Novels like The Ninth Paranormal Bureau
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- 51 Infinite Flow: Horror Flight 无限流之恐怖航班 [Infinite-flow + a team of the elderly, weak, sick, disabled, and pregnant working together + no romance] Welcome aboard the "Send You Sky-High" flight. Please follow the captain's instructions and board or disembark in an orderly fashion. Anyone who refuses will be sent off to explode like fireworks by our beautiful, skeletal flight attendants! With her own strength, the heroine assembles a team that seems to have no chance of winning, yet they always manage to escape certain doom! [Anjia Hotel 7.2kReads7.9Score671Shelves
- 52 Infinite: Cast into the Realm of Death, but My Teammates Are Monsters 无限：堕入死界但我的队友是鬼怪 [Infinite Flow + Original Instances + Expansive Worldbuilding + Mild Horror + Ensemble Cast + Strong Female and Male Leads] On the first day Shou Qing fell into the realm of death, a man-eating Wendigo set its sights on her. Shou Qing thought she was done for. Who could have guessed that the very next moment, she would team up with the monster and cross eleven trials of life and death! Even more absurdly, no one had told her that every member of her team was nonhuman! A skin-peeler who loves to 1.3kReads9.3Score708Shelves
- 53 My Years in the Funeral Business 我干殡葬的那些年 People light candles, ghosts blow out the lamps. The dead return at midnight, corpses rise in funeral halls, and ancient relics lie buried for thousands of years. In my years working in the funeral business, I’ve encountered plenty of strange and uncanny things. The living walk the roads of the living world, and the dead walk the roads of the underworld. But sometimes, not everyone on the underworld’s roads is a ghost, and not everyone on the living world’s roads is human… 51.2kReads9.2Score5.1kShelves
- 54 Infinite Flow: Becoming a Star in Escape Games with My Beauty 无限流：靠美貌在逃生游戏当影后 [Infinite game, heroine who grows over time, plot-driven, some mildly scary dungeons, a touch of reverse harem] [The male lead is Lou Ming'an. One-on-one romance.] Ruan Manmiao, who has always been mocked as all looks and no acting ability, enters an infinite game. First round: The Horror Tour Group. The others scream in terror, with countless dead and wounded. System: In this round, you’re playing a lovesick fool. Whatever you do, don’t leave your boyfriend! Ruan Manmiao: ...Boyfriend, carry me 2.5kReads9.1Score327Shelves
- 55 The Sobbing Maitreya 哽咽的弥勒 A truly thrilling horror fantasy, with a master like Lin Zhenying guiding you through terrifying adventures, slaying demons and monsters, exploring forbidden arts, and cultivating as a demon immortal. Once you start reading, you won't be able to stop. It's pure exhilaration from beginning to end! 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 56 Rule Horror: Nightmare City 规则怪谈：梦魇迷城 [Clever deductions + mind-bending suspense + instance challenges + strategic games + logical thinking + knowledge-based puzzles] Rules are both a way to control players and the key to breaking out of a dead end. The protagonist, Chen Mo, is accidentally drawn into a world of rule-based horror. He thinks he only needs to keep taking part in deadly games to escape. Then Chen Mo believes that collecting five keys with different attributes will let him leave the City of Nightmares, but one unexpecte 334Reads—Score—Shelves
- 57 The Ghosts Come Out at Night Series 猛鬼出更系列 The Ferocious Ghosts Come Out at Night Series 122Reads—Score—Shelves
- 58 The Mysterious Descends: The Boss Is Actually Me 诡秘降临：boss竟是我自己 [God Game + No-Couple Infinite Flow + Sequence Leveling + Chinese Mythology + Light Ensemble Cast] After living for years in the lower city, Fu Ye suddenly discovered that she was in a game world, and that she was the ultimate boss of the large-scale god-sequence game Gifted. Of the twelve paths to godhood, she unexpectedly awakened the path of the [Judge]. To protect herself, she killed six game controllers from the start and entered various instances to improve her sequence abilities. [Blood S 1.4kReads—Score337Shelves
