Novels like The Southeast Asian Medium
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- 101 The True Account of a Feng Shui Master 一个玄门风水师的真实记录 Lin Yan comes from a family steeped in metaphysics, whose home holds a vast collection of ancient texts on feng shui, fate reading, physiognomy, exorcism, and more. Growing up surrounded by these traditions, he reads every book in the family collection and watches his grandfather and father analyze situations, adjust feng shui, and deal with evil spirits. Through quiet observation and practice, he gradually masters all kinds of metaphysical techniques. As an adult, he officially ventures out int 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 102 My Mockumentary Came True 我的伪纪录片成真了 Luo Luo thinks he's just one “good ghost” away from becoming famous. As a struggling paranormal content creator, he throws himself into digging up a sealed videotape. Hidden inside is an urban legend called the Mirror Palace Puppet, said to appear only between two mirrors facing each other. His followers skyrocket and his popularity soars. Luo Luo brags to the camera, “Guys, I'm totally cashing in on this wave of traffic!” Then he realizes that all the strange footage is starting to invade reali 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 103 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—Shelves
- 104 Records of Yin-Yang Mysteries 阴阳异闻录 The newly dead have their brows painted and faces made up; those long dead have their skin painted and bones carved. The people around you may not be human, and the stories you've heard for years may be more than just stories. 447Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 105 White Russian Cemetery 白俄公墓 [Supernatural + Mystery + Horror + Forbidden Sites and Zone Exploration + Dark] While traveling, I passed through a small town called Beima and accidentally entered a strange internet cafe. The terrifying legend of a woman ghost hanging upside down, messages from an online friend dating back to 2001, an old school campus regarded as forbidden ground, a mysterious ghost village behind the school, and a cemetery that exists only in people's memories. Somehow, all of it seems connected to me. This 49Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 106 The Unscientific Feng Shui Master 不科学风水师 Ji Yan, a top physics student, gains the ability to read the land's feng shui after an unexpected accident in the laboratory. He can find dragon veins and auspicious burial sites, dispel ill fortune and attract prosperity, bring wealth and status, and defy fate itself. With his mastery of feng shui, Ji Yan wins over business tycoons, helps ordinary people, punishes corrupt villains, and becomes a legendary feng shui master. 224Reads9.0Score—Shelves
- 107 Possessed by an Evil Spirit 撞邪 Grandpa spent his whole life doing good deeds. He never imagined that one night, he would ruin a young girl's life... 290Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 108 Feng Shui Master: I Started by Subduing a Peerlessly Beautiful Corpse 风水天师：从收服绝美女尸开始 Supernatural mysteries + feng shui + Taoist arts + corpse seamsters + corpse salvagers + Gu sorcery + Nanyang black magic + folk occult arts + paper effigies A peerlessly beautiful female corpse, a seven-tailed white fox, a living corpse, an inn between yin and yang, a red bellyband, a haunted house, the slaying of an evil god, a drowned ghost, a hanged ghost, a headless ghost, embroidered shoes “Within three months, you must complete five tasks involving the dead, or you’ll be doomed beyond red 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 109 If You're Afraid to Die in a Horror World, What Makes You Think You Can Win? 在恐怖世界怕死，你凭什么想赢啊 [Infinite Flow]+ [Death Game]+ [Apocalyptic Survival]+ [Horror Mini-Worlds] Warning: This may not be well written, so think carefully before diving in! In the orderly world we know, have you ever imagined a chaotic world that was its opposite? Yun Xiao was snatched from his sleep and brought into such a world. Here, there are no laws, no order, no humanity… In short, there are no rules at all. All that exists are terrifying mini-worlds where you can grow stronger! At first, he thought this was 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 110 The Maoshan Heavenly Master 茅山天师 My grandmother’s death indirectly set me on a path completely unlike that of ordinary people. From then on, my fate began to change. The farther I traveled along this road, the more strange things I experienced: underworld messengers, the Eight-Gate Corpse Fiend, the Spirit Rock Ghost Realm, the Kunlun Demon Droughtfiend, and more. Then I suddenly realized that all these events seemed to point toward a conspiracy, one powerful enough to turn the world upside down... 1.6kReads7.5Score107Shelves
