Novels like The Hard Road of the Corpse Man
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- 1 Black Impermanence Finally Falls in Love 黑无常大人她铁树开花了 In the underworld, there was a Black Wuchang official with a rather bad temper named Tao Yaoyao. For thousands of years, not one of the underworld's Wuchang officials had been willing to partner with her. No matter. Tao Yaoyao could handle things just fine on her own. One time, she went to collect a soul, but a nine-tailed white fox suddenly appeared along the way. The fox cut off one of its own tails and used it to extend a woman's life right in front of her, ruining her assignment completely. 50Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 2 Born of a Corpse 尸生子 My mother-in-law was a midwife. When I grew up, I took over and delivered babies for women, becoming a male midwife. I deliver babies for the living, but I also deliver them for the dead... 177Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 3 Raising a Fox Brings Disaster 养狐为祸 He went hunting in the mountains and found a white fox, which he brought home. That night, he met a breathtakingly beautiful woman… She was gorgeous and gentle, and said she wanted to marry him and bear his children. He thought it was a stroke of luck, but then came corpse poison, grinning dolls, and women in red, one after another!! 119Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 4 The Living Burial Mound 活人坟 Never let an unfamiliar woman into your car! Especially at night! Because the person you meet... might not be alive! 63Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 5 The Yin-Born Child 阴生子 Before I was even born, someone plotted against me. I was cut from my mother’s womb before I was full-term, born with a congenital defect, and prone to attracting evil spirits. My fate was cursed, and I was destined not to live past a hundred days. To stay alive, I went to live with my maternal grandfather, a medium who could travel between the worlds of the living and the dead. After years of learning from him, I became a medium myself. From then on, I could communicate with the gods, enter the 110Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 6 The Yin-Yang Exorcist 阴阳摸诡人 I have two mothers, and neither of them is alive. The moment I was born, a heavenly dog swallowed the moon, blood rained from the sky, every beast bowed its head, and ghosts wailed... 781Reads8.7Score101Shelves
- 7 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… 299Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 8 The Snake Woman 蛇女 They say there’s a snake girl in our village, born with the ability to control snakes. She was orphaned at birth, and my father took pity on her, taking her in and raising her. She grew up by my side, and we were together day and night. Then one day, the village bully picked on her. That very night, he suddenly died, and more than a dozen little snakes were found inside his stomach. By a strange twist of fate, I discovered the snake girl’s secret that night, and I nearly died of fright. 834Reads7.3Score101Shelves
- 9 The Coffin of Life and Death 生死棺材 In our line of work, there’s a type known as the miscellaneous school. They follow unorthodox paths, dabbling in everything but mastering nothing. They have no sect above them and no helpers below them, and nobody takes them seriously. I’m an heir to the miscellaneous school, yet I turned their world upside down and left them in chaos. Only when I decided to retire did I discover a shocking mystery hidden within me... 491Reads8.7Score100Shelves
- 10 The Forbidden Island of Human Nature 人性禁岛 I couldn’t get a ticket for the Spring Festival, so I took an unlicensed car home. I never expected the woman in the car to keep staring at me. I wanted to call the police... [Deep Dive] The horrifying truth behind going missing after getting into the wrong car during the Spring Festival. Don’t ride in unlicensed cars carelessly, because it’s not just your money that disappears, but your life! 994Reads8.6Score100Shelves
