Novels like One Cursed Letter, and I'm in the Eighteenth Layer of the Ghost Realm?
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as One Cursed Letter, and I'm in the Eighteenth Layer of the Ghost Realm?, best match first.
- 151 Forbidden Rules of the Haunted School 恐怖校园禁忌 These words themselves are supernatural. Many of these stories happened to me or to people around me, and the schools are real, too. You may not believe in ghosts, but that doesn’t mean you’ve never encountered one. An old Taoist priest in a tattered robe stroked her head. “A demon child has been born into the world. All living things will suffer. Disciple, go down the mountain now.” 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 152 The Haunted Inn: An Endless Deadly Game 诡栈：无限凶局 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 153 A Notebook of Ghost Stories 鬼故事手札 A Notebook of Ghost Stories —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 154 What Happens When You Transmigrate to Ancient Times with a Feel-Good Novel's Script? 拿爽文剧本穿越回古代会怎样？ What would happen if you transmigrated to ancient times with the script of a wish-fulfillment story? 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 155 Rule Horror: An Infinite-Flow Haunted Campus. Don't Trust Any Rule (2) 规则怪谈：无限流诡异校园，别相信任何一条规则（2） Rule Horror: The Infinite-Flow Haunted School. Don’t Trust Any of the Rules (2) 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 156 You Think College Makes Life Easy? 上了大学就轻松了？ Infinite-loop horror + slow burn + no golden finger + challenges + rule-based horror + the supernatural + instances + conflict An ordinary school suddenly turns into a “meat grinder”! All kinds of deadly rules: ignore the “teachers,” don't run, follow the schedule to the letter... All kinds of bizarre instances, movie scenes, teamwork, and going it alone... Ten universities compete online. Staying alive is the only hope! When you graduate from your senior year of high school and take the college 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 157 Infinite Nightmares: Where's My Golden Finger in This Paranormal World? 无限噩梦：我在诡异里的金手指呢 [Infinite Flow + No Romance + Plot-Driven + Mild Horror + Mystery] Lin Jiu is a struggling paranormal livestreamer. That is, until he enters an old apartment building where an elderly woman is laid out for her wake. The person in the coffin counts heads. The mandarin ducks on the red wedding dress have no eyes. In every mirror, another you is standing there. This is a Chinese-style infinite-flow horror scenario. There is only one way to survive: Don't break any taboos. Not even one. 32Reads—Score10114d adds
- 158 Nightmare Subway 噩梦地铁 (The rating has only just opened and will rise later.) [Infinite Flow + Survival + No Saintly Heroine] A driverless subway train carries a group of cursed passengers toward unknown, terrifying stations… A subway card is proof of survival, and a ticket to Hell. At each subway station, Jiang Fengye faces one terrifying instance after another, each a brush with death. The starving corpses in the basement; The crawling sounds in the abandoned tunnel; The skinning monster in the old castle; … "The 18.5kReads7.1Score2k14d adds
- 159 Rule-Based Survival: I Can Foresee Death 规则求生：我能预知死亡 [Infinite Flow, mild horror, terrifying dungeons, no romance, survival, not a saintly protagonist] One night, Chen Feng was walking through an abandoned park after finishing his shift at the crematorium when something strange happened. There was clearly no one behind him, yet he heard faint footsteps. At first, he thought he was imagining things, but when he listened closely, the footsteps were still there, gradually drawing nearer. They sounded as though they were deliberately mimicking his own 22.5kReads7.6Score2.2k14d adds
- 160 Nightmare of the Strange Realm 诡界噩梦 [Infinite Flow + Horror + Mystery + Survival] A strange ticket dragged Yan Yu onto a bus bound for the abyss. Only after stepping into the world of ghosts did he realize he had been drawn into one brutal survival game after another. Night falls, monsters roam, and every step is a choice between life and death. Yan Yu thought it was all a random twist of fate, never knowing that the destiny set in motion from the moment he was born had been quietly unfolding all along... 41Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 161 The Ghost Candle Craftsman 诡烛匠人 In a narrow alley in the old part of town stands a candle shop that has been in the same family for three generations. No one knows that it only takes on business involving the cursed. Those driven to despair by ghosts, possession, or paranormal hauntings all come knocking on its door late at night. Zhong Ling, the third-generation heir, doesn't burn talismans or summon deities. He simply hands them a candle. “Light it. Before it burns out, either you die, or the truth comes to life.” Ghostly 13Reads—Score214d adds
