Novels like Coming for My Life on the Seventh Night? I Can Command the Most Ominous Creatures
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Coming for My Life on the Seventh Night? I Can Command the Most Ominous Creatures, best match first.
- 1 The Nightmare Curse 魇祷 Nightmare Prayer —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 The Yin-Yang Path Through the Mist 迷雾之阴阳道 Yin-Yang Path in the Mist —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Night Parade of a Hundred Demons: The Yin-Yang Path 百鬼夜行·阴阳道 A Hundred Ghosts Roam the Night: The Way of Yin and Yang —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Tales of Terror from a Mountain Village 恐怖山村怪谈 Terrifying nightmares, bizarre curses, uncanny deaths. Taoyuan Bay is a beautiful place, but day or night, the moment you are alone, a strange atmosphere quietly closes in around you. Told from the perspectives of the protagonists Tian Yuan, A Yun, Luo Lin, and the little fox, this story unfolds the mysteries of a graveyard curse, bizarre deaths, and uncanny nightmares. Let me tell it to you, slowly. 43Reads—Score125Shelves
- 5 Strange Happenings After Returning to the Village 回村后诡事 You’ve probably seen someone die with their eyes open, but have you ever seen a dead person standing in their own grave? What happened back then that wiped out the entire generation of my father and his brothers? Rats held a funeral for the dead, the blood moon hung overhead, and entire households were sealed off. One eerie event after another unfolded. Come and hear my story. 937Reads—Score105Shelves
- 6 Notes from Another Realm 异境手记 Every story is a prism of twilight. When the collector turns to the final page, silhouettes of every story’s protagonists suddenly appear on the blank paper. The instant their fingertips touch, the embossed gold pattern on the handbook’s cover reverses into flowing dusk, drawing the reader into this endless twilight narrative as well. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Codename: Bone Butterfly 代号骨蝶 A young woman's body is pulled from a cold riverbank. The police's preliminary conclusion: accidental drowning. When the victim's twin sister, the sharp and composed forensic pathologist Ye Shuyun, touches the body that looks so much like her own, professional instinct cuts through her grief in an instant: abnormal fluid in the lungs, a hidden needle mark, a missing kidney... This was no accident! The victim was her younger sister, Ye Shuya, an investigative journalist determined to expose socie 16Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 8 My Beautiful Ghost Wife 我的绝美冥妻 I was born in a village and grew up depending on my grandfather, who was the village teacher and greatly respected. Most of the villagers were superstitious, and certain rules handed down from their ancestors could never be broken. Of the three forms of unfilial conduct, having no descendants is the worst. The village was poor back then, and many men couldn't find wives. Some started thinking about kidnapping a woman and bringing her back to be their wife… 101Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 A Food Courier's Path to Exorcism 外卖员的驱邪之路 Can you believe that Yu, the legendary Great Yu who tamed the floods, has become a delivery driver thousands of years later? And his time-crossing encounter with Nüjiao, daughter of the Tushan clan, is all the more heartbreaking! Follow the growth of a delivery driver across a thousand years! Was it fate, or a plan four thousand years in the making?! 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 Tales from the Artisan Sect: The Underworld Barber 匠门奇谈：阴间剃头人 Have you ever seen a ghost? Do you know about the Midnight Barber? My name is Lu Yang, and I’m a barber who roams the streets at midnight. With a single razor, I can master the realms of yin and yang; with a word of heavenly insight, I can foretell life and death. The strange and mysterious tales around me include taboos the living must never touch. Get your ears ready, and listen as I tell you about the bizarre and uncanny things that have happened around me… 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 The Grave of the Yin Dead 阴人墓 My cousin's wife had an affair and drove my cousin to his death. But the truth was... 6Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 12 The Killer Breathes in the Dark 凶手在暗处呼吸 "Ahem, ahem, ahem!" Lin Yu waved his hand and said, "Allow me to introduce myself. I'm Lin Yu, the owner of a detective agency. My main line of work is taking on clients and helping them solve cases! The cases are all kinds of strange. I've heard of things you haven't, and seen things you haven't. You might think a case is far away, but sometimes the culprit is right beside you. And is it science or the supernatural? That's something I can't decide either! But I've always wanted to find the answ —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 The Embroidered Shoes of Death 死亡绣花鞋 I have a friend who dreamed he was getting