Novels like The Corpse Retriever
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- 151 I’m a Corpse-Driving Empress from the Start, and the School Belle Found Out 开局赶尸女帝，被校花发现了 Chen Tianxiu transmigrates into a world where spiritual qi has been revived for a thousand years. Everyone in this world can cultivate and become a warrior. The strongest can even fly through the skies, tunnel beneath the earth, move mountains, and overturn seas, becoming like gods! Then he awakens the Divine Corpse-Wrangling System. Every successful corpse-wrangling earns him various rewards. He can even abandon martial arts and pursue immortality! His first target is the Empress Qianqiu, who v 3.3kReads8.7Score23614d adds
- 152 I Am a Maoshan Corpse Driver 我是茅山赶尸人 Gu Yuan transmigrates into a zombie world overrun by demons and zombies, and accidentally binds himself to a Celestial Master System. Thus begins his journey in another world as an amateur corpse-handler. Uncle Jiu: “Xiao Yuan, you have an excellent build and remarkable talent. Would you like to become my disciple?” Shi Jian: “You can use Lightning and Thunder Fist too? Dare to test your skills against me… Gu Yuan, I was wrong. Please go easy on me.” Gu Yuan: “Miss, would you care to play Pai Go 274Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 153 Corpse Driving in Western Hunan: The Soul-Calling Guide on the Night Road 湘西赶尸：夜行引魂人 A sudden disaster at a mass grave! Wu Liangzi is struck on the back of the head and wakes among rotting coffins and bones, clutching a bloodstained piece of yellow paper. It bears the name of the man he has spent three years tracking down for murdering his father! Seven corpses in black robes dance around him all night, their lifeless eyes seeming to “acknowledge their master.” A mysterious corpse driver tosses him a life-and-death contract. “Four of your seven souls have scattered. If you can’t 277Reads—Score—14d adds
- 154 I’m a Renowned Corpse Handler, So How Did I Get Sold Back to Xiangxi as a Zombie? 我堂堂赶尸匠，竟被卖回湘西当僵尸 After I was brought back to the Jiang family, I rose to the top and became a best actress, finding success in both my career and love life. On the day of my engagement, my fiancé's childhood sweetheart went mad with jealousy and sold me off with a bowl of drugged soup, sending me deep into the mountains of western Hunan. Watching me bound to the sacrificial altar, she sneered. “You're always going on about being a lucky star. Let's see if your good fortune can save your own skin!” A corpse walke 121Reads—Score114d adds
- 155 Showbiz: My God-Tier Corpse Driver Was Exposed on Yearning for Life 娱乐：我神级赶尸匠被向往曝光了 [Slice of life] The latest episode of Mushroom House is set to air from western Hunan. As everyone knows, western Hunan is famous for three secret arts: paper effigy making, poison-craft, and corpse driving! And when it comes to terror and notoriety, corpse driving tops the list! The moment this episode of Back to the Countryside premiered, it revealed a corpse driver. In an ancient village lives a young, pale man, revered as the foremost corpse driver. They say his paper effigies can truly be d —Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 156 The Cunning Yin-Yang Doctor 阴人诡医 [Supernatural + Feng Shui + Fortune-Telling + Doctor + Witchcraft + Ghosts + Mystery + Wild Imagination + Qimen Bagua + Professions] To repay a debt of gratitude, I went against my grandfather’s dying wish. From then on, there was a strange doctor in the world, and I encountered countless extraordinary people. A human face that appears on your back at night, man-eating Gu insects, evil spirits with human faces and snake bodies. The wandering knife peddlers who sell their wares on credit, and the 169Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 157 The Unorthodox Paper Effigy Maker 旁门扎纸匠 The Heavenly Demons invaded, the immortals died, the Buddhas fell, and the Heavenly Dao collapsed. The Divine Tune Sect, the Soul-Seizing Sect, the Red Handkerchief, the Orchid Sect... The eight heterodox lineages protect the human world. Paper Effigy Makers, Night Watchmen, Seven-Emotion Immortal Officials, Six-Desire Bodhisattvas... This is a legend of the unorthodox arts. 195Reads—Score—14d adds
