Novels like I’m Trapped in a Strange World
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- 1 Deep Fear: This Taoist Priest Doesn't Believe in Ghosts 深层恐惧，贫道不信鬼 [Mild Horror | Infinite Flow | Supernatural | Ensemble Cast | No System] Zhou Heng was raised in the Daoist tradition. He knows ritual ceremonies and talismans, and he has also studied applied psychology. After years of driving away evil spirits for people, he is certain of one thing: there are no ghosts in this world. Possession, spirits knocking at the door, and the dead returning are usually illnesses, hoaxes, or worries the living refuse to acknowledge. Those who need a hospital should go to —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Life and Death Together: Redemption in a Century-Old Haunted Realm 浮生同生：百年诡域救赎录 In an instant, on an elevated highway on a rainy night, Lu Ye, a wage earner at the bottom of society, risked his life to save a stranger, Su Wan. The two of them plunged into a deadly crisis. An accident bound them to the only twin symbiosis System on the entire internet: [Shared Life]. Its rules were cruel and impossible to escape: they could not break the bond, survive alone, or clear a stage separately. If one lived, they both lived; if one died, they both died. From then on, two ordinary 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 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
- 4 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
- 5 I Died Wrongfully After Saving Someone, and Became the Source of the Supernatural 救人含冤而死，我成诡异源头 Twenty years after transmigrating, Lin Tian thought this world was full of light. But after he rescued a beautiful classmate who was being bullied, her attackers fell into a river and drowned. What should have been a heroic act of standing up for justice was twisted by the attackers' family and the ungrateful girl he saved. He was branded a murderer who had failed to win the campus belle's affections and tried to assault her. The entire city hunted him down, the whole country condemned him, and —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 The Ghost Fan's Grave: Crossing the Yin-Yang Divide 鬼扇坟之阴阳渡 I saw a ghost for the first time when I was five. Using a ghost fan and a pair of eyes that could see through evil, my grandfather led me into the crack between the worlds of yin and yang. From then on, I became someone who mended fissures, patching up secrets that the living should never see and the dead could never tell. This is a story about eyes that see through evil and a ghost fan, two souls sharing one body and the Six Fiends, sacrifice and protection. From the first ghostly wail in Yinsh 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 The Yin-Yang Twin 阴阳双生人 [Mild Horror + The Supernatural] Ming Ye grew up living in a cemetery. Her parents went missing seven years ago and were eventually found dead under bizarre circumstances in the mountains. Seven years later, she became an emergency room doctor. One midnight, she met the Taoist priest Xu Baoyang on a bus as he was out catching ghosts. Later, while tracking clues about his missing master, Xu Baoyang came to the hospital where Ming Ye worked and discovered that a strange hospital orderly had set up 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 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
- 9 My Dead Wife Returns on Our Wedding Night 亡妻归来新婚夜 My Late Wife Returns on Our Wedding Night 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 Grandpa Started the Trouble, Three Generations Must Pay 爷爷闯下的祸，三代来还 The trouble Grandpa caused will take three generations to repay. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Infinite Eerie Domains: Starting with a Haunted Classroom 无限诡域：从诡异教室开始 [Infinite Flow]+ [Fake terror]+ [Ghosts kill people]+ [Emotionless]+ [Mild horror] Late at night, Su Wang receives a strange black letter that appears out of nowhere in his home. Its four blood-red survival rules reveal a terrifying, unknown realm. In the blink of an eye, he is forcibly dragged into a strange study hall at Chenfeng High School, where he and six strangers are trapped together. The one unbreakable rule is carved into the blackboard: Keep quiet. One survivor loses control, makes a 31kReads8.0Score4kShelves
- 12 The Temple That Eats People 吃人的庙 The Man-Eating Temple 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 The World Is So Broken, Even the System Wants to Run Away 世界太崩坏，系统都要跑路 [Transmigrator, open your eyes. I'm your golden finger, the System you're about to ditch and run away from. This world is too dark and broken for me to handle. I'm out!] “No, System! You can't leave! How am I supposed to survive without you?!!!” [What does that have to do with me? Poor unlucky soul, you're facing an apocalypse where an Evil Eye devours the sun; dark shadows haunt the world beneath a shroud of gray mist; artificial intelligence goes rogue; bizarre rules are everywhere; the dead r 201Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 14 Slaying Demons and Ghosts Since High School 斩妖灭鬼，从高中开始 [Traditional Supernatural Horror] + [School Life] + [Ensemble Cast] + [Coming of Age] + [Not Overpowered] + [Passionate] It all begins with a student jumping from a school building. Liu Tianyu had expected to spend his student years in peace, but from that day on, his life was never quiet again. Peril at a haunted temple, a school turned into a sacrificial altar, a ghost city beneath the water: one challenge after another awaits. Watch as a group of students turn the tables amid the schemes of g —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 This Is a Rule Horror Story, So Why Are You Making Me Dance on a Grave? 