Novels like I Escape the Mental Hospital from the Start, and the Whole World Goes Mad
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- 151 Chronicles of Strange Events 异事簿 When I was eight, I accidentally drowned. The village's mad Taoist came to my house and told my parents to give me a grand seven-day funeral with gongs and drums. After seven days, I would return to life. During the funeral, lightning flashed every day and the rain poured without stopping. Everyone in the village said it was a bad omen. On the seventh day, strange phenomena suddenly appeared in the sky. The mad Taoist returned to my house, told me to take the moon in the sky as my godmother, and 35Reads—Score—14d adds
- 152 Pregnant with Evil, Again and Again 阴孕连连 The consequence of one wild night was that I got pregnant, and I had no idea who the father was. Filled with anxiety, I had no choice but to ask my best friend to come with me to get rid of the baby. But from that day on, strange things kept happening. A little ghost that ate people, a night road I could never escape, a lecherous man who kept appearing in my dreams, and the baby in my belly that I just couldn't get rid of. It all told me one thing: I had… encountered something supernatural… 179Reads5.4Score—14d adds
- 153 The Living Burial Mound 活人坟 Never let an unfamiliar woman into your car! Especially at night! Because the person you meet... might not be alive! 63Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 154 A Collection of Spine-Chilling Stories 惊骇故事集 The world is in turmoil, with strange and wondrous things hiding everywhere. Mysteries deep in the starry sky remain unsolved, while shocking cases unfold around a small town. Science fiction and suspense perform a double act, as Lovecraftian murders rise with the tide. The secrets in people’s hearts are hard to fathom. Just wait and see this collection unleash its waves of terror. The horror here is bizarre and grotesque, not some childish little scare. In an abandoned village shrine, a white- 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 155 Strike It Rich by Opening the Coffin 开棺发财 [Handcrafted from scratch + Traditional supernatural horror + No System + No cultivation + Extremely scary + Based on true experiences] Paper figures carry the coffin, a black dog tosses the grave, and an old man falls in love with a ghost. An opened coffin is carried home, and a beautiful fairy follows through the door. My name is Qin Yang. I was down on my luck and only hoped to make money by opening coffins. I never expected that it would turn out to be such a high-risk profession. (Friends i 1.7kReads—Score13114d adds
- 156 Haunted University: I’m the Only Living Person on Campus 诡大学：全校就我一个活人 [Supernatural + one female lead] He scored 320 on the college entrance exam and just wanted to find a decent university to attend. He never expected to meet a ghostly version of Zhang Xuefeng, who recommended a ghost university 😭 His classmates and teachers are all ghosts 👻 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 157 The Forbidden Island of Human Nature 人性禁岛 I couldn’t get a ticket for the Spring Festival, so I took an unlicensed car home. I never expected the woman in the car to keep staring at me. I wanted to call the police... [Deep Dive] The horrifying truth behind going missing after getting into the wrong car during the Spring Festival. Don’t ride in unlicensed cars carelessly, because it’s not just your money that disappears, but your life! 994Reads8.6Score10014d adds
- 158 Visitor from Hell 狱下来客 A modern supernatural mystery. Not wish fulfillment, not brainless, and no System. In this life, you pass countless people on the street. What makes you so sure they're all human? I never believed in this stuff either, until my landlord tricked me into moving to a place called Happy Community. The people around me didn't seem to be people at all. Footprints on the ceiling, dolls made of human skin, bloated drowned giants, people raising zombies, mother-and-child ghosts... Just how many secrets l 596Reads8.0Score10014d adds
- 159 Tales of the Strange 怪谈 [A Born Ghost-Busting Saint vs. A Bewitching Beauty Bound by a Sinister Fate] [Case-by-Case Stories + Criminal Investigation + Folk Legends + Ghost Hunting + An Overarching Plot + Horror + Two Powerful Leads + Fighting Side by Side] "Corpses become curses, souls become gu; strange cases arise, and every road is hard to tread." Zhang Miao was short of water in his five elements, and before he was even born, he was given a "water ghost" as his godmother. As a result, he awakened a special constit 1.9kReads8.5Score12014d adds
