Novels like Delusions: The Book of Ghostly Grudges
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Delusions: The Book of Ghostly Grudges, best match first.
- 101 A Bite Out of the Azure Heavens 苍天一蚀 [Bizarre apocalypse + multiple heroines + sanity meter plummeting + facing the gods head-on + socialist values] I, unable to die, watch myself through the world. Before the black hole, I look up and see countless versions of myself arranged one after another along a Mobius strip. Then I’m sucked into the black hole in an instant. The eerie red moonlight holds the power to bring the dead back to life, while the red false sun in the sky drags everyone into a world of death with its tentacles. The —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 102 Tales of the Ghost Whisperers 驭鬼者传 From the start, I shouted at a female ghost from the Qing Dynasty, “Down with the Qing! Restore the Ming!” The rot of feudalism, rote education, twisted perversions, taking responsibility, and the collision of three souls. Who am I, really... Combat takes center stage, with strategy in support. This is no traditional supernatural story. It’s occasionally funny, serious when it needs to be and funny when it should be. A coming-of-age story w 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 103 The Hundred Venerables Record: Tales of Another Day 百崇录：异日谈 A sealed ancient scroll has come to light once more: "The Hundred Abominations: Tales of Strange Days". Its faded, uncanny writing: written in blood? Annotated in tears? No one can say. All that remains are over a hundred strange accounts, each word sinking into the bone, all told by the “ill omens” lurking among humankind. Some nest in the dark corners of people's hearts, watching for greed; some lie in the shadows of the streets, drinking in sobs; others haunt desolate wilderness and ancient h —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 104 The Scalding Gold Bracelet 烫手的金镯 Five boys set out to rob a tomb, but their greed awakened something even more terrifying beneath it. Could the ancestral gold bracelet actually be the lock on a seal? Forced to become a “living target,” Wang Erwa must uncover the truth behind a silversmith’s violent death and the sins of an old debt before the evil spirit fully awakens. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 105 Tomb of Terror: My Haunted Forest Expedition 古墓惊魂，我的恐怖森林探险之旅 Terror in the Ancient Tomb: My Adventure Through a Haunted Forest 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 106 Old Wei's Ghost Stories 老魏讲鬼故事 [Traditional Supernatural Tales] [Chinese-Style Horror] [Based on True Events] [Submitted by Readers] [Chilling on Reflection] [Bizarre Tales] [Beyond the Bounds of Science] The eerie Buddha statue seen when mountaineers are trapped in a ghostly loop, a face appearing on the wall in the middle of the night, a “person” using their own head as a ball during evening study at school... I have always believed that horror stories should be short, sometimes ending on a cliffhanger, sometimes becoming 1.5kReads—Score10814d adds
- 107 Goddess of Dice, My Luck Is So Terrible! 骰子女神，我的命好苦！ [Lovecraftian] + [Infinite Flow] + [tabletop role-playing] + [no female lead] + [purely random dice rolls] (New book, low rating is normal) I dedicate this book to everyone who loves tabletop role-playing, or is about to. Ding-a-ling, ding-a-ling, ding-ding... (Animal World theme song) “Welcome, viewers, to the fringes of human civilization, where a strange species of primate thrives: the Cthulhu investigators. They wear trench coats, carry Elder Signs, and live on caffeine and curiosity. Here c 116Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 108 Sacrificed to an Unnameable Being? I’ll Take Its Place 被献给不可名状之物？我要取代祂 [Female protagonist, no romance + Chinese-style Lovecraftian horror + Classic of Mountains and Seas mythology + growing heroine] She was offered to the gods as one of a pair of twin sacrifices. She should have died, but the god who toys with mortals dragged her back into the human world. From its lofty perch, the god called her “bride,” “toy,” and “little moth.” Its treatment of her like an insect made her sick. She knew this was nothing but the condescending mockery of those who already held po 51Reads—Score15114d adds
