Novels like The Classroom of Death
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Classroom of Death, best match first.
- 51 Welcome to the University of Strange Rules 欢迎来到诡异规则大学 The University of Eerie Rules: Welcome to the Examination Hall of Life and Death On the day he fails the college entrance exam, Su Zhe’s life is completely ruined. The school bully’s malicious ambush makes him miss one of his exams, destroying his future. Then a mysterious admission letter falls from the sky: the prestigious Imperial University is offering him a special place, with all tuition waived and a monthly allowance of one hundred thousand. The terms are so generous they seem downright e 15Reads—Score—14d adds
- 52 The Crimson Round Table Game 猩红圆桌游戏 After death, a person weighs 21 grams less. Those 21 grams are a person’s consciousness. When emotions run especially high before death, that consciousness can become an obsession. Only those who die with exceptionally powerful emotions become obsessions, clinging to their last wish and struggling to remain in this world until they can fulfill it. 55Reads5.6Score—14d adds
- 53 Curse of the Sinful Shadow: The Sinner's End 孽影咒怨之罪者的末路 In the shadowy corners of a bustling city, evil grows unchecked like a cancer. Driven by greed, some resort to the most despicable means to line their pockets, while others lose themselves in an abyss of desire, unable to climb out. Little do they know that retribution is already drawing near. Each sin has finally awakened a curse lurking in the unseen world. This is a horror story about evil and retribution. Every sinner pays a terrible price for their misdeeds, while the resentment hidden in t —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 54 I Have a Horror Livestream 我有一个恐怖直播间 The moment you receive a bizarre job offer to become a streamer, you have set foot on a road of no return. No one can escape! In this deadly livestream, the appearance of bloody writing on the walls means the broadcast has begun. Once it starts, you will enter an unknown world of terror and face ghosts so bizarre and horrifying they defy belief. They will be everywhere, coming to claim your life. Even if you are lucky enough to survive this deadly livestream and return to your room, you will sti 315Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 55 The School of Terror 恐怖艺校 Also known as "The Horror Art School: I Fell in Love with a Taoist Priest" [Supernatural + Romance + Transmigration + Wild Imagination] During those three years at school, many strange and terrifying things happened. At midnight, a sinister atmosphere would descend over the school... The year Ye Xue'er attended art school, she fell in love with him at first sight and decided to follow him, staying by his side as they worked together to spread the art of Taoism far and wide... 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 56 Death Game: The Great Escape 玩命游戏，大逃亡 A WeChat group, forty-four deadly missions. People are constantly erased for failing to complete them, and I might be next... 837Reads6.5Score10214d adds
- 57 The Underworld Retirement Home 冥府养老院 [Mystery + Supernatural Horror + Urban + Deduction + No Do-Gooder Protagonist + Decisive and Ruthless] On the first day of school, I ran into a female ghost! Facing the red-clad upperclassman before me, I raised a chair and brought it crashing down on her! "You think it's funny to dress up like a ghost and scare me, you bastard?" —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 58 Escape from the Bear’s Jaws 熊口逃生 Escape from the Bear’s Jaws 949Reads—Score—14d adds
- 59 Horror Train: Starting at the Haunted Manor 恐怖列车：从诡异庄园开始 [Infinite-Loop Game + Thriller + Survival + Instances] A train bound for an unknown destination. Platforms where it could stop at any moment. A group of people willing to do anything to reach the final station, with no idea what awaits them ahead... Step off the platform and enter an unknown world. Complete the mission, and make it back alive! Someone once told Bai Ye that at the train's final station, all regrets could be laid to rest! But after one terrifying mission after another, Bai Ye grad 21Reads—Score—14d adds
