Novels like One Cursed Letter, and I'm in the Eighteenth Layer of the Ghost Realm?
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- 51 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 228Reads—Score—14d adds
- 52 A Survival Handbook for Strange Tales 诡异故事逃生手册 [Infinite-flow + mild horror + survival] A story app that cannot be deleted. The moment it chooses you, your story is already set. Your only choices are to struggle with all your might or die a miserable death. The ending is unknown, and one wrong step will send you plunging into the abyss. From the moment they enter the story, everyone has just one goal: survive to the end! But can anyone really reach the end of the final story? (The author was chosen too, so this isn't made up.) When you have 16Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 53 Zodiac Star Prison 黄道星狱 [Infinite Flow + Zodiac Mythology + Ensemble Growth + Logical Deduction + Highly Intelligent Female Lead] Currently updating two chapters a day without fail. Your likes and support are what motivate me to post more! Feel free to leave any suggestions in the comments. Twelve people wake up in a station at midnight, with zodiac marks appearing on their wrists. The electronic display lights up with the rules for the First House: [Do not turn back.] The first person to turn back has their shadow pie —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 54 Don't Move! That Camera Holds a Secret 别动！那台相机有秘密 I bought an antique camera. Photograph a relic, and I dream of the civilization it came from. Until I discovered something A photo inside the camera that I never took: Me, lying in a hospital bed, my heartbeat flatlined. So who's actually pressing the shutter on this camera? And whose eyes are seeing the world through it? Don't touch that camera. It will capture the truth you're afraid to see. 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 55 On the Edge of Death 死亡边缘 His cousin marries a stunningly beautiful woman, but on their wedding day, the bride dies! Then strange things begin happening in the village, and the villagers start dying one after another... 126Reads8.8Score914d adds
- 56 I Was Surgically Transformed into a Pig 我被整容成了一头猪 I Was Made to Look Like a Pig Through Plastic Surgery 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 57 Get Away from Me, You Toxic Best Friend! 毒闺蜜快走开啊 Get Away from Me, You Toxic Frenemy! 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 58 Don't Write at Midnight: A Countdown to Death in Bluetooth Earbuds 别在午夜写文：蓝牙耳机里的索命倒计时 Don't Write at Midnight: The Death Countdown in Your Bluetooth Earbuds 8Reads—Score114d adds
- 59 After My Childhood Friend Was Bitten, He Went Wild, and I Nearly Became His Next Prey 发小被咬后狂性大发，我险成下一个猎物 After My Childhood Friend Was Bitten, He Went Berserk, and I Nearly Became His Next Prey 3Reads—Score114d adds
- 60 The Crown Prince Vanished for a Year. When He Returned, the Dead Had Risen All Across the Mountains 太子失踪一年，回来时满山死人复活 The Crown Prince Vanished for a Year. When He Returned, the Dead Were Rising Across the Mountains 2Reads—Score114d adds
- 61 A Skinless Male Corpse Appears in a Cabbage Field in a Deserted Village, and My Girlfriend Is Sewn into a Marionette 荒村包菜地惊现无皮男尸，女友竟被缝成戏偶傀儡 A Skinless Male Corpse Turns Up in a Cabbage Field in a Desolate Village, and My Girlfriend Is Sewn into a Puppet Doll 6Reads—Score114d adds
- 62 Hunting Killers in the Mist 迷雾缉凶 Solving Crimes in the Mist 133.8kReads—Score55514d adds
- 63 Horror Nightmare: From the Start, I Entered the World of the Supernatural 惊悚噩梦：开局进入诡世界 [Infinite worlds + instance dungeons + rule-based horror + mildly scary + no female lead] A bus carries its passengers back and forth between reality and the uncanny realm. But Ren Qingshan discovers that it isn't only the uncanny realm: every night, something is watching him. Are they players, or sacrifices? Who will survive this terrifying nightmare? [The Human Offering] A desolate mountain village, a ghostly figure on the third floor, a doll on the door. Would you dare open the cabinet at mid 74Reads—Score—14d adds
- 64 Nightmare of Terror: Entering the Haunted World on the Red-Eyed Bus 惊悚噩梦：从红眼巴士进入诡世界 [Infinite flow + ghost survival + mild suspense + horror instances + no romance] “Ghosts cannot be killed. Only ghosts can deal with ghosts. Learn their patterns.” Lin Xi unexpectedly boarded a bus with no driver. The passengers here disappeared at regular intervals, and as more and more vanished, the survivors gradually uncovered the secret to escaping... Possessing a Nightmare Invitation means setting foot on a one-way road. At regular intervals, you are forced into the nightmare world to comp 55Reads—Score—14d adds
