Novels like Haunted Academy: Exorcisms Begin in the Classroom
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- 51 The Divine Coffin of a Thousand Years: I Become a Disciple in Yin Village 千年神棺：我于阴村拜师 If she was born of the heavens, why was she left to sleep for a thousand years in a secluded mountain wilderness? She began studying the Tao under a master as a child, slaying ghosts and banishing evil. Was this simply her fate, or was an unseen hand tipping the scales? Everyone around her seemed destined to cross her path. It turned out that from beginning to end, we were all just pieces on a chessboard. 84Reads—Score—Shelves
- 52 Eerie Revival: I Run Into a Ghost Bride from the Start 诡异复苏：开局撞见嫁衣鬼新娘 The moment I heard that sound, I knew I was being watched. This world is full of ghosts, and I'm tired of running... Remember these three things. First: ghosts cannot be killed. The only thing that can deal with a ghost is another ghost. Second: forgetting is more terrifying than ghosts. Third: ghosts have no feelings, cannot be reasoned with, and are full of deceit! I'm sorry. I hope this helps you. Forgive me. Everything I did was only to stay alive... “Damn it! All I can say now is ‘paranorma 295Reads6.0Score105Shelves
- 53 After My Face Was Stolen, I Drew the Six Realms of Living Beings 我的脸被夺走后我画出六道众生相 My face was stolen. It wasn’t disfigured. It wasn’t disguised. My face was literally gone. To stay alive, I had no choice but to paint one new face after another onto my own. Human, ghost, demon, beast, god, immortal. Every face I painted gave me a new ability. As I tried to reclaim my original face, I gradually discovered that this world was far more complicated than it seemed. 96Reads—Score126Shelves
- 54 Friends with Demons: The Monsters Are Here to Help 狐朋狗友：妖怪帮帮忙 Towering buildings line the streets, neon lights blaze, and the city is spreading at an astonishing pace. “They” were forced to leave their original homes. They blended into our society, disguising themselves so we would hardly notice them. Some mean well, others do not. They cultivate, hunt, and evolve in silence... Perhaps “it” is right beside you, or maybe it’s someone you know well. 2Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 55 Chronicles of Strange Events 异事簿 When I was eight, I accidentally drowned. The village's mad Taoist came to my house and told my parents to give me a grand seven-day funeral with gongs and drums. After seven days, I would return to life. During the funeral, lightning flashed every day and the rain poured without stopping. Everyone in the village said it was a bad omen. On the seventh day, strange phenomena suddenly appeared in the sky. The mad Taoist returned to my house, told me to take the moon in the sky as my godmother, and 32Reads—Score—Shelves
- 56 Horror Survival: It Begins When I Move Into a Hotel for the Dead 恐怖求生：从住进死人旅馆开始 My inn caters to the dead! Want a room as a living person? That depends on whether your life is tough enough! I don't want money. I want haunted objects, and the more vicious, the better! And no matter what kind of deity you are, take my advice: don't go near Room 207! Otherwise... you'll have to deal with the consequences! 45Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 57 The Yin-Yang Master Keeps Coming and Going 阴阳先生她走来走去 There are 360 trades, and not one of them puts enough food on the table. What to do? Do them all! The protagonist is an orphan adopted by a feng shui master. But before he even turns sixteen, his master dies, leaving him alone with eight younger orphan disciples. To keep the family fed, the protagonist has no choice but to dabble in everything. (It's set in a partly fictional world. The overall timeline still follows modern history, but the author has a bad memory, and sometimes can't be bothere —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 58 Paranormal Livestream: Post Your Fears in the Chat 灵异直播：把害怕打在公屏上 Radio host Zhang Yang wakes up to find that he has transmigrated to Blue Star, where ghost stories are in short supply. Bound to the Supernatural Master System, he collects Fear Points to exchange for special items! The Haunted Pen. The Midnight Ringing. Corpse Driving in Western Hunan. The Yellow-Skinned Weasel... Endless horror stories harvest his listeners’ Fear Points! 539Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 59 I Am a Life-Pawn Broker 我是赊命人 [Life on Credit + Past and Present Lives + Destiny + Growth] Past and present lives, the river of fate, and sealed memories on the verge of awakening. He was born under a fate marked by three misfortunes and seven defeats. But after inheriting the Heavenly Soul of King Wu, a twist of fate led him into the Azure Dragon Sect, where he became a Life-Borrower. Life-Borrowers use soul power to wield Daoist arts. Thanks to this unusual profession and the soul of King Wu, Shen Rufeng possesses extraord 13Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 60 Professional Funeral Watcher 职业守灵人 At funerals, there is a ritual called “keeping vigil.” I am a professional vigil keeper. People pay me to keep watch over their dead. Over the course of my career, I have witnessed far too many touching stories and tragic circumstances. But most of all, I have encountered strange and terrifying events. And it all began the first time I saw a ghost while keeping vigil... 192Reads6.9Score137Shelves
- 61 The Orthodox Taoist Priest 正一道士 The scourge of evil cults has plagued the world for thousands of years. Though repeatedly eradicated, they never truly disappear. In this age of peace, a massive evil cult stands against the righteous path, seeking to destroy it and take its place. Science is revered in the modern age, and the Daoist arts have declined. Yet Daoism has been passed down for thousands of years, with many branches and schools still standing across China, and gifted practitioners emerging one after another to keep th 406Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 62 The Seventh Night After Death 头七 My grandfather said that whoever a hanged person sees last is the one they’ll come back to haunt. When I was twelve, the village hired a troupe to perform ghost plays. I went to play with them, never imagining that the troupe’s leading performer was hanging from the beam right behind me. 22Reads7.7Score—Shelves
- 63 It’s All the Underworld’s Fault 都是地府惹的祸 [System + leveling up + suspense] After I was hit by a basketball and fell into a lake, Black and White Impermanence brought me some bad news: I should have had another seventy years to live, but the basketball had killed me! To make up for the years I had lost, I became an officially employed member of the Underworld and got a Ghost Recruitment System! It turned out the Underworld was developing, too. As long as I helped recruit ghost talent, I could gain all kinds of abilities: spirit talisman 414Reads6.4Score139Shelves
- 64 The Ghost Sedan Comes Calling: I Use the Record of All Spirits to Subdue a Hundred Ghosts 鬼轿迎门：我靠万灵录镇百诡 Passionate + ensemble cast + episodic arcs + thrilling + heartbreaking + twists + playing the fool to catch the tiger off guard I transmigrated into a high-martial world! On my eighteenth birthday, I wished that I would never dream again. Just after midnight, a blood-red ghost sedan burst through the door. Paper figures led the way, paper money paved the road, and pallbearers in burial shrouds forced me into a ghost-marriage realm. My neck was broken, my heart torn out, and my hair turned white 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 65 Born of the Mystic Dao 玄道而生 The world is divided into yin and yang, and people into the living and the dead. Yet some places and things are neither clearly yin nor yang, and the people there cannot tell whether they are alive or dead... There is a tavern at the point where yin and yang meet. They say that anyone who enters, living or dead, must abide by the owner's rules. Otherwise, they will never be reincarnated! 148Reads7.6Score—Shelves
- 66 Born the Ghost King, I Subdue Ten Thousand Evil Spirits 鬼王命，镇万煞 I was born destined for wealth, good fortune, and a long life, but someone stole my fate, and I nearly died when a horde of ghosts surrounded me. The villains who swapped our fates never imagined that they would be the ones to lead me back to the Ghost King’s destiny... [Horror, talismans, feng shui, curses, folk customs] Ghosts demand lives on a rainy night; a painted-skin demon returns; a devil’s sacrifice; a snake woman in a mountain village; a cursed guesthouse; blood crows snatch souls; a m 10.5kReads8.9Score682Shelves
