Novels like The Haunted Coffin
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Haunted Coffin, best match first.
- 1 Ghosts Lurk in the Shadows 冥冥有鬼 A young man with an unusual fate is struck in the chest with three Yin nails by an attacker, and from then on, evil entities begin to haunt him. The ghost of a recently deceased old woman possesses him to seek justice, while a beautiful woman in red who died an untimely death comes after him for his life in the dead of night. Fortunately, a mysterious old man comes to his aid. In the unseen workings of fate, good and evil are repaid in kind. Watch as he confronts the supernatural evils of the wo 18Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Chronicles of the Village Yin 乡阴纪事 Everyone in the village avoids me, saying my birth chart is yin and that I attract evil spirits. The dead come to collect their debts, paper effigies take people's places, and one strange thing after another happens in the countryside. Later, I discover that every one of these incidents is connected to a door inside my body. Something has been locked behind it for over a decade. It's waking up... Someone wants to seal it for ten years using one of my eyes. When the seal fails ten years from now, —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 The Old Corpse Slaughters a Village 老僵屠村 The Old Jiangshi Slaughters a Village 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Building 4, Happiness Garden: Residents' Rules 幸福花园4栋住户公约 Resident Rules for Building 4 at Happiness Garden 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 The Graveyard's Ghostly Wails 鬼哭坟 On the seventh night after Grandma's death, I was forced to keep vigil beside her grave. Half asleep, I heard scratching against the coffin from beneath the earth. Terrified, I ran home, only to find Grandma sitting on the kang, smiling at me. “Good grandson, Grandma forgot to put on her shoes. My feet are cold.” 743Reads—Score100Shelves
- 6 My Best Friend Gave Birth to a Monster, and Now the Child Clings to Me as Its Mom 闺蜜产鬼子，小孩却缠上我当妈妈 My best friend gave birth to a little demon, but the child clung to me and called me Mommy —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Terror in the Desolate Village 荒村惊魂 I entered a village inhabited entirely by women. I thought I’d found a man’s paradise, but after a series of bizarre events, I realized things weren’t so simple… 168Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 8 The Recipient After Death 死后收件人 I'm a courier for a residential complex. Since last month, I've been receiving packages addressed to the dead. An empty apartment building, recipients whose accounts were closed long ago, parcels that no one ever claims. The property manager says I'm seeing things. My coworkers say I've been cursed. The police checked every security camera, but say everything looks normal. That is, until I opened the first package for a dead person. Inside was only a note: [You're next.] 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 A Collection of Rural Horror and Strange Tales 农村恐怖诡异故事集 This book is mainly about ghosts, monsters, horror, and folk practices involving Taoist priests, spirit mediums, and the like. Readers who scare easily, beware. There are also some hilarious exchanges in the story. I hope it brings you readers plenty of joy. 219Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 Half a Lifetime on the Uncanny Path 我的诡道半生 Ghosts and monsters are fierce and savage, demanding lives in the dead of night and bringing sinister forces into people’s homes, terrifying all who encounter them. With talismans in hand and sword at my side, I wield the righteous energy of heaven and earth to slay demons and drive out evil. “The Mysterious Ancestor of Heaven and Earth, root of all qi, let golden light appear swiftly and shield my body. Let evil spirits retreat and disperse. By the authority of the law, obey at once!” With the 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 I'm a Teacher in Outer Space 我在外太空，当老师 Most people have no idea that Yin Temples exist. Jing Wuming, a Yin Envoy, guards this temple, born from evil thoughts. Countless wronged souls come here to recount the grievances they were unable to voice in life. One sealed murder case after another slowly comes to light. Bones hidden in chandeliers, resentful souls trapped in mirrors, and evil things spawned by malice roam the grounds. The truth of this world can be hard to find, but karma never fails to come calling. Sow evil, and you will r 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Eerie Descent: My Haunted House Terrifies the World 诡异降临：我的恐怖屋吓哭全球 (The rating has just come out and will rise) [National Fate] [Chinese-style horror] [Global livestream] [Original scenarios] Lin Buyu, Earth’s greatest supernatural-fiction writer and the undisputed master of horror fiction, transmigrates to Blue Star, a parallel world where a bizarre game has descended. On Blue Star, countries design different haunted houses to challenge one another. The winners earn National Fate rewards for their countries and, once a challenge is over, gain control of the b 28.5kReads8.2Score4.4kShelves
- 13 You Want Me to Catch Ghosts? 你让我去抓鬼？ My name is Lin Fan. I'm twenty-two, and I graduated with a college diploma in marketing. While other graduates had job offers in hand and were charging ahead, I graduated straight into a pit of misery. I was two months behind on rent, my pockets were emptier than my face was clean, and my only possession was a beat-up electric scooter that clanked at the slightest touch and looked ready to fall apart at any moment. Five yuan per delivery. I raced around in the wind and sun, but I couldn't plug t 41Reads—Score215Shelves