- 158 At Midnight, Don't Stay in Room 404 午夜十二点，别住404 After transferring schools, Lin Xiaoman is assigned to the strangest dormitory of all: Room 404. On the first night, she sees a pair of soaking-wet slippers beneath her bed, but no one admits they belong to her. On the second night, the shared clock turns counterclockwise and stops at the moment Senior Chu fell from the building three years ago. On the third night, her reflection in the bathroom mirror moves three seconds behind her, and unfamiliar bloody marks appear on her wrist. Her roommates 23Reads—Score—14d adds
- 159 Rejected at a Job Interview, I Turned to Corpse Driving: Scaring Dai Xiaomei to Tears from the Start 面试被拒去赶尸：开局吓哭呆小妹 Autumn has arrived, and graduation season is here once again. Lin Yuan gets rejected from a job interview, then learns he has a terminal illness. In the class group chat, his classmates laugh: “You're the only one in the whole class who still hasn't found an internship, Lin Yuan. Are you planning to live off your parents forever?” Class monitor: “Wang Tianzong has already started his own company!” Wang Tianzong: “I'm short a cleaner for the office bathrooms. Want to give it a try? If you do well 115Reads7.7Score—14d adds
- 160 The Coffin Maker 棺匠 I'm a coffin keeper. I entered this line of work after joining my master at the age of nine. At first, I didn't believe there were ghosts in this world. Then, after a series of strange encounters, I gradually discovered the other side of the world... 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 161 Buried by Fate 葬天命 No man in the Gu family has lived past thirty. To prolong my life, I married a corpse and defied fate itself. 254Reads8.0Score10014d adds
- 162 The Coffin of the Vengeful Ghost 葬怨鬼棺 Do things you’ve never seen really not exist? Are the legends you’ve heard really just legends? In China’s five thousand years of history, all kinds of mystical arts have been passed down. Ghost craftsmen are just one of them. Our story begins with a ghost craftsman and ends with one. When those with extraordinary skills are no longer accepted by the world, where can they go? 1.2kReads7.3Score—14d adds
- 163 The Greatest Soul Ferryman 最强灵魂摆渡人 Hell collapses, and demons run rampant. When Wu Xing wakes up, he finds himself the owner of a mysterious shop. He slays evil masters, exterminates malevolent spirits, and solves strange cases. From then on, he wields a ruler as his sword, walking between the realms of the living and the dead. 86Reads—Score—14d adds
- 164 The Yin-Yang Scissors 阴阳剪 A black dragon coils around me, skeletons block the door, fox spirits form ranks, and a white snake possesses me... All I have is a pair of scissors and a sheet of red paper. I cut down demons and sever the boundary between life and death... The Yin-Yang Scissors cut through the forces of yin and yang. I am the heir to the Yin-Yang Scissors. With them in my hands, one snip decides life or death. All the thrilling, eerie, and mysterious tales are found in The Yin-Yang Scissors... 120Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 165 The Living Must Keep Away: The Underworld Chef 活人回避：冥厨 “Kill ninety-nine, then stop!” My grandfather was the last executioner in history. He beheaded hundreds of people in his lifetime and was burdened by countless sins. To atone for them, my father opened a restaurant for the living and the dead, cooking for the living by day and the dead by night. Nine-Thread Corpse Cake, Grasshopper-Skin Juice, Blood-Fried Rotten Flesh, Crispy-Bone Human Soup... If I make it and you refuse to eat, my ghost-head executioner's blade will strike down evil men above 133Reads—Score—14d adds
- 166 Devouring a Feng Shui Master from the Start! Uncle Jiu Is Stunned! 开局吞噬风水先生！吓懵九叔！ Devouring a feng shui master from the start! Uncle Jiu is stunned! Gu Changsheng transmigrates into the world of "Mr. Vampire" and becomes one of the many disciples of Maoshan. In a world overrun by zombies, what kind of hellish start is this? Luckily, his Devouring System unlocks! A golden finger that lets him devour people! Devour a feng shui master, obtain: Corpse-Nurturing Art! Human Master, Third Heaven! Devour a bandit woman, obtain: Southern Frontier Gu Techniques! Human Master, Fifth Hea 554Reads5.7Score—14d adds
