Novels like The Underworld Patrolman
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- 151 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
- 152 Folk Horror Taboos 民间恐怖禁忌 Do you know the stories old people tell? Do you know there are many things in folk tradition that people say must not be spoken of? Do you know what the elders say about dreams? The elders say there are things you mustn't talk about at night. Did you know that? 130Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 153 I Love Your Numbness, I Love Your Spice, I Love You Till My Stomach Gives Out 爱你的麻，爱你的辣，爱得老胃直拉胯 I love your numbing spice, I love your heat, I love you so much my stomach’s a mess 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 154 Mama Haha Won't Fly Anymore 玛玛哈哈不飞了 Mama Haha Won't Fly Anymore 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 155 The Stone That Remembers the Light 会记住光的石头 The Stone That Remembers the Light 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 156 The Spooky, Hilarious Legend 恐怖幽默搞笑传 Synopsis of The Spooky, Humorous, Hilarious Tale Other streamers are scared out of their wits when they encounter ghosts on camera. When he runs into evil spirits, his go-to move is “cuddle up”! In a gloomy old mansion, instead of heartrending sobs, the streamer blasts his absurdly catchy “Good Luck Is Coming” theme music. A ghost in white lifts her long hair to scare him, only for him to whip out a pair of Tony's scissors and ask, “Want a makeover?” Even the supernatural crowd rushes to post co 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 157 Hall Master, Please Wait 香主，请留步 On her master’s recommendation, Ruan Xiaojiu took a job as a fragrance master. But soon after, her master mysteriously disappeared. She discovered that the employer behind the job was the Pei family of the capital, a clan with deep roots and influence that could summon extraordinary talents from across the land to crack all manner of strange cases. Even stranger, while working, she could communicate with her master through their consciousness. She could even create a fragrance domain and refine —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 158 Level Up to 999 in Seconds While Exorcising Demons in the World of Lin Zhengying 在林正英世界除妖秒速升级999 High school student Ye Fan transmigrates into the chaotic era of the Republic of China. He keeps his head down in the mountains for three years before finally unlocking the Immortal Martial Supreme Merit System. After descending the mountain, he discovers that this is actually the world of Lin Zhengying’s zombie films. From the start, the System rewards him with a talent that multiplies his abilities a hundredfold, setting him on the path to the pinnacle of life. [Ding! Host attacked a walking c 74Reads7.6Score—Shelves
- 159 The Witch Seeks the Veins and Calms the Soul 巫师寻脉镇魂 A man in a red robe isn't necessarily a groom. He might be a shaman, known as a Duangong. The protagonist, Liu Chunqiu, is the youngest shaman in southwestern Hubei. Other people wear red to marry. He wears red to drive out ghosts. Other people pray to Buddha and beseech the gods. He invites the gods to possess him. His master asks him to find and recover the lost lineage of shamanic arts. From then on, the protagonist performs Duangong rites day and night to heal the sick and ward off evil, and 110Reads—Score—Shelves
- 160 I Created the Underworld and the Celestial Court 我捏出地府天庭 By day, demons hide among the crowds, devouring people without a trace. By night, ghosts and monsters feast, roaming unchecked. Li Chen transmigrates to a world hiding a dreadful terror, penniless and suffering from a terminal illness. With such a hellish start, fate still gives him a chance: he unexpectedly receives the Nuwa Empress's legacy and a Dough Figurine System... Sculpt the Earth God and the Door Gods, and evil spirits won't dare approach. Sculpt the Black and White Impermanence and th 202Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 161 Eerie Revival: From the Start, I Became a Netherworld Lord 诡异复苏：开局成为地府大佬 [Eerie Revival] [Urban] [Gods] After the Red Moon appeared, strange events erupted all over the world, and humanity began living in fear every day. Genetic coding and human augmentation projects gave people the power to fight back. Gu Qingming, whose name means “clear and bright,” unexpectedly transmigrates into this world on Tomb-Sweeping Day. He gains a God-Making System, and the stage is set for his grand debut... 1.4kReads6.7Score117Shelves