- 111 The Curse Master: Cautious and Conniving from the Shadows 诅咒师：谨小慎微，背后阴人 [No female lead] Better to stab someone in the back than make a show of yourself in public. After transmigrating to the endlessly warring myriad worlds, Fang Che becomes an unknown nobody in an imperial plane. To survive better, he chooses the curse master profession, the one best suited to striking from the shadows, and uses what he learned before transmigrating to craft all kinds of cursed artifacts. 958Reads6.0Score101Shelves
- 112 100 Strange Tales I Know 我所知道的100个诡故事 So, what is this book about? Shadow people, red wedding gowns. Green hair, embroidered shoes. Incense offerings, talismans, yin-yang eyes. Ghost marriages, spirit journeys, ancient fox immortals. Old mansions, deserted villages, ancient wells. Curses, vengeful spirits, taboos… Strange tales, bizarre legends, unsolved mysteries beyond belief, and eerie happenings that make your back go cold and your hair stand on end… I've written down the experiences of my family and friends, as well as things I 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 113 The Seventh Night After Death 头七 My grandfather said that whoever a hanged person sees last is the one they’ll come back to haunt. When I was twelve, the village hired a troupe to perform ghost plays. I went to play with them, never imagining that the troupe’s leading performer was hanging from the beam right behind me. 22Reads7.7Score—Shelves
- 114 Don't Compare Tomb Raiders! The Guanshan Taibao Have No Taboos! 别拿摸金比！观山太保百无禁忌！ My name is Jiang Jiuhe. My ancestors were the Guanshan Taibao, who built and guarded imperial tombs to keep tomb raiders away. But by the time the duty passed down to me, I'd spent twenty-five years on guard and still couldn't get a decent meal. I looked at our ancestral copy of The Guanshan Guide to Mysteries and spat. To hell with the ancestral rules! In this world, starving to death is no better than gambling everything, even your life. But I never imagined that by tearing it up, I would be r 662Reads—Score106Shelves
- 115 Strange Tales of the World 世奇怪谈 [One Thousand and One Nights of Terror] A deranged pregnant woman, abnormal growth, a horrifying circus, money paid to buy a life, a bizarre matchmaking gathering, an endless staircase, a rule-based horror story at a nursing school, a haunted snow mountain, a human-faced badger, strange happenings in a rented apartment, dog-headed men... Bizarre tales you’ve never heard before, wildly imaginative premises, plot twists layered upon plot twists, and endings you’ll never guess. A cup of tea, a cig 2.4kReads8.5Score361Shelves
- 116 The City’s Evil Feng Shui Doctor 都市风水邪医 Fifteen years ago, Qin Yu was a beggar on the verge of freezing to death on the street, until an old Taoist priest saved him. Fifteen years later, having mastered the Taoist arts of geomancy, medicine, physiognomy, fate-reading, and divination, he returns to the city. He commands the forces of yin and yang, reads feng shui, wards off disasters and misfortune, and heals the sick to save lives. He soon makes a name for himself in the city... 3.3kReads8.6Score362Shelves
- 117 The Last Dragon Keeper 最后一个豢龙师 People say that wherever the water is five zhang deep, there must be a monster. Tales of water monsters have circulated since ancient times, and hunting them is a real profession in this world. As he lay dying, Lu Chen’s grandfather passed down a book called The Lost Dragon-Rearing Manual and warned him not to study its contents. But curiosity got the better of him, and he opened it. After testing his skills, he slew a giant golden perch in a lake and obtained the rare treasure Golden-Scale Dew 898Reads7.6Score102Shelves
- 118 Rule Horror: Teacher Su Has a Lesson for Everyone 规则怪谈：苏老师给大家上一课 “Next question: On a blood-red midnight, you’re chased by a painted-skin demon at an old house in a deserted village. Four escape routes appear before you. Which do you choose?” [A: Rush under the offering table in the ancestral hall] [B: Leap into the ancient well in the back courtyard] [C: Tear down the Door God print and stick it to your chest] [D: Climb onto the beams of the west wing] “Thirty-two students in this class actually picked C for this freebie!” Su Bai slammed the lesson plan down 181Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 119 Secret Records of Northern Tomb Raiders 北派盗墓秘录 [Hardcore Tomb Raiding]+ [Suspense at Full Throttle]+ [Utter Terror] Before my master disappeared, he sent me only a stone shard carved with a black dragon coiling around a coffin, along with a bloodstained prophecy: “When the Dragon-Suppressing Coffin stirs, the nine lineages return to their source; when the black dragon opens its eyes, the secret map will emerge.” To find my master, I set out with the black dragon shard and my childhood friend Wu Nianjiu for a suspected Liao-dynasty tomb benea 84Reads—Score—Shelves
