Novels like Eerie Descent: My Haunted House Terrifies the World
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- 1 The Old Corpse Slaughters a Village 老僵屠村 The Old Jiangshi Slaughters a Village 20Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 The Graveyard's Ghostly Wails 鬼哭坟 On the seventh night after Grandma's death, I was forced to keep vigil beside her grave. Half asleep, I heard scratching against the coffin from beneath the earth. Terrified, I ran home, only to find Grandma sitting on the kang, smiling at me. “Good grandson, Grandma forgot to put on her shoes. My feet are cold.” 750Reads—Score10014d adds
- 3 National Fate: I Use Chinese-Style Horror to Suppress the World 国运：我以中式恐怖镇世 A blood-red countdown hangs in the sky. China's national fortune has fallen to just 3%! When Su Yu was thrust onto the national fortune arena, the Western powers were still laughing at Chinese-style horror. With a sweep of his brush, he tore open the night. Red-and-white fiends smashed through neon skyscrapers, an army of paper figures stormed Wall Street's vaults, and a bloodstained marriage contract drifted from a ghost wedding sedan. This was the terror etched into China's very genes. When th 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 The World Is Evil? Then Fight Evil with Evil! 世界邪恶？那就以恶制恶！ “Not mindless wish fulfillment, multiple themed scenarios, folk horror and Lovecraftian elements, hardcore survival, no formulaic tropes, no System, no female lead” This book has one protagonist and six main volumes, each telling a story built around the ideas of a different world. The stories connect to one another and ultimately form a closed loop, while other short stories and smaller worlds serve as supporting material. The Incense Volume, the Immortals Volume, the Strange Martial Arts Volum 37Reads—Score10614d adds
- 5 The Recipient After Death 死后收件人 I'm a courier for a residential complex. Since last month, I've been receiving packages addressed to the dead. An empty apartment building, recipients whose accounts were closed long ago, parcels that no one ever claims. The property manager says I'm seeing things. My coworkers say I've been cursed. The police checked every security camera, but say everything looks normal. That is, until I opened the first package for a dead person. Inside was only a note: [You're next.] 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 Married to Yan Luo 阎罗嫁 The villagers called me a “ghost fetus,” and I had no friends growing up. After the wealthy Wang Changnian pursued me relentlessly, he died under mysterious circumstances, and the Wang family buried me alive as his grave companion. A male ghost dressed in a Republican-era funeral robe saved me, but demanded that I give myself to him and marry him in a ghost marriage. A bond from a past life, an extremely yin body, the mystery of the ghost fetus: I escaped from the Taoist temple, only to discover 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 Global God Wars: From the Start, Nezha Slays Sakura in Seconds 全球神战，开局魔童哪吒秒樱花 When spiritual qi revival awakens the myths and the world is plunged into a divine war, China suffers nine consecutive defeats due to its broken mythological heritage and teeters on the brink of disaster. Bai Xiao, a scholar of ancient mythology, accidentally transmigrates into this world and awakens the Chinese Gods Illustrated Compendium. He summons Nezha, with three heads and six arms, and crushes Sakura Nation. “Tamamo-no-Mae? She's just a stinking fox who fled from China!” When Hou Yi shoot 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 Underworld Reaper: I Tell the Japanese Devils Chinese Horror Stories 地府勾魂使，我给鬼子讲中式恐怖 [National Fate] [Thriller Game] [Chinese-style horror] [No heroine] [Mild horror, not for the faint-hearted] [Global livestream] Xie Bi'an, a soul-reaping emissary, transmigrated into a parallel world where paranormal entities had arrived, taking the place of a history student named Xie An. Every country in this world had to create paranormal instances for others to challenge. The winners earned National Fate rewards, while the losers were punished. But because the Dragon Kingdom had lost touch 4.3kReads8.1Score47314d adds
