Novels like Tomb Raiding: Strange Tales
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- 1 I Have a Date with a Ghost 我和鬼魂有个约会 [Supernatural CEO]+ [Ghost hunting]+ [No romance] My name is Yi Huan. My grandfather was a temple fortune-teller who read fortunes and studied feng shui for people. By a twist of fate, I inherited his mantle. From then on, I made my way through both the realms of yin and yang, profiting from the dead until I became the next Third Master Yi... —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 I Inherited a Murder Mystery Game Shop from the Start, and All the Staff Are Vengeful Ghosts 开局继承剧本杀店，员工全是厉鬼 While others inherit family fortunes, Jiang Ye inherited a haunted shop. Freshman Jiang Ye was forced to take over the script murder game shop his second uncle left behind, a business on the verge of bankruptcy. To his surprise, he became bound to the [Register of a Hundred Ghost Employees]. From then on, while others caught ghosts to exorcise evil, he caught them to put them to work. A hanging ghost at the front desk, a water ghost running the air conditioner, and a red-clad vengeful ghost acti —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Strange Tales of Tomb Raiding in the Southern School 南派盗墓异事 [Real Tomb Raiding + No AI] My name is Zhou Quan, and I'm from Guangxi. Here I recount the supernatural and bizarre events that really happened during my tomb-raiding adventures. I've read a few web novels in my spare time, and it seems AI-written web novels are everywhere these days. I want to tell this story from the perspective of someone who was actually there, as a record of things past. 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Forbidden Livestream 禁忌直播间 When you open this book, The Forbidden Livestream, you may not believe that its story is based on real events! An allegedly unsolvable horror forum, a hapless programmer crushed by the 996 work schedule, and a third-rate female student detective who considers herself first-rate. What dazzling sparks will fly when all of them come together? Thriller or mystery? Human or supernatural? Be careful! Because from this point on, every step you take will keep you on the edge of your seat! 37Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Subduing Evil 镇邪 There are always mysterious things in this world, yet people dismiss them as nonsense. Miaojiang gu poison, corpse-driving in western Hunan, Nanyang curses, the Flowerfall Cave Maiden, shamanic sorcery, and yin-yang demons are all forbidden taboos. You don't have to believe in them, but you must remain in awe. Above all, never profane them! When the taboo soul bell rings out in the sky and ancient horrors quietly awaken, the world teeters on the brink of disaster. Will there still be someone who 637Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 6 Subduing Evil 镇邪 [China's first mystery novel to reveal the customs of the ancient Dongnu Kingdom] A mysterious old town, an ancient profession, and a rash of strange events. Friend or foe, it's impossible to tell! A peculiar custom from the ancient Dongnu Kingdom, and the source of sins passed down for thousands of years. Terror at the fifth watch, bizarre murder cases: are they vengeful ghosts, a curse, or the evil in people's hearts? A bloodstained clay pot, bells and drums offered in worship, kindhearted peo 160Reads5.2Score—Shelves
- 7 You Found Me 你找到我了 Modern Supernatural + Female-Led + Fresh Premise + All-Rounder + Wild Imagination + Reincarnation + Spirit Speech + Runes and Formations + Fictional Modern Setting + Pure Wish Fulfillment in the Middle and Later Parts Abandoned and cast out? No. Her god reincarnates for her, life after life. Following the usual formula and old clichés? No. The Heavenly Dao is nothing to her. An ordinary girl dealing with a life that’s a complete mess? No. Other people are the ordinary ones. She is the unique one 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 Life at a Crossroads 岔路人生 If you could truly live your life over again, would you regret the choices you made? Shen Que never imagined there could be a real answer to that question. That day, the subway stopped at 5:42 p.m. Two people with the same name and the same face, each having lived through twenty-seven years that were almost, but not quite, the same, appeared before him at once. Only then did he learn the truth: Every truly important choice could allow another version of your life to keep going. They weren' —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 Songs of the Underworld 冥歌 [Not a wish-fulfillment novel] It’s a tangled, lengthy story, not one about a loser turning his life around by fawning over women. [There is a heroine] I’m new to this, so I don’t understand why novels have to be tagged as having no heroine. To be honest, mine has one, though she doesn’t appear much. [Not necessarily funny] Hard to say. The author has a strange sense of humor. [Neurotic] The author is a little crazy, with a mind that keeps jumping around, so the plot can sometimes feel erratic. 1Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 10 The Dragon Coffin 龙棺 The day my mother gave birth to me, a dying giant snake frightened her so badly that she started bleeding. In a fit of rage, my father cut off the snake’s head. When I was born, birds and beasts took flight, and countless snakes gathered, surrounding our courtyard so tightly that nothing could get in or out. My grandfather asked a feng shui master to resolve the matter. He buried the giant snake’s remains in our ancestral graveyard, and only then did its resentment subside. Ever since I was old 310Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 11 Apocalypse: Tracing the Dragon's Veins 末世：探寻龙头脉 [Thriller and Horror] [Tomb Raiding] [Antique Appraisal] [Supernatural] [Imagination] Wei Qi, who runs an antique shop in the provincial capital, explores a cave in his hometown with two companions. After they encounter something strange, he falls seriously ill. During his illness, he enters another world, receives guidance from an expert, and gains the ability to use feng shui and magic arts. After recovering, his memories return, and he discovers that his father dug up the coffins of his mothe 6Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 12 I Opened a Pawnshop at 33, and the Midnight Visitors Aren't Human 33岁开寄卖行，半夜来的不是人 Dongji Pawnshop has three rules: First, after midnight, we accept anything, no matter who knocks. Second, we don't give change in spirit money. Third, never ask customers where they came from. Han Haodong had survived for three years on this old street by following these three rules. Until he found a fourth rule among his grandfather's belongings: “Never let the scales tip out of balance.” He didn't know what it meant. But he would soon find out. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 The Ominous Coffin 凶棺 It all started with a coffin that floated up from the river... I thought it was a fortune dropped from the sky, but it turned out to be a disaster. After I pried open the coffin, I began to feel that something unclean had followed me home. My daughter grew stranger by the day. She was only three, yet she had already started developing! 120Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 The Heavenly Eye Coffin: Tales of Tomb Raiding in Tibet 天眼棺材：西藏盗墓惊奇录 [Mystery] + [Supernatural] + [Horror] + [Tomb Raiding] Two tomb-raiding enthusiasts meet online. After receiving an invitation from a mysterious stranger, they head to Tibet in search of an ancient tomb containing a coffin with a celestial eye. After enduring countless dangers, they uncover a shocking secret and treasure, and encounter both allies and enemies, along with a web of intrigue. Hidden inside the celestial-eye coffin is a crystal ball that can see through everything. It will change 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 The Underworld Retirement Home 冥府养老院 [Mystery + Supernatural Horror + Urban + Deduction + No Do-Gooder Protagonist + Decisive and Ruthless] On the first day of school, I ran into a female ghost! Facing the red-clad upperclassman before me, I raised a chair and brought it crashing down on her! "You think it's funny to dress up like a ghost and scare me, you bastard?" —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 All Those Years I Took on Commissions 我做委托的那些年 Mother-and-child temple demons? Jumping corpses from mountain villages? Flying-head demons? Strange monsters and spirits? A ghostly bride? No, they’re all props and actors! An analysis of human nature? A tragic life? A bittersweet romance? No, they’re all just scripts! Is this the male lead’s real-life experience? No, it’s a microfilm! If you don’t understand my Daoist arts, then I happen to know a few moves myself! 4Reads7.6Score—Shelves
- 17 The Ultimate Ghost-Raising Master 极品养鬼师 [Adult] + [Adorable Pets] + [Sharp Tongue] + [Making Money] + [Secret Arts] Do you know how to raise ghosts? No worries, I do! Do you know how to catch ghosts? No worries, I do that too! Do you know where to find ghosts? No worries, I’ll take you there! Watch your step. Get in! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 Tomb Raiding: The Zhang Family's Secret Legacy 盗墓：张家密传 “Plum Blossom Six-Line Divination: distinguish yin from yang and determine the Eight Trigrams. Sixty-four hexagrams, each one different. It’s not that you can’t see clearly, it’s that you don’t want to...” A curse spanning a thousand years. A “game of chess” painstakingly plotted by generations. A man seeking to defy the will of Heaven... —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 Curse of the Sinful Shadow: The Sinner's End 孽影咒怨之罪者的末路 In the shadowy corners of a bustling city, evil grows unchecked like a cancer. Driven by greed, some resort to the most despicable means to line their pockets, while others lose themselves in an abyss of desire, unable to climb out. Little do they know that retribution is already drawing near. Each sin has finally awakened a curse lurking in the unseen world. This is a horror story about evil and retribution. Every sinner pays a terrible price for their misdeeds, while the resentment hidden in t —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 The Spirit Pact of Sinister Schemes 诡谋之灵契 People often say that a person’s fate is decided by Heaven, but that is not entirely true. Mu Fan was born into a vast conspiracy. With a body of four yin and an utterly yin fate, his perilous destiny made an ordinary life impossible. A female ghost in the park tries to seize his soul, while a stunning ghost bride enters into a marriage pact with him. Corpses dance in the funeral home; teachers and students at a school haunted by vicious ghosts leap from buildings in eerie circumstances; deep in —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 The 28th Book by Longbi Writes the World 龙笔写天下第28本书 My new work is here! Come read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support is what motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 The Pact of the Ancient Book 古书之契 It all began when Lin Zhiyu picked up a strange book. Then he met the equally strange Yu Zhiyan, who seemed to have a secret connection to the book. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 The Boy in the Hemp Robe 麻衣少年 [Ma Yi Divine Physiognomist, Young Feng Shui Master, Defying Fate] The year I was born, torrential rain fell from the heavens, and hordes of weasels swarmed into my home. To save me, my father leapt into the flood. When I was seven, my grandfather took in five female disciples, and they all became my senior fellow disciples. My bizarre story begins with these five senior sisters. 2.5kReads8.6Score237Shelves
- 24 The Autobiography of a Wandering Earth Immortal 走地仙自传 [Tomb robbing is illegal. Do not put yourself to the test of the law.] [Tomb Robbing + Mystery + Antiques Appraisal + Stories + Alternate History] I once took the blame for someone else and quietly spent three long years in prison. I never imagined that the moment I stepped out of that cage, the course of my fate would change so quietly. I entered the trade of “earth-walking immortals,” thinking it would only be a brief detour. Little did I know that once I entered this line of work, I’d be enta 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 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 32Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 Red and White Banquets 红白席面 [Mild thrills] [A clever main cast] [One heroine] [No excessive saintliness] [All manner of evil spirits + mysterious practitioners with their own agendas] A sudden mishap at her father's funeral leads Li Sixian, a wealthy heiress, to be rescued by Gan Xin, a village banquet chef. She discovers the hidden side of the world, and, determined to spare her father the tortures of the City of Wrongful Death, she boldly chooses to become a ghost official while still alive. A rookie ghost official who k 14Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 27 The Wicked Husband’s Seduction 邪夫撩人 I was born on the night of the Hungry Ghost Festival. From that day on, strange things kept happening in my village, and the people around me died one after another. To stay alive, I fled into the Dragon King Temple. When I came out, I found myself haunted by an invisible man... (Traditional supernatural horror + mind-bending mystery + realism) 164Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 28 Tomb Raiding: Peach Blossoms in Their Full Glory 盗墓：桃之夭夭，灼灼其华 (Long-haired beauty male lead + thousand-year-old peach blossom tree spirit + everyone’s darling + 1101 + younger love interest + irresistible heartthrob) Yao Zhuo was a peach blossom tree in Xie Yuchen’s courtyard. After a thousand years, he finally transformed into a tree spirit. Naive, innocent, and powerful, he soon caught the attention of several people. The head of the Xie family, who hadn’t fallen for anyone in over twenty years, lost his heart at first sight. Hei Xiazi, who had weathered 18Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 29 The Silent Pact 不语契 I thought I would follow in my god-grandfather's footsteps and calmly enter Peking University's archaeology department. Then an unexpected ancient clay tablet, covered in strange runes, changed everything. Its cryptic clues, like hooks of fate, dragged me from the misty rain of Jiangnan to the mysterious, sweltering lands of Dian in Yunnan. Buried beneath the miasma-choked jungle was not only the legendary tomb of the ancient Dian king, lost for a thousand years, but also the start of a breathta —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 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 596Reads8.0Score100Shelves