- 120 Being a Taoist Is a Profession, Not a Human Mutation 道士就是个职业，不是人类变异 Frozen for a thousand years, he awakens at last. But the world he sees is overrun by demons and monsters, transformed into a living hell. Humanity struggles to survive like ants. Most tragic of all, the world has no idea the Daoist sects even exist. People have turned their backs on the Dao! Hou Lang, a candidate disciple of the Daoist sects, has no choice but to shoulder the banner of their revival... 99Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 121 Demons Lay Waste to the City, and I Establish the Heavenly Court Through the Unorthodox Path 妖魔屠城，我以左道立天庭 Demons and monsters run rampant, and the people suffer. Great clans and sects treat humans like livestock. After transmigrating to such a world, Xiao Yi has only one thing to rely on: the Left-Handed Path Longevity System, which reverses the price he must pay. Across endless ages, the lowly grass will ultimately rise to the very top and cast every inhuman creature into the dust. 932Reads6.8Score112Shelves
- 122 I'm Just a Photographer, So Why Do I Keep Seeing Ghosts?! 我就是个摄影师，为什么总见鬼！ [Original Work, First Release] [Supernatural Horror] [Mystery and Puzzles] [Chinese-Style Horror] [Folk Supernatural Tales] [Light Transmigration] Photographer Lin Shen set off alone for an abandoned old house in the wilderness, hoping to capture a supernatural series that could turn his career around. But he never made it out of the ravine. When he opened his eyes again, he had transmigrated into the body of another freelance photographer, He Xun. He made a living with a camera just the same, a 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 123 Hunting Notes from the Greater Khingan Range 大兴安岭狩猎笔记 Folk Horror / Period Fiction / Hunting Legend / Supernatural Northeast 1993, deep in the Greater Khingan Mountains. Snow seals off the mountains, and an endless sea of forest stretches in every direction. This is a blank spot on the map, a forbidden zone beyond the reach of the law. In a world of nothing but black and white, survival depends not on the law, but on the rules. Chen Ye, an abandoned baby raised by wolves, is known as “Wolf Boy.” Ten years ago, on a stormy winter night, the old hunt 1.2kReads7.5Score107Shelves
- 124 The Northern School's Tomb Raider: Searching for Dragons 北派盗墓寻龙记 [Tomb Raiding + Mystery + Adventure + Underworld + History] Adapted from true experiences. That year, I was no master appraiser fresh out of prison. I was just a poor kid who identified soil by smell and felt his way along tomb passages with his fingers. I drifted through a hazy youth and into middle age, enduring hardship and uncertainty all the way. Over half a lifetime, I witnessed all sorts of people from all walks of life, and heard tales of the underworld you have never heard before. If yo 51.3kReads7.9Score4kShelves
- 125 Master Ma Jiu Hunts Demons 马九爷捉妖 Tianjin, where the Jiuriver meets the sea, has been home to strange tales since ancient times. If you don’t believe me, then listen as I tell you a ghost story from Tianjin: how Ninth Master Ma hunted demons. Speaking of Ninth Master Ma, he was truly a remarkable man. And before long, strange things began to happen... 1.2kReads9.1Score128Shelves
- 126 You Expect a High Schooler Like Me to Marry a Thousand-Year-Old Female Ghost? 你让我一个高中生娶千年女鬼？ The white cat my classmate casually picked up during evening study turned out to be a Huang Xian spirit that had cultivated its way to enlightenment. After I so much as glanced at it, it wanted to take my internal organs. To stay alive, I had no choice but to enter a ghost marriage and wed a ghost bride... 25Reads—Score—Shelves
- 127 Master of Exorcism 镇邪先生 These days, there aren't many people with real skills left. I've been in this line of work for more than ten years, dealing with the dead every day. Carrying corpses, painting faces, stitching skin, keeping watch, probing the water, digging graves, performing rites, guiding spirits, and sealing coffins. My grandfather told me I could retire at thirty. But I cast a fortune for myself, and learned that I only have thirty years to live. With what little time I have left, I'll tell you all about my 20Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 128 Welcome to the Nightmare Livestream!!! 欢迎来到噩梦直播间！！！ My new work is out! Everyone is welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support is what motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 129 White Terror 白色恐怖 [Wildly Imaginative Twists] + [Extensive Foreshadowing] + [Social Unrest] + [Mystery and the Supernatural] The campus, bustling by day, is eerily quiet at night... A group of girls playing with a spirit board in their dormitory happen upon the body of a woman who fell to her death. Rumors spread that a ghost is responsible. Then another girl is pushed down the stairs by an evil spirit in the teaching building! Panic grips the campus. Before long, a female teacher is killed by a ghost on camera a —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 130 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
