Novels like There Are Ghosts
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as There Are Ghosts, best match first.
- 1 Japanese Literary Master, 1992 日本文豪1992 He was a close friend of Ken Takakura, a screenwriter for Takeshi Kitano, and the guiding light who set Hirokazu Kore-eda on his path. At the same time, he was Haruki Murakami's lifelong literary rival. Amid the bubble economy, Ouma Shiratori rose from nowhere, building an enduring legacy through his literary achievements. After one punch shattered the darkness of the era, all that lay before him was hope, bathed in the dawn of literature. 0Votes5.9kRecs33.2kFans
- 2 EN Anomalies Run Wild: I'm a Hunter of the Bizarre in the Apocalypse 诡异肆虐，我在末日当诡物猎人 [Doomsday] [Eerie] [Rule Horror] Eerie entities descended upon the world, shrinking the space where humanity could live and move about to less than a tenth of its former size. Just as human civilization teetered on the brink of extinction, those infected by the entities but not transformed by them unexpectedly discovered that they had gained powers once belonging to the entities themselves. … Sun Hang awoke in a hospital bed and was stunned to discover he had become a young man with no memories, 0Votes28.2kRecs88.5kFans
- 3 Warhammer: My Biological Father Is the Emperor, and My Brother Is a Demigod 战锤：我的生物爹帝皇和半神弟弟 Aaron Veil, living in 600 BC, thought his father was utterly useless, little more than a biological father, and the man had even driven his mother away. That was, until he started meeting a bunch of demigods in his dreams who were looking for their dad, and called him their older brother. So that old bastard had been cheating, too? Furious, Aaron vowed to avenge his mother. But his younger brothers were so affectionate when they called him big brother, and they kept asking him for things their f 10Votes36.7kRecs154.1kFans
- 4 The Immortal in the Gourd 壶中仙 Transmigrated as an immortal in a pot, he can’t leave the pot for a hundred thousand years. After much effort, he manages to create a divine avatar so he can get some fresh air. But it’s still a low-ranking god in the Divine Court, stuck granting wishes and helping the poor every day. “Outside the Pot-Heaven, you call me the Immortal in the Pot, say I’m a remnant soul bound to the pot who cultivated the Dao. I won’t hold it against you.” “But once you’re inside my Pot-Heaven, shouldn’t you call 0Votes13.8kRecs40.3kFans
- 5 Starting a Folk Horror Game with the Filthy Organ Technique 从装脏法开始民俗游戏 [Folklore Horror] [Infinite Flow] [Chinese Martial Arts] The body is built on four beams and eight pillars, and houses the folk gods of ages past. Lu Ansheng taps open the folklore game Buried Records, which has appeared out of nowhere on his phone, and transmigrates to a burial ground for folk gods overrun with evil spirits. He must seek the remains of ancient gods, build temples to house their inner organs, and complete mission after mission before he can briefly return to the real world. When 91Votes36.2kRecs178.2kFans
- 6 Beyond the Mirror 镜面之后 A lone extraordinary power in a modern city. Nineteen-year-old Wang He was an ordinary college student. One day, by chance, he discovered that he could touch a mirror and enter the world inside it. Everything there was the opposite of reality. It was home to strange and terrifying creatures, and killing them let him acquire their powers and supernatural abilities. Most importantly, anything in the mirror world could be brought back into reality. A story about being the only supern 0Votes37kRecs282.4kFans
- 7 I Built a Safe Zone in the Nightmare World 我在噩梦世界建立安全区 Nightmares engulf the world. The bizarre and the calamitous are everywhere. Ordinary people, powerful fighters, and even the great and mighty can do nothing but struggle in their nightmares. Shi An steps into the depths of the nightmare sea and spreads his arms. The gloom around him recedes, and a kaleidoscope of colors blooms. “A nightmare? What nightmare?” “Welcome to the safe zone.” … Years later, while people of other races are still struggling in their nightmares, the people of Blue Star v 328Votes46.7kRecs183.7kFans
