Novels like Corridor of Resentment: Endless Terror
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- 51 Forty-Eight Thousand Years Old 四万八千岁 (Mystery + adventure + ensemble cast) (Urban riddles, ancient Shu ciphers, three bound together, talent as a curse) In the ancient city of the wilderness of Shu, a divine stone fell from the sky, unleashing an ancestral curse that would span generations. In the modern city of Haiyao, eye doctor Pei Zhouyong and Qin Zong, matriarch of the Qin family, have their lives entangled with a divine relic because of their Zan clan bloodline. A headless corpse brings them together with Ren Zili, a blind 30Reads7.9Score—Shelves
- 52 Ghost Corpse Refining, Bearer of a Deadly Fate 鬼炼尸，背命人 Song Yuanqing is a former soldier. After leaving the military, he turned down a government-assigned job and chose instead to become an adventure tour guide. Because of the dangers of the profession, people like him are also called “edgewalkers,” meaning they are always walking on the brink of death. In just a few short years, Song Yuanqing has guided clients through the Amazon rainforest and into Lop Nur, the “Sea of Death.” He has also traversed the Bewitched Marsh of Wawu Mountain, known as th 2.1kReads9.3Score214Shelves
- 53 I Scared a Ghost to Death Again 我又把鬼吓死了 [No romance + Chinese-style horror + folk beliefs and the occult + first-person narration + ghost-catching prodigy] My great-grandfather, Zhang Tiansheng, was a taboo subject in the Zhang family. He had once been a highly respected exorcist throughout the surrounding villages, able to speak with ghosts and spirits and dispel evil influences. Then, for reasons no one knew, he suddenly went mad. Before he died, he even tried to kill his entire family. After my great-grandfather died, his body was 568Reads9.1Score—Shelves
- 54 I Guide Lost Souls at Wangxiang Terrace 我在望乡台当引路人 Zhou Yi had been dead for three years, and had spent all three as a guide at Wangxiang Terrace. Her job was simple: let the dead take one last look at the human world, offer them a few comforting words, and send them across the Naihe Bridge. Three thousand souls had passed before her, and she had helped three thousand of them let go of their fixations. The girl who jumped from a building, the deliveryman who was a father, the teacher stabbed seven times... Every one of them moved on. Only she c 13Reads—Score101Shelves
- 55 Fifth Watch 五更 The stories my grandpa used to tell me were probably meant to scare me into staying put, or maybe to lull me to sleep. He always told them with such conviction and vivid detail that I often found myself dreaming of the very scenes he had lived through. I met the old flower-growing woman on Yinshan Mountain, and one villager after another from Sangen Village. Their faces were gloomy and strange, and their deeds served as a warning, reminding us that “the gods are watching from three feet above yo 728Reads7.2Score100Shelves
- 56 Rice Divination and a Ghostly Wedding 阴看米，鬼哭嫁 On the day I was born, paper figures came to pay their respects and left behind money to buy my life. To keep me alive, an old woman from Miaojiang made me lie in a paper coffin, pinned me down with bones, and buried me alive at birth. This drew a hundred ghosts to bow before me and severed the heads of nine dragons. The old woman said that a spirit wanted my life. She hid my shadow, and I must not look in a mirror before I turned sixteen. I followed her warning faithfully, but then the old woma 3.8kReads9.0Score472Shelves
- 57 I’m Using My Golden Finger to Slay My Way Through a Cursed World 我在诡异世界，用金手指杀疯了 [Reborn + sharp-tongued heroine + golden finger from the start + eerie world + delightfully unhinged mindset + unconventional style] Chu Ningtong is reborn, returning to the day she entered the eerie world at eighteen. In her previous life, the Chu family used her, and Chu Mingzhu caused her death. This time, she decisively leaves the Chu family and cuts ties with them of her own accord. After awakening an SR golden finger, she sets out to live a different kind of life. Chu Mingzhu: “Big Sis, I 382Reads8.9Score102Shelves