- 162 The Corpse of a Mountain Village Woman 山村女尸 [Feel-Good Read + Urban + Suspense + Supernatural] He Xi is an ordinary security guard. One day, the west gate of Chaoxi Psychiatric Hospital desperately needs a guard. The pay is 30,000 yuan a month, but nobody dares take the job! Nobody else dares, but He Xi does! Only after arriving does he realize something is wrong. The west gate isn’t meant for people to pass through at all. It’s a gate for ghosts! 7.4kReads7.7Score341Shelves
- 163 Chronicles of Ghostly Encounters 遇鬼纪 I’m not a professional writer. A few years ago, I started writing things down on a whim, simply because I wanted to record what was happening around me, and somehow ended up writing quite a lot. I also tried to pursue writing as a career, but honestly, aside from recording or adapting real events, writing is difficult for me. After thinking it over, I decided I wanted to return to my original purpose. Maybe I’m not much of a storyteller, but I really enjoy sharing and talking with people, especi 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 164 My Years Selling Buddhist Amulets in Thailand 我在泰国卖佛牌的那几年 A lot of people believe in ghosts, and a lot of people don't. Before I went to Thailand, I was just a broke nobody. But then I somehow started selling Buddhist amulets... You didn't know there were ghosts inside them? 10.4kReads9.0Score1.6kShelves
- 165 Night Talks at the Threshing Ground 打谷场夜话 Long ago, in the countryside, there were no phones, televisions, air conditioners, or fans. When darkness fell in summer, people would head to the threshing ground to cool off, sit in a circle, chat, and start telling strange and terrifying ghost stories… 1.7kReads—Score103Shelves
- 166 My Pale Life 我苍白的一生 My name is Zhang Yuan, though my childhood nickname was Ergou. I'm male, born in 1990. Everyone encounters all kinds of strange, inexplicable things in life. By the way, do you believe in ghosts? 473Reads8.4Score101Shelves
- 167 100 True-to-Life Crime Stories 100个超真实罪案故事 Re-create the scenes of real-life crimes. Bizarre and unfathomable cases, with stories that are painfully true! The Suyuan case, the death of Jang Ja-yeon, the suicide of Hwang Hana’s boyfriend, the Oceanic Building massacre, the 300-million-yen robbery, the missing couple, the violent robber Zhang Jun, the Northeast China Wang brothers case… This collection brings together major, serious, and unsolved crimes from around the world, adapted from real cases. Uncover the truth behind the cases and 10Reads9.1Score—Shelves
- 168 Feike’s Banquet 费可的晚宴 A Chinese version of And Then There Were None. The best mysteries come from reality and are hidden in the human heart. A mysterious invitation to dinner brings six strangers who have never met together in a lakeside villa. Yet the host never shows up. As the story unfolds, memories and reality intertwine, gradually revealing a connection they had never noticed: every one of them had been swindled by the host. Stories steeped in desire and betrayal, temptation and sorrow, sketch the life of a cri 980Reads9.4Score241Shelves
- 169 Didi Rides: The Ferryman of the Underworld 滴滴搭车，地府摆渡人 “Hey, beautiful, where are you headed?” “The Yellow Springs Road. I’m going to be reborn.” Qin Zeyu never imagined he’d become a ferryman for the Underworld, much less a special-contract driver with the number 007! Picking up passengers, fighting ghosts, earning merit, and flirting with Bai Shao, a beautiful ghost officer: his days are... thrilling! But when he meets a female ghost heartbroken by love, he discovers that the netherworld has its own tangled romances and bitter rivalries. 185Reads—Score—Shelves
- 170 Another World: Horror Game 异世界：恐怖游戏 [When a horror game descends, a yandere BOSS targets her from the start] Dropped into a disastrous situation right away? Sorry, someone has already talked himself into falling for her. Yu Xinlan was accidentally swept into another world, where she encountered a village of inverted red and white, a “perfect” yet eerie school, a temple where every wish came true... Each dungeon concealed a bloody past and its own rules. She proceeded cautiously, yet the same man kept maliciously raising the diffi 807Reads—Score149Shelves
