Novels like The Lu Ban Book
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Lu Ban Book, best match first.
- 151 The Maoshan Secret Arts Passed Down in My Family Changed My Life 祖传的茅山秘术改变了我的一生 He grew up with his grandfather. When his grandfather died in the boy's seventh year, a twist of fate led him to discover a book his grandfather had left behind: The Secret Arts of Maoshan. From then on, the course of his life changed... 982Reads—Score105Shelves
- 152 The Ghost-Catching Taoist Master 捉鬼天师 To build a road, the village assigned me and a few others to demolish a grave. Everyone died, but I survived. I’m the only one who knows why... 56Reads—Score—Shelves
- 153 The Girl Born of a Corpse with a Yin Fate 尸生阴命女 On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, a human-skin lantern appears at the mass grave on Shiping Mountain. A little girl cradles a skull and slowly follows behind the lantern. The girl is called Qiyue. Born from a corpse and destined to live among the dead, she grows up determined to uncover the truth about her corpse-mother’s origins. When all the clues point to a mysterious ghost village...! 1.6kReads8.6Score189Shelves
- 154 Eerie Revival: I Became Invincible by Making a Pact with a Ghost Bride 诡异复苏：我与鬼新娘契约无敌 [Urban legends] [Mystery] [Ghost-wife ally] [Reborn] [Transmigration] [Urban fantasy] [Another World] [Traditional cultivation] I transmigrated to the Northern Song Dynasty as a sickly young Taoist, only to find a thousand-year-old tree demon blocking my door from the start. My master bound me to a spiritual soulmate in a desperate attempt to save us both. The result? A temperamental, absurdly powerful, tsundere and yandere Red Fiend Ghost Queen. Jia Tianzhen was livestreaming his own death-def 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 155 Soulbeast Sales Manual [Infinite] 魂魄兽卖准则【无限】 When a soul on the verge of fading enters a horror game, clearing it isn’t about Survival. It’s about auctioning off whatever humanity you have left. Yan Sheng is a second-year college student obsessed with horror novels. He was arrested for murdering someone in a way inspired by a novel and thrown into the game. Everyone pulled into this game has lost their physical bodies. They are called “souls” and refer to themselves as “players.” Rather than a game about players fighting players, it’s more 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 156 Folk Secret Spells 民间秘咒 [This book presents the classical Chinese text alongside its translation, for the appreciation of all fellow enthusiasts.] …The folk secret incantation, also known as “The Thirteen Ancient Moxibustion Incantations,” is said to have been entrusted by Patriarch Chen Tuan to a guardian in his final moments. After escaping danger, the guardian searched for someone to pass it on to, but found no one. The sole surviving copy was later kept by the Jiang family of Donglai. During the compilation of the 235Reads—Score189Shelves
- 157 The Corpse of a Mountain Village Woman 山村女尸 [Feel-Good Read + Urban + Suspense + Supernatural] He Xi is an ordinary security guard. One day, the west gate of Chaoxi Psychiatric Hospital desperately needs a guard. The pay is 30,000 yuan a month, but nobody dares take the job! Nobody else dares, but He Xi does! Only after arriving does he realize something is wrong. The west gate isn’t meant for people to pass through at all. It’s a gate for ghosts! 7.4kReads7.7Score341Shelves
- 158 Fifth Watch 五更 The stories my grandpa used to tell me were probably meant to scare me into staying put, or maybe to lull me to sleep. He always told them with such conviction and vivid detail that I often found myself dreaming of the very scenes he had lived through. I met the old flower-growing woman on Yinshan Mountain, and one villager after another from Sangen Village. Their faces were gloomy and strange, and their deeds served as a warning, reminding us that “the gods are watching from three feet above yo 728Reads7.2Score100Shelves
- 159 Classroom of Despair 绝望教室 What began as a prank voting game set off a string of tragedies. One classmate after another died, yet the voting continued. I knew that maybe I would be the next one to die… 671Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 160 Old Tales of the Dead Village 死人村旧事 Chen Ergou holds a stalk of grass and gently pokes at the paper money still smoldering in front of him. Behind him, a dense crowd of “people” from the village and beyond stands packed together... Hanwa, his belly slit open and his tongue hanging down to his chest; Sufen, naked, with raw flesh exposed; the Fat Taoist, whose limbs and head are covered with tightly packed stitches at the joints; Tian Da, his body stiff, a walking stick jutting from his wide-open mouth; Xiao Zhao, pale-faced and dri 185Reads8.4Score109Shelves