这是规则怪谈，你让我坟头蹦迪 [The eerie descends + no saintly do-gooder + survival escape + no System + high IQ] When Chen Mo wakes up with no memories, he finds himself aboard a battered bus with seven strangers, men and women alike. The bus is headed for a tunnel called Yellow Springs, and that is where Chen Mo enters a world of rule-based horrors. Not only must Chen Mo search for clues and fight to survive in this perilous world of bizarre rules, he must also recover every memory he has lost. After enduring countless har —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 Tales of the City's Strange and Unusual, Part Two 都市诡异见闻录第二部 Urban Supernatural Encounters, Book Two 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 One Hundred Thousand and One Folk Horror Stories 十万零一个民间恐怖故事 A collection of short horror stories in an episodic format, with a new story every chapter. No dragging things out! Haunted houses in the countryside, mountain spirits, urban legends, old customs and taboos... Every kind of Chinese-style horror is covered, with nonstop thrills and no filler. Anti-superstition disclaimer: This story is entirely fictional. Believe in science and read rationally. Please don’t apply it to real life~ 304Reads—Score101Shelves
- 18 Compendium of Evil Things 邪物宝鉴 There are no ghosts in this world. Every strange occurrence is the work of evil things. Evil things are exactly what the name suggests: wicked objects with uncanny powers. Dolls, dresses, pillows... Any of them can be affected by resentment and turn into something evil. There are many such objects among the people, and most strange events are actually caused by them. Don't be afraid. If you are upright and optimistic, evil things will keep their distance. It is only when you are crooked or pessi 178Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 19 Strange Tales from the Countryside 乡村诡故事 Before you start this book, a warning: if you scare easily, don't read it. If you live alone, be careful. Every short ghost story here is based on an ordinary person's real-life experience. Not a single word is made up. From the damp old alleyways of the south to the frozen, deserted villages of the north; from late-night overtime in office buildings to lights-out in university dorms; the taboos our elders forbade us to talk about, and the moments you dare not dwell on in the middle of the night 119Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 After My Face Was Stolen, I Drew the Six Realms of Living Beings 我的脸被夺走后我画出六道众生相 My face was stolen. It wasn’t disfigured. It wasn’t disguised. My face was literally gone. To stay alive, I had no choice but to paint one new face after another onto my own. Human, ghost, demon, beast, god, immortal. Every face I painted gave me a new ability. As I tried to reclaim my original face, I gradually discovered that this world was far more complicated than it seemed. 96Reads—Score126Shelves
- 21 A Record of Strange Sightings in the City 都市诡异见闻录 Tales of the Strange in the City 33Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 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 👻 —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 Someone New Appeared in the Footage 录像里多出一个人 The test shoot’s discarded footage was four seconds longer. Everyone in the frame held the same poses they had at the end of filming. No one moved. I counted three times. There were six people every time. But only five people had been there that day. On the hard drive my mother left behind, there was an empty folder with a four-character name: Do Not Fast-Forward. In the recycle bin was a deleted video, four minutes and twenty-five seconds long, which couldn’t be recovered. Our production crew w 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 Horror Revival: I Become a Paper Doll and Terrify All of Humanity 恐怖复苏：化身纸人，恐吓全人类 Zhang Yu wakes up to find he has transmigrated into an age of resurgent horror, where uncanny beings emerge one after another. But he discovers that he has been reborn as a paper effigy, an outsider among the uncanny. After binding himself to a System, he grows by absorbing the fear of all living beings, eventually becoming a great demon king who makes all humanity live in fear. 180Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 25 A Madman's Fate 癫人命 [The uncanny + mind-bending suspense + horror + fictional setting + no System] At the end of that rainy night, Chen Xiu gazes at the unfamiliar world before him. He discovers that the curses have taken everything from him, even himself. Curses and uncanny horrors run rampant before his eyes, while madness and fear relentlessly batter his heart. It says: “Having witnessed what the curse can do, you must also suffer its gifts.” It says: “The death curse descends upon past and present, twisting all 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 What Came Back from the Mountains When the Fog Rolled In 浓雾起时，从山里跟回来的东西 The Thing That Followed Me Back from the Mountains When the Fog Rose —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 I Livestream Through