- 59 Major Crimes Unit Three: The Borrowed Corpse 重案三组之借尸还魂 Three bizarre murder cases, each victim wearing a strange smile. Through deep psychological profiling, forensic pathologist Song Ci discovers that each victim’s final actions imitated a tiny habitual gesture their long-deceased relative used to make. Bai Ye’s technical analysis confirms that traces of brain waves that could not belong to the living, already “formatted,” remain at the crime scenes... 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 60 I Transmigrated to a Supernatural World and Became a Dungeon Boss 穿越诡异世界我成了副本BOSS [Infinite Realms + Supernatural Horror + Mild Horror + No Romance + Everything Handcrafted] Zuo Lin'an discovers that he has transmigrated. At first, he assumes this is just an ordinary otherworld, until he runs into his close friend Xu Youyou and learns that his aunt is a supernatural investigator. Only then does he realize he has transmigrated to a world haunted by the supernatural. And this supernatural world is not what he expected. Because he happens to discover that he might have a chance 71.6kReads8.8Score6.3kShelves
- 61 Eerie Revival: They Always Mistake Me for Cannon Fodder 诡异复苏：他们总把我当炮灰 [Two Male Leads + Supernatural Horrors Descend + Semi-Infinite Flow + Superpowers + Slight Ensemble Cast] (Plot-focused, quite scary, slow-burn romance) Fei Shuming is the quiet, inconspicuous loner in his class. He's a cripple, and his daily social obligation is fetching water for people. But one day, a ghost-seeing app suddenly appears on all his classmates' phones. They are forced to take part in a game. There are ghosts in this game. By all rights, a cripple like Fei Shuming should be cannon 19kReads9.3Score2.2kShelves
- 62 I Slaughter My Way Through the Survival Game with an Evil Ghost on My Back 我背着恶鬼在生存游戏里大杀四方 [Infinite-flow + suspense + horror + ensemble cast + mysteries to solve + powerful male lead and strongest female lead couple] [Residents of Nameless City, greetings. The Cleaners Project is a mandatory undertaking for every citizen. Purifying the world is everyone’s responsibility. Please take part in the Cleaners Project. Your assessment results will determine your fate. Believe us, Eden is waiting for you.] Nan Yue came from Nameless City and was one of the lowest-ranked trash people. Like al 15.5kReads9.1Score2.6kShelves
- 63 Dorm Survival: Get Stronger by Watching Ads 宿舍求生：从刷广告开始变强 [Supernatural Horror] [Romance] [Villainous Female Side Character] [Dark, Timid Female Lead] [Extremely High Self-Esteem] [Feel-Good Power Fantasy] [Character Growth] Reader Beware 1: The female lead is gorgeous, dark and jealous, and set on becoming one of the privileged elite. (At first, she complains about everything and lets the male lead work like a beast of burden for her.) Reader Beware 2: The male lead is a pure, classic wish-fulfillment protagonist: incredibly strong, dark, and showy, b 306kReads8.9Score41.1kShelves
- 64 The Peter Pan Game 彼得潘游戏 Earth’s resources are gradually running out... Boring people will be replaced by digital replicas... So keep your soul interesting... or hold on to a powerful obsession... Welcome to the Peter Pan Game... Provide emotional value to earn a ticket back to the real world. Female protagonist | Ensemble cast | No romance | Infinite-flow | Instances | Rule-based horror Fifty people lie in a huge room... This batch is pretty good... Three people are slowly waking up... 42Reads—Score—Shelves
- 65 Mercy Voyage: I Sacrifice My Girlfriend, and I Sacrifice the Whole World 慈航游戏：女友祭天，我祭全世界 [Horror game + rule-based horror + decisive and ruthless protagonist + one heroine] I died once trying to save my late girlfriend, Xi Yin But I can die twice more! She awakened inside the game as a vengeful ghost, with even her memories altered. I picked the most useless class on the server, building manager. I have no SSS-rank talent to take on the divine spirits, so I rely on the Building Manager app to master the rules. A divine spirit in my way? Players causing trouble? Do I really have to t 237Reads—Score—Shelves