- 161 Rule Horror: The Last One to Leave the Classroom After Evening Study 规则怪谈：晚自习最后离开教室的人 Rule Horror: The Last Person to Leave the Classroom After Evening Study 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 162 The Secrets of Qimen Fengshui 奇门风水秘术 Li Dingfeng learns his family's ancestral art of feng shui, mastering both landform and qi analysis. At a glance, he can read the terrain and water; with a gesture, he can tell fortune from misfortune. He only wants to live in peace, but one strange incident after another finds him, from the harmful influence of a shop's sharp corner to a sinister formation haunting an old family home. As one mysterious feng shui case after another comes to light, grudges buried for years resurface. He journeys 7.8kReads8.7Score675Shelves
- 163 Death on Delivery 死亡外卖 Never try to save money when ordering takeout! After ordering a meal that wasn't clean, strange events keep happening, and his coworkers begin dying one by one. Some takeout costs you money. Some takeout costs you your life. My other completed novel, The Hell Company, is over a million words long. Come check it out, dear readers~~ 2.4kReads8.7Score225Shelves
- 164 Death Began at School 死亡从学校开始了 Ghosts are the product of an imbalance between yin and yang. In this vast world, people are all different in character, and their souls are just as varied after death. The virtuous return to pure lands and enjoy the blessings of the afterlife; the wicked and violent turn into vengeful spirits, their resentment gathering until it takes the form of a ghost. These specters wander between yin and yang, but most conceal their forms and rarely appear before the living. [No cultivation, no System, no h 307Reads—Score—Shelves
- 165 A Feng Shui Master Born in the 1990s 90后风水师 One glance tells you who is destined for riches. Two reveal who will live or die. After realizing that the goddess was doomed to disaster, Li Shiyi embarked on a road of death from which there was no turning back. 282Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 166 Living Next Door to Ghosts 与鬼为邻 After losing his job, he rented an apartment and thought he was starting a new life. He never expected ghosts to knock on his door in the middle of the night, only to discover that all his neighbors were ghosts. He wanted to leave, but faced a hefty penalty for breaking his lease. With no other choice, he decided to make the best of it. 14.8kReads8.6Score1.1kShelves
- 167 Global Haunting: I Became the Last City God 全球诡异入侵：我成了末代城隍 Rifts in the Nether Ruins tear reality apart, and demons from another realm descend. Awakened scientists shoulder guns and cannons, while practitioners of ancient arts emerge from seclusion with swords in hand. And I, Chen Mo, will revive the ancient traditions of western Hunan. At the Sunken Mausoleum's underwater palace, I slay a giant alligator with my sword and seize its water-fiend pearl. At the summit of Huping Mountain, I summon the Tang dynasty's Mountain-Quelling Sword and destroy the 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 168 The Art of White Sorcery 白相术 Thieves Have Their Code Three tales: "The Art of White Magic," "A Thousand Killings," and "The Ultimate Thief" Two stories retold: "Bajie" and "Wukong" "The Art of White Magic": Even underhanded methods can save lives, and even righteous justice can kill. "A Thousand Killings": In old Shanghai, there were once four master pickpockets. Some speculate they may all have been aliases of the same person. "The Ultimate Thief": The pinnacle of thievery, and a game of wits between people. "Bajie": D 1.3kReads9.3Score267Shelves
- 169 The Maoshan Coffin-Raiser 茅山升棺人 From the moment I was born, someone secretly plotted against me, making my mother give birth prematurely and changing my birth date. My birth chart clashed with my parents' fates, and they both died on the very day I was born. I vowed to find the culprit, and in time became a Maoshan coffin-raiser! Coffin-raising is the practice of relocating graves. After death, people should be buried in a place with good feng shui to protect their descendants. But some ancestors are buried in malevolent place 1.2kReads9.0Score101Shelves
