Novels like Horror Descends: The Ghost Gate
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Horror Descends: The Ghost Gate, best match first.
- 101 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... 975Reads8.1Score10114d adds
- 102 Frightening Folk Tales of Ghosts and Monsters 民间吓人的鬼怪故事 This book collects folk tales about ghosts and monsters from China and around the world, both ancient and modern. They include deeply moving love stories, myths where good and evil are repaid in kind, and eerie tales that will leave you trembling with fear. We hope you enjoy them. This story is entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual events or people is purely coincidental. 24Reads—Score—14d adds
- 103 One Horror a Day 一天一个惊悚 One terrifying tale every day, and a different world each time. Just because you haven't seen it from in front of your phone doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Enough chatter. See you in the book, everyone. 7Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 104 I’m a Dream Pathfinder 我是梦境寻路人 This is an infinite-loop novel of bizarre nightmares, blending oldcore, dreamcore, weirdcore, the Backrooms, comedy, and other elements. No System, multiple instances (depending on what the author dreams up each night). Note: This isn't pure horror. It's just pretty weird. Do you believe that the world we stand in is actually just someone's dream? We're no more than passing figures in the dreamer's memories. The moment they wake, everything in the world will be erased... Except for one “unlucky —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 105 Close Your Eyes, and the Nightmare Begins 闭眼即梦魇 [Infinite-flow + no romance + mild horror + mystery-solving] A bizarre murder case dragged Yan Wei, a psychiatric patient, into a bloody game. As layer after layer of fog lifted, he discovered a grand conspiracy lurking behind it all... A mysteriously vanished psychiatric hospital, otherworldly powers worshipped by the masses, a boy whose face he could never remember from his dreams... Behind ideals that seemed so grand lay a tangled web of human and divine self-interest. 41Reads—Score—14d adds
- 106 Strange Tales, Volume 1 奇闻诡事录1 This is a collection of folk tales about the uncanny, strange accounts from across the land. Each chapter is a complete story, each tale a separate supernatural mystery, revealing the mysteries of yin and yang, folk taboos, and the obsessions of the dead. You never know when a casual remark might draw the attention of spirits lurking in the wilderness; when an old object you pick up might hold the memory of a tragic death; or when an everyday habit might already have crossed a forbidden boundary 20Reads—Score—14d adds
- 107 Horror: Death Comes at Midnight 恐怖：夜半索命 I lived a routine life until the death of Old Chen changed everything. Beside his body lay a pile of handmade paper figures. One had been painted blood red and clutched in his stiff, dead hand. Blood-red words began appearing in the mirror: “Get out.” “He’s still in the building.” Then I received an ultimatum: his daughter needed a living substitute. Paper figures weren’t enough. Neither were his belongings. She wanted a living person in the building, someone warm and breathing. Tomorrow, at mid 17Reads—Score11014d adds
- 108 After Sacrificing Our Teammates, We All Became Gods 献祭队友后，我们全员成神 A driverless Route 13 bus carries seven losers cast aside by reality into the Myriad Worlds. An unemployed planner, a teacher on the verge of a breakdown, a spineless doctor, a cowardly programmer, a boastful salesman, a taciturn stunt double, and a laid-off machinist. This is the worst starting team in history. But every “sacrifice” triggers a wild evolution. 🔹 Vehicle upgrade path: Rusty old bus → Mobile luxury apartment → Matte black-and-gold war chariot, the Xihe (with a red-gold Golden Crow 473Reads6.5Score10614d adds
- 109 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
- 110 The Haunted Dreamscape, Part One 诡梦境第一部 Are ghosts always frightening? Are people always kind? Sometimes, people can be more terrifying than ghosts. Behind every strange incident may lie a tragic story you never saw coming. 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 111 The Bride in the Red Coffin 红棺里的新娘 The first book: horror, terror, and the uncanny. The sequel: comedy and humor! Two stories: The Bride in the Red Coffin + its sequel, also known as My Ghost Wife Keeps Trying to Scare Me to Tears. When crimson ripples spread across the deep pool, I finally saw the bone comb in the hands of the bride in the sunken coffin. Carved into it were my birth details, even though I had been missing for three years. Xu Xiaomo was drawn home by tales of the Sunk 175Reads—Score—14d adds
