Novels like Running a Small Business in Silent Hill
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- 51 Shadows in the Daylight 白昼暗影 The criminal he hunts is himself. The shadow he cannot escape is his only protector. Lin Mo, the police department’s star profiler, cracks one extraordinary case after another with his precise criminal psychology analyses. But he doesn’t know that every night, another self awakens: Shen Ye, a “dark vigilante” who fights violence with violence, hunting down criminals who escaped justice through Lin Mo. The massacre that destroyed his family when he was a child split ten-year-old Lin Mo’s mind, cr —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 52 A Compendium of the World’s Supernatural Phenomena 世界灵异全汇 A collection of supernatural incidents from around the world. Netizens share their own experiences. One story in each installment. If you've experienced anything supernatural, you can tell me about it. I'll share it with readers around the world. Come experience these true stories from netizens firsthand. 176Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 53 Marked for the King of Hell, My Grandpa Gets a Female Ghost to Break My Fever 命犯阎王，爷爷找女鬼给我退烧 [Folklore + feng shui + ghost hunting + fortune-telling + lighthearted comedy] My father is a heretical cultivator, my mother is a nine-tailed fox, and I was born with a pure-yang constitution. I often suffer from fevers that won't break, so every year I have to visit a cemetery to cool down with a female ghost. The Daoist community considers me a monster... The King of Hell wants to take me, the Daoists want to destroy me, and every sort of evil spirit has its eye on me. To stay alive, I'll lea —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 54 I Became a Skinner After Moving Into the Apartment 入住公寓后成了剥皮匠 On the day I moved in, the building manager handed me a rusty key and a yellowed set of house rules. “Light the red lantern in the living room every night. If it goes out, hide under the bed immediately.” Next door lived a qipao-clad female ghost who loved to sing. Downstairs was a doctor with a peculiar taste for blood. To stay alive, I lit the lantern on time every day, until the power went out on the seventh night. The instant the lantern went dark, I saw the dried corpses of the previous ten 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 55 Hall of Ten Thousand Immortals: A Rich Kid's Life as a Spirit Medium 万仙堂：富二代的出马生活 [Second-generation shamanic heir + copper-industry heir + incredibly powerful guardian spirits + face-slapping satisfaction + real-life supernatural events] (P.S. Set in real locations in Shuangyashan. No saintly heroine, no frustrating setbacks, face-slapping from the start, and high-octane action all the way through!) Your girlfriend publicly looks down on you and demands 388,000 yuan in bride price? I let out a cold laugh and drove off in the BMW M4 I'd bought for her. “Go marry your mother, 95Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 56 Coffin Shop No. 444 棺材铺444号 In the vast north stands an old town forgotten by time and snow: Qishan Town. At its eastern end is a shop older than the town itself. It has no sign, but everyone knows its address: 444. It is a coffin shop. The Lin family coffin shop has been passed down for 347 years. Its keeper has always been the sole heir of each generation, and every one has obeyed a strict rule: close the doors at sunset; if someone knocks at midnight, do not answer if they are alive. They say answering will awaken thin 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 57 A Horror Game? I'm So Scared! 惊悚游戏？我好怕怕啊！ [Comedy + horror game + System + invincible protagonist + escape rooms. Not scary, not scary, NOT scary!] Horror games descend upon Earth, randomly selecting players to take part. With the help of his System, Lin Fangzhou has become invincible in this world, and finally enters the game. Determined to prove his intelligence, Lin Fangzhou embarks on a journey of deduction and puzzle-solving. However, the bosses in the horror games keep interrupting him. To keep them from disrupting his deductions, 661Reads7.0Score10014d adds
