Novels like Hellbound
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- 1 Horror Movie: Actors, Take Your Places 恐怖电影之演员请就位 Who killed the pregnant woman’s entire family? Why has the village’s curse remained unsolved for a thousand years? Why was the child reborn with memories of a past life? Follow the cast into the Devil’s Cinema... The horror movie is about to begin. Audience members, please take your seats. 107Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 National Destiny Theater: I'm an Award-Winning Actor 国运剧场：我是影帝 This is an age of despair, where national fortune is the wager and horror films are the stage. The Asian, European, and American theaters have descended upon the world. Every film is a real-life battle for survival! Losers die, and their nations' fortunes decline. Only the winners can claim good fortune and protect their homelands! Lu Yuan is reborn, only to find himself at the scene of a National Fortune Game. Even more astonishing, the horror films that have terrified countless contestants int 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Building 7, Room 211 7栋211 At the edge of Modu Academy stands a mysterious student apartment building: “Building 7,” a cursed place. Every night at midnight, it turns into a living hell and issues bloody missions that cannot be avoided. Ordinary college student Li Feng is caught up in it by accident and has no choice but to fight for survival amid the terror. As the missions continue, he uncovers the horrifying secret hidden behind the apartment building... 23Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 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—Shelves
- 5 The Bizarre News Agency 诡报社 Open this door, and the human world becomes hell. Faith crumbles in an instant; hope vanishes in the blink of an eye. The living struggle, scream, and fight desperately to stay alive; the souls of the dead tremble, loathe, and repent. A game, a survivor, and a mysterious newspaper office known to no one. [Updates have never stopped. I keep my word.] 50Reads7.5Score—Shelves
- 6 Infinite Horror: I Can Sense Ghosts 恐怖无限：我能感知到鬼 [Infinite Flow, Not a Power Fantasy] [Slight Horror] [No CP] [Survival] [Escape] [Deduction] [Mystery] "Shh..." "There are ghosts in this world!" Those contaminated by the aura of Another World can only keep clearing one instance after another. They say that after clearing 13 instances, you can make a wish? Lu Ming discovers that ghosts aren't the only things he can sense. There's also... In this game of pursuit between humans and ghosts, he is forced into Another World, a realm teeming with evi 11.5kReads6.9Score1.1kShelves
- 7 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!) 18Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 8 A Hell Bureau Buddy Takes on the City 地府老哥混都市 Ox-Head and Horse-Face? They’re my muscle. Black and White Impermanence? They’re my underlings. Who am I? A handsome big brother who’s returned from the underworld, ready to live it up in the city, charm every beauty under heaven, and slap the faces of spoiled rich brats! 120Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 9 Lord of the Underworld 地府帝君 The underworld bailiff dragged him back to the Netherworld, where he became a bailiff himself. Only then did he learn that cultivation was possible... 65Reads5.9Score—Shelves
- 10 Escape Game: A Ticket to Hell 逃生游戏：通往地狱的车票 [Infinite-flow + suspense, not a power fantasy / no golden finger / no harem / team-based] On the day of his eighteenth birthday, Shao Chi received a strange ticket. From the moment he got it, all kinds of bizarre and inexplicable events began happening around him. To stay alive, he was forced to board a dilapidated bus and embark on a string of escape games. Instance One: A small village hidden deep in the mountains. At night, the sounds of an opera drift through the air, and a pair of bloods 260Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 11 The Endtime Haunted Town 终焉诡镇 [Infinite Flow] [Mystery Solving] [Mildly Frightening] [One Female Lead] A red letter, a rusty key, a town shrouded in mist… The people of the town called the place they lived the “Ghost Town.” There was an altar in the Ghost Town. Every so often, someone had to offer up their life and take part in a ritual. Otherwise, unimaginable things would happen in the town. When Xu Yuan arrived in this eerie town carrying a letter, there was no way out. He could only complete one terrifying ritual game af 26Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 12 Terror Infinity: The Cycle Begins Anew 无限恐怖之轮回再启 In the realm of the Main God, the cycle of reincarnation offers infinite possibilities and an infinite future. Through one horror film after another, the reincarnators face death again and again, enduring fear and despair while discovering the meaning of friendship and love. They search for comrades they can trust with their backs and explore the mysterious future. Can Team Zhongzhou stand at the pinnacle of the reincarnation worlds? 61Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 13 A Notice from Hell 来自地狱的通知书 I started out as an ordinary student who had just taken the college entrance exam. I was expecting my university acceptance letter and looking forward to a normal life, but that single letter changed everything and dragged me straight into hell. I was taking the bus home. When I got on, there wasn't a single person aboard. The locked door trembled faintly as a black cat bared its claws at the wooden umbrella swaying in front of it. Bloodstained footprints kept appearing on the floor, slowly draw 169Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 14 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—Shelves
- 15 Soul Alliance 魂盟 Starting February 6, 2025, two updates every day, posted promptly at 8 p.m. [Horror instances + no System + growth + brains + Infinite Flow + fake female lead] I stand in an unfamiliar place, surrounded by an eerie atmosphere. My memories are like shattered puzzle pieces, impossible to put back together. Who am I? Why am I here? The blank spaces in my memory are like bottomless black holes, swallowing my sanity. The only thing I can clearly recall is a vague figure in my mind. What connection do 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 In the Underworld from the Start, and It Only Gets Darker! 开局在阴间，之后也阴间！ Dual Personalities + Infinite-Flow Horror + Cold Protagonist + No Saintly Savior + Poker Face + No Female Lead When he opened his eyes, Murong Yinghou found himself in a bizarre place. He had to enter one world after another, each filled with vengeful ghosts and curses. Relying on his absolute rationality, he cleared mission after mission and even became a hunter of evil spirits! Others admired and liked him for his intelligence. But they also feared him for his cold-bloodedness… 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 On the Brink of Death, I Was Chosen by an Infinite-Flow Dungeon 濒死前，无限流副本选中了我 [Infinite Flow] + [No CP] + [Leveling Up] + [Taking Down Scumbags] + [Strong Female Lead]! (The story focuses on the instance worlds, while the real-world plot develops slowly. Slow burn! Slow burn! Slow burn! A long novel! I know the first three chapters are frustrating. Even I found them infuriating when I read them, but I can't spoil anything, sob. There are other reasons for the heroine's behavior in the first three chapters! There are! Other! Reasons! She's not lovesick, and she doesn't hav 509Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 18 Nightmare Invitation 噩梦邀请 [Infinite flow, original instances, mild horror, no romance] An invitation sent from the Nightmare World drags a group of people into a haunted place, where they struggle desperately to survive. Those pulled into the Nightmare World have no idea what lies ahead. They only know they must do everything they can to stay alive. Fight the locals! Fight the ghosts! Fight the Nightmare World! Until... they escape the Nightmare World. 1.4kReads6.6Score104Shelves
- 19 The King of the Underworld Becomes a Live-In Son-in-Law 地府阎王当赘婿 He was the heir of a wealthy family, cast out and reduced to a good-for-nothing live-in son-in-law. But by chance, he became the new King of Hell. From then on, he began an all-around life! 52Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 20 Blood Sun Annihilation 血日湮灭 [Potions]+ [Sequences]+ [Evil Gods]+ [Cthulhu] ·(When the blood sun is extinguished, humanity will perish as well.) ·(By day, the blood sun hangs in the sky and monsters run rampant.) ·(By night, the silver moon shines high above and ghosts run rampant.) ·(When the ‘Crimson’ corrupts the sun and invades Earth, humanity will fall into endless despair.) ·(They are followers of the ‘Crimson’.) ·(They are followers of ‘Folly’.) ·(And I am a follower of ‘Shadow’.) ·(So it was all my doing. So I’m the —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 The Three-Part Tea Game 三分茶局 A pot of clear tea, a few remnants of scripture. She only wanted to survive in a turbulent age, but amid the crashing waves of political intrigue, she took tea as her boat, ferrying herself and others across. In Jiankang's elite circles, who hasn't heard of “Master Hua”? That cup of clear tea earned her the respect of the literati, and made her the most dazzling “outsider.” With a few words and a laugh, she could make even stubborn stones nod, or turn the tides of the realm. But Jiankang was f 107Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 The Weird Domain: Escape from Skinless Village from the Start! 