- 131 I Told You to Play a Game, So How Did You Become the Great Emperor of Fengdu? 让你玩个游戏，怎么成酆都大帝了 [Horror Revival] [This Game Is Not Right] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Mercilessly Crushing All Opposition] [Fengdu’s Top-Tier Star] Lu Yang was once a top-tier star idol, but after a career-ending scandal, he was condemned by the entire internet and saddled with an astronomical breach-of-contract penalty. To pay off his debts, he was forced to join a livestream program called Spirit Medium, billed as a “full-dive horror game.” But as soon as the game began, he realized something was wrong... Introd 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 132 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
- 133 I Put on a Mask and Became a God 戴上面具，我成了神 I woke up with amnesia from the start. Did I kill someone? The security footage shows me brutally slaughtering two burly men all by myself? Yan Zhile: That wasn't me. I put on a mask and got possessed by a god. Do you believe me? Police: Why not say you're Ultraman while you're at it? From an ordinary college student to the Host of a forbidden mask. She takes down scumbag dads, slays heavenly fiends, and tames ancient divine beasts. When she has collected every mask, she stands atop the Ea 27Reads—Score—Shelves
- 134 The Maoshan Sect Master 茅山宗师 The greatest blessed land under heaven, the eighth grotto-heaven, is known as the Orthodox Maoshan Tradition! The Manifest Sect has carried its mandate for a thousand years, while the Esoteric Sect has subdued dragons across ten thousand miles. The thousand-year struggle between the two branches of the Maoshan Sect has become a legendary tale without precedent. Gathering the finest wisdom of the immortal way from the ages and preserving the ancient essence of rare secret arts, the path is simple 1.3kReads8.4Score105Shelves
- 135 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
- 136 True Strange Tales from the Folk 民间真实奇异怪谈 At midnight every night, we’ll take you through the door of forbidden secrets for spine-tingling thrills and mind-bending twists. Are you brave enough to test your limits? From folk ghost stories to strange urban cases, from deserted village houses to sealed train compartments, every tale is an immersive horror adventure. Just when you think you’ve uncovered the truth, the story suddenly turns upside down. The killer could be right beside you, and the deadliest danger is often hidden where you l 20Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 137 Eerie: An Ordinary, Helpful Good Samaritan Picks Up Junk Online 诡异：普通热心好人在线捡破烂 “What paranormal stuff? I just picked up another cardboard box.” The paper effigy shop owner Xie Zhi happily stows it away, unconvinced. “Huh? What's this? A doll? Never mind, I'll take it.” “You say this doll is an S-rank horror? Give me a break!” Everyone watches the S-rank horror sitting perfectly still in Xie Zhi's hands, overcome with deep self-doubt. He's just an ordinary, kindhearted citizen who likes doing good deeds and picking up junk. The horrors: “You're lying! You're lying!! Don't c —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 138 Lord of the Unorthodox Path 左道之主 I’m hard at work on my new unorthodox-cultivation novel, which is guaranteed to debut next month. Next year, I plan to finish a million-word unorthodox-cultivation novel. Even if it’s not good, I’ll keep writing!!! Don’t ask why. Let’s just say I have the Gu of Perseverance (Yaksha grinding its teeth). [Using evil to stop evil] + [Not a traditional power fantasy, don’t read if that’s not your thing] + [If you won’t work hard at cultivation, let’s be brothers in my Banner of Ten Thousand Souls] + 223Reads6.8Score100Shelves
- 139 There Are No Such Things as Ghosts 哪有什么鬼 (Urban supernatural, talismans and Taoist arts, yin-yang and feng shui, two male leads, mysterious agency) One of the male leads is a complete novice, forcibly carried to victory by a lecherous old man, a chubby chatterbox, and an internet-addicted loli. Together, they form the ultimate demon-hunting team. The other is a celestial master from Mount Longhu, the first in a century to emerge from seclusion. But after predicting that he will die at 28, he gives up and spends his days playing around. 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 140 Jiangshi: A Gu Cultivator in Uncle Nine’s World 僵尸：九叔世界里的蛊修 No System + no transmigration + slow burn: an ordinary man’s all-or-nothing path to immortality. Meng Hai, a nominal disciple of Uncle Jiu, has poor cultivation aptitude. In this Age of Declining Dharma, he can’t cultivate orthodox Daoist arts. By chance, he obtains the inheritance of Gu cultivation and becomes a practitioner of unorthodox arts. From then on, he sets out on his unorthodox path, refining Gu to harvest spiritual power and attain immortality! 760Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 141 The Soul-Suppressing Stele 镇魂碑 Telling the eeriest stories and exposing the most unfathomable human hearts! The final installment in the Evil-Quelling Trilogy! (The first two, Evil-Quelling Notes and Thousand Corpse Town, are both complete.) After the first thirty thousand words, there will be three updates every day! No delays, guaranteed! Thank you all for continuing to support Lao Zhang! 687Reads7.8Score101Shelves