- 67 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 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 68 The Taoist Master's Wife Is a Spirit Medium 天师道长的出马仙儿老婆 Twenty-five years ago, the Kiku School from Japan used every sort of scheme to persecute the various branches of China’s occult world. Xuan De, the Taoist master then leading Maoshan, joined forces with experts from Longhu Mountain, the Northeastern Shamanic sect, and a mysterious organization within the Chinese government. Together, they foiled the Kiku School’s plan to wipe out China’s occult traditions. Twenty-five years later, Zhang Xuanqing, the private disciple of Maoshan’s current master 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 69 The Delusion of the Final Sequence 终序之妄 [Dual heroines + mental illness + supernatural] Mo Shanshan has a pair of unusual crimson eyes. She can see ghosts, yet she’s been sent to a psychiatric hospital and diagnosed with delusional disorder. Ringing in your ears? That’s because people can’t understand what ghosts are saying! The Heavenly God Path, the Water Corpse Curse, corpse infants, a haunted lake, the collapse of the Six Paths of Reincarnation: is it all the plot of the Entropy God? No. This time, Luo Shisan absolutely will not d 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 70 One Hundred Thousand and One Folk Horror Stories 十万零一个民间恐怖故事 A collection of short horror stories in an episodic format, with a new story every chapter. No dragging things out! Haunted houses in the countryside, mountain spirits, urban legends, old customs and taboos... Every kind of Chinese-style horror is covered, with nonstop thrills and no filler. Anti-superstition disclaimer: This story is entirely fictional. Believe in science and read rationally. Please don’t apply it to real life~ 304Reads—Score101Shelves
- 71 Awakening the Heavenly Eye: Summoning a God to Face the Great Black Buddha Mother 天眼眸启：请神硬刚大黑佛母 (Supernatural + not a self-sacrificing saint + funny + almost invincible) Li Yang was born on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month in the lunar calendar. He never expected to be born with a third eye and a strange destiny, drawing him into a mysterious conflict beyond imagination. The Great Black Buddha Mother, far away in Yun Province, even came in person to seize him... Fox spirits, zombies, Miaojiang gu, Kuman Thong, Yellow River corpse collectors... When Li Yang arrived in Yun Province w 66Reads—Score—Shelves
- 72 The Unrivaled Heavenly Master 天师无双 The nine stars align, and good and evil are turned upside down. A great war between the Underworld and the Nether Capital is imminent. The Corpse Clan is rising, the Heavenly Ghosts seek to invade, the Heavenly Demons circle overhead, and great monsters descend. The Demon Buddha Sect, the Corpse Immortal Cult, and the Immortal Alliance are all stirring. Ghosts roam by day, demons hide among humanity, little ghosts are hard to deal with, corpse-driving and zombie-exorcising arts abound, the Five 29Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 73 The Yin-Yang Affairs Office 阴阳事务所 The Yin-Yang Affairs Office is closed during the day and open at night. We don't take cases from the living, only from ghosts. I'm a man of principles. What? A pretty young lady wants to come visit? Yo, I might consider it! A bewitchingly beautiful, sultry red-robed female ghost; a headless ghost whose head was chopped off with an axe; the Black and White Impermanence from the underworld... They're all regulars here. To tell you the truth, even the King of Hell was raised by me! 354Reads7.8Score101Shelves
- 74 Wayfarer Between Yin and Yang 阴阳行者 The ultimate truths of heaven and earth are two: death and parting, and the way between yin and yang. I protect the living in the world of light, driving out evil and subduing demons until every specter is vanquished. I guide the dead across the Yellow Springs, and set foot upon the Bridge of Helplessness without hesitation. A traveler between the realms of yin and yang, I bear the balance of life and death on my shoulders. Have you ever seen an old sheep knock at your door, or a paper figure sp 279Reads5.6Score—Shelves
