Novels like A Horror Survival Loop? But I'm a Taoist Priest
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- 51 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 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 52 Republic-Era Notes on Summoning Evil 民国招邪笔记 Chinese-Style Horror + Episodic Mysteries + Ancestral Taboos + Republican-Era Suspense + Cursed Objects That Claim Lives Each supernatural case wraps up in three to five chapters. The pace is breakneck, with no dragging things out! Folk-horror elements: red wedding gowns, ancestral halls, midnight opera troupes... If you’re a scaredy-cat, read during the day. If you’re brave, listen to the audiobook at night for the full dose of terror. 87Reads—Score—Shelves
- 53 The Witch Seeks the Veins and Calms the Soul 巫师寻脉镇魂 A man in a red robe isn't necessarily a groom. He might be a shaman, known as a Duangong. The protagonist, Liu Chunqiu, is the youngest shaman in southwestern Hubei. Other people wear red to marry. He wears red to drive out ghosts. Other people pray to Buddha and beseech the gods. He invites the gods to possess him. His master asks him to find and recover the lost lineage of shamanic arts. From then on, the protagonist performs Duangong rites day and night to heal the sick and ward off evil, and 110Reads—Score—Shelves
- 54 The Road to Survival Begins in the Secret Realm 求生之路从秘境开始 A meteorite crashed through Earth, and college student Chen Yu was hurled into a jungle. As soon as he got his bearings, he received a mission from the System: solve a locked-room poisoning case before time ran out. Just as he finally cracked the case and got out, he was forced into a team raid in a B-rank secret realm. His teammates included Anna, a Russian saleswoman, and a giant spider whose leg he'd just chopped off. With nothing but a lighter from the start, he relies on keeping his head do 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 55 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—Shelves
- 56 The City's Exorcist 都市驱魔先生 When shadows emerge beyond the reach of the city’s neon lights, young exorcist Jin Lei sets out on the path fate has laid for him. He inherits more than his family’s powers: he also inherits a tragic mystery spanning a hundred years. Why did his ancestor and fellow disciple turn evil? What earth-shattering scheme is the Xuanjing organization plotting from the shadows of history? From strange happenings on campus to bloody feuds in the countryside, from urban crime investigations to a battle ove 274Reads—Score—Shelves
- 57 Don't Panic, the Hot Pot's Still Hot 莫慌，火锅趁热 Don't Panic, Eat Your Hotpot While It's Hot —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 58 The Daoist Descends the Mountain: The Revival of Eerie Energy 道爷下山之诡气复苏 The uncanny returns, throwing yin and yang out of balance. Ghosts and monsters roam by night, slaughtering people until the human world becomes a living hell. Everyone lives in constant fear. Only I emerge from a mountain Taoist temple. I cultivate the Great Way of Yin and Yang, wield the art of slaying the uncanny, and shatter all illusions and evil spirits. Evil spirits wreaking havoc? I will suppress them with Taoist arts. The uncanny tide spreading? I will cut it down with a single sword. De 9.6kReads8.3Score694Shelves
- 59 The Ghost Wedding Palanquin, Carried by the Living 阴婚轿，活人抬 The Ghost Wedding Sedan, Carried by the Living —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 60 The Twilight Line of the Haunted Realm: Conquering It with My Wits 诡界晨昏线：靠脑子制霸诡界 [Mild horror] [No System] [Character growth] [One heroine] Countless “Haunted Realms” suddenly appeared around the world. Like black holes, they devoured ordinary people's mental energy and the real world, pushing reality to the brink of madness. In response to the crisis, all kinds of organizations sprang up. They ventured into the Haunted Realms to explore, seized haunted objects to protect themselves, and sought the truth on the edge of life and death. As their investigations deepened, they d 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 61 Chang’an Night Walks: The Black Death Flower 长安夜行录：黑死花 Chang’an Night Walk: Black Death Flower —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 62 The Ghostly Wedding: Yinshui Town 冥婚诡事：阴水镇 Ghostly Wedding: Yinshui Town 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 63 Infinite Flow: The Prophecy Space and Ten Coffins 无限流：预兆空间与十棺 [Warhammer-inspired, multiple heroines, traditional infinite-flow, space-like setting, the Myriad Worlds, civilizations, starships, war, knights, heavy armor and greatswords, boarding actions in space, alien worlds, deep seas, exploration, ruthless combat, the vast cosmic expanse] In another world, I wield power and plunder. Behind me lie both bones and honors earned in battle! Fight to the death! Attack! The knight’s sword points in every direction! “Knights, in my name, slaughter them all!!!” 822Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 64 My Body Merged with a Vengeful Ghost, Making Me the Chief of the Ten Halls of Hell 身体融合厉鬼，我成十殿阎罗之首 Chu Jiang transmigrates by chance to a world where the supernatural has returned and vengeful ghosts run rampant. A deep bell tolls from a towering ghost temple, sending ripples across the lake. On the elusive No. 7 subway train, are the passengers human or ghost? Paper Doll Ghost, Buddha Statue Ghost, Starving Ghost, Half a Corpse... Danger draws ever closer, but fortunately Chu Jiang has a game interface that lets him use vengeful ghosts to strengthen himself. Ding! Your mouth has fused with t 2.7kReads6.6Score225Shelves