- 160 Don't Get Addicted to Sinners 别对罪人上瘾 [Everyone’s Favorite + Villain + Straight as a Ruler + Misinterpretations + Dual Personality + No Romance] Xie Xu’an is a mysterious writer shrouded in a thick haze of blood and darkness. His unpublished work seems to be a Pandora’s box concealing endless evil. Fate takes an unexpected turn, hurling him into the world he created. In an instant, he plummets into an abyss of darkness. Here, villains bare their fangs and schemes intertwine. At first, he is like a lone leaf tossed about in a storm, 114Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 161 Don't Wake Him in the Middle of the Night 别在深夜惊醒他 [Modern Romance with a Twist] + [Modern Romance] + [Ghost Hunting] This story explores whether love means possession or protection, how memory and identity define who “I” am, and how to face mistakes committed in the name of love. A museum intern on the night shift accidentally gets blood on an ancient god's specimen. Mistaken for the god's reincarnated Daoist partner, she is forced into a relationship with him. Only when the true partner returns does she discover that she herself is the primord 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 162 Living for the Dead: I Devour the Bizarre in the Human World 替死者而活：我在人间吞噬诡异 [This novel is a serious supernatural mystery] Qi Guang died, and I took his place. An inhuman being, surviving in a borrowed body, without warmth or an understanding of humanity. I can devour every supernatural entity. I carry all of his memories, imitate his life, and learn to understand warmth, the bustle of everyday life, and the bonds between people. The human world meant nothing to me, until I met Mu Chen and gained a family I wanted to protect, along with an ordinary daily life. But the 360Reads—Score6414d adds
- 163 Rule-Based Urban Legends: It Begins at the Death Hotel 规则类怪谈之从死亡旅馆开始 [No female lead] [No saintly protagonist] [Slow burn] What would you do if you became a Rule-Bound Horror? Kill people? Do whatever you wanted? “I want to drive out every Rule-Bound Horror…” That was Wen Changqing's answer. In the dimly lit hotel, two identical owners beckon me… In a wilderness village, every house is draped in ghastly white mourning banners… A farm grows man-eating mushrooms and scarecrows that want to take the place of the dead… 56Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 164 Thriller Game: Why Mess with Him? He’s Insane 惊悚游戏：你惹他干嘛？他精神病 [The rating is low because it just came out, but it’ll rise] [No Romance / Infinite National-Fortune Game / Livestream / System / Lighthearted and Funny / Patriotic] As the supernatural resurges, each country selects a lucky participant for a terrifying game. Those who succeed earn a boost to their nation’s fortune, along with various resources. If they fail, the supernatural will descend upon their country! Su Chen transmigrates to Blue Star and discovers that he has become a prison guard at a 589Reads8.1Score11014d adds
- 165 The Bride in the Red Coffin 红棺里的新娘 The first book: horror, terror, and the uncanny. The sequel: comedy and humor! Two stories: The Bride in the Red Coffin + its sequel, also known as My Ghost Wife Keeps Trying to Scare Me to Tears. When crimson ripples spread across the deep pool, I finally saw the bone comb in the hands of the bride in the sunken coffin. Carved into it were my birth details, even though I had been missing for three years. Xu Xiaomo was drawn home by tales of the Sunk 175Reads—Score—14d adds
- 166 Thriller Game: I’m the Rich Family’s Ghostly Nightmare! 惊悚游戏：我，豪门鬼见愁！ Horror games descended upon the real world. Su Xiao transmigrated and was chosen to enter a horror game. Unlike everyone else, Su Xiao also happened to be the Asura Ghost King! The terrifying world of horror suddenly didn’t seem so scary anymore. Red-clad ghosts? They were nothing but ants. Great Calamities? Just bigger bugs. After devouring countless top players, Su Xiao realized he was invincible. Su Xiao: “Being the Ghost Emperor isn’t all that interesting. Underworld King, make room for me.” 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 167 I Heard of Strange Things That Year: Never Read This Late at Night 那年听闻怪事，千万别深夜翻看 These stories are adapted and fictionalized from various experiences shared by friends. They are written in an accessible style and make for a good way to unwind. A reminder: reject superstition. This is all imaginative fiction. Any similarities to real events are purely coincidental, so don't take it seriously! 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 168 The Rule Domains Are Full of Traps, but I’m Better at Setting Them Than the Supernatural 规则域全是坑，我比诡异更会挖坑 [Sneaky Trickster + Rules-Based Horror + Bizarre Counterattacks + Comedic Subversion + Everyday Life] The bizarre beings can only kill people by following rules. The protagonist, Lu Ye, specializes in exploiting loopholes and turns the tables on all kinds of monsters, making them pay dearly. You mustn’t look through the peephole? Lu Ye pulls out a Pinduoduo Bluetooth camera and spies through its screen. You have to praise the monster? It never said he couldn’t be sarcastic. He makes the crea 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 169 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 103Reads—Score—14d adds
