Novels like Yin-Yang Ghost Arts Master
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- 1 My Years Selling Coffins 我卖棺材那些年 I'm a coffin seller. I only wanted to live out an ordinary life, but I never expected that a single glass coffin would change my life... 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 A Paper Effigy Maker Who Sacrificed His Five Senses from the Start 扎纸匠开局献祭五感 I sacrificed my five senses to make paper effigies, but ended up creating the most terrifying monster in the world. The paper effigy came to life, and from that day on, I could no longer taste whether something was salty or bland. After my sense of taste came my hearing, smell, sight... But little by little, I realized that the senses I’d lost let me “smell” things ordinary people couldn’t see. The Flower Cave Maidens of western Hunan weren’t brides claimed by a mountain god. They were buried al 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 The Spectral Express 亡灵专列 (Classic suspense and supernatural mystery · Fated reincarnation · High-stakes twists · Mild horror) As a railway employee, I was assigned to a special train where every passenger was uncanny! The train was officially listed as out of service, so why was it still running? And why were the female passengers so eager to get close to me? Sealed memories! Missing numbers! Strange rules! Beneath the calm surface lurks one baffling, eerie mystery after another! Board this train and listen to a strange 416Reads—Score112Shelves
- 4 The Corpse Painter 画尸人 Painting corpses, painting flesh; painting souls until they sink into the bones. This is the ancestral teaching of the corpse painters. Preparing and applying makeup to the dead is not only meant to comfort the living, but also to purify resentment. That is how the trade of corpse painting came to be. Among corpse painters, one lineage is born with spiritual power. They are called Heaven-Blessed Corpse Painters, the most terrifying beings between heaven and earth. Heaven-Blessed Corpse Painters 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 I Have a Fengdu City! 我有一座酆都城！ A hearse ferries the dead, and ghosts roam at night! Fengdu, the City of Ghosts: the living are forbidden to enter! Footsteps sound in the hallway every night at midnight. In an empty hospital room, someone has scratched the paint off the walls with their fingernails. A woman likes to comb her hair in front of the mirror in the middle of the night. A furtive sound comes from beneath the bed. Who is giggling in the girls' dormitory sealed with talismans? And who is sharpening a knife in the room —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 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—Shelves
- 7 Midnight Livestream 午夜直播 Other people livestream to make money. I livestream to stay alive. When you see me on stream, you need to be careful. Shh, don't look back... There's a ghost there. 1.8kReads6.7Score195Shelves
- 8 Even the Gods Can Be Destroyed 神亦可灭 It's all made up, it's all made up, it's all made up 666666666666666666666666666666666666666 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 Before the Strange Things Begin 在一切诡异之前 [Supernatural resurgence + horror + no System + semi-infinite survival + no saintly protagonist + not dark + no female lead] When ghosts invaded reality, a group of survivors gained the protection of the “Rules.” They became employees of the “Rules,” and to keep enjoying their protection, they had to complete tasks. But the power of the “Rules” was limited... I didn't really care about any of that. I didn't want to bother figuring out what was the cause and what was the effect. So what if this w 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 Married to an Evil Spirit: The Red Veil of Huaian Village 嫁煞：槐安村的红盖头 Married to a Malevolent Spirit: The Red Veil of Huaian Village —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 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—Shelves
- 12 The Half-Baked Feng Shui Master: I Became a Legend Through Hands-On Ghost Hunting 半吊子风水师：撞鬼后靠实操封神 Lin Jingran, nicknamed Dogshit, is the most hopeless half-baked feng shui master in the old district. He has no real skills and is a coward, getting by on the old notes his grandfather left behind. That is, until his childhood friend kneels before him, crying that the secondhand house he bought is haunted and his wife and son are close to dying. For two thousand yuan, Lin Jingran steels himself and goes over. He steps on wet hair as soon as he walks in, hears a woman crying by his ear, and watch 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 On My Wedding Day, My Deceased Sister Texted: You Can't Marry This Man 婚礼当天，亡妹发短信：这人不能嫁 On her wedding day, her deceased younger sister texted her: Don't marry this man. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 The Mysterious Sect's Arcane Talisman 玄门诡箓 I'm a Daoist, and I'm writing down some of my experiences. I've encountered all kinds of arcane matters, driven out evil spirits and subdued baleful forces. I've learned folk practices through Daoism, and Daoism through folk practices. Now I'm sharing my stories with everyone. 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 A Ghost at the Interview: The System Makes Me Play Chu Renmei 面试撞诡，系统让我扮演楚人美 [Supernatural resurgence + no female lead + System + role-playing + horror + decisive and ruthless + urban] Fresh out of college and already unemployed, Lin Ye receives a high-paying job offer from the Afterlife Funeral Home. It turns out to be a death warrant leading straight to hell! The interviewer is a faceless ghost, and HR is a painted-skin demon! The moment a ghostly claw pierces his heart, Lin Ye thinks he’s done for! [Ding! Host’s life is in imminent danger. Critical condition at 100% c 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 Short Tales of Terror: A Collection of Strange Stories 短篇微恐：志怪故事集 Do you think the footsteps behind you when you walk alone late at night are just the wind? Do you think the unfamiliar object that suddenly appears in an old storage box is just something you forgot about? Do you think the blurry shadow that sometimes flickers across the mirror is just a trick of the light? This collection of strange tales has no blunt, bloody shocks. It is filled only with eerie everyday moments hidden in the folds of ordinary life. Each story stands alone, yet after you close 55Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 On Tomb-Sweeping Day, I Opened a Viral Paper Effigy Shop on the Road to the Underworld 清明节，我在黄泉路开网红纸扎铺 Unemployed young man Lin Xiaoman is forced to return to his hometown and take over the family’s traditional paper effigy shop. But he discovers that the paper money, luxury cars, and phones he makes turn into real goods in the underworld when burned! From then on, his customers are no longer just the living... The King of Hell commissions a “paper aircraft carrier.” A vengeful spirit asks him to repair a “torn marriage contract.” Even the Underworld’s Bureau of Industry and Commerce comes knocki —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 Impossible, My Aunt Is Invincible Under Heaven 不可能，我姑姑天下无敌 The King of Hell decreed that I would die at three, but my aunt kept me alive until eighteen. At three, a minor calamity: a hundred ghosts surrounded our home, intent on taking my life. My aunt gave a cold snort, and they scattered in terror. At six, a major calamity: Ox-Head and Horse-Face came to claim my soul. My aunt shouted at them, and the two gods lowered their heads and retreated. At nine, an earthly calamity: a judge entered our home, intending to cut short my life. My aunt told him, “E 56Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 19 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—Shelves
- 20 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
- 21 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
- 22 Livestreaming Corpse-Herding, Hunted by My Blind Date 直播赶尸，被相亲对象追捕 Liu Mang is unexpectedly reborn with a live-streaming corpse-driving System, only for his aunt to call and tell him to go on a blind date! The female ghost Jin Yuanyuan: “Master, big brother, stick with you and I’ll get to eat my fill!” Ye Xueli: “I’m a police officer, and I’m hunting down the person live-streaming corpse driving. Hey, why are you running?!” Junior schoolmate Zhong Feifei: “Senior, could you be the dark horse prince Heaven sent me?” The thousand-year-old zombie Queen of Loul 22Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 23 My Best Friend Urged Me to Get a Tattoo, But I Ended Up Tattooing Ghost Skin 闺蜜劝我纹身，可我竟然纹了鬼皮 My best friend urged me to get a tattoo, but somehow I ended up tattooing ghost skin on myself 86Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 Rift in the Abyss: We Awakened the Old Ones 深渊裂隙：我们唤醒旧日支配者 In 1992, U.S. Army Major Austin takes charge of the top-secret project "Abyss Watch." One hundred and thirty meters beneath the desert, a strange fissure spreads madness into the world above. Five elite soldiers are ordered into the abyss, with Austin directing their investigation remotely. A videotape that appears out of nowhere exposes a horrific secret from the past: To spy on the secrets underground, the military sacrificed living people. A thousand meters below ground, an ancient stone gate —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 The Yellow Springs Occultist 黄泉诡术师 My name is Yan Fu. Yan as in King of Hell, Fu as in floating clouds. A corpse of a woman from the Yellow River protects my life; half a volume of ghost records conceals my whereabouts. My double pupils see the worlds of yin and yang, and I wield evil arts to command ghosts and corpses. I hunt female ghosts in an abandoned mansion in the eastern mountains and capture demons on the western desert frontier; I travel far to the Miao borderlands to battle blood gu, and pass through the Southern Seas 549Reads—Score102Shelves