- 65 The Ghost Speaks Not: The Ghost's Lament at Xiandun 鬼不语之仙墩鬼泣 Ghosts Don't Speak: The Ghost Cries at the Immortal Mound is the first book in the latest tomb-raiding series, Ghosts Don't Speak. Taking the mysterious ancient Chinese Nuo religion as its point of departure, it tells a twisting, perilous tale of tomb raiding. The story begins with legends passed down orally by the protagonist's ancestors. The protagonist ventures into the Northeast, travels through the Central Plains, and heads southwest in search of the legendary rare treasures and the secrets 2kReads9.3Score307Shelves
- 66 Making a Wish to a Ghost 向鬼许愿 A school where everyone has vanished. A company that serves ghosts. A city crawling with vengeful spirits. A mountain of weeping where yin and yang are turned upside down. … In an age when paranormal phenomena run rampant, Gu Shan possesses a terrifying wish-granting machine that can crush any supernatural incident. But each wish also carves an even deeper despair. “After you make your tenth wish, we’ll meet again in a world without pain.” (The original title of this book was The Tenth Wish.) 5.1kReads7.9Score483Shelves
- 67 Paper Doll Hauntings: A Living Person's Funeral 纸人诡事：活人出殡 Paper Figures and Strange Happenings: The Living Hold a Funeral 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 68 Horror Invasion: From the Start, I Ate the Starving Ghost 恐怖入侵，开局吃掉饿死鬼 A simple-minded village guardian, yet born with the nature of a ghost. Chen Huang knows who treats him well, but he doesn't understand himself or the world around him. He doesn't realize that, in this world where terror has returned, people can die at any moment. In the little village, man-eating evil spirits feast in the darkness of despair. In the town, layers of ghostly shadows leave almost everyone with no way out. In the psychiatric hospital, eerie human skins wander the halls at night. Aga 94.8kReads8.1Score8.7kShelves
- 69 Train Survival: I Was Pulled Into the Admin Group 列车求生，我被拉入管理群 (Infinite-flow, no female lead, Zuo Wang Dao, decisive and ruthless) When Bai Ge woke up, he was aboard a strange train. “Welcome to the Train Survival Game...” At every stop, passengers had to get off and clear the corresponding dungeon, or face a direct attack from the supernatural horrors. This journey had no final destination, and nobody knew when they might die along the way. Unlike everyone else, Bai Ge had entered the game's management group. It was full of all kinds of intelligence, and 5.7kReads8.9Score999Shelves
- 70 Ghosts in Pieces 散装见鬼 Do you believe there are ghosts in this world? I think that question is as impossible to answer as whether there are dragons in this world. The answer you hear most often is: Believe in them, and they exist. Don’t believe in them, and they don’t. But if you ask me, my answer is simple: Yes! Not because I believe, but because I can see them. Of course, I wasn’t able to see them from birth. It all goes back to the strange experience I had when I was six... 32Reads—Score—Shelves
- 71 The Solar Eclipse Apocalypse 日蚀启示录 [Rules Horror + Mind Games + Terror + The Supernatural] Strange regulations, an eerie head of security You must follow the rules on the night shift, or you'll die Visitors must not ask anyone's name Do not look in mirrors without a reason If a child cries, give them candy At first, Wu Ming thought the old man was just playing a prank on the newcomers Until one day, he saw a dark figure standing behind him in the mirror Even more terrifying, the candy in his pocket kept multiplying every day And —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 72 The Bloodied Hole Beneath the Red Veil 红盖头下的血洞 A Bloodied Hole Beneath the Red Bridal Veil —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 73 My Forensic Partner Is a Stunning Female Ghost 我的法医搭档是绝美女鬼 [A science-minded, straight-talking forensic doctor × a stunning thousand-year-old female ghost] [Science vs. the supernatural] [Hilarious bickering] [Feelings growing in secret] [Feng shui] [Magic arrays] Other people solve cases with deduction. We solve them with a little help from “ghosts.” Lu Mingzhe is Jiangcheng’s chief forensic doctor. Highly rational, he believes in science. That is, until he sees a breathtakingly beautiful thousand-year-old female ghost in a red dress on his autopsy tab —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 74 Betrayed by My Best Friend: My Rise from Hell to the Top 被闺蜜出卖后：自地狱逆袭至巅峰 Betrayed by Her Best Friend: From Hell to the Top 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 75 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, 2.5kReads—Score163Shelves
