Novels like Those Years I Spent Hunting Ghosts in Kunming
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- 1 The Hidden Chamber 诡藏室 On the edge of a bustling city stands the Lin family’s ancestral home, a sprawling old mansion utterly out of step with the times. Reporter Jiang Wan moved into the family estate after marrying her husband, Lin Jianshen. Gradually, she begins to notice his secretive comings and goings, the rooms in the house that remain locked year-round, and an indescribable chill in the air. One night, by chance, Jiang Wan sees Lin Jianshen carefully seal an old, bloodstained wooden comb inside a specially mad —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Dorm Room 303 303号寝室 Xiao Shiwu only wants to finish his studies as soon as possible and go home to inherit the family estate that is rightfully his, but things don’t go as planned. His roommates suffer one mishap after another. Who is behind the strange and eerie incidents, controlling everything from the shadows? When the truth is finally revealed, everything you thought you knew will be turned upside down. See how Xiao Shiwu searches for that faint glimmer of light amid the terror and the uncanny… 19Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 My Perfect Husband Is Actually a Psychopath 我的完美丈夫竟是个变态 My Perfect Husband Is Actually a Psychopath —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 The Heavenly Master Comes Down the Mountain 下山天师 I, Ye Tianze, possess the Ghost Gate’s Thirteen Needles. They can heal people, suppress spirits, ward off evil, set up formations, subdue demons, summon gods, command spirits, and transform the dead. This Celestial Master also has four senior sisters. The eldest is the orphaned descendant of an ancient Corpse King, a cool and aloof beauty. The second is a nine-tailed red fox from Qingqiu, whose charm could topple a kingdom. The third is the beloved jewel of the King of the Underworld, with limit 345Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 5 Eerie Revival: A Hundred Ghosts Roam from the Start 诡异复苏：开局百鬼夜行 [Dark and oppressive + no saintly heroine + Ye Wudi + eerie + urban supernatural + hellish start from the start] This world has been contaminated. The supernatural has returned, and vengeful ghosts are coming for lives. When the eerie returns to the mortal realm, is this world still the realm of the living, or has it become hell? In an endless graveyard, a severed hand bursts from the earth, reaching up to blot out the sky. A dense fog engulfs a city, where faceless ghosts roam and take lives wi —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 The Unusual Tenant in My Home 我家的特殊房客 Lighthearted, funny, supernatural abilities, no System, and mostly everyday life. Ding Yang has had a close friend for years: a stunningly beautiful woman. As someone who transmigrated into another person's life, passing up such a gorgeous woman would be a waste of life. He arranged to have barbecue with Wu Xinyue that evening, but somehow he was dragged to a cemetery in the northern suburbs and haunted by a woman in red. She wanted his help investigating the cause of her death. Wu Xinyue flatly —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 365 Bedtime Ghost Stories 365个睡前鬼故事 Still worried you won't make it through a long horror story? Still worried the scares will drag on and take forever to pull you in? This collection of short ghost stories takes just ten minutes to read each one. Open one before bed or on your commute, and let a concentrated burst of fear wrap around you. You won't be able to stop. Perhaps one of these stories will be just right for whenever you feel like being given a little scare. 7kReads8.4Score713Shelves
- 8 You Can Instantly Kill the Ghost Emperor, Yet You Still Claim You're Not a Cultivator 你都秒杀鬼帝了，还说不是修仙者 [Supernatural resurgence, no System, satisfying read, invincible Celestial Master, no mindless bragging and face-slapping] Why does a thousand-year-old female corpse scream in the dead of night? Why are the ghosts roaming at night suddenly wiped out? Why has an SSS-level haunted forbidden zone, feared by every nation, been reduced to ruins overnight? And why have so many infamous Ghost Kings been imprisoned and enslaved? Is this a distortion of human nature, or the corruption of evil spirits? Xi 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 The Yin-Yang Tribulation: Seeking the Way 阴阳劫途：寻道 Supernatural + suspense + angst + passionate action Most of life’s hardships arise from greed, anger, and delusion in our hearts. That is also why all beings may resemble Buddhas, yet fail to become Buddhas. Greed, anger, and delusion give rise to all