- 109 My Funeral Clothing Shop Only Takes Orders from Ghosts 我开的寿衣店，只接鬼订单 The day Zhang Zaizai took over the funeral clothing shop his grandfather left behind, he discovered it wasn’t an ordinary funeral business at all. The ledger was an order system for the underworld, the paperweight was a soul-pinning nail that kept vicious ghosts at bay, and even the “New Order” alerts from the delivery app came from “Mr. Li in Bed 3 of the morgue.” “Ding! Order accepted. Task: Deliver a peachwood comb to the Midnight Hair-Combing Ghost. Rule: Do not meet her eyes while combing h —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 110 Grudge-Locked Patterns 怨气锁纹 Dai Xiaochao, the protagonist, is a college graduate in architecture from the 1990s. Under heavy financial pressure, he moves into a tenement building where a locked-room murder took place two years earlier. Surveillance was scarce in those days, so the police had to investigate door to door, and the case made little progress. Then the ancient Taotie jade pendant inherited by Dai Xiaochao’s family, along with its Taotie patterns, begins to react... And that is where the story begins. 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 111 The Ghost Bone-Reading 鬼称骨 Where I'm from, we call our great-grandfather “Laodie.” In Meihua Village, everyone gives a thumbs-up when they talk about my Laodie, saying he was an extraordinary man. Even the children have surely heard the adults tell stories about how my Laodie dealt with ghosts, monsters, and spirits. In the late Qing dynasty, Laodie passed the xiucai examination at the age of twelve. He was supposed to go on to take the provincial and metropolitan examinations, but an unexpected accident changed everythin 417Reads8.7Score10514d adds
- 112 The Killer Killed the Killer 凶手杀了凶手 The underground parking lot was cordoned off. A body had been found in the parking lot at four in the morning. As I passed the cordon, the police asked me to cooperate with the registration. I nodded without hesitation. "No problem, hopefully they can catch the murderer of that lady soon." The policeman suddenly looked up. "Miss, I didn't just say the deceased was a woman." 115Reads—Score—14d adds
- 113 Walking Between Yin and Yang: Haunted 行走阴阳：撞邪 My mother was born under the rare fate of a nine-life yin woman, cursed with solitude. A fortune-teller said that women with this fate were destined to bring misfortune to their husbands, children, and parents. I survived only because my mother gave her life for mine. The night I was born, crows called out to summon souls, wild cats wailed like mourners, and a hundred ghosts fought over me... 260Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 114 Cha Mi High School 茶靡高校 [Infinite Flow] [Instance-Based Story] [Original Horror Instances, Mildly Spooky] My name is Lin Fen. A bizarre car accident turned my peaceful life upside down. That day, my mother and I were crossing the street. A speeding car came hurtling toward us. My mother pushed me out of the way at the last moment and was struck dead by the roadside. I watched in terror. Then I remembered: I didn't have a mother at all! I, Lin Fen, had only ever known busy caregivers since I could remember. I was a chil 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 115 The Evil God Wants to Manipulate Me? I'll Hit Back with the Civil Code 邪神想PUA我？反手掏出民法典 Nyarlathotep, the embodiment of chaos, the god of a thousand faces, the oldest con artist in the universe. It had never once been outplayed, until one summer night, when a twenty-two-year-old girl slammed it with a copy of the Civil Code and left it cracking on the spot. Chen Nian, a law graduate from Shanghai University of Political Science and Law, with two thousand yuan in savings and a fresh law-firm offer in hand. She lives by one principle: whatever the thing on the other side may be, hit —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 116 There Are No Evil Dogs on Evil Dog Ridge 恶狗岭没有恶狗 There Are No Vicious Dogs on Evil Dog Ridge 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 117 Eat a Person Raw, and Thank Me for It!!! 生吃个人，请感谢我！！！ [Invincible + Seafaring + From the Perspective of an Indescribable Monster] Aboard Captain Victor’s ship, there are three ironclad rules: First: You must obey Captain Victor’s orders without question. Second: Everything Captain Victor says is absolute truth. Third: You are Captain Victor. When you wake up from your job in the steel jungle, you discover that you have become the new “captain” of this eerie ship. There isn’t a single crew member beside you, and unknown shadows watch from beneath th —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 118 Old Alley Sound Repair: At Midnight Tonight, Qin Opera Calls the Souls 旧巷声修：今夜子时，秦腔引魂 [One Heroine + Sound Cultivation + Qin Opera + Livestreaming + Supernatural Mystery + Urban + Adventure] In modern society, information explodes across the world, and human negativity is amplified through social media, forming an immense “Tide of Resentment.” If no one guides and dispels