- 9 Reading Bones, Seeing Evil: I Feel My Way Through Deadly Trials 摸骨见煞：我靠摸骨闯凶关 Rules-based horror + bone-reading mysteries + cosmic horror! Lu Yan possesses the uncanny art of reading bones. He can trace the past, control skeletons, and empower lingering souls, but the price is steep: every use shortens his life! One day, he is swept into the Chinese-style horror gauntlet known as the Bone Soul Altar. Failure means becoming a bone puppet, imprisoned for eternity. A ghost wedding in an old mansion, a deadly opera, a hospital rife with poison and curses... Countless lethal 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 A Supernatural National Fate War? I Summon Zhong Kui from the Start 诡异国运战？我开局召唤钟馗 As the bizarre invades and the apocalypse draws near, countries are forced to compete in a supernatural arena. Without fighting, they cannot survive. But with the inheritance of Dragon Kingdom's mythology long since lost, Dragon Kingdom is already on the brink of destruction when Lin Fan transmigrates into this world. Suddenly, an electronic voice rings out in his mind. [Ding! Congratulations, Host, you have activated the Netherworld System and obtained the Register of the Netherworld's Hundred 21Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 This Is the Age of Ghosts 这是鬼的时代 I'm a complete newcomer, so please be kind! This is a special shop in a special world. And this special shop has a special owner. This is the story of the owner's life in a very special line of work. 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 A Childhood-Nightmare Haunted House That Randomly Scares Foreigners to Death 童年阴影恐怖屋，随机吓死外国人 Su Chen transmigrated to a parallel world and inherited a haunted house that was on the verge of closing down. The Horror System bound itself to him, allowing him to upgrade the haunted house. Ding! The Haunted Village of the Dead has been upgraded successfully. Ding! The Embroidered Shoes has been upgraded successfully. Ding! ... All those horror movies that had haunted people throughout their childhood were brought to life inside the haunted house. Just then, a group of foreigners with their p 116Reads5.5Score—14d adds
- 13 Old Debts of Laoshan 崂山旧账 Mystery | Folk Legends | Crime Solving | Feng Shui and Fortune-Telling | Taoist Priest | Urban Supernatural Mystery | National Fortune When the incense dies out, old debts of fate must be settled anew [Slow Burn + Not a Power Fantasy + Protagonist’s Growth + No Overpowered Lead] Thirty years ago, Taoist priest Kuang Zhengqing of Taiqing Palace on Mount Laoshan in Island City died mysteriously on a mountain path. The official explanation was a dispute over incense offerings. Folk rumors said he 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 The Midnight Spirit Medium 午夜问米人 Before my grandfather died, he handed me a bag of moldy rice and said that our family had been asking rice questions for three generations, but the tradition had to end with me. I asked why. He only said, “Because some things, once you ask about them, you can never come back.” I didn't listen. I took the bag of rice. On my first night asking the rice, I asked about Liu, the widow who had hanged herself at the end of the alley three years ago. The rice spun three times in the bowl, then stood 72Reads—Score—14d adds
- 15 The Dragon-Locking Well: Snakebone Town 锁龙井：蛇骨镇 The Dragon-Locking Well: Snakebone Town —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 Thriller: I Designed Chu Renmei and Scared the Whole World to Tears 惊悚：我设计出楚人美吓哭全球 [Horror games + supernatural resurgence + terrifying paranormal events + infinite-loop world] When the paranormal suddenly engulfed the globe, some chosen humans became horror game designers. By creating games scary enough, they gained the power to fight vengeful spirits. Those who made it to the end would become gods of a new age! After transmigrating, Han Yu discovered that this world shrouded in the paranormal had once been a pristine place, with no tales, films, or books about vengeful spiri 6Reads5.9Score—14d adds