诡异领域：开局逃离无皮村！ [Infinite Flow + Mild Horror + Survival + Supernatural Instances + No Female Lead] Resentment that cannot be dispelled in the real world gathers to form new eerie domains. After being chosen, people are dragged into an eerie domain when they die unexpectedly. They can return to reality only by successfully completing the tasks inside. Only after escaping one terrifying eerie domain after another by the skin of his teeth does Lu Lin discover that the real world is also being infiltrated and taint 7.7kReads7.1Score554Shelves
- 23 Supernatural Horror: Someone Behind the Wall Is Calling My Name 惊悚灵异：墙里有人叫我的名字 Horror and the Supernatural: Someone in the Wall Is Calling My Name 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 Eerie: After Completing the Puzzle, I Somehow Ended Myself 诡异：凑完拼图莫名把自己终结了 [Mystery + Eerie + Deduction + Infinite Flow + Ensemble Cast + Flawless Logic] Have you ever felt despair? Lu Bai wakes up in a dim room, where a mysterious force orders him and several other poor souls to go on missions in one strange place after another. Complete a mission and live. Fail, and die. Black Dragon Pool, the old elm tree, the ancient well at the village entrance, the strange funeral home. After Lu Bai and his companions rack their brains, endure countless hardships, and narrowly es 142Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 25 Rule Horror: After Lights Out, Follow the Dormitory Rules 规则怪谈：熄灯后，请遵守宿舍守则 Rule Horror: After Lights Out, Please Follow the Dormitory Rules 34Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 The Corpse-Reading Detective 诡案读尸人 The Corpse-Reading Detective 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 Nightmare of the Strange Realm 诡界噩梦 [Infinite Flow + Horror + Mystery + Survival] A strange ticket dragged Yan Yu onto a bus bound for the abyss. Only after stepping into the world of ghosts did he realize he had been drawn into one brutal survival game after another. Night falls, monsters roam, and every step is a choice between life and death. Yan Yu thought it was all a random twist of fate, never knowing that the destiny set in motion from the moment he was born had been quietly unfolding all along... 41Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 28 Midnight Oracle 午夜神谕 Shh… It’s late. Turn out the lights. Once you step through this door, the world of lies behind you. Whatever you see there, don’t tell anyone. Don’t scream… Stay alive, and you’ll understand everything. As an “ordinary” residential community security guard, Chen You has endured one midnight after another: the church bells ring out twelve long echoes in succession; in an empty post office, the PA system switches on by itself and mutters ancient prophecies; an estate that sho 25Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 The Paranormal Investigation Bureau Needs Talents Like Me 怪谈调查科需要我这样的人才 [Handcrafted from scratch!]+ [Vengeful Ghosts Return]+ [Supernatural Escape]+ [Killing Patterns]+ [Rule Horror]+ [Mystery and Twists]+ [There’s a Romance, but It’s Not the Focus] [Please Give Me a Chance to Tell a Ghost Story] Doppelgängers, dismemberment cases, vengeful ghosts, whatever you do, don’t look back, a deadly exam, zoo horror stories… The world is being invaded by the supernatural, and ordinary humans can no longer survive. Lu Ming, a rookie at the Paranormal Investigation Bureau, di 94Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 Rule Horror: Every Rule Is Waiting for Me to Break It 规则怪谈：所有规则都在等我违规 Rule Horror: Every Rule Is Waiting for Me to Break It 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 Rule Horror: The Last One to Leave the Classroom After Evening Study 规则怪谈：晚自习最后离开教室的人 Rule Horror: The Last Person to Leave the Classroom After Evening Study 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 I Volunteered to Join the Hell Cinema 我是自愿加入地狱影院的 Mystery Infinite Flow + a passionate, hilarious ensemble cast + a story about intangible cultural heritage in every script + a protagonist who dreams their way through the trials. Watch as five ordinary young men who don’t know one another write countless adventurous tales, full of laughter and tears, as they face one perilous folk-culture script after another~ 26Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 Eerie Descent: Nobody on the Subway Is Human 诡异降临：地铁里都不是人 [!!! NOT A POWER FANTASY !!!] [No golden finger + No Romance + No Leveling Up + No Items + No System] [Infinite Flow + Mystery and Horror + Every Character Is Smart] Important warning: If you are riding the subway right now, be sure to check underneath your seat and make sure there isn’t a corpse lying there! A mysterious subway train, with eighteen stops along its route. At every stop, the passengers must face a bizarre instance! A cruise ship sailing alone across the sea, with nowhere to dock 3.5kReads7.3Score600Shelves