My Eyes 我用眼睛来直播 Through my own eyes, I'll show you viewers the most authentic scenes of horror. No complicated streaming equipment, no carefully arranged sets. Everything I see is exactly what the viewers in the livestream can see. Have you ever seen a livestream quite like this? As long as my eyes remain open, this terrifying livestream, which will only end with my death, will never go off the air. 158Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 Changing Fate with Yin Lifespan: The Yin-Born Child Raised on Milk by a Fox Immortal 阴寿改命：狐仙喂奶养大的阴生子 The day I was born, all the ghosts wailed through the night, the locust trees withered, and the setting sun refused to sink! The heavens showed strange signs at my birth, yet I was born without a single day of allotted life! To steal years for me, Grandpa found me a stunning, sickly-obsessive fox immortal wife to nurse me! She even likes to bite me whenever she gets the chance! My parents used a Three-Corpse Coffin to steal years for me. After they died, they left me a shop, and the very first 30Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 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—Shelves
- 30 Notes from a Folklore Archaeology Team 民俗考古队手记 The true experiences of Lin Ye, a 24-year-old graduate student in folklore. I went to the countryside with my advisor to survey funeral customs. On my first day in the village, I saw five words carved into the stone tablet at the entrance: “Do not enter the village at dusk.” The village elders taught me: If someone calls your name at night, don’t answer. A funeral basin must be smashed in one blow. When you leave the village, don’t look back. I wrote down each rule in my notebook, treating it as 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 The Immortal Realm Invades, but I Just Returned to Reality 仙域入侵，可我才刚回归现实 [Invincible Protagonist] [Powerhouse Returns] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Multiple Female Leads or No Female Lead] [Irresistible Male Lead] [Light Ensemble Cast] What should you do if you transmigrate into a cultivation world where human life is worthless, the weak are prey to the strong, and immortals clash like gods? Gu Nanxuan's answer: bring down the heavens! After more than four hundred years of ups and downs in the immortal realm, Gu Nanxuan, once a prodigy from Blue Star, has traveled ba 27Reads—Score111Shelves
- 32 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 301Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 Terrifying Tales 惊魂诡事 Deep, silent alleyways, eerie, terrifying deserted villages, reed marshes choked with weeds... Every scene holds some of my most unforgettable memories! Everything that happens in this book is something I saw or heard myself. You can also read it as a story. Curious about the supernatural tales that have taken place in rural villages and mountain hamlets? Have you ever heard of or seen something that made your hair stand on end? If you find yourself sleepless in the dead of night, put on your he 308Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 34 A Thousand Eyes on the Path of the Uncanny 诡道千眼 "Eerie Cultivation" "Classic Power Progression" "One Female Lead" "No System" Chaotic Daoist arts, uncanny immortals and gods. Cultivators soar through the skies and burrow underground, surviving three calamities and five tribulations as they walk the path to immortality. Ordinary people toil away, endlessly tilling the fields, with neither life nor death in their own hands. The refugees struggle through the blustering snow. Those who collapse today will be someone else’s next meal. They are str —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 Horror Across the Heavens: I Fight Monsters with the Weird and Evil with the Wicked 恐怖诸天：我以诡制诡，以邪镇邪 “What?!” “That Lin Yan is a righteous grand judge? Then why is he surrounded by black qi?” “Don’t call him by his name! Every ghost, monster, and demon across the Three Realms of the heavens trembles and falls to its knees at the sound of those three characters!” “What are the three characters?” “He rejects the evil spirits of the eight wildernesses. He is the Lord Yan!” Lin Yan stumbled into a world of terror spanning the heavens. While others ran for their lives at the sight of ghosts, he hunt 32.3kReads7.3Score2.6kShelves
- 36 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—Score125Shelves
- 37 The Eerie Realm: It Starts with an Elevator 诡界：从电梯开始 [No System]+ [No Heroine]+ [Dungeon Progression]+ [No Saintly Protagonist]+ [Eerie]+ [Original Dungeons] Have you ever wondered? Beneath the neon lights and atmosphere of this city, things lurk that defy all reason. They were chosen by the Eerie [Elevator] and marked by a terrifying curse. Again and again, they must take part in death games, until death claims them. 54Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 I Won’t Survive the Night 活不过今夜 At some point, a strange old beggar showed up in our neighborhood. The strange thing was, he never spent the money people gave him. He’d burn it or destroy it instead. Then one day, the woman downstairs was burned to death, and the butcher was brutally murdered. That was when I finally realized the truth. He wasn’t begging for money. He was begging for lives! 1.1kReads8.2Score102Shelves