kinds of monsters and demons in this world… 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 Lin Dadan’s Path to Summoning the Gods 林大胆的请神之路 In the countryside, spiritual qi has only just revived. This is not Spiritual Qi Revival in the traditional sense: it is not that all humanity has awakened supernatural powers. Instead, “yin energy awakened first.” The yin veins deep beneath the earth were the first to stir, and zombies buried for hundreds of years sensed the spiritual qi before the living did. The strength of ghosts and monsters surged overnight, while human Daoists and spirit mediums had yet to catch up. Ancient lineages like 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Building 704: The Haunted Tower 七零四凶楼 Protagonist: Chen Mo, 28, a restorer of antiques and old objects. Quiet and reserved, with exceptional powers of observation, he is forced into a series of supernatural incidents while handling his ancestors’ belongings. Main setting: Building 704, a tenement in the old district of Jiangcheng. Abandoned for thirty years, the building is said to be filled with countless dead and overflowing with sinister energy. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 The Prison of Hair 发丝之狱 Prison of Hair —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Growing Back a Severed Finger 断指增殖 Severed Finger Proliferation —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 The Eerie Game: From the Start, I Picked Up a Top-Tier Star 诡异游戏：开局捡个顶流女星 [Horror game + dark tone + unscrupulous tactics + Infinite Flow + one female lead] Could the strange creature Gu Changqing brought out of a haunted villa really be a top-tier star and a high-level player in the horror game? And does she really need to form a "deep connection" with Gu Changqing and devour his "life essence" to maintain her human form...? 7Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 15 A Billion-Dollar Collection of Horror Stories 一个亿恐怖故事集 A Collection of One Hundred Million Horror Stories [Standalone stories + supernatural horror + folk customs + feng shui and mysticism + heartfelt emotion + mild horror + timid readers beware] A hundred wildly different tragic fates await. When long-forbidden folk taboos passed down by the ancestors are broken, and eerie legends from the corners of the city quietly come true, the everyday world you know will begin to fall apart on the very next page. Whispers by the pillow, shadows beneath the wa 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 My True-Life Paranormal Encounters: The Bizarre Things I've Experienced 亲身灵异实录：我经历的邪门事儿 Based on true events, firsthand accounts. Over the course of my life, I’ve encountered far too many bizarre things that science can’t explain. On a stormy night, a nightclub hostess was pinned down by a ghost in her sleep. Something furry crouched on her chest, and a seductive moan like a fox’s cry sounded beside her ear. She began to walk with a sway, her eyes shining like a fox’s, and the men around her started meeting with strange accidents one after another: the boss’s brakes failed in a c 1.1kReads6.8Score106Shelves
- 17 From the Start, a Thousand-Year-Old Fox Demon: The Maoshan Heavenly Master Breaks His Vows! 开局千年妖狐，茅山天师破戒了！ Ye Xiaoqi, the last heir of the Northern Sect of the Maoshan Order, enters the mortal world at his master's command to cultivate. Armed with superb Daoist arts, he roams the city, slaying monsters and vanquishing demons in this legendary tale. Soon after arriving in the city, he meets Su Wanqing, a trainee police officer, during a case involving a vengeful female ghost. They become partners and solve one strange case after another. When investigating a job involving a celebrity tormented by an e 51Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 Tales of the Supernatural 人间灵异杂谈 Everyone has a colorful past, and what I’m about to tell you happened right here around me. It was strange and mysterious, so listen as I recount it all. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 Immigrants to the New World 新世界移民 Since the beginning of the 22nd century, humanity has entered the “Age of Migration.” As migration plans of every kind got underway in full swing, an unprecedented program spread rapidly across the globe. Its launch broke through existing limitations and swiftly galvanized the public, making it, for a time, the hottest program on Earth… Yet people had no idea what unknown secrets lay behind this immensely “successful” endeavor… After enduring calamity upon calamity, will the people of Earth be a 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 What's the Point of Reincarnation? I Want to Be a Vengeful Ghost 