- 170 One Horror a Day 一天一个惊悚 One terrifying tale every day, and a different world each time. Just because you haven't seen it from in front of your phone doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Enough chatter. See you in the book, everyone. 7Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 171 The Corpse of a Mountain Village Woman 山村女尸 [Feel-Good Read + Urban + Suspense + Supernatural] He Xi is an ordinary security guard. One day, the west gate of Chaoxi Psychiatric Hospital desperately needs a guard. The pay is 30,000 yuan a month, but nobody dares take the job! Nobody else dares, but He Xi does! Only after arriving does he realize something is wrong. The west gate isn’t meant for people to pass through at all. It’s a gate for ghosts! 7.7kReads7.7Score35314d adds
- 172 The Yin-Yang Mortal World 阴阳尘世 Yin and yang are opposing yet balanced forces, like Heaven and Earth, the sun and moon, darkness and light. At some point, the balance of yin and yang in the mortal world was broken. Strange paranormal phenomena known as “Corruption” spread across the world. To maintain the balance between the yin and yang realms and cleanse the world of “Corruption,” the onmyoji came into being. As Luo Yin, an onmyoji, delves deeper into the paranormal and supernatural incidents plaguing the mortal world, she d 7Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 173 Silent Screams: True Records of 101 Major Cases, Season One 无声尖叫：101宗大案要案记实录（第一季） 41Reads9.0Score—14d adds
- 174 Don’t Call My Name at Midnight 半夜不要喊我名字 Believe it or not, this is a true story. She is Yang Xiaofan, dumped by a man who had been using her for her money, then left with nothing. With almost no savings left, she had no choice but to move into a deserted house. The mysterious landlord disappeared without a trace after his first appearance. After midnight, terrifying knocks and calls to summon spirits put her life in danger. A black cat that comes and goes appears at strange moments, then vanishes without a trace. Again and again, I wa 1.2kReads8.3Score—14d adds
- 175 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—Score39614d adds
- 176 He Has Dissociative Identity Disorder. Why Would You Mess with Him? 他精神分裂，你惹他干什么 [No System] [Dark Humor] [Deadpan Comedy] Liu Yan was an utterly ordinary food delivery driver, until three voices suddenly appeared in his head. He gave them names: Killer, Vicious, and Kind. Killer was cold and merciless, with unmatched combat skills. Vicious was sinister, ruthless, and cunning. Kind was an expert in all kinds of knowledge, with an astonishing talent for making money. Because of the three of them, Liu Yan was locked up in a psychiatric hospital. And because of them, Liu Yan we 2.2kReads8.2Score22014d adds
- 177 Thriller Game: Two Personalities, and You Think I’m Afraid of Your Demons? 惊悚游戏：双重人格，怕你魑魅魍魉？ Inside a long-abandoned, dilapidated hospital. The smell of disinfectant is everywhere. Ye Xiao knows that after briefly losing consciousness, he is no longer in a psychiatric hospital. Instead, he is in the world of a horror game that has been announced to the public and trending nationwide for months. [Welcome to the Horror Game] [Everything here is fake. Only your life is real.] [If your mental strength and vitality reach zero, you will die on the spot. So please, stay alive.] 94Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 178 The Rules Are Out of Control, and Only I Can Find the Loopholes 规则失控，只有我能找到漏洞 Make a mistake, and you die… Nine people are trapped in a hotel. They must identify the hidden nonhuman among them, or everyone will die. The cycle resets, wiping everyone's memories clean. Only Lin Che retains his memories. With no special abilities or plot armor, he relies solely on observation, searching for loopholes in the rules to survive. Escape the hotel, and they find themselves in an empty city caught in a seven-day time loop. Beyond it lie countless worlds that have been destroy 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 179 Apocalypse Painter: One Stroke Splits the Starry River 末日画圣：一笔断星河 Overnight, the North Star grew as large as the full moon. Xu Kang was inexplicably taken to the police station. The struggle between reality and illusion, the apocalypse intertwined with the ugliness of human nature. One stroke severs the mortal world, another severs the river of stars! 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 180 I’ve Always Convinced Ghosts with Reason 我向来以理服鬼 [Absurd comedy + Invincible protagonist + A protagonist who loves talking things out] Do you believe in ghosts? Well, I don't. Last time, some headless guy tried to take my head, so I buried it alive... My name is Qin Wang. By the time you read this, I might be trying to reason with them. The day my grandfather died, I... should still have been in my mother's womb! 6Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 181 Who’s Watching You Sleep? 