- 76 Paranormal Streamer: The Sledgehammer Notes 灵异主播：铁锤笔记 A paranormal livestreamer and a female yin-yang practitioner team up to deal with supernatural incidents. After being ambushed by an evil sorcerer, they fall victim to a curse involving poisonous magic. To break the curse, they descend into the Yuanchen Palace, face off against ghosts in a battle of song, storm a reclusive sect’s warded realm, help underworld officials subdue demons, escort an earth immortal to take up a post, and venture into the underworld to steal a prophecy from a forbidden 29Reads—Score—Shelves
- 77 The Last Corpse Handler 最后的赶尸匠 The Last Corpse Driver —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 78 Surviving in Hell? No, This Is My Backyard 地狱求生？不，这是我的后花园 [Unlimited-flow game for all humanity | Draw cards and evolve | High-martial-arts survival | Revenge power fantasy | Bonds with multiple women] Overnight, all of humanity is dragged into a strange and terrifying game. Countless ghosts from folklore roam its instances, and death follows at every turn. In his previous life, Jiang Xiaopang painstakingly saved up evolution points. He was just one step away from breaking through, but his lover betrayed him, and his breakthrough failed at the last m 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 79 From the Start: My Girlfriend Has Severe Schizophrenia 开局：女友是重度精神分裂患者 People from Punklorde have a game cartridge inside them from the moment they're born. When they reach adulthood, the cartridge awakens a game. By diving deep into the Data Sea and absorbing data compatible with their game, they can wield all sorts of incredible powers in the real world. Fang Yan awakens the ability to edit data bodies regardless of data compatibility. While others are still desperately searching for usable data, he's already setting out to build all kinds of unusual data bodies. 1.7kReads—Score189Shelves
- 80 Horror Revival: The Haunted Amusement Park 恐怖复苏：惊悚乐园 Demons and monsters have returned, and countless evil spirits have appeared all over the world! In a school dormitory, the vengeful spirit of a girl in a red wedding dress, who hanged herself years ago, slowly opens her scarlet eyes! At a construction site, a corpse bricked up inside a wall bursts through it, glaring at the world with bitter hatred! From dry wells and rivers to crematoriums, evil spirits descend upon the world in droves! 4kReads—Score569Shelves
- 81 Old Wei’s Supernatural Stories 老魏讲灵异故事 [Traditional Supernatural Tales] [Chinese-Style Horror] [Based on True Stories] [Reader Submissions] [Chilling on Second Thought] [Bizarre Tales] [Beyond the Realm of Science] [Plain, Simple Writing] [Just Stories] These stories were collected from various places by the author, then adapted and fictionalized, so no sources are listed. They’re all kinds of little ghost stories to listen to before bed: straightforward and easy to follow, perfect for unwinding and relieving stress. To keep reader 1.4kReads9.4Score213Shelves
- 82 Ghost Game 鬼游戏 [Infinite-Flow + Horror Mystery + Supernatural + Ensemble Cast + Mild Horror + Strong Female Lead + Plot-Driven] The human heart is more terrifying than the paranormal. Grievances fill the human world, summoning the Grudge God. GQ2026.12.28. After a rain of blood, the Ghost Game appeared out of nowhere and began invading the human 45Reads—Score—Shelves
- 83 Feast of the Undead: Slaughtering My Way Through the Apocalypse in the Tang Dynasty 盛世尸宴：我在大唐杀穿末日 A Feast of Corpses in an Age of Prosperity: Slaying My Way Through the Apocalypse in the Tang Dynasty —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 84 Infinite Beast God Squad 无限兽神团 [Infinite Flow] [Original Worlds] [Rapid Updates] [Long Chapters] [Pets] [Guild-Based Team] [Bonds of Friendship] [Unorthodox Lie-Flat Style] [Unbridled Imagination] [Inspired by the setting of Reincarnation Paradise] I’ve read a lot of Infinite Flow stories about lone wolves, and I want to write one centered on a team, like an elite adventure crew in One Piece, with pets along for the ride. I’m a beginner, so there’ll definitely be plenty of room for improvement. I hope all you wonderful reader 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 85 Arcade: Infinite Evolution 街机：无限进化 [Arcade Games + Infinite-Loop + Reckless Hero + Decisive and Ruthless + Action-Packed Power Fantasy] A sudden manhunt drives Su Luo into the Nightmare Space, a place filled with slaughter and opportunity. Here, he'll travel through all kinds of arcade game worlds. In Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, he'll face ruthless poachers. In Knights of the Round, he'll search for the Holy Grail alongside King Arthur. In Metal Slug, he'll fight off an alien invasion. In The King of Fighters, he'll compete in the t 4kReads8.4Score335Shelves
