Novels like The Death Classroom
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- 1 Death Academy 死亡高校 At our school, there's a strange rule: don't dig up the grave post at the very bottom of the school forum. They say it was left by a senior who jumped to her death. I didn't believe in that sort of thing, so I replied to it just for fun. By the next day, I was a complete wreck. A red high heel on the upper bunk, a roommate gone mad, a notebook filled with the word “pain”... With every passing day, that post I couldn't delete tormented me more. No, I had to survive and get out of this school of d 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 At Midnight, a Ghost Classroom Appears at School 午夜时分，学校出现鬼教室 At midnight, a classroom appeared at school out of nowhere. I wandered in by accident, and before I knew it, I could never leave. The crumbling walls, the yellowed lightbulb, the students and teacher steeped in yin energy. I couldn't leave. I couldn't escape. All I could do was stay in that classroom that shouldn't exist. I call it... the Ghost Classroom. The Ghost Classroom. 1.3kReads8.2Score148Shelves
- 3 The Deadly Classroom 致命教室 During morning study hall, a stranger with the username Punisher added the entire class to a WeChat group. From then on, all kinds of bizarre things began happening... 621Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 The Class of Death 死亡班级 Their class used to get along just fine, but money and self-interest ruined everything. Now they even come to blows over a single meal, turning on their own classmates. 2.1kReads5.9Score114Shelves
- 5 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... 661Reads—Score103Shelves
- 6 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—Shelves
- 7 The Classroom of Death 死亡教室 When you receive a strange letter of admission, you have set foot on a road of no return. No one can escape! At this university of death, the moment your name appears in bloody letters on the classroom blackboard, class has begun. And once class begins, you will enter an unknown world of terror, where you must face bizarre and horrifying ghosts. They will be everywhere, coming to claim your life. Even if you are lucky enough to survive that deadly class and return to the classroom, you will stil 1.9kReads7.1Score111Shelves
- 8 Death’s Homework 死亡作业 After our homeroom teacher left us a bizarre assignment, news of her death came the very next day... That was when we remembered the terror of being ruled by homework... Once school starts, there will be two updates every day. A jade pendant gift earns one extra chapter, and every 300 gold diamonds earns another! 4.1kReads9.0Score293Shelves
- 9 Night Tales: One Eerie Story Every Night 夜话：每晚一个诡故事 Unravel the chilling logical paradoxes hidden in everyday details. Each story is an artistic reimagining of a real social event from recent years. Every late night conceals secrets unknown to others. Each chapter is a standalone story, with a brisk pace, tight storytelling, and no dull moments. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 Survived Eighteen Times: The Third Real Horror Movie 活过十八次：第三度真实恐怖电影 (Starring in Real Horror Movies) + (Infinite-Flow Supernatural Instances) If you happen to scroll through videos, Weibo, or Tieba and come across an invitation to the Third Degree Horror Movie, you will find yourself thrown into a horror movie, playing one of its characters. As the plot unfolds, bizarre, spine-chilling curses and eerie ghosts lurking everywhere will descend one by one. A village shrouded in a blood spring, a strange building, thirteen flights of stairs, a dark corridor, a silent 3.3kReads—Score398Shelves
- 11 Death Photo 死亡照片 [Suspense + Mystery + Mind Games + Puzzle-Solving + Imagination + Superpowers] Lin Yi goes to attend his high school reunion. At first, everything seems normal. His long-unseen classmates chat away happily. Then someone finds a photograph on the floor! At first, no one pays it any attention. But soon, the classmate in the photograph dies unexpectedly. Then one classmate after another dies in a series of bizarre accidents! Everyone is terrified. What's really going on? Will anyone else die? Who's 12.8kReads7.4Score1.1kShelves