it, within three years it will gather into a “Lament of Doomsday,” and the boundary between the worlds of yin and yang will collapse completely. Humanity’s power comes from “the Power of Wishes”: energy formed w —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 119 My Dead Wife Returns on Our Wedding Night 亡妻归来新婚夜 My Late Wife Returns on Our Wedding Night 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 120 The Conspiracy Behind the Terrifying Calls 恐怖电话背后的阴谋 The conspiracy behind the horror phone 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 121 Redemption and Rebirth in the Darkness 黑暗中的救赎与新生 Salvation and New Life in the Darkness 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 122 Terror Underground: My Journey of Adventure and Growth 地道惊魂，我的探险与成长 Terror Underground: My Adventure and Growth —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 123 The Abandoned Wife's Desert Island Adventure 弃妇的荒岛冒险之旅 An Abandoned Wife's Adventure on a Deserted Island 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 124 The Legendary Investigator: Starting with a Sketching Trip in a Small Town 传奇调查员：从小镇写生开始 [Call of Cthulhu tabletop campaign + investigator progression + my take on Lovecraftian horror? + mystery + dice rolls to advance the plot + no romance] Some say Lin Mo is a once-in-a-century painting prodigy, loved by the Muse of Inspiration, who even goes out of her way to shower her with the inspiration others can only dream of. That's how she became the most successful young painter of her generation. But only Lin Mo knows that every one of her creations brings her closer to “It.” (Also know 596Reads8.5Score10214d adds
- 125 Horror Instances: Follow the Rules If You Want to Survive 惊悚副本：想活命，就要遵守规则 [Clever protagonists + Cthulhu + transmigration + infinite worlds + horror games] The entire city was under the control of a mysterious force, and some people were sucked into eerie spaces. To stay alive, they had no choice but to take part in one bizarre, terrifying game instance after another. There, only those clever and resilient enough had any chance of making it to the end... 139Reads5.6Score—14d adds
- 126 Matters of the Underworld 冥事 Do you believe there are ghosts in this world? As an outstanding product of nine years of compulsory education, I certainly didn't. But ever since I started working as a security guard at Hongqi Factory, I do! I thought it was just an ordinary factory, but who would have guessed that... 299Reads—Score—14d adds
- 127 Someone New Appeared in the Footage 录像里多出一个人 The test shoot’s discarded footage was four seconds longer. Everyone in the frame held the same poses they had at the end of filming. No one moved. I counted three times. There were six people every time. But only five people had been there that day. On the hard drive my mother left behind, there was an empty folder with a four-character name: Do Not Fast-Forward. In the recycle bin was a deleted video, four minutes and twenty-five seconds long, which couldn’t be recovered. Our production crew w 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 128 Folk Tales: A Daily Dose of Horror 民间怪谈：每日恐怖奇说 Which is more terrifying, humans or ghosts, or perhaps something unseen and even more frightening? With its distinctive narrative style, this book brings readers a series of spine-chilling horror stories. In this book, you will follow different protagonists into worlds filled with terror and eerie unease. From mysterious ancient buildings to remote, desolate places, and from ordinary everyday life to bizarre supernatural phenomena, every story is packed with unexpected twists and horrifying mome 277Reads—Score—14d adds
- 129 Taoist, Spare Us! Zombies, Ghosts, and Monsters Are Freaking Out! 道士请饶命，僵尸鬼妖慌麻了！ [Supernatural] [Feng Shui and Folk Customs] [Ghost Hunting and Corpse Suppression] [Transmigration] [No System] Chen Yang, a Taoist who used to sweep temple floors, transmigrates to a world without Taoist priests and discovers that he has become the village idiot tasked with guarding the village. The village chief says, "My dead father is causing too much trouble. You have to get in the coffin and keep him company!" Chen Yang replies, "Trouble? That's right up my alley. I'll have your dad settle 107Reads—Score12114d adds