- 60 You Found Me 你找到我了 Modern Supernatural + Female-Led + Fresh Premise + All-Rounder + Wild Imagination + Reincarnation + Spirit Speech + Runes and Formations + Fictional Modern Setting + Pure Wish Fulfillment in the Middle and Later Parts Abandoned and cast out? No. Her god reincarnates for her, life after life. Following the usual formula and old clichés? No. The Heavenly Dao is nothing to her. An ordinary girl dealing with a life that’s a complete mess? No. Other people are the ordinary ones. She is the unique one 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 61 Rules 101: The School Survival Guide 规则必修课：校园生存守则 (The rating has just come in and is rather low, but it will rise later.) [Rule-based horror, deduction, suspense, terror] Upon opening her eyes, Lu Wanxing finds a set of weekend dormitory rules popping up on her phone. She and her two roommates proceed with utmost caution, searching for the rules’ limits on the brink of death. Human nature, resources, ghosts and monsters… After barely making it through two days of life teetering on the edge of death, Lu Wanxing finally lets out a sigh of relief 1.1kReads8.2Score12714d adds
- 62 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. 5Reads—Score114d adds
- 63 The Survivors’ Base 逃生者基地 Lin Siwen is a university student enjoying the age of carefree campus life. But some unknown force draws her to a survivor base. From now on, her days will no longer be filled with books, sunshine, and classrooms, but with demons, perverts, and... How long can a young woman who has never entered the working world survive in this strange place? 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 64 Who Is Standing Behind Me? 谁站在身后？ Who is standing behind me? —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 65 When the Drum Sounds, Death Is Certain: Is It Really Cheating to Lead the Team? 鼓响无限死，带队开挂不过分吧？ [Infinite Realms, No Cliches, No System, No Idiocy, Not a Power Fantasy. Enter at Your Own Risk.] In a blood-red plank walkway, six people awoke after being buried alive, only to hear a drumbeat ringing with the promise of death. The drums marked the start of a death game. They were forced to die over and over, then keep going. They saw butchers gnawing on corpses along the walkway of living flesh, ventured into the Cave of a Thousand Voices and heard a silent hell, listened to paper figures sin 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 66 The Ghost Bride in the Coffin 棺中阴婚女鬼 [A blood-red coffin wrapped in scarlet silk traps a vengeful spirit; at the third watch, a ghostly wedding comes to claim its bride] During the reign of the Qianlong Emperor, the failed scholar Wang Feng was passing a mass grave at night when two blood-red lacquered coffins burst from the earth. Inside lay an uncorrupted corpse dressed in bridal robes: his fiancée, who had died suddenly three years earlier. That night, three thousand strands of black hair surfaced in the ancient well at the vil 29Reads—Score—14d adds
- 67 Forbidden Livestream 禁忌直播间 When you open this book, The Forbidden Livestream, you may not believe that its story is based on real events! An allegedly unsolvable horror forum, a hapless programmer crushed by the 996 work schedule, and a third-rate female student detective who considers herself first-rate. What dazzling sparks will fly when all of them come together? Thriller or mystery? Human or supernatural? Be careful! Because from this point on, every step you take will keep you on the edge of your seat! 33Reads—Score—14d adds
- 68 A Late-Night Convenience Store Survival Guide 深夜便利店生存指南 Basic Premise Time: 24 hours on the fifteenth day of every lunar month Location: 7-Eleven, Branch No. 444 (doesn’t exist on any map) Core Conflict: The convenience store is a “buffer zone” between the worlds of the living and the dead, and some of its customers are “nonhuman beings.” 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 69 Master of Horror, Dare You Come In? 恐怖大师你敢进来吗？ Ghosts taking revenge, possessing people, pressing down on sleepers; summoning, taming, driving away, and controlling ghosts; romances between humans and ghosts, humans and ghosts merging, and ghosts joining forces. Which is reality, and which is illusion? Are we living in reality, or in a world of our own creation? Yao Keke’s best friend, Cui Yueshuang, vanished right before her eyes. Where did she go? As she searches for her friend, Yao Keke receives help from an expert who teaches her the art 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 70 Codename: Bone Butterfly 代号骨蝶 A young woman's body is pulled from a cold riverbank. The police's preliminary conclusion: accidental drowning. When the victim's twin sister, the sharp and composed forensic pathologist Ye Shuyun, touches the body that looks so much like her own, professional instinct cuts through her grief in an instant: abnormal fluid in the lungs, a hidden needle mark, a missing kidney... This was no accident! The victim was her younger sister, Ye Shuya, an investigative journalist determined to expose socie 16Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 71 The Real Death Cinema 真实死亡影院 A horror movie poster taken from a corpse's mouth has Luo An's name listed among its cast, drawing him into an endless series of horror films. He must play a character who could die at any moment and survive a never-ending stream of movies where the deaths are real. Only after his fan count reaches one hundred million will he have a chance to escape. This is the story of Luo An, a man with dissociative identity disorder, as he takes one step at a time toward becoming an award-winning actor. [Cin 1Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 72 Classroom of Despair 绝望教室 One day, a classmate who had been dead for a long time dragged everyone in our class into a bizarre QQ group and forced us to take part in a death vote. After I managed to escape the Desperate Classroom, one massive conspiracy after another unfolded. To survive, I sold my soul… 141Reads5.7Score—14d adds
- 73 The Fourth Night: The Seventh-Day Funeral 第四夜：头七 The Fourth Night: The Seventh Day After Death 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 74 The Most Terrifying Class on Campus 高校里最恐怖的班级 A classmate who had been dead for two years suddenly spoke in the group chat. At first, everyone thought it was someone's prank, until the first classmate died unexpectedly. Only then did they realize this was no prank... 792Reads—Score—14d adds
- 75 Beware of the Red Envelopes 红包请小心 We were just a group of ordinary students, but after claiming a red envelope, we were dragged into a terrifying game. As we struggle to survive, we keep searching for a way out and trying to understand why we were chosen. Little do we know that an even deeper mystery is waiting for us, and more horrors are closing in... 636Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 76 You Want Me to Catch Ghosts? 你让我去抓鬼？ My name is Lin Fan. I'm twenty-two, and I graduated with a college diploma in marketing. While other graduates had job offers in hand and were charging ahead, I graduated straight into a pit of misery. I was two months behind on rent, my pockets were emptier than my face was clean, and my only possession was a beat-up electric scooter that clanked at the slightest touch and looked ready to fall apart at any moment. Five yuan per delivery. I raced around in the wind and sun, but I couldn't plug t 41Reads—Score21514d adds
- 77 Scrambling to Survive 攀草求生 (Mystery + Supernatural + Horror Game + Horror Revival + Not a Power Fantasy) Clinging to grass while drowning, fighting for survival in a desperate situation. A mysterious tycoon appears in the class group chat. Accept his red envelope, and you have to take part in his game. After barely escaping the deadly game, Xia Yu is pulled into a terrifying world once again. 75Reads—Score—14d adds
- 78 I Make My Living Off the Dead 我靠死人吃饭 [Funeral Customs] + [Supernatural] + [Feng Shui and Taoist Arts] Warning: Do not try to learn the incantations or chants in this book. You do so at your own risk. Based on real events, with some details about people and places adjusted. The dead refuse to close their eyes, a black cat wails at a grave, sobbing comes from down a well, a widow holds a funeral vigil in tears at midnight, an old man kneels before his son... Behind these eerie happenings lie even more poisonous human hearts. 129.3kReads8.7Score10.4k14d adds
- 79 The Game of Life and Death: I Have Eyes of Yin and Yang 生死游戏：我有一双阴阳眼 [Battle Royale] [Eerie] [Original Scenarios] [Psychological Mind Games] [Infinite Flow] [Squid Game] A programmer killing time at work accidentally clicks a “Answer Questions to Win 100 Million” pop-up. He plans to fill in the answers at random just to get rid of it, but before long, he receives an address for claiming his prize in person: an abandoned train station? When he opens his eyes again, a thousand people are gathered in an eerie hall beneath a blood-red countdown. Has the battle royale 7Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 80 The Apartment of Death 死亡公寓 [Death Game] The moment an apartment owner steps outside, they are immediately hacked to pieces. A deadly conspiracy has engulfed the apartment building, and no one can get out… To stay alive, Li Wen, a novelist, has no choice but to complete one deadly game after another. Along the way, he gains all sorts of extraordinary abilities. In the end, Li Wen discovers that the mastermind behind it all is actually… Are the death games the work of ghosts, or are they orchestrated by people? What is the 66Reads—Score—14d adds
