Novels like The Bizarre Case Investigator
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- 151 Ghost Incense 鬼上香 People eat food, while ghosts catch its scent! Every trade has its own rules and fate, and mine is downright horrifying. My name is Han Yiding. I was born from the belly of a corpse, a corpse-born infant. I also have a master who looks like a con artist. Whenever I think of that old man, he hardly seems like some great master. You ask who founded our sect? Ever heard of Lü Dongbin? A renowned master who cultivated both Buddhism and Taoism. But enough explaining. This child born from a corpse is 404Reads8.1Score152Shelves
- 152 The Yin-Yang Geomancer’s Legacy 阴阳地师传 At ten years old, I slew a white serpent and subdued a hundred ghosts. The generals of the underworld called me “little brother.” Using feng shui, the art of Qimen, and Taoist magic, I solved one strange murder case after another! It all began with the corpse of a man in a cornfield! 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 153 The Eerie Immortal’s Box 诡仙魔盒 [Mystery] + [Eerie] + [Xuanhuan] + [Thriller] + [Mind-Bending] + [One Female Lead] Chen Tong, a young man struggling to make a living in the city, returns to his hometown to attend his grandfather's funeral... But he unexpectedly discovers that his grandfather's death was shrouded in mystery. He comes into possession of a mysterious golden-thread nanmu box, and everything begins to turn Eerie... The grandfather of a female classmate from his village also dies. The monks and Taoist priests hired —Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 154 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 314Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 155 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
- 156 The Corpse Keeper 守尸人 The morgue is where life and death meet. At this boundary, there are many taboos to heed. I grew up beside a hospital morgue, and I'll tell you about the hospital's taboos from a different perspective. Taboo 1: If you see a patient being resuscitated, don't gather around to watch. Taboo 2: If a patient's family throws away something the deceased used while alive, don't toss your own trash on top of it. Taboo 3: If you hear a cat meowing at night, don't go outside to look, whether you're a patien 917Reads6.3Score100Shelves
- 157 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
- 158 I Test-Sleep in Haunted Houses: My True Accounts of Ghostly Encounters! 我做凶宅试睡员，口述撞鬼实录！ [As long as you’re not afraid of ghosts, you can make money even while you sleep.] My name is Ma Jun. Two friends and I run a real estate agency. We make plenty of money, but we keep running into ghosts because all the properties we sell are haunted houses... 468Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 159 A Collection of 365 Strange Tales and Horror Stories 365个奇闻异事和恐怖故事合集 This is a series of short horror stories. The writing isn't the focus; it's all about telling the stories. [Standalone stories + horrors that grow worse the more you think about them + mystery and the supernatural + urban legends + haunted homes + folk tales + strange tales + feng shui and mysticism] Are you ready? When night falls, these terrifying stories will begin crawling into the ears of the living... 736Reads—Score—Shelves
- 160 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
- 161 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
- 162 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
- 163 This 24-Hour Convenience Store Uses the Living as Shopping Baskets 这家24小时便利店，用活人抵购物篮 This 24-Hour Convenience Store Uses Living People as Shopping Baskets 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 164 Living Human Pillar 活人桩 Bridge and road construction inevitably disrupts the local feng shui. If a malign force is encountered, an expert must be called in to counter evil with evil at the site of the incident, driving two living human stakes into the ground. 688Reads8.7Score100Shelves
- 165 The Person Under the Bed, the Eye on the Wall, the Peeping Tom Outside the Door 床下的人，墙上的眼，门外的窥 The person beneath the bed, the eye on the wall, the peeping outside the door 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 166 Lord of the Heavenly Secrets 天机之主 Chu Yu only wants to solve cases in peace, but everyone keeps taking him for a charlatan. After solving the unsolved case of a young nobleman, the emperor declares him the uncrowned Imperial Preceptor. After unraveling mysteries involving ghosts and monsters, the myriad realms revere him as the Heavenly Secrets Dao Venerable. Holding up his bronze mirror, he sighs helplessly: “I never wanted to be a savior. Can’t you just let me solve a case in peace?” The mastermind behind it all trembles at hi 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 167 The Scalding Gold Bracelet 烫手的金镯 Five boys set out to rob a tomb, but their greed awakened something even more terrifying beneath it. Could the ancestral gold bracelet actually be the lock on a seal? Forced to become a “living target,” Wang Erwa must uncover the truth behind a silversmith’s violent death and the sins of an old debt before the evil spirit fully awakens. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 168 The Eerie Girlfriend 诡异女友 Can a loser really not find true love? One day, I suddenly discover that my girlfriend has disappeared. Did she dump me? But I’ve asked so many friends, and none of them have seen her. I can’t stop breaking out in a cold sweat... Was I dumped, or is there something “wrong” with her? 222Reads7.8Score—Shelves
- 169 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
- 170 Paranormal Encounters: What I Saw and Heard 灵异事件之所见所闻 No System + no transmigration + no power fantasy + no harem + no invincible protagonist + no sweet romance + no clichés + no female lead + no cultivation. Important notice: if this isn’t for you, don’t read it. If this isn’t for you, don’t read it. If this isn’t for you, don’t read it! Do you believe there are things in this world that science cannot explain? Have you ever experienced anything supernatural yourself? Treat the events in this novel as stories, and remember: Fear and respect the sp 130Reads—Score—Shelves
- 171 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... 83Reads—Score—Shelves
- 172 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… 208Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 173 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
- 174 Old Tales of the Dead Village 死人村旧事 Chen Ergou holds a stalk of grass and gently pokes at the paper money still smoldering in front of him. Behind him, a dense crowd of “people” from the village and beyond stands packed together... Hanwa, his belly slit open and his tongue hanging down to his chest; Sufen, naked, with raw flesh exposed; the Fat Taoist, whose limbs and head are covered with tightly packed stitches at the joints; Tian Da, his body stiff, a walking stick jutting from his wide-open mouth; Xiao Zhao, pale-faced and dri 185Reads8.4Score109Shelves
- 175 The Nightmare Apartment [Dark Comedy] 恶梦公寓【黑色幽默】 [Horror, paranormal, infinite flow, pure horror with no humor] [Realistic instances with richly developed backstories] My name is Chen Lin. The story begins one night when I get a distress call from my younger sister. It isn't until I enter an ancient castle with four people of unknown origins that I realize what a terrifying, desperate world lies hidden beneath our own... “There's no such thing as undeserved good fortune. The source of the light is the true essence of evil.” “When you read this —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 176 A Collection of Spine-Chilling Stories 惊骇故事集 The world is in turmoil, with strange and wondrous things hiding everywhere. Mysteries deep in the starry sky remain unsolved, while shocking cases unfold around a small town. Science fiction and suspense perform a double act, as Lovecraftian murders rise with the tide. The secrets in people’s hearts are hard to fathom. Just wait and see this collection unleash its waves of terror. The horror here is bizarre and grotesque, not some childish little scare. In an abandoned village shrine, a white- 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 177 Terrifying Supernatural Happenings 恐怖灵异怪事 A terrifying paranormal ghost story. There is a Zhao Family Village in the Funiu Mountains, where many terrifying supernatural incidents have taken place in the ravine west of the village. Several people have been frightened to death, and many nearby residents shudder at the very mention of the ravine. Even the villages around it have experienced many inexplicable events. I used to be afraid. I wanted to write about them but didn't dare. Whenever I thought about putting them into words, terror w 656Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 178 The Sixth Man's Strange Tales 老六诡事 A collection of true stories about all kinds of inexplicable, supernatural events personally experienced by people around me. Just think of it as my attempt to pass off some tales as Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio! Not for the faint of heart! Not for the faint of heart! Not for the faint of heart! I’m repeating it three times because it’s important! I don’t make up stories. I’m simply passing them along! 72Reads—Score—Shelves