intimate with a beautiful woman. The next morning, he woke up in a mass grave with a female corpse beside him! My name is Luo Tianlin, and I’m an antiques dealer who specializes in collecting antiques that have “gained a spirit.” The drum used to take the dead as concubines; the bloodsucking jade bracelet; the Book of Life and Death that calls the roll, and more. I want them all! 89Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Tales of the Haunted Temple 鬼庙怪谈 A haunted temple swallowed an entire village. I thought it was all just a natural disaster and human misfortune. I never expected that it had all started because of me. 177Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 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—Shelves
- 16 Notes from a Visitor to Another World 异界人笔记 [Infinite Flow horror + mild scares + mystery + single male protagonist + no romance] My father is Pei Shiwu, my mother is Zheng Baifen, and I’m Pei Zheng, who both loses and gains. At sixteen, I unexpectedly gained the ability to see ghosts. I fought evil, helped the vulnerable, and encountered one bizarre, fascinating tale after another. These are my notes. Come along and see what I went through. Got your seats ready? I’m about to reveal it all, one story at a time… 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 Folk Tales of Ghosts 民间鬼故事会 Don't blame me if you get scared to tears. Every night, enjoy a folk ghost story or a rules-based horror tale to accompany you to sleep, improve your sleep quality, and give your courage a workout. It's your spiritual sustenance. You have to read one every day. 105Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 The Seven-Night Spirit Coffin Corpse 七夜灵棺尸 In my dream, I mistakenly believed that Li the Lame, seeking revenge for having his wife stolen, had made a door for my family out of the coffin wood of a girl who had been dead for seven days. Its yin energy clung to us, causing the pillars of our family to leave one after another. I couldn’t get over it. My future father-in-law, Old Yu, saw what was going on and brought over Zhang Baifa, who I would later take as my master. My master dispelled the evil yin force. Once I learned what had happen 229Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 A Modern Narrative of Supernatural Horror 灵恐现叙事 Original horror and paranormal fiction. Horror stories are only meant to help everyone unwind, not to make you more afraid. We welcome discerning readers to come and help answer everyone’s questions... 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 The Recipient After Death 死后收件人 I'm a courier for a residential complex. Since last month, I've been receiving packages addressed to the dead. An empty apartment building, recipients whose accounts were closed long ago, parcels that no one ever claims. The property manager says I'm seeing things. My coworkers say I've been cursed. The police checked every security camera, but say everything looks normal. That is, until I opened the first package for a dead person. Inside was only a note: [You're next.] 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 The Man-Eating Old House 食人老宅 One night, Zhou Zheng, editor-in-chief of "The Strange World", is working late and replying to readers' letters when he happens upon an anonymous letter that defies explanation. It sets off a string of strange events... 824Reads9.0Score107Shelves
- 22 Short Ghost Stories for Bedtime 睡前短篇鬼故事 [One ghost story per chapter, short ghost stories, bedtime horror, not for the fainthearted, folk tales of the uncanny, Chinese-style horror, chilling on reflection, no escape from death] One ghost story every night. Hope it helps you sleep. Improve your sleep quality. 5.2kReads—Score287Shelves
- 23 Married to an Evil Spirit: The Red Veil of Huaian Village 嫁煞：槐安村的红盖头 Married to a Malevolent Spirit: The Red Veil of Huaian Village —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 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—Shelves
- 25 Tales of the Strange in Bluestone Alley 青石巷诡事录 [Supernatural] [Light Horror] [Episodic Stories] [Chinese Folk Customs] Deep in Qingzhou’s Qingshi Alley lies a ferry inn unknown to anyone. Its owner, Shen Du, exists beyond life and death. He has survived for a hundred years, all to dispel the obsessions of the departed. Behind every strange and uncanny event that comes to light are debts of humanity buried for a hundred years. A headsman’s rusty blade, a performer’s jade, salt smugglers bringing disaster, a canal guild’s water tokens, a night 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 Shadows in the Mountain Mist 迷山雾影 Have you ever seen a monster? A creature that exists only in legend... Suddenly appearing in the human world, thirsting for blood and slaughter, treating human lives like ants... In ancient times, whenever a "heavenly dog devoured the moon," people would bang drums and gongs, hoping to drive away the dog eating the moon... Today, human satellites roam through space, and humans have even set foot on that bright moon hanging in the sky, going so far as to declare that its surface is unsuitable for 1kReads8.2Score117Shelves