- 31 Grudge-Locked Patterns 怨气锁纹 Dai Xiaochao, the protagonist, is a college graduate in architecture from the 1990s. Under heavy financial pressure, he moves into a tenement building where a locked-room murder took place two years earlier. Surveillance was scarce in those days, so the police had to investigate door to door, and the case made little progress. Then the ancient Taotie jade pendant inherited by Dai Xiaochao’s family, along with its Taotie patterns, begins to react... And that is where the story begins. 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 The Corpse Carrier 背尸匠 My name is Fang Youde, and I was born in 1990. I enlisted in 2009. After two years of mandatory service, I volunteered to stay in the army for another three years. During that time, I received two third-class merits and one second-class merit, so I had quite a record of service. In 2014, for some reason, I left the military. Under the regulations on resettling discharged soldiers, the local government assigned me a job at a funeral home. That was where my career as a corpse carrier began. Corpse 8.1kReads8.3Score471Shelves
- 33 My Hopeless Life Became Even More Desperate 我无望的人生更加绝望 After something happened to her family, Mu Xia could never move on from that day. She went through life in a daze. Until one day, she accidentally entered a world of horror. And so began a fantastical journey. She made new friends, faced all kinds of events, and lived a new life. 1Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 34 Ghost Stories at Three in the Morning 三更讲鬼 This book recounts some strange events from the 1980s. One place holds far more than a hundred stories. Perhaps it would be more fitting for me to be a bystander, or a listener. I have written down the stories I heard to remember the past. You can simply take the people and events in these pages as a joke, if you like. Or you can read them as stories that invite self-reflection. Who knows... the characters in them might bear a resemblance to you. Or perhaps they reflect someone close to you. Wit 154Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 35 I Am a Personal Effects Organizer 我是遗物整理师 No one would do the job of sorting through people’s belongings after they died, even for money, but young Chen Jiaren dares to take it on! She earns a living while beating up bad guys and putting evil people in their place. The story is incredibly satisfying! Mystery + deduction + no System + golden finger The heroine is focused on saving money 105Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 36 Daoist Bai Mei, Matchmaker of the Dead 白媒道长 Welcome to the works of Pangtou Yu! The author will do their best to bring you exciting stories. Thank you for your support and for sharing your criticism. Wishing all readers the best of luck. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 I’m Going to Lure 100 Lost Souls 我要勾满100个亡魂 Sequel to I Guide Souls at Wangxiang Terrace Lin Jiaojiao, 24, an overworked office worker, suddenly dies on the Nth night in a row of staying up all night revising proposals. When she opens her eyes again, she has already completed every step of the underworld’s procedures. But just as she reaches Wangxiang Terrace, the guide Zhou Yi stops her. “Your attachment remains unresolved. You can’t be reincarnated.” Judge Li Muzi offers her a way forward: work as a soul reaper under him, and she can be 9.7kReads—Score3kShelves
- 38 The Old Corpse: Strange Happenings in the Mountains 老尸：山中诡事 A thousand skeletons pillow the moonlit stele, their shadows sealed. Autumn tombs wear rosy clouds, blood soaking the steps. The boiling cauldron cooks souls, a thousand years of grievance. A grand feast for ghosts, with every skeleton withered. In the utter silence, corpse oil lights the candle. In a place shrouded from the world, a rotting hand pushes open the door. A lingering soul adorns the dressing table, a spider transformed into a hairpin. A name sinks beneath the mirror, maggots become 186Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 The Gallery of Gods 神明陈列馆 My sister's life hangs on my cursed one. To save his terminally ill sister, Chen Gu steps into a dark world that collects human obsessions and “tokens.” During an expedition, he embeds “Destruction” in his right arm and seals “Order” inside his chest. From then on, his body becomes a battlefield between two colliding stars. He becomes a monster, and every time he suffers, his sister's soul is torn apart from a thousand miles away in her hospital room. In his darkest hour, he discovers the mark 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 Strange Tales of Min Mountain 岷山异事 In the 1980s, businessman Mo Wenshan traveled to the Min Mountains to survey the market. By a twist of fate, he became entangled in a tomb-robbing case, setting off a series of strange and perilous ancient tomb