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- 1 The Paranormal Observer: Is the King of Hell a Four-Dimensional Being? 诡异观测者：阎王竟是四维生物？ [Infinite Flow] + [Light horror] + [Soft sci-fi] + [Original horror scenarios] + [Mind-bending logic] Ren Min was a police detective, but an unexpected transmigration caused by a murder case sends him to an unknown world without any concept of time: [The Wheel of Time]. He becomes the so-called [Observer No. 9527]. By chance, Ren Min meets five mysterious teammates. All six are descendants of the people involved in a bizarre disappearance forty years ago! In [The Wheel of Time], Ren Min and the —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 The Haunted Post Office 诡邮局 A post office stands where reality meets the supernatural. A group of people with uncanny abilities call themselves messengers. An unmanned bus carries a terrifying ghost. Letter after letter is sent out. One bizarre supernatural event after another unfolds. This is the story of a messenger. This is the story of a group of messengers... —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 Terror on Every Side 十面埋惊 (Mild horror, infinite-loop style, survival, one female lead) Everyone has desires when desire reaches its peak, it attracts “their” attention. Everyone thought that completing the tasks would make their desires come true, but they soon realized they had already stepped into the mire of an abyss. “From now on, please cast aside emotions such as fear, despair, sorrow, and loneliness...” “Welcome to the Desire Puzzle!” And so the story begins. Si Ren’s wife is dead... —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 An Ordinary Person Enters a Dungeon 普通人进入副本 [Original Story] [Mild Horror] [Realistic] [Ensemble Cast] [Cooperation-Focused] [Fast-Paced] What would it be like for an ordinary college student to enter a terrifying world of instances? Would they be prey at the mercy of ghosts and monsters, or a hero in a temporary team? Nothing is certain. Everyone has their limits. Can they overcome one hardship after another in the face of supernatural terror and escape each instance world? Let’s wait and see. [Note 1: This book will not construct an exp —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 Rule Horror: I Can Spot Flawed Rules Perfectly! 规则怪谈：完美洞察错误规则！ (Rules-based horror + national fate + livestreaming + wild imagination + no female lead + deduction + Lovecraftian horror) Rules-based horror has invaded the world. Every country will have a chosen one selected to take part in the horrors. If a challenger can clear the scenario, they can prevent the horror from entering reality and earn rewards. Ye Yan is chosen by the rules-based horror to take part in the challenge as Longguo's chosen one. [Night Town Horror Survival Rules. Everyone must follo 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 The Black Hotel 黑旅馆 [Infinite Worlds, Mild Horror, Psychological Battles, Fresh and Unpredictable] A must-read for fans of horror and mysteries. The further you read, the more hooked you get! Lin Xiao is trapped in the “Deadly Black Inn” Every scenario hides rules that devour people, and every time a light goes out, it drags you into an even more terrifying abyss! No System, no cheats, not even a “chosen one” aura! The ordinary male lead is so scared he trembles, yet uses his wits to catch tiny details and escape 268Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 Horror from the Start: I Star in Supernatural Movies 开局惊悚，我在灵异电影当主演 [Infinite-Loop + Horror + Comedy + Escape + Plot] [With a severed hand clasped tight, where should we go in this fog-shrouded world?] “Come on, hold on tight. I’ll get you out of this forest...” The current world has collapsed. All actors, proceed to the next instance. 14Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 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. 109Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 The Eastern Wei Crown Prince's Tomb 东魏太子墓 The Eastern Wei Crown Prince’s Tomb —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 Terror in the Desolate Village 荒村惊魂 I entered a village inhabited entirely by women. I thought I’d found a man’s paradise, but after a series of bizarre events, I realized things weren’t so simple… 158Reads5.8Score—14d adds
