Novels like The Coffin Prison
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Coffin Prison, best match first.
- 1 When the Corpse Coffin Rises, No One Returns 尸棺起，人不归 The one in the coffin, do not be afraid. Move the grave to a new site, and all will be well. A grave relocation full of lies, with a strange female corpse unearthed as soon as the coffin is opened, plunges a quiet mountain village into chaos. Grandpa vanishes without a trace. Who is the mysterious man in black? What is the wicked woman's true plan? What secret is Uncle Ping, the funeral escort, protecting? Who is friend and who is foe? How will Gu Tianci escape this perilous predicament? 227Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 The Executioner’s Heart 刽子手的心脏 Special profession, a heroine who grows stronger, a strong female lead, no romance, no mindless power fantasy, no immortal cultivation, purely supernatural horror and suspense! My name is Chen Siman. Grandpa says the Chen family has been executioners for generations. But in this day and age, the four old trades that dealt with the supernatural world, executioners, coroners, paper effigy makers, and corpse stitchers, have had to change professions and live in hiding to preserve their traditions. 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 I Sell Haunted Cars and Keep a Hundred Evil Spirits at Bay 我！卖凶车，镇百煞！ A cursed car is a car in which someone has died. I'm a used-car dealer, and I only buy cursed cars! My journey in this line of work began with a cursed car I bought, one that nearly cost me my life... 318Reads6.1Score112Shelves
- 4 Shark Clip 鲨鱼夹 Shark Clip 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 The Forbidden Path of Mystery 禁忌谜途 Days are like pages in a book, turning gently one after another. Sometimes they overflow with sunshine; sometimes they’re shrouded in gloom. But that’s what makes the good things all the more precious. Take the time to appreciate life, and you’ll find surprises waiting everywhere. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 No King, No Emperor, Yet I Rule the World 无王无帝定乾坤 For three thousand years, the Tianyuan Continent had been ruled jointly by the Immortal Dynasty and the sacred lands. It was iron law that common-born youths kneel to receive imperial decrees, and custom that sect disciples give the royal family a half-bow. That all changed when a boy carrying a woodcutter's blade stormed the capital and kicked over the Nine-Dragon Cauldron. "I hear your emperor calls himself the Son of Heaven?" Lin Kaiyuan split open the Imperial Ancestral Temple with one slash —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Defying the Sword, Shattering the Heavens 逆剑破穹 Days are like pages, turning softly. Sometimes they're filled with sunshine, sometimes shrouded in gloom. But that's what makes the good moments all the more precious. Take the time to appreciate them, and you'll find surprises hidden throughout life. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 The Mad Cultivator’s Mysterious Path 狂修玄途 Days are like pages, turning softly. Sometimes they're filled with sunshine, sometimes shrouded in gloom. But that's what makes the good moments all the more precious. Take the time to appreciate them, and you'll find surprises hidden throughout life. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 The Record of Breaking Calamities in the Kaiyuan Era 开元破劫录 Days are like pages, turning softly. Sometimes they're filled with sunshine, sometimes shrouded in gloom. But that's what makes the good moments all the more precious. Take the time to appreciate them, and you'll find surprises hidden throughout life. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 My 365 Folk Tales of the Supernatural 我的365个民间诡异故事 (The rating just came out, and it's expected to rise!) [Urban Legends] [Rural Legends] [Folktales] [Supernatural Mysteries] [Unsolved Mysteries] [Not AI-Generated] One short story per chapter, adapted from all kinds of eerie and terrifying folk tales. The plots are bizarre and outlandish, making them ideal for reading in small bites. (Note: Don't read if you're easily scared! Every story is terrifying! Everything in this book is fictional, so don't take it seriously! Believe in science! Reject s 20.7kReads7.1Score1.1kShelves
- 11 I Transmigrated into the Horror Novel I Wrote in Middle School 我穿进初中写的恐怖小说 I Was Transported Into the Horror Novel I Wrote in Middle School —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Forbidden Tales of the Desolate Village: A Midnight Whistle, and a Shrouded Corpse Spirit at the Door 荒村禁忌：夜半吹哨，白布尸魂找上门 Taboos of the Abandoned Village: A Whistle in the Dead of Night, and a White-Cloth Corpse Spirit Comes Calling —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 The Forbidden Zone of the Living 活人禁地 My dad forced me to eat something I shouldn’t have. On the seventh day after he died, I saw him outside, playing a suona… 67Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 14 Debts of the Dead 死人债 Born of vengeful spirits, bound by the debts of the dead! When a hundred ghosts roam, they chain the souls of the departed! Bearing the debts of the dead, I enter the cycle of reincarnation, blessed from birth with the ability to foresee death... 317Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 15 A Collection of Supernatural Horror Short Stories 超级恐怖短篇小说合集 An ordinary office worker in the city buys an antique wooden comb on a whim, unaware that he has become entangled in a terrifying curse spanning a century. A new work, with one self-contained story per chapter. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 Five Horror Stories That Will Keep You Up at Night 五个让你不敢熬夜的恐怖故事 Five Horror Stories That Will Make You Afraid to Stay Up Late 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 Haunted Shadows in the Mall 商城诡影 Haunted Shadows in the Mall —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 Shadows of Doubt in the Hospital 医院中的疑云 Suspicion at the Hospital —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 Chasing Souls Through the Dark 黯夜追魂 Chasing Souls Through the Dark —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 Shadows of Mystery in the Forbidden Village 禁村谜影 Shadows Over the Forbidden Village —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 The Midnight Hearse 午夜灵车 I was just a taxi driver, until an accident dragged me into a war that had nothing to do with me. A woman in red walking the streets at midnight, a mother and child who hanged themselves and now haunt the living... An underground laboratory, the origins of a mysterious organization... 468Reads7.2Score100Shelves
- 22 You Found Me 你找到我了 Modern Supernatural + Female-Led + Fresh Premise + All-Rounder + Wild Imagination + Reincarnation + Spirit Speech + Runes and Formations + Fictional Modern Setting + Pure Wish Fulfillment in the Middle and Later Parts Abandoned and cast out? No. Her god reincarnates for her, life after life. Following the usual formula and old clichés? No. The Heavenly Dao is nothing to her. An ordinary girl dealing with a life that’s a complete mess? No. Other people are the ordinary ones. She is the unique one 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 The Haunting of the New Home 搬家诡事 [Mystery + Thriller + Supernatural + Horror + No Female Lead + Smart Protagonist] His name was Yi Jibo. After he was wrongfully imprisoned, his mother fell ill and died. To pay off his gambling debts, his father sold her ashes to the Japanese through a crematorium driver. To get his mother's ashes back, Yi Jibo went to work at a Japanese funeral home. And so he burned Japanese corpses while searching for his mother's ashes… 19Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 My Great-Grandfather Is a Vicious Spirit 我的太爷爷是凶煞 The male lead isn't invincible. He's just a pathetic rideshare driver, and if his great-grandfather hadn't shown up to protect him, he'd have died a thousand times over. You can pay respects to a thousand or so ancestors and not know who most of them are. But the ancestors you worship may choose to share their spirit with you based on how you treat them. Zhou Qingliang ended up worshipping a vicious great-grandfather. “Would you look at that, you came to me to build up your virtue in the afterli —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 A Collection of Bizarre Horror Stories 怪诞恐怖故事集 My stories have magic, blood and tears, the evil side of human nature, and the horror you’re looking for. 1. Mother’s Bottles and Jars: A single drop of blood can turn one grain of rice into a whole pot of rice. A hundred drops can conjure a bicycle... What kind of magic is hidden in the bottles and jars Mother prepared for him? 2. The Toilets in Dreams: If you fall asleep while desperate to pee, you’ve surely dreamed of all kinds of toilets. If you write down the toilets you see in your dreams, 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 The Super Spooky Classroom 超级惊悚教室 At a certain high school, an ordinary afternoon was supposed to mean nothing more than a routine chemistry lesson. No one could have imagined that a terrifying disaster would begin there, and that our lives would never be peaceful again. 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 Messenger of the Underworld 冥界使者 After graduating from college, I hoped to find a good job, but ended up delivering packages. Then one day, I received a mysterious delivery slip, and my life changed completely. 34Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 28 A Dream of Brocade, A Heart of Rippling Waters 锦梦澜心 Life is like the pages of a book, turning gently. Sometimes it overflows with sunshine, and sometimes dark clouds gather. But that is what makes the good things all the more precious. Pay attention, and you’ll find surprises hidden everywhere in life. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 A Notebook of Ghost Stories 鬼故事手札 A Notebook of Ghost Stories 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 This 24-Hour Convenience Store Uses the Living as Shopping Baskets 这家24小时便利店，用活人抵购物篮 This 24-Hour Convenience Store Uses Living People as Shopping Baskets 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 Grandpa Started the Trouble, Three Generations Must Pay 爷爷闯下的祸，三代来还 The trouble Grandpa caused will take three generations to repay. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 Heirloom Bones: Blood Sacrifice at Yinshan 嗣骨：荫山血祭 (Not recommended for the fainthearted or anyone alone late at night) Li Ming returns to his hometown for a funeral, but the moment he steps into Yinshan Village, everything feels uncanny. Strange noises echo from inside the coffin day and night, while dark red patterns appear beneath his skin and writhe like living things. The ancient well that sustains the village churns with ominous black sludge. Deep within the ancestral hall, inhuman drumbeats and indescribable ancient whispers resound day a 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 Night Shift Security Guard Wanted: Must Be Able to Find the Extra Building That Appears at Dawn 招聘夜班保安，要求能找到凌晨多出的那栋楼 Night-shift security guard wanted. Must be able to find the extra building that appears at midnight. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 The Campus Curse: A Register of Corpse-Subduing Spells 校园诡咒镇尸簿 (No romance + an unusual team-up to catch ghosts) On what seemed like an ordinary night, four girls in a dormitory started playing with a spirit board. But that very night, horror quietly descended... Was it a collapse of morality, or a distortion of human nature? Follow this unusual team as they solve the mystery. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 Ghostly Tales from Fengdu 丰都鬼事 In her previous life, young artist Lin Wan set out alone for the fabled ghost city of Fengdu to search for her missing older sister, Lin Zhixia. Naively, she trusted the seemingly kind innkeeper and local gentry, unaware that she had stepped into a carefully laid trap. Coveted for her yin constitution, she was ultimately sacrificed in an old mansion behind Fengdu's famous mountain by the so-called “good Samaritans” to a traitor in the underworld who had disguised himself as Black Impermanence. H 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 The Yin-Yang Twin 阴阳双生人 [Mild Horror + The Supernatural] Ming Ye grew up living in a cemetery. Her parents went missing seven years ago and were eventually found dead under bizarre circumstances in the mountains. Seven years later, she became an emergency room doctor. One midnight, she met the Taoist priest Xu Baoyang on a bus as he was out catching ghosts. Later, while tracking clues about his missing master, Xu Baoyang came to the hospital where Ming Ye worked and discovered that a strange hospital orderly had set up 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 My Husband Sacrificed Me to a Freezer, Saying It Was the Night-Shift Rule 丈夫把我献祭给冰柜，说这是夜班规则 My Husband Sacrificed Me to the Freezer, Saying It Was the Night Shift Rules 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 I Was Putting Makeup on an Unknown Female Corpse When She Revealed the Cause of My Sister's Death 我给无名女尸化妆，她却说出我妹妹的死因 I Put Makeup on an Unidentified Woman's Corpse, and She Told Me How My Sister Died 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 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!” 99Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 The Child's Haunting 童诡 Mystery | Horror | Hidden Chen Shuyang was overjoyed to move in with his girlfriend, Bai Lu. But as they spent day after day together, he gradually discovered her many strange quirks, from bizarre tastes in food to abnormal behavior. Little by little, he uncovered the terrifying secret she was hiding. 569Reads8.0Score113Shelves
- 41 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—Shelves
- 42 Curse of Resentment 怨咒 I went out with a few friends to take care of some business and witnessed a series of strange events. That night, I dreamed of meeting a beautiful girl. When I woke up, I discovered that the drunk girl from the night before had died outside my door... 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 Escape from the Bear’s Jaws 熊口逃生 Escape from the Bear’s Jaws 1.1kReads—Score—Shelves
- 44 The Strange Taoist 怪道士 My name is Niu Dabao, and I’m the only college graduate in Niu Village. I thought that after graduating, I’d get promoted, earn a higher salary, marry a beautiful, wealthy woman, and reach the pinnacle of life. Who could have guessed the company would go bankrupt and the boss would kill himself? I didn’t get a single cent of my wages, and I couldn’t even afford rent, so I slept at the train station every day! A shabbily dressed Taoist priest told me I was plagued by bad luck and haunted by a hun 1.9kReads8.4Score136Shelves
- 45 The Bus at 4 A.M. 凌晨4点的公交车 At dawn in the university town, there’s a bus with no listed schedule. The passengers aboard have all been dead for a long time~! That day, I boarded that bus. This is where the story began... —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 Paper Figures Knock at the Door: No Living People Allowed 纸人敲门，活人勿进 The father who came back with a corpse died yesterday. The old man who came to report a death was made of paper. My childhood sweetheart, Fang Ting, kept watch with me. At dawn, she was gone too. Suona horns blared outside. Her father held up her memorial portrait and said she had died at eight o'clock last night. So what was the thing in my bed last night? And now, evil beings from a hundred li in every direction are heading for my home. 7.2kReads7.1Score707Shelves
- 47 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 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 The Haunted Old Mansion 恐怖老宅 The living guard the yang, while ghosts hold the yin in check. Yin and yang are inseparable, and nothing is forbidden. In this world, everyone is either human or ghost, yin or yang. But there are people who walk between the two realms all year round, neither human nor ghost. They are the Yin-Yang House Guardians! 54Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 49 Opening the Sparrow Gate 开雀门 While my mother was carrying me, I was sitting upright in her womb. The doctors all said the birth would be difficult, but my grandmother traded my life to a spirit messenger. My Xuanwu even went so far as to strip off his skin and bones for me! My relatives sought out one master after another to protect me, but sadly, they all said the good fortune I was born with was nowhere near enough to keep me alive. If I wanted to survive, I had no choice but to embark on the path of cultivation. From Sha 34Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 50 The Corpse Mother 尸母 Every year on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, a lantern made of human skin appears in the mass grave on Shiping Mountain. A little girl carrying a skull follows behind it at a leisurely pace. The girl is named Qiyue. Born with a corpse-bound yin fate, she has spent her life searching for the truth about her Corpse Mother’s past. When all the evidence points to a mysterious ghost village...! 67Reads6.9Score—Shelves