- 167 The Pawnshop of the Dead 冥物典当行 Netherworld objects are the belongings of the dead. They carry the habits their owners had in life, along with the resentment and malice they harbored after death. Such objects can accompany ordinary people, causing anything from mental instability to the destruction of entire families. Pawnshops are terrified of getting involved with them. But our shop is different. We specialize in buying this sort of thing, and we even offer a handsome price... 173Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 168 The Day I Was Born, Ghosts Guarded My Cradle 我出生当天，百鬼护胎 My name is Wang Yin. The villagers call me Ghost Baby because I was born from a corpse. They say I was protected in the womb by a hundred ghosts... 147Reads—Score—14d adds
- 169 The Corpse-Retrieving Ghost, I Founded a Secret Organization in the City 捞尸女鬼，我在都市成立诡秘组织 (Mysterious Revival + Urban Life + Live-Streamed Corpse Retrieval) One night, a teenage boy wakes up and discovers he has awakened the Corpse Retrieval System. He must venture to the River of the Underworld to retrieve the corpse of a female ghost. The tragic beauty Qiao Ji, the quirky Luohua Cave Maiden, the fox spirit Tamamo-no-Mae, the fiendish Banruo... As the mysterious returns to life, the boy loses his memory before a bronze gate on a rainy night. The gates of the underworld swing wide op 116Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 170 The Ghost Banquet 鬼禁食 A glutton's feast: can it really eat anything at all? Open wide, and nothing is off-limits? When you're indulging in wild game, have you ever felt a hint of murderous intent behind you... 29Reads—Score—14d adds
- 171 I Became a Corpse Driver to Lead Our Fallen Heroes Home 成为赶尸人来带领英烈回家 No romance, no female lead, no ambiguous relationships, and no harem. (This is a wild idea, so please don’t compare it to reality. I hadn’t planned to keep writing, but… I can’t let go 😭😭 I really hope someone can bring them back.) Nineteen-year-old Jiang Yan is watching a video of the remains of the Volunteer Army returning home when the lingering will of countless fallen souls who never made it back pierces his spirit. As the cold voice of the System rings out, he resolutely chooses to sacrifi 250Reads—Score—14d adds
- 172 The Omnicompetent Demon Catcher 全能捉妖师 [Urban Fantasy + Superpowers + System] In a world where demon hunters reign supreme, ability is the best proof of one's worth. But he's just a rookie with barely any spiritual power. Then one day, he gets the most powerful spiritual energy absorption System! You cultivate your way, and I'll absorb spiritual energy to cultivate. From that day on, he begins his rise from the bottom. The strongest demon hunter: who can stand against him? 23Reads5.5Score—14d adds
- 173 The Campus Belle Exposes Me Catching Ghosts at the Funeral Home 校花曝光我在殡仪馆抓鬼现场 Ghost King: This guy is a complete freak. Demon King: H-he can actually make lightning with his bare hands? Devil King: He’s way too freakish. I can’t afford to mess with him!!!!!! 625Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 174 Ghost Eyes 鬼眼 I'm an orphan. To scrape together enough money for college tuition, I stole offerings from a cemetery. The next day, a bizarre eye grew on my body. To stay alive, I apprenticed myself to an insanely powerful master and learned some insanely powerful magic. Before long, I was a badass young Taoist, slaying demons and banishing evil. But hey, I'm just a nobody. I have no great ambitions or sense of justice. I do all this just to survive, earn a living, and enjoy the freedom of college life! Don't 2.4kReads—Score11414d adds
- 175 Yin-Yang Embroidery: I’m the Last Tattoo Artist 阴阳绣：我是最后一个刺青师 My name is Zhou Yiyang. You probably won't believe this, but I make my living tattooing people, though what I do is nothing like ordinary tattooing. My tattoos come in two kinds: yin embroidery and yang patterns. They can change a person's fate and fortune, and help them avoid misfortune and find good luck. I'm a yin-yang tattoo artist, and I feed myself a bag of salt. 43Reads—Score—14d adds