- 26 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. 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 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
- 28 Nine Out of Ten Divinations Are Wrong 【十卦九不准】 [No heroine, not a power fantasy, no tired tropes. A sequel to The Nether Road, also known as Strange Tales of the Spirit Road.] Read people's fortunes when you meet them; divine the dead's paths when you encounter ghosts. Use yarrow stalks to cast hexagrams, and pluck gold to change fate. Walk among the corpses without fear, and never lose your way in the underworld. The practitioners of yin and yang arts investigate strange cases, while ancient mystic traditions probe the hearts of humankind. 533Reads8.7Score107Shelves
- 29 Seven Days of the Dead 七日亡魂 My grandfather used to say that whoever a hanged person sees last is the one they’ll come back to claim. When I was twelve, the village hired a troupe to perform ghost opera. I went to play backstage, never realizing that the troupe’s leading performer was hanging from the beam behind me. 1.1kReads8.2Score105Shelves
- 30 I'm Broke, Why Should I Be Afraid of Ghosts? 我穷鬼，岂会怕鬼？ [Goofy] [Funny] [Irreverent] [Mystery] [Supernatural] [Hop in] [No System] [A fish that slipped through nine years of compulsory education] Wang Ling landed a job paying 18,000 yuan a month as a security guard at a private hospital. On his first day, he was left completely stunned! Each floor of the hospital's inpatient wing had a special passage enshrining one of the underworld's yin deities. The morgue even had butcher's knives inexplicably lying around. Wang Ling put up with all of that. Then 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 Heavenly Master of a Haunted World 诡世天师 Lin Jiu, an ordinary young man from the modern era, unexpectedly transmigrates to the twelfth year of the Republic of China, his soul inhabiting the body of a young Taoist priest who shares his name and has just been claimed by a vengeful ghost. As the last heir of the Maoshan Sect, he inherits his master’s legacy and final words: “The Taoist tradition must not die out, and the human world must not fall.” There is no System, no shortcut, only a timeworn copy of the Sacred Register of Shangqing a 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 The Ghost's Prophecy 鬼无谶 Half a bowl of clear water reflects the universe; a single spirit talisman commands ghosts and gods. I tread the Eight Trigrams path of yin and yang, wielding a wooden sword to slay demonic spirits. Once every three thousand years, the appointed day arrives. Three years before it, spring begins. Since ancient times, those bound by fate have met, and beyond the nine heavens stands the Three Pure Ones. The heavenly altar resounds with the melody of the horn, welcoming the sacred presence as it des 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 Grimm's Fairy Tales, Reimagined as Horror 诡异格林童话 Lin En, a folklore graduate student, wakes up in another world only to be swallowed by a tide of rats from the start! At the brink of despair, his research notes on Grimm’s Fairy Tales, which he’d brought along, transform into a golden finger: the [Book of Truth]! [Warning! The fairy-tale incident “The Pied Piper” is about to occur!] [Truth erosion initiated... “Piper” erased! New entries revealed: “Astral Worm,” “Sonic Neural Control”!] When the whole town hails the Pied Piper as their savior, 20Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 34 Tales of Western Hunan 湘西往事录 Strike the gong to announce the spirits, ring the bell to summon their souls. Dressed in Taoist robes, the corpse driver of western Hunan. The dead are on the move. The living, stand aside. A crescent moon shines on blue robes, a river of stars stretches across the low sky. The mournful gong clears the way, ghostly shadows speak of western Hunan. Silver bells softly summon souls, coins pave the road and drive the spirits away. Every household shuts its doors tight, the living keep away as deathl 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 The Last Corpse Driver 最后一个赶尸人 The dead march on; the living must keep their distance. If they don't, disaster is sure to follow! I'm a corpse driver, and this is my story! 731Reads8.0Score101Shelves
- 36 One Thousand and One Modern Tales of the Supernatural 一千零一个，现代灵异故事 [Based on True Stories] [Folktales] [Horror and the Supernatural] The stories in this novel feel full of everyday life. The people and events in every story are portrayed in a realistic way, bringing to life the supernatural experiences of all the main and supporting characters. If you’re a horror story fan, don’t miss this novel. (If you get scared, call your best hapless friend over… so you can be scared together.) 5.2kReads7.0Score221Shelves