- 12 Rule Horror: Infinite Instances, A Grimoire of the Eerie 规则怪谈：无限副本，诡异图鉴 [Infinite-flow + instances + no romance + eerie + suspense + mind-bending + horror + supernatural + imaginative suspense] Worried there aren't enough instances to keep you reading? This book will satisfy you. At three in the morning, the eighth rule at the convenience store is written in blood. Wu Yan only wants to earn eight hundred yuan for a night shift, but he receives an illustrated book that turns its own pages. Rules-based horrors, urban legends, Nanyang curse magic, memetic contamination 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 The Yin and Yang Overlap 阴阳重叠 Freshman Lin Xiaoxue arrives at Room 304 in the old campus dormitory of Nanguang University. She carries an unknown “boundary-attracting constitution,” and the moment she steps into the building, steeped in eerie rumors, she is swept into a string of inexplicable events: sobbing from Room 307, a shadow in Classroom 404, and campus secrets that grow clearer with every passing night. As midnight becomes the meeting point of the worlds of the living and the dead, small overlaps begin occurring afte 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Horror Revival: He’s Just Too Cautious 恐怖复苏：他实在太稳健了 Five years ago, terror returned to the world, and evil spirits swept across the land. Li Changye was lucky enough to survive. From then on, he stayed cautious as a stray dog, making sure every killer he faced was reduced to dust and bone. He planned carefully before acting and never stepped into danger lightly. Five years later, terror came sweeping back. Amid endless darkness and despair, Li Changye advanced one careful step at a time, carving out a bloody path to survival. 3kReads6.7Score220Shelves
- 15 Lights Out at 10:30, Anyone Who Makes a Sound Dies 十点半熄灯，出声者死 The one and only piece of advice. Do not! Break! The rules! [No System; One Female Lead; Global Anomalies; Awakened Powers; A Touch of Horror] Also known as “I Told You Not to Break the Rules,” “Breaking the Rules Really Does Get You Killed,” and “You Die If You Talk After Lights Out, Where’s the Justice?” Rule-based incidents descend upon the entire world. This is a world where rules can kill. From household rules to the laws of the land, rules are gradually taking on physical form. Whenever a 1.2kReads7.7Score146Shelves
- 16 Hell Academy: From the Start, the Human Elimination Plan 地狱高校：开局人类清除计划 Su Can, who had just gotten into college, unexpectedly dies and arrives at a place called Mingbei High School. In this cruel world, he chooses the path of cultivator enhancement and completes one impossible task after another, all for the sake of obtaining that damn college admission letter. 25.6kReads7.7Score1.9kShelves
- 17 Horror Academy: Dormitory 404 恐怖学院：404凶舍 A sensational incident once occurred at the academy. It was later completely covered up. Five years later, the academy opened its doors again. 2kReads—Score182Shelves
- 18 I Use a Coin to Rule the World 我用一枚硬币玩转规则世界 [Rules-based horror + not a power fantasy + no System + no national survival game + no livestreaming + no tired tropes + horror + deduction and puzzle-solving + suspense + fictional setting + requires some brainpower] (A fairly unusual first-person narrative, but easy to read and more immersive.) The university I’d eagerly looked forward to turned out to be a bizarre academy. It was full of all kinds of strange rules: Dormitory rules, campus rules, competition and event rules, mission rules… You 7.5kReads8.8Score552Shelves
- 19 House for Rent: Haunted 凶宅出租 Firsthand experiences and true cases from a real estate agent, adapted supernatural incidents from haunted houses. Each chapter is a standalone paranormal story, uncovering the secrets behind haunted houses and the tangled struggles of human nature. 450Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 20 Disciple of the Maoshan Sect 茅山门徒 A strange antique shop where the owner uses his ghostly eyes to appraise treasures and spends a fortune buying ghost bones! Think the owner only knows how to appraise antiques? Think again. He can read beautiful women, too! The domineering female CEO, the hottest star, an unconventional beauty, the pure-hearted campus belle, the girl next door… He can see right through you with a single glance! 7kReads9.0Score648Shelves