- 58 Transmigrating Across the Myriad Worlds, Starting in the Great Qin 穿越诸天从大秦开始 Please go easy on me. I'm just trying to make a living, thanks. A merchant who travels through the worlds, locked in a love-hate relationship with the System. Ying Zheng: “It's mine, it's all mine!” Zhang Zhiwei: “How about trading this Thunder Technique for one Rejuvenation Pill?” System: “Just tell me, do you want this Great Luo Sword Embryo or not?” Lin Yuan: “Can I say no?” Huang: “No!” Lin Yuan: “...” 59Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 59 Listening to Strange Tales at Night 夜听诡事 Whenever you're bored in your spare time, you can open my book and let it take you into a different world. This book is made up of a collection of short tales of horror, the supernatural, and ghosts and monsters. They will show you the warmth and coldness of the world, and reveal the selfishness and greed of human nature. Perhaps you'll find yourself in the stories and feel what the characters feel. As you read, set aside the weariness of body and mind for a while and immerse yourself completely 613Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 60 Infinite: The Corner Shop Across the Heavens 无限：诸天世界小卖部 After hitting rock bottom, I return to the ancestral home and begin a new life! Open a shop, trade for immortal arts. Gods or monsters, I'll sell to them all! 186Reads—Score—14d adds
- 61 A Divine Beast’s Hilarious Urban Diary 神兽的爆笑都市日志 [Modern Romance with a Touch of the Supernatural | Invincible Heroine | Alternate Modern World | Fun Comes First] There’s a Xie Azhao in this world, free to eat, drink, and be merry. She can’t be bothered to meddle in other people’s affairs, and she can’t be bothered to spend even three seconds dealing with ghosts. Our heroine is an extreme subjectivist who lives by one rule: “I do what I want.” She does have a slight weakness for good looks, but that’s only natural for a snake! Her specialty: e 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 62 Ruyi’s Royal Love in the Palace: Bloody Handprints on the Palace Walls 如懿传：宫墙上的血手印 Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace: Bloody Handprints on the Palace Walls 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 63 Midnight Whispers: Lock the Door Before You Hear My Ghost Story 午夜耳语：锁好门再听我的鬼故事 #Horror #Thriller #Mystery #UrbanLegends #ShortStories #CreepyOnSecondThought #QuickRead Shh...! Listen... When the clock’s pendulum swings past midnight, are you ready to receive a “whisper” meant only for you? Standalone short stories reveal brand-new scenes of terror. No complicated plots, no lengthy build-up, just pure sensory thrills. [Before You Read]: Lock your door. This book accepts no responsibility for any “accidents” that may occur because you left it unlocked. We recommend turning o 115Reads—Score—14d adds
- 64 The Plane-Hopping Street Vendor 位面地摊商人 1. Yu Lin, a disabled street vendor, binds himself to a planar System and teams up with his companions to set up stalls across planes, building up resources and strength. After being falsely accused, he clears his name and reunites the team, using a street stall to rise above the myriad heavens! 19Reads—Score—14d adds
- 65 Who’s Watching You Sleep? 谁在看着你睡觉 A collection of horror stories, including The Haunting of the Girls' Dorm, The Peeping Eye, and The Abyss of the Locked Room: A Mother's Checkmate! I guarantee you'll be too scared to use the bathroom after reading them at night! Each story is 80,000 to 100,000 characters long. I'm a newcomer, and this is my first time writing on Tomato Novel! I hope you'll give me lots of encouragement! Your support is what motivates me to create more and better stories! 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 66 Night Shift Security Guard Wanted: Must Be Able to Find the Extra Building That Appears at Dawn 招聘夜班保安，要求能找到凌晨多出的那栋楼 Night-shift security guard wanted. Must be able to find the extra building that appears at midnight. 