- 142 True Tales of Ghost Encounters: Paranormal Files 撞鬼实录之灵异档案 Li Yuanfeng was born with unusual eyes and ears. It was those eyes that helped him solve one bizarre case after another... One shocking tragedy after another, desperate screams for help, a terrifying game at a university in the dead of night... A man embedded in a wall... A child used as a sacrifice... The secrets of an ancient, haunted house... What are the voices from the well trying to tell us?... How can severed limbs be pieced back together?... A pair of eyes that can see through every cycl 326Reads8.8Score103Shelves
- 143 Borrowing a Path Through the Yin Coffin 阴棺借道 In our area, strange tales of “the white coffin that carries people off” and “the rolling corpse bridge” have been passed down for generations. The elders say that a water ghost claims its victims at the rolling corpse bridge, while the white coffin that carries people off is even more eerie and sinister… 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 144 Return from the Forbidden Zone: I Brought the Missing Back from the Warp 禁地归人之我从亚空间带回失踪者 Every year, a million people mysteriously vanish around the world, and none ever return. Then Zhong Jiale discovered that the window in his bedroom was actually a gateway to forbidden pocket dimensions! Ruined ghost cities, deep-sea prisons, apocalyptic exclusion zones, ancient ruins... Everyone else went in to die, but he went in to save people, seize treasures, and become a god! He rescued billionaires from hell and brought back relatives who had been missing for a century through a rift in ti 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 145 Sanliao: China's Number One Feng Shui Village, a Thousand Years in the Making 千年三僚：中国风水第一村 [Feng shui + sacred sites of geomancy + geomantic arts + feng shui masters + feng shui knowledge, taboos, and ways to overcome them + mysticism, occult arts, fortune-telling, divination, and geomancy that can change both fate and fortune + no transmigration, no livestreaming, no female lead] In the chaotic final years of the Tang dynasty, Yang Junsong, also known as Yang Jiupin and Yang Yi, and later honored as Master Yang, carried a compass and led two boys into the mountains of Xingguo Sanliao 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 146 The Young Feng Shui Master 少年风水师 When I was ten, my grandfather built a coffin for himself with his own hands... From that moment on, the heavens shattered and all realms fell into chaos. [The 2021 feng shui and fantasy masterpiece!] 633Reads8.1Score136Shelves
- 147 The Soul-Returning Soup 还魂汤 I was born in a remote village. The day my mother gave birth to me, she died a horrible death! I was born disabled, missing an arm, and with a red birthmark shaped like a coiled snake on my foot. My master said I had been cursed by an evil spirit, and that the curse could only be lifted if I found the one who cast it. Otherwise, I wouldn’t live to see twenty... 96Reads—Score—Shelves
- 148 The Demon King and the Celestial Master 妖王天师 Have you ever heard of a sinister art that can turn a living person into a human-skin paper effigy overnight? Have you ever seen the bizarre sight of a lifelike human face growing out of a tree trunk? And surely you've never heard of a five-year-old child killing a wolfdog that feeds exclusively on corpses. Yes, there are far too many inexplicable things in this world. I may be young, but the things I've been through are things you may never have heard of. That's right. I'm Luo Tian, a Celestial 3.7kReads8.8Score349Shelves
- 149 The Divine Mortician 神葬师 I am the peerless Divine Burial Master. I use heaven and earth as my coffin to bury every ghost and god in the world, and feng shui formations to safeguard the nation’s fortune for generations to come. The world honors me as the National Feng Shui Master. Bureau 749 regards me as its pillar of support, and I trounced the Kiku Sect. Yet in the ultimate battle ten years ago, I won but still lost everything. With my cultivation gone, all I could do was return to my hometown and wait to die. Then, o 28Reads—Score—Shelves
- 150 Upholding Justice in Heaven's Name 替天行道 Yin cannot thrive alone, and yang cannot exist by itself. I grew up in the countryside, left behind by my parents and raised by my grandfather. All his life, Grandpa was either helping widows and orphaned girls or on his way to help them. So, for as long as I can remember, I heard the villagers cursing him behind his back. Then one day, a stranger in a burial shroud asked me a question. A tree without bark but with a soul is bound to die. What happens to a person with skin but no soul? The relat 3kReads8.9Score247Shelves
