featuring a System, cultivation, and multiple worlds. Not a power fantasy. Monsters run rampant, and ghosts are everywhere. Evolvers battle ferocious beasts for resources, all in the hope of awakening supernatural abilities and reaching a higher level of evolution. After transmigrating here, the protagonist awakens a System. Meridians, pills, stat points... His soul crosses over from another world, but instead of awakening a supernatural ability, he activates a human cultivatio 367Reads7.9Score109Shelves
- 192 Born the Ghost King, I Subdue Ten Thousand Evil Spirits 鬼王命，镇万煞 I was born destined for wealth, good fortune, and a long life, but someone stole my fate, and I nearly died when a horde of ghosts surrounded me. The villains who swapped our fates never imagined that they would be the ones to lead me back to the Ghost King’s destiny... [Horror, talismans, feng shui, curses, folk customs] Ghosts demand lives on a rainy night; a painted-skin demon returns; a devil’s sacrifice; a snake woman in a mountain village; a cursed guesthouse; blood crows snatch souls; a m 10.5kReads8.9Score682Shelves
- 193 Ghost Stories at Three in the Morning 三更讲鬼 This book recounts some strange events from the 1980s. One place holds far more than a hundred stories. Perhaps it would be more fitting for me to be a bystander, or a listener. I have written down the stories I heard to remember the past. You can simply take the people and events in these pages as a joke, if you like. Or you can read them as stories that invite self-reflection. Who knows... the characters in them might bear a resemblance to you. Or perhaps they reflect someone close to you. Wit 154Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 194 Eerie Descent: I Can See the Rules Behind Supernatural Killings 诡异降临：我能看见诡异杀人规则 [Solo Anomaly Encounters] + [Instance Missions] + [Rules] + [Strength That Breaks All Laws] The world ended, anomalies descended, and countless humans died. Lin Lei was reborn three days before the anomalies arrived, only to be confronted immediately by an anomaly knocking at his door. In his panic, he discovered that he could see the rules governing how anomalies killed. “Am I the chosen one?” Lin Lei let out an excited groundhog scream. In this life, even the Anomaly Emperor will bow before me 52Reads—Score—Shelves
- 195 I've Eaten My Last Meal, Now Send These Ghostly Immortals on Their Way 吃了这断头饭，请诸位诡仙上路 [Plot-Driven] [No System] [Pseudo-Immortality] Xu Ze transmigrates to a bizarre world of cultivation, inherits his father's trade, and becomes an executioner. When a bizarre calamity wipes out his family, Xu Ze dies, only to come back to life. On the night he returns from the dead, a blind crow appears at his home and spends the whole night cawing nonstop from a dead tree in the courtyard. That same night, an ancestor who loves devouring the heads of bizarre creatures moves into a dry well. That 205Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 196 A Ghost-Hunting Record from Strange Tales 聊斋猎鬼录 I transmigrated into a world of ghosts and monsters, and became Pu Songling. Good and evil lie in the human heart; deep love never regrets. I traveled the world and wrote down these strange tales. My name is Xiao Pu. That's the Pu in Pu Songling. I transmigrated into a world overrun by ghosts and monsters. To stay alive, I befriended a powerful female ghost. To record this extraordinary world, I traveled far and wide in search of its ghosts and monsters. A manor where a snake demon keeps people 163Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 197 Don’t Call My Name at Midnight 半夜不要喊我名字 Believe it or not, this is a true story. She is Yang Xiaofan, dumped by a man who had been using her for her money, then left with nothing. With almost no savings left, she had no choice but to move into a deserted house. The mysterious landlord disappeared without a trace after his first appearance. After midnight, terrifying knocks and calls to summon spirits put her life in danger. A black cat that comes and goes appears at strange moments, then vanishes without a trace. Again and again, I wa 1.2kReads8.3Score—Shelves
- 198 I Rose to Fame Across the Land, Starting as a Fisherman 从打渔开始威震山河 Zuo Kun transmigrates into the body of a young fisherman. As demons rise amid the chaos of a troubled age, the lake yields the corpse of an incomparably beautiful woman! The water-ghost's corpse comes after him, and Zuo Kun doesn't dare go fishing anymore. Instead, he heads to the city to cultivate martial arts. But the female corpse's ghost won't leave him alone. Zuo Kun fights back, using her to catch treasure fish and cultivate the Vajra Killing Path, as he shakes the land from end to end... 2Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 199 A Fading Lamp Shines on the Lonely Dead 残灯照孤冥 (Mystery + supernatural + no female lead) (Ghost case files + Taoist arts) (Tomato Original) The male lead is born under the fate of a lone star of calamity, destined to walk alone. A dying lamp lights the lonely darkness, and that darkness lights me in turn. 321Reads—Score—Shelves
- 200 Old Tales of the Dead Village 死人村旧事 Chen Ergou holds a stalk of grass and gently pokes at the paper money still smoldering in front of him. Behind him, a dense crowd of “people” from the village and beyond stands packed together... Hanwa, his belly slit open and his tongue hanging down to his chest; Sufen, naked, with raw flesh exposed; the Fat Taoist, whose limbs and head are covered with tightly packed stitches at the joints; Tian Da, his body stiff, a walking stick jutting from his wide-open mouth; Xiao Zhao, pale-faced and dri 185Reads8.4Score109Shelves