- 58 Death on Delivery 死亡外卖 Never try to save money when ordering takeout! After ordering a meal that wasn't clean, strange events keep happening, and his coworkers begin dying one by one. Some takeout costs you money. Some takeout costs you your life. My other completed novel, The Hell Company, is over a million words long. Come check it out, dear readers~~ 2.4kReads8.7Score226Shelves
- 59 Folk Horror Taboos 民间恐怖禁忌 Do you know the stories old people tell? Do you know there are many things in folk tradition that people say must not be spoken of? Do you know what the elders say about dreams? The elders say there are things you mustn't talk about at night. Did you know that? 121Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 60 The Night-Sealed Door 夜封门 Seven months pregnant, the woman was brutally hounded to death, and her seven-month-old baby was thrown into a well. Her wronged soul is cut off from the road ahead, and evil spirits come to claim their due. The gates of hell swing open, and the underworld seals its doors in the dead of night. 2kReads8.3Score159Shelves
- 61 My Gunplay Is the Way: I Use an M1911 to Exorcise Ghosts 枪法即道法，我用M1911驱鬼 (Just got a rating) (harem) (urban high martial arts, supernatural mysteries, Taoist priest, multiple heroines, daily life, ghost-hunting with firearms, urban supernatural abilities, SCP-like, no System, solving cases, tomboy, childhood friends, tsundere) “Have you made up your mind?” “I have.” Wu Kui picks up the document and signs his name. “A true hero, and so young!” “No. I just don’t want to be kept in the dark.” To protect Wen Wan, an innocent girl with a rare Yin fate who is repeatedly ta 72Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 62 Paranormal Encounters: What I Saw and Heard 灵异事件之所见所闻 No System + no transmigration + no power fantasy + no harem + no invincible protagonist + no sweet romance + no clichés + no female lead + no cultivation. Important notice: if this isn’t for you, don’t read it. If this isn’t for you, don’t read it. If this isn’t for you, don’t read it! Do you believe there are things in this world that science cannot explain? Have you ever experienced anything supernatural yourself? Treat the events in this novel as stories, and remember: Fear and respect the sp 130Reads—Score—Shelves
- 63 The Haunted Inn 恐怖旅店 A new graduate faces the toughest job market in years and, with no other options, applies for a night receptionist position at an inn. On my first day, I was told that the job had two requirements. First, I must not speak to the guests. Second, I must not leave the front desk. 512Reads8.0Score103Shelves
- 64 The Life of a Spirit Medium's Disciple 顶香出马弟子的人生 The life of a spirit-medium disciple, recounting how I established my altar and became a spirit medium, as well as how I took a Taoist priest as my master! Everything is based on real experiences and factual explanations, with no fantasy or cultivation elements whatsoever! 39Reads—Score—Shelves
- 65 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—Score170Shelves
- 66 Edict of the Mystic Eye 玄瞳敕令 [Chinese-Style Horror + Urban Cultivation + Livestream Fame + Ghost-Tormenting Face-Slapping + No Romance + “Easygoing Girl” + Episodic Story] My family runs a shop called the Worry-Free Pavilion, but our business deals with the realms of the living and the dead. One day, after delivering some clothes, I took a shortcut and stepped onto a long street where dawn would never come. A ghost wedding palanquin passed by, and ghosts roamed the night. I blended in, hoping to get home without drawing att 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 67 I Am Not a Paper Spirit 我不是纸仙 A paper effigy is made by folding paper into the shape of a person, so it can take on another's sins, endure their punishment, and bear the consequences of their karma. I was an orphan from a young age, adopted by my master. He was a paper effigy maker, and when I was nineteen, I learned his craft. That set me on a road of no return and turned me into a jinx. Before long, I brought about my master's death. Through one mistake, I turned a “Lovers' Fold” into a “Life-Damaging Fold,” creating a pap 50Reads7.6Score—Shelves
- 68 My Midnight Livestream Room 我的午夜直播间 An unconventional livestream. A turning point in fate. Welcome to the Midnight Livestream. Here you'll find not only expedition streams unlike anything you've ever seen, but also a place where souls are kept in captivity, beyond anything you could imagine. 1.3kReads8.2Score116Shelves