- 112 Thriller Game: Everyone Struggles to Survive, While I Ascend to Godhood Alone 惊悚游戏：众生苟存！我独自封神 [Wish-Fulfillment] + [Rule Horror] + [Eerie] + [Infinite Flow] + [Mind-Bending] + [Play the Pig to Eat the Tiger] + [Roleplay] + [Hacking the Backend] Welcome to the [Multiverse Horror Show]! This is a death livestream that uses human fear to drive its ratings, and the lives and deaths of billions of beings to entertain higher-dimensional civilizations. Here, players either scrape by with divine artifact inheritances or become ratings fodder beneath the claws of vengeful ghosts. Earth's survival —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 113 A Hundred Ghosts at the Night Banquet 百诡夜宴 [Mystery + Mind-Bending + No System + Supernatural Horror + Murder-Mystery Game] “The true trick isn’t hidden in the shadows. It sits upon the throne, making everyone bow before it.” “It never deceives the eyes. It only fools the heart.” A human body hanging in the air, a head burned and charred to the bone, severed limbs abandoned on a rainy night: all seem like the final echoes of death. Four survivors and one overseer sit around the long table at a night banquet, whispering among themselves. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 114 Strike It Rich by Opening the Coffin 开棺发财 [Handcrafted from scratch + Traditional supernatural horror + No System + No cultivation + Extremely scary + Based on true experiences] Paper figures carry the coffin, a black dog tosses the grave, and an old man falls in love with a ghost. An opened coffin is carried home, and a beautiful fairy follows through the door. My name is Qin Yang. I was down on my luck and only hoped to make money by opening coffins. I never expected that it would turn out to be such a high-risk profession. (Friends i 1.7kReads—Score13114d adds
- 115 Supernatural Revival: From the Start, I Bet on a Livestream from a Psychiatric Hospital 灵异复苏开局对赌直播精神病院 Haunted House Livestream: Three Million to Save a Life. The People of Longguo Never Bow Their Heads [Supernatural revival + No System + No saintly protagonist + Fresh plot + Escape + Exploration + Crime solving + Not dark] Chen Feng opens his eyes in a foot massage parlor to find himself three million in debt and his younger sister on the brink of death! A mysterious creditor offers him a deal: livestream three trips into deadly places, and the money and your life are yours. The first stop is 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 116 The Temple That Eats People 吃人的庙 The Man-Eating Temple 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 117 The Shen Family Daughter Clause 沈氏女儿条款 In the depths of winter by the sea, due diligence tears open a breach in the Shen Group. An intern named Li Li joins the risk-control team, but her goal has nothing to do with her resume: she wants to find her adoptive father, Li Shouyi, who has been missing for three years. All she has is an iron box, a string of numbers, a key, and an old index deliberately "sealed away." The deeper she digs, the more she realizes she hasn't stumbled upon a family matter, but an old ledger written into proced 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 118 Welcome Back to the Nightmare's Beginning 欢迎回到噩梦起点 (Infinite survival, puzzle-solving, mild horror) Late at night, Shao Jie stumbled sleepily toward the bathroom. The instant he opened the door, the whole world spun upside down! When he came to, he found himself in a gloomy, terrifying otherworld. There, he was forced to take part in a horrifying survival game: eerie footsteps sounded outside the door during the midnight room inspections, villagers mysteriously vanished from a remote village every night, and worst of all... the woman who had onc 15.8kReads7.7Score1.7k14d adds
