Novels like The Gates of Hell
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Gates of Hell, best match first.
- 1 The Fate-Reading Feng Shui Master 天命风水师 Have you ever seen people repeatedly drown in the same place...? Have you ever seen a huge commercial complex turn into a haunted building with no businesses left inside...? Have you ever seen an old person burning paper offerings at a crossroads late at night...? Have you ever seen a billionaire become a beggar overnight...? Have you ever seen a family of three killed in a collision at the same crossroads...? Is it coincidence, or a setup? Or... is this simply your fate? Past and present li 30Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 2 The Underworld General Store 地府杂货铺 The Zhenhun Street Pawnshop connects to the underworld. Li Anyang was an inconsequential nobody scraping by at the bottom of Jiangzhou society, until an unexpected will left him a pawnshop from Zhenhun Street. From then on, he began trading with heroes from five thousand years of Chinese history. Praying mantis fist, bagua palm? Child's play. The Golden Touch, the Heavenly Eye? Now we're talking. Countless martial arts masters, wealthy merchants, immortals, and monsters came on their knees, bear 78Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 There's a Ghost Behind Me 身后有鬼 I told a ghost story in the middle of the night, and then… 50Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 4 The White-Haired Celestial Master 白发天师 Synopsis: [Southern Mao and Northern Ma + fox spirits and ghosts + Feng Shui mysteries + invincible protagonist] Wang Qiankun is a disciple of Southern Mao and an heir to the Northern Ma tradition. With an immortal air and flowing white hair, he holds the sun and moon in his hands and treads upon the Seven Stars. He is the chosen one of a Feng Shui formation known as Two Dragons Playing with a Pearl. Born with an immortal body and soul, he naturally attracts yin energy, and strange phenomena con 334Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 5 The Yin-Yang Inn 阴阳旅店 From the day I was born, underworld soldiers came to drag my soul away. At eight, I arrived at the Yin-Yang Inn and began working as a guide for the dead. From then on, I guided both the dead and the living. Every ghost or living person who came to the inn had a secret they couldn't tell. The Yin-Yang Inn has strange rules. Ghosts must sign a contract, while the living must stay the night. Whether or not their request is fulfilled, their payment is never refunded. Even so, guests keep coming one 269Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 6 My Wife’s Revenge 妻子的复仇 A painting sparked layer upon layer of suspicion. The happy world Su Lu had believed in began to crumble, and the ugliness of human nature gradually came to light. She embarked on her journey of revenge. 6kReads9.0Score698Shelves
- 7 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
- 8 The Heavenly Master’s Divine Husband 天师神婿 My grandfather was a renowned ghost diviner in the martial world. He lost his health and cultivation saving my fiancée. Yet when I turned twenty and went to ask for her hand in marriage, they threw me out! They thought I was useless and wanted to break off the engagement! But they had no idea that my skills in physiognomy, feng shui, talismans, and Taoist medicine had all reached the pinnacle. And with the bloodline of a great shaman in my veins, I could determine wealth and poverty with a singl 8.6kReads8.3Score577Shelves
- 9 I Just Transmigrated, and You Want Me to Die as a Sacrifice? Do You Think My Medical Skills Are for Show? 刚穿越你让我殉葬，当我医术是摆设？ After transmigrating, she puts her skills as an heir to the Mystical Medicine tradition to work, taking down scumbags in real time! Together with the sickly, possessive Regent Prince, she strikes decisively and sweeps through heaps of corpses as they set out to claim the throne! The Prince, notorious for bringing misfortune to his wives, schemes with a dark smile. “My dear, people are spreading rumors again that I’m incapable of having children!” She glares at him. “Then hurry up and have some! 7.2kReads9.2Score895Shelves