投胎算什么，我要做厉鬼 What's Reincarnation? I Want to Become a Vengeful Ghost 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 Hospital Ghost Stories: The Shadow Returns 医院怪谈·诡影重临 Hospital Tales of the Strange: The Phantom Returns —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 Voices from the Underworld 冥声 The Sound of the Underworld —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 A Divine Summoning Gone Awry 阴差阳错请神人 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 Northeastern Coffin Bearer 东北抬棺匠 Wang Chuyi learned the Book of Changes and the Eight Trigrams, Maoshan magic, swordsmanship, and boxing from his grandfather from an early age. He met Ma Hongmei, a disciple of the Ma family from Northeast China, and became her godson. Before she died, Ma Hongmei passed on to him her shrine, where she had enshrined a hundred immortals. Practicing both the immortal and Daoist paths, Wang Chuyi slays evil ghosts, subdues wicked demons, battles zombies, and guides benevolent spirits onward. He even 400Reads6.8Score111Shelves
- 25 Inquiring into the Yin Realm 问阴 Good deeds are rewarded, and evil deeds are punished. The living have a way out, and the dead have a gate to the underworld. It’s not that retribution never comes, it just hasn’t arrived yet. The living can show you the way, but once you die, there’s no way in. To ask about the underworld, seek out someone who can question the dead. I am one who questions the dead, walking between the worlds of yin and yang as if dancing on a tightrope. I judge good and evil, and pass judgment between yin and ya 15Reads5.7Score—Shelves
- 26 Rule Horror: I'm an NPC, and I'm Going Crazy Again Today 规则怪谈：我NPC，今天也发疯 Others enter Rule Horror scenarios to survive. I got sucked in as an NPC, and the System even forces me to go crazy. If I don’t, I die. Fine, then I’ll go crazy for everyone to see. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 Haunted Campus: My Card-Drawing System Is a Little Unorthodox 诡异校园：我的抽卡系统不太正经 Chen Mo, an ordinary high school student, accidentally binds the “Paranormal Gacha System” and is forced to become an on-campus exorcist. He draws an [SSR Succubus Maid] and has to help her find her lost underwear. He draws an [R-Rank Jumping Senior] and must fulfill her dying wish to experience her first love. And the strangest part is, after the evil spirits possess all the beautiful girls at school, they all fall in love with him? “System, are you sure this is a horror story and not a romance 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 The Tomb-Keeper's Shaman Boy 守陵巫童 My name is Shen Yan, the lowliest tomb-guarding shaman boy on Mount Cangwu. A vengeful spirit in white bit my neck, leaving behind a black, snake-shaped mark. She said I had forty-nine days left to live. I thought that was as bad as things could get. Until my fellow disciples sold me out, and the tomb warden sealed off the mountain to hunt me down. Until the remnant soul of a Martial Emperor, who had slept beneath the earth for a thousand years, began coveting my cinnabar-bloodline body. One w 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 A Guide to Raising an Evil God 邪神养成指南 The professor is passionately lecturing in class when, in the next moment, the floor caves in and black water floods the classroom. When she opens her eyes again, everything in the classroom is as it was. A ring of purplish bruises has appeared around her wrist. One campus ghost story after another begins to surface: A baby crying by the lake at midnight, bruises crawling across her roommate's body, and a pregnant senior student mysteriously falling to her death. Is it all coincidence, or reveng —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 The Final Celestial Master in the Age of Declining Magic 末法时代，最后一位天师 The Maoshan Sect Leader, impeached and driven down the mountain; a wet-behind-the-ears young upstart; a frost-cold ghost bride; an evil cultivation sect that stops at nothing; a master of Gu poison from Miaojiang; and the Shen family, Asia's richest. The Daoist sects of the realm are in turmoil. Watch as Ye Chen takes up his sword and roams the world! 13.2kReads7.4Score1.1kShelves