- 119 Infinite Nightmares: An Eighty-Year-Old Man Rejuvenated from the Start 无限噩梦：开局八旬老汉返老还童 Infinite flow + rules-based horror + mild horror + no romance Qin Yi accidentally enters a nightmarish world. Here, there are rules that must never be broken, along with bizarre phenomena beyond ordinary people's understanding. By chance, Qin Yi discovers the rewards for surviving a nightmare. Wealth, health, youth, achievement… Terrified of the nightmares but coveting the rewards for surviving them, Qin Yi approaches one nightmare after another with mixed feelings… 8.4kReads8.1Score94914d adds
- 120 Infinite Nightmares: I Have a Pair of Ghost Ears 无限噩梦：我有一对鬼耳 [Infinite Flow], [Mild Horror], [No Female Lead], [Survive by the Skin of Your Teeth], [Unconventional Turtle Soup Riddles], [Nontraditional Rule-Based Horror], [Not a Wish-Fulfillment Story, Not Invincible] [Slow-paced, packed with details, and full of complex plot twists!] [Read at your own risk if that's not your thing!!!] I sat on a deserted street in the dead of night, listening to them whisper. I was a little confused. Wasn't I the only one here? (Instance 1: Prolonging Life) A bit lon 26.9kReads7.9Score3.3k14d adds
- 121 The Eerie Sanatorium [Infinite-Flow Dungeon] 诡噩疗养院【无限流副本】 [High Risk + No System + Desperate Survival + Mystery and Puzzles + Hell Difficulty] [Fast-paced, entering the instance in Chapter 2] [Skyscraper + School + Village + Hotel + Bus + Temple + Island + Skyscraper] In the city stands a sanatorium called “Laifu,” home to a group of patients suffering from terminal illnesses. “Ghostly horrors, ghostly horrors.” “‘Ghostly’ means ever-changing schemes; ‘horrors’ means supernatural powers. The only thing capable of restraining ghosts is a set of insignif —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 122 Fatal Game: The Death Script 致命游戏：死亡剧本 [Infinite-Flow + Horror + Survival] No female lead, no romance between men and women, pure deduction-based infinite flow. A strange minibus carries a group of guilty people to a village that doesn’t exist on any map. ...The people living in the base dormitories receive a different horror script every so often. Anyone who receives one is forcibly dragged into the script to play out its horrifying story. When Su Bai finally returns home after experiencing one terrifying incident after another, he 504Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 123 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
- 124 Reincarnation: My Level Was Reset to Zero, and My Doll Went on a Killing Spree 轮回：满级清零，我的人偶杀疯了 [Infinite loop + revenge + fiery, tragic, and sweet] After ten years beside an empty grave, he can no longer remember his late wife's face. The infinity tattoo on his wrist is his sole obsession. Once, he was the one who reached the summit of the cycle of reincarnation. Just one step away from the truth, he was betrayed, had his memories wiped, and became an ordinary security guard in the modern world. Then a girl doll shattered his tombstone and dragged him back to the reincarnation battlefield 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 125 A Bizarre Instance? She’s the Final Boss! 诡异副本？她才是最终boss！ [No CP + strong heroine + villainess + eerie instances + horror and suspense + infinite flow + beautiful and powerful (whether she suffers depends on the role she gives herself)] (The heroine really is strong, the invincible kind.) P.S. How can love between the eerie beings not count as a suspense romance? The heroine isn't an evil woman who does bad things for no reason. Everything she does is part of her own plan. (She isn't a good person, anyway.) A treasure is locked away in Qingshan Mental 104Reads—Score11214d adds
- 126 The Wooden Beauty Exploits Bugs in Horror Films to Become a Legend 木头美人，惊悚片里卡BUG封神 Lu Yao, the “wooden beauty” mocked across the internet, is blacklisted for her terrible acting and forced to enter the deadly National Fate Cinema. Audiences worldwide bet she won’t last three minutes. Her teammates see her as useless dead weight. The life-taking evil spirit picks her as its first “easy target.” But when mental corruption sweeps the whole place and the actors scream in despair, Lu Yao tilts her expressionless face and asks the ghost, “You’re crying so fake. Haven’t you eaten 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 127 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
- 128 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
- 129 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
