Novels like The Class of Death
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- 1 Death Game: Starting with Class Red Envelopes 死亡游戏：从班级红包开始 On his first day at a new school, Lin Jin is added to the group chat for Class 7, Grade 11. An account named “Little Devil” suddenly appears in the chat and sends a red envelope. It must be claimed within three minutes. Anyone who fails to claim it will face the consequences. Leaving the group is forbidden. At first, everyone thinks it’s just a prank. That is, until the first person who misses out on the red envelope dies in front of the entire class. From that moment on, the class group chat be 124Reads—Score110Shelves
- 2 There's Something Eerie in the Group Chat 群里有诡 While grabbing red envelopes in a WeChat group, I accidentally got caught up in a bizarre game. Everyone has to complete the group owner's tasks to earn rewards and stay alive. Fail a task, and you'll die in a bizarre way. Everyone is desperately trying to escape the game, but then they discover... 282Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 The Corpse Eye Cipher 尸眼密码 Li Xinxin is a forensic trace examiner who can see a victim’s final seven seconds of memories by touching their corpse. But whenever blood-red words seep from her bronze pendant, the 37th death loop has already begun. A quantum-state blood moon splits into 37 satellites, genetic tides surge, and the clocks in the morgue remain forever frozen at 23:07, the eerie moment her parents disappeared. The genetic sequence from a clone’s corpse is an exact match for her younger brother’s, the violet-eyed —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 In This Mountain, Everyone Who Is Called by Name Dies 在这座山里，被叫到名字的都死了 Everyone whose name is called in this mountain dies. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 School Survival: I Have a Supernatural App 学校求生：我有一个诡异APP [School Survival] [Death Game] [Not Mindless] [Not a Saint] [Infinite Flow] [Ensemble Cast] "Welcome to the death game!" A bizarre app, a game that demands lives. This is the story of someone who survived. And it all began one night during evening study hall, when someone suddenly sent a red envelope to the class group chat… 383Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 The Haunted Pawnshop 诡当 There are many strange and sinister objects in this world, known as cursed artifacts. Everyone is afraid to go near them. Ancient relics from underground tombs, bloodstained objects from murder scenes, and ominous heirlooms passed down among the people: in the eyes of the world, they are steeped in resentment and shrouded in mysterious curses, bringing those who encounter them a death they cannot escape. Wu Chang, born into a family of pawnbrokers, discovered an unknown side of this peculiar tra 244Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Death Game 死亡游戏 Su Yi was supposed to enjoy a peaceful high school life, but a bizarre mobile game turned everything upside down. Murders, accidents... What is the purpose of the person pulling the strings? Or is it simply for the thrill of bloodshed? The game has begun. Are you ready? 131Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 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
- 9 The Whole Class Is Transported to Monster Island: A Daily Lottery System 全班转移怪物岛：每天一抽奖系统 [Not a bleeding-heart hero, no harem, ruthless, island, System, survival] The students of Class Six, Grade Ten, were transported to an island by a mysterious force. Everyone on the island received a lottery System. Anyone who failed to reach the teleportation point at the island’s center within five years would be erased. There was no food here. Everything had to be obtained through the System’s daily lottery. You might win a whole bucket of fried chicken, or you might get a turd. Or you could 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 The Death Classroom 死亡教室 Some games should never be played! Ever since our homeroom teacher went missing, our entire class has been caught up in a terrifying fight to escape with our lives… 291Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 The Deadly Game Chat Group 致命游戏群 A mysterious gaming group posts missions with cash rewards every day to lure people in. But Chen Xun soon discovers that money is easy to get, while losing your life is even easier. Figuring out how to survive becomes the most difficult challenge of all, let alone protecting the people around him... 286Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 The Global Ghost School 全球鬼校 After Liu Bowen severed the dragon veins, dragon qi vanished from the world. With dragon qi no longer holding it in check, the six paths of the underworld collapsed, and ghosts roamed the night. Faced with a living hell on earth, the Daoists emerged from seclusion, while the Buddhists came to save the world. Liu Yi also acquired ghost qi in a deadly game at a haunted school, and used it to suppress the underworld and reshape reincarnation. (Note: This story takes place in a parallel world unrela 281Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Hell's Class Five 地狱五班 Chen Yu is a transfer student who, through a twist of fate, enrolls at the biggest high school in Yunlan City. But strange things start happening on his very first day: a superstitious deskmate, a mysterious empty seat, and death messages sent in the middle of the night... At first, he thinks they're all just pranks, but things soon take a far more extreme turn. A student is found hanged in the empty seat, the owner of the eerie messages remains a mystery, and then there's a spring trip to Wildm 852Reads6.1Score101Shelves