- 176 Strange Tales of Southeast Asia 东南亚诡事 (The author has opened a coffee shop in the ancient city of Dali and is busy with renovations. Please wait a little while for updates.) My name is Ning. During college, I went alone to Thailand to intern at a hotel, where a series of bizarre and inexplicable things happened. Why was there a temple built inside the hotel? What secrets did this temple hide? 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 177 The Strange Studio: Ten Thousand Tribulations of Reincarnation 异斋之万劫轮回 [Chinese-Style Supernatural Horror + No Romance] [Infinite-Flow Stories Set in the World of Strange Tales + Causal Loops Driven by Human Obsession] Have you read Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio? Do you think of it as folk tales of the supernatural from the late Ming dynasty, or as the heartwarming, romanticized “fox spirits and ghosts” seen in TV dramas and movies? The evil in human nature, the ferocity of spirits and monsters, and the poison of karma rebuild every Strange Tales story into a 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 178 The Dragon Coffin 龙棺 The day my mother gave birth to me, a dying giant snake frightened her so badly that she started bleeding. In a fit of rage, my father cut off the snake’s head. When I was born, birds and beasts took flight, and countless snakes gathered, surrounding our courtyard so tightly that nothing could get in or out. My grandfather asked a feng shui master to resolve the matter. He buried the giant snake’s remains in our ancestral graveyard, and only then did its resentment subside. Ever since I was old 315Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 179 The Strange Case Files 诡局录 [No System + No Cultivation + No Foolish Protagonist + Traditional Supernatural Horror + Mystery and Suspense] My name is Shang Tian, and I’m a man cursed by an evil spirit. It was a lottery ticket that should never have existed. Its dark, yellow-black background looked soaked in old blood and night; the glaring red lettering wasn’t a set of lucky numbers, but an invitation to hell. When I scratched it off, overjoyed and thinking I’d found a lifeline to a hundred-thousand-yuan jackpot, my finge 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 180 Strange Tales from Liaozhai: Ghost Stories and Unsolved Mysteries 聊斋秘闻鬼魅传说与未解之谜 A collection of suspenseful short stories inspired by Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio and Chinese folk legends! Your follows and support motivate me to write. I’ll do my best to bring you even better stories! Fresh off the press! Leave a review, and I’ll keep improving! 1Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 181 The Ominous Coffin 凶棺 It all started with a coffin that floated up from the river... I thought it was a fortune dropped from the sky, but it turned out to be a disaster. After I pried open the coffin, I began to feel that something unclean had followed me home. My daughter grew stranger by the day. She was only three, yet she had already started developing! 125Reads—Score—14d adds
- 182 A Hundred-Year-Old Villager’s Tales of Ghosts and the Supernatural 农村百岁老人口述鬼怪奇谈 I grew up in the countryside, and whenever I had free time, I liked listening to centenarians in the village tell strange tales of ghosts and other uncanny events from days gone by. I have collected, recorded, and adapted these folk stories. There is no overarching plot. Each chapter is a standalone horror story. Not for the faint of heart!!! 32Reads—Score—14d adds
- 183 Yin-Yang Eyes: Ghostly Tales from a Mountain Village 阴阳眼之山村鬼事 On the night I was born, dark clouds covered the sky, fierce winds and torrential rain raged, and thunder boomed until dawn. Countless ghost soldiers and underworld bailiffs waited outside our home, intent on dragging me back to the underworld. If my grandfather hadn't fought to protect me, I wouldn't have lived to see morning. Dogs barked all night throughout the village. The elders called me a cursed, ill-fated child and an evil omen, and wanted to beat me to death to put an end to the calami 18Reads—Score—14d adds
- 184 White Terror 白色恐怖 [Wildly Imaginative Twists] + [Extensive Foreshadowing] + [Social Unrest] + [Mystery and the Supernatural] The campus, bustling by day, is eerily quiet at night... A group of girls playing with a spirit board in their dormitory happen upon the body of a woman who fell to her death. Rumors spread that a ghost is responsible. Then another girl is pushed down the stairs by an evil spirit in the teaching building! Panic grips the campus. Before long, a female teacher is killed by a ghost on camera a —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 185 Jiangshi World: From the Start, I Become the Disciple of the Thunderbolt Taoist 僵尸世界：开局拜师雷电法王 Lin Bei was reborn in the Republic of China and spent fifteen years there, always thinking it was an ordinary world. Then he saw a Taoist conjure lightning with his bare hands and blast a zombie into a charred corpse. Lin Bei immediately dropped to his knees. The Taoist couldn't get rid of him, so he had no choice but to take him as a disciple. “I am Shi Jian, eldest senior disciple of the inner sect of the Maoshan Sect.” Lin Bei was dumbfounded. Shi Jian? The Thunder Lord from "Mr. Vampire"? Un 76.9kReads7.6Score5.8k14d adds