- 8 I Train My Body in a World of Terror 我在恐怖世界横练肉身 Challenge powerful foes, and you can perform martial arts deductions without limit. Carrying a wondrous treasure like this, he transmigrates to a seemingly peaceful modern world. There is no spiritual energy here, no cultivation, and he is the only person who practices martial arts. Just as Yi Ran thinks he can lie flat... He suddenly discovers that this world harbors things more terrifying than immortals, Buddhas, gods, and demons... They lurk in one horrifying parallel timeline after anoth 265Votes41.7kRecs331kFans
- 9 EN New Concept: Dao of Weirdness Ascends to Immortality 新概念诡道升仙 Good news: I transmigrated, and I have a cheat! Bad news: I'm about to die. I'm a sacrificial offering. Good news: I've successfully enslaved an evil god! … Opening the Great Wilderness Immortal Scripture, designed to invade the Immortal Realm, I manually switched to desperate survival mode in another world, ignored the stern warnings, and replaced spiritual energy with demonic pollution. Then I embarked on an unauthorized, illegal path to ascension as an aberrant species. Armed with the Immorta 36Votes104.1kRecs142.8kFans
- 10 EN After Taking Over the Underworld, I Became the Boss of All Horrors 接管地府后，我成了诡异头子 Zheng Que transmigrates to the world of cultivation and begins working hard to improve his skills. “Ghost Bride, why haven’t you done anything today?” “Have you mined the spirit-stone veins?” “Have you gathered the spirit herbs?” “Look at Painted Skin over there. She’s already mined three whole spirit-stone mines today!” “If you keep slacking off, how am I, your master, supposed to buy a custom airship from the Heavenly Artifact Sect and live in the finest cave abode in the Xuanyuan Pavilion?” “ 42Votes273.3kRecs361.7kFans
- 11 Madness 迷狂 Southeast Asia, 1996. The steamy little town was packed with torn-open souls. Using their wounds as eyes, they saw the divine madness lurking behind the world. A strange being in a yellow raincoat wanted to become human, so it blended in among them. The monsters received their correspondence cooking courses and wrote on the back of a videotape: “Please don't let Doudou find out our brains make better jam.” 92Votes74.1kRecs93.2kFans
- 12 The Dragon of a Thousand Faces 千面之龙 Why do stories always have to be full of tragedy and bitter grudges? Would you enjoy a fun, lighthearted tale instead? Who am I today? A hero who saves a kingdom? A villain who threatens an age? A dashing playboy who lives a life of romance? Or a notorious sinner remembered by history... A lecher is out of the question. I'm a respectable man, after all. A clown, a judge, a magician, a celebrity, I can be any of them. And yes, I'm also the one who married the queen and fathered a princess. Wait, 12Votes164.7kRecs268.8kFans
- 13 EN Mythical Dao of Ghosts 诡道神话 This is a world where ghosts and mythology intertwine, and countless ghosts and deities have emerged from familiar myths and legends. The Heart-Split Star Lord hanging upside down in midair, the Water-Dividing General wandering the deep sea, the Jiazi Grand Marshal seated atop the clouds... Who could have imagined that the end of a mortal's cultivation would be to become one ghost or deity after another? 0Votes87.3kRecs283kFans
- 14 The Unorthodox Way of Ten Thousand Laws, I Am the Spirit Sovereign 万法诡道，我为灵尊 The gods ended their war long ago, scattering divine paths across the mortal world and opening the way beyond the ranks. Under the protection of the five orthodox divine religions, humanity moved from the Warring States era into the Three Kingdoms era. When the three kingdoms of Qian, Li, and Jing were first established, Fuxi, the Divine Artificer, arrived from beyond the realm. A new age of steam and wonders swept across the world: the Twelve Golden Men, flesh-and-blood laboratories, mechanical 0Votes63kRecs201.2kFans
- 15 EN Bone Dragon Heavy Industries 骨龙重工 Other people are sent crashing into another world. Engineer Su Ming, however, is sitting in a Dayun heavy truck, and he takes both himself and the truck with him as he crashes into someone else. He crushes a necromancer from the start, only to land and find himself cornered inside a white-bone tower. Outside the tower is an army from the temple. Inside is a scholar who calls herself a “helpful passerby”: Miss Baigu. The bad news: he has become a heretic. The worse news: he really can use necroma 226Votes96.5kRecs373.1kFans
