Novels like The Ghost Banquet
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Ghost Banquet, best match first.
- 1 The Midnight Taxi 午夜出租车 People in certain lines of work often encounter strange and inexplicable things, especially drivers of midnight taxis. Because sometimes, the people they pick up might not be human. 227Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 2 The Forbidden Burial Ground 葬灵禁地 I was born in a village that didn't exist, and no one who entered ever came back out. Raising ghosts, driving corpses, communicating with the dead, severing souls... They made money off the dead. At last, one day, with no other choice, my father broke a forbidden spell and took me away so I could live a normal life. He told me we'd never come back. But the curse had only just begun. Anyone who left the village would pay a terrible price... One night, I picked up a fare while driving a private 22Reads5.9Score—14d adds
- 3 Into the Coffin at Midnight 午夜进棺 Ever since I can remember, the kids in the village have avoided me... Everyone knew my family made its living from the dead, and thought we brought bad luck. They weren’t wrong. My family had been undertakers for generations. I’d seen people who drowned, hanged themselves, poisoned themselves with pesticide, got hit by cars, fell from great heights, or died suddenly in bed from a fatal loss of vitality... I’d seen them all. But the corpse that came in this time had limbs and a head that were... 66Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 Mysteries of the Yellow River 黄河诡事 Grandpa said I was swept downstream from the upper reaches of the Yellow River inside a coffin. My fate was fragile, and I was never to go near the Yellow River again. But by a strange twist of fate, I ended up entangled with a stunning female corpse in the river... From then on, I embarked on an extraordinary path. Strange events came one after another: three trips to the Underworld, four visits to the Dragon Palace, an underground city of the dead, an abandoned village, and more. 16Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 5 Let Me Tell You a Little Story, It's Not Scary at All (Six-Volume Set) 我讲个小故事，一点儿都不吓人（全六册） Fear should remain hidden in the subconscious and fade away without a trace, yet it always leaves clues in everyday life. In an alley where the sunset has slipped out of sight, in a corner turned away from the neon lights, an elegant lady sits outside a café, casting ill-intentioned sidelong glances at passersby. These signs show that when people find themselves in darkness beyond the reach of sunlight, fear swells in an instant like a shadow and closes in around them. Come, step into my stories —Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 6 A Hundred Ghosts Carry the Coffin 百鬼抬棺 That year, a little baby in a red bellyband came knocking at the door in the middle of the night. That year, a woman in red sat up inside a coffin with a living person in it. That year, a hundred ghosts carried that coffin through the world of the living. That year, someone told me that if I ever encountered “a red-clad woman carrying a coffin, an ancient tree weeping blood, or a golden Buddha turning around,” I had to run for my life. But how could I have known? Sometimes, no matter how vast th 47Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 Strings of Terror in the Dark: A Collection of Folk Mystery and Horror Stories 暗夜惊弦：民间悬疑恐怖故事集 [Mystery] [Supernatural] In the shadowy corners of the folk world lurk countless chilling tales of mystery and horror. This collection is an invitation to the unknown, ready to lead you into dark worlds few have ever seen. Here, every story is a window into the mysterious and the terrifying. You’ll hear midnight sobbing in an ancient mansion, the sound seemingly coming from another world, filled with endless sorrow and resentment. You’ll also encounter vengeful spirits wandering through an aband 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 Bright Dawn After a Long Night 残夜见明 [Powerful leads + plot-focused + a touch of ensemble cast] [Modern fantasy, combining technology and the supernatural, with special abilities] [Only the beginning is especially frightening; the protagonist grows over time and is no hero] I struggled to survive through all that malice, not because I didn’t want to avoid disappointing those who gave me hope and placed their faith in me, but because of my anger and resentment. I wanted to fight back against this fate forced upon me. When life is no 63Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 9 My Master Broke a Taboo and Made Me Paint Eyes on a Paper Figure 师父犯忌讳，竟让我给纸人画眼睛 My master broke a taboo and actually asked me to paint eyes on a paper effigy —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 The Phasmophobia Club 恐诡症俱乐部 [Rule Horror] [No golden finger] [Characters stay intelligent] [Horror Revival] [No female lead] After his roommate mysteriously disappeared and strange cases began cropping up across the