- 66 Apartment 18 18号公寓 Lin Shen has no idea why he’s in an unfamiliar apartment building. Outside, nothing but endless thick fog surrounds it. The building doesn’t appear on any map, and no one has ever heard of it. Inside are countless rooms. The place is eerily quiet most of the time, though strange sounds can occasionally be heard. The management office, with no one in sight, continues to operate normally day after day. Lin Shen wants to escape and return to his ordinary, boring life. But there is only one way out. 4.3kReads8.4Score704Shelves
- 67 A Strange Game Invades: Honey, I’m Coming to Find You 诡异游戏入侵，老婆我在找你了 [Supernatural Horror + Two Powerful Leads + Horror Game Dungeons + Devoted Couple + Mild Horror + Infinite Flow + Mild Suspense] A newsreader’s polished voice comes from the television: “Recently, more than a hundred people across the country have suddenly vanished for unknown reasons, only to be found dead at the sites of their disappearance several days later. The scenes are horrific. Relevant government departments have urgently begun an investigation...” The real world has been overrun by th 11.7kReads—Score2.4kShelves
- 68 Death Game Countdown 死亡游戏倒计时 Ning Ye was just an ordinary game booster, renting a small room and making money by playing games for other people. So, what’s the highest level a game booster can reach? Dominating high-ranked matches against other boosters? Taking on pro players? Leaving one-trick specialists with nowhere to go? For him, all that was just routine. What he never expected was that one day, he would become a deity’s game booster. … Want to get rich overnight? Want to reach the pinnacle of life? Want all kinds of 3.4kReads8.6Score360Shelves
- 69 March of a Hundred Ghosts: I Take the Hungry Ghosts to War 百诡行军：我带饿鬼上战场 [Comedy] [Adventure] Bilige was a half-baked shaman who had somehow ended up in the army. His companions included a Shaanbei fat man who'd eaten himself up to two hundred jin during a famine, a long-legged Northeastern squad leader who would grab a cleaver at the slightest provocation, and a Sichuan opera actor who never told the truth. Together with Wang Laihe, a hotheaded young man who couldn't read a single character, and a little hungry ghost who did nothing but bare its teeth and shout “Hun 163Reads—Score—Shelves
- 70 I’m an Actor in a Horror World 我在恐怖世界当演员 [Infinite Loop + Death Games + Horror Worlds + Original Scenarios + No Female Lead] (The protagonist has limits he won’t cross + System (mostly useless) + Items + The protagonist isn’t superhuman) If you were asked to act in a real horror movie, would you be willing? Guan Long is one lucky guy: he was chosen to take part in one terrifying film after another. There’s the bizarre rest stop on the highway, another “floor” that suddenly appears on a rooftop, and eerie voices calling from elevators, 664Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 71 Night Watchman at the Funeral Home: I Can See the Dead One Last Time 殡仪馆守夜人：我能看见死者最后一眼 Funeral Home Night Watchman: I Can See the Dead One Last Time 33Reads—Score—Shelves
- 72 Rule Horror: From the Start, I Become the Murderer 规则怪谈：开局就成了凶手 Gu Yu runs a detective agency that's on the verge of going under. Just when she finally lands a client at the brink of bankruptcy, she and the client accidentally enter a rules-based horror game. The client dies right beside her, and she's mistaken for the murderer. To top it all off, the client hasn't paid. No one is more unlucky than Gu Yu. Worse still, the capitalist behind the horror game has taken a liking to her and keeps squeezing her for all she's worth. From then on, she's dragged into 869Reads8.9Score104Shelves
- 73 The City Lost in the Eerie Fog: Divine Punishment Game 诡雾迷城：神罚游戏 Tags: Survival Game + Mind-Bending Mystery + Challenge Dungeons + Wits and Deduction + Alternate Dimension + Monster Invasion When Ling Wen thought this was just an ordinary exam, he was forcibly dragged into the "Death Game." When he thought that clearing the "Death Game" would let him leave and return to the real world, he discovered that he had been in the real world all along. But now, gods from an alternate dimension are invading the real world. The fog descends without warning, and a dimen 2.9kReads—Score391Shelves