- 11 Eight-Year-Old Celestial Master: Catching Ghosts on a Livestream for the Whole Internet 八岁小天师：抓鬼被全网直播了 As one of the countless transmigrators, Zhang Tianling has the strongest Celestial Master System and transmigrates to a world overrun by demons and ghosts. He thought he’d be able to make a name for himself, but unfortunately... he’s an eight-year-old kid! So what? Who says an eight-year-old can’t be a Celestial Master? Who says an eight-year-old can’t slay demons and exorcise evil spirits?! Age is no obstacle, and height is no distance. Hey, you female demon! Don’t run! 274Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 12 From the Start of My Livestream, I Kissed Sadako 直播开局我把贞子亲了 [The Only One on the Entire Site!] [Ridiculous, Interactive Horror Story] “Streamer, your cabinet just moved.” “Yeah, right!” “You think a cheap trick like that can scare me? You think my nickname, Wang Ritian, is for nothing?” Wang Hao used to be a bottom-tier streamer, barely scraping by on his meager tips. But after one drunken night and one videotape, his life changed completely. “Heh heh heh!” “That woman with the long, loose hair and white dress has to be cosplaying, right?” “ 11Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 13 The Fox Bride 狐嫁 Ye Zier is a half-yin person, born with a tendency to attract evil spirits. After finally getting married to her boyfriend, she’s kidnapped along the way by a fox spirit who insists on having little foxes with her. What is she supposed to do? 370Reads9.1Score100Shelves
- 14 The Eerie Coffin Bearers 诡抬棺 Nine peaks, a sea of blood, mountains of bones... Murderous danger lurks everywhere. Every step is fraught with peril, and I never know how much longer I'll survive. It wasn't until I deciphered the nursery rhyme I'd heard when I became someone's disciple that I uncovered a shocking secret... 63Reads9.0Score—Shelves
- 15 Every Female Ghost I Meet Is Absolutely Top-Tier! 我遇见的女鬼都超顶！ I happened to receive a piece of spirit money from the Bank of the Underworld on Ghost Festival, and it kicked off an entertaining career of running into ghosts. And they're all beautiful female ghosts!! Hehe, as long as you're brave enough, even female ghosts take maternity leave!!! 1.2kReads7.4Score167Shelves
- 16 The Demon Wife at Home 家有妖妻 Grandma arranged a marriage for me. Only after the wedding did I learn that the bride I'd brought home was a fox spirit... Chapter preview: …I stole a glance into the pool. A beautiful older girl was standing by the washing platform, washing her hair. She was gorgeous, with snow-white skin, delicate willow-shaped brows, an oval face, and luscious red lips like ripe cherries. Most striking of all were her captivating, tender eyes, deep as a pool of spring water. She was alluring to the very cor 2kReads8.2Score140Shelves
- 17 Snake Sacrifice 蛇祭 Two virgins + Sweet romance + Strong female lead leveling up The Snake Lord is fearsome. A promise made a thousand years ago, a meeting in dreams, a bracelet carved from nine dragons’ bones, protection for his wife, a Soul-Devouring Demon Blade, souls scattered to the winds, old grudges brought to an end... On the night of the Ghost Festival, the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, Old Song carried me back from the village’s Spirit Snake Mountain. Strange changes swept across the sky: ligh 347Reads9.1Score116Shelves
- 18 A Taoist Priest in the Mortal World 阳间道士 I was an ordinary person, never knowing that a hundred-yuan bill on the ground would completely change my life. 785Reads8.2Score101Shelves
- 19 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
- 20 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
- 21 Ghost-Hunting Yin-Yang Master 捉鬼阴阳师 On the day I was born, the clear sky suddenly filled with lightning and thunder. A bolt struck a tree in our yard, and everyone in the village decided my birth was an ill omen. They all kept their distance. One villager accidentally offended me, and that night he mysteriously hanged himself. The body could only be taken down if someone knelt before me. On the day of his funeral, his brother died a violent death and the coffin fell to the ground. That was how the whole story began… 205Reads8.8Score100Shelves
- 22 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 951Reads8.6Score118Shelves
- 23 The Corpse Leaps Over the Wall 尸跳墙 I’ve been blind since childhood, so I work as a massage therapist for the blind. Then one day, I met a terrifying woman who said she could restore my sight. The price was... 140Reads7.8Score—Shelves
- 24 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... 147Reads7.9Score241Shelves