- 17 Mount Yin of the Forsaken: Raising Fiends in Coffin Mountain, Commanding the Underworld Winds 绝户阴山：棺山养煞，我掌阴间风 My name is Chen Jiu, and I was born in Juehu Yin Mountain. After my grandfather died, I became the new guardian of the Coffin Mountain, raising evil spirits. With a whole repertoire of feng shui secrets and a peachwood sword, I slay the Yellow Immortal, seal yin coffins, venture into ancient tombs, and break deadly curses. Everyone in the village fears me, curses me, and wants me gone. Only my brother Gou Sheng dares to risk his life alongside me. When evil spirits come, I’ll slaughter them un —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 Crossing the Calamity in Seven Days 七日渡厄 My name is Lin Ye. I’m a struggling author who makes a living writing rule-based horror stories. Then I receive an anonymous email. It contains nothing but a yellowed Republican-era theater ticket and a single line: “Come to the Du’e Theater within seven days, or the ‘rules’ you write will become the way you die.” The moment I step into the theater, time across the entire city begins looping in seven-day cycles. I wrote, “Don’t look in the mirror at midnight,” and the next day someone sees th 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 Cold Case Pursuit: The Workplace Abyss and the Silver-Haired Trap 悬案追凶：职场深渊与银发陷阱 The fatal fall from the rooftop wasn't suicide. Workplace bullying was just a cover! I, Lin Yan, a criminal investigation team captain, uncovered the truth: a 500,000-yuan loan, deleted surveillance footage, nursing-home residents, and exploited workers were all pawns in a silver-haired scam syndicate's scheme to rake in money! The mastermind not only controls the fraud network, but also has powerful protectors who can cover the whole sky... I take on the cover-up head-on and tear down those pro —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 I Broke Folk Taboos, Yet Became the Strongest Taoist Priest 触碰民间禁忌，我却成为最强道士 It all started when I got drunk and took a leak by a roadside grave. After breaking a rural taboo, one strange thing after another began to haunt me. My grandfather was a well-known spirit medium in the countryside of Yu Province, and our family worshipped fox spirits at a shrine. There are no peerless thunder techniques, no golden finger upgrades. Rural graves, ill omens when red and white festivities collide, spirit mediums making their rounds, the troops serving beneath the Mount Tai Goddess: 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 Hounded by a Thousand Evils: Keep Your Distance 万邪缠身：生人勿近 The Exorcist Pavilion sits at the corner of an old alley. Ordinary people are not welcome, and it only takes cases involving people plagued by evil spirits. A red-clad ghost in an ancient well, a legless woman in an elevator, a slit wrist in the mirror, sobbing in a karaoke room, a bloody birth chart in a wardrobe, a shadow in the break room... Miaojiang gu sorcery, corpse-driving Taoists, and Nanyang black magic all take turns appearing. Jiang Xun: As long as you can pay the price, I'll snatch —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 I Use Chinese-Style Horror Dungeons to Scare the Whole World to Tears! 贫道用中式恐怖副本吓哭全球！ [Chinese-Style Horror] [National Fate] [Thriller Game] [No Female Lead] [Global Livestream] [Mild Horror, Not for the Fainthearted] Lin Ye, a Taoist priest, transmigrates to a parallel world where the paranormal has descended. Every country in this world must create paranormal scenarios for other countries to challenge. The winners receive National Fate rewards, while the losers are punished. However, due to a gap in its horror culture, Longguo's scenarios are often cleared easily by other c 27kReads7.4Score3.6k14d adds
- 23 Designing Horror Games: Chu Renmei Terrifies the World 设计恐怖游戏，楚人美吓哭全球 [Horror Game + Mysterious Revival + Horror and Terror + Suspense and Mystery + Infinite Flow] The supernatural has spread across the globe. Some people become horror game designers, gaining the ability to fight vengeful spirits by designing horror games. Those who make it to the end will become gods of a new era. After transmigrating, Han Yu realizes that the world shrouded in the supernatural was originally a pure land, with no legends, films, or books about vengeful spirits. With so little sou 8Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 24 You Want Me to Catch Ghosts? 你让我去抓鬼？ My name is Lin Fan. I'm twenty-two, and I graduated with a college diploma in marketing. While other graduates had job offers in hand and were charging ahead, I graduated straight into a pit of misery. I was two months behind on rent, my pockets were emptier than my face was clean, and my only possession was a beat-up electric scooter that clanked at the slightest touch and looked ready to fall apart at any moment. Five yuan per delivery. I raced around in the wind and sun, but I couldn't plug t 41Reads—Score21514d adds