- 162 A Billion Battles Made Me Famous 亿战成名 (Infinite worlds * quick transmigration * ensemble cast * no romance * independent worldbuilding * not a power fantasy) Cheng Ming, a champion at slacking off in the bathroom, transmigrates to another world where people are ranked according to the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches. Mouthy, carefree, and easygoing, he doesn’t realize at first how serious things are. “Get through the levels and go home? I know this stuff!” Until... Someone he has just met suddenly drops to their knees in front o 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 163 The Rules of Survival in an Infinite Flow World 无限流世界的生存法则 “By the way, nobody lives on the fourth floor of this dormitory. If someone talks to you there, make sure you pretend you didn’t hear them.” “Remember: when patrolling the library, never look out the windows.” “The elevator in our hospital sometimes has a minor malfunction. If it stops on the basement level and won’t move, don’t panic. Just close your eyes and wait for it to start moving again.” “What? Have you even looked at the hospital map? There’s no Neurology Room Four on the basement level 860Reads8.1Score10214d adds
- 164 Dragged Into a Horror Story 被迫拉入恐怖故事 [Pure-Intellect Escape]+ [No CP]+ [Infinite Flow]+ [Two Male Leads]+ [Growing Male Lead] When Lu Chao woke up, he found himself in a mysterious room. No one could escape from it. The only way out was to transmigrate into a series of different horror stories. Here, ghosts could not be killed. The only way to survive was to figure out their rules and find a way out alive. To escape, Lu Chao had no choice but to enter one terrifying story after another and fight for survival. But he soon realized h 147Reads—Score—14d adds
- 165 Calculating the Heavens 算天 I repeated ninth grade twice, but still scored only a little over 300 on the high school entrance exam. I wasn’t cut out for studying, so I planned to do what other kids from the mountains did: finish junior high, then leave home to find work. But my dad wouldn’t let me. He found me a fortune-teller and told me to learn the trade... 159Reads6.3Score2514d adds
- 166 The City of Silent Mist 默雾之城 [Rule-Based Horror; Infinite-Loop Adventure; Two Male Leads; No Female Lead; Wits and Strategy; A Male Lead Who Grows; One Night of a Hundred Battles; The Fear of the Unknown...] At some point, skyscrapers collapsed and mountain villas fell. The waters, skies, and earth no longer belonged to humanity. A thick fog from somewhere engulfed all these ruins, and the few humans left could only eke out an existence in the areas the white fog grudgingly spared. To grasp a slim chance of survival, people 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 167 Transmigrating Into the Haunted House, I Lead My Roommates Through the Blood Gate 穿越诡舍，我带室友杀穿血门 [Not a power fantasy] [No breaking up the canon couple] [Single heroine] [No out-of-character behavior] Just so there won’t be any regrets. Some details may differ a little from the original, so I hope you’ll bear with me. Bitter Melon King’s writing is slowly improving, too... [Dog-head emoji for self-preservation] Blood Gate [Kindheart Hospital]: Saving lives is a doctor’s duty. [Qingxiao University]: The truth lies buried beneath lies, and trust dispels the danger of death. [Paradise Lost]: R 188Reads6.5Score1714d adds
- 168 When Ghostly Calamities Strike: A Paranormal Escape Begins with a Séance 诡灾降临：灵异逃生从招魂开始 [Infinite Flow + No Female Lead + Original Instances] “Welcome to the Supernatural Forbidden Zone, dear Apostles!” “This world is nearing its end, so struggle as much as you like!” As paper ash blankets the world, reality and the supernatural begin to overlap. In a dilapidated clan apartment building, a drowned ghost child knocks at the door. In the vanished School Building No. 7, a headless corpse wanders in confusion. In a dim Taoist temple, gleaming statues of the gods weep tears of blood... 959Reads8.1Score8214d adds