- 39 Fifth Watch 五更 The stories my grandpa used to tell me were probably meant to scare me into staying put, or maybe to lull me to sleep. He always told them with such conviction and vivid detail that I often found myself dreaming of the very scenes he had lived through. I met the old flower-growing woman on Yinshan Mountain, and one villager after another from Sangen Village. Their faces were gloomy and strange, and their deeds served as a warning, reminding us that “the gods are watching from three feet above yo 728Reads7.2Score100Shelves
- 40 At the Cemetery, I Find a Pair of Red High Heels 人在公墓，捡到一双红色高跟鞋 Wang Jin finally graduated. He never expected that after studying civil engineering, he'd end up in a tomb, landing a job as a security guard at a high-end cemetery. He figured he'd work there for a few years, save some money, and then leave. But on his very first day, he found a pair of red high heels outside the security office. An ordinary person with no worries might have thrown them away. Someone more cautious might have grown suspicious. But Wang Jin was neither. He looked around, saw no o 1.5kReads8.0Score128Shelves
- 41 King of the Strange Realm 诡界之王 [Top recommendation: The King of Mystery-Filled Realm Detective Fiction, Tomato’s Number One “Master of Deception”] Zhao Luo thought this was just a murder-mystery game arranged by the God of Fun. He never expected to be trapped in an endless spiral of wits and survival. A one-eyed monster cat fed with sacrifices, over a thousand bizarre artifacts that defy description, eerie monsters that drain your Sanity, player companions dying one after another, and sudden flashes of forgotten memories... O 48Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 42 Horror Game: From the Start, the Skin Bride's Bones Terrified the World! 恐怖游戏：开局皮嫁骨吓哭全球！ [Handcrafted with Traditional Techniques, No AI] [No Female Lead] [Mild Horror] The horror game has arrived! Lin Ye transmigrated here and was selected to take part in designing a global horror game. He had planned to bring out the "Ghost Bride" to save Daxia, only to discover that its culture hadn't been lost at all! Traditional Daxia ghost stories had been used to death, and the whole nation was in despair! Daxia had suffered ten straight losses. The supernatural was invading, and the land was 1MReads8.7Score216.8kShelves
- 43 I Asked You to Write a Horror Play, So Why Did You Have to Add a Deity? 让你写诡剧，您非要往里加神人？ He Mo has always believed that eerie plays, with their dark, disturbing themes and wall-to-wall negativity, are bound to drive actors to a mental breakdown if they perform in them for too long. So he insists on adding a few absurd characters and comic plotlines to lighten things up. The more the theater objects, the more it proves he's doing the right thing. It shows that he's exposed the theater's intention to torment its actors through eerie plays. The more the actors object, the more it prove 1.1kReads—Score170Shelves
- 44 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—Shelves
- 45 Infinite Horror: What Do You Mean You're Mentally Ill? 无限恐怖：什么叫你是精神病 [Not a Pure Rules-Based Horror] + [Infinite Flow] + [Two-Personality Psychopath] + [Original Instances] Humans can’t fight ghosts. But what if you stopped being human? Every ghost has at least one rule for killing. But if you can keep it in check, treat its rules like daily quests and complete them. Song Yuan, a law student, inexplicably died while playing Valorant, only to transmigrate into the body of a deranged psychopath with the same name who was about to be sentenced to death. At the very 57kReads8.6Score13.6kShelves
- 46 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 177Reads9.2Score102Shelves
- 47 Don't Look Back During Evening Study at School 学校晚自习别回头 Don’t Look Back During Evening Study at School 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 The Mystic Arts Curse Master 玄门咒神 On the day Yang Xuan was supposed to get engaged, a blood-red coffin inexplicably appeared in his home. Inside lay a beautiful woman with skin like jade. On the first day, his father died. On the second day, a yin-yang master told Yang Xuan: If he wanted to survive this calamity, he had to consummate his marriage with her... 115Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 Sacrificed to an Unnameable Being? I’ll Take Its Place 被献给不可名状之物？我要取代祂 [Female protagonist, no romance + Chinese-style Lovecraftian horror + Classic of Mountains and Seas mythology + growing heroine] She was offered to the gods as one of a pair of twin sacrifices. She should have died, but the god who toys with mortals dragged her back into the human world. From its lofty perch, the god called her “bride,” “toy,” and “little moth.” Its treatment of her like an insect made her sick. She knew this was nothing but the condescending mockery of those who already held po 51Reads—Score151Shelves
- 50 I Brought Terror Back to Life to Write My Book 为了写书，我让恐怖复苏 After transmigrating to a parallel world, Bai Yu becomes a web-novel superstar and binds himself to the Horror Manuscript System! The words he writes become horrors unleashed upon the world. A black cat turns into a monster in Ink Village, and a hopping corpse slaughters its way through the land! A terrifying night at Peaceful Apartments leaves a mountain of corpses beneath an axe! A case involving a red high heel defies the heavens and changes destinies across provincial borders! As scenes from 704Reads5.2Score—Shelves