- 27 Welcome to the Global Wonderland of the Bizarre 欢迎来到全球怪诞乐园 [You have never entered a strange-tale realm like this before] [This is an adventure game that spans dimensions] [This is a collection of mind-bending stories beyond the limits of scientific understanding] [This is an unusual and uncanny book unlike any other] [Welcome to: The Global Wonderland of the Bizarre!] 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 I, a Young Maoshan Taoist, Walk Between Yin and Yang 我，茅山小道，行走阴阳 (A note to all readers!!! You can skip Volume One, The Young Maoshan Daoist Comes of Age, and go straight to Volume Two, Conquering the Yin and Yang. Volume One is a little slow, so feel free to skip it if you don’t want to read it.) My name is Li Qingfeng. The year I was born, strange phenomena appeared in the sky, as dragons and tigers contended. Later, I studied Maoshan Daoist arts under a master. He said I was the most gifted person he had ever met, and that taking me as his disciple left hi —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 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
- 30 I Was Born Without a Breath, and the One Who Saved Me Was a Nine-Tailed Fox 出生断气，救我的竟是九尾狐 [Traditional Supernatural Horror + Urban Legends + Ghost Stories] I had no breath when I was born. I should have been a stillborn baby. Just as my family fell into despair, a woman in white opened the door and saved my life... The one who rescued me wasn’t an enlightened master, but a nine-tailed fox who had lived for over a thousand years. 30Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 The Super Spooky Classroom 超级惊悚教室 At a certain high school, an ordinary afternoon was supposed to mean nothing more than a routine chemistry lesson. No one could have imagined that a terrifying disaster would begin there, and that our lives would never be peaceful again. 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 The Maoshan Occult Talisman 茅山诡箓 I was born in an age when Daoist arts were gradually fading, yet I was born with yin-yang eyes and a gift for divine calculations. I became the heir to Maoshan's Yuantian lineage. With a glance, I can distinguish yin from yang; with divine calculations, I can determine fate! Then, after finding a letter my grandfather left behind, I faced the Tiger Immortal of the Northeast and broke the Japanese art of raising ghosts. From then on, I embarked on a thrilling journey... 98Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 Sealing Demons in the Hundred Meridians: I Absorb Only the Most Ominous Things 百脉封妖：专吸大凶之物 My grandfather sealed all the more than one thousand terrifying yin entities he had captured in his life inside the acupuncture points all over my body. Even without opening my Third Eye, I can see things other people can’t, and even grab them with my bare hands! But ever since I was little, Grandpa has warned me never to let anyone discover my secret, or I’ll be killed... 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 Chronicles of Wangchuan City 忘川城记 Wangchuan City has three iron laws: The living cannot leave, the dead do not decay, and once the faceless statue in the City God's temple calls out a name, someone will die within three days. Shen Du, an eighteen-year-old corpse collector, has to check his arms every morning when he wakes. They are covered in warnings he carved into his own skin. Some have scabbed over, while others look as if they were carved only moments ago. He can't remember what happened the night before, why he can always 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 Tales of the Strange 聊斋那些事 Have you ever heard of a plain-language version of Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio? A scholar spends the night in an abandoned house and is welcomed into a beautiful woman's arms, only to discover that her face is a painted skin. A poor young man finds a fox. The fox says, “I’ll marry you, but you must never look at my tail.” At the mass graves outside town, someone tells stories every night. Anyone who listens disappears the next day. Don’t be afraid. These are all stories passed down by ou 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 Corridor of Resentment: Endless Terror 怨念回廊：无尽恐怖 When the bloody handprint on the classroom blackboard dragged Chen Mo into the Corridor of Resentment, he thought it was just a hallucination brought on by near-death. That is, until he saw his best friend in the hospital instance, chewed to pieces by his own mirror double, dissolving into a cloud of blood. [Welcome to the Five-Dimensional Corridor of Resentment. Clear 80 dimensions to reach the Gate of Guixu.] As the icy announcement rang out, the five-person team was forced onto a path of no r 3Reads7.7Score—Shelves