- 169 I Entered a Horror Story 我进入了恐怖故事 When Shen Yu opens his eyes, a villa shrouded in darkness comes into view. This is where the game begins. When staying up late becomes forbidden, going to the bathroom alone brings misfortune, and your roommate turns into a monster, the unknown conditions for death have yet to be unlocked. What will you choose? 431Reads6.6Score10614d adds
- 170 I Work as a Gravekeeper in an Unknown Cemetery 我在无名墓园当守墓人 [Infinite Flow + Mild Horror + Mild Suspense + Survival + Plot Twists] The protagonist isn’t a do-gooder, the villains aren’t idiots, the plot doesn’t drag, and every mystery gets resolved; An unnamed Taoist temple deep in the Hundred Thousand Mountains; A merchant ship adrift across a vast sea; A mysterious ruin in an ancient forest; An endless desert stretching beyond the horizon; Snow-capped mountains where the snow never melts; A breathtaking woman in red who is a ghost, and an entity that c —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 171 Soul Alliance 魂盟 Starting February 6, 2025, two updates every day, posted promptly at 8 p.m. [Horror instances + no System + growth + brains + Infinite Flow + fake female lead] I stand in an unfamiliar place, surrounded by an eerie atmosphere. My memories are like shattered puzzle pieces, impossible to put back together. Who am I? Why am I here? The blank spaces in my memory are like bottomless black holes, swallowing my sanity. The only thing I can clearly recall is a vague figure in my mind. What connection do 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 172 The Haunted Rental House: Survive the Dungeon and Collect Mahjong Tiles 诡异出租屋：活过副本，攒麻将牌 [No mindless protagonist] [Not invincible] [Infinite Flow] [Original scenarios] [No romance] [Thriller Game] [Survival] [Rules] [Supernatural] [Folk customs] [A conspiracy lurking behind it all] Chen Jiu'an signed a bizarre contract and became the newest tenant of Haunted Apartment 904-B. A blood-red brand appeared on his wrist. Every so often, he was thrown into a terrifying world to complete a mission where death was all but certain. A bag of candy, a box of condoms, a few crackers... These se 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 173 The Strange Platform 怪谈站台 (Rule-based horror + infinite scenarios + battles of wits) Everyone has a train of their own. The train stops at unknown stations at irregular intervals. The conductor must survive the rules of each horror scenario to claim the rewards and continue onward. Understand the rules, use the rules, create the rules! Struggle to survive in an infinite world of horror scenarios! 1.2kReads—Score11614d adds
- 174 Nightmare Files: Reincarnation 噩梦档案：轮回 [Infinite-flow + Mild horror + Original game scenarios + One heroine] When Chu Jie woke up, he found himself on a fog-shrouded mountain road. There was no one around. The only thing in sight was a battered bus with dim yellow lights, slowly approaching him. Once aboard, Chu Jie realized with a jolt that the passengers didn’t seem to be human... A dismembered woman, villagers wearing eerie smiles, a driver with only half a face... While Chu Jie was still trembling with fear, the strange rules wri 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 175 Infinite Eerie Domains: Starting with a Haunted Classroom 无限诡域：从诡异教室开始 [Infinite Flow]+ [Fake terror]+ [Ghosts kill people]+ [Emotionless]+ [Mild horror] Late at night, Su Wang receives a strange black letter that appears out of nowhere in his home. Its four blood-red survival rules reveal a terrifying, unknown realm. In the blink of an eye, he is forcibly dragged into a strange study hall at Chenfeng High School, where he and six strangers are trapped together. The one unbreakable rule is carved into the blackboard: Keep quiet. One survivor loses control, makes a 31kReads8.0Score4k14d adds