- 14 A Deadly Feast 绝命盛宴 A mysterious figure appears on the classroom television. Anyone who volunteers to join the feast and completes a simple task will receive the latest model of phone, along with various cash rewards. The moment we joined the feast, we were plunged into utter panic. People around us began dying in bizarre ways. Who is he? The truth keeps taking unexpected turns, and astonishing secrets gradually come to light. 136Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 Deadly Assignment 致命作业 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 311Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 16 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 1kReads8.2Score124Shelves
- 17 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
- 18 School Horror Game 校园惊悚游戏 A horror game quietly begins in a silent classroom. Complete a task successfully and you’ll receive a reward. Fail, and you’ll be punished, or even killed! My name is Hu Ye, and I’ve been dragged into this game. I want to survive, so I keep exploring. In the end, I uncover a shocking secret! Everyone is a chess piece! 333Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 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
- 20 The End of the Haunted Dream 诡梦终焉 [No female lead, no cheat, no power fantasy, no toxicity, no padding, a mystery novel, no characters acting stupidly, no corruption, no double standards, no simp, no saintly do-gooder] Tell me, are people afraid of ghosts? Ghosts? They’re just figments of people’s imaginations. They don’t exist, so there’s nothing to fear. What about people? Are you afraid of them? Yes! I’ve always been afraid! Why? Because... once... I was human too. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 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—Shelves
- 22 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... 839Reads6.5Score102Shelves
- 23 Fate of Life and Death 生死命定 Mystery and the supernatural + horror-driven story + death games + no System + not invincible + ensemble cast + no romance + thrilling, satisfying read + battles of wits A group of ordinary high school seniors are drawn into a curse through an urban legend game. To survive, they have no choice but to keep taking part in voting missions and death games set by the dead... (All the students in Senior Class 3, Grade 7, are adults.) 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 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—Shelves
- 25 Senior Sister in Red, Don't Look Back! I'm Really Your Senior Brother! 红衣师姐别回头，我真是师兄！ [Horror, Infinite Worlds, Survival, One Female Lead, No Cultivation] A figure in blood-red robes, claiming lives as it wanders through a quiet dormitory. A creepy scarecrow stands in a remote manor. At midnight, a chilling clown's laughter rings out from an amusement park. The distant chimes of a bell echo through an empty old mansion... One bizarre, terrifying party after another begins amid bloodshed, while lives struggling against fate fight desperately to survive the clutches of the uncanny! 4Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 26 Demon Ghost School: I Can See Through the Ghosts' Eyes 恶魔鬼校：我看见了鬼的视角 [A fresh new concept: wild imagination on campus + mild horror + demon games + paranormal exploration + a rich, well-developed system + an actual plot] Welcome to Demon Ghost School. Our curriculum is simple... death, gamesmanship, and slaughter! Here you’ll find all kinds of “fun” demon classes, thrilling demon games, brutal school competitions, chandeliers that guard the dormitories, and talking wardrobes... My name is Su Yun. One day, I received an admission letter. When I w 51Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 The Haunting of the New Home 搬家诡事 [Mystery + Thriller + Supernatural + Horror + No Female Lead + Smart Protagonist] His name was Yi Jibo. After he was wrongfully imprisoned, his mother fell ill and died. To pay off his gambling debts, his father sold her ashes to the Japanese through a crematorium driver. To get his mother's ashes back, Yi Jibo went to work at a Japanese funeral home. And so he burned Japanese corpses while searching for his mother's ashes… 19Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 A Collection of Bizarre Horror Stories 怪诞恐怖故事集 My stories have magic, blood and tears, the evil side of human nature, and the horror you’re looking for. 1. Mother’s Bottles and Jars: A single drop of blood can turn one grain of rice into a whole pot of rice. A hundred drops can conjure a bicycle... What kind of magic is hidden in the bottles and jars Mother prepared for him? 2. The Toilets in Dreams: If you fall asleep while desperate to pee, you’ve surely dreamed of all kinds of toilets. If you write down the toilets you see in your dreams, 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 The Super Spooky Classroom 超级惊悚教室 At a certain high school, an ordinary afternoon was supposed to mean nothing more than a routine chemistry lesson. No one could have imagined that a terrifying disaster would begin there, and that our lives would never be peaceful again. 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 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... 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 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