谁在看着你睡觉 A collection of horror stories, including The Haunting of the Girls' Dorm, The Peeping Eye, and The Abyss of the Locked Room: A Mother's Checkmate! I guarantee you'll be too scared to use the bathroom after reading them at night! Each story is 80,000 to 100,000 characters long. I'm a newcomer, and this is my first time writing on Tomato Novel! I hope you'll give me lots of encouragement! Your support is what motivates me to create more and better stories! 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 182 The Yin-Yang Affairs Office 阴阳事务所 The Yin-Yang Affairs Office is closed during the day and open at night. We don't take cases from the living, only from ghosts. I'm a man of principles. What? A pretty young lady wants to come visit? Yo, I might consider it! A bewitchingly beautiful, sultry red-robed female ghost; a headless ghost whose head was chopped off with an axe; the Black and White Impermanence from the underworld... They're all regulars here. To tell you the truth, even the King of Hell was raised by me! 355Reads7.8Score10114d adds
- 183 After Conquering the World, I Caught the Lord of the Undead 称霸世界后我钓到了亡灵之主 Don't read if you hate unfinished endings!!! [Powerful leads + Western fantasy + sweet romance] Charles is a gifted necromancer, and his life's motto is: make money, make money, and make more money. As an excellent necromancer, Charles contracts a high-ranking undead. He thought this undead would give him a whole new experience in training, but it turns out the undead is far too obedient. Other people's undead are unruly and refuse to listen. Charles's undead, on the other hand, cheerfully calls 46Reads9.1Score—14d adds
- 184 As a God, I Expose Every Mystery in the World 身为神的我揭露世间一切神秘 (Mysterious creatures + livestreaming + episodic stories + gore + mild horror) Above countless universes lies the boundless Realm of Void. They say only beings that have broken through the limits of the universe are qualified to enter. Ye Qingchi served as a divine official, maintaining the Realm of Void for 97.14 million years. But disaster struck without warning, and she was wanted by the new city lord. Outmatched, she had no choice but to flee with her best friend Mu Tianrou to a remote unive —Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 185 Terror Has Arrived: Is This Not a Raising Sim? 惊悚降临：难道这不是养成游戏？ [No heroine, no romance] The Ghost Realm descends, and Qin Fan enters the world of horror as a newcomer. From the start, he obtains the Eyes of the Sea King and suddenly feels that this game, with its sky-high death rate, might not be so hard to play after all… 22Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 186 The Soul Ferryer Between Yin and Yang 阴阳渡魂人 Soul-snatching ghost weddings, bathroom hauntings, the legend of the red-clad senior, Thai black magic, ghost soldiers borrowing the road, man-eating mountain demons, nightmare fiends that enter your dreams, the mystery of the headless woman, a bizarre bride in an escape room, vengeful child spirits, games that summon ghosts, human organ trafficking, a shocking exhibition of human deformities, and long-lost Maoshan secrets... Do these things send a chill down your spine? - The truth is, this wor 177Reads9.2Score10214d adds
- 187 Thriller: Socially Awkward? No, I'm a Social Menace 惊悚：社恐？不，我社交恐怖分子 Horror has descended! People all over the world are forced to struggle for survival in one paranormal instance after another. But one man is a social phobia patient, not because he fears socializing, but because he’s a social menace! At three, he became the king of the children in his compound. At five, he ruled his kindergarten. In middle school, he was the Hao Nan of the boys’ eyes; in high school, he was the prince charming of the girls’ dreams. He dared to slip advertisements into his gradua 20Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 188 When the Mental Patient Shows Up, Even the Ghosts Don’t Know What to Do 精神病一来，给鬼整不会了都 Qin Chu became the top celebrity at Mancang City Mental Hospital thanks to an achievement no other patient could match: he peed on the city’s largest transformer, causing a citywide blackout that lasted two days. He was practically cooked by the electricity, yet somehow came out just fine. 2.8kReads8.6Score30714d adds
- 189 Corpse Driving in Western Hunan: The Soul-Calling Guide on the Night Road 湘西赶尸：夜行引魂人 A sudden disaster at a mass grave! Wu Liangzi is struck on the back of the head and wakes among rotting coffins and bones, clutching a bloodstained piece of yellow paper. It bears the name of the man he has spent three years tracking down for murdering his father! Seven corpses in black robes dance around him all night, their lifeless eyes seeming to “acknowledge their master.” A mysterious corpse driver tosses him a life-and-death contract. “Four of your seven souls have scattered. If you can’t 277Reads—Score—14d adds