- 34 Hell Is Empty, and Evil Spirits Walk the Earth 地狱空荡荡，恶灵在人间 This is a horror novel centered on mystery, a traditional supernatural story with no System and no cultivation. The setup is lengthy, there are many mysteries, and the truth is revealed gradually. A mysterious apartment brings endless nightmares. To escape, you must complete the nine tasks assigned by the apartment. Hunted by evil spirits, mocked by ghosts, and consumed by resentment, everyone will be trapped in a terrifying cycle of death and rebirth, played out in blood. “All who are ruled by 501Reads8.6Score100Shelves
- 35 One Goal: Stay Alive 唯一目标：活着 (Survival + high intelligence + deduction + no saintly protagonist + mild horror. Read with caution if you’re sensitive to these elements.) A stream of fire pierced the atmosphere and struck the ground. In an instant, the world was plunged into chaotic darkness, and the buildings of civilization people had once taken pride in became lifeless ruins. Yet among the ruins, one building alone remained standing, like a watchtower surveying all the darkness. Beneath the apocalypse, strange phenomena we 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 I've Got People Downstairs 我下边有人 “Master, I died so suddenly that my family doesn’t know where I hid some money. Could you pass them a message?” “Sure. I’ll take thirty percent!” “Master, my son is getting married next month. I want to see his wedding. Could you ask the underworld messenger to wait a few days before taking me down?” “No problem, but you’ll have to cover my expenses...” “Kid, you dare mess with me? Do you know I’ve got connections? One word from me and your business will be shut down!” “Heh, you’re finished! Do 858Reads8.0Score103Shelves
- 37 Shh, Please Be Quiet 嘘，请噤声 [Infinite Flow + Suspense + Horror, Not a Wish-Fulfillment Story] Chen Heng was going to die. Suffering from brain cancer, he had only three months left to live. But just as he gave up on treatment, he was unexpectedly swept into the so-called [Gods' Game], a game that promised to grant anyone's wish. It was an endless slaughter, and each round of the game could have only one winner. Why am I called a [Contender] when this is clearly a [Game]? Whose game is this? And who is watching us from behi 510Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 38 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
- 39 The Bizarre Company: Starting with Being Forced to Work 996 诡异公司：从被迫996开始 Zhang Yang, an ordinary office worker, wakes up one day to find himself forced into the bizarre Tianwang Corporation, where a terrifying new life as a wage slave begins. A machine supervisor who kills anyone who breaks the rules. Bizarre jobs where your life is always at risk. A horrifying night in the underworld, where failing to finish your work means overtime. Colleagues with their own hidden agendas. The mysterious Six Paths Realm, one world after another in ruin, walking corpses and evil sp 296Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 40 Fierce Netherworld: Starting as a Rainy-Night Killer 凶冥空间：从雨夜杀人魔开始 [Infinite Flow + The Weird Arrives, No Heroine] Could the beautiful new neighbor really be a serial killer who strikes on rainy nights? Gu Li sees through her disguise, only to get dragged into an even stranger space. Black fog rolls in and terror descends. To survive, Gu Li searches for a way to clear each instance, solving puzzles like mad and escaping certain death. But after completing a series of missions, he discovers that the weird has already arrived in the real world, and a supernatural 5.3kReads7.1Score365Shelves
- 41 The Haunted Inn 恐怖旅店 A new graduate faces the toughest job market in years and, with no other options, applies for a night receptionist position at an inn. On my first day, I was told that the job had two requirements. First, I must not speak to the guests. Second, I must not leave the front desk. 513Reads8.0Score103Shelves