- 25 What Will the Next Story Be? 下一个故事会是什么？ A collection of episodic stories based on personal experiences. First person, rural life, the supernatural, mildly frightening, and terrifying when you think it over... episodic stories. The damp villages of the south conceal supernatural tales colder than snakes. Open this book, and you’ll enter a graveyard of memories: a forgotten puppy leaves muddy paw prints on a rainy night; the withered vines of gossip tighten around a young girl’s neck; a blond doll by the roadside carries a curse that cl 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 Chinese-Style Horror Doesn't Work? Paper Figures Carry the Coffin to Send Eagle Sauce Packing 中式恐怖不行？纸人抬棺送走鹰酱 A mysterious power descended upon Blue Star, and the National Destiny Arena opened, unleashing terrifying showdowns. Every country had to bring forth something terrifying to compete. The winners would see their national destiny flourish and endure forever. The losers would be plagued by terror, their people massacred, and their nations reduced to nothing. To claim victory, every country brought out the terrifying secrets they had kept in reserve. Eagle Country: The Reborn Clown, Carrie the Witch 46Reads—Score—14d adds
- 27 I Heard of Strange Things That Year: Never Read This Late at Night 那年听闻怪事，千万别深夜翻看 These stories are adapted and fictionalized from various experiences shared by friends. They are written in an accessible style and make for a good way to unwind. A reminder: reject superstition. This is all imaginative fiction. Any similarities to real events are purely coincidental, so don't take it seriously! 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 My Years Learning to Catch Ghosts 我学捉鬼的那些年 People can get away with all sorts of things, but greed is one thing they must avoid, especially when it comes to things inside a coffin. And greed was exactly where I went wrong. If you covet money, it can cost you your life! They dug a red-lacquered coffin out of a construction site, and I thought I'd found a priceless antique. If I'd known what would happen afterward, I wouldn't have gone anywhere near it even if they killed me... 762Reads—Score—14d adds
- 29 Horror Arena: I Summon Chinese Ghost Gods to Terrify the World 恐怖擂台：我召唤中式鬼神惊悚全世界 [National destiny + Chinese-style horror + wish fulfillment + Jiang Chen, the Primordial Zombie Ancestor + personally slaying onmyoji] A horror arena appeared, where each country summoned legendary ghosts and monsters to fight and defend its national destiny. Some people said Huaxia had no gods or ghosts. Then Jiang Chen, the Primordial Zombie Ancestor; Tang Sanzang, the holy monk who delivers souls; and Zhong Kui, king of all ghosts, were summoned! Who says the Dragon Kingdom has no gods or gho 313Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 30 Horror Cycle: The Ghost Gate Survival Game 恐怖轮回：诡门生存游戏 [Infinite Flow + Mild Horror + Survival Games + No CP] Lu Xun was already dead from the start. But then he came back to life. The price of staying alive was being dragged again and again by a mysterious force to a strange world crawling with ghosts and monsters, where he had to fight desperately to survive. To escape this life for good, he had two choices: die, or keep winning the games of death and become a legendary Peril-Class player... 32.2kReads8.2Score3.8k14d adds
- 31 The Haunted Coffin 诡棺 When the coffin opens, the living are doomed to grief! My sister-in-law hanged herself, but no one could take her body down from the white cloth... As it turned out, I had been burdened with a mission from the very beginning, one that would push me down a strange and sinister path! 713Reads—Score10114d adds
- 32 Notes from a Folklore Archaeology Team 民俗考古队手记 The true experiences of Lin Ye, a 24-year-old graduate student in folklore. I went to the countryside with my advisor to survey funeral customs. On my first day in the village, I saw five words carved into the stone tablet at the entrance: “Do not enter the village at dusk.” The village elders taught me: If someone calls your name at night, don’t answer. A funeral basin must be smashed in one blow. When you leave the village, don’t look back. I wrote down each rule in my notebook, treating it as 15Reads—Score—14d adds