- 65 Blind-Box Survival: Randomly Transmigrate and Fight for Your Life for Seven Days 盲盒求生：随机穿越玩命七天 [Infinite worlds + horror games + blind boxes + instances + terror + the supernatural] I was forcibly dragged into a deadly game spanning time and space. Each round begins with a random blind box. No one knows where they'll end up next. It could be the chaotic Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, where rebel soldiers surround and slaughter you; It could be a bloody game where luck matters more than strategy in Monopoly; It could be a zombie wasteland, where you struggle to survive the tide of —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 66 The Gate Between Worlds: Trapped in an Infinite Loop, Fighting to Survive 界中门【陷入无限循环只为求生】 He opened his eyes for the seventh time. Lin Yi realized he hadn’t died. Instead, he had entered a world within a world and become trapped in an endless loop. There was a white shadow here that looked exactly like him, and it wanted to take his place. He had to fight back with everything he had. He wanted to live. Whenever he was about to be replaced, all he could do was give up his sense of self and wait for the next loop. To break the cycle, he had to keep clearing the instances behind the doo —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 67 Horror Revival: I Can Summon Saitama 恐怖复苏：我能召唤琦玉 After transmigrating to another world, Lin Feng is selected by the Lord God’s Space to enter one terrifying instance after another. He never expects the first one to be an impossible-difficulty scenario: Kayako. To Lin Feng’s dismay, he arrives right inside that house. Just as Kayako’s supremely horrifying vomiting sounds are about to cut short his promising new life, a ding suddenly rings in his head. Lin Feng’s mouth curls into a crooked grin. This time, Kayako, you’re the one who’ll be runnin 16Reads—Score—14d adds
- 68 Endland: Infinite Flow 终末地【无限流】 Dungeon One: [Hidden Heart] has ended [Infinite Flow + A Few Lovecraftian Elements + Includes a Side Couple] In the gaps between shadows, what you see: darkness, or eyes that have been covered? When a voice comes from your throat, how can you be sure it was you who spoke, and not your tongue acting independently of you? Ruan Zhijiang thought she would live an ordinary life, neither an absolute success nor an absolute failure. Then, one day, she stepped into a world beyond the world and suddenly —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 69 Everyone Is Following the Fake Rules 所有人都在遵守假规则 Endless rule-based instances descend upon the world, and every public rule they announce is a trap meant to lure players to their deaths. Shen Yan awakens the [Hidden Adjudication System], which lets him see through the true survival rules concealed within each instance. While others follow the rules and walk to their deaths, he breaks them and finds a way to survive. In one perilous instance after another, he meets all kinds of women and, amid deceit and betrayal, leads his companions through l 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 70 Black Coffin: The Hidden Treasure 黑棺：归藏 One night, I was working overtime until late when the elevator suddenly went out of control and descended all the way to Floor -18. The doors opened onto a corridor, a bus, and seven strangers. A voice said, “Welcome to the Black Coffin Manor. Keep vigil for seven days. Do not look directly at the coffin. “One of you is not human. “Find them within seven days, or be killed by them.” I thought it was just a nightmare. Until the first person to run had his head twisted off, a black handprint 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 71 Lost in a Haunted Village 误入恐怖村 An original story. Hope you enjoy it! Lu Chao stumbled into this village by chance, and in doing so, stepped onto a road with no return. Only those chosen by it can see it and enter it. Once chosen to become a resident of the village, there is no going back. The only way to leave is to be cursed by it and killed. To escape, Lu Chao has no choice but to embark on one adventure after another… 282Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 72 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—14d adds
- 73 The Ultimate Supernatural Horror: The Ghost Card Train 终极灵异：鬼牌列车 [Supernatural] + [Horror] + [No Female Lead] + [No Sanctimonious Hero] + [No Mindless Decisions] Ghosts cannot be killed. Every ghost has its own unique rules for killing. Every card represents a vengeful ghost. Find a way to control the ghosts and escape the supernatural incidents. An old, eerie train stained with blood runs toward a terrifying supernatural realm. Where is the train’s final stop? No one knows. Or rather, no one has ever made it to the final stop. 27Reads—Score—14d adds