- 42 Escape from Hell's Apartment 逃离地狱公寓 [Pure Deduction and Escape]+ [Infinite Flow]+ [No Golden Finger]+ [Mild Horror]+ [Two Male Leads] No female lead, no items, no cheats, just pure adventure and survival. If that’s not your thing, please don’t read. Ever since Lu Chao accidentally stumbled into this apartment building, he has been on the run. Every so often, the residents have to go out to designated locations to complete missions. Their targets are all ghosts, and they can only survive by carefully following the rules of each mis 4.8kReads6.8Score521Shelves
- 43 Cangyuan Demon Emperor: Reborn to Avenge Every Blood Debt! 苍渊魔帝：重生归来，血债血偿！ Revenge + Strategy + Invincibility + Myriad Worlds + Ensemble Cast The invincible Demon Emperor Cangyuan ruled the Myriad Worlds, yet he was betrayed by his beloved and his sect, nearly suffering the annihilation of his soul and eternal ruin. With only a remnant of his soul, he was reborn in the lower realm, in Xuanxin Heaven, on the Xuanxin Continent, in the Great Qian Dynasty, in Thundercliff City. Reborn and revived, he returns in a trail of blood! He swears to ascend to the upper realm and m 934Reads—Score101Shelves
- 44 The Mysterious Invitation [Infinite Flow] 诡异邀请函【无限流】 [Infinite Flow + horror instances + mild scares + survival] After receiving a mysterious envelope, you wake up inside a van and find yourself being taken to a cemetery to complete a week-long task: "Protect the coffin." But every night, one of your companions disappears, and the next day, you find their face inside the coffin. What kind of world is this...? Dare you step into this adventure? The truth is far more terrifying than death. 974Reads—Score102Shelves
- 45 Close Your Eyes, and the Nightmare Begins 闭眼即梦魇 [Infinite-flow + no romance + mild horror + mystery-solving] A bizarre murder case dragged Yan Wei, a psychiatric patient, into a bloody game. As layer after layer of fog lifted, he discovered a grand conspiracy lurking behind it all... A mysteriously vanished psychiatric hospital, otherworldly powers worshipped by the masses, a boy whose face he could never remember from his dreams... Behind ideals that seemed so grand lay a tangled web of human and divine self-interest. 42Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 Hell Manor 地狱庄园 [Horror and the Supernatural + Suspense and Mystery + Infinite Flow + No Female Lead] A group of strangers receive a blood letter and mysteriously find themselves inside a villa. Their only chance of survival is to uncover the ghost hiding among them. After Xu Yi completes the task by the skin of his teeth, he is relieved to have finally survived. But then he discovers that he has arrived at a place called Hell Manor. He must complete the tasks in eleven blood letters to leave the manor alive. A 10.1kReads8.0Score852Shelves
- 47 The Horrifying High School 恐怖的高中学校 [Mild Horror + Infinite Flow + No System + Survival + Ensemble Cast + Not Overpowered + Mystery-Solving + Not a Wish-Fulfillment Story + Passion] Jiang Xuan was accidentally swept into a terrifying, uncanny dimension. To survive, he had to keep completing missions in the temporal rifts. To stay alive, he had to investigate the many mysteries hidden within each mission. As Jiang Xuan searched for ways to clear each one, he also sought to unravel the mysteries of the world. Thus began his struggle 1.4kReads—Score172Shelves
- 48 The Heavenly Master 一代天师 Forty years ago, a husband and wife ignored their ancestors' warning and died horribly at the entrance to their village. The woman's eyes were gouged out, and her body was hung from the old ginkgo tree in the ancestral hall. A year later, a young man from out of town unearthed a strange clay figure and was plunged into a deadly calamity, only to be saved by an old Daoist. Forty years later, a mysterious letter drew attention back to that village. No one knew that opening it would mean opening th 6.8kReads9.2Score975Shelves
- 49 The Hell Handbook 地狱手册 A handbook said to have come from hell. The moment you open it, you are already trapped in horror. Life and death... are no longer yours to decide! The Town of the Dead, Horror Fairy Tales, The Hospital of Terror... Behind these repeated, terrifying cycles of hell, what spine-chilling truth is hidden? Su Jin, I want to live, even if... 2.9kReads8.5Score256Shelves
- 50 In Whose Name 谁的名义 With no one to help me reach for the skies, I’ll trudge through snow and climb to the summit alone. For whom, and in whose name? Perhaps it is the voice of a dream, an eternal strength, by my side for a lifetime… Words cannot say it all. May the spring breeze brush your face, and may fallen blossoms nourish the flowers. Drive out evil; generation after generation, heroes of China emerge. The righteous path of this world is forged through hardship… 5Reads—Score—Shelves
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