- 16 I Brought the Mount Shu Game to Life 我具现了蜀山游戏 Also known as: “I Openly Cultivate Immortality on Douyin,” “Casting Spells Under the Guise of Special Effects,” and “With AI Around, I Fly Without Hiding It” … Chen Han obtains a game System that is supposed to take him to the game world of The Swordsmen of the Shu Mountains. But the transmigration fails, leaving the game System acting rather strangely. [The dog demon is right in front of you, releasing a powerful aura of demonic energy. Drive it away at once!] Chen Han stares blankly at the li 9Votes206.7kRecs439kFans
- 17 The Age of Anomalies 异常纪元 The laws of physics are dying, and the world is becoming a draft gone mad. Everything we know as common sense is slowly failing. Sudden cancer, a whale carcass on a mountaintop, snake eyes on the highway… As reality falls apart, can reason lead us to the end? 6Votes27kRecs98.7kFans
- 18 The Most Ruthless Man in the Apocalypse 末世第一狠人 [At 4 million words: 44,500 premium subscribers and 7,000 average subscribers. The story is complete. Dive in without worry, it won't be abandoned!] The zombie virus breaks out overnight, bringing the world to ruin and shattering human civilization. As a survivor, all you want is to stay alive! Question: How can you survive the apocalypse? Answer: First, you have to be ruthless! [Not reborn] [Light System] [Zombies] [Apocalyptic survival] [Decisive and ruthless] [No saintly protagonist] 275Votes174kRecs952.9kFans
- 19 EN Heavenly Official Grants Evil 天官赐邪 An original infinite-flow story with a roguelike mystery mode, mild horror, a plot-focused approach, and minimal cheat powers. Devotees, welcome to the Blessed Land. Here, the Heavenly Official bestows evil, the Earthly Official delivers punishment, and the Water Official lays curses. Strange spirits and demons run rampant, and ghosts and monsters roam unchecked. Only those favored by the immortals can escape the Blessed Land. Choose a statue to worship and receive a random blessing from the 148Votes124.5kRecs455.9kFans
- 20 A Tianjin Native Never Loses SAN 天津人永不掉SAN You have your unspeakable horrors; I have my storytelling, jokes, and singing. In a steam-powered civilization surrounded by all manner of ancient and outer gods, ordinary people are twisted into madness by the slightest contact with ancient knowledge. Liu Yonglu, a young crosstalk performer from Tianjin, transmigrates into this world. Face to face with the old gods and their kin, he stays perfectly calm, picks up the clappers at hand, and launches into a routine. “Clap these bamboo boards toget 9Votes87.7kRecs194.9kFans
- 21 Curses of the Mountains and Seas 咒禁山海 In the twenty-eighth year of Zhizheng, the emperor ascended the throne and issued an edict: No one may go out to sea! No one may go out to sea! No one may go out to sea! In the fourth year of Xiaokang, a ghost coffin in the Zhuo River leaped up the Dragon Gate, taking every corpse diver in the river with it. In the eighth year of Xuande, the treasure fleet returned to Liujiagang, but not a single person was aboard... Open the history books, and the waterways of the world, along with the vast eas 6Votes120.2kRecs297.7kFans
- 22 The Netherworld Skin-Painting Scroll 幽冥画皮卷 The print edition has been published. It is titled Formless and available from platforms such as Qidian and JD.com. Generally speaking, Li Wuxiang gives himself a little maintenance every six months or every five thousand li. The main jobs are tending to his outer layer and renovating his internal organs, with a little fatty fluid added if necessary. When applying a new skin, he has to be careful with the materials. Otherwise, in extreme weather, it might peel or de 171Votes229.8kRecs401.3kFans
- 23 EN Heir to a Kingdom of 1.4 Billion Citizens 十四亿国民的王国继承人 Xia Mingyu accidentally transmigrates from Blue Star to another world that resembles a fantasy medieval era, where everyone has a status label floating above their head. Those labeled commoner: Spend their whole lives struggling for a few pieces of black bread and a cramped house, exhausted all day and living in constant fear. Those labeled noble: Born with wealth, handsome looks, and the power to tear the law to shreds. All they have to do is enjoy life. Those labeled king: I don't eat beef. Af 25Votes142.8kRecs1MFans
- 24 Edge of Doomsday 末日边缘 “My name is Yu Dong. I’m reborn, and every time I die, I return to seven days before the apocalypse begins.” “In my previous life, I met a girl named Liu Yeye. We supported each other through the apocalypse for a long time and even had an adorable child, but in the end, our whole family died in a zombie horde...” “So after I was reborn this time, I found my child’s mother. To gain her trust, I told her home address, the layout of her bedroom, what her wardrobe was made of, how every pair of her 839Votes111.2kRecs624.3kFans