- 179 Infinite Horror: I Can Sense Ghosts 恐怖无限：我能感知到鬼 [Infinite Flow, Not a Power Fantasy] [Slight Horror] [No CP] [Survival] [Escape] [Deduction] [Mystery] "Shh..." "There are ghosts in this world!" Those contaminated by the aura of Another World can only keep clearing one instance after another. They say that after clearing 13 instances, you can make a wish? Lu Ming discovers that ghosts aren't the only things he can sense. There's also... In this game of pursuit between humans and ghosts, he is forced into Another World, a realm teeming with evi 11.5kReads6.9Score1.1kShelves
- 180 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... 306Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 181 Afterlife Notes Bonus Story: Secrets of the Haunted House 还魂笔记番外篇：凶宅秘录 Afterlife Notes: Bonus Story: The Haunted House’s Secret Records —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 182 There Are No Evil Dogs on Evil Dog Ridge 恶狗岭没有恶狗 There Are No Vicious Dogs on Evil Dog Ridge 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 183 The Ghostly Side of Humanity: Mad Stories You Never Knew, Volume 1 鬼味人间：你不知道的疯人故事1 Believe me, this world has another face. What seems insane to you may be perfectly normal to someone else. The eerie, unsettling stories of human life, the sinister and unfathomable depths of the human heart, and tales of madness you’ve never heard before are all hidden in this book, Ghostly Flavors of the Human World. 3kReads9.2Score269Shelves
- 184 The Coffin Bearer 抬棺者 I’m a coffin bearer. After carrying coffins for decades, I’ve seen all kinds of sinister coffins: mother-and-child coffins, coffins without mourners, coffins for those who died violent deaths… And behind these coffins, a shocking secret was hidden… 192Reads6.7Score105Shelves
- 185 Zhang Laosan Tells Stories 张老三讲故事 Long, long ago, a strange calamity struck Kaoshan Village, deep in the old forests of Northeast China. Hunter Li Dashan kept watch over a coffin on a snowy night and encountered a weasel spirit that spoke like a human, asking him to give it a title. One careless remark from him exposed a bloody secret from twenty years earlier. When the statue of the Yellow Immortal on the ancestral hall’s altar split with bloody cracks on the night of a lunar eclipse, when a golden-haired weasel burst from a pe 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 186 Grandma’s Ghost Stories 听奶奶讲灵异故事 I was raised by my grandmother. The bedtime stories I heard as a child were all supernatural events she had experienced herself. They scared me so badly I was afraid to go to the bathroom, but I could never resist listening to the end. What I didn't know was that the more stories I heard, the more likely they were to come true, and that I had plenty of secrets of my own. 159Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 187 Republic-Era Notes on Summoning Evil 民国招邪笔记 Chinese-Style Horror + Episodic Mysteries + Ancestral Taboos + Republican-Era Suspense + Cursed Objects That Claim Lives Each supernatural case wraps up in three to five chapters. The pace is breakneck, with no dragging things out! Folk-horror elements: red wedding gowns, ancestral halls, midnight opera troupes... If you’re a scaredy-cat, read during the day. If you’re brave, listen to the audiobook at night for the full dose of terror. 87Reads—Score—Shelves
- 188 The Yin-Yang Artisan 阴阳诡匠 [Author's note: This book has no System and isn't mindless. Most of the events… really happened. Do not try any of the customs or taboos described here! Any consequences are your own responsibility!] It's better to offend the King of Hell than a poor carpenter. When you've worked as a carpenter long enough, you'll inevitably encounter all sorts of terrifying, bizarre accidents and stories. Sometimes, we're part of them ourselves. I used to think my grandfather was just an eccentric old carpenter 1.1kReads6.3Score102Shelves
- 189 Folk Horror Stories You’ve Definitely Heard 你一定听过的民间恐怖故事 This story is entirely fictional and has nothing to do with the real world. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. At his sixth birthday banquet, evil spirits devoured his entire family in their dreams. Gu Chen, the young heir of a wealthy family, had his memories forcibly erased by men in black. All that remained were fragments of nightmares: a diamond-shaped badge, red-eyed guests who devoured dreams, and a gun that erased memories. Ten years later, he tracks down the city’s supernatural inci 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 190 The Eight Immortals Bear a Coffin, While the Weasel Bows 八仙抬棺，黄皮子磕头 A filial son's head rolls through the streets. The living die, and their descendants bury them. Sons kneel; daughters become nuns. My dad is the only one in the village who can see and interpret omens. This is the story of the strange and wondrous things I witnessed after taking up his mantle! 243Reads6.4Score108Shelves