- 11 Yin-Yang Ghost Embroidery 阴阳诡绣 Some taboos must never be broken, no matter what. Before my grandfather died, he warned me never to make money from the skills he taught me. But one night, a woman from my hometown collapsed outside my door and begged me to help her keep the child in her womb. My heart softened, and from then on, there was no turning back. 14Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 12 The Strange Happenings of Shazao Village 沙枣村诡事 Adili is assigned to take up residence in Shazao Village. Before him, seven village cadres had mysteriously met their ends in this remote Gobi settlement. His own uncle had “died in the line of duty” there, but the case file gave no more than a cursory mention of the cause of death, with no evidence to be found. At midnight, donkey hooves sound across the sand, pausing after every seven steps. A red-eyed evil donkey crouches before a grave and calls softly: “Climb on. I’ll take you to find your —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 Married to Yan Luo 阎罗嫁 The villagers called me a “ghost fetus,” and I had no friends growing up. After the wealthy Wang Changnian pursued me relentlessly, he died under mysterious circumstances, and the Wang family buried me alive as his grave companion. A male ghost dressed in a Republican-era funeral robe saved me, but demanded that I give myself to him and marry him in a ghost marriage. A bond from a past life, an extremely yin body, the mystery of the ghost fetus: I escaped from the Taoist temple, only to discover 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 The 444th Horror Story 第444个恐怖故事 Every chapter is a standalone horror story. [Modern Mystery] [The More You Think About It, the More Terrifying It Gets] [Folk Horror] [Rule Horror] [Monstrous Thrills] It's all here. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 15 Welcome to the Lost Theater of Horror Games 欢迎来到恐怖游戏迷途剧场 [Rule-Based Horror + No Female Lead + Horror + No National Destiny + No Livestreaming] When the cold prompt of the System sounds in his ear, Mo Yan is forced into the horror game Lost Theater. One bizarre instance after another unfolds: Deadly nursery rhymes, the dollhouse, Paradise Retirement Home, ghost weddings... Within each instance, the rules are the only currency for survival, while human nature is an even deadlier trap lurking behind the monsters. Old songs echo night after night, and th 20Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 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—14d adds
- 17 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—14d adds
- 18 Rules of the Strange Tales: There's a Ghost in My Heart 规则怪谈，我的心里有个鬼 [Chuunibyou youth] [No heroine] [Eerie] [Funny] [Sixth sense] Mo Beiping, a chuunibyou youth, is accidentally selected by a Rules Game and awakens the personal talent [There’s a Ghost in My Mind]. He can see through the inner thoughts of the eerie, so now I know what you’re thinking, while you have no idea what’s on my mind. Compared with humans, the eerie don’t seem so frightening after all. 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 Surviving the Eerie Dorm: Sharing a Room with the Campus Belle Means Death If You Skip Class 诡舍求生：校花同住，不上课就死 [Urban + supernatural + survival + mystery-solving + no System + Infinite Flow + unconventional + horror instances] [If you've read Death's Kaleidoscope, The Haunted House, or Hell's Apartment, come take a look. Every instance is completely original and brand-new!] A strange school abducts Jiang Wen and Su Yuechan with nothing on their backsides! Every week, the two receive a letter and must go to the place named in it to complete their lessons! A letter from [Fengmen Village]. A letter from [Re 108Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 Infinite Flow: Surviving the Game by Eating Fetal Dumplings 无限流：从吃胎婴饺开始求生游戏 [Two male leads + horror + hilarious comedy + mind-bending puzzles + lots of sweetness] My name is Jiang Yunyin, and I'm an apprentice mortician. I never thought I'd die one day by “freezing to death in a bathroom.” After I died, I came to the Horror World. To be reborn, I began taking on the horror trials the System told me about. It was supposed to be just a survival game, but it was far more difficult than I imagined. A maternal and child health hospital where women's wails and babies' cries 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 When the Drum Sounds, Death Is Certain: Is It Really Cheating to Lead the Team? 鼓响无限死，带队开挂不过分吧？ [Infinite Realms, No Cliches, No System, No Idiocy, Not a Power Fantasy. Enter at Your Own Risk.] In a blood-red plank walkway, six people awoke after being buried alive, only to hear a drumbeat ringing with the promise of death. The drums marked the start of a death game. They were forced to die over and over, then keep going. They saw butchers gnawing on corpses along the walkway of living flesh, ventured into the Cave of a Thousand Voices and heard a silent hell, listened to paper figures sin 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 The Years I Spent Flipping Haunted Houses 倒卖凶宅那些年 A house where an unnatural death has occurred is known as a haunted house. Such places are dangerous and eerie, and few people would dare buy one. My job is to buy them cheap and sell them high, pocketing the difference. Everyone thinks the money comes easy. Little do they know this is a line of work where you risk your life every day! 209Reads6.6Score10914d adds
- 23 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—14d adds
- 24 Abyss of Nightmares: Eyes That See Death 噩梦深渊：看见死亡的双眼 [Horror escape + infinite-flow + smart protagonist + mind-bending plot + airtight logic] A pair of scarlet eyes filled with malice appears in the peephole. Strange footsteps echo through the hallway, and faint sobbing seems to drift by his ears. The living room lights flicker on and off with a crackling sound, while bubbles keep gurgling up from the bathroom sink... Chu Rui stares at the notification on his phone and lets out a grave sigh. [The Nightmare Abyss: Huaquan Apartments instance assess 258Reads5.2Score—14d adds
- 25 Witnessing Terror 见恐 [Infinite Flow + Mild Horror + No Romance + No Golden Finger + A Touch of Despair] On a rainy night, Ji Yunfeng receives a call from an “old acquaintance” and sets out to hunt down a serial killer nicknamed the “Rainy Night Butcher.” To his surprise, he stumbles into a “mysterious house.” Inside this “house,” he somehow ends up being sent, along with three people chosen by the “Death Letter,” to a “trial ground” known as the “Death Domain.” This world is home to a host of terrifying beings known 2kReads—Score18314d adds
- 26 Rule Horror: The Nameless Rules 规则怪谈：无名的规则 [No National Fortune] [No Female Lead] [No Livestream] [Not Mindless] [Not a Power Fantasy] [Not Invincible] [Braintwisting Deduction] When the power of rules descends upon the human world, it becomes the focal point of several parallel worlds. The rules erode the order of human society and overturn common sense. Creatures from parallel worlds are everywhere, seeking to invade the human world by these means. Disobey the rules, and you die. But blindly obey them, and all that awaits is ruin. Life 43Reads—Score—14d adds
- 27 The Haunted Hearse 灵车诡事 I'm an ambulance driver for the dead. When I first started the job, Third Master told me a few rules every hearse driver must follow. Then one day, to pay off my loan, I transported a bizarre corpse... 324Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 28 Infinite Instances Begin at Black Gate Apartments 无限副本从黑门公寓开始 [Infinite Flow + Not a Power Fantasy + Original Scenarios with Mild Horror] After his sister disappeared following a skinning, Yuan Chengxia set out to investigate the clues left by a childhood friend. But he encountered a ghostly maze and was forced to fight for survival in a deadly scenario, gradually rising to become the leader of the White Gate Guild. Along the way, Yuan Chengxia uncovered the countless ties between his sister and the scenarios. Various factions were drawn into the conflict, 81Reads—Score—14d adds
- 29 The Train I Drive Leads to the Abyss 我开的火车通往深渊 My name is Lin Muhai. I'm twenty-one and a trainee train driver at the Ancheng Locomotive Depot. Before my first run, I heard a woman's voice in the crew waiting room. "One sleeper, two sleepers, three sleepers..." She counted to six, then paused. "Lin Muhai, it's your turn to count." 29Reads—Score—14d adds
- 30 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—14d adds
- 31 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—14d adds