- 186 The Spirit Guide 送灵先生 A madwoman from the neighboring village died, but even in death her eyes wouldn’t close. No matter how many people tried, they couldn’t lift her coffin. The living face trials in life, and the dead face trials in death. An infant who cannot pass the trial between life and death cannot enter the new world. A dead person who cannot pass the trial of death cannot move on, and remains by their loved ones’ side. A sprig of green bamboo summons the spirits; a three-foot spirit banner sends the souls o 16Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 187 Haunted 撞邪 Can you guarantee that the people around you are really human? A lowly office worker had always kept his head down and worked in silence, until one day he accidentally discovered that his coworkers weren’t human at all… To stay alive, he has to pretend everything is normal, struggling to survive in the narrow cracks of this place day after day… 4.2kReads8.4Score30414d adds
- 188 Stranded in a Supernatural World, I Have No Choice but to Summon a God to Fight for Me 身处灵异世界，我只好请神代打了 Li Changfeng has just transmigrated when a life-taking ghost latches onto him. No big deal. Toss it into the merit box and let Buddha duke it out with him. What? There are no temples or Taoist shrines?! Don’t panic. No big deal... Wait, this is a huge problem!!! “Ding! The Merit-for-Hire System has been bound. You pay merit, and I’ll call in someone to fight for you...” Li Changfeng: [Clear skies above, sacred earth below, I burn incense and call upon Master Lin. With a peachwood sword, he slays 107Reads5.4Score—14d adds
- 189 Is This the Funeral Parlor? 是那间丧葬店吗？ A funeral goods shop that looks completely out of place has suddenly opened on a bustling shopping street. It keeps its doors shut during the day and opens for business by night. Qi Shiwu, born at an hour of yin, accidentally becomes a shop assistant. What connection could she have to this place? Follow Shiwu as she opens the shop’s doors! “Shh! A customer’s here!” 102Reads—Score—14d adds
- 190 A Paper Effigy Maker Is Useless? My Painted Paper Dolls Terrify the Entire Internet! 纸扎匠废？我纸人点睛吓懵全网！ [Concept God]+ [Incredibly satisfying]+ [Lighthearted]+ [Funny]+ [Overpowered protagonist] Dungeons invade, and might makes right! Everyone gets one chance to awaken a class at the age of eighteen. Awakening a high-tier combat class means soaring to success. Awakening a low-tier civilian class means fading into the crowd. Lu Yuanzhou, the top student in the entire city, has his awakening ceremony livestreamed by his school to the whole internet. On the awakening platform, Lu Yuanzhou has to choo 13Reads5.4Score—14d adds
- 191 Multiple Fears 多重恐惧 An invitation to a party brings together nine writers, each with a very different style. At the party, the novelist who invited them traps everyone inside and demands that each guest tell a story. With no other choice, they comply. One story after another unfolds at the party: will they reveal the clash of human nature or unleash ghostly terrors? Everything will come to light here. "This is my debut work. I hope you'll show it plenty of support." 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 192 The Heavenly Eye Coffin: Tales of Tomb Raiding in Tibet 天眼棺材：西藏盗墓惊奇录 [Mystery] + [Supernatural] + [Horror] + [Tomb Raiding] Two tomb-raiding enthusiasts meet online. After receiving an invitation from a mysterious stranger, they head to Tibet in search of an ancient tomb containing a coffin with a celestial eye. After enduring countless dangers, they uncover a shocking secret and treasure, and encounter both allies and enemies, along with a web of intrigue. Hidden inside the celestial-eye coffin is a crystal ball that can see through everything. It will change 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 193 The Corpse Driver: I Can Copy the Skills of the Dead 赶尸匠：我能复制逝者技能 After graduating from university, Lin Ye gets the God-Tier Corpse-Driving System. He grows stronger by driving corpses and can copy the skills of the deceased. Through corpse-driving, he travels among humans, gods, ghosts, and demons. His mighty army of the undead is invincible, conquering all before it. As a corpse driver, Lin Ye laughs proudly between heaven and earth and becomes the sovereign of all worlds. 4Reads5.5Score—14d adds