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 67 Eerie Instance: Let the Ghosts See the Power of My Imagination 诡异副本：给诡异看看俺寻思之力 Bizarre Dungeons + Livestreaming + Comedy + "I reckon this thing could work" In rule-based horror stories, if you don't understand the rules, you're unquestionably doomed. He Qu: Aren't rules dead? How can dead things boss me around? And so the rules really did die. Countless people were chosen when bizarre dungeons appeared, but no one had ever been like He Qu. How could he just do whatever he wanted?! In a bizarre hospital, he beat up the helpless Split-Mouth Woman and the faceless janitor. I 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 68 Bound to the Nation-Guarding Coffin: The Geomancer's Wife Is Fierce 契约镇国棺：地师娘子太凶猛 [Mystery and Wild Ideas] + [Single Heroine] + [Supernatural] + [Comedy] + [Contract] In a desperate situation, half-trained geomancer Lu Li throws himself onto the coffin of Bai Zhi, a wrongfully slain woman general sealed inside a thousand-year-old coffin, and kisses it, shouting, “Wife! Come home with your husband! I’ll make sure there’s a warm bed waiting!” The contract is sealed! The baleful energy stops, and the general snaps, “You lecher! Die!” Lu Li collapses. “Wife! This contract goes bo 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 69 The Midnight Last Train 午夜末班车 He was on the last bus home late at night when a beautiful woman got on. He was about to confess his feelings, but then he noticed how sinister her reflection looked in the window. He got off the Route 155 bus and instinctively looked up, meeting her gaze... 727Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 70 Death Sacrifice 死祭 True Experiences ✖️ Traditional Supernatural Tales ✖️ Horror Late one night, I got a call from an unknown number. A hoarse voice whispered, “There's someone under your bed.” I looked in terror, but there was nothing there. After that, the phone rang at the same time every night, repeating the same words. Then, on the third night, I found a trail of footprints under the bed that weren't mine. And from the other end of the phone, I heard my own voice... 224Reads—Score—14d adds
- 71 Strange Tales of Southeast Asia 东南亚诡事 (The author has opened a coffee shop in the ancient city of Dali and is busy with renovations. Please wait a little while for updates.) My name is Ning. During college, I went alone to Thailand to intern at a hotel, where a series of bizarre and inexplicable things happened. Why was there a temple built inside the hotel? What secrets did this temple hide? 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 72 Rule Horror: Abyss Metro 规则怪谈：深渊地铁 [Rules-Based Horror + Infinite Flow + Suspenseful Mysteries + Deduction and Puzzles + Character Growth] The ticket gate spat out a blood-red ticket. It read: Welcome aboard the Abyss Metro. This train is bound for Level 18. That was the first time Cheng Chi learned that the subway he crammed onto every day could take him to hell. Every station brought new rules. The rules could change, deceive, and contradict one another. Some died in the glass reflections on the Mirror Platform. Some walked 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 73 The Ten Ghostly Slaughters 诡十戮 [Traditional Folk Customs + Urban Legends + Eastern Fantasy + Mystery and Deduction + Fatalism + Supernatural + Light Horror] Every time a cursed funerary artifact appears in the world, it brings with it a bloody conspiracy of flesh and blood. —Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 74 The Ominous Coffin 凶棺 It all started with a coffin that floated up from the river... I thought it was a fortune dropped from the sky, but it turned out to be a disaster. After I pried open the coffin, I began to feel that something unclean had followed me home. My daughter grew stranger by the day. She was only three, yet she had already started developing! 125Reads—Score—14d adds
- 75 My Husband Sacrificed Me to a Freezer, Saying It Was the Night-Shift Rule 丈夫把我献祭给冰柜，说这是夜班规则 My Husband Sacrificed Me to the Freezer, Saying It Was the Night Shift Rules 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 76 I Was Putting Makeup on an Unknown Female Corpse When She Revealed the Cause of My Sister's Death 我给无名女尸化妆，她却说出我妹妹的死因 I Put Makeup on an Unidentified Woman's Corpse, and She Told Me How My Sister Died 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 77 The King of Face Reading 观相之王 This novel is complex and brainy, not a lightweight read. If that’s not your thing, don’t read it. Ensemble cast + mind games + the supernatural + climbing the ranks and getting rich + foretelling good and bad fortune + solving mysteries through face reading and divination. “I’d like to ask about my health using the character ‘six.’” “Certainly. The character ‘six’ looks like a person dismembered into several pieces, with the head separated from the body.” Why are some people blessed with endle 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 78 Slaying Demons