- 171 Horror Revival: My Underworld Enforcers Are All Goofball Players 恐怖复苏：我的阴差都是沙雕玩家 [Fantasy + Underworld + Mastermind + Fourth Calamity] Ghosts roam by night, and horror returns. Some say only the gods can save the world; others say only the uncanny can fight the uncanny. Fang Yun says, “You don’t get it. Any horror becomes a sightseeing attraction once players team up to clear it.” So when the Ghost Ancestor descended, a group of max-level players calling themselves spirit wardens showed up with top-tier gear and looked down at the weak and helpless Ghost Ancestor. “This is 632Reads9.0Score100Shelves
- 172 The Haunted Houses I’ve Experienced 我经历的凶宅 The older generation often says that people who die violent deaths cannot enter the cycle of reincarnation. Their souls endlessly haunt the places where they died, seeking substitutes. Only then can they be reborn. That’s why we often hear in the news about car crashes that keep happening at certain locations. Sometimes the place isn’t even a proper intersection, yet terrible accidents leave cars wrecked and people dead. Some streams aren’t even as deep as a person is tall, yet every year there 2.1kReads8.9Score188Shelves
- 173 Ghosts in Pieces 散装见鬼 Do you believe there are ghosts in this world? I think that question is as impossible to answer as whether there are dragons in this world. The answer you hear most often is: Believe in them, and they exist. Don’t believe in them, and they don’t. But if you ask me, my answer is simple: Yes! Not because I believe, but because I can see them. Of course, I wasn’t able to see them from birth. It all goes back to the strange experience I had when I was six... 32Reads—Score—Shelves
- 174 Case Files 罪案集 [No romance, plot-focused + mind-bending suspense + bizarre murder cases + unusual perspective] We do not worship absolute peace. But when no crime is ever brought to justice, crime becomes the norm, and chaos takes the place of order. Ten years ago, Lian Huai watched with his own eyes as the entire building, his parents included, was reduced to rubble by an explosion. The trauma drove him insane. Unable to live a normal life and exhibiting an antisocial personality, he was locked in a psychiatr 959Reads8.1Score180Shelves
- 175 When the Funeral Dance Begins, the Living Must Flee 丧舞起，活人避 The Red Luan chapter of The Book of a Thousand Autumns, also known as Red Luan Ferry [Folk Professions + Southern Yunnan Mysticism + Paranormal Folklore + Strange Tales] I was supposed to die when I was six, but I joined a sect to prolong my life. A folk sect in southern Yunnan: warding off evil spirits and guiding the dead. There are countless rules and taboos in our line of work. “When the funeral dance begins, the living must stay away.” When the funeral dance is performed, the living must tu 207Reads—Score—Shelves
- 176 Reborn in Another's Body: Dalang, Let's Go Home 借尸还魂之大郎，我们回家吧 Reborn in Another's Body: Dalang, Let's Go Home 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 177 A Collection of Ancient Folk Tales of the Supernatural 古代民间灵异故事合集听来的故事 A hugely popular collection on Tomato Listen, featuring rule-based horror, infinite-loop survival, folk customs and taboos, deranged killers, deadly survival instances, feng shui, livestreaming, modern technology, and many other kinds of horror. Volume One: Classical ghost stories. A blend of modern and classical taboos: never look in the mirror at midnight, someone is under the bed... A wedding sedan, an old well, an ancestral shrine, a nighttime opera... Any ordinary thing can become a spirit; 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 178 Lord Guan's Descent to Exorcise Demons 关帝君降魔 Lord Guan Subdues Demons 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 179 The Skeleton's Revenge 骷髅的复仇 The Skeleton’s Revenge —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 180 The Cursed Girl with a Doomed Fate 诡命煞女 Ever since I was little, I was a child my mother hated. Born with an overwhelming concentration of the Seven Sha, I made every demon and monster flee at the sight of me. It wasn’t until I was twelve that I learned the truth: my birth had been part of a massive conspiracy... 10.2kReads9.2Score1.1kShelves
- 181 The Strange and Supernatural Things I’ve Heard and Seen 那些我所闻所见的灵异事 I’ll tell stories about the strange things that have happened to me over the years, along with the folk secrets and I Ching mysticism I’ve learned. At the start of each story, I’ll say whether I experienced it myself or heard it from someone else. I may not tell them in chronological order. I need to remember and organize everything, so I’ll just talk about whatever comes to mind. Things I experienced myself may be exaggerated, but they’re absolutely true. As for some of the stories I’ve heard, 2.5kReads—Score163Shelves