- 37 I Pretended to Be a Master for Fifteen Years, Then I Really Met a Ghost 我装了十五年大师，真撞鬼了 [Folklore Mystery + Chinese-Style Horror + Deduction + No Female Lead + A Tight-Knit Trio] My name is Han Ye. I've been pretending to be a master for fifteen years. I read the feng shui of burial sites, exorcise spirits, summon souls, and relay messages from the dead. If the pay is good enough, there's no job I won't take. Everyone says I can communicate with the world of the dead and understand ghosts and spirits. Only I know the truth: I have no idea whether ghosts even exist. I only know 12.8kReads—Score980Shelves
- 38 Soul Ferry: I Run a Shop of Karma 灵魂摆渡：我有一间因果铺 I own a pawnshop that accepts anything under heaven. After the Spirit Ferry world came to an end, Ling Yun discovered that he had inherited a pawnshop called Karma. Like the Eighth Pawnshop in the TV series, it would take anything and accept anything as collateral. But unlike that shop, Karma could travel freely through the Myriad Worlds. Spirit Ferry. Xia Dongqing: “I don’t want these eyes anymore. Can I pawn them?” Zhao Li: “My lord A-Cha, Dongqing here says… he wants to pawn your brother!” … 70Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 39 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
- 40 Strange Tales from the Teaching Mission 支教诡事 I'm an ordinary teacher at a key secondary school, but after I talked back to the principal, I was “volunteered” for a long-term teaching assignment at a middle school in the countryside. I was furious, but to keep my job, I had no choice but to accept being “volunteered.” What I never expected was that this school would be anything but ordinary. (Note: This book is set in a parallel world. Any resemblance between its place names, characters, or events and those in real life is purely coincident 3.6kReads8.2Score353Shelves
- 41 The Maoshan Celestial Master's Chronicles 茅山天师录 Maoshan is famous for its Taoist arts. I learned Maoshan Taoist magic and came down from the mountain to exorcise ghosts. My whole life has been filled with confusion. Is this really how my life is supposed to go? What is the meaning of what I protect? And who is behind the eerie doll and everything else? 89Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 True Accounts of Spirit Crossing at Midnight 子时渡灵实录 "A spine-chilling memoir of spirit deliverance by Xu Hanko!" I am an inheritor of Taoist arts. This book records the cases I have handled over the years, helping spirits pass on. Chanting incantations, forming hand seals, stepping the astral patterns, and setting up ritual arrays, I have unraveled the obsessions of countless wronged souls. Every detail of every case is etched in my memory, and behind each one lies the full range of life’s suffering: birth, aging, sickness, death, meeting those w 27Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 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
- 44 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... 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 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 167Reads7.1Score—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 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. 158Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 48 I Broke Folk Taboos, Yet Became the Strongest Taoist Priest 触碰民间禁忌，我却成为最强道士 It all started when I got drunk and took a leak by a roadside grave. After breaking a rural taboo, one strange thing after another began to haunt me. My grandfather was a well-known spirit medium in the countryside of Yu Province, and our family worshipped fox spirits at a shrine. There are no peerless thunder techniques, no golden finger upgrades. Rural graves, ill omens when red and white festivities collide, spirit mediums making their rounds, the troops serving beneath the Mount Tai Goddess: 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 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...! 55Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 50 The Corpse Collector's Diary 收尸人日志 Fog Harbor City is a futuristic metropolis governed by the central System of Deep Blue Life Group. Lu Chen, a forensic data analyst, has one job: to write the final digital epitaphs for the unidentified dead. That is, until he discovers the same unusual fluctuations in the data for a series of “natural deaths.” In the last three months of their lives, every victim’s biological indicators followed an exactly identical decline curve, as if they had been given a preset countdown. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