- 170 I Asked You to Write a Horror Play, So Why Did You Have to Add a Deity? 让你写诡剧，您非要往里加神人？ He Mo has always believed that eerie plays, with their dark, disturbing themes and wall-to-wall negativity, are bound to drive actors to a mental breakdown if they perform in them for too long. So he insists on adding a few absurd characters and comic plotlines to lighten things up. The more the theater objects, the more it proves he's doing the right thing. It shows that he's exposed the theater's intention to torment its actors through eerie plays. The more the actors object, the more it prove 329Reads—Score—Shelves
- 171 My Master Gave Me a Car for Investigating the Supernatural 师父传我一辆看事儿车 A thousand-year-old van? Built by hand from scratch [Traditional horror]➕ [Even more immersive as an audiobook]➕ [Uncovering the truth about my origins] Greetings, dear readers! [Traditional supernatural horror, primal fear] The original experience of horror is the fear a person feels when experiencing it firsthand. [First person, highly atmospheric] Give me a chance to tell this story from my own point of view. [Uncovering the truth about my origins] Along the way, I met many people. “The gates 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 172 An Unmarked Lonely Grave 无名孤坟 My grandfather buried my mother by our front door. Every night after that, a woman would stand outside our house... 1.2kReads8.8Score101Shelves
- 173 The Coffin Bearer 抬棺匠 My family has dealt with the dead for generations. Following in my father’s footsteps, I became a coffin bearer. Before carrying a coffin, I always offer the deceased five incense sticks. When offering incense to the living, three long sticks and two short ones are taboo. When offering incense to the dead, three short sticks and two long ones are taboo. That day, I carried a coffin, and the dead pregnant woman inside gave birth to a pair of twins, a boy and a girl! [Shh, keep quiet! We’re settin 2.9kReads8.3Score194Shelves
- 174 The Corpse Keeper 守尸人 The morgue is where life and death meet. At this boundary, there are many taboos to heed. I grew up beside a hospital morgue, and I'll tell you about the hospital's taboos from a different perspective. Taboo 1: If you see a patient being resuscitated, don't gather around to watch. Taboo 2: If a patient's family throws away something the deceased used while alive, don't toss your own trash on top of it. Taboo 3: If you hear a cat meowing at night, don't go outside to look, whether you're a patien 917Reads6.3Score100Shelves
- 175 The Coffin Walks at Night 灵棺夜行 I was carrying a coffin up the mountain for a burial when they stuffed me inside and buried me alive. Then, in a single night, all three hundred or so people in the village vanished. Only at night was the place alive with voices. I crawled out of the coffin, only to discover... 5.8kReads8.2Score366Shelves
- 176 Stealing Faces 偷脸 One day, a stranger added me on QQ and told me my girlfriend was a man. I called him an idiot. Then my girlfriend died, and when she died, she really did become a man. Her head had been cut off and sewn onto the neck of a male corpse... 225Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 177 Ghost Doctor with the Heavenly Eye 天眼鬼医 Lin Zifeng is swindled out of the 300,000 yuan meant to pay for his younger sister’s medical treatment by his girlfriend, who is obsessed with supporting her younger brother. Desperate, he unexpectedly awakens the legacy of his past life and gains three inheritances: the Heavenly Eye that sees through all things, the Ghost Gate Divine Doctor, and the Ultimate Martial Saint. Everyone who bullied me will end up beneath my feet. 11.8kReads8.7Score1.3kShelves
- 178 Supernatural Powers Invade: The Throne of White Mist 异能入侵：白雾王座 This is a mysterious world with a Cthulhu-inspired style. For a detailed introduction to the book’s style, Tomato readers can check the pinned review. Earth, a world of science and technology, is under attack from mysterious otherworldly planes. Shen, Kun, Leviathan, the Black Mountain Demon, the White-Bone Demon, the Hellhound, the Four Sacred Beasts… Creatures from all kinds of myths and legends are appearing one after another. Mu Chen, resurrected from the dead, unexpectedly gains a System an 299Reads7.3Score103Shelves
- 179 Terrifying Folklore: It Begins with the Weasel Spirit 恐怖民俗：从黄皮子开始 The day I was born, I bore the burden of the Five Ghosts, and my soul was bound. I was destined to die, but my grandfather used an evil folk ritual to borrow a life for me. When I was twelve, weasels surrounded the village. They told me the life I'd borrowed had to be repaid... 100Reads9.0Score—Shelves