- 10 Spirit Village 灵村 Thrills and the supernatural! There's an ancient village called Lingzhuang, also known as Bagua Village. I was born there. Lingzhuang is always shrouded in an atmosphere of terror: Enormous pythons, centipedes, black spiders, strange birds, and ferocious beasts roam about, attacking people... Lingzhuang is also rife with strange tales and bizarre happenings: A female ghost haunts the village; a cave in Longmian Mountain holds an arsenal from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom; a mysterious master live 75Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Stay Away, Spirits 阴人勿扰 Someone dug up our family grave and put the newlywed daughter-in-law who’d just died in their family in there. My uncle told me to go get her out in the middle of the night... 496Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 12 Tomb of the Yin 镇阴棺 I was always at my grandfather’s side, helping people relocate graves. There was a special burial practice involved in moving graves called a second burial. It required opening the coffin, gathering the bones, and dressing them in new clothes. The first time I encountered a second burial, I dug up a female corpse that looked lifelike... 122Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 13 The Young Feng Shui Master 少年风水师 When I was ten, my grandfather built a coffin for himself with his own hands... From that moment on, the heavens shattered and all realms fell into chaos. [The 2021 feng shui and fantasy masterpiece!] 633Reads8.1Score136Shelves
- 14 Blood Wedding 血嫁 Ever since I received a strange hundred-yuan bill, every wedding I attend ends in bloodshed. The grooms have their throats slit, their blood splattering across the brides’ white gowns. Ten couples have died for no apparent reason, and I’m the only one who has seen the killer: the Grim Reaper, holding a scythe... A cold and aloof fiancé appears out of nowhere. A mysterious exorcist hides in a coffee shop. Strange supernatural incidents pull me into a terrifying, thrilling spiral. At last, the da 961Reads8.6Score121Shelves
- 15 The Spirit Burying Master 葬灵师 Every year since the year I was born, someone in the village has died. To keep me alive, Grandma arranged a marriage for me, and my betrothed was supposed to come for me when I came of age. On my eighteenth birthday, I discovered that the one who had come for me wasn't human... 146Reads7.9Score244Shelves
- 16 The Grave Robbers: In Search of Shadows 盗墓之寻影 The mysterious Longyuan Pavilion, a black ghost hand left behind, an ancient grudge that cannot be resolved, the secrets of the previous generation: what burden are they carrying? Three generations have searched, yet the answer remains nowhere to be found. The indifference of the Eastern and Western Gates, the divisions among the seven Northern and Southern sects: what else lies hidden behind it all? Cao, the Old Master with the Ghost-Respecting Hand; Qi, the Young Master with the Ingenious Hand 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 The Master Feng Shui Practitioner 顶级风水师 Heaven and Earth are dark and yellow; the universe vast and primordial. The sun and moon wax and wane; the stars are arrayed across the sky… 1.7kReads8.8Score341Shelves
- 18 The Beautiful Snake Wife 蛇妻美人 I slept in a coffin from the time I was little. When I was six, a snake slithered in and kept me company in the coffin for six years… He had never slept in a bed as a child, only in a very ancient coffin. When he was six, a snake slithered in and kept him company in the coffin for six years. Later, a graceful fairy came and said she would marry him when he turned eighteen. 123Reads9.1Score—Shelves
- 19 The Last Tomb Raider 最后一个盗墓者 Thirty years ago, my grandfather teamed up with his childhood friend to rob tombs. His friend and the rest of the group all died horribly, while my grandfather alone survived, only to go mad and disappear. Thirty years later, I follow in his footsteps and descend into the caves to search for tombs... A three-headed snake mother, a burial trench holding ten thousand people, and crystal coffins drifting unseen through underground waterways: in this bizarre subterranean world, I fight to survive an 779Reads7.5Score103Shelves
- 20 Hades Husband, Don't Cause Trouble 冥王老公，别乱来 My name is Li Xiaojiu. When I was twenty, a man in my dreams told me to repay a debt. After that, he haunted me every night, and I couldn’t escape him. With my eyes veiled by a web of blood, I somehow released the greatest evil in the world. From then on, yin and yang fell into chaos, and disaster loomed. The man in my dreams said, “My name is Feng Siming. If you want to live, obediently give me your body.” I asked, “In the end, will you devour me?” Feng Siming: “Yes, from head to toe...” Me: “. 821Reads9.1Score124Shelves
- 21 Taking a Fox as My Wife 养狐为妻 When I was eighteen, I accidentally injured a fox. To my shock, my master forced me to marry her... 1.3kReads8.6Score102Shelves