- 86 Bro, You Call This Grinding Proficiency? 不是哥们，你管这叫刷熟练度？ [No heroine] [No romance] [Decisive killer] [Slow burn] He is the destroyer of races, the breaker of organizations, the nightmare of major institutions, the destroyer of the world... Lu Hao. Lu Hao: I’m not. I didn’t. I’m just grinding proficiency. You call that grinding proficiency? Lu Hao sighed. They had touched my one sore spot. What’s your sore spot? Myself. 690Reads6.0Score106Shelves
- 87 A Traveler in the American Horror Story Movieverse 美恐电影世界的旅者 [All-Heavens + American Horror Films + Myriad Worlds + Infinite Flow] Wrong Turn, Hostel, Dawn of the Dead, Mad Max, 30 Days of Night, Doom, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Alien, Predator, The Cabin in the Woods... An adventure book takes him through countless classic horror stories, while the secrets of the book itself are gradually revealed. 89Reads7.9Score—Shelves
- 88 Midnight Terror: The Strange Radio Broadcast 午夜惊魂之电波诡事 In the winter of 1998, Liu Siyang, a broadcasting college graduate, was assigned to Shengjing Radio. He took over a long-dormant late-night program, named it Midnight Frights, and set out to tell the insomniacs of this old industrial city some unusual stories over the midnight airwaves. He unearthed three bizarre cases from the radio station’s archives and old police files: the sweeping sounds that never ceased after the death of “Big Black Tooth,” the library’s caretaker; the green powder stuff 35Reads—Score—Shelves
- 89 Sewing Skin on a Rainy Night: The Last Face 雨夜缝皮.最后一张脸 Stitching Skin on a Rainy Night: The Last Face —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 90 I Love Your Numbness, I Love Your Spice, I Love You Till My Stomach Gives Out 爱你的麻，爱你的辣，爱得老胃直拉胯 I love your numbing spice, I love your heat, I love you so much my stomach’s a mess 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 91 Mama Haha Won't Fly Anymore 玛玛哈哈不飞了 Mama Haha Won't Fly Anymore 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 92 The Curtain Rises: Humans and Ghosts Share the Stage 幕启·人鬼同台 The Curtain Rises: Humans and Ghosts Share the Stage 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 93 Shh, I'm the Devil's Son 嘘，我是恶魔的儿子 [Apocalypse] [Madness plague] [Blood Cross] [Revenge] [Psychological horror] [Human nature] [Ensemble cast] [No System] They say the apocalypse has come, and the world has gone mad. But I've lived with madness since childhood. My father was a serial killer who terrified countless families. My childhood was filled with blood, lies, and... professional cleanup techniques. Now, madmen laugh wildly outside while survivors wail among the ruins. I'm the only one who doesn't fit in, calmly walking thro 37.1kReads9.3Score5.8kShelves
- 94 The Stone That Remembers the Light 会记住光的石头 The Stone That Remembers the Light 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 95 My Crush Is Terrified! My Horror Comics Have Come to Life 吓疯Crush！我的恐怖漫画竟成真 Crush is terrified out of his mind! My horror comic has actually come true 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 96 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 329Reads—Score—Shelves
- 97 Sequence: I Wake Up in a Locked Room and Have to Play a Fortune-Teller 序列：密室醒来让我扮演算命先生 [Pathway Sequences] [Local Cthulhu Mythos] [No Female Lead] [Exploration-Focused] [No System] [Not a Power Fantasy] “Your role is the Fortune Teller!” “[Play] your role well. It’s the key to [surviving] and even [escaping this place]!” “To get into character, first offer a stick of incense to the [Three Pure Ones]!” Qin Yangming wakes up in a sealed room with no memory. A card tells him to offer a stick of incense. He looks at the three conjoined, bloodied fingers... As more and more bizarre mon 1.6kReads8.8Score177Shelves
- 98 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 27kReads7.9Score3.3kShelves
- 99 I Just Want to Be a Slacker, but They Keep Making Me Play Horror Games 我只想当咸鱼，偏偏要我玩惊悚 All I Want Is to Be a Couch Potato, but They Keep Making Me Play Horror Games 41Reads—Score—Shelves
- 100 Myriad Worlds: Beginning with Mythological TV Dramas 诸天：从神话电视剧开始 [High-Martial-Arts Emperor Story, the Myriad Worlds, Dynasty-Building, Ruthless and Decisive, No Female Lead] The protagonist is cold-hearted, selfish, and kills without mercy. I walk with sword in hand, command the world, and slay all living things, heedless of cause and effect, fearing neither good nor evil. On my path to immortality, who is beyond my reach to kill? The blurb does it no justice. Please turn to the main story! 3.9kReads5.9Score193Shelves