- 31 No Spirit Root? Actually, It’s the Most Defiant Spirit Root in History! 无灵根？实际是史上最逆天灵根！ [Modern cultivation, slow-paced, System, mostly everyday life with a touch of youthful passion, one heroine, no harem] A century after the spiritual qi revival, cultivation has become the core productive force of modern society. Poor students who awaken spiritual roots soar to success, while top students who fail to awaken them plummet into ordinary lives. And the top academy of Great Xia, Jing University’s Cultivation Institute, is the dream destination of every promising young person. When yo —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 The Curse of Sorrowful Love Lake Island 悲恋湖岛的魔咒 A tragic love affair haunts the island on Lake Sorrow, where a century-old curse follows like a shadow. Is David Crane's million-dollar prize a gift from fate, or an invitation to the abyss? An ebony bracelet conceals a mystery, a key of ultraviolet light opens a forbidden door, silicon-based blood algae whisper in the dark, and the shadow of a sacrificial ritual quietly descends. Science and witchcraft clash fiercely, while the line between reality and illusion blurs. To escape their family's f 2Reads7.7Score—Shelves
- 33 The Yin-Yang Master's Secret Records 阴阳师秘记 Where trees grow tall, immortals gather; where locust trees grow, ghosts gather. The village built an elementary school, tearing down the village temple and cutting down a centuries-old locust tree. Then the strange things began... 102Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 34 Heir of Coffin Mountain 棺山传人 That day, Bai Liu, the grayish-yellow fox spirit, and the Five Immortals carried my grandfather into the mountains. Keeping the promise I had made at the Fox Immortal Temple, I embarked on an unseen journey between the worlds of yin and yang... 68Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 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 42Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 The God in the Cage 笼中之神 This is a requiem for prisoners, echoing between the abyss of reality and illusion. When the prison of consciousness is exposed, will you choose to sink into a sweet lie, or awaken to a cruel truth and be destroyed? The answer was already decided from the very start of the search. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 True Strange Tales from the Folk 民间真实奇异怪谈 At midnight every night, we’ll take you through the door of forbidden secrets for spine-tingling thrills and mind-bending twists. Are you brave enough to test your limits? From folk ghost stories to strange urban cases, from deserted village houses to sealed train compartments, every tale is an immersive horror adventure. Just when you think you’ve uncovered the truth, the story suddenly turns upside down. The killer could be right beside you, and the deadliest danger is often hidden where you l 20Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 38 Qingchuan Ghost School 青川鬼校 Ordinary high school student Su Bei takes shelter from the rain one day and discovers he is trapped in the abandoned grounds of Qingchuan Middle School, a place rumored to be haunted. It is no longer an empty ruin, but a living hell where time is warped, space behaves strangely, and real, terrifying ghosts lurk everywhere. There are no superpowers, no talismans or magical artifacts, and no apocalyptic technology. The only things Su Bei can rely on are his cool head, keen powers of observation, a 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 Subduing Evil 镇邪 There are always mysterious things in this world, yet people dismiss them as nonsense. Miaojiang gu poison, corpse-driving in western Hunan, Nanyang curses, the Flowerfall Cave Maiden, shamanic sorcery, and yin-yang demons are all forbidden taboos. You don't have to believe in them, but you must remain in awe. Above all, never profane them! When the taboo soul bell rings out in the sky and ancient horrors quietly awaken, the world teeters on the brink of disaster. Will there still be someone who 668Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 40 The Feast of Wrathful Taotie 怒饕盛宴 A recorded divine oracle descends upon Lu Xiaoran, an Envoy of Taotie, revealing this world to you through his footsteps. The spirit accompanying him may not be very good at describing it, but in this vast world, you and I are not so different... —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 Riding an Electric Scooter Through the Yin and Yang, I Am the World's Last Heavenly Master 脚踏电驴巡阴阳，我世间最后天师 “Beautiful lady? Why is your address a mass grave?” Probably just a rookie mistake. Make a few more deliveries and you'll get the hang of it. Zhang Daozhi was stunned. The last Celestial Master of the dynasty had accepted the most powerful inheritance, the Celestial Master's Passing, just a moment ago. The next moment, he was reborn as a food delivery rider. But this life was one of peace and prosperity, with ghosts and monsters existing only in legend. Even the Celestial Master's spells had bee 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 Ghost in the Well: The Woman in Room 704 井底亡魂-704室的女人 Ghost at the Bottom