- 21 The Deadly Game 致命游戏 A rich guy in the WeChat group is sending out red envelopes, and he wants the luckiest person to play a game with him. It turns out he wants the class beauty to... 2.2kReads9.0Score230Shelves
- 22 Horror Descends: The Ghost Gate 恐怖降临【鬼门】 Horror + supernatural + suspense + survival + infinite worlds + twists A world of horror descends, and countless Gates of the Dead suddenly appear. Those selected must enter the gates and make a desperate escape. Some gates are formed from horror novels. Some are formed from horror movies. Some are formed from tales of evil spirits. Some are formed from bizarre imaginings. Entering a Gate of the Dead means your life has started counting down. Who can make it out alive? “If you're curious abo 1.8kReads6.3Score136Shelves
- 23 The Haunted City of Dreams 诡梦迷城 [Manhua adaptation and high-quality live-action audio drama now available] [Infinite progression + mystery + mind-bending puzzles + supernatural powers + paranormal horror. No System, no harem, no brainless plot. Read with caution if these are deal-breakers.] When I woke up, everything around me had become eerie and terrifying. My dead roommate called me, repeating over and over the struggle of his final moments... A pair of slender, snow-white legs appeared mysteriously on a bed in the boys' do 42.2kReads8.7Score4.7kShelves
- 24 The Feathered Deep 羽化深渊 The story takes place in the modern East Asian coastal city of Linyuan. Linyuan is a port city plagued by year-round rain, industrial decline, and a mix of religions. It is home to: * Abandoned Taoist temples * An underground black market * A seaside altar * A sealed-off mountainous region * Folk villages * An old, quarantined psychiatric hospital * A secret religious sect left over from the Republican era Ordinary people believe the world is normal. But in truth, the world has been infiltrated 32Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 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
- 26 The Disciple's Game 神徒游戏 The entire world is plunged into a terrifying death game, with 8 billion people taking part! A global battle royale for survival has begun! Only 12 of the 8 billion will survive! The survival rate is less than 0.00000000015%! Hospitals, schools, prisons... Any location anywhere in the world could become a death-game arena! Terrifying ghosts and monsters take part in the game alongside humanity! [Welcome to the Disciple Game] [Light horror + mind games + games + infinite-world adventure] (This no 76.1kReads8.3Score6.9kShelves
- 27 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... 42.2kReads9.2Score3.4kShelves
- 28 Seeking Life Amid Lingering Regrets 残念觅生 [Infinite-flow, rules-based horror, extreme escape, eerie games, no harem, no formula, no invincible protagonist, no System, no mindless plot, not a feel-good power fantasy] I’m a ballet doll, grinning as I watch them kill themselves. I throw people into “my” mindscape and lay out an inescapable path to their doom. But that lunatic Li Yu finds a loophole in every stage. I crank up the difficulty of surviving, but he uses game theory to beat me. I forbid him from speaking, but he has the whole t 237Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 Rule Horror: The Haunted School 规则怪谈：诡异学校 [System + Mystery + Deduction] I grew up in an ordinary family. To broaden my horizons in another city, I deliberately applied to a university far from home. But then strange things began happening one after another: bizarre campus rules, a mysterious countdown, and the secrets hidden behind the school slowly coming to light... 40.8kReads9.3Score4.1kShelves
- 30 Terrifying Nightmare: Extreme Survival in a Bizarre World 恐怖噩梦：我在诡异世界极限逃生 [Infinite-flow, mildly scary, no romance] Wang Yan wearily opened his front door. Inside, he saw the woman next door holding and soothing a baby, staring at him in terror. “Sorry, I’ve got the wrong apartment.” He quickly apologized and backed out, then slammed the door shut. Standing in the pitch-black hallway, he found himself unable to decide what was more terrifying: seeing his female neighbor in his home, or seeing the baby who had died long ago… 410.9kReads9.4Score77.7kShelves