- 74 Reincarnation's Eerie Station 轮回诡站 A cursed ticket leading to one horrifying incident site after another... A city shrouded in dense fog, obsessed with eradicating the very existence of "horror"... Passengers who vanish one after another, or are cursed for all eternity... Inside a dilapidated train, an amnesiac burdened by three curses awakens in the dim light, as a voice calling out "curse" sounds in his ears... "Welcome to Reincarnation Station! Passengers aboard the train, please pay attention... The next stop is... Corpse Pai 167.9kReads8.8Score17.9kShelves
- 75 Infinite: Becoming the Most Beloved Star on a Horror Variety Show 无限：在恐怖综艺登顶万人迷 [Infinite Flow + Horror + Survival + Puzzle-Solving + No Fixed Male Lead, Multiple Male Love Interests, All Chaste + Love Rival Showdowns + Livestreaming + Wits and Guts, No Golden Finger] Forced by circumstances, Ye Jinran signed a life-or-death contract for a horror variety show. 1: Contestants are eliminated from the bottom up. Elimination means death. 2: You are responsible for your own safety during the games. 3: Follow all the rules of every game. She thought it was just a variety show. In 7kReads8.9Score909Shelves
- 76 The Deadly Neighbor at Midnight 午夜凶邻 The Neighbor from Hell at Midnight 107Reads—Score—Shelves
- 77 Office Ghosts: Don't Work Overtime office有鬼之不要加班 There Are Ghosts in the Office: Don’t Work Overtime 83Reads—Score—Shelves
- 78 Missing Each Other Can Be Beautiful, Too 互相错过，也是一种美好 Even missing each other can be a kind of beauty 46Reads—Score—Shelves
- 79 The Theater of Endless Torment: I Run Ancient-Era Instances in a Ghost City 无间戏台：我在鬼城开古代副本 [No romance + ancient-era infinite-level challenges + Chinese horror] Shi Jing lowered her head and saw the bright red bridal gown she was wearing. Beneath her veil, she held up a bronze mirror and aimed it outside. The mirror offered a blurry reflection of the scene beyond the bed. A stooped old woman stood ramrod straight outside the canopy bed She wore a crimson floral dress and a crooked velvet flower in her hair. Her face was as pale as paper, two garish patches of rouge on her cheeks, her 21.7kReads9.5Score3.3kShelves
- 80 Dimensional Game 维度游戏 [Infinite-flow games + female protagonist's perspective + no romance + not a good person. The heroine is no heartthrob: she dislikes everyone equally, clears stages with brains and brawn, and loves taking advantage of NPCs.] Zhang Miao is snatched by the System and forced to take part in a game. Zhang Miao: I'm just an ordinary person! I can't do this! Let me go! The others who were killed: You're ordinary??? You schemed against all of us and got us killed! How the hell are you ordinary? The NPC 4.2kReads8.5Score482Shelves
- 81 Great! It's a System, Now I'm Definitely Dead 太棒了！是系统，这下我死定了 [Infinite Flow] [No heroine] [No CP] [Original instances] [The System is useless] [Rules] [Deduction] [Wits and strategy] [Survival missions] Borrowing a setting from a great author: ghosts cannot be killed... You must discern their patterns... The Haunted Spirit Tower has descended. Please make sure to complete your survival mission! Little-girl System and all that: “Host, clear each instance in one life, one every seven days! Bring the Haunted Tower era to an end!” Chen Zichu: “Damn it... Othe 2.6kReads7.6Score221Shelves
- 82 Rule-Based Horror Stories: Starting with Halloween 规则类怪谈，从万圣节开始 (Also known as: Rule-Based Horror, Starting with Halloween) My name is Bai Ze, and I’m an ordinary high school sophomore. Even though it was Halloween, I saw a Christmas tree in my residential compound. Only later did I learn that the tree didn’t exist. The fifteen rules in the residents’ chat group, the timid older girl next door, the strange white-haired little girl, the patrol team’s eerie regulations, my beautiful deskmate, the ghost in the thick fog... The residential compound, the school.. 764Reads8.8Score101Shelves