- 75 My Years in the Funeral Business 我干白事儿那些年 The funeral services provider Gouqie runs a one-stop funeral business on a shoestring. Uncle Yang is attacked, bringing the Chenxing List to light. A perfectly ordinary funeral services provider is drawn onto the path of spirit-mediumship. Gouqie has seen every side of the human world, yet is pulled into another supernatural realm. This isn't transmigration. Funeral shops, funeral homes: Gouqie's business keeps growing, and so does the number of enemies! Meng Qin, the Chenxing List, the Qia 793Reads7.6Score102Shelves
- 76 Autopsy Report: Suspect Zero 尸检报告：零号嫌疑人 Qin Mo, chief forensic examiner at the Jingang Public Security Bureau, teams up with rookie forensic assistant Lin Wan. Through meticulous autopsies, they dismantle one seemingly airtight murder case after another, identify the overlooked prime suspect through the silent testimony of the dead, and uncover the truth behind concealed deaths. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 77 The Last Grave Chaser 最后一个撵坟人 [Tomb raiding + the supernatural + suspense + Taoist arts + feng shui + spirit-walking + witchcraft + no System + original, not fanfiction + slow burn] In southwest China, there is a little-known profession whose practitioners are called grave chasers. They read the flow of qi and water, scour the mountains and track down tombs, and are experts in feng shui, burial sites, Taoist arts, and witchcraft. What are grave chasers really looking for? How did I get dragged into all this? It all began whe 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 78 A Working Stiff's Ghost-Hunting Diary 牛马捉鬼日记 Mystery + Supernatural + Comedy. Slow burn; impatient readers, enter at your own risk!!! My name is Qin Fang. I was an ordinary, downtrodden wage slave, until one day, on a whim, I spent a whopping five hundred yuan at a street stall on a nine-story pagoda ornament. My peaceful life was turned upside down. Now, on top of slaving away at work all day and suffering for a measly few thousand yuan, I have to serve the pagoda spirit, Lord Bai, every night. I’m forced to hunt ghosts and subdue demons 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 79 The Gallery of Gods 神明陈列馆 My sister's life hangs on my cursed one. To save his terminally ill sister, Chen Gu steps into a dark world that collects human obsessions and “tokens.” During an expedition, he embeds “Destruction” in his right arm and seals “Order” inside his chest. From then on, his body becomes a battlefield between two colliding stars. He becomes a monster, and every time he suffers, his sister's soul is torn apart from a thousand miles away in her hospital room. In his darkest hour, he discovers the mark 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 80 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. 57Reads—Score—Shelves
- 81 The Strange World Descends! Why Is the Ghost Bride Throwing Herself at Me? 诡世降临！我被诡新娘倒贴？ Strange beings have appeared in the world, and catastrophe is coming. Ordinary life is about to face utter destruction. Song Yu, a recent college graduate, scrambles to make ends meet by delivering food. By chance, he and a friend enter the forbidden Liu Mansion, the subject of rumors in Su City. They stumble into a ghost wedding, and to escape the pursuit of a vicious ghost, he has no choice but to take a risk and pose as the groom. But the bride waiting at the Liu Mansion, Liu Huiniang, is wai 38Reads—Score—Shelves
- 82 What Kind of Security Guard Is Responsible for Catching Ghosts? 谁家保安还负责抓鬼啊？ Baiyun Residential Complex is an upscale neighborhood, but the countless strange tales and ghost stories surrounding it have made many people wary of the place. The story begins when Li Si applies for a job as a security guard there... 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 83 Born of a Corpse: I Landed a Government Job by Catching Ghosts 尸生子：我靠抓鬼混上编制 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 66Reads—Score—Shelves