of the Well: The Woman in Room 704 —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 The Daoheart’s Journey 道心征途 (This novel focuses primarily on horror, the supernatural, and suspense. It isn't mindless, it isn't about cultivating immortality, and the story is tightly connected. The early chapters lay the groundwork, and there are many genuinely frightening scenes. If you don't like it, feel free to say so in the comments!) My master said there are only two principles to being a Taoist priest. First: Never put off revenge until tomorrow. Let it fester in your heart, and it will throw your Daoist mind into 8Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 44 Secrets of the Mortuary 殓尸秘录 Chen Mo is the young heir to the Wangsheng Studio funeral home. He thought he would spend his life in quiet company with cold, lifeless bodies. Then he took charge of a strange corpse known as the “Bride in Red,” and everything began to spiral out of control. The body never decays, and its smile is as lovely as a flower. The bronze bell tied around its ankle rings silently in the dead of night. From then on, Chen Mo is swept into one whirlpool after another, woven from local ghost stories and ho 3Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 45 One Man, Five Ghosts: Want to Run? Pay Five Million First 一个男人五个鬼，想跑先赔五百万 [Completed novel + horror + supernatural + comeback + face-slapping + episodic stories] My name is Cao Dakui, and I just inherited a massive fortune: a four-hundred-square-meter luxury apartment in the capital, plus a storefront. Sounds great, right? Except... The butler in the apartment says he was born during the Wanli era. One of the residents is a beautiful woman who, whenever she's in a good mood, takes off her head and plays with it like a ball. There's also a mysterious person living in t 304Reads—Score102Shelves
- 46 The Heavenly Official's Edict 天官敕令 When Chen Qi awakens the long-lost “Word Spirit Edict” during a haunted-house livestream, he thinks it’s just a way to earn money to save his father. But when fragments of an antique bronze mirror reveal a thousand-year-old formation, and the technology group “Entropy” uses algorithms to optimize feng shui and kill, he realizes he’s been dragged into an ultimate war between traditional occult arts and modern technology. From malignant spirits in haunted houses to ghost soldiers on the march, and —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 Between Tenderness and Fury 温柔与狂暴之间 In the future, meteorites bring radiation. Those exposed to it are divided into three groups: the naturally violent but physically strong Frosts, the Grendels, whose minds and bodies remain unchanged, and the gentle but frail Roscentes. The changes to humanity bring social turmoil as well. In this world, now utterly transformed, how will people survive? Will they numb themselves, or face reality alone? —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 I Never Stopped Along the Way 一路上我没有停下来过 Young Lin Yan enters the immortal sect, shatters the mortal world, and builds a great path spanning mountains and seas. He endures countless tribulations to seek the Dao and braves endless dangers in search of truth. He takes the mountains as his domain, suppressing demons and evil across the eight wildernesses; he takes the seas as his immortal realm, sweeping away the murk that clouds the nine heavens. At the mountain peaks and the ends of the sea, I alone am the Mountain Sovereign and Sea Imm 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 The Fruit of Justice 诛恶之果 Global Paranormal Activity: Comatose patients are mysteriously waking up one after another! Jiang Fan wakes up from a three-year coma, only to discover that his parents have vanished and his uncle has been murdered. Even more terrifying, it seems a guilty god, bound in chains, has been sealed inside him! A mysterious demon-hunting organization, a horrifying truth in a warehouse, a pitiful pair of twin sisters in a hospital… As Jiang Fan hunts demons one after another, he can't help but wonder w 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 My Mockumentary Came True 我的伪纪录片成真了 Luo Luo thinks he's just one “good ghost” away from becoming famous. As a struggling paranormal content creator, he throws himself into digging up a sealed videotape. Hidden inside is an urban legend called the Mirror Palace Puppet, said to appear only between two mirrors facing each other. His followers skyrocket and his popularity soars. Luo Luo brags to the camera, “Guys, I'm totally cashing in on this wave of traffic!” Then he realizes that all the strange footage is starting to invade reali 3Reads—Score—Shelves