- 25 My Cyberpsychosis Is a Quest Prompt 我的赛博精神病是任务提示 This is Eden City. Multinational high-tech corporations have risen to power, controlling every aspect of people's lives. The gap between rich and poor has begun to widen at an unprecedented rate. Cybernetic modifications and dangerous deals fill every corner. High tech, low living standards. On rainy nights beneath the neon lights, gunfire devours the troubled dreams of the sleepless. People have grown accustomed to upgrading themselves with cybernetic limbs. But excessive modification graduall 63Votes68.4kRecs145.2kFans
- 26 Venerable of the Turbid World 浊世武尊 In the third year of the Great New Republic, the nation is falling apart. The southern government has just been established, while northern warlords carve up the land and fight among themselves. Western ironclads batter at the gates, and the ghosts of the previous dynasty refuse to fade. This is an era when firearms and physical prowess vie for supremacy, and rebels dance alongside evil spirits. Beneath the undercurrents of revolution, folk cults flourish, alongside martial warriors, demons, str 65Votes113kRecs669.3kFans
- 27 EN After the Skyfall 天倾之后 Our world has been corrupted. The appearance of supernatural creatures, tales of ghosts and monsters, cultivation and evolution, strange artifacts clashing with sorcery, and the opening of gateways to other realms. Some fight to cross over, while others flee… It all began after the sky fell. 50Votes553.4kRecs2.2MFans
- 28 EN From the Apocalypse 来自末日 I found a girl of unknown origins outside. She claimed to have transmigrated from the age of the apocalypse. A great calamity is coming. When it arrives, the land will be overrun by strange creatures, human civilization will be destroyed, and even the world itself will shatter. Nothing can be undone. As for me, I’m trying to figure out how to lock this temporarily powerless beauty up in my house. 10Votes162.2kRecs301.2kFans
- 29 EN Infinite Script Murder 无限之剧本杀 This is a feast for those who play their roles. The script in your hands may not hold the only possible ending, but from the moment you receive it, are you ready to take control of your fate? Guoshui subscriber group: 701787571 (subscribers can join) Guoshui regular group: 828169039 (join without verification) The author has completed several novels, including Infinite Postman, I Have a House in the Underworld, and Horror Weibo (Ce 0Votes156.1kRecs351.8kFans
- 30 EN Herald of Calamity 天灾信使 The Messenger is an MMORPG that has won the Global Best Game Operations Award ten years in a row. It was also the first online game in the world to surpass ten million concurrent players. Yan Qing had never played it before. Now, he is the game’s only player. 8Votes259.6kRecs737.3kFans
- 31 EN World of Monsters 怪物世界 The highly anticipated virtual masterpiece The Dark Lands, ten years in development, has officially entered open beta, but its expensive barrier to entry stopped countless eager players. At the same time, a strange cracked-version link began circulating online. Qi Sheng: Free and genuine. Click here to download the complete version of The Dark Lands. The instant they clicked the link, Earth's players were dragged into a real battlefield of civilizations. This is a world of monsters. The players 70Votes256.7kRecs859.6kFans
- 32 EN Mount Shu: The Earth Immortal Who Guards the World 蜀山镇世地仙 The vast universe stretches without end, rich and wondrous. The Taoist schools of the East have a long and storied history, while the esoteric schools of Western Shu have risen to prominence. The Northern Quanzhen, the Southern Alchemy School, the Sword Sect, and the Chan Sect all take their turns on the stage, creating a world of myriad splendors. But in this world, a hundred schools contend, and demons and monsters run rampant. The southern factions are cunning, the northern factions fierce, 251Votes488.2kRecs948.7kFans
- 33 The Treasure Mirror of Pure Light 清光宝鉴 “Come, let us invite the moon from the Milky Way's highest heaven, and together admire the eternal spring of the human world. Let us ignore the world's turmoil and spend half a lifetime cultivating a body beyond tribulation...” The moon in the water is like a dream, like flowers reflected in a mirror. Even a child knows that the moon in the water can only be seen, never touched. But Qin Xuan can scoop it up... … 4.9kVotes309.3kRecs590.2kFans