- 176 Don't Look Back During Evening Study at School 学校晚自习别回头 Don’t Look Back During Evening Study at School 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 177 Transmigrating into the Haunted House 穿越诡舍 [Mysterious House Fanfiction] [Infinite Flow + Mild Horror + No Female Lead] Su Huian accidentally transmigrates into the world of Mysterious House, becoming Ning Qiushui's senior and guiding him through the blood door. After enduring the brutal trials beyond it, he later carries out a plan alongside Mang, the Madman, and others, only to discover that his identity might actually be... The Madman's group arrived before the ninth door. In their hands, they clutched copper coins engraved with the c 106Reads5.8Score15914d adds
- 178 Infinite Flow: Shocking! The Big Shot Is Killing It in the Instance 无限流：震惊！大佬在副本杀疯了 [Dual Male Leads] [Gentle, Cunning, and Flirtatious Top x Short-Tempered, Tsundere, Bad-Boy Bottom] [One-on-One] [Two Powerful Leads, Push and Pull] [Horror Instances] Lin Ci woke with a start to find himself in a strange art studio, surrounded by bizarre, terrifying paintings. Before he could figure out what was going on, he spotted a young man in the distance, leaning against the wall with his arms crossed. The young man stared at him with a piercing gaze and a faint, mocking smile. Lin Ci f 368Reads6.6Score10614d adds
- 179 The Crimson Round Table Game 猩红圆桌游戏 After death, a person weighs 21 grams less. Those 21 grams are a person’s consciousness. When emotions run especially high before death, that consciousness can become an obsession. Only those who die with exceptionally powerful emotions become obsessions, clinging to their last wish and struggling to remain in this world until they can fulfill it. 55Reads5.6Score—14d adds
- 180 Forbidden Strange Tales: The Taboos of the Folk 禁忌聊斋：民间禁忌的那些事 What you’re reading isn’t just an ordinary supernatural story. It may be a set of rural survival rules that can keep you safe. The taboos of the countryside aren’t just old people’s nagging. Every “don’t touch that” carries the weight of lives lost long ago. When dusk seeps into an abandoned village, the names on the road markers glisten with a deathly aura in the rain; white crows on the eaves of a birthing room beckon a newborn’s soul; copper coins in an old mansion rust into blood scabs; an 670Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 181 Wielding a White Cane, I Slaughter My Way Through Horror Games 手握盲杖在惊悚游戏里嘎嘎乱杀 [Infinite-loop game + strong female lead + horror games + no romance] Wei Qingning is blind. After twenty years without sight, Wei Qingning finally saves enough money for a corneal transplant and, by incredible luck, gets a donation from a kind stranger. But during her surgery to restore her sight, Wei Qingning gets caught up in a hospital dispute and is stabbed in the heart by a patient's family member. Wei Qingning: I don't want to die at all! [Strong resentment detected in player. System 006 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 182 The Eerie Lands: The Otherworld 诡异之地，里世界 [Infinite Horror + Thrills + Rules + Survival Challenges] Amid the bustling streets, a kind of “ash” invisible to anyone but the chosen begins to spread soundlessly. It carries them into a deeper world. Swallowed by the “ash,” they fall in the blink of an eye from familiar streets into a silent, ruined world filled with secrets and horrors: the “Inner World.” The countdown to life or death has begun... 21Reads—Score—14d adds
- 183 The Strange Studio: Ten Thousand Tribulations of Reincarnation 异斋之万劫轮回 [Chinese-Style Supernatural Horror + No Romance] [Infinite-Flow Stories Set in the World of Strange Tales + Causal Loops Driven by Human Obsession] Have you read Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio? Do you think of it as folk tales of the supernatural from the late Ming dynasty, or as the heartwarming, romanticized “fox spirits and ghosts” seen in TV dramas and movies? The evil in human nature, the ferocity of spirits and monsters, and the poison of karma rebuild every Strange Tales story into a 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 184 Supernatural Instance: My Paper Dolls Are Out of Control! 诡异副本：我的纸人不受控制！ [Slow Burn + Infinite Flow + Eerie Instances + Male-Oriented] The Abyss Game descends upon the world. Each round, one representative from every country is randomly selected to join the team and fight for their life. Lose, and your country's territory falls and natural disasters strike. Win, and the entire nation reaps the benefits. The Dragon Nation has suffered defeat after defeat for several rounds, leaving its national fate hanging by a thread. Nineteen-year-old Zhang Huai unexpectedly become 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 185 Rule Horror: Abyss Metro 规则怪谈：深渊地铁 [Rules-Based Horror + Infinite Flow + Suspenseful Mysteries + Deduction and Puzzles + Character Growth] The ticket gate spat out a blood-red ticket. It read: Welcome aboard the Abyss Metro. This train is bound for Level 18. That was the first time Cheng Chi learned that the subway he crammed onto every day could take him to hell. Every station brought new rules. The rules could change, deceive, and contradict one another. Some died in the glass reflections on the Mirror Platform. Some walked 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 186 Writing Correct Characters in the Advent of the Gods 我在神临写正字 [Infinite Flow] [Not Mindless] [Consistent Logic] [Single Female Lead, Much Later] [Deduction] [Story] Have you heard the legend of the Mo River? They say stones float on its surface, one after another, like teeth growing out of the abyss. Behind anyone who steps onto them lies the eerie abyss; ahead is black water with no visible end. With every trial passed, the stones shift a little farther back, farther from the abyss and closer to the truth. Some say the oldest one has crossed a thousand ti 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 187 The Spirit-Eating Notebook 噬灵笔记 [Infinite Flow + mind-bending puzzles + ghostly mysteries + survival] A strange notebook, and yet it is a doorway to hell. The cursed are haunted, hunted, and dragged into an endless abyss of terror. Ghosts close in at every turn, and death is just around the corner. No one can escape unscathed. A group of ordinary people bound together by a curse must awaken in the depths of despair, uncover the notebook’s secret, and put an end to this terrifying game with their own hands. Kill the ghosts, or 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 188 The Riddle-Speaking Heroine Is Still Hurting People 谜语人女主她还在害人 [Infinite flow + no CP] [No supernatural powers, just a contest of psychology, intelligence, and strength] Life is the wager. Murder, betrayal, deception! “Don’t want to die? Then make someone else die first.” 87Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 189 Thriller Game: I’m the Most Popular Male Streamer 惊悚游戏：我，最受欢迎男主播 [Mild horror, survival, plot twists, no female lead] “Just when I thought death was the end, I opened my eyes and discovered it was only a new beginning.” A horror game descends, dragging humanity into a bizarre world. Players must complete terrifying missions. Those who fail have their souls scattered, while those who succeed grow stronger and may even earn the chance to “live again.” Su Che, a trillion-yuan CEO, discovers an unknown error in his data source code just as the game begins... From —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 190 The Haunted Gate: There's a Ghost Inside Me 恐怖鬼门：我的体内有只鬼 (The rating has just come out, and it's expected to rise...) [Infinite-flow + no female lead + fast-paced + battles of human nature] [An evolving protagonist. If it's not your thing, please don't flame me ´ᯅ`] [Don't Open the Door, There's Something Outside...] Arc complete. [Wedding] Arc complete. Read with confidence. [People Come to Kill] Arc complete. [The Missing Her] Ongoing... Rumor has it that anyone who has committed a crime will be dragged through a ghostly door. There, they are fo 87Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 191 Horror Cycle: The Ghost Gate Survival Game 恐怖轮回：诡门生存游戏 [Infinite Flow + Mild Horror + Survival Games + No CP] Lu Xun was already dead from the start. But then he came back to life. The price of staying alive was being dragged again and again by a mysterious force to a strange world crawling with ghosts and monsters, where he had to fight desperately to survive. To escape this life for good, he had two choices: die, or keep winning the games of death and become a legendary Peril-Class player... 32.2kReads8.2Score3.8k14d adds
- 192 Linking the Eerie Realms 诡域连结 [Infinite Flow] [Deduction] [Mind-Bending] [Supernatural] When Shen Shiyan woke up, he found himself inside a strange building filled with unknown dangers. After solving one mystery after another, he thought he could finally escape alive. “This is the Domain of the Uncanny. Welcome to your eternal rest!” A mysterious voice sent a chill down his spine. What kind of place was this? And how could he escape? 732Reads—Score12814d adds