- 22 The Ghost Physiognomist in Hemp Robes 麻衣鬼相 Some say it's difficult to understand another person, but to a face reader, understanding someone is easy. Others say you can't judge a person by appearances. I think it depends on who's doing the judging. My grandfather was a famous face reader of ghosts. He could read disaster and fortune, life and death, heaven and earth, and even uncover a person's past lives and future incarnations. When I was little, egged on by a group of friends, I kicked over the mound of an old grave. Luckily, my grand 1.4kReads8.5Score177Shelves
- 23 The Yin Grave 阴坟 A soul on the bed, a grave beneath it. On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, offerings are made to the gods. One ritual burned several people alive. Were they human, or spirits? 16.3kReads8.8Score1.7kShelves
- 24 The Mountain Keeper 守山人 My family has been guarding the mountain for generations. Every generation, someone meets an untimely end at the age of forty. The curse was broken in my grandfather's generation, but it came at a great cost. A soul dwells in each mountain, and one person holds each mountain at bay. 4.1kReads8.7Score472Shelves
- 25 Reincarnation Simulator: Ascending to Immortality on the Wheel of Rebirth 轮回模拟器之转轮上成仙 [In-depth Daoist knowledge + a Daoist cultivates immortality + reincarnation simulations + saving the world] I, Cheng Xuan, was an ordinary mortal who had dreamed of becoming an immortal since childhood. By a strange twist of fate, I met an unremarkable old Daoist in the mountains and began my path to immortality. After three years of arduous cultivation, I finally earned my master’s approval. As the thirty-fifth-generation disciple, I was formally accepted into the Lingbao Sect. On the very da 40Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 The Demon Lord Is Here 妖君在上 In the thirteenth year of the Republic, with the country in turmoil, Shen Lingyin was born in an isolated village surrounded by strange legends. When she came of age, the villagers chose her as a sacrifice, but she unexpectedly uncovered a secret buried for a thousand years... Born at midnight on the second day of the second lunar month in the Year of the Tiger, she was chosen by fate, yet doomed to bring disaster. To survive, she forms an alliance with a mysterious man and walks the razor's edg 889Reads9.0Score141Shelves
- 27 By the Power of the Law 急急如律令 It all began when I took fifty yuan from a blind fortune-teller. Then, in the middle of the night, a woman's voice suddenly sounded behind me. 1.5kReads8.6Score160Shelves
- 28 Horror Descends: I Bind Myself to a Red-Clad Female Ghost from the Start 恐怖降临：开局绑定红衣女鬼 [Supernatural] + [System] + [Single female lead] A year ago, terror descended upon the world, reducing the global population by 90 percent. Only China, protected by its dragon veins, avoided complete collapse. The Maoshan Celestial Master set out to exorcise demons and uphold the Dao, taking his disciples down the mountain to slay monsters and demons. They never returned. By then, Lin Tian had spent ten years sweeping the grounds of Maoshan and had been signing in for ten years straight. “Ding! 1.7kReads7.7Score129Shelves
- 29 After Failing the Exams, I Became a Corpse Herder, and Dango Exposed Me 落榜后当赶尸人，被团子曝光了 Shh, the corpse is rising! Keep quiet. The dead are on the move, so the living must stay clear! In ancient Xixiang, strange and terrifying things happen whenever night falls: white coffins, thousand-year-old corpses, and more! Under the moonlight, Jiang Chen shakes a soul-snaring bell in his left hand and holds a talisman to suppress evil in his right, controlling a stiff figure that hops along... 1.2kReads8.3Score105Shelves
- 30 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
- 31 The Secret Notes of a Feng Shui Master 风水师秘记 My grandfather left me a handwritten ancient manuscript. When I turned eighteen, a dream of mine shook the entire world of feng shui... Liu Bowen severing dragon veins, feng shui guiding a celestial dragon, paper figures controlling one's fortune, plum-blossom tattoos, the dead seeking justice... Everyone knew Yang Qingtian was a legend, but no one knew that I was him! 3.8kReads8.2Score397Shelves
- 32 Transmigrated into the Bridal Chamber, the Ugly Farmhouse Girl Is Ready to Turn Her Life Around 穿入洞房，农家丑女要翻身 The short drama and animated series of the same name, Marry First, Farm Later: The Ugly Country Girl Turns Her Life Around, are now available to watch on Fanqie. Gu Qianlan transmigrates into a bride just about to enter the bridal chamber. When she wakes up, her husband has already left for the border, and she hasn’t even seen what he looks like. There’s no chance of returning to modern times, but before she can even get her bearings, she’s thrown out of the house with two burdensome children an 34kReads9.1Score4.2kShelves