- 130 Infinite Terror: I Become a God in the Eighteenth Layer of Hell 无限惊悚：我在十八层地狱封神 [Thriller] + [Infinite Flow] + [Survival Against the Odds] [Ensemble Cast] + [Episodic] + [Mystery and Deduction] [The Eternal Cruise Ship] The empty cruise ship is filled with endless lies. The twisted-faced, deeply wrinkled vengeful ghost loves collecting tongues. The only clue: Do not speak carelessly. Shen Xu: "Brother Luo, the clue says you're a pimp." Luo Yu: "I'm a pet shop owner. I arrange pet breeding for people." [Xinglin Village] All 18 gate challengers are terminally ill. Only by d 223Reads—Score10114d adds
- 131 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
- 132 My Neighbor Knocks on the Wall at 3 A.M. Every Day 我的邻居每天准时在凌晨3点敲墙 My neighbor knocks on the wall at exactly 3 a.m. every day 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 133 Rule Horror: I Report This! The School's Teaching Aids Are All Made from Students 规则怪谈：我举报！这学校的教具都是拿学生做的 Rule Horror: I’m reporting this! The school’s teaching aids are all made from students 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 134 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—14d adds
- 135 The Weird Domain: Escape from Skinless Village from the Start! 诡异领域：开局逃离无皮村！ [Infinite Flow + Mild Horror + Survival + Supernatural Instances + No Female Lead] Resentment that cannot be dispelled in the real world gathers to form new eerie domains. After being chosen, people are dragged into an eerie domain when they die unexpectedly. They can return to reality only by successfully completing the tasks inside. Only after escaping one terrifying eerie domain after another by the skin of his teeth does Lu Lin discover that the real world is also being infiltrated and taint 7.9kReads7.1Score56614d adds
- 136 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, 2.4kReads—Score15614d adds
- 137 Medium's Notes: My Left Eye Can See Ghosts 灵媒笔记：我的左眼能见鬼 The Cangye lineage of the Southern Frontier unleashes chaos. The Cherry Blossom Curse, Yin Soil summoning, Ruin Spirits, and malevolent earth veins emerge one after another, leaving the seals protecting the land on the brink of collapse. In a desperate battle, pure Yang Heavenly Energy collides with the turbid qi of Yin Soil inside him, forming a yin-yang vortex whose blessings and dangers are impossible to predict. His old enemies flee into the Hundred Thousand Mountains, seeking a chance to p 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 138 Night Tales: One Eerie Story Every Night 夜话：每晚一个诡故事 Unravel the chilling logical paradoxes hidden in everyday details. Each story is an artistic reimagining of a real social event from recent years. Every late night conceals secrets unknown to others. Each chapter is a standalone story, with a brisk pace, tight storytelling, and no dull moments. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 139 The Old Corpse: Strange Happenings in the Mountains 老尸：山中诡事 A thousand skeletons pillow the moonlit stele, their shadows sealed. Autumn tombs wear rosy clouds, blood soaking the steps. The boiling cauldron cooks souls, a thousand years of grievance. A grand feast for ghosts, with every skeleton withered. In the utter silence, corpse oil lights the candle. In a place shrouded from the world, a rotting hand pushes open the door. A lingering soul adorns the dressing table, a spider transformed into a hairpin. A name sinks beneath the mirror, maggots become 155Reads—Score—14d adds
- 140 Please Don’t Be Afraid 请不要害怕 [Subverting Tropes + Infinite Flow + No Female Lead + Mild Horror] “Captain Wang, I clearly buried her, but… but I saw her in the backyard again!” “How did she die?” “It had nothing to do with me. She… she killed herself!” “She… she just didn’t want to be cremated…” “Then… what is that thing in the backyard?” “I… I don’t know.” “Can she see us? Can she hear our voices?” “And is she dangerous?” … “As for ghosts, I have only one piece of advice for everyone…” “If you happen to run into one, pleas 31.9kReads8.5Score1.5k14d adds
- 141 I Volunteered to Join the Hell Cinema 我是自愿加入地狱影院的 Mystery Infinite Flow + a passionate, hilarious ensemble cast + a story about intangible cultural heritage in every script + a protagonist who dreams their way through the trials. Watch as five ordinary young men who don’t know one another write countless adventurous tales, full of laughter and tears, as they face one perilous folk-culture script after another~ 26Reads—Score—14d adds