- 31 Rule Horror: Beware Your Roommate's Girlfriend 规则怪谈：请小心你室友的女友 [No heroine + not wish fulfillment + not invincible + unsettling + horror + suspense + plot-driven] [The livestreaming element is only a tiny part of the story. The focus is on horror and suspense, so feel free to dive in] There are only two people left in your school dorm: you and your roommate. Your roommate suddenly brings home an incredibly attractive person they met online, leaves you some money, then hurries off. Now you're alone in the room with your roommate's gorgeous online date... Wou 36.3kReads9.0Score3.3kShelves
- 32 EN Dread Night: Getting Rich in a Horror Game 骇夜：我在恐怖游戏里暴富 (The rating just came out and will rise later. Infinite flow + mild horror + original instances + no female lead) A tower stands in the eternal night, with a group of players trapped inside. They have to keep taking part in bizarre games to earn the food and supplies they need to survive. A killer in red embroidered shoes, a child with no eyes, a haunted mountain where an entire expedition team died... One deadly trap after another, with death around every corner. Players: “We're going to die, w 2.8MReads9.5Score590.8kShelves
- 33 Folk Horror [The Fake Master Who Shocks a Hundred Demons] 恐怖民俗【冒牌大师震百妖】 The thing Liu Buyi, a fake master, regrets most in his life is learning how to “draw talismans with soy sauce” from a short video. Because the corpse that should be lying quietly in front of him is now using a soy-sauce-dipped finger to write his name on the coffin lid. Meanwhile, his half-baked beauty of a partner, An Xun, is munching on sunflower seeds and enjoying the show. “Didn't you say you had Yin-Yang Eyes?!” Liu Buyi's voice trembles. Seeing how unconcerned she looks, he almost passes o 839Reads—Score109Shelves
- 34 The Haunted Tomb 诡坟 [This is no ordinary paranormal story. It's all about horror and suspense: no mindless wish fulfillment, forbidden yin-yang lore, no cultivation, and a ghost wife. If it's not good, you can break my legs.] People laugh at my family's poverty and say that all my blood relatives have died, so there must be a ghost in our house. I don't dare argue... because there really is a ghost buried in our ancestral grave! ...My name is Zhang Asi... I was born at four in the morning on the fourteenth day of t 40.1kReads8.8Score3.7kShelves
- 35 Thriller Game: From the Start, I Helped Monsters Make Choices 惊悚游戏：开局帮鬼怪做选择 [Horror game dungeons + career-based progression + NPCs caught in a rat race + livestreaming + everyday-life style] Jiang Ye’s daily routine consists of working, studying, working... Then one day, he’s pulled into a horror game during class and awakens an all-career talent. He discovers that all his career skills are a little strange. From the start, he unlocks the career “Small-Town Exam Machine,” with an added skill that lets him make choices for ghosts and monsters. [A difficult choice has ap 67.9kReads9.4Score7.9kShelves
- 36 EN Terror: I Only Sell Haunted Houses 惊悚：我只卖凶宅 Rooms where unnatural deaths have occurred are collectively known as haunted houses. There are two kinds: “blue houses” and “red houses.” Living people can stay in blue houses without harm, but anyone who lives in a red house is doomed to die. I work as a real estate agent. One day, I accidentally sold a red house, and afterward, I began encountering terrifying things… 26.5kReads9.2Score3.2kShelves
- 37 Dorm Survival: I Was Pulled into the Management Chat 宿舍求生，我被拉进了管理群 [Infinite-flow + no saintly heroine + System + survival + satisfying read] When Chen Bei woke up, he found himself in a dormitory survival game, bound to a dorm room. During the day, players had to venture out to gather supplies, grow stronger, and fortify their dorms. When night fell, all kinds of eerie and dangerous creatures appeared. The only way to survive was to hide inside the dorm. People and their dorms lived or died together! Unlike the others, Chen Bei had gained access to the game's 107.1kReads8.9Score8.7kShelves
- 38 The Underworld Detective 阴间神探 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 73.8kReads9.4Score8.8kShelves