- 182 A Dragon's Son, Carried in a Ghost's Coffin 龙生子，鬼抬棺 My name is Ding Lin, and I was born covered in dragon scales. The villagers said my mother wasn’t human. When she died, a hundred ghosts carried her coffin, and the River Earl wept at her funeral. My mother said I was the child of a dragon, born extraordinary, blessed by a hundred ghosts and immune to every taboo... 5.2kReads8.8Score522Shelves
- 183 Folk Taboos and Strange Tales 民间禁忌怪谈 Ever since I was a kid, I thought my grandpa was strange. Whenever he had nothing to do, he liked to wander deep into the old forest. Then one day, he brought a little girl back from the woods, and I discovered the secret he was hiding. From then on, I tried to get away, but only became more deeply entangled... 690Reads8.3Score100Shelves
- 184 Paranormal Streamer: The Sledgehammer Notes 灵异主播：铁锤笔记 A paranormal livestreamer and a female yin-yang practitioner team up to deal with supernatural incidents. After being ambushed by an evil sorcerer, they fall victim to a curse involving poisonous magic. To break the curse, they descend into the Yuanchen Palace, face off against ghosts in a battle of song, storm a reclusive sect’s warded realm, help underworld officials subdue demons, escort an earth immortal to take up a post, and venture into the underworld to steal a prophecy from a forbidden 29Reads—Score—Shelves
- 185 The Dark River's Book of Crimes 暗河罪书 I write with care, creating stories readers feel were worth their time and cases they can talk about. Some characters and events in this novel are based on real cases, blending reality with fiction. Not AI-generated + no goody-two-shoes heroines + mind-blowing twists + explosive plot + every facet of life People can look up and see the Milky Way billions of light-years away, yet look down and fail to see the underground rivers just a few hundred meters beneath their feet. In those dark, turbulen 1.3kReads8.2Score214Shelves
- 186 Classroom of Despair 绝望教室 What began as a prank voting game set off a string of tragedies. One classmate after another died, yet the voting continued. I knew that maybe I would be the next one to die… 671Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 187 Yin-Yang Online Shop 阴阳网店 Zhou Hao is a fake Taoist who grew up following a charlatan. After finishing his college entrance exams, he opens an online shop, only to find that his very first customer is White Impermanence. From then on, he starts making a living by scamming both people and gods. He sells beer, cigarettes, and spicy strips for their weight in gold. He buys talismans, spells, and magical artifacts for next to nothing. And as for his luck with women... well, you know how that goes! 1.3kReads8.7Score157Shelves
- 188 Midnight Terror: The Strange Radio Broadcast 午夜惊魂之电波诡事 In the winter of 1998, Liu Siyang, a broadcasting college graduate, was assigned to Shengjing Radio. He took over a long-dormant late-night program, named it Midnight Frights, and set out to tell the insomniacs of this old industrial city some unusual stories over the midnight airwaves. He unearthed three bizarre cases from the radio station’s archives and old police files: the sweeping sounds that never ceased after the death of “Big Black Tooth,” the library’s caretaker; the green powder stuff 37Reads—Score—Shelves
- 189 Horror Revival: Sign-In for a Gatling Gun from the Start 恐怖复苏：开局签到加特林 Horror has returned, and ghosts and monsters are running rampant. Humanity has no way to guard against them! Huang Shaofeng had only just transmigrated when he ran into a vicious ghost. Luckily, at the crucial moment, he awakened a System and embarked on the path of physical exorcism. The great and merciful Gatling, delivering all beings to salvation! Three thousand six hundred rounds a breath, and all six roots are cleansed. Physical exorcism is the deadliest kind. 661Reads7.8Score105Shelves