- 33 I Pretended to Be a Master for Fifteen Years, Then I Really Met a Ghost 我装了十五年大师，真撞鬼了 [Folklore Mystery + Chinese-Style Horror + Deduction + No Female Lead + A Tight-Knit Trio] My name is Han Ye. I've been pretending to be a master for fifteen years. I read the feng shui of burial sites, exorcise spirits, summon souls, and relay messages from the dead. If the pay is good enough, there's no job I won't take. Everyone says I can communicate with the world of the dead and understand ghosts and spirits. Only I know the truth: I have no idea whether ghosts even exist. I only know 12.8kReads—Score98014d adds
- 34 Nighttime Tales from the Old Mountain Village House 山村老宅夜事 After my grandfather passed away, I returned alone to a remote mountain village to take over the century-old ancestral home. Before I left, the village elders warned me again and again: under no circumstances should I break the old house's four taboos. Don't stare into the mirror in the old house late at night. Don't answer calls from outside the courtyard at midnight. Don't open the small back-garden door at three in the morning. And never go upstairs on a stormy night. I dismissed it all as ol 260Reads—Score—14d adds
- 35 I Collected 99 Horror Stories 我收集了99个恐怖故事 [Short Story Collection] [Chinese-Style Horror] [Based on True Cases] [Uncanny Reality] [Horror Adventures] [Chilling] The stories of this world are half true and half false; the warmth and coldness of human nature make good and evil hard to tell apart. Light and shadow coexist, as do kindness and malice. If you’ve done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear when ghosts knock at midnight. But if ghosts and spirits really came calling, could you face them calmly? This book is a collection of 14.5kReads8.7Score1.6k14d adds
- 36 Midnight Terror: Tales of the Supernatural 午夜惊魂：民间鬼事录 [Folk Taboos + Rural Ghost Stories + Episodic Tales + Chilling on Second Thought] The village elders say that some things are better believed than dismissed. Liu Er, a bachelor, picked up a red wedding dress. That very night, he heard the sound of a suona, and a faceless bride knocked on his door and said, “Liu Er, I’ve come to marry you.” Before a dead person is buried, the guiding candle at the head of the coffin must never go out. Old Liu Guang died, the candle went out, and a crack appeared 4kReads—Score16814d adds
- 37 A Game of the Gods? I'm Already a God! 神明游戏？我已经是神明！ [National Destiny + Livestreaming + Summoning + Cultivation Sect + Pretending to Be a Lucky One + Invincible] The National Destiny battlefield has arrived, and the Dragon Kingdom is on the brink of ruin? At the critical moment, Zhao Yu, an orphan who had been missing for a year and had never received any National Destiny battlefield training, is suddenly selected as Contestant No. 100. The girl wears a strange robe, her expression utterly calm, and she acts like the laziest person alive, slackin 6kReads7.4Score83314d adds
- 38 Patroller of the Living World 阳间巡逻人 Stories of spirit babies have circulated in the countryside of Sichuan and Chongqing for generations. When a baby dies, its lingering resentment can turn it into a ghost. Spirit babies were most common during the height of the one-child policy. As a child, I fed crows, which left me with an unusually strong aura of yin. Spirit babies often mistook me for one of their own, so someone later raised a ghost to protect me. On top of that, I have to work for the Underworld Bureau just to stay alive. 506Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 39 Mysticism: An Evil Cultivator Poses as a God and Earns Boundless Merit 玄学：邪修扮神明，功德无量了 [Occult mysteries, feel-good and satisfying, strong heroine, male lead, no devoted lapdog] Qin Yu is the most wicked of gods, with a particular fondness for corrupted souls. By accident, she passed through a crack in a secret realm and ended up in another world, inside the body of a young woman. Then she became an impersonator of the Goddess of Fertility. Heh, an actual evil god pretending to be a fake deity? How interesting. There’s a vicious stepmother, a scheming stepsister, and an unfeeli 187Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 40 The Temple That Eats People 吃人的庙 The Man-Eating Temple 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 