- 130 Mysterious Curse 1 神秘诅咒1 [Supernatural Mystery + Urban Cultivation + Folk Taboos + A Passionate Coming-of-Age Story] Enter a sinister world concealed beneath the bustle of the modern city! I have no control over life or death. My name is Zhang Wen. I thought getting into college would let me escape that bleak village in the southwest. Then my grandfather died suddenly, with these words written in cinnabar on his palm: "Dig three feet down at the southeast corner of the wall." I unearthed a bloodstained notebook. Its fir 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 131 The Laughing Underworld Chronicles 笑冥录 “If an almanac could turn you into a ghost right on schedule, but the price was wearing a dead person’s clothes once a day, would you use it?” Top-voted answer (by the poster “Lord Wuchang Has No More Years of Life Today”): “Thanks for the invite. I’m in the underworld, just got off the night shift.” 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 132 The Cthulhu Era: Starting from Sequence Zero 克苏鲁时代，从第零序列开始 Cthulhu + Sequences + Outer Gods + Calls from the Unknown, Whispers in Your Ear. The age of Cthulhu has arrived. Li Fan accidentally transmigrates into the body of a count’s son. Demons hatch their schemes, the Church fights back, and Cthulhu’s call beckons. Step into the history of sequence evolution and help build a new nation. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 133 Cthulhu: A Journal of Despair 克苏鲁绝望笔记 Chen Mo’s blood and tears reflect a starry sky in the mirror: billions of writhing pupils are gnawing at his retinas. The Old Gods roar blasphemous hymns, and ancient blood seeps through the cracks between city bricks. They have waited a thousand years for this “awakening.” He is no prey, but a vessel. When the last shred of his humanity has been devoured, a door will open inside his skull. 816Reads—Score16414d adds
- 134 Tales of the Unextinguished Lights 不熄灯异闻录 More chilling than ghost stories, these tales recount the uncanny happenings secretly passed down by our elders! Children will be too scared to walk alone at night after hearing them, and adults will want to pay their respects to their ancestors. This is a book of taboos that the village elders tried to keep from being written! This collection of short stories features folk horror, supernatural mysteries, thrillers, legends, strange tales, and fantasy from across China and around the world. 17Reads—Score214d adds
- 135 The Ghost Banquet 鬼禁食 A glutton's feast: can it really eat anything at all? Open wide, and nothing is off-limits? When you're indulging in wild game, have you ever felt a hint of murderous intent behind you... 29Reads—Score—14d adds
- 136 Night of the Return of the Dead 回魂夜 On my way home from work, I saw a group of girls beating up a pretty girl. She called out to me for help, but I didn’t get involved. Who knew she’d end up dead? Seven days later, on the night she returned as a ghost, I was the first person she came looking for. 29Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 137 Scorpion’s Tail 蝎尾针 [Contains blood, horror, suspense, mystery, and mind-bending twists. Read with caution.] At Binhai City’s May Day Hospital, Ji Xiao is the night watchman in the morgue. To help the Shen family bring a dead relative back to life, he enters the game as a yin-yang master, putting his own life on the line. An old woman visiting a corpse, the Seven Deadly Sins of Extreme Evil turning on one another, a great yin-yang master who has taken over someone’s body... As he investigates a grisly headless mu 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 138 Burying Yin Bones, Borrowing Yang Life, and Marrying the King of Hell's Younger Sister 埋阴骨，借阳寿，阎王妹妹嫁入门 On the day I was born, the midwife stabbed herself in the throat with a pair of scissors. With yang eyes, I see the rise and fall of the mortal world; with yin eyes, I glimpse the ghosts and monsters of the underworld. I was born with ghost eyes. I can see the secrets of fate, but that also brought down Heaven's retribution upon me. I was destined to die. To keep me alive, my mother borrowed Jiang Hanying's life. From that day on, Jiang Hanying and I were like twin vines, bound together. As 41Reads—Score—14d adds
- 139 Possessed by a Vengeful Spirit: Who Peeled Off My Face? 冤魂附体·谁剥了我的脸皮？ Possessed by a Vengeful Ghost: Who Peeled Off My Face? 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 140 Is Cthulhu-Inspired Tabletop Role-Playing Deadly? The Beautiful Girls Have My Back 克苏鲁跑团要命？美少女护我前行 [Cthulhu + immersive game + mind games + not mindless + multiple heroines + crossover anime + Azur Lane + Blue Archive + Princess Connect + …] This book has too many elements to sum up in a blurb. If you don’t like it, feel free to roast me! Lu Nan was a young man who transmigrated to a strange world. In his eyes, the sun was a ball of flesh! Then the gears of fate began to turn when he was thrust into a game he couldn’t refuse. Lu Nan struggles to survive, relying on his intelligence and coura —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 141 Girls’ Dorm Rule Horror: Survive! 女寝规则怪谈：请活下去！ The Dormitory Girls’ Rules of the Strange: Survive! 102Reads—Score314d adds