- 190 Stay Away, Spirits 阴人勿扰 Someone dug up our family grave and put the newlywed daughter-in-law who’d just died in their family in there. My uncle told me to go get her out in the middle of the night... 477Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 191 Selling Ghosts 卖鬼 A new book is coming in July, titled: From the Start, I Cut Out the Rake of the Slit-Mouthed Woman Born in a yin year, yin month, yin hour, and yin place, with a yin ghost as the midwife. Yinjian had been sickly since childhood. Driven by hardship, he accidentally walked into a shop. From then on, he started a business selling ghosts. A weeping ghost knocks at the door. The Five Immortals demand a title and turn into beautiful older sisters. A skeleton friend who loves grave robbing. A five-star 259Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 192 365 Nights of Corpse Tales from the Gorge 峡江尸话365夜 The poorer and more desolate the land, the stranger the tales; deep in the gorges along the river, there are stories of the supernatural. My hometown lies in the mountains of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, in an area where several ethnic minorities live together. Before Liberation, it was a backward wilderness beyond the reach of government control. Over the long course of history, many baffling things happened here. After I was born, I heard plenty of chilling tales of strange happeni 120Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 193 A Thousand-Year-Old Corpse Immortal Opens His Eyes, and the World Is Free of Ghosts 千年尸仙，睁眼后人间无诡 He lay in his coffin for a thousand years. At dusk, when an archaeological team pried open the lid, Chen Xuan opened his eyes. A sealing formation from the Demon Suppression Division instantly descended. Eighteen golden chains coiled around his limbs, the old professor collapsed in terror, and everyone in the warehouse screamed. But Chen Xuan rose to his feet and shattered the formation with one palm. “When a thousand-year-old corpse opens its eyes, no more monsters will run rampant in the morta 251Reads—Score12514d adds
- 194 The Ten Deadly Sins 4 十宗罪4 This book is adapted from real cases. The place names and names of the people involved have been changed. It introduces ten terrifying murders that took place close to home, each a bizarre major case that the media once carefully suppressed and the authorities refused to discuss. These include the Body-Part Snowman, the Ghost of the Rainy Night, the Dungeon Prisoner, the Human-Skin Scarecrow, and the Perverted Sex Fiend... as well as the horrifying, internet-shaking dismemberment case of Diao Ai 208Reads9.1Score—14d adds
- 195 Bone Flute 骨笛 My grandmother was a famous spirit medium throughout the surrounding villages. I was a child she picked up and brought home. People in the village said that on the night she carried me home, flutes sounded throughout the village until dawn. The next day, every peach tree in the village had withered. They called me an ill omen, but my grandmother always treated me well, and life went on quietly like that, until the day I turned sixteen. Then everything changed. 1.3kReads9.0Score12714d adds
- 196 Maoshan Ghost Arts: Kill, Never Deliver Souls 茅山鬼术，只杀不度 When I was twelve, my father was killed by someone using an evil technique, and my mother took her own life. I was adopted by relatives and suffered endless abuse. In the end, their entire family died horribly, leaving me an orphan. The villagers regarded me as an omen of misfortune. To stay alive, I stole offerings meant for the dead, only to attract an evil ghost, which bought my life with a hell banknote. At the critical moment between life and death, my master, Old Guo, saved me, took me in 246kReads8.8Score23.9k14d adds
- 197 Eternal Damnation 永世沉沦 When I was little, my family was very poor. My father made me a kite out of paper, but when it came down from the sky, it was covered in blood... After that, all kinds of strange, inexplicable troubles began to descend upon me. To deal with them, I traveled across the country and ventured into one forbidden zone after another, places where no one knew there was life. It took me years to understand that what is truly terrifying is the human heart. When raging desire intertwines with the ugliness 735Reads7.9Score10414d adds
- 198 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
- 199 The Southeast Asian Medium 东南亚通灵先生 Under duress, I embedded a woman's corpse inside a Buddha statue in a temple. After I was framed, Master Dad taught me Southeast Asian spirit-medium arts. From that day on, the world I saw was no longer inhabited by the living alone... 3.5kReads8.4Score42414d adds
- 200 The Terrifying Rich Lady 恐怖富婆 Everyone knows how great it feels to live off someone else, but sometimes you shouldn’t accept a free ride, especially from a rich woman with unusual tastes. You might regret it for the rest of your life... 103Reads7.5Score—14d adds