- 81 The Academy of Thrilling Drama 惊悚戏剧学院 Zhang Feng did poorly on the college entrance exam and failed to get into the university he wanted. The day after he was overwhelmed with disappointment, an ordinary yet extraordinary acceptance letter from a “Drama Academy” appeared before him. Lost about what to do with his future, he headed to the so-called “university” on the strength of that letter. Only after enrolling did he discover what kind of hell he had entered. There, his only goal was to stay alive and earn the so-called diploma. 39Reads5.5Score—14d adds
- 82 Love on Route 11 情迷11路 While other people are born with jade in their mouths, I was born with a stone in mine. After my first love dumped me, the little stone around my neck went missing too, and I became a walking jinx. Dogs chased me whenever I went out, I got rear-ended on my bike, and even my chances at love disappeared. I became an unwanted old maid, so I gritted my teeth, stamped my foot, and went to the city to work as a bus driver. By a twist of fate, though, I ended up driving the number 11 night route. And t 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 83 Short Tales of Terror: A Collection of Strange Stories 短篇微恐：志怪故事集 Do you think the footsteps behind you when you walk alone late at night are just the wind? Do you think the unfamiliar object that suddenly appears in an old storage box is just something you forgot about? Do you think the blurry shadow that sometimes flickers across the mirror is just a trick of the light? This collection of strange tales has no blunt, bloody shocks. It is filled only with eerie everyday moments hidden in the folds of ordinary life. Each story stands alone, yet after you close 59Reads—Score—14d adds
- 84 The Uncanny Path: Invasion of the Aliens 诡道：异形入侵 Aliens + ghosts + demons + parasites + lurking horrors. Maximum terror! The protagonist comes down from the mountain to investigate aliens and ghosts, honing his Daoist arts in real combat. Chapters 1–12 focus on aliens. From Chapter 13 onward, the story combines evil ghosts and aliens. Later, certain aliens will transform into demons, but the sense of oppression and the level of danger will stay just as high. The sect is the Hidden Immortal Sect, founded by Laozi’s disciple. Its history can be 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 85 Looking Like a Ghost, Playing One on Screen 鬼模人样，饰鬼演他 I can kill ghosts, but with every one I kill, I become a little more like a ghost. But ghosts can't be killed... So what exactly have I been killing? For the first time, Chen Ye caught a glimpse of the true nature of ghosts. The essence of a ghost is obsession, and so is the essence of a human being. In this world crawling with the supernatural, everyone is a chess piece, and he is the one with the least control over his own fate. 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 86 The Story of an Ordinary Office Worker 一个普通上班族的故事 The story of an ordinary office worker. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 87 Infinite Horror Game: Who Am I? 无限诡异游戏：我是谁 [Survival games in all kinds of eerie worlds, focused purely on exploration and story. So satisfying! Wait, by the end, you discover they’re all part of the same world?] From the start, I got a little sister, punched my sleazy uncle, and set foot in the pitch-black fog. By the end of day one, I was already at the police station. On day two at the station, ghosts were haunting a nursing home? Turns out the entire nursing home had become a ghost. On day three, a middle school girl mysteriously jum 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 88 The Horror Supply Shop 恐怖用品店 An adult shop in a cemetery, and a brick-thick guide to running an adult shop. I started running a bizarre little store. My very first customer wanted to buy my human skin... 265Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 89 Horror Livestream 恐怖直播间 In the gloomy forest, a lone figure swayed slowly. Not far away, a rotting corpse dangled from a tree, rocking gently in the night breeze. Elsewhere, an old man on a grave silently picked up his own arm. He put it back, and it fell off; he put it back, and it fell off again. In the grass, Li Bing secretly livestreamed with his phone held up. 189Reads5.5Score—14d adds