- 34 Notes on a Corpse Monster's Cultivation 尸怪修行笔记 That year, I awoke beneath the earth, with the ground for a blanket and the quiet for my bed. Years later, The mountain’s demons gather, while I sit alone in the tower and pass the long, clear night. 24Votes146.5kRecs371.7kFans
- 35 A Doctor's Journey in Tokyo 东京医途 After being reborn in a parallel version of Tokyo, Kiryu Kazusuke struggled for ages to write just one sentence: “My high school grades weren’t great.” With no other choice, he gave up writing and went into medicine. Luckily, he could see the girls’ timelines. Every choice he made earned him a corresponding reward, such as surgical skills, medical papers, or an extra sum in his bank account. Before long, he had figured out three things: First, someone who truly likes you won’t care what color Po 406Votes140.3kRecs565.3kFans
- 36 Player Reloaded 玩家重载 The eternal night is coming. The killing grounds are upon us. The gods have fallen, and a hundred ghosts roam the night. You can stand in the spotlight and announce the arrival of a new era, or hide in the darkness and watch coldly as others struggle to survive. Free your mind and embrace your fate. This is a game of absolute reality. This is Earth’s Killing Ground. 326Votes362.9kRecs549.5kFans
- 37 EN I Loaded the Occult System 我加载了神秘学面板 The Age of Steam, where reason and mysticism exist side by side. The more you know, the closer you come to madness. That is the consensus behind the Veil. Li Cha doesn't believe it. Or rather, that rule doesn't apply to him. His skill panel lets him dabble in many fields and master them all, like a steam engine that never needs to shut down. [Breathing Lv.3 · Healing: Chronic ailments vanish, old afflictions are completely cured] [Knowledge Lv.3 · Erudition: Every book you lay eyes on leaves 2.1kVotes200.7kRecs994.1kFans
- 38 EN Wulong Mountain Cultivation Chronicles 乌龙山修行笔记 A day-to-day chronicle of a rogue cultivator from Wulong Mountain, recording the little moments of a cultivation life... A woman fears marrying the wrong man; a man fears choosing the wrong career. Since Liu Xiaolou became a lowly rogue cultivator from the start, one from Wulong Mountain, notorious for its bandits, he can only accept his lot and struggle to survive in a world ruled by prestigious sects. He busies himself for a single spirit stone, pill, artifact, or spirit herb. The daily necess 1.4kVotes981.3kRecs619.4kFans
- 39 EN My Life Among the Uncanny 我的诡异人生 In the age of declining magic, evil ghosts have returned, and there is no way out for humanity. A watch passed down to Su Wu by his late parents lets him travel between the past and the future. Ancient traditions lost to the past, taboos passed down by word of mouth, and crafts buried in the dust can all flourish again. In the Hidden Treasury Domain, there are methods for binding evil ghosts with scriptures, offerings, and one's own body; In the Kitchen God Sect, there is the craft of refining o 91Votes658.9kRecs1.9MFans
- 40 EN Crimson Dust Corpse Immortal 红尘尸仙 Xu Qing woke up one day to discover he had become a Jiangshi. [Jiangshi] are immortal and live forever, but have no way to evolve or advance! In a chaotic dynasty where propriety has collapsed and demons, monsters, and strange beings emerge one after another, Xu Qing chooses to hide in plain sight. He becomes the most inconspicuous corpse driver in the occult trade, and from then on gains all kinds of skills every day by laying the dead to rest. Tiger seals and dragon-elephant strength, heavenly 145Votes245.5kRecs815.5kFans
- 41 A Sword's Path to Heaven 一剑天途 If this world is nothing but a virtual game, then one day I will cleave the void with the sword in my hand and seek the reality that belongs to me. P.S. Simply put, this is the story of an NPC's journey through the martial world. P.P.S. I have a completed classic with 8,000 peak subscribers, The Martial World Is Mine Alone. If you're looking for something to read, give it a try. 0Votes82.6kRecs30.5kFans