- 69 Belly City 腹城 [Thriller, Cthulhu Mythos, mystery, supernatural powers, System, loops, horror, apocalypse, unraveling secrets, no romance] The rating has just been posted, but it will rise later. In the flawless “Sweet Community,” every fear and suspicion Nuxin feels is gently “corrected” by the System. Until he discovers that his playmate A Dai’s “move” was an elaborate lie; until, beneath the old school building in the dead of night, he meets Mo Li, the girl who warns him to “run.” Black cars glide soundl 16Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 70 A New Life for an Obsession 执念新生 By day, he is a math teacher who keeps everyone at arm’s length; by night, he becomes an exorcist who punishes vengeful spirits. Gifted yet constantly in danger, he carries on until he meets her. She is clever and sweet, thoughtful and understanding, and willing to accompany him on the path to redemption. Along the way, she also fulfills the wish she has always held dear. Their love is a mutual choice, and neither of them ever backs down. With so many dear friends by their side, the senior and j 377Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 71 The Sealed Cave Behind the Mountain: I Became the Village's Soul Guardian 后山囚洞：我成了全村守魂人 After accidentally entering a century-old forbidden site in the back mountains, Jiang Ningyue unexpectedly inherits a fated duty and becomes the village’s only soul guardian. A deep, secluded prison cave suppresses countless wrongfully dead spirits. Ancient village rules conceal secrets unknown to outsiders, while turmoil erupts along the boundary between Yin and Yang, and one eerie calamity follows another. Generations of cave guardians have borne endless suffering, and a century of tangled gru 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 72 The Demon Taoist Breaks Through the Underworld Pass 妖道破阴关 (Supernatural horror, feng shui and geomancy, warding off evil and misfortune, one heroine) My parents used forbidden magic to conceive me, but on the day I was born, my strange appearance frightened them away... My third uncle raised me in a cage. I barely managed to grow up on borrowed yin virtue and incense offerings... On my eighteenth birthday, I was buried alive in the ancestral graveyard. She saved me... but she wasn’t human... 5.4kReads9.1Score470Shelves
- 73 The Cursed Girl with a Doomed Fate 诡命煞女 Ever since I was little, I was a child my mother hated. Born with an overwhelming concentration of the Seven Sha, I made every demon and monster flee at the sight of me. It wasn’t until I was twelve that I learned the truth: my birth had been part of a massive conspiracy... 10.1kReads9.2Score1kShelves
- 74 12:17 A.M., Please Confirm Your Name 零点十七分，请确认你的姓名 In Qiheng City, people don’t simply disappear. First, the city erases their names, then convinces everyone they never existed. At 12:17 a.m., a fire alarm suddenly went off in a residential building in Qiheng City that had only sixteen floors: “Someone is trapped on the seventeenth floor.” Zhou Jiming, an engineer who inspected fire safety systems, checked the building plans, stairwell height, elevator programming, and exterior facade. Every piece of evidence proved that the seventeenth floor di 17Reads—Score170Shelves
- 75 Major Paranormal Events in China 中国民间灵异大事件 Major Chinese Folk Supernatural Cases is based on real supernatural incidents. Its contents are terrifying, mysterious, eerie, and suspenseful, with no more scientifically reasonable explanation to this day! Each chapter of this book tells a supernatural fantasy tale, with bizarre, chilling, and gripping plots. We hope readers will tune in and enjoy! 301Reads7.2Score227Shelves
- 76 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 95.8kReads8.1Score8.8kShelves
- 77 The Female Police Chief's Major Cases Series: Undercurrents 女公安局长大案系列之暗流 On a stormy night, two murder cases erupt at once in Handong Province. Criminal investigation captains Lu Chen and Chen Feng follow separate leads: one investigates a red ribbon on a wedding bed, the other a carcinogen in a teacup. The two trails converge on the same name. Gu Qingling. Thirty-one years old, a first-class merit recipient, and former commander of a special operations unit. Meanwhile, the real killer watches it all from the shadows. As the undercurrents of power swallow up every pi 3.5kReads—Score195Shelves