- 180 Raising a Fox as My Wife II 养狐为妻Ⅱ I am a jinx, born under an ill omen. To keep me alive, my grandfather arranged an extraordinary betrothal for me when I was a child… 293Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 181 The Dead: Samsara Sacrifice Game 死者：轮回祭杀游戏 [Twists and Deception + Squid Game + Class Division] (Short title: Dead Man's Game. A first full-length novel packed with thrilling battles of wits. Watch the protagonist turn the tables.) “How can there be fairness in the six paths of reincarnation? Ordinary people are nothing but playthings of the Grim Reaper. The end of life is set from birth, and death is already decided.” 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 182 One Horror a Day 一天一个惊悚 One terrifying tale every day, and a different world each time. Just because you haven't seen it from in front of your phone doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Enough chatter. See you in the book, everyone. 9Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 183 I Won’t Survive the Night 活不过今夜 At some point, a strange old beggar showed up in our neighborhood. The strange thing was, he never spent the money people gave him. He’d burn it or destroy it instead. Then one day, the woman downstairs was burned to death, and the butcher was brutally murdered. That was when I finally realized the truth. He wasn’t begging for money. He was begging for lives! 1.1kReads8.2Score102Shelves
- 184 Anomaly Containment: Why Am I Already on the Containment List? 异常收容：怎么我先上收容名单了 [Supernatural + military. No clichés, no invincibility, no System, no transmigration, no face-slapping.] Midnight square dancing, ghost monks offering living sacrifices, corpse puppets performing ghost operas... This world is full of anomalies! My name is Xu Fei, and I've had an exceptionally stable mind since childhood. A pack of cigarettes gave me the ability to block evil spirits from sensing me. With the nation and my teammates at my back, I do everything I can to uncover the truth behind th 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 185 Heir to the Five Arts 五术传人 All the arts of divination under heaven fall into five branches. They are: Mountain, Medicine, Destiny, Divination, and Physiognomy. More specifically, they include magic, talismans and incantations, the Four Pillars of Destiny, Zi Wei Dou Shu, Qi Men Dun Jia, feng shui based on the principles of qi, face reading, bone reading, and more... Our Wei clan is the guiding principle behind all five arts. The five arts encompass everything and seize the workings of Heaven. Thus, only those blessed with 1.7kReads8.3Score171Shelves
- 186 The Grave Relocation Master 迁坟师 You've heard of yin-yang masters, fortune-tellers, and feng shui masters. But have you ever heard of a grave relocation master? Do you know how relocating a grave can affect the deceased's descendants? My name is Chen An, and I'm a grave relocation master. I've spent my whole life dealing with graves and bones. I've seen clients strike it rich after relocating a grave. I've seen clients rise to high office after relocating a grave. I've also seen clients whose entire clan died out after relocati 10.5kReads9.0Score911Shelves
- 187 The Nightmare Kingdom, Where the Flesh Mutates 亘梦诡国，肉身畸变 [Supernatural]+ [Sanity Plummets]+ [Fantasy What-If]+ [Cthulhu]+ [Horror Folklore]+ [Transmigration]+ [Feel-Good Power Fantasy]+ [Fresh and Original] I hope more people will stop by and give me the motivation to update with 4,000+ words every day. The first instance may not be that interesting, so I recommend skipping ahead a dozen or so chapters before reading. Give the author a little patience and keep reading. The story won't disappoint you. You may find yourself wondering whether fate really 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 188 The Madman Special Cases Unit 疯子特案 [Four lunatics, solving cases that expose the darkest sides of human nature] My name is Lu Chenyuan, and I lead Special Case Unit Four. All four people on my team are lunatics… Forensic pathologist Su Lianxin saw her father murder her mother when she was seven. Since then, she has trusted only the dead. Technical specialist Jiang Su made a mistake that wrongfully condemned an innocent person. He swore he would never make another mistake for as long as he lived. Criminal profiler Wen Jin was on 513Reads—Score100Shelves
- 189 The Six Lines: Principles of Hexagram Divination 六爻卦理篇 This book focuses on a detailed discussion of the principles behind Six Yao divination. In simple, accessible language, it uses a wealth of practical hexagram examples to analyze how these principles are applied in actual Six Yao divination. It offers everyone who enjoys or wants to learn Six Yao divination a faster and easier way to master this art. 389Reads—Score114Shelves