- 14 Tomato-Braised Beef Brisket's 91st Book 番茄炒牛腩第91本书 Grave robber Hu Bayi comes across a mysterious compass and uncovers the astonishing secret of the Nine Dragon Coffins: nine dragon coffins suppress an ancient evil and conceal the mystery of immortality. He and Wang Pangzi, Da Jinya, and Hu Liyang venture deep into the perilous Qinling Mountains, where they encounter blood corpses rising from the dead and ghost ships hunting for lives. When the dragon patterns on a bronze coffin open their eyes, they realize this tomb-robbing expedition is actua 90Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 15 The Midnight Spirit Medium 午夜问米人 Before my grandfather died, he handed me a bag of moldy rice and said that our family had been asking rice questions for three generations, but the tradition had to end with me. I asked why. He only said, “Because some things, once you ask about them, you can never come back.” I didn't listen. I took the bag of rice. On my first night asking the rice, I asked about Liu, the widow who had hanged herself at the end of the alley three years ago. The rice spun three times in the bowl, then stood 74Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 The Dragon-Locking Well: Snakebone Town 锁龙井：蛇骨镇 The Dragon-Locking Well: Snakebone Town —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 Judge of the Living: I Awaken the Book of Life and Death from the Start 人间判官：开局觉醒生死簿 The Human Judge: Urban High Martial Arts + Mystery + Underworld Conspiracy The Ten Yama Kings [King Qinguang (Mirror), King Chujiang (Cold), King Songdi (Rope), King Wuguan (Abacus), King Yanluo (Summon), King Biancheng (City), King Taishan (Grind), King Dushi (Anger), King Pingdeng (Interval), King Zhuanlun (Wheel)] + Book of Life and Death + Judge’s Brush [Sin-Mirror Heavenly Judgment, Mystic Ice Dragon Edict, Netherworld Heavenly Constitution, Jun-Tian Calculating Ruler, Nine Hells Imperial J 7Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 18 The Haunted Hotel 恐怖酒店 I used to be an ordinary hotel sleep tester. Then one day I spent the night at a hotel where someone had died, and my life was never peaceful again. Every night, I have erotic dreams with female ghosts... 176Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 Mount Yin of the Forsaken: Raising Fiends in Coffin Mountain, Commanding the Underworld Winds 绝户阴山：棺山养煞，我掌阴间风 My name is Chen Jiu, and I was born in Juehu Yin Mountain. After my grandfather died, I became the new guardian of the Coffin Mountain, raising evil spirits. With a whole repertoire of feng shui secrets and a peachwood sword, I slay the Yellow Immortal, seal yin coffins, venture into ancient tombs, and break deadly curses. Everyone in the village fears me, curses me, and wants me gone. Only my brother Gou Sheng dares to risk his life alongside me. When evil spirits come, I’ll slaughter them un —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 I'm Not a Birdman 我不是鸟人 During my final days in the psychiatric hospital, a few of my friends died. I learned a secret, and I was granted a brief stretch of lucidity. This is a story with nothing to do with humanity’s future, the origin of the universe, past and present lives, or the mysteries of science. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 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… 4.4kReads8.4Score326Shelves
- 22 Crossing the Calamity in Seven Days 七日渡厄 My name is Lin Ye. I’m a struggling author who makes a living writing rule-based horror stories. Then I receive an anonymous email. It contains nothing but a yellowed Republican-era theater ticket and a single line: “Come to the Du’e Theater within seven days, or the ‘rules’ you write will become the way you die.” The moment I step into the theater, time across the entire city begins looping in seven-day cycles. I wrote, “Don’t look in the mirror at midnight,” and the next day someone sees th 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 Cold Case Pursuit: The Workplace Abyss and the Silver-Haired Trap 悬案追凶：职场深渊与银发陷阱 The fatal fall from the rooftop wasn't suicide. Workplace bullying was just a cover! I, Lin Yan, a criminal investigation team captain, uncovered the truth: a 500,000-yuan loan, deleted surveillance footage, nursing-home residents, and exploited workers were all pawns in a silver-haired scam syndicate's scheme to rake in money! The mastermind not only controls the fraud network, but also has powerful protectors who can cover the whole sky... I take on the cover-up head-on and tear down those pro —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 A Collection of Short Supernatural Stories 灵异故事短篇集 A series of three-person adventures beginning with Chapter 1245. Each chapter is a standalone story, blending folk customs, urban legends, horror, suspense, and comedy. The six protagonists each have distinct personalities, taking you between terrifying thrills and lighthearted fun. Hope you enjoy! 161Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 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