- 78 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
- 79 I Blundered into a Horror World, Only to Find That All the Bosses Were Lamps 误入恐怖世界，没想到BOSS全是灯 I stumbled into a world of horror, only to find that every BOSS was a lamp. 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 80 The Corpse Carrier 背尸工 My name is Chen Feng, and I work as a corpse bearer at a funeral home. After a class reunion, I spent the night with Jiang Lixin, the school beauty. I never expected to see her corpse at work the very next day, or that I'd have to carry her on her final journey... 5.4kReads7.0Score327Shelves
- 81 The Yin and Yang of the Mist 迷雾阴阳 The Municipal Public Security Bureau's Special Cases Investigation Division, or Special Investigations Division for short, specializes in supernatural incidents that defy rational explanation. Shen Yanzhi, an officer in the division who is calm, rational, and skilled in talismans and spells, meets Lin Mo, a descendant of a family of yin-yang masters whose bloodline can suppress evil forces and whose gentle nature conceals a stubborn streak, while investigating a case. Together, they gradually un 33Reads—Score—Shelves
- 82 The Vengeful Ghost Great-Grandma Wants to Kill My Daughter, but My Pure Yang Infant Shatters a Century-Old Blood Pact 厉鬼太奶想杀我女，我纯阳婴镇碎百年血契 A Vengeful Ghost of a Great-Grandmother Wants to Kill My Daughter, but My Pure-Yang Baby Shatters a Century-Old Blood Pact 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 83 After My Brother Was Crushed by a Tycoon Family, I Summoned the Ten Kings of Hell to Claim Their Lives 弟遭豪门碾杀，我引十殿阎罗索命 After his younger brother is crushed to death by a powerful family, he summons the Ten Kings of Hell to claim their lives 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 84 Paralyzed by Terror: The Shadow That Smelled of Tobacco 鬼压床惊魂-那具带着烟草味的黑影 Terrifying Sleep Paralysis: The Shadow That Smelled of Tobacco 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 85 The Tiger Skin: Three Years After My Mother Died, Someone Knocked at My Door in the Dead of Night 皮打虎：我娘死后三年，深夜来敲我家门 Leather Tiger: Three Years After My Mother Died, Someone Came Knocking at My Door Late at Night 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 86 Stealing a Corpse to Borrow a Life 偷尸借命 The year I was born, strange signs appeared in the sky. That day, many people saw hundreds of ragged prisoners in shackles carrying a huge black coffin toward the forbidden ground behind the mountain. Ten years later, a fortune-telling monk came to our village. He said I had been dead for ten years, and that I was borrowing my life from a corpse. He said I wouldn't live much longer. But before I could die, he suddenly dropped dead. The next day, however, his body, already buried, mysteriously ap 6.6kReads7.8Score782Shelves
- 87 Northeast Spirit Medium: From the Start, the Hu Family Town Is Haunted by a Hundred Ghosts 东北弟马：开局胡家镇百诡 [Spirit-medium tradition + Northeastern Chinese customs + folk supernatural tales + feng shui secrets] My name is Chen Mo. I had just graduated from college when my grandpa passed away. On the day he died, the portrait in the mourning hall stared at me, someone spoke from inside the coffin, and his corpse even sat up on the day of the funeral. That's when I learned my grandpa hadn't died of an illness. He'd left me a whole spirit retinue: the Hu, Huang, Bai, Liu, and Hui spirits, each with formi 8.3kReads6.4Score452Shelves
- 88 Horror Taboo: Returning the Soul Beneath the Coffin 恐怖禁忌，压棺回魂 The dead open their eyes, ghosts come to claim souls, the living borrow lifespans, and the dead press down on their coffins... One bizarre, uncanny experience after another keeps resurfacing in my mind like a nightmare. The strange tales in this book are mainly based on Yang Jian’s firsthand experiences... A warning: the actions in this book are for entertainment only. Do not imitate them! There are three kinds of people who read this book: thrill-seekers who aren’t easily scared... those who pu 973Reads6.2Score101Shelves