- 37 The Paper Horse Shop: Messenger Between Yin and Yang 我有一间纸马铺之阴阳使者 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 Midnight in the Countryside 午夜乡村 My parents' job transfers sent me to live and study at my grandmother's house. Before bed, she warned me not to go and look, no matter what sounds I heard. From then on, one strange event after another came crashing into my life. Then, one day, my grandmother suddenly told me the secret about who I really was... 550Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 39 The Greatest Folk Art of All 民间第一奇术 When Mother was pregnant with me, my older brother thought I shouldn't be allowed to live. He was supposed to be the only son in the family! From that day on, Mother started acting strange. I was born in a coffin and survived on milk from the dead! My name is Chen Guansheng. 429Reads8.4Score100Shelves
- 40 Haunted by a Ghost? I Summoned Lightning with My Bare Hands and Killed It 被鬼缠身？我徒手引雷劈死他 To save his junior sister, who was suffering from leukemia, Zhang Tianle broke his promise to his late master. He decided to trade his life for hers, leaving the sect to tell fortunes and earn the money needed to save her. Just after paying his respects to his master, he awakened the Metaphysics Master System. And so a storm began to brew. To earn popularity points, he started livestreaming fortune-telling. A debunking streamer unexpectedly came to his livestream for a reading. He said, “My fri 276Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 41 The Uncanny Path: Invasion of the Aliens 诡道：异形入侵 Aliens + ghosts + demons + parasites + lurking horrors. Maximum terror! The protagonist comes down from the mountain to investigate aliens and ghosts, honing his Daoist arts in real combat. Chapters 1–12 focus on aliens. From Chapter 13 onward, the story combines evil ghosts and aliens. Later, certain aliens will transform into demons, but the sense of oppression and the level of danger will stay just as high. The sect is the Hidden Immortal Sect, founded by Laozi’s disciple. Its history can be 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 The Sister Growing on the Back of My Head 长在我后脑勺上的姐姐 The Sister Growing on the Back of My Head 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 Yun Che: The Grave of the Living Beneath the Old Locust Tree 云澈：老槐树下的生人墓 Yun Che: The Grave of a Living Stranger Beneath the Old Locust Tree —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 Strange Tales: Paper Money 诡异杂谈之纸钱 Weird Tales: Paper Money 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 The Midnight Last Train 午夜末班车 He was on the last bus home late at night when a beautiful woman got on. He was about to confess his feelings, but then he noticed how sinister her reflection looked in the window. He got off the Route 155 bus and instinctively looked up, meeting her gaze... 721Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 46 Strange Tales of Southeast Asia 东南亚诡事 (The author has opened a coffee shop in the ancient city of Dali and is busy with renovations. Please wait a little while for updates.) My name is Ning. During college, I went alone to Thailand to intern at a hotel, where a series of bizarre and inexplicable things happened. Why was there a temple built inside the hotel? What secrets did this temple hide? 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 Ghostly Tales from Fengdu 丰都鬼事 In her previous life, young artist Lin Wan set out alone for the fabled ghost city of Fengdu to search for her missing older sister, Lin Zhixia. Naively, she trusted the seemingly kind innkeeper and local gentry, unaware that she had stepped into a carefully laid trap. Coveted for her yin constitution, she was ultimately sacrificed in an old mansion behind Fengdu's famous mountain by the so-called “good Samaritans” to a traitor in the underworld who had disguised himself as Black Impermanence. H 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 Multiple Fears 多重恐惧 An invitation to a party brings together nine writers, each with a very different style. At the party, the novelist who invited them traps everyone inside and demands that each guest tell a story. With no other choice, they comply. One story after another unfolds at the party: will they reveal the clash of human nature or unleash ghostly terrors? Everything will come to light here. "This is my debut work. I hope you'll show it plenty of support." 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 Forbidden Tales of the Desolate Village: A Midnight Whistle, and a Shrouded Corpse Spirit at the Door 荒村禁忌：夜半吹哨，白布尸魂找上门 Taboos of the Abandoned Village: A Whistle in the Dead of Night, and a White-Cloth Corpse Spirit Comes Calling —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 The Boarding School Deep in the Mountains 大山深处的寄宿学校 This is a fully enclosed school built deep in the mountains. Strange things began happening as soon as she arrived. Just how many secrets is she hiding? And why is the school tucked away in the mountains? It all began the day she transferred. 679Reads8.4Score131Shelves