- 74 Reincarnation Horror 轮回惊悚 [Death Game] [Infinite Flow] [Combat] [Thriller] A new cycle has begun… “Whoever takes the throne shall gain eternal life.” After a bizarre eyeball appears, Chen Ye, a lackadaisical high school student, is forced to become a player in the cycle and enter a bloody, brutal death game. A killing spree, sleep paralysis, a blood-red hotel, messengers, evil fiends, heretical ghost immortals, the Seven Deadly Sins… Players must enter all kinds of inconceivable scenarios and complete tasks issued by t —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 75 Death Game: There’s a Ghost Behind Me 死亡游戏：我背后有只鬼 [Infinite Flow] [Mild Horror] [No Romance] If you discovered one day that the world you'd lived in since childhood was fake, how would you accept it? In one bizarre apartment building after another, selected players enter a deadly game against evil spirits. As Yin Tian survives the death game again and again, watching his friends die one by one, he only learns why that ghost has been following him all along when everything is about to end. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 76 Possession 上身 Ghosts: ethereal, elusive beings! Ghosts: a certainty that exists for those who believe, and not for those who don't! Are ghosts really only around at night? What do they actually look like? The truth is, they're right beside you! 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 77 The Unkillable Weirdness 诡无法被杀 [No System + not a wish-fulfillment story + endless supernatural mystery instances + the blurb doesn't do it justice + be sure to finish the first instance, there are scares] My name is Zhuang Gui. I'm trapped in a place called Nightmare City. Every so often, I transmigrate in my nightmares to one strange tale after another, forced to struggle for survival. The entities here cannot be killed, and everyone is ruled by fear and despair. Only with courage and wisdom can you find a way out… 7Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 78 The Nightmare Tomb 魇冢 “No System + Not Mindless + Not a Power Fantasy + Not Invincible + No Harem + Infinite Flow + Mild Horror + Mystery + Plot-Driven” Cheng Mo’s girlfriend, Ye Yunqi, disappears after attending a funeral. That night, the elderly neighbor who had just been buried knocks on Cheng Mo’s door. From that day on, Cheng Mo is chosen by the Nightmare Realm and trapped in eerie instance worlds. Yet inside one of them, he finds a letter his girlfriend left behind in advance: Never turn your back on a 24Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 79 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. 5Reads—Score114d adds
- 80 Surviving the Eerie Dorm: Sharing a Room with the Campus Belle Means Death If You Skip Class 诡舍求生：校花同住，不上课就死 [Urban + supernatural + survival + mystery-solving + no System + Infinite Flow + unconventional + horror instances] [If you've read Death's Kaleidoscope, The Haunted House, or Hell's Apartment, come take a look. Every instance is completely original and brand-new!] A strange school abducts Jiang Wen and Su Yuechan with nothing on their backsides! Every week, the two receive a letter and must go to the place named in it to complete their lessons! A letter from [Fengmen Village]. A letter from [Re 108Reads—Score—14d adds
- 81 Ten Blood Letters 十次血字 Heavy on deduction, lightly terrifying, with a touch of humor In a corner of an ordinary residential complex stands a strange apartment building visible only to those it chooses. Those chosen by the building can never escape. They can only endure its endless stream of eerie, blood-written instructions. Evil spirits don't reason, and deadly traps lurk everywhere. The only hope of survival is to find the one path to safety that has been concealed. Blood-written instruction: From 00:00 on May 5, 20 9.3kReads6.9Score91214d adds
- 82 Top Player: She Takes Infinite Horror Instances by Storm 顶级玩家：她在无限惊悚玩转副本 "No CP + Infinite Flow + Not a Wish-Fulfillment Story + Mild Horror + Instances + Small Ensemble Cast + Story-Driven" That square little courtyard was where it all began for everyone. Shen Yu, a high school student, was forced to take part in a thrilling, terrifying adventure. In a perilous parallel world, did ghosts and monsters really exist? "I just want to take control of my own life." To do that, Shen Yu had no choice but to put herself in the game. Eerie paper figures, a mountain village sh 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 83 Sinners, Welcome to Babel 罪人，欢迎来到巴别塔 [Two male leads + Infinite Flow + horror + intelligent characters + a touch of ensemble cast] If staying alive is just a better way to die, will you still go all the way? At midnight, a towering, inverted structure rises from the abyss. The nine levels of purgatory bind sinners in chains forged from their crimes, dragging them into the depths of terror. Every step leads to death. Cheng Yizhan is a clinic doctor who appears gentle and refined, healing the sick. In truth, he's the sort who cares 1Reads—Score11914d adds