- 193 Urban Legends Invade: I Slay Demons with Divine Blessings 怪谈入侵：我用神明祝福斩鬼 From Chapter 102 onward, the story enters dungeons, with people from other worlds joining the main cast in them. The world within a world includes science fiction. Also known as: Gods and Ghosts Run Rampant: I Wield the Power of the Gods to Slay Ghosts [Fairly satisfying] [A whole lot of killing] [Chinese-style supernatural tales] [Legendary monsters] [System-driven] [System] [Urban supernatural powers] [Mystery] [Some Infinite Flow dungeons] [Slay Ghosts] [Slay the Gods] Do you believe ghost —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 194 In the Underworld from the Start, and It Only Gets Darker! 开局在阴间，之后也阴间！ Dual Personalities + Infinite-Flow Horror + Cold Protagonist + No Saintly Savior + Poker Face + No Female Lead When he opened his eyes, Murong Yinghou found himself in a bizarre place. He had to enter one world after another, each filled with vengeful ghosts and curses. Relying on his absolute rationality, he cleared mission after mission and even became a hunter of evil spirits! Others admired and liked him for his intelligence. But they also feared him for his cold-bloodedness… 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 195 The Eerie Realm: It Starts with an Elevator 诡界：从电梯开始 [No System]+ [No Heroine]+ [Dungeon Progression]+ [No Saintly Protagonist]+ [Eerie]+ [Original Dungeons] Have you ever wondered? Beneath the neon lights and atmosphere of this city, things lurk that defy all reason. They were chosen by the Eerie [Elevator] and marked by a terrifying curse. Again and again, they must take part in death games, until death claims them. 54Reads—Score—14d adds
- 196 Eerie: After Completing the Puzzle, I Somehow Ended Myself 诡异：凑完拼图莫名把自己终结了 [Mystery + Eerie + Deduction + Infinite Flow + Ensemble Cast + Flawless Logic] Have you ever felt despair? Lu Bai wakes up in a dim room, where a mysterious force orders him and several other poor souls to go on missions in one strange place after another. Complete a mission and live. Fail, and die. Black Dragon Pool, the old elm tree, the ancient well at the village entrance, the strange funeral home. After Lu Bai and his companions rack their brains, endure countless hardships, and narrowly es 142Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 197 Rules of the Rest Stop on a Stormy Night 暴雨夜服务区规则怪谈 Rules of the Rest Stop on a Stormy Night 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 198 This Is a Rule Horror Story, So Why Are You Making Me Dance on a Grave? 这是规则怪谈，你让我坟头蹦迪 [The eerie descends + no saintly do-gooder + survival escape + no System + high IQ] When Chen Mo wakes up with no memories, he finds himself aboard a battered bus with seven strangers, men and women alike. The bus is headed for a tunnel called Yellow Springs, and that is where Chen Mo enters a world of rule-based horrors. Not only must Chen Mo search for clues and fight to survive in this perilous world of bizarre rules, he must also recover every memory he has lost. After enduring countless har —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 199 In a Strange World, Sacrificing Teammates Makes You Stronger 诡异世界，献祭队友就变强 [Infinite Flow + Harem of Admirers with No Female Lead + Comedy with a Hint of Horror] After Shi Yi dies, he is taken to a bizarre world. There, he is forced to team up with three other mission-takers. To stay alive, they have no choice but to keep accepting missions and filming all kinds of horrifying scenes, just to win a slim chance at survival... The Main God: You have to do this and that, got it? Shi Yi: Got it. War correspondent. [Facing the Headless Teacher] Other mission-takers: Aaaaaah! 68Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 200 Thriller Game: Becoming a God Aboard the Abyssal Cruise Ship 惊悚游戏：从深渊游轮开始成神 [Infinite Flow] + [mild horror] + [a little deduction] + [original instances] “My name is Lin Yuan. By the time you read this, I'll already be dead.” I was an ordinary person until one day, by chance, I boarded the Abyss Cruise, a mysterious vessel that travels between the real world and the supernatural. Here, you are a chosen [player] and the last line of defense against [supernatural instances] invading reality. If you clear an instance, your terminal illness in the real world will be cured i 31Reads—Score—14d adds