- 26 Hounded by a Thousand Evils: Keep Your Distance 万邪缠身：生人勿近 The Exorcist Pavilion sits at the corner of an old alley. Ordinary people are not welcome, and it only takes cases involving people plagued by evil spirits. A red-clad ghost in an ancient well, a legless woman in an elevator, a slit wrist in the mirror, sobbing in a karaoke room, a bloody birth chart in a wardrobe, a shadow in the break room... Miaojiang gu sorcery, corpse-driving Taoists, and Nanyang black magic all take turns appearing. Jiang Xun: As long as you can pay the price, I'll snatch —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 I Asked If You Wanted Kids, and You Called Me a Human Trafficker 问你要不要孩子，你说我是人贩子 “Big Bro, the food at the police station really is the best. We haven't had a meal this good in ages.” “If the food's so good, why didn't you eat more? You only managed half a pig, three sacks of rice, and ten bundles of noodles before you were full. You're useless!” “That's not our fault! Since we started following you, our stomachs have shrunk. Besides, their cafeteria's gone now, isn't it?” “So now that's my fault?” “Big Bro, where are we going to score some free food tomorrow? How about 729Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 28 The Hundred Venerables Record: Tales of Another Day 百崇录：异日谈 A sealed ancient scroll has come to light once more: "The Hundred Abominations: Tales of Strange Days". Its faded, uncanny writing: written in blood? Annotated in tears? No one can say. All that remains are over a hundred strange accounts, each word sinking into the bone, all told by the “ill omens” lurking among humankind. Some nest in the dark corners of people's hearts, watching for greed; some lie in the shadows of the streets, drinking in sobs; others haunt desolate wilderness and ancient h —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 Supernatural: Devouring Red Flesh 灵异【啖红肉】 My name is Xiang Sanpi. I was born in a village where people eat people. When I was eight, my father killed our entire family. After that, I studied Taoist arts of yin and yang under my master, specializing in strange and supernatural cases… Note: Believe in science. No feudal superstition. 13Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 30 Sun Pupil, Moonless Night: I Know the End from the Start! 日瞳月晦：开局我已知晓终末！ [Supernatural] ~ [Mystery] ~ [Mind Games] ~ [Plot Twists] ~ [No Idiot Plots] The first time was at a casino. I won every last chip in the place, but I couldn’t escape the strange curse that clung to me. Luckily, when I woke up, the game hadn’t started yet. The second time, death came calling at midnight. The rules offered no way out. I watched the skin being peeled from my body inch by inch, helpless to stop it. The nightmare wouldn’t go away. The third time, the fourth time... Death played out 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 My Dead Wife Returns on Our Wedding Night 亡妻归来新婚夜 My Late Wife Returns on Our Wedding Night 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 I Heard of Strange Things That Year: Never Read This Late at Night 那年听闻怪事，千万别深夜翻看 These stories are adapted and fictionalized from various experiences shared by friends. They are written in an accessible style and make for a good way to unwind. A reminder: reject superstition. This is all imaginative fiction. Any similarities to real events are purely coincidental, so don't take it seriously! 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 The Corpse-Scented Beauty 尸香美人 When I was seven, my grandfather carried a dead woman home on his back. I was so scared I nearly wet myself. But my grandfather said he had brought her back for me. 1kReads6.2Score101Shelves
- 34 Route 14 Night Bus 14路夜班公交车 My name is Li Long. For triple pay, I took the night shift on Bus Route 14, the one everyone else avoids. It starts at the old depot in the west of the city and ends at the back gate of the crematorium. Departure time: exactly eleven at night. The passengers have no body heat, no breath, and no faces. They are the souls of those who drowned in the river three years ago. A chilling aura hangs over the route, ghosts follow in its wake, and every stop hides a curse that claims lives. Three rules ar 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 After Entering a Dream, My Soul Arrived in a Ghost City 入梦后，我的灵魂来到了鬼城 It's late. Time to go to sleep. But the moment you dream, you enter a ghostly realm full of peril. The dream ghosts here are masters of disguise, blending into illusions where truth and falsehood are impossible to tell apart. Never let them discover that you can see them. If they notice your eyes have seen through the truth, they will devour your soul completely and take over your body. An accident took Ye Qiubai's parents and erased his childhood memories. He and Jiang Xue, whom he had known si 31Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 The God in the Cage 笼中之神 This is a requiem for prisoners, echoing between the abyss of reality and illusion. When the prison of consciousness is exposed, will you choose to sink into a sweet lie, or awaken to a cruel truth and be destroyed? The answer was already decided from the very start of the search. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 Grudge-Locked Patterns 怨气锁纹 Dai Xiaochao, the protagonist, is a college graduate in architecture from the 1990s. Under heavy financial pressure, he moves into a tenement building where a locked-room murder took place two years earlier. Surveillance was scarce in those days, so the police had to investigate door to door, and the case made little progress. Then the ancient Taotie jade pendant inherited by Dai Xiaochao’s family, along with its Taotie patterns, begins to react... And that is where the story begins. 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 The Boy in the Hemp Robe 麻衣少年 [Ma Yi Divine Physiognomist, Young Feng Shui Master, Defying Fate] The year I was born, torrential rain fell from the heavens, and hordes of weasels swarmed into my home. To save me, my father leapt into the flood. When I was seven, my grandfather took in five female disciples, and they all became my senior fellow disciples. My bizarre story begins with these five senior sisters. 2.5kReads8.6Score235Shelves