city, Yuan Ming accidentally stumbled into a hidden chamber while helping his older sister investigate a case. This was the dark side beneath the city, teeming with all kinds of strange and terrifying things... Dark fog swirled over this lonely island of humanity, where malice and resentment intertwined. The th —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 Midnight Death Bell: A Collection of Horror Stories 夜半凶铃：恐怖故事汇 [Mystery] [Horror] [Supernatural] In the stillness of the dead of night, when all is quiet and everyone is fast asleep, a shrill telephone rings out without warning, shattering the silence. Midnight's Cursed Ring: A Collection of Horror Stories will take you into one terrifying world after another. This book contains a series of bone-chilling horror stories, each like a claw reaching out from the abyss of darkness to clutch at your heart. From ancient, mysterious curses to eerie urban legends, f —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 The Scarlet Otherworld 猩红异界 While playing chess against Li Rui, the chess player Wu Yu is ambushed by him and transmigrates to an ancient otherworld. Just as Wu Yu prepares to put his schemes to use and make a name for himself, he discovers that this place is not as simple as it seems. Nothing is ever more terrifying than the human heart. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 Ghost Stories by Night 鬼话夜谈 The story follows Chen Xingchen and Jiang Chuyan, who grew up together in a village. They hear tales of the supernatural from the village elders and experience a number of eerie events themselves. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 On the Edge of Death 死亡边缘 His cousin marries a stunningly beautiful woman, but on their wedding day, the bride dies! Then strange things begin happening in the village, and the villagers start dying one after another... 126Reads8.8Score914d adds
- 15 On My Birthday, an AI Told Me My Best Friend Was Going to Kill Me 生日那天，AI告诉我闺蜜要杀我 On my birthday, an AI told me my best friend was going to kill me —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 Building 1 1号楼 Horrifying incidents keep piling up: bizarre disappearances, a string of deaths, and the question of who the mysterious person really is. Can Zishuo, usually so calm and collected, unravel the secret behind the four sentences in a notebook? What secret is hidden in Building No. 1? 648Reads7.2Score10614d adds
- 17 This Evil Spirit Is a Little Fierce 这个阴灵有点凶 My grandfather said I was born with a life as fragile as paper, and that I was never meant to come into this world. Every day I’ve lived since has been a gift. But when I was twelve, my grandfather died under mysterious circumstances. From then on, I depended on my only remaining relative, and we relied on each other to survive. But on my twenty-fourth birthday, in my zodiac year, I’ll face my most dangerous trial yet. Will I make it through...? 75Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 Eerie Descent: I Became the Strongest Paranormal Being from the Start with a Ghost Wedding 诡异降临：开局鬼婚我成最强灵异 Eerie, terrifying, and not brainless, with no harem and no cultivation. Ghosts cannot be killed. Every vicious ghost has its own special rules for killing, so you must find a way to escape or a plan to control it. An unexpected visitor suddenly walks into the agency. Chen Yang has no idea that this commission will completely change his fate. A strange wedding. A village filled with supernatural happenings. A terrifying movie theater, where scene after scene of vicious ghosts appears in frighteni 26Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 A Food Courier's Path to Exorcism 外卖员的驱邪之路 Can you believe that Yu, the legendary Great Yu who tamed the floods, has become a delivery driver thousands of years later? And his time-crossing encounter with Nüjiao, daughter of the Tushan clan, is all the more heartbreaking! Follow the growth of a delivery driver across a thousand years! Was it fate, or a plan four thousand years in the making?! 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 The Nightmare Invasion 诡梦侵袭 [Infinite worlds + bizarre invasion + dreams + no female lead] Also known as: The Ultimate Dream Controller: My Mental Strength Is Maxed Out When Gu Meng wakes up, he discovers that whenever he closes his eyes, he can see a world where “Nightmares” descend on humanity from the edge of hell. The first “Nightmare” he encounters is the Lord of Sweet Dreams. Under its control, he gradually becomes a tool for “Nightmares” to invade reality. His fiancée's murder awakens the seeds of vengeance within h 16Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 One Thousand and One Horror Stories 一千零一个恐怖故事 Horror stories to keep you company as you fall asleep every night, and keep you awake until dawn! These addictive tales span folk legends, schools, cities, hospitals, and more. Whatever kind of horror story you want, you’ll find it here. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 The Ghost Gate Path 鬼门道 A corpse that terrifies the living, a mysterious tomb in an abandoned village, Miaojiang Gu sorcery, eerie corpse-driving rituals, the Five Immortals of Northeast China… A notebook passed down through the generations records the strange events experienced by three generations of the Sun family. Now it has come into my hands. When I opened it, a baffling paranormal case unfolded before me. You can only understand what lies behind it all by experiencing it yourself… —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 23 Thriller: Nothing About This Game Feels Right 惊悚：这个游戏哪都不对劲 [Cthulhu Mythos + sci-fi (supernatural) + goofy humor + a nobody author] My name is Meng Jiang. Life is unpredictable, and the worst always seems to happen. One day, I was happily gaming with my “good friends” when, whether I was possessed or what, a flash of white light suddenly transported me, along with the game, to a completely different world… We all spent the same amount of money, so why are you playing Cyberpunk 2077 while I’m stuck with Cyberpunk 2451? And why is this thing’s art styl 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 24 On the Seventh Day After Opening, the Village Bully Is Dragged into the River by a Female Ghost 开业第七天，村霸被女鬼拖下河 On the Seventh Day After Opening, the Village Bully Is Dragged into the River by a Female Ghost 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 Subduing Evil 镇邪 There are always mysterious things in this world, yet people dismiss them as nonsense. Miaojiang gu poison, corpse-driving in western Hunan, Nanyang curses, the Flowerfall Cave Maiden, shamanic sorcery, and yin-yang demons are all forbidden taboos. You don't have to believe in them, but you must remain in awe. Above all, never profane them! When the taboo soul bell rings out in the sky and ancient horrors quietly awaken, the world teeters on the brink of disaster. Will there still be someone who 628Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 26 Driver of the Underworld 幽冥司机 Bus Route 206 is hiring a night-shift driver. Liu Hao eagerly applies, only to discover that the job not only pays well but also has short hours. It’s only after he signs the contract that he realizes there’s something wrong with the bus… Strange passengers and eerie lost property leave Liu Hao wondering if he’s driving the last bus of the underworld! 388Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 27 The Terrifying Asylum 恐怖疯人院 [Traditional supernatural fiction] + [Traditional mystery] + [Twists] + [Deduction] A tribute to The Last Bus on Route 13. My girlfriend, Tian Wenjing, was an intern doctor at a psychiatric hospital, but she died mysteriously while working there. To investigate what happened, I somehow ended up at the same hospital. After experiencing all kinds of bizarre events, I discovered a tremendous conspiracy lurking behind it. And somehow, this conspiracy was closely connected to me... 656Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 28 A Horror Mobile Game Bleeds into Reality 恐怖手游映照现实 “‘You’ll Die If You Don’t Play’? What a weird name for a mobile game. Does that mean I have to play it?” Li Cong tapped the game without thinking. The screen went black the next second. A few seconds later, five blood-red characters appeared on the screen... “‘You’ll Die Even If You Play!’” “Holy crap!” Li Cong couldn’t help wanting to swear. This game was genuinely terrifying! He hadn’t even started playing, and he’d already died twice! 15Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 29 Whispers of the Ghosts 鬼魅低语 [Standalone Stories] [Eerie] [Thriller] [Strange] [Wild Imagination] Worlds full of distortion and absurdity. Whether it's seemingly ordinary snippets of everyday life or strange phenomena that gradually come to light, everything sends a chill down your spine and grows more terrifying the more you think about it. 39Reads—Score—14d adds
- 30 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… 153Reads5.8Score—14d adds
- 31 Taboos of the Yin Coffin 阴棺禁忌 I was only looking for a part-time job keeping watch over a warehouse, but on my very first night, I encountered something utterly baffling. A visitor tricked me into lying in a coffin, and the coworker who stayed up chatting with me that night turned out to have died the day before... 71Reads5.7Score—14d adds
- 32 A Bloody Night in Jiling Village 寂岭村血夜 This novel contains depictions of human nature and graphic violence. Readers under 18 should read with a parent or guardian. On December 4, 1994, a small mountain village in eastern Shenzhong City, near the border with Huizhou City, was the site of an unprecedented major crime. It later became known as “Shenzhong’s Sealed Village.” “Help me! Everyone’s been killed!” “Hello, this is Danao Police Station. What happened?” “There’s a ghost! A ghost is here! N-no, don’t come any closer! P-please, hel 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 33 The Seven-Night Spirit Coffin Corpse 七夜灵棺尸 In my dream, I mistakenly believed that Li the Lame, seeking revenge for having his wife stolen, had made a door for my family out of the coffin wood of a girl who had been dead for seven days. Its yin energy clung to us, causing the pillars of our family to leave one after another. I couldn’t get over it. My future father-in-law, Old Yu, saw what was going on and brought over Zhang Baifa, who I would later take as my master. My master dispelled the evil yin force. Once I learned what had happen 219Reads—Score—14d adds