- 84 Ghosts Are Higher-Dimensional Beings, So Stop Praying to Buddha and Chanting Sutras 鬼是高维生物，不要再求佛念经了 Four-dimensional beings have arrived! White disasters involve 1–100 people, with a 99% death rate. Green disasters involve 100–1,000 people, with a 99.99% death rate; Blue disasters involve 1,000–100,000 people, with a 99.99999999% death rate. Red disasters involve more than 100,000 people, and the death rate cannot be calculated. “Ghosts! There are ghosts!” “Don't be afraid. This place is full of temples and Buddha statues. Stop standing around and kneel down to pray! The Buddha will surely pr 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 85 A Late-Night Convenience Store Survival Guide 深夜便利店生存指南 Basic Premise Time: 24 hours on the fifteenth day of every lunar month Location: 7-Eleven, Branch No. 444 (doesn’t exist on any map) Core Conflict: The convenience store is a “buffer zone” between the worlds of the living and the dead, and some of its customers are “nonhuman beings.” 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 86 The Real Death Cinema 真实死亡影院 A horror movie poster taken from a corpse's mouth has Luo An's name listed among its cast, drawing him into an endless series of horror films. He must play a character who could die at any moment and survive a never-ending stream of movies where the deaths are real. Only after his fan count reaches one hundred million will he have a chance to escape. This is the story of Luo An, a man with dissociative identity disorder, as he takes one step at a time toward becoming an award-winning actor. [Cin 1Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 87 Hey, You Creepy Thing! Take a Good Look: Do I Look Human? 喂！诡异，仔细看看我像人吗 [Mild Horror] [Eerie Revival] [Infinite Flow] Mathematicians believe infinity is a concept. They say: Infinity is not a number, but a boundary that can never be reached. But they have never been to the Gray Realm. Those who have been there know: Infinity is a number. It is the number of the dead. It is the designation of the Abyss. It is how many times you dream of another version of yourself. How much is a trillion? It's two hundred times the combined population of Earth. But beyond Earth lie c 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 88 Telling Horror Stories at Midnight 半夜讲恐怖故事 Telling Ghost Stories at Midnight 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 89 Forbidden Curse: Spirit Touch Opens the Door to Terror 禁忌咒子：灵触开启惊悚之门 [Horror] [Fortune-Telling] [Ghost Hunting] [Feng Shui] [Read with Caution at Midnight] I, Bai Qingyun, was once just a Maoshan Taoist priest at the Hundred Spirits Hall. It wasn't until I went alone to investigate an incident and saw a boy hanging himself in a red dress that I realized the evil in human nature went far beyond what I had imagined. Behind every strange incident lies both the wickedness of human nature and a tragedy. As I traveled from one region to another, resolving one incident 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 90 I Keep Being Reborn in an Infinite-Loop World 我在无限流里不断重生 [Infinite-flow horror, ensemble cast | No System, no golden finger | No mindless power fantasy] After clearing my twelfth instance, I didn't get to go home. Everyone had been deceived. Clearing an instance didn't let us leave at all. It turned out that clearing an instance didn't mean escaping. We were trapped in an endless cycle of worlds, each layer harder to tell from reality than the last. The boundary between the instances and reality had blurred completely. Was anything before our eyes 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 91 Infinite Flow: Welcome to the Cursed Book World 无限流：欢迎进入诡书世界 (All-female main cast + highly intelligent leads + traditional elements + ensemble cast) (No golden finger + no livestreaming) On the way to bring her younger sister Cang Mu home, Cang Qing strays into a strange world inside a book near the airport. To avoid being killed by its uncanny forces, the sisters are forced to embark on an endless adventure. A different world shrouded in death, mysterious and uncanny paths to survival, and stories set against all kinds of strange backdrops. Taotie, b 78Reads—Score1814d adds