- 142 The Nightmare Apartment [Dark Comedy] 恶梦公寓【黑色幽默】 [Horror, paranormal, infinite flow, pure horror with no humor] [Realistic instances with richly developed backstories] My name is Chen Lin. The story begins one night when I get a distress call from my younger sister. It isn't until I enter an ancient castle with four people of unknown origins that I realize what a terrifying, desperate world lies hidden beneath our own... “There's no such thing as undeserved good fortune. The source of the light is the true essence of evil.” “When you read this —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 143 With Terminal Cancer, I Desperately Borrow Lifespans from Ghosts to Stay Alive 癌症晚期，为活命我向鬼疯狂借寿 [Supernatural horror]+ [Vengeful ghosts kill people]+ [No System]+ [No mindless wish fulfillment]+ [Mystery] Li Yang... is a high school dropout who never even finished middle school. He started smoking at thirteen and had been smoking for eight years. Then, on his twentieth birthday, he was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. To stay alive... Li Yang chose to sign a contract with a vengeful ghost. From then on, it would extend his life, and he would help it kill ghosts. Both sides got what the 411Reads6.8Score10314d adds
- 144 The Haunted House of Resentment: A Bizarre Murder Case 怨气凶宅·诡异的凶杀案 The Haunted House of Resentful Spirits: A Bizarre Murder 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 145 I Test-Sleep in Haunted Houses: My True Accounts of Ghostly Encounters! 我做凶宅试睡员，口述撞鬼实录！ [As long as you’re not afraid of ghosts, you can make money even while you sleep.] My name is Ma Jun. Two friends and I run a real estate agency. We make plenty of money, but we keep running into ghosts because all the properties we sell are haunted houses... 466Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 146 Transmigrated into the Cthulhu Mythos, I Match Wits with the Outer Gods 穿越克苏鲁，与外神比脑容量 “I choose that one as my opponent.” “The law of conservation of matter in the universe is that one's handiwork. If you want to contend with it, you'll first have to make one plus one equal three.” “Then I'll pick this one.” “Want to fly at the speed of light? Just try surviving one of its attacks.” “This one looks a little weaker. I'll choose it!” “It's true that this one hasn't done much, but it did make the sun in your solar system.” 105Reads—Score—14d adds
- 147 A Hundred-Year-Old Villager’s Tales of Ghosts and the Supernatural 农村百岁老人口述鬼怪奇谈 I grew up in the countryside, and whenever I had free time, I liked listening to centenarians in the village tell strange tales of ghosts and other uncanny events from days gone by. I have collected, recorded, and adapted these folk stories. There is no overarching plot. Each chapter is a standalone horror story. Not for the faint of heart!!! 32Reads—Score—14d adds
- 148 The Five Ghosts' Wealth-Invoking Art 五鬼招财术 This story is entirely fictional and has no connection to real life. Any similarities are purely coincidental. Su Jin, a formidable force in Shanghai’s e-commerce industry, was born with Buddha bones and a faint spiritual sensitivity. She marries into a wealthy merchant family for the second time, but life is soon caught in an undercurrent of conflict, stirred up by her domineering, superstitious mother-in-law and her emotionally obtuse husband. When a new factory is completed, her mother-in-law 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 149 After the Fall of the Immortals 众仙陨落之后 That day, after a rain of light fell beneath the night sky, it seemed as though nothing had happened. People went on living as usual. But why is it that anyone who enters the mountains at night never returns, moon-gazers are found as nothing but bones the next day, and the sound of insects crawling begins to come from the statues of the gods… —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 150 Supernatural Tales of the Northeast: Strange Spirits in a Rural Village 牲灵诡事：东北村落的灵邪异闻 In a village somewhere in northeastern China in the 1990s, two strange incidents took place. In 1992, villager Tian Youfu's black ox returned from the dead. In 1994, villager Zhao Xianglan gave birth to a lamb. After that, every animal in the village lived indoors, eating and sleeping alongside people. The villagers treated the animals like honored guests, giving them a higher status than humans. Two police officers arrived in the forgotten mountain village to put an end to the superstition. 18Reads9.1Score—14d adds
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