expeditions. In the process, the secrets of the ancient Shu civilization, hidden for a thousand years, came to light… 199Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 41 The Terrifying School 极度恐怖校园 As the best university in the city, this school admits only outstanding students. But it also has many rules that are hard to understand: no studying after eight o’clock, and no leaving your dorm room after midnight. No matter who calls to you from the corridor, do not answer... The protagonists in this story are all independent, but their countless connections eventually bring them together. What secrets does this school hold? 247Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 Medium's Notes: My Left Eye Can See Ghosts 灵媒笔记：我的左眼能见鬼 The Cangye lineage of the Southern Frontier unleashes chaos. The Cherry Blossom Curse, Yin Soil summoning, Ruin Spirits, and malevolent earth veins emerge one after another, leaving the seals protecting the land on the brink of collapse. In a desperate battle, pure Yang Heavenly Energy collides with the turbid qi of Yin Soil inside him, forming a yin-yang vortex whose blessings and dangers are impossible to predict. His old enemies flee into the Hundred Thousand Mountains, seeking a chance to p 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 The Lost Pool in the Mirror 镜中迷潭 That night, I stepped into the elevator. The doors opened four times. Each time, it was the fourth floor. The fifth time they opened, there was a hall of mirrors outside. In countless mirrors stood countless versions of me. Only one of them was smiling. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 Frightening Folk Tales of Ghosts and Monsters 民间吓人的鬼怪故事 This book collects folk tales about ghosts and monsters from China and around the world, both ancient and modern. They include deeply moving love stories, myths where good and evil are repaid in kind, and eerie tales that will leave you trembling with fear. We hope you enjoy them. This story is entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual events or people is purely coincidental. 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 Don't Ask! I'm an Evil Cultivator Gone Mad Over Appraising Treasures, on My Way to Godhood 别问！问就是邪修鉴宝发癫成神 [Overworked office worker fights back + no romance + strong female lead + livestreamed antiques appraisal + mystery and the paranormal + making money to stay alive + fantastical ideas + lighthearted comedy + sharp-tongued troll] After being reborn, overworked office worker Lu Tianyi is forced to bind herself to a deadly evil-cultivation System! She thought surviving a disaster meant getting a satisfying new life, but it turns out to be a pay-to-survive game! Time left to live: one day! This isn’ 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 Tomb Raiding: My Years with the Northern School 盗墓：我在北派那些年 [Tomb raiding + adventure + treasure appraisal] I'm a poor kid from the countryside in Henan. I dropped out of middle school, and after an accident, I joined a tomb-raiding gang. That was when the gears of fate began to turn. Over the years, I've faced countless dangers, seen countless treasures, and learned just how hard it is to read people's hearts. Geese leave their calls behind as they fly by; people leave their names behind as they pass through life. I've written down my story in the hope 140Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 EN Otherworldly Merchant 阴间商人 I’m a merchant who specializes in collecting sinister, supernatural objects. Anything that belonged to the dead is valuable! In the hands of ordinary people, these things can bring anything from a haunting to the ruin of an entire family. But in my hands, they can help you get promoted, make a fortune, defy fate, and meet every need a client could have. Want to know why? Shh. If you’re brave enough, come hear about the first terrifying deal I took after entering the business... 188Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 48 Wuniang's Cookbook 五娘食谱 Deep in the neighborhoods of Chang'an, a light from a cooking fire always glows quietly at night. It belongs to Wu Niang's food stall. Sometimes it sits on a street corner; other times, it becomes an unremarkable little shop, as if carried along by the wind. She makes food so delicious that people can't stop thinking about it. She knows her true customers are not just people, but the desires and resentments churning within their hearts. Wherever greed burns brightest, wherever old grudges run de 131Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 49 Lighting the Sky Lantern 点天灯 Just how terrifying is corpse-driving in western Hunan? After failing the college entrance exam, I stumbled into the corpse-driving trade. Who could have guessed that on my very first job, I would run into... 712Reads8.3Score103Shelves
- 50 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. 9Reads6.6Score—Shelves