- 142 The Man Buried Upside Down 倒着埋的人 The Man Buried Upside Down 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 143 The Bizarre Case Investigator 诡案惊探 [Mystery]+ [Supernatural]+ [Deduction]+ [Crime Solving]+ [Male lead versed in both Yin and Yang] After his girlfriend vanishes under bizarre circumstances and every effort to find her comes to nothing for two years, Qin Zhong loses heart and takes a job as a police officer at a remote township station. One day, he suddenly receives a bizarre case. The entire village of Niewa has vanished. As the investigation deepens, one strange Supernatural incident after another unfolds. Along the way, his pa 1.6kReads8.4Score18714d adds
- 144 The Horror Industrial Park 恐怖工业园 You're a seasoned wage slave. One day, you're dragged into a [Weird and Absurd + Comedic and Witty + Not Brain-Dead + Not a Wish-Fulfillment Story + Exploring Human Nature + Enter at Your Own Risk] strange other world. You think that if you complete the System's tasks, you'll return to the real world. What you don't know is that this other world exists because of you... 15Reads—Score—14d adds
- 145 The Weird Realm II: Room 414 Hospital 诡界II：414医院 [Infinite Flow + Supernatural Horror + Mystery + Paranormal + Survival + Dungeons] A hospital said to be impossible to escape, and a group of survivors who've narrowly escaped death time and again. What bizarre and uncanny tales await them as they open the doors to one patient room after another? Dear readers, follow the protagonist Lu Bai as he uncovers one hidden truth after another. Welcome to Hospital 414... 62Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 146 I Asked You to Write a Horror Play, So Why Did You Have to Add a Deity? 让你写诡剧，您非要往里加神人？ He Mo has always believed that eerie plays, with their dark, disturbing themes and wall-to-wall negativity, are bound to drive actors to a mental breakdown if they perform in them for too long. So he insists on adding a few absurd characters and comic plotlines to lighten things up. The more the theater objects, the more it proves he's doing the right thing. It shows that he's exposed the theater's intention to torment its actors through eerie plays. The more the actors object, the more it prove 1.1kReads—Score17014d adds
- 147 Rule Horror: Feeding Records from No. 7 Huaiyin Lane 规则怪谈：槐荫里7号进食记录 Rule Horror: Feeding Records from No. 7, Huaiyin Lane —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 148 The Calamity of Gui Water 癸水之祸 If even your memories are fake, who are you? Lin Zhou receives a death invitation from his younger sister, Lin Yao, who died twenty years ago. To uncover the truth, he enters the "Constellation Instances": twenty-eight prisons holding beings more ancient than the corruption itself. Each instance demands that he trade memories for power, and every dead person bears the cost on his behalf. When he finds his own file in the archives, stating that he cleared the Ghost Golden Sheep instance at age —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 149 Infinite Cinema: I Climbed to the Top of the Charts Through Death 无限影院：我靠死亡冲上热榜第一 [Infinite-Loop Horror + Mildly Scary + No Female Lead] Just got a rating, it'll rise later, dears! Death isn't the end. It's your ticket in. The moment Jiang Yubai was crushed beneath a cement truck, he thought his life was over. But when he opened his eyes again, he was sitting in an old movie theater that reeked of mold. Blood-red rules appeared on the screen: Welcome to the “Infinite Cinema.” Here, the dead are chosen at random to become the “protagonists” of one horror film after another. Th 9.3kReads6.9Score1.1k14d adds
- 150 Blood Curtain: The Final Chapter? 血幕，终章？ Five years ago, one tiny mistake of mine got three coworkers killed. From then on, I lived in endless regret. Five years later, a blood-red screen appeared in the depths of the ocean, enclosing a mysterious continent! Monsters began invading from this other continent. While every country in the world struggled to resist, I was pulled into another dimension, where lies followed rules that could get you killed, bizarre monsters were impossible to wipe out, and I had several unreliable “teammates.” —Reads—Score—14d adds
![The Eerie Sanatorium [Infinite-Flow Dungeon]](https://p3-novel.byteimg.com/novel-pic/7d8670d98d186ba0e790f9b0a69d8e14~tplv-resize:120:0.jpeg)