- 84 At the Cemetery, I Find a Pair of Red High Heels 人在公墓，捡到一双红色高跟鞋 Wang Jin finally graduated. He never expected that after studying civil engineering, he'd end up in a tomb, landing a job as a security guard at a high-end cemetery. He figured he'd work there for a few years, save some money, and then leave. But on his very first day, he found a pair of red high heels outside the security office. An ordinary person with no worries might have thrown them away. Someone more cautious might have grown suspicious. But Wang Jin was neither. He looked around, saw no o 1.5kReads8.0Score141Shelves
- 85 I Have a Book That Suppresses Ghosts 我有一本镇鬼书 [Wild imagination + ghost taming + fighting ghosts] [Punching Japanese Onmyoji in the face + kicking Satanist exorcists] During the Eastern Jin dynasty, the unorthodox Taoist Song Dingbo sealed more than a hundred evil ghosts that plagued the world inside a notebook. After his death, the notebook was buried with him in a grave on Yunwu Mountain. As the years passed, the grave was damaged one day in 2012, releasing all the ghosts. Li San, who happened to be on a mission nearby, was accidentally p 26Reads—Score—Shelves
- 86 Supernatural: My Years Hunting Ghosts at Bureau 749 灵异：我在749局打鬼那些年 The appearance of a white coffin and a red coffin at the construction site changed my fate. That night, I saw corpses that could move and a ghost that could steal a person's soul. They were all "deceiving" me, trying to make me die. What should I do... When you think the person behind you is a ghost, the real ghost may be the one standing in front of you... Once it's dark... don't read this!! 211Reads—Score—Shelves
- 87 Living for the Dead: I Devour the Bizarre in the Human World 替死者而活：我在人间吞噬诡异 [This novel is a serious supernatural mystery] Qi Guang died, and I took his place. An inhuman being, surviving in a borrowed body, without warmth or an understanding of humanity. I can devour every supernatural entity. I carry all of his memories, imitate his life, and learn to understand warmth, the bustle of everyday life, and the bonds between people. The human world meant nothing to me, until I met Mu Chen and gained a family I wanted to protect, along with an ordinary daily life. But the 301Reads—Score—Shelves
- 88 Exorcism Records: The Supreme Judge of Yin and Yang 镇鬼实录：阴阳第一执宰人 [Traditional supernatural horror + ghost hunting + no romance] The city is full of tricks. I want to go back to the countryside. After losing his job, Jiang Bai returns to his rural hometown, only to find that a wicked spirit has begun tearing out people’s hearts. More and more villagers are being killed, and the whole village is helpless. Ignoring his late grandfather’s prohibition, he inherits his grandfather’s legacy and enters the world of the mystic arts. In a once-quiet town, accidents kee 77Reads—Score—Shelves
- 89 Fate of the Yin Realm 阴缘逆命 I was born with an extremely yin fate, making me the fattest piece of meat in the eyes of yin creatures. When I was thirteen, Li Xiaopang’s father, who lived next door, suddenly died away from home. On the night his body was brought back, someone knocked on our front door… A hand covered in livor mortis reached for my throat. Grandpa traded half his life to keep me alive. Before he left, he gave me a note telling me to go to Haizhou City, a hundred li away, and find a female master surnamed Shen 23Reads—Score—Shelves
- 90 This Daoist Strikes, He Pulls Up the Roots 贫道出手，斩草必除根 Feng Shui and the Supernatural ☞ Daoist Arts and Witchcraft ☞ If it can be killed, leave no survivors ☞ Ghosts and monsters ☞ No female lead I am Tian Jiu, a Daoist priest nicknamed the Heretic... Ageless and undying, beyond the cycle of reincarnation, I walk beneath the sun, driving out ghosts and subduing demons... Whether you’re a demon, monster, ghost, or fiend, I’ll reduce you to ashes... If I, Tian Jiu, cannot ascend among the immortals, then I’ll protect the mortal world... Countless immo 1.4kReads7.1Score105Shelves