- 39 EN Deceiving the Gods: A Performance! 欺神演出！ [Satisfying revenge + Mind-bending twists + Slow burn + Strategic battles + Loads of plot twists] “When I thought death was the end, I opened my eyes and discovered that death was only a new beginning.” Lin Yu was killed by a junior schoolmate he thought had come to confess her love, only to discover that he hadn’t truly died. Instead, he had entered a deadly game! Only the winner would earn the chance to “live again.” Fortunately, Lin Yu awakened the “Unique Class: Deceiver.” [Any lie you 539.7kReads9.3Score88.4kShelves
- 40 Oh No! I’m One of the Seven Deadly Sins, and I Got MVP! 哎呀！我七原罪，得了MVP！ [Dark comedy + hilarious + ruthless action + global setting + unconventional ideas + one heroine + near-invincible protagonist + power fantasy with a brain (or without one)] Horror games descend upon the world. Those chosen to participate must face challenges of inhuman difficulty. Though the games are full of torment, they also offer people a chance to gain supernatural powers. Life or death. A meteoric rise, or losing everything. But Lu Ce, who has been unable to feel pain since childhood, fee 142.3kReads9.3Score16.9kShelves
- 41 The Horror Realm: Entering the Strange World from a Psychiatric Hospital 惊悚领域：从精神病院进入诡世界 (The hardcover edition has been published!) [Infinite Flow] [Original Horror Instances] [Mild Horror] “Chen Ji murdered his mother a week ago and spent three days with her corpse before he was arrested.” “You have been diagnosed with schizophrenia and are about to be transferred to a psychiatric hospital for supervision.” “Do you have anything to say?” The black-haired boy before them slowly raised his head, his expression calm. “I’ll say it again.” “The thing I killed wasn’t my mother...” “It w 349.6kReads9.5Score70.9kShelves
- 42 When the Uncanny Descends on the World, Death Is the End 当诡异降临世界，死亡即是终点 [Supernatural horrors descend + no System + fresh worldbuilding + survival + semi-infinite-flow + no do-gooder protagonist + not dark + supernatural abilities] In the best years of his life, amid the exuberance of youth, Su Yuan thought his days would remain peaceful and beautiful forever. Then a line of bloody text appeared on the blackboard during evening study. [In the silent night, a terrifying ghost appears outside your dorm room... How long will it take to kill you?] Everyone thought it wa 394.7kReads9.3Score44.1kShelves
- 43 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
- 44 Thriller: I Became Excessively Twisted for Fear of Looking Ungraceful 惊悚：因为担心不优雅而过度变态 [Horror + No Female Lead] A bizarre game descended, pulling all of humanity into a strange world to complete terrifying missions. Fail, and you lose life points. When your points hit zero, you die! Zhao Yi, a renowned psychiatrist, was dragged into the game too, but some unknown glitch appeared in his data source code. And so, an abnormal human emerged, one who made every ghost and monster tremble in fear! The Crybaby Ghost: I just wanted to give him a side quest, but he chopped off my head! The 73.9kReads9.5Score8.4kShelves
- 45 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
- 46 I Turned the Horror World Into a Raising Game! 我把惊悚世界玩成养成游戏！ A mysterious force descended upon Earth, giving rise to another world of terror. Everyone was forcibly sent into the world of horror games on their eighteenth birthday. While everyone else was immersed in fear, struggling to survive in the cracks between life and death, Qin Nuo discovered that he could earn System rewards by influencing the ghosts’ emotions. And every time he completed a dungeon, he could establish his own business in the world of horror. So he became a food runner at the Yin Sp 112.4kReads9.5Score12.2kShelves
- 47 EN Ten Days to the End 十日终焉 2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat 1.7MReads9.9Score206.4kShelves
- 48 EN Learning to Slay Gods in the Psychiatric Hospital 我在精神病院学斩神 A must-read hit on Tomato Novel | Original novel of the hit anime Slay the Gods | IP influence on the China Online Literature Influence List | 2023 China Good Novel Have you ever wondered whether monsters from ancient myths lurk beneath the neon-lit city? Have you ever wondered whether gods stand watch over humanity atop the moon hanging high above us? Have you ever wondered whether extraordinary people walk among us in our bustling modern cities, acting in the gods’ stead? In the society ruled 992.2kReads9.9Score158.5kShelves
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