- 39 Nighttime Tales from the Old Mountain Village House 山村老宅夜事 After my grandfather passed away, I returned alone to a remote mountain village to take over the century-old ancestral home. Before I left, the village elders warned me again and again: under no circumstances should I break the old house's four taboos. Don't stare into the mirror in the old house late at night. Don't answer calls from outside the courtyard at midnight. Don't open the small back-garden door at three in the morning. And never go upstairs on a stormy night. I dismissed it all as ol 260Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 Medium's Notes: My Left Eye Can See Ghosts 灵媒笔记：我的左眼能见鬼 The Cangye lineage of the Southern Frontier unleashes chaos. The Cherry Blossom Curse, Yin Soil summoning, Ruin Spirits, and malevolent earth veins emerge one after another, leaving the seals protecting the land on the brink of collapse. In a desperate battle, pure Yang Heavenly Energy collides with the turbid qi of Yin Soil inside him, forming a yin-yang vortex whose blessings and dangers are impossible to predict. His old enemies flee into the Hundred Thousand Mountains, seeking a chance to p 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 What Came Back from the Mountains When the Fog Rolled In 浓雾起时，从山里跟回来的东西 The Thing That Followed Me Back from the Mountains When the Fog Rose —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 Midnight Terror: Tales of the Supernatural 午夜惊魂：民间鬼事录 [Folk Taboos + Rural Ghost Stories + Episodic Tales + Chilling on Second Thought] The village elders say that some things are better believed than dismissed. Liu Er, a bachelor, picked up a red wedding dress. That very night, he heard the sound of a suona, and a faceless bride knocked on his door and said, “Liu Er, I’ve come to marry you.” Before a dead person is buried, the guiding candle at the head of the coffin must never go out. Old Liu Guang died, the candle went out, and a crack appeared 4kReads—Score174Shelves
- 43 From the Start, I Received a Letter from a Dead Man 开局收到一封死人来信 No romance, no harem, no cultivation The year he graduated from university, Ji Yao received a letter from his grandmother, who had been dead for six years. Five kinds of insurance and a housing fund, twenty thousand a month, and just six hours of work a day. Could there really be a job like that? What he didn’t expect was that, after the letter arrived, one misfortune after another would befall him… A train hijacked by ghosts, an old woman made of candle wax crawling out of a flame, a bizarre 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 Soul Collection, Volume Two 集魂录二 A pair of golden eyes, a whip, and a book. Bearing a new mission, Yao Yinsheng sets out to find a secret realm, a place that inspires longing yet no one has ever explored. The Soul-Gathering Record has returned to her hands, more mysterious than ever. Greater challenges and darker sides of human nature begin to emerge. Where, exactly, does hell lie? 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 The Temple That Eats People 吃人的庙 The Man-Eating Temple 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 Tales of the City's Strange and Unusual, Part Two 都市诡异见闻录第二部 Urban Supernatural Encounters, Book Two 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 A Record of Strange Sightings in the City 都市诡异见闻录 Tales of the Strange in the City 33Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 I Inherited a Funeral Shop During the Hundred Ghosts' Night Parade 百鬼夜行时，我继承了一家冥铺 Lu Ci thought all his grandfather had left him was an old shop on the verge of closing. Then, one rainy night, the first customer walked through the door and bought a stack of spirit money. The next day, that very “ghost currency” appeared in someone else’s account. From then on, the shop, open only at night, began receiving one unusual customer after another: some sought wealth, some wanted to buy a life, and some only wished to exchange something for a long-overdue truth. At the end of the lon 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 Yin-Yang Headhunter: I Find Jobs for Ghosts, and They Ask Me Out 阴阳猎头：我给诡找工作，诡问我处不处对象 On the day he was laid off, Jiang Ye received a death notice: in thirty days, someone would throw him off a rooftop. To stay alive, he was forced to take a job at Yin-Yang Headhunting Co., Ltd., a company that specializes in finding jobs for ghosts. Every time he finds a job for a ghost, he unlocks part of the truth behind his own death. Every time he fails, another corpse spot appears on his body. Once they cover him from head to toe, the company will devour his soul. Every high-level order com 2.4kReads8.4Score369Shelves
- 50 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