- 32 I Was a Ghost Officer, but Now I Only Want a Promotion 身为鬼差的我，后来只想升官 I wield the Register of the Underworld as a ghost officer, commanding the power to seize souls. Everyone says the King of Hell is the supreme ruler of the netherworld, but to me, he is merely a stepping stone. The underworld is vast, and the Nine Hells are deep. Is that really the limit of my ambition? I want to break the Nine Hells’ shackles, shatter the chains between yin and yang, ascend to the realm of the Great Emperor, and rule the netherworlds of all realms. Only then will my lifelong wis 31Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 33 The Midnight Last Train 午夜末班车 He was on the last bus home late at night when a beautiful woman got on. He was about to confess his feelings, but then he noticed how sinister her reflection looked in the window. He got off the Route 155 bus and instinctively looked up, meeting her gaze... 721Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 34 The Haunted Classroom 幽魂教室 A mysterious classroom, 16 sets of desks and chairs, 16 sacrifices, and countless cycles of reincarnation. After taking the death exam again and again, how many people will ultimately escape alive? This is an eternal curse!!! 85Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 35 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—Shelves
- 36 The Deadly Game 致命游戏 He couldn't understand what people said. Sixty people were bound together, their lives hanging in the balance, but by the time they reached Bai Village, only five were left... She smiled like Su Daji, and they took her as their master. 157Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 37 Horror Game: Hell Corporation 恐怖游戏：地狱公司 (The rating just came in, and it’ll rise over time!!!) [Infinite Flow + mild suspense + horror game + one female lead] "This is a company that can make any wish come true. Do you have a wish you'd like granted? Call our hotline to join our game. If you clear it, we'll make your wish come true." Wang Zhu looked at the ad on his phone and called the number. He didn't notice the pair of deathly pale eyes staring at him from outside the window. 14kReads7.7Score1.5kShelves
- 38 Escape from the Bear’s Jaws 熊口逃生 Escape from the Bear’s Jaws 949Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 Forbidden Tales of the Desolate Village: A Midnight Whistle, and a Shrouded Corpse Spirit at the Door 荒村禁忌：夜半吹哨，白布尸魂找上门 Taboos of the Abandoned Village: A Whistle in the Dead of Night, and a White-Cloth Corpse Spirit Comes Calling —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 Falling Homework 坠落作业 [Campus horror + coming-of-age + no saintly heroine + one heroine + combat + heartbreaking] One day, a mysterious assignment appeared on the blackboard. As a high school student, I felt a terror unlike anything I’d ever known. All kinds of ghosts appeared in the world, coming to take human lives. From that day on, my life changed completely. I was forced to fight for my life through the assignments, but that was far from all. A slew of conspiracies began to close in around me. Worse still, a mas 1.8kReads8.2Score140Shelves
- 41 Rift in the Abyss: We Awakened the Old Ones 深渊裂隙：我们唤醒旧日支配者 In 1992, U.S. Army Major Austin takes charge of the top-secret project "Abyss Watch." One hundred and thirty meters beneath the desert, a strange fissure spreads madness into the world above. Five elite soldiers are ordered into the abyss, with Austin directing their investigation remotely. A videotape that appears out of nowhere exposes a horrific secret from the past: To spy on the secrets underground, the military sacrificed living people. A thousand meters below ground, an ancient stone gate —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 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—Shelves
- 43 Rule Horror: An Infinite-Flow Haunted Campus. Don't Trust Any Rule (2) 规则怪谈：无限流诡异校园，别相信任何一条规则（2） Rule Horror: The Infinite-Flow Haunted School. Don’t Trust Any of the Rules (2) 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 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—Shelves
- 45 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! 4.1kReads9.0Score291Shelves
- 46 When Your Reflection Starts to Betray You 当你的倒影开始背叛 [Horror assignments + death games + independent planets in the galaxy] “Hey, your sister is dead~” “Your sister is dead!” “Hey, I don’t have a sister, but yours really is dead, hehe.” “**!” Lin Yumin angrily hung up. A little while later, her phone rang again. “Ma’am, we’ve found your sister’s body. Please come to the Public Security Bureau to identify it.” “Will you give it a rest? Your sister is dead! Your whole family’s croaked!” After unleashing a torrent of abuse, Lin Yumin hung up 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 The Death Red Packet Group 死亡红包群 During evening study hall, a group activity suddenly starts. The protagonist who takes part in the interaction receives a cash reward, but the class delinquent Ma Long gets punished instead. He dies, and strange events begin to unfold... 813Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 48 The Ten Deadly Sins 十宗罪 The Ten Deadly Sins 1.6kReads—Score—Shelves
- 49 The Coffin Prison 囚棺 The seventh-night return of the soul. A peaceful death is called a returning calamity; a violent death is called a returning evil spirit. On the day the evil spirit returns, the household is unsettled, and another death may follow. A man must be chosen to send the spirit away. After my second uncle hanged himself, I once had to send a spirit away. As a result, I was marked by it. 476Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 50 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 1.9kReads7.1Score108Shelves