- 33 The Little One Comes Down the Mountain to Find Their Parents, Making the Three Realms Wail as They Plunder Everything 奶娃下山寻爹娘，薅得三界嗷嗷哭 Her unreliable master could have gotten away with making up silly excuses to fool his little apprentice about talismans. Instead, he hurried off on his own and sent a three-and-a-half-year-old child down the mountain alone to find her parents, while also leaving her with the responsibility of making their Taoist temple famous. Little Yanbao carried a patched cloth sack on her back and used teleportation talismans to travel. Wherever she went, every ghost trembled in fear. She drew an ordinary-lo 4.9kReads9.2Score707Shelves
- 34 The Grand Feng Shui Master 大风水师 The living are coffined, the dead are entombed; yin and yang are reversed to establish the four pillars. A mirror that repels yang, cloth that draws in yin, and money trees lined up outside the door. A beautiful woman, plenty of money, yet worldly pleasures are not to be enjoyed. Walk between yin and yang, uncover Heaven’s secrets; every feng shui master is doomed to a short life! 13.8kReads8.6Score1.4kShelves
- 35 A Collection of Folk Feng Shui Records 民间风水集录 Also known as The Dragon-Seeking Secret: The Five Masters of Jingmen. Main characters: Tao Duoyu and Ren Shiyu; The Five Masters of Zhongzhou: Xiong Lei of the Northeast, Zheng Xuan of western Hunan, and Su Mei of Jiangnan; My name is Tao Duoyu. My master is Tao the Blind, the foremost of the Five Masters of Zhongzhou. Twenty-four years ago, he saved me when I was at death’s door, snatching fate from the heavens to extend my life by more than twenty years. Twenty-four years later, my master myst 2.5kReads9.1Score390Shelves
- 36 Mr. Xiao Wang 小王先生 My mother held on for several extra hours while giving birth to me, just so I wouldn’t be born on the date the fortune-teller had predicted. Haunted by evil spirits! Delivering winter clothes to the dead! Wandering ghosts! Why does everyone come to me for everything? Incense roots? Fate? Five-colored cloth? These mysterious trades all depend on intuition! Granny Bai says I have a spiritual gift and a knack for opening the senses. Aunt Yang says I have all three kinds of affinity. But I never tho 13.5kReads9.4Score1.4kShelves
- 37 Tales of Tomb Raiding 盗墓往事 This is a story recounting the author's own experiences robbing tombs. It describes how, during the summer break after graduating from high school, the author went with his family into the deserts of Xinjiang and the ancient city of Loulan to explore tombs and steal treasures. Later, while at university, he found a master to teach him the trade, recruited a crew, and became skilled at locating dragon veins and auspicious burial sites, the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams, dating artifacts to dif 254Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 38 Xuanhuan: From the Start, I Become the Underworld’s Yin Son of Heaven 玄幻：开局成为地府阴天子 The King of Hell says you die at the third watch. Who would dare keep you alive until the fifth? Qi Yun transmigrates to another world and becomes the Underworld’s Yin Emperor. He summons the Ten Kings of Hell and the Four Ghost Emperors, establishing a supreme underworld and restoring order to the world. “What? An old man named Yao Chen is hiding inside a ring? What are we waiting for? He’s a ghost lingering among the living right under my underworld’s nose. Go arrest him and drag him down here 1.8kReads7.9Score110Shelves
- 39 When Grandpa Died, Dragons Lifted His Coffin and Ghosts Wept at His Grave 爷爷死时，龙抬棺，鬼哭坟 My grandfather was tragically caught up in a thousand-year-old feng shui plot. When he died, a dragon lifted his coffin and ghosts wailed at his grave. As for me, I was born wrapped in snake scales. They all called me a monster, but the Five Immortals willingly became my babysitters. They secretly sent me to Dragon Pool, where eight old men took me on as their disciple. When I grew up, I punched demons and monsters and kicked spirits and fiends aside. Practicing both Buddhist and Daoist arts, I 10.6kReads8.5Score830Shelves
- 40 Super Crazy Son-in-Law 超级狂婿 He had been a live-in son-in-law for two years, and everyone thought he was a good-for-nothing they could trample underfoot. Only on the day of the divorce did they learn that he was richer than a nation and wielded power over the whole world! 4.6kReads8.9Score1.6kShelves
- 41 Borrowing Yin Lifespan 借阴寿 Have you ever slept wearing burial clothes? Don’t try it. I did once, and that night... My name is Li Yiliang. I was born with a shortened lifespan, and my birth caused my mother to die in childbirth. But one night when I was eighteen, my mother came back and said she wanted to take me with her... My grandfather told me to sleep in burial clothes, then gave his own life to help me escape that fate. From then on, my life was never free of strange and uncanny things... 4.7kReads8.9Score411Shelves