- 90 The Campus Curse: A Register of Corpse-Subduing Spells 校园诡咒镇尸簿 (No romance + an unusual team-up to catch ghosts) On what seemed like an ordinary night, four girls in a dormitory started playing with a spirit board. But that very night, horror quietly descended... Was it a collapse of morality, or a distortion of human nature? Follow this unusual team as they solve the mystery. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 91 Highway to Hell 地狱公路 “Only sinners may set foot on this road and face the trials of Hell. Only those who pass the trials can wash away their sins and be reborn.” Class A accidentally enters another world on the way to their autumn outing. There is only one road here, a one-way street known as the Hell Road. It is a world that only sinners can enter. The way back has vanished, and the only way to survive is to walk the length of the road and complete one trial after another along the way. “Have you forgotten already? 34Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 92 Death Classroom: Confess Your Sins 死亡教室：请说出你的罪恶 [Infinite Flow + Supernatural Horror + Survival + No Female Lead] Here’s a quick introduction to me in two sentences: First, I’m not very capable. Second, I only have five golden keys. “Mr. Ye Tong, sorry to interrupt, but five golden keys are exceptionally rare across all the Death Classrooms. In other words, you’re already at the top.” “Oh, really? But I stole these keys from my senior fellow apprentice. Does that still count?” “???” Every Death Classroom is filled with all kinds of strang 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 93 The Otherworldly Netherworld 异站冥途 A bus bound for reincarnation, visible only to those on the brink of death. Every stop beyond the platforms brings an unknown crisis. At the Netherworld bus stop, queue up and board; the living get off, the dead stay behind. To find his long-lost girlfriend, Zhao Jichuan unhesitatingly boarded the bus. In an ocean of blood and tears, in a world of pain and fear, betrayal was commonplace and screams were nothing unusual. Just as he was about to despair, he thought he saw a ray of light... 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 94 The Horror Academy 恐怖高校 When many universities were first built, the land they bought was wilderness or burial grounds. That makes campuses rather eerie places. As you lie in your dorm bed each night, someone might be staring at you from the darkness. They could be wedged inside a wardrobe, reflected in the bathroom mirror, watching from the balcony window, or even... inside the wall facing your bed... 673Reads—Score10314d adds
- 95 Rule Horror: The Infinite Loop's Haunted Campus, Don't Trust Any Rule 规则怪谈：无限流诡异校园，别相信任何一条规则 Rule Horror: An Infinite-Flow, Supernatural School. Don't Trust a Single Rule 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 96 Death Began at School 死亡从学校开始了 Ghosts are the product of an imbalance between yin and yang. In this vast world, people are all different in character, and their souls are just as varied after death. The virtuous return to pure lands and enjoy the blessings of the afterlife; the wicked and violent turn into vengeful spirits, their resentment gathering until it takes the form of a ghost. These specters wander between yin and yang, but most conceal their forms and rarely appear before the living. [No cultivation, no System, no h 310Reads—Score—14d adds
- 97 The Temple That Eats People 吃人的庙 The Man-Eating Temple 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 98 Campus Ghost Stories 校园鬼汇 A fast-paced, feel-good story of eerie incidents on campus. Join the characters as they explore the school's chilling horrors! A cursed phone, a lifelike silicone doll, a deadly package, mysterious glasses, a terrifying elevator, revenge for bullying, an abandoned classroom building, a dance studio, a study room, sculptures... The campus is full of strange happenings. 23Reads—Score—14d adds
- 99 The Heavenly Eye Coffin: Tales of Tomb Raiding in Tibet 天眼棺材：西藏盗墓惊奇录 [Mystery] + [Supernatural] + [Horror] + [Tomb Raiding] Two tomb-raiding enthusiasts meet online. After receiving an invitation from a mysterious stranger, they head to Tibet in search of an ancient tomb containing a coffin with a celestial eye. After enduring countless dangers, they uncover a shocking secret and treasure, and encounter both allies and enemies, along with a web of intrigue. Hidden inside the celestial-eye coffin is a crystal ball that can see through everything. It will change 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 100 Lost in a Haunted Village 误入恐怖村 An original story. Hope you enjoy it! Lu Chao stumbled into this village by chance, and in doing so, stepped onto a road with no return. Only those chosen by it can see it and enter it. Once chosen to become a resident of the village, there is no going back. The only way to leave is to be cursed by it and killed. To escape, Lu Chao has no choice but to embark on one adventure after another… 282Reads8.1Score—14d adds