and Ghosts Since High School 斩妖灭鬼，从高中开始 [Traditional Supernatural Horror] + [School Life] + [Ensemble Cast] + [Coming of Age] + [Not Overpowered] + [Passionate] It all begins with a student jumping from a school building. Liu Tianyu had expected to spend his student years in peace, but from that day on, his life was never quiet again. Peril at a haunted temple, a school turned into a sacrificial altar, a ghost city beneath the water: one challenge after another awaits. Watch as a group of students turn the tables amid the schemes of g —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 79 Whispers of the Ghosts 鬼魅低语 [Standalone Stories] [Eerie] [Thriller] [Strange] [Wild Imagination] Worlds full of distortion and absurdity. Whether it's seemingly ordinary snippets of everyday life or strange phenomena that gradually come to light, everything sends a chill down your spine and grows more terrifying the more you think about it. 39Reads—Score—14d adds
- 80 Chaos Invades the World, and I Become a God by Mediating Disputes 全球混沌入侵，我靠调解成神 Light is not necessarily pure, and darkness may hold warmth. The answer lies in a truth deeper than the abyss. When the only hope of saving the world points down a dead-end path with no chance of survival, will you still have the courage to wager everything on a faint glimmer of light? 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 81 Hong Kong’s Yin Chronicles: The Domino Curse 香江陰錄：骨牌劫 Hong Kong Yin Chronicles: The Bone Tile Calamity —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 82 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 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 83 A Private Gathering: Drinking and Making Merry with the Emperor 私人聚会，我同皇帝把酒言欢 Every night, strange people show up in Lin Chuan's little farmhouse courtyard! Cao Cao: The world calls me a traitor to the Han. Then I'll take the world and ascend the throne! Ying Zheng: With an immortal here, my empire absolutely cannot fall after just two generations! Li Shimin: The immortal told me the Li family's empire will be stolen by a woman. Preposterous! Zhao Kuangyin: How can the Zhao dynasty be bullied by barbarians? A million soldiers, follow me and wipe them out! Zhu Youjian: The 168Reads5.1Score—14d adds
- 84 What Are You Looking At?! 你瞅啥！！！ What are you looking at?! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 85 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 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 86 Starting in Silent Hill, I Slaughter My Way Through American Horror 从寂静岭开始杀穿美恐 [Infinite Flow + American horror mashup + Power-up wish fulfillment + Decisive and ruthless] You wake up to find you’ve transmigrated to fog-shrouded Silent Hill? From the start, the Otherworld is right in your face, a sexy nurse is chasing you with a cleaver, and off in the distance Pyramid Head is dragging his blade and wreaking havoc? At the brink of despair, Luo Sen binds the [Terror Mark System]. As long as he devours fear, he can grow infinitely stronger! [Ding! Shadow Nurse slain. Absorbe 474Reads5.5Score—14d adds
- 87 Haunted 撞邪 Can you guarantee that the people around you are really human? A lowly office worker had always kept his head down and worked in silence, until one day he accidentally discovered that his coworkers weren’t human at all… To stay alive, he has to pretend everything is normal, struggling to survive in the narrow cracks of this place day after day… 4.2kReads8.4Score30414d adds
- 88 Strange Tales from the Teaching Mission 支教诡事 I'm an ordinary teacher at a key secondary school, but after I talked back to the principal, I was “volunteered” for a long-term teaching assignment at a middle school in the countryside. I was furious, but to keep my job, I had no choice but to accept being “volunteered.” What I never expected was that this school would be anything but ordinary. (Note: This book is set in a parallel world. Any resemblance between its place names, characters, or events and those in real life is purely coincident 3.6kReads8.2Score37314d adds
- 89 The Child's Haunting 童诡 Mystery | Horror | Hidden Chen Shuyang was overjoyed to move in with his girlfriend, Bai Lu. But as they spent day after day together, he gradually discovered her many strange quirks, from bizarre tastes in food to abnormal behavior. Little by little, he uncovered the terrifying secret she was hiding. 443Reads8.0Score11314d adds