- 42 Grandpa’s Starting a Rebellion in the Underworld, While I’m an Earthbound Yin Messenger 爷爷在地府造反，我在人间当阴差 “Grandson, burn me some money!” Every night, whenever Wang Ming fell asleep, he heard his grandfather, Wang Renyi, appear in his dreams and ask him to burn paper money for him. Wang Renyi said he had staged a rebellion in the underworld. He had beaten up the Ten Ghost Marshals and their underlings, kicked the Six Bureau Officers, and even demolished the halls of the Ten Kings of Hell. Then, out of nowhere, Wang Ming, who was still in the world of the living, activated the Netherworld Deity Syste 1.7kReads8.8Score186Shelves
- 43 Coffin Shop No. 44 44号棺材铺 Everyone knows what a coffin shop is, but would you dare enter one where someone has died? Ever since I took over a coffin shop, strange things have been happening all around me. Only then did I realize that the people who come to buy coffins aren't necessarily alive… 2.2kReads8.0Score253Shelves
- 44 Dragon-Suppressing Coffin 镇龙棺 The day Grandpa died, all the beasts paid their respects, and nine dragons carried his coffin... 2.5kReads8.9Score466Shelves
- 45 The Underworld Bureau of the Yellow Springs 黄泉阴司 When I was a kid, I went to the back hill of the village to play and pick up human bones. There I stumbled upon a ghost opera and nearly lost my life. Luckily, a green snake saved me, but the snake also began a strange, shadowy romance. Ghost operas, spirit summoning, yellow-skin spirits' yin graves, peachwood seals against evil: the bizarre folk customs of southern Guizhou and chilling, uncanny tales of the worlds of yin and yang are coming your way. Warning: Not for the faint of heart!!! 5.8kReads8.4Score586Shelves
- 46 With So Many Female Ghosts Around, I Might as Well Stop Being Human 这么多女鬼，那我就不当人了 [No System]+ [Multiple Heroines (Most Aren't Human)]+ [Hunting Ghosts to Prove the Dao]+ [Comedy] After picking up a female ghost as a passenger from the start, Qin Tian's extraordinary life begins. (The audiobook version is even better.) A long-legged, adorably ditzy little ghost girl A domineering, blunt-talking Ghost Queen A mischievous cat-eared girl A sexy, bewitching fox spirit Cultivation, power, money… All kinds of strange and wonderful stories begin to unfold around him… 18.8kReads8.6Score1.8kShelves
- 47 Tomb Raiding: Sign-In at the Lu King’s Palace 盗墓：从鲁王宫开始签到 One morning, Su Cheng woke up to find that he had transmigrated into a world where Notes and Blowing Out the Lights had merged. Here, tomb raiding was a legal profession. Su Cheng had thought he could roam freely through ancient tombs by following the plots he knew so well. But in the Tomb of King Lu, he saw Chen Wenjin, Xie Lianhuan, Qi Yu, Huo Ling, and the others all gathered together. He realized he could no longer view this world through the lens of his memories. Fortunately, his transmigra 23.4kReads7.9Score2kShelves
- 48 The Dead Man's Makeup 死人妆 The old folks often say, “Men shouldn’t be born on the first day of the lunar month, and women shouldn’t be born on the fifteenth.” I was born on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, with the fate of an iron broom and a destructive bone marrow. The living despise me, and I bring death to my whole family, yet demons and ghosts have their eyes on me! Because of him, I also broke a taboo and became a woman of yin fate... To save me, my mother-in-law taught me the art of applying makeup to th 2.5kReads9.1Score333Shelves
- 49 The Corpse-Driving Inn: Taking the Iron Triangle on a Corpse-Driving Run 赶尸客栈，带着铁三角去赶尸 Qin Feng transmigrates into a tomb-raiding world, intending to explore tombs, but accidentally activates the Corpse-Driving Inn System. Just as the ten-year agreement comes to an end, the Iron Triangle reunites. Qin Feng decides to take the Iron Triangle corpse-driving! Fatty: "Hey, Third Master? Got a tomb job? Forget that, why raid tombs when driving corpses is so much better?" Wu Xie: "Making paper effigies is an art, especially when you're making women!" Xiao Ge: "I don't know those guys. I 1.8kReads8.5Score240Shelves
- 50 Borrowed Corpse, Stolen Life 借尸命 When a plague swept through my mother’s village, she was the only one who escaped alive and made it to Chen Village. My mother was graceful and beautiful, but after arriving in the village, she went mad. There’s something wrong with this village. Every night, we hear strange noises. My father’s name is Chen Jiu, and mine is Chen Lintian. I suspect he isn’t my real father... 1.8kReads9.0Score130Shelves