- 83 The Sinner's Daughter Becomes a Miracle Healer, Clears Her Name in the Palace, and Slays Her Enemies 罪臣之女成医仙，金殿翻案诛仇家 The Minister’s Wronged Daughter Becomes a Medical Immortal, Clears Her Family’s Name in the Golden Hall, and Slays Her Enemies 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 84 Rule Horror: The Slacker Turns the Nation’s Fate Around 规则怪谈：摆烂人扭转国运 [Mystery, Supernatural, Suspense, National Fortune, Female-Oriented, No Romance] The world of the uncanny descends upon Blue Star. Over three years, national fortune scores rise and fall. After the previous genius chosen player died, Huaguo's score plummeted to 30. No one can bear the consequences of a national fortune score reaching zero. As the score continues to fall, many people start accepting that the world of the uncanny will soon destroy Blue Star, and give up trying. Seventeen-year-old 9.5kReads7.8Score841Shelves
- 85 The Haunted City of Dreams 诡梦迷城 [Manhua adaptation and high-quality live-action audio drama now available] [Infinite progression + mystery + mind-bending puzzles + supernatural powers + paranormal horror. No System, no harem, no brainless plot. Read with caution if these are deal-breakers.] When I woke up, everything around me had become eerie and terrifying. My dead roommate called me, repeating over and over the struggle of his final moments... A pair of slender, snow-white legs appeared mysteriously on a bed in the boys' do 42.2kReads8.7Score4.7kShelves
- 86 Thriller Game: I Became Invincible After Throwing Away My Shame 惊悚游戏：我不要脸后无敌了 Horror game + no romance + comedy + growing heroine (The heroine is an ordinary person. She keeps her head down while she gets stronger at first, then eventually stands tall. Early on, she’s a source of laughs; later, she becomes someone who enjoys the fun.) [Player: Gu Panxi] [Talent: Box of Fear] [For every 100 points of Fear collected, you get one chance to draw a prize from the Box of Fear.] [Fart Sound: When you fart, the sound is automatically amplified 1,000 times.] [Chrysanthemum Enthusi 6.5kReads9.0Score1kShelves
- 87 The Fairytale Train 童话列车 [No romance + eerie fairy tales + feel-good story + rule-based horror + infinite worlds] In the world of fairy tales, everything is like a dream, and you can have whatever you desire. In the fairy-tale town, no one is allowed to lie or harm the residents. Yet every day, everyone must board the fairy-tale train, where the stories are eerie and passengers meet their deaths. Shi Niao realizes that this train seems to lead to the world she wants to reach. She has forgotten everything, but never forg 2.1kReads8.8Score347Shelves
- 88 Followed by Ghosts 与鬼随行 Immersive, terrifying, and packed with suspenseful mystery and deduction. I have a strange world, and I want to take you there! After the college entrance exams, I took a fatal blow meant for my friend and lost my sight. By chance, I ended up at a bizarre vocational college. My classmates are dying one after another under strange circumstances, and there seems to be a much bigger secret behind it all. This world seems so strange... so strange... I have to solve the mind-bending challenges one by 2.7kReads—Score255Shelves
- 89 Invitation from Hell 地狱邀请函 [Ghost Escape + Supernatural Horror + Infinite Flow + A Clever Protagonist] An invitation and an abandoned bus drag a group of people into a haunted realm… Lin Mo barely makes it back to the real world alive, only to discover that the horror has just begun. One invitation after another arrives before him, and one eerie world after another comes calling… The Dusk Spirit Hotel, the Dead Return, Vengeful Ghosts Invade: what is the truth behind it all? Who is a friend? And who is an enemy? Shh… Watc 18.2kReads8.6Score1.4kShelves
- 90 Her Graduation Thesis Is Filled with My Name 她的毕业论文，写满了我的名字 Her Graduation Thesis Was Filled with My Name 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 91 The Day I Miscarried, He Was Discussing a Project with Someone Else 流产那天，他在和别人谈项目 The day I miscarried, he was discussing a business deal with someone else 69Reads—Score—Shelves