- 190 Carrying the Dragon Coffin 抬龙棺 The First Emperor's coffin was called the Dragon Coffin. By rights, everyone who carried the Dragon Coffin should have been buried alive with him. But my ancestor somehow escaped. Was the elixir of immortality really just a legend? And where did Xu Fu go after sailing east? My ancestor was the only person who knew the secret of Qin Shi Huang's mausoleum... 2.9kReads8.5Score297Shelves
- 191 The Classroom of Death 死亡教室 When you receive a strange letter of admission, you have set foot on a road of no return. No one can escape! At this university of death, the moment your name appears in bloody letters on the classroom blackboard, class has begun. And once class begins, you will enter an unknown world of terror, where you must face bizarre and horrifying ghosts. They will be everywhere, coming to claim your life. Even if you are lucky enough to survive that deadly class and return to the classroom, you will stil 1.9kReads7.1Score111Shelves
- 192 The Soul-Returning Soup 还魂汤 I was born in a remote village. The day my mother gave birth to me, she died a horrible death! I was born disabled, missing an arm, and with a red birthmark shaped like a coiled snake on my foot. My master said I had been cursed by an evil spirit, and that the curse could only be lifted if I found the one who cast it. Otherwise, I wouldn’t live to see twenty... 83Reads—Score—Shelves
- 193 Soul Reaper 收魂人 To stay alive, I had no choice but to marry a two-headed monster. But I never expected her to be a Rakshasa with two souls. My fate was utterly transformed, and I embarked on a perilous path full of thorns, surrounded by demons and spirits... 765Reads7.2Score116Shelves
- 194 The Yin-Walking Incense Master 走阴女香师 Ever since I can remember, there has been a paper doll on my bed every night. With straight bangs and a bob, a pale face with rosy cheeks, a round face and almond-shaped eyes, it was clearly made to look just like me. As I slowly grew up, the paper doll “grew up” too… 318Reads9.0Score105Shelves
- 195 A Divination Handbook for the I Ching 周易占卜手册 The Handbook of Zhouyi Divination focuses primarily on the principles of the Changes. It brings together the original text of the Zhouyi, the Tuan commentary, and the Xiang commentary, translating them into plain, accessible language. Whether you practice divination or want to explore the principles of the Changes, this book can serve as an introduction. Diviners can consult its contents to solve their questions. 109Reads—Score—Shelves
- 196 I’ll Take the Creepy Stuff, and the Money Too 诡异我笑纳了，钱我也笑纳了 [Horror dungeons + livestreaming + supernatural invasion + occult arts + transmigration + two strong leads + both each other's first and only + infinite-flow] (The rating just came out. No idea if it'll go up from here ◉‿◉) Li Yang died suddenly after staying up all night drawing talismans. When she woke up again, a monster was dragging her toward its lair, and a children's watch had appeared on her wrist. [Huh? She died just like that?] [No way, did someone really get killed by a little nobody 4.8kReads8.6Score1.1kShelves
- 197 Forty-Eight Taoist Spells and Techniques 道家咒术四十八法 In Taoism, spellcasting is a form of ritual magic that invokes deities through incantations or curses ghosts and demons. It is believed to establish communication with the Celestial Emperor and command spirits, driving away evil, averting calamities, and turning misfortune into good fortune. 2.3kReads6.6Score619Shelves
- 198 Rule Horror: Don't Look Back During 72 Hours in the Dorm 规则怪谈：宿舍72小时不要回头 A word of warning: this is terrifying, so timid readers beware. (No female lead, no cheats, no romance, game instances, infinite flow, horror, mystery) Eight university students who returned to campus early found a mysterious sheet of rules in their empty dormitory building: Rule One: No matter what strange “person” you see, don’t cry out or scream. Rule Two: No matter who calls you from behind, don’t turn around or answer. Rule Three: One of you is an impostor who will eat people in the middle 4.6kReads6.0Score386Shelves
- 199 A Young Feng Shui Master Betrothed to a White Tiger at Birth 少年风水师，出生就和白虎定亲 At the Human Skin Inn, a hundred ghosts carry a coffin. A yin corpse borrows a life. A demon child lies hidden in a Buddhist womb… From the moment I was born, my father pledged his life to arrange my engagement to a White Tiger. Because of that, I embarked on a little-known path… 5.9kReads9.2Score541Shelves
- 200 The Haunted Shroud 诡寿衣 My family sells burial clothes. Every seven days, a woman comes to order a set. Only at the end did I discover she had been ordering burial clothes for all four members of my family. 1.1kReads8.8Score117Shelves
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