- 91 No Day in Jiangcheng: The Guixu Pawnshop 江城无日：归墟典当行 On the third day after my father died, I inherited a pawnshop that opened at midnight. I thought it only took old things nobody dared to keep. That was until a man with no shadow stumbled through the door. He said he had traded his shadow for his life thirteen years ago. Now the thing that had come to collect had a face exactly like his. At dawn, the sun did not rise over Jiangcheng. Only after I opened the black ledger my father left behind did I learn that what this city owed was never money. —Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 92 The Taboos of Moving a Grave: I’m Forced to Be a Dead Man’s Best Man 迁坟禁忌，我被迫给死人当伴郎 Inside a brightly decorated hall, I was serving as best man to a corpse. After that, I went through all kinds of bizarre events... The dead kept sending me gifts I couldn't get rid of. A dried corpse murder case that claimed three lives in a single day. The undead patrolling a wilderness graveyard. A pale child who nailed himself inside a coffin. And the thatched hut that stole people's lifespans. To understand what started this endless string of events, we have to go back to the part-time job I 35Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 93 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—Shelves
- 94 Every Female Ghost I Meet Is Absolutely Top-Tier! 我遇见的女鬼都超顶！ I happened to receive a piece of spirit money from the Bank of the Underworld on Ghost Festival, and it kicked off an entertaining career of running into ghosts. And they're all beautiful female ghosts!! Hehe, as long as you're brave enough, even female ghosts take maternity leave!!! 1.2kReads7.4Score166Shelves
- 95 This Ghost Catcher Is Not That Cold 这个鬼差不太冷 [Completed] [Eerie Revival] [Playing Card Elements] [The Protagonist Isn’t an Idiot] [Government Organization] [Absurd, Light Comedy] Also known as: Eerie Revival: Contracting an Ancient Great Ghost from the Start! Midnight is nigh, and a hundred ghosts roam the streets! “What! The only thing my family has left is a box of playing cards?” “What! The monthly salary is 100,000?” “Forget ghost hunting. I’d even sell my body if you asked me to!” Armed with nothing but a box of playing cards, one yo 2.5kReads8.1Score228Shelves
- 96 The Mystic Arts Curse Master 玄门咒神 On the day Yang Xuan was supposed to get engaged, a blood-red coffin inexplicably appeared in his home. Inside lay a beautiful woman with skin like jade. On the first day, his father died. On the second day, a yin-yang master told Yang Xuan: If he wanted to survive this calamity, he had to consummate his marriage with her... 115Reads—Score—Shelves
- 97 Haunted University: I’m the Only Living Person on Campus 诡大学：全校就我一个活人 [Supernatural + one female lead] He scored 320 on the college entrance exam and just wanted to find a decent university to attend. He never expected to meet a ghostly version of Zhang Xuefeng, who recommended a ghost university 😭 His classmates and teachers are all ghosts 👻 —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 98 The Sealed Coffin Opens, and I Stitch the Vengeful Dead Back to Life 绝户棺开，我缝万鬼来复仇 On my twentieth birthday, my fiancée Bai Chuchu smiled like a flower as she personally gouged out my innate spirit eyes, all to steal my fortune and help her family reach the pinnacle of power. She nailed me inside a coffin sealed to leave no descendants, then buried me alive in a cavern of ten thousand ghosts, where I suffered as they devoured me. She mocked my lowly yin fate, saying I was fit only to be a stepping stone on her path to immortality. But she didn't know that my bloodline is a for 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 99 Strange Tales of the Northeast 东北鬼事异闻 A collection of strange tales about ghosts and supernatural happenings in Northeast China. Some are hearsay, while others are terrifying paranormal events that happened right before the storyteller's eyes. A weasel spirit gaining human form, a fox stealing an elixir, a corpse crushed beneath a millstone... 2.2kReads—Score106Shelves
- 100 My Blind Date Fell Through, So My Ancestors Left Me Ten Billion in Ghost Money 相亲不成：祖宗给我存千亿冥币 [First person] [Mystery and the supernatural] [Mild horror] [Traditional fantasy, no cultivation] 1Reads—Score—Shelves