- 25 My Career in Funeral Services and the Supernatural 我的殡葬灵异生涯 After graduating, I joined the funeral industry and learned about its many secrets. I also encountered all kinds of terrifying, bizarre supernatural incidents. Let me tell you about some truly unusual tales of terror and the taboos of the funeral trade... The latest work by a free-spirited programmer. As always, the promise stands: suspense and horror taken to the extreme. 2.9kReads8.4Score246Shelves
- 26 Traces of Bound Spirits 缚灵迹 Mystery + supernatural + no harem. This is NOT a wish-fulfillment novel!!! The protagonist has no sect or powerful backer. He's just an ordinary man who sells animal feed. He thought driving a hearse would guarantee him a comfortable life, but he never imagined that everything had been arranged by someone else. Who deserves more trust, humans or ghosts? This is a question the protagonist must think through carefully. The villains aren't idiots who simply throw themselves to their deaths, and the 5.3kReads8.1Score457Shelves
- 27 Folk Horror Taboos 民间恐怖禁忌 Do you know the stories old people tell? Do you know there are many things in folk tradition that people say must not be spoken of? Do you know what the elders say about dreams? The elders say there are things you mustn't talk about at night. Did you know that? 121Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 28 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 1.3kReads9.0Score102Shelves
- 29 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... 5.7kReads8.2Score373Shelves
- 30 Werewolf Game Space: I’m Always Full of Surprises 狼人杀空间：我总是出人意料 [Mutant Infinite-Flow] [Plot-Focused] [One Heroine] [Don't think too hard while reading this. If you're coming in, don't be misled: the heroine only appears at the very end, so she's practically nonexistent. The male lead doesn't get a team until later.] I'm a lonely, starving wolf. With masterful disguises and formidable ninja skills, I carry out one killing after another. I'm never the cruel one. The world is cruel. All I want is to keep on living, forever and ever and ever and ever. I want to 520Reads9.0Score102Shelves
- 31 Tales of the Supernatural 灵异怪谈 Yin-yang masters are fated to suffer the Five Evils and Three Deficiencies. Is there any way to escape their fate? A life-and-death romance with a bloodthirsty vampire zombie! After desperately searching for the Strange Records of Yin and Yang, he discovers it is all part of an even bigger conspiracy! The Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, bloodthirsty vampire zombies, an inn in the underworld, an ancient Warring States tomb, and the Strange Records of Yin and Yang all feature in Strange Tales of the S 1.6kReads8.8Score139Shelves
- 32 The Midnight Mantou Shop 午夜馒头铺 Have you ever noticed that some breakfast shops serve food that's delicious most of the time, but for a couple of days each month, it suddenly tastes dry and is hard to swallow? Have you ever wondered if perhaps that breakfast food was never meant for people to eat...? 373Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 33 Ghost Catcher of the Underworld 阴司鬼差 The ninety-nine ghost officials appointed by Qin Shi Huang have passed their positions down through the generations. Somehow, this generation’s post has come down to me. This isn’t myth or legend. It’s all real, and it’s happening right now... 674Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 34 The Beautiful Demon Wife 妖妻美人 I've slept in a coffin since I was little. When I was six, a snake slipped inside and stayed with me in the coffin for six years… 3.7kReads8.9Score424Shelves
- 35 The Fragrance of Corpses for Ten Miles 十里尸香 Most people receive gifts that are heartwarming or romantic. Even if they aren't a surprise, they're at least well-intentioned. But the gift I received when I turned twenty was a very real shock, and a curse. 1.9kReads8.2Score165Shelves
- 36 Uh-Oh, I've Turned a Creepy Game into Reality 坏了，玩到真的诡异养成游戏了 Have you ever played a truly eerie creature-raising game? Have you ever had a heart-pounding life experience? “Red wedding dress, paper shoes for the dead, a ghost in the mirror...” Which of these ghosts would you choose to raise? When Wu Wen clicked the place button and saw the red-clad figure appear before him, only one thought remained in his mind. “Crap, I've actually started playing a real supernatural creature-raising game!” The game Ghost Encounter has been making games for twenty years. 3.8kReads8.6Score313Shelves