- 42 EN Simultaneous Transmigration: Inheriting the Legacies of Myriad Worlds 同时穿越：继承万界遗产 A man in the world of Shrouding the Heavens, transmigrating simultaneously across the Myriad Worlds. Talents and comprehension merge, and combat power stacks without limit. With five times the strength of someone at the same level, you say I'm just an ordinary mortal? I won't take issue with that. But when my strength reaches ten thousand times that of someone at the same level, what will you call me? All my selves across the Myriad Worlds, lend me your power! (Includes worlds from novels, anime 2.9kVotes425.4kRecs783.7kFans
- 43 EN The Path to Immortality 仙业 A dream crosses from the sea floor to withered mulberry trees, having witnessed all the Milky Way’s winds and waves. The Nine Provinces and Four Seas, the Mystic Sects and Demon Schools, the Celestial Outsiders and Pure Land Sangha. Refining qi, receiving registers, taking elixirs, divining omens... Enter the Gate of the Infinite, roam the Fields of the Boundless, shine as brightly as the sun and moon, and endure as long as heaven and earth. All that came before is but a guest; reborn, I walk t 1.9kVotes710.8kRecs761.6kFans
- 44 EN Lying Low While Cultivating Immortality in Two Worlds 苟在两界修仙 The fortunes of the years, the turning of spiritual influences, the transformations of yin and yang: these are but minor achievements of the Year Keeper… This is the story of a young man who transmigrates between two worlds to cultivate immortality, and strives to become a Year Keeper… 208Votes701.7kRecs1.3MFans
- 45 Strange Tales of Northern Qi 北齐怪谈 In the tenth year of Tianbao, Gao Yang, the heroic emperor, began playing a pipa made from a human thigh bone. He sang along to his own accompaniment, and the tune was grotesque, absurd, terrifying, despairing, and agonizing. That year, Liu Taozi, who lived by the Zhang River, caught a few fish, and the story began. 51Votes476.8kRecs942.9kFans
- 46 EN Rise of an Esoteric Academy Monk 从密修学院僧开始 [Nonsense] [Forced connections] [Far-fetched interpretations] [Poorly expressed] An ancient scripture with no words, a timid monk, centuries of chance encounters, and enlightenment in a single lifetime. It all begins at a scripture academy called the Endless White Pagoda Temple, with a monk from the Esoteric Cultivation Academy 18Votes222kRecs307.5kFans
- 47 EN Reborn 99 Days Before the College Entrance Exam 重生高考前99天 Chen Zhe, a provincial civil servant, unexpectedly returns to the year he was in his final year of high school. Once a wooden, shy student who blushed whenever he spoke to a girl and knew nothing but studying, he suddenly becomes adept at handling people and situations, always saying and doing just the right thing. Not only does he change the course of his life, he also draws more and more attention from girls. Girl: Chen Zhe, what are your strong points? Chen Zhe: I’m honest, and I don’t talk m 4.3kVotes2.7MRecs4.6MFans
- 48 EN Desperate Dark Night 绝境黑夜 There are monsters and ghostly shadows everywhere outside. I’m so scared. I just want to stay in my safe house until the end of time... The ghostly shadows can’t be killed, and the monsters are endless. Yu Hong came here with a mysterious black seal. Using its power to strengthen anything, he slowly built an absolutely safe zone of his own inside his safe house. As everyone voted, this book is a fusion of eerie cultivation and extreme-path cultivation. Lao Gun keeps his word. 27Votes861kRecs1.7MFans
- 49 EN Above the Mandate of Heaven 天命之上 The world was rebuilt after its destruction. On the edge of a precipice, a towering city rose once more. Those known as the Chosen Ones move behind the scenes of the modern world and through the shadows of history. They wield extraordinary powers and command both worship and awe. Some say they bear Heaven’s mandate, and that there is one in ten thousand. But Ji Jue has no interest in Heaven’s mandate. All he wants is to see, someday, the view beyond it. “...” The chronicler stopped writing and l 3.1kVotes1.1MRecs1.8MFans
- 50 EN Restarting Life 重启人生 When life hits the restart button, it seems like everything will finally go smoothly... Yeah, right! If only I'd been reborn after the college entrance exams. Even going back to my first year of high school would have been fine. What's with being reborn in my senior year? And what the heck, I'm reborn right in the exam room. Guys, how do I solve this math problem? Urgent, waiting for answers online! (Also known as Reborn, So Who Needs Exams? and Reborn, and the Author Still Can't Come Up wi 30Votes981.4kRecs1.3MFans