- 194 A Thousand Years of Ghost Stories 千年鬼话 A Thousand Years of Ghost Stories: One Thousand and One Nights of Chinese Folk Ghost Tales is a spine-chilling collection steeped in folk tradition. This book brings together ancient folk legends and ghost stories from across China, featuring mysteries and uncanny events from different historical periods and regions. From eerie mountain forests and desolate old villages to bizarre corners of modern cities, every story holds little-known horrors and shocking revelations. The plots are mysterious 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 195 Yin-Yang Ghost Arts Master 阴阳鬼术师 Some bargains are too tempting to take; accepting them might cost you your life. After Old Wang downstairs died, people around me kept inexplicably trying to give me money, and these offers of money were often followed by death. To stay alive, I had no choice but to learn the secret arts Old Wang left behind, stepping into a mysterious underworld... 491Reads7.9Score10214d adds
- 196 The Yin-Yang Artisan 阴阳诡匠 [Author's note: This book has no System and isn't mindless. Most of the events… really happened. Do not try any of the customs or taboos described here! Any consequences are your own responsibility!] It's better to offend the King of Hell than a poor carpenter. When you've worked as a carpenter long enough, you'll inevitably encounter all sorts of terrifying, bizarre accidents and stories. Sometimes, we're part of them ourselves. I used to think my grandfather was just an eccentric old carpenter 1.1kReads6.3Score10214d adds
- 197 The Poor Corpse Driver, Whose Sister at the Public Security Bureau Begs to Become His Disciple 穷鬼赶尸匠，市局妹妹跪求拜师 Chen Mu is a university student majoring in traditional Chinese medicine. His father raised him on a shoestring, so tight that he has to work part-time just to pay his tuition. While gathering medicinal herbs, he stumbles upon a woman's corpse. After calling the police, he shows off his corpse-driving skills, making the body open its eyes and point out the killer. The cops who mocked him for watching too many movies are scared out of their wits. He uses corpses as “living maps” and smashes crimi 824Reads7.1Score10414d adds
- 198 Folk Taboos: I Cultivate Merit in the Mortal World 民间禁忌：我在人间修功德 Everyone knows the barber, but few realize that the earliest barbers were actually executioners, and strange adepts who mastered esoteric arts. They walk between life and death, needing only a barber's razor to read the secrets of Heaven and travel between yin and yang. They shave the living, and they shave the dead. Even today, folk wisdom warns: never offend the barbers who roam the land with their poles and packs. 168Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 199 Bureau 749: A Yin Messenger on the Road to the Underworld 749局：黄泉走阴人 There is an organization that exists only in the darkness: Bureau 749. Founded in 1974, with no records and no official status, it is made up of scientists and people with supernatural abilities. It handles the dirtiest, most sinister, most forbidden affairs in the human world. Ghost soldiers march through the night, leaving nothing but empty skins in an entire village. The White God of Wealth kills anyone who worships him, taking their souls to feed evil. An ancient Buddha opens its mouth to de 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 200 The Yin-Yang Spirit Medium 阴阳出马仙 [Transmigration + Urban + Supernatural Powers] He transmigrated to another world, and from the day he was born, there was nothing special about him. He thought he would live an ordinary life, but then he attended a bizarre and mysterious wedding and began his path of cultivation. Curse magic, sorcery, a hundred evil spirits of the netherworld, a nine-headed serpent, a mysterious stone coffin... One strange event after another came his way, constantly plunging him into danger. 3Reads—Score—14d adds