- 32 Welcome Aboard the Hell Bus 欢迎乘坐地狱巴士 They died, yet somehow ended up on a bus. Can they really come back to life after fifty missions? Welcome aboard the Hellbound Bus, train GUI_511! This train will take you on an inconceivable, bizarre, and fantastical journey. A mysterious matriarchal village, a strange university dormitory, a terrifying hotel that eats people, a bizarre dried-corpse case, an unbelievable midnight subway... Behind every mission lies a story no one knows. Cause and effect always come full circle. See how two girl 241Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 33 Death Will Be Televised 死亡将映 (Infinite Flow + mild horror + deduction + survival + one heroine) To uncover the ultimate secret, he must endure one round of slaughter and struggle after another. I thought I only had to complete a simple death mission to go home, but I was forced to uncover the ultimate secret. I thought I could open the Forbidden Zone of God and grow stronger, only to be told that the human body was also a treasure locked in chains. When I finally reached the end, I discovered that I had walked this road bef 113Reads—Score—14d adds
- 34 The Haunted World: I Can See Things from the Ghosts' Point of View 诡世界：我能看到鬼视角 [Infinite Flow + Mild Horror + No Female Lead] Every year, countless people around the world vanish without explanation. According to local rumors in Nanshan City, they all seem to have entered another world. No one knows what happened there... But from the moment Li Yenan stepped out of the subway station, he was already inside that world... A woman who knows everything, a strange perspective that only he can see, and rules from the eerie world: it all feels like a game of chess laid out just f 586Reads5.5Score11414d adds
- 35 Horror and Terror 恐怖，惊悚 A classmate by the bed calls out softly. A cat's cries echo through the woods. Shadows flicker at the edge of the street. A piercing scream comes from inside the restroom. Are all the things you see and hear real? And are they all human? 696Reads—Score—14d adds
- 36 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—14d adds
- 37 Horror Revival: I Can Summon Saitama 恐怖复苏：我能召唤琦玉 After transmigrating to another world, Lin Feng is selected by the Lord God’s Space to enter one terrifying instance after another. He never expects the first one to be an impossible-difficulty scenario: Kayako. To Lin Feng’s dismay, he arrives right inside that house. Just as Kayako’s supremely horrifying vomiting sounds are about to cut short his promising new life, a ding suddenly rings in his head. Lin Feng’s mouth curls into a crooked grin. This time, Kayako, you’re the one who’ll be runnin 16Reads—Score—14d adds
- 38 Eerie Revival: I Commanded the Ghost Light from the Start 诡异复苏：开局驾驭鬼光 [Horror Resurgence + No Female Lead + Fast Pace + Controlling Evil Spirits + Three Great Rules] Evil spirits have returned, and demons run wild. If he could do it all over again, Han Liang would never attend that class reunion that night. A severed foot wandering in the dark, a ghost book that knows everything, a mask that laughs maniacally... While escaping a deadly game of Werewolf, Han Liang became a spirit handler. “Did you know? You're about to die.” Guided by the ghost book, Han Liang step 45Reads—Score12914d adds
- 39 Infinite: The Strange Realm 【无限】诡异境界 (Note: Infinite-world story, no female lead, no System, not invincible, not stupid, not a wish-fulfillment novel) Welcome, everyone, to the Cycle of the Haunted Realm. Here, you’ll be thrown into an unexpected “death trap.” The only thing you can do is solve it and escape with your life. When I regained consciousness, I found myself in a terrifying cemetery! It was pitch-black, so dark I couldn’t see my hand in front of my face. Only a faint light fell on the graves. I was holding a shovel, and 16Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 40 Tales of Strange Happenings Among the People 民间诡事杂谈 Never enter a temple in the barren hills alone. Never talk about ghosts and spirits on a night road. Never bury the dead in the center of a burial plot. Pork butchers often can't draw their last breath when they die. The world is full of strange things. What seems ordinary can be deadly. Don't believe me? Turn around and take a look. 275Reads—Score—14d adds
- 41 Driver of the Underworld 幽冥司机 Bus Route 206 is hiring a night-shift driver. Liu Hao eagerly applies, only to discover that the job not only pays well but also has short hours. It’s only after he signs the contract that he realizes there’s something wrong with the bus… Strange passengers and eerie lost property leave Liu Hao wondering if he’s driving the last bus of the underworld! 395Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 42 Rule Horror: I Clear the Eerie Instances by Playing Dead 规则怪谈：我靠装死通关诡异 [Not a power fantasy + No heroine + Shocking twists + Major foreshadowing + Cthulhu Mythos + A touch of the Backrooms + Mind-bending mystery + National fate + Livestreaming + Original mini-dungeons] [My brainpower is limited, so there won’t be much foreshadowing. I promise this won’t be dragged out or end badly.] Three years after the world was plunged into the uncanny, challengers’ talents were ranked from lowest to highest: C, B, A, S, SS, and SSS. So Bai Lan was stunned when the talent she dr 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 43 The Ultimate Supernatural Horror: The Ghost Card Train 终极灵异：鬼牌列车 [Supernatural] + [Horror] + [No Female Lead] + [No Sanctimonious Hero] + [No Mindless Decisions] Ghosts cannot be killed. Every ghost has its own unique rules for killing. Every card represents a vengeful ghost. Find a way to control the ghosts and escape the supernatural incidents. An old, eerie train stained with blood runs toward a terrifying supernatural realm. Where is the train’s final stop? No one knows. Or rather, no one has ever made it to the final stop. 27Reads—Score—14d adds
- 44 Reading Comprehension 阅读理解 [Rules-based horror + smart characters + no mindless decisions + wordplay + no national destiny + thought-provoking short lines + original scenarios] Ming Cha is a high school senior, busy preparing for the college entrance exams, when he is unwittingly drawn into a game. Here, insincere, nauseating flattery, a sarcastic tone, or even a slight change in a syllable can strip words of their original meaning, and that is only at the level of sound. Welcome to the word game. Read, understand, and re 44Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 45 What Will the Next Story Be? 下一个故事会是什么？ A collection of episodic stories based on personal experiences. First person, rural life, the supernatural, mildly frightening, and terrifying when you think it over... episodic stories. The damp villages of the south conceal supernatural tales colder than snakes. Open this book, and you’ll enter a graveyard of memories: a forgotten puppy leaves muddy paw prints on a rainy night; the withered vines of gossip tighten around a young girl’s neck; a blond doll by the roadside carries a curse that cl 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 46 Horror Instances: Follow the Rules If You Want to Survive 惊悚副本：想活命，就要遵守规则 [Clever protagonists + Cthulhu + transmigration + infinite worlds + horror games] The entire city was under the control of a mysterious force, and some people were sucked into eerie spaces. To stay alive, they had no choice but to take part in one bizarre, terrifying game instance after another. There, only those clever and resilient enough had any chance of making it to the end... 139Reads5.6Score—14d adds
- 47 Transmigrating Into the Haunted House, I Lead My Roommates Through the Blood Gate 穿越诡舍，我带室友杀穿血门 [Not a power fantasy] [No breaking up the canon couple] [Single heroine] [No out-of-character behavior] Just so there won’t be any regrets. Some details may differ a little from the original, so I hope you’ll bear with me. Bitter Melon King’s writing is slowly improving, too... [Dog-head emoji for self-preservation] Blood Gate [Kindheart Hospital]: Saving lives is a doctor’s duty. [Qingxiao University]: The truth lies buried beneath lies, and trust dispels the danger of death. [Paradise Lost]: R 188Reads6.5Score1714d adds
- 48 Horror Descends: She Emerges from the Shadows 惊悚降临：她从阴影中来 [Not a brainless power fantasy; plot-focused] After the great disaster, terror descends, ghosts and monsters run rampant, and the world is shrouded in fear. Amid the apocalypse, the timid Song Xuantang steps onto the stage of a terrifying world. A “bloodstained life-price” from an unknown source draws her into the tide of the age. She longs for an ordinary life, yet carries far too many secrets. To survive, she takes a thorny path, seeking only to uncover the truth buried beneath blood and bones 28Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 49 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. 1.3kReads6.6Score10414d adds
- 50 Thriller Game: I Can Eavesdrop on Ghosts 惊悚游戏：我能偷听鬼话 [Infinite Flow] [No Female Lead] [Light Horror] [Multiple Twists] Six months ago, a blood mist sealed off Nandu City, trapping its ten million residents inside. Strange beings invaded the fog, and one abnormal incident after another unfolded. Lin Xu has no idea why he appeared in this city. A strange game appeared at the same time, forcing him to enter a horror instance every seven days, where death was all but certain. But the items he obtained in the game could be used against the strange enti 21.4kReads7.0Score2.2k14d adds