- 92 The Floating City in the Freakish Sea 畸海浮城 [A World of Strange Realms] [Backrooms-Inspired Setting] [Dark Humor] [Monstrous Creatures] [Light Apocalypse Scavenging] [Uncovering the Truth] The original world has shattered into countless eerie pocket worlds: A silent city where the sun never rises, A man-eating forest where every tree walks, An endless wasteland forever watched by a giant eye... And also, A colossal Buddha traveling beneath the city, Moving walls of steel rebar mixed with rotting flesh, A black humanoid figure stan 138.2kReads9.1Score13.5kShelves
- 93 Rule Horror: An SSS Talent? I Switch Them Up 规则怪谈：SSS天赋？我换着玩 Jiang Ran swapped souls with his counterpart in a parallel world and found himself in a world of strange tales, where one rule after another was impossible to distinguish as true or false, and one malicious horror after another lay in wait. He ventured through mountains, forests, the deep sea, and even hell, taking on bizarre roles such as tourist, wolf, sailor, and shepherd. With all kinds of outrageous tricks, Jiang Ran hired a creepy little girl as a child laborer one moment, then struck up a 14kReads9.3Score1.2kShelves
- 94 Thriller Game: A Journey of Escape Begins in an Ancient Castle 惊悚游戏：从古堡开始的逃生之旅 [Infinite Worlds + Mild Horror + No Female Lead + Escape + Not Wish Fulfillment + No System + Smart Characters + Original Worldbuilding] [This story has plenty of twists and focuses on an ensemble cast. Please read patiently: the characters may not be as simple as they seem, and although this is an infinite-worlds story, each instance is connected in some way.] Yan Changqing has been bedridden and paralyzed for twelve years. Throughout those twelve years, he has repeatedly had the same dream. In 12.1kReads8.8Score1.3kShelves
- 95 The Haunted House 2 诡舍2 The eternal night has come, and absurdity runs rampant. A thick pollution blankets the sky, while pitch-black eyes look down upon the world. Carrying a flame, we press slowly onward. Humanity's sun will be kindled by human hands. 317.9kReads8.8Score35.3kShelves
- 96 Endless Haunting: Reading Minds from the Start, My Whole Family Wants Me Dead 终诡游戏：开局读心，全家想杀我 [Warning!!! Not traditional horror! Unconventional! Emotion-driven, plot-focused, not a power fantasy!] [Horror game + lighthearted comedy? + ultra-healing + not a mindless power fantasy + male lead starts out normal, then turns unhinged and inhuman + no romance + intelligent System + author is in a good state of mind = ???] [Welcome to the Ultimate Horror Game!!!] Zhao Ping'an became a player in the [Ultimate Horror Game] and entered its world. From the start, he had to choose his family. Who s 2.7kReads9.1Score319Shelves
- 97 Deadly Haunted Grounds: The Death Countdown Begins! 致命诡地：现在开始死亡倒计时！ [Infinite-flow + horror instances + survival + mild scares + no romance] The curse of the Bronze Ghost Mask descends. Those chosen must embark on one deadly journey after another. Time is running out, and death is drawing near. Who will make it out alive this time? [The B&B Butcher] In a creepy old house, ghostly figures appear whenever night falls. Anyone who enc 28.6kReads8.5Score2.9kShelves
- 98 The Woman in the Closet 柜子里的女人 The Woman in the Cabinet 55Reads—Score—Shelves
- 99 We're All Freaks, So Why Do You Stand Out So Much? 大家都是变态，为何你如此突出 [Ninjutsu] + [Thriller] + [Scheming] + [Extremely twisted] + [No female lead] [Some scenes may offend certain readers. Proceed with caution. Self-righteous do-gooders, please don't bring real-world morality into a fictional world!] Bai Ge has survived in the Thriller World for two and a half years when he suddenly gets a Ninjutsu System. Complete missions, and he can gain the power of ninjutsu. Spirit Doll: “This human is so cruel! I just couldn't afford the delivery fee, and he ripped my eyebal 1.8kReads9.0Score224Shelves
- 100 Financial Ruin 破財 Dead... They're dead. The day the secret sealed away for nine years was revealed, everyone in Yunshui Town died! In the past, Cen Ziyu always thought the mountain demon that ate children was just a bizarre tale the adults had made up to scare them. Until one day, he uneasily remembered something. When he was little... he had eaten a person! Cen Ziyu and his grandmother depend on each other. Their life is hard, but the uncles and aunties in Yunshui Town have always been kind to them, ofte 286Reads—Score—Shelves