- 34 Short Horror Stories for Bedtime 睡前恐怖短故事 Are you sure you want to open this book? Hush... Listen. Something is whispering in the darkness. This collection features spine-chilling horror stories that will take you into a world full of the unknown and the terrifying: Warning: This book contains horror, suspense, supernatural, and other elements. Read with caution. If you're easily frightened, read during the day and make sure someone is with you. Are you ready? 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 35 A Divination Uncovers Strange Events 卦起诡事 Born under an ill-fated sign, I once cast a fortune by moonlight, gazing into a mirror on the night of the full moon. I released the evil spirit sealed inside it. To break the curse, I left my village and followed Master Qingwei to learn the arts of magic. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 36 Ghosts Are So Scary! Learning to Slay Them in a Supernatural World 有鬼好怕怕，我在灵异世界学斩鬼 [Horror novel. Not for the faint of heart.] Do you believe there are ghosts in this world? If not, where did the word “ghost” come from? Have you ever experienced despair? The world I live in is filled with it. My name is Li You'an. If you’d like to hear my story, come take a look at my world. Twenty kilometers beyond the cemetery, countless hands clawed their way out of the earth. The world changed, becoming strange and unfamiliar. Ghosts ran rampant, the gates of the underworld swung wide ope —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 37 Don't Write at Midnight: A Countdown to Death in Bluetooth Earbuds 别在午夜写文：蓝牙耳机里的索命倒计时 Don't Write at Midnight: The Death Countdown in Your Bluetooth Earbuds 8Reads—Score114d adds
- 38 After My Childhood Friend Was Bitten, He Went Wild, and I Nearly Became His Next Prey 发小被咬后狂性大发，我险成下一个猎物 After My Childhood Friend Was Bitten, He Went Berserk, and I Nearly Became His Next Prey 3Reads—Score114d adds
- 39 The Crown Prince Vanished for a Year. When He Returned, the Dead Had Risen All Across the Mountains 太子失踪一年，回来时满山死人复活 The Crown Prince Vanished for a Year. When He Returned, the Dead Were Rising Across the Mountains 2Reads—Score114d adds
- 40 A Skinless Male Corpse Appears in a Cabbage Field in a Deserted Village, and My Girlfriend Is Sewn into a Marionette 荒村包菜地惊现无皮男尸，女友竟被缝成戏偶傀儡 A Skinless Male Corpse Turns Up in a Cabbage Field in a Desolate Village, and My Girlfriend Is Sewn into a Puppet Doll 6Reads—Score114d adds
- 41 Hunting Killers in the Mist 迷雾缉凶 Solving Crimes in the Mist 133.8kReads—Score55514d adds
- 42 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—14d adds
- 43 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… 62Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 44 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 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 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… 4.5kReads8.4Score30014d adds
- 46 I'm a Little Spirit Medium 我是小神婆 [Mysticism + supernatural + crime-solving + powerful protagonist + resolving mysteries + hidden origins + folk customs] I'm an abandoned baby, picked up from a trash can by my shaman grandmother. Growing up under her influence, I always wanted to become an even more powerful shaman than she was. Because of my unusual fate, strange and bizarre things, sometimes terrifyingly uncanny, are always happening around me... What happened to the female ghost who fell in love with someone else's body? Did 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 47 The Ultimate Supernatural Horror: The Ghost Card Train 终极灵异：鬼牌列车 [Supernatural] + [Horror] + [No Female Lead] + [No Sanctimonious Hero] + [No Mindless Decisions] Ghosts cannot be killed. Every ghost has its own unique rules for killing. Every card represents a vengeful ghost. Find a way to control the ghosts and escape the supernatural incidents. An old, eerie train stained with blood runs toward a terrifying supernatural realm. Where is the train’s final stop? No one knows. Or rather, no one has ever made it to the final stop. 27Reads—Score—14d adds
- 48 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—14d adds
- 49 Possession 上身 Ghosts: ethereal, elusive beings! Ghosts: a certainty that exists for those who believe, and not for those who don't! Are ghosts really only around at night? What do they actually look like? The truth is, they're right beside you! 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 50 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. 35Reads8.6Score—14d adds