- 89 Calling Spirits in the Ruined House: My Seven-Year-Old Brother Mysteriously Fell from a Building, and a Shadow in White Came After Him 荒坯房叫魂：7岁小弟莫名坠楼，白衣黑影缠上了他 A Spirit-Calling Ritual in a Derelict House: My Seven-Year-Old Brother Mysteriously Fell from the Building, and a Shadow in White Is Haunting Him 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 90 The Yin-Yang Sect Leader 阴阳掌门人 Corpse retrievers have three rules about bodies they must never retrieve. For the sake of a hundred thousand yuan, my father and I broke all three. As we were pulling a woman's corpse from the water, she suddenly opened her eyes. From then on, she wouldn't leave me alone… 7.7kReads8.6Score748Shelves
- 91 Night-Shift Internet Cafe Attendant: The Woman in Red in the Men's Room Stall Hides a Ten-Year-Old Case 夜班网管：男厕隔间的红衣女，竟藏着十年旧案 Night-Shift Internet Cafe Attendant: The Red-Clad Woman in the Men's Restroom Stall Is Hiding a Decade-Old Case 52Reads—Score—Shelves
- 92 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 1.4kReads9.4Score210Shelves
- 93 Coffin Shop No. 44 44号棺材铺 Everyone knows what a coffin shop is, but would you dare enter one where someone has died? Ever since I took over a coffin shop, strange things have been happening all around me. Only then did I realize that the people who come to buy coffins aren't necessarily alive… 2.2kReads8.0Score253Shelves
- 94 The Bride of the Vengeful Ghost 猛鬼新娘 When I was sixteen, I rescued a woman who had been tricked into coming to our village, simply because I wanted to help. I never imagined that my actions would not only get the poor woman killed, but also lead to the deaths of more than a hundred villagers. And so my strange life began. 5.5kReads9.0Score388Shelves
- 95 The Life of a Spirit Medium’s Disciple 出马弟子的人生 A novel about real experiences and nothing but facts, centered on the real practice of spirit-mediumship! I hope you enjoy it! No fantasy power trips or immortal cultivation: every bit of it is based on real experiences! 259Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 96 Insomniacs' Forbidden Tales: 444 Midnight Ghost Stories 失眠者禁忌：444个午夜鬼谈 A horror anthology with a bonus at the end of every story. I have 444 folk ghost stories guaranteed to keep you awake until midnight, terrify you, make you break out in a cold sweat, and pull the covers over your head! At the end of every chapter, the “Author’s Note” will include an illustration or bonus! But before you open it, brace yourself. The author accepts no responsibility for what happens next! [Supernatural Horror] [Folk Horror] [Rural Ghost Stories] [True Cases] [Urban Oddities] [L 4.2kReads—Score369Shelves
- 97 A Feng Shui Master with a Bachelor's Degree, Class of 2000 00后本科风水师 [The rating has just come out and will rise later. Updates are steady, so you can read with confidence, friends!] [Small-town supernatural tales + true experiences + folk legends + ensemble cast + thrilling adventures] I'm Fang Kai, a feng shui practitioner with a bachelor's degree, born in the 2000s. I never dreamed that after graduating from college, I'd end up on the path of catching ghosts. Think ghost-catching is all about fighting and killing? Wrong. It's just as much about dealing with pe 5kReads8.6Score373Shelves
- 98 The Coffin Walks at Night 灵棺夜行 I was carrying a coffin up the mountain for a burial when they stuffed me inside and buried me alive. Then, in a single night, all three hundred or so people in the village vanished. Only at night was the place alive with voices. I crawled out of the coffin, only to discover... 5.7kReads8.2Score373Shelves
- 99 The Demon in the Coffin 至棺重妖 The new novel, The Fragrance of the Living Dead: Handling Ghostly Affairs Among the Living, is now being serialized. The excitement never stops, with new chapters every day. If you enjoy it, please support the author, Ye Wei. Thank you all! [Mystery + Horror + Supernatural + Folk Tales of the Strange + Female Ghosts + Monsters + Mountain Spirits + Corpses] This is a strange little village hidden deep in the mountains... Ever since he was nine and encountered the dead rabbit crouched on his windo 1.6kReads9.2Score112Shelves
- 100 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