- 90 The Ghostly Deliveryman 鬼怪外卖员 “Hello, this is Jiang Sheng, a delivery rider for the Midnight Takeout app. Here’s your order. Please check it!” Wearing a black delivery uniform, Jiang Sheng smiled at the rotting corpse before him. He even remembered to take the corpse’s hand as he said, “Hey, don’t forget to leave me a five-star review!” This is the story of an ordinary man delivering takeout to vengeful ghosts... 250Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 91 A Talentless Mystic? I Maxed Out My Yin-Yang Eyes from the Start 玄学废材？开局点满阴阳眼 Lin Yi, 22, is a recent college graduate. On the surface, he is a “good-for-nothing” who keeps striking out in his job search. In truth, he was born with yin-yang eyes, but his spiritual powers never awakened, so he has been seeing ghosts since childhood. Cowardly yet stubborn, he uses humor as a defense mechanism. His catchphrase is, “I don’t want to be brave either, but ghosts don’t play fair!” This is the story of how unlucky Lin Yi is forced into action, using scientific thinking and an unre —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 92 The Death Song of the South China Sea Shipwreck 南海沉船亡歌 A treasure ship from the Southern Song Dynasty, built to restore the empire. A death song echoing through the deep sea. His brother dies a mysterious and gruesome death, leaving behind only a bizarre recording that drives listeners mad. Mojin heir Chen Hao joins forces with a Tanka sea king and a genius archaeologist to avenge his brother and uncover the truth, venturing into the South China Sea's forbidden zone, “Ghost-Cry Cove”! Magnetic mountains block all signals, the death song warps the mi —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 93 A Horror Mobile Game Bleeds into Reality 恐怖手游映照现实 “‘You’ll Die If You Don’t Play’? What a weird name for a mobile game. Does that mean I have to play it?” Li Cong tapped the game without thinking. The screen went black the next second. A few seconds later, five blood-red characters appeared on the screen... “‘You’ll Die Even If You Play!’” “Holy crap!” Li Cong couldn’t help wanting to swear. This game was genuinely terrifying! He hadn’t even started playing, and he’d already died twice! 15Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 94 I Really Don't Want to Become a Crooked Merchant 我真的不想成为奸商啊 45Reads—Score—14d adds
- 95 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
- 96 The Midnight Restaurant 午夜饭店 I opened a restaurant that can only open in the middle of the night, and it has all sorts of rules. I'm starting to suspect that none of my customers are human. What should I do? Asking online. 41Reads7.7Score—14d adds
- 97 Ghost Stories by Night 鬼话夜谈 The story follows Chen Xingchen and Jiang Chuyan, who grew up together in a village. They hear tales of the supernatural from the village elders and experience a number of eerie events themselves. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 98 I Work as a Gravekeeper in an Unknown Cemetery 我在无名墓园当守墓人 [Infinite Flow + Mild Horror + Mild Suspense + Survival + Plot Twists] The protagonist isn’t a do-gooder, the villains aren’t idiots, the plot doesn’t drag, and every mystery gets resolved; An unnamed Taoist temple deep in the Hundred Thousand Mountains; A merchant ship adrift across a vast sea; A mysterious ruin in an ancient forest; An endless desert stretching beyond the horizon; Snow-capped mountains where the snow never melts; A breathtaking woman in red who is a ghost, and an entity that c —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 99 Paper Figures Knock at the Door: No Living People Allowed 纸人敲门，活人勿进 The father who came back with a corpse died yesterday. The old man who came to report a death was made of paper. My childhood sweetheart, Fang Ting, kept watch with me. At dawn, she was gone too. Suona horns blared outside. Her father held up her memorial portrait and said she had died at eight o'clock last night. So what was the thing in my bed last night? And now, evil beings from a hundred li in every direction are heading for my home. 7.6kReads7.1Score79314d adds
- 100 The Mystic Carpenter 玄门木匠 A new work is out! Welcome to read my stories on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy them. Your support is what inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 4Reads—Score—14d adds