41 Beyond the Constant 恒定之外 [Infinite-Rounds-esque] [Mystery] [Supernatural] [Wild Imagination] [Mystery and Wild Imagination] Beneath the Constant, all living beings are pieces on a chessboard. Fate, the script, the favor of destiny, or a predetermined outcome. What people call being reborn and turning your fortunes around is merely a plot the rules have permitted. Whether you lose or break the game, you have only gone from a cage in one script to a cage outside another. Welcome to Beyond the Constant. And I, too, am beyo —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 42 Horror Descends: A Yandere Female Corpse Forces Me Into a Ghost Marriage 惊悚降临：被病娇女尸强绑阴亲 (The rating just came in, and it will definitely go up! I promise!) [Mind control + both leads are chaste + intensely possessive love + yandere + 1v1 + a touch of supernatural horror] [Yandere, gloomy female ghost × intelligent, reincarnating female lead] Never seek shelter in a remote village's mourning hall on a stormy night. If you do, don't get curious and look at the thin-skinned coffin behind the white curtain. In a village deep in the mountains of western Hunan, there is a rule passed dow 30.7kReads7.4Score6.1k14d adds
- 43 Haunted? Don't Worry, Grandpa Can Summon the Gods 闹鬼？没事的，阿公会请神 Have you ever heard that you shouldn’t pick up red envelopes you find on the road? You might accidentally claim a partner from the underworld. Want to talk to your departed loved ones again? Then… let’s try a spirit-world séance. Worship at the Yin Temple and grow rich. If you’ve got the guts, come give it a try! 153Reads—Score—14d adds
- 44 Old Village Stories 山村旧事 A strange mountain village. Bizarre events sparked by natural and man-made disasters. And, it turns out, a secret lies hidden behind it all... 33.6kReads9.1Score2.3k14d adds
- 45 One Chilling Story Every Night 每晚一个惊魂故事 [One story per chapter] [Chinese-style horror] [Folk tales] [Urban vengeful spirits] [Haunted houses] [No main plot] Collected and adapted fictional tales of terror from all over, one story per chapter, each one different. No grand lectures, just bone-chilling tales rooted in everyday life. All adapted from strange folk tales passed down for years. They sound true, and the more you think about them, the more unsettling they get. Great for unwinding, but don't try to “unwind” alone in the dead of 1.1kReads—Score10314d adds
- 46 Summoning Spirits 招魂 “Old Liu at the village entrance is dead.” “I heard. He died horribly.” “Yeah. He ate himself.” Everyone in the village was talking about it. When I heard, I was stunned. What did they mean, he ate himself? I only understood after I went with my grandfather, a yin-yang master, to see Old Liu’s body. It looked as if something had ripped open his stomach. At a glance, aside from a stomach about the size of a human head, all his internal organs were gone! In his hand was half a severed intestine, a 435Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 47 I Came from the Underworld to Deal with Those Who Defy the Rules 我从地府来，专治规则不服 I Came from the Underworld to Make the Rules Behave 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 48 I Have a Book of Horror 我有一本恐怖典籍 The Horror Arena descends, and the terrifying forces of every nation display their might. Little Cherry Blossom has the Slit-Mouthed Woman, Prettyland has the Grim Reaper, and Pickle Nation has the Busan zombies… Only the Dragon Kingdom has no horrors of its own. It has lost eight out of ten battles and is on the brink of national destruction. Yet the wheels of fate keep turning. Chen Chen unexpectedly gains control of the Dragon Kingdom’s horrors. Armed with them, he leads the Dragon Kingdom 45Reads—Score—14d adds
- 49 Tales of the Strange 怪谈 [A Born Ghost-Busting Saint vs. A Bewitching Beauty Bound by a Sinister Fate] [Case-by-Case Stories + Criminal Investigation + Folk Legends + Ghost Hunting + An Overarching Plot + Horror + Two Powerful Leads + Fighting Side by Side] "Corpses become curses, souls become gu; strange cases arise, and every road is hard to tread." Zhang Miao was short of water in his five elements, and before he was even born, he was given a "water ghost" as his godmother. As a result, he awakened a special constit 1.9kReads8.5Score12014d adds
- 50 The Man Buried Upside Down 倒着埋的人 The Man Buried Upside Down 7Reads—Score—14d adds