- 92 Infinite: The Strange Realm 【无限】诡异境界 (Note: Infinite-world story, no female lead, no System, not invincible, not stupid, not a wish-fulfillment novel) Welcome, everyone, to the Cycle of the Haunted Realm. Here, you’ll be thrown into an unexpected “death trap.” The only thing you can do is solve it and escape with your life. When I regained consciousness, I found myself in a terrifying cemetery! It was pitch-black, so dark I couldn’t see my hand in front of my face. Only a faint light fell on the graves. I was holding a shovel, and 16Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 93 I'm a Living Detective, So Why Are You Making Me Solve Ghost Cases? 我一活人侦探，你让我破鬼案 The comic adaptation of this work, "I’m a Living Detective, So Why Make Me Solve Ghost Cases?", is now available. [Infinite flow + no System + no golden finger + horror and suspense] While investigating an urban-legend case, detective Lin Sanshi encounters the same eerie phenomenon as the victim. From then on, he must wander through a series of different mission worlds: A mountain-top guesthouse where people are murdered in a snowstorm A perilous corpse-driving journey A survival game controlled 4.8kReads7.1Score41514d adds
- 94 Are You Crazy? Who Let This Zombie Into the Eerie World? 疯了吧，谁把这僵尸拉进诡异圈的 [Rule Horror + Underworld Invasion + No Hiding His Strength] These are the only tags for now. I'll add more if I think of any… "The point between life and death isn't a door. It's a tombstone." The hem of his purple robe hung motionless in the wind of the void. Gego was the last great purple-robed Celestial Master of the human race to touch the laws of life and death. He willingly buried his undying corpse deep in the earth, inside that madly distorted point: the only passage connecting the mort 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 95 The Haunting Broadcast 诡异广播 This is my first novel, and my writing still needs work. I’ve put a lot of thought into the plot, and I definitely won’t use AI. Read it if you like, and thank you! Updates will be irregular. I’m Little Black Umbrella. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 96 Life and Death Together: Redemption in a Century-Old Haunted Realm 浮生同生：百年诡域救赎录 In an instant, on an elevated highway on a rainy night, Lu Ye, a wage earner at the bottom of society, risked his life to save a stranger, Su Wan. The two of them plunged into a deadly crisis. An accident bound them to the only twin symbiosis System on the entire internet: [Shared Life]. Its rules were cruel and impossible to escape: they could not break the bond, survive alone, or clear a stage separately. If one lived, they both lived; if one died, they both died. From then on, two ordinary 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 97 Abyssal Viruses and Abyssal Nightmares 深渊病毒与深渊噩梦 [A nontraditional infinite-flow novel, one heroine, mild horror, original short scenarios, not a power fantasy and no invincible protagonist] [Every scenario is full of hints and metaphors. Feel free to overanalyze them] Have you ever wondered if your nightmares are actually gateways to another world? Have you ever wondered if your nightmares are real? Have you ever wondered if one day, the monsters from your nightmares might appear in real life? In this book, you’ll uncover the truth behind eve 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 98 Heirloom Bones: Blood Sacrifice at Yinshan 嗣骨：荫山血祭 (Not recommended for the fainthearted or anyone alone late at night) Li Ming returns to his hometown for a funeral, but the moment he steps into Yinshan Village, everything feels uncanny. Strange noises echo from inside the coffin day and night, while dark red patterns appear beneath his skin and writhe like living things. The ancient well that sustains the village churns with ominous black sludge. Deep within the ancestral hall, inhuman drumbeats and indescribable ancient whispers resound day a 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 99 Horror Game: Hell Corporation 恐怖游戏：地狱公司 (The rating just came in, and it’ll rise over time!!!) [Infinite Flow + mild suspense + horror game + one female lead] "This is a company that can make any wish come true. Do you have a wish you'd like granted? Call our hotline to join our game. If you clear it, we'll make your wish come true." Wang Zhu looked at the ad on his phone and called the number. He didn't notice the pair of deathly pale eyes staring at him from outside the window. 14.6kReads7.7Score1.5k14d adds
- 100 Thriller Game: I Can Eavesdrop on Ghosts 惊悚游戏：我能偷听鬼话 [Infinite Flow] [No Female Lead] [Light Horror] [Multiple Twists] Six months ago, a blood mist sealed off Nandu City, trapping its ten million residents inside. Strange beings invaded the fog, and one abnormal incident after another unfolded. Lin Xu has no idea why he appeared in this city. A strange game appeared at the same time, forcing him to enter a horror instance every seven days, where death was all but certain. But the items he obtained in the game could be used against the strange enti 21.4kReads7.0Score2.2k14d adds