- 191 Thirty Years of Strange Tales from the Northeast 东北异事三十年 Forty years ago, the old man ventured into Ghost Mountain at night and negotiated with the ghosts, winning Dongshan Village forty years of peace. Forty years later, a lone grave has thrown the whole village into chaos. A tragedy from forty years ago has claimed nearly a hundred innocent lives! What started it all? Why has a corpse's white hair turned black, and what is the red-clad female ghost trying to point to when she appears at midnight? 178Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 192 The Last School Bus 末班校车 [A female-focused mystery thriller, a brain-teasing and hilarious redemption story] From here on, I'll personally take you on this last school-bus journey... You'll see a terrifying doll sitting right beside you... You'll witness a string of murders in a girls' dormitory, all within a single year... You'll shudder at the bizarre death of a school beauty who was three months pregnant... You'll rage at the evil hidden in a fog-shrouded residential complex along the way... And you'll encounter the 403Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 193 The Bride in the Red Coffin 红棺里的新娘 The first book: horror, terror, and the uncanny. The sequel: comedy and humor! Two stories: The Bride in the Red Coffin + its sequel, also known as My Ghost Wife Keeps Trying to Scare Me to Tears. When crimson ripples spread across the deep pool, I finally saw the bone comb in the hands of the bride in the sunken coffin. Carved into it were my birth details, even though I had been missing for three years. Xu Xiaomo was drawn home by tales of the Sunk 182Reads—Score—Shelves
- 194 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
- 195 Luring Ghosts 招诡 A lot of the time, there are secrets and things hidden inside you that even you don't know about. For instance, what happens after you fall asleep... 350Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 196 Ultraman's Fantastic Journey 奥特之奇幻之旅 [Ultraman + Passionate action + No System + Becoming Light + Faith] The clash between light and darkness has never ended. Xingye, who gained the Light of Noah… The legendary light of the universe, the light of the Land of Light, protector of the universe… An Ultraman transmigrates into the world of Battle Through the Heavens to work as a laborer? An Ultraman becomes a top student in the Land of Light? The everyday life of an Ultraman getting beaten up as a child? An Ultraman gets beaten until he 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 197 The Human-Skin Umbrella 人皮伞 A human-skin umbrella! Just as the name suggests, it’s made from human skin. Before the skin is removed, the “material” must soak in a medicinal bath for three full nights. Then the skin can be peeled off with ease. The intact skin is cut into several pieces and soaked in a specially prepared solution for two days. Only after it has been dried in the sun can the crafting begin. A human-skin umbrella is impervious to sunlight. The better the “material’s” skin, the better the user’s skin will be i —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 198 I Rented a Haunted House, and My Roommate Is So Strange 租房租到凶宅，我的室友太奇怪 I Rented a Haunted House, and My Roommate Is So Strange While scrolling through short videos, I discovered that the place I’d been renting for six months was a haunted house where someone had died. Even the pillow used to smother someone to death was lying quietly on my computer chair. I was going to ask my roommate to come with me to get out of the lease. But the landlord said he’d only rented the place to me. What roommate? 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 199 Terror on the Meat Delivery Run 运肉惊魂 On the eve of Spring Festival last year, I quit my job in a fit of anger and went back to my hometown to work at a buddy’s butcher shop. One night, while we were driving back with a load of meat, a stunningly beautiful woman stopped us. I kindly offered her the front passenger seat, but she opened the door and climbed into the rear compartment, which reeked of blood. On the way, I could faintly hear tearing and chewing sounds coming from behind me. But the only things back there were that beauti —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 200 My Neighbor Isn't Normal 我的邻居不正常 My Neighbor Doesn’t Seem Quite Right I secretly recorded all the evidence and called the police, but watched with my own eyes as he hanged himself in a room full of “trophies.” —Reads—Score—Shelves
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