- 190 Horror Taboo: Returning the Soul Beneath the Coffin 恐怖禁忌，压棺回魂 The dead open their eyes, ghosts come to claim souls, the living borrow lifespans, and the dead press down on their coffins... One bizarre, uncanny experience after another keeps resurfacing in my mind like a nightmare. The strange tales in this book are mainly based on Yang Jian’s firsthand experiences... A warning: the actions in this book are for entertainment only. Do not imitate them! There are three kinds of people who read this book: thrill-seekers who aren’t easily scared... those who pu 997Reads6.2Score101Shelves
- 191 Everyone Commands Ghosts: You Call the King of Hell the Weakest Evil Ghost? 全民御鬼：你管阎王爷叫最弱厉鬼 [If you don’t laugh by the end of chapter five, come yell at me. The comedy starts in chapter three] [Comedy + ghost control + rules + no simping for women + anti-cliché + reckless, shameless, brazen, and audacious] A horror game descends upon the world, and everyone enters the age of ghost control. Whatever type of ghost a person awakens as their innate ghost, that’s the only type they can control. But Ye Xuan awakens King Yama, which means he can only control King Yama. But King Yama is such a 543Reads8.3Score103Shelves
- 192 One Hundred Ways to Encounter a Ghost 见诡一百法 The day my eldest uncle died, all our relatives and friends went to his funeral. My cousins wailed as they finished burning the joss paper. When it was my turn, I just couldn't cry. I could have faked it, but no tears would come, and my aunt's family looked displeased. That wasn't really a big deal. The problem was that when I tossed paper money into the brazier, the flames, which had been burning fiercely, went out in an instant! I tried several times, and it happened every time. It was creepy, 1.8kReads8.5Score122Shelves
- 193 The Ghost Emerges from the Coffin 鬼出棺 Xie Bangui is secretly recruited into the Ghost Yamen and, on his master's orders, serves there, making a living by hunting demons and ghosts. Yet he has no idea that he carries a world-shaking secret. Leading the Ghost Yamen's warriors, Xie Bangui launches a night raid on a prison for evil spirits, fights a bloody battle on the execution platform against a demon, encounters a soul-snatching carriage, and cleverly breaks a skeleton lock. He survives evil spirits' attempts to claim his life, outw 1.5kReads9.1Score139Shelves
- 194 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
- 195 The Coffin Walks at Night 灵棺夜行 I was carrying a coffin up the mountain for a burial when they stuffed me inside and buried me alive. Then, in a single night, all three hundred or so people in the village vanished. Only at night was the place alive with voices. I crawled out of the coffin, only to discover... 5.8kReads8.2Score366Shelves
- 196 The Master Feng Shui Practitioner 顶级风水师 Heaven and Earth are dark and yellow; the universe vast and primordial. The sun and moon wax and wane; the stars are arrayed across the sky… 1.7kReads8.8Score341Shelves
- 197 The Yin-Yang Cheat 阴阳挂 “Have you ever had your fortune told? The kind where you die after the reading. “I tell fortunes for a living. I don’t get many customers, but they’re all normal people. “Then that man showed up. After that, my customers were either about to die or already dead. “A dismembered female ghost chased me for a thread. A toothless male ghost chased me to buy teeth. A billionaire insisted on keeping a ghost, and an ugly woman wanted to change her fate. “An urn that suddenly appeared on my bed, a vase t 130Reads9.1Score102Shelves
- 198 Tales of the Embroidered Shoe's Spirit 绣鞋魂记 The Embroidered Shoe's Spirit 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 199 The Village of Terrifying Women 恐怖女人村 The women were so beautiful they were a feast for the eyes, yet they would not even let the men touch their hands. At first, I thought it was a feudal custom. As it turned out, it was part of a terrifying conspiracy. In this dark chapter of history, human nature erupted and was snuffed out again and again, without end. 422Reads8.5Score108Shelves
- 200 The System Lives in an Eerie World, While I Become a God in Reality 系统活在诡异世界，我在现实封神 [New book: The Bizarre Path to Immortality: You’ve Heard of Me Too?] [Horror Returns + Supernatural + Reality-Bending Weirdness + Conceptual Deities + No Goody-Two-Shoes] The legendary Xuanyuan Sword is the spine of the ancient King of Men. The nine great cauldrons said to have established Huaxia’s Nine Provinces were made from the heads of the Three Sovereigns, Five Emperors, and the First Emperor. The divine list from folk legends of deification is actually a coffin. True spirits are entrusted 3.5kReads8.0Score297Shelves