- 37 A Genius of Yin and Yang 阴阳鬼才 A calamity when I was fourteen changed my whole life. Then, at eighteen, I was set firmly on the path of yin and yang, where I mastered top-tier secret arts and went ever farther along the road of slaying demons and vanquishing evil. 1.7kReads8.8Score112Shelves
- 38 The Torment-Novel Heroine Is Busy Catching Ghosts 虐文女主忙抓鬼 [Comedy + transmigration + ghost hunting] Su Su opens her eyes to find herself in a hospital bed, with someone nearby trying to take her kidney. From the doctors' conversation, she realizes she's transmigrated? Into the very angst novel she had just complained about, and as the abused heroine, no less? Then Su Su discovers that the world of the book is actually supernatural. Isn't that her specialty? They dare abuse her? They have no idea what's coming. How about a female-ghost special, on the h 3.7kReads8.9Score491Shelves
- 39 A Collection of Terrifying Tales 恐怖惊魂故事录 [Traditional supernatural tales] [Strange happenings late at night] [Whispers of the uncanny in your ear] [Based on true events] [Urban horror] [Thrilling and chilling] One ghost story for every chapter, all set in the dead of night. Come and read... 635Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 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 901Reads9.0Score143Shelves
- 41 Thriller Game: I Beat Up Ghosts from the Start, and I Meant To 惊悚游戏：开局揍鬼，我是故意的 The paranormal returns, and nightmares descend. Wang Ran, a high school senior. On the eve of the college entrance exams, his entire class was selected for a survival horror game. While everyone else was consumed by fear and struggling to survive, Wang Ran wore an excited grin. At Blood Moon High School, while everyone else fought to stay alive, Wang Ran was already having a heart-to-heart with the headmistress. At the Death Hospital, while everyone else fled for their lives, Wang Ran had 14Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 42 Becoming Uncle Jiu’s Disciple: Awaken the Ten Primordial Fierce Beasts from the Start! 拜师九叔：开局觉醒太古十凶！ Lin Qiusheng transmigrates into Uncle Jiu’s world. He becomes one of Uncle Jiu’s disciples. At the same time, he awakens the Ten Ferocious Beasts System! He gains the powers of the ten ancient ferocious beasts from the world of novels! From the start, he gets the power of the Skyhorn Ant, granting him incredible strength! Zombies!? I’ll crush them all with sheer strength and steamroll my way through!! Kunpeng! True Dragon! Heavenly Phoenix! Nine Nether Ao! … Every one of the Ten Ferocious Beasts 2kReads8.2Score184Shelves
- 43 The Demon Husband Is Here 妖夫在上 I have a birthmark, and I covered it with a tattoo to make it look better. Who could have guessed the tattoo shop I chose would be so unreliable? They actually tattooed a demon on me. From then on, my life was never peaceful again. 1.5kReads8.9Score239Shelves
- 44 The Heaven-Chosen Horse-Riding Immortal 天命出马仙 The day I was born, a blood moon appeared in the sky. Roosters crowed and dogs barked, foxes bowed to the moon, and all nine stars in the heavens fell. As soon as I came into the world, I caused my mother’s death, then scared my father out of his mind. Everyone said I was a bringer of calamity reborn, but only my grandfather said I was chosen by heaven and destined for great things. When I grew up, I took over a shaman’s altar to investigate the mystery of my birth, only to be dragged into an ev 2.2kReads9.1Score174Shelves
- 45 Calling on the Immortals 请仙儿 In our village, every adult child in the family has to visit the graves during the Qingming Festival and weigh down paper offerings on the graves. But when I went to pay my respects at Grandma's grave, I put the paper on the wrong one... 525Reads8.7Score109Shelves
- 46 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
- 47 Fox Wife 狐妻 As a child, I was alone and had no one to rely on, so I depended on a little fox I had found. But one day, it suddenly disappeared. I still remember that an old woman came looking for her granddaughter the day before, and then all sorts of strange things started happening. Why has my brother, who hasn't come home in years, suddenly returned? He says he'll find me a wife, and that we'll have to go into the mountains to look for her. Who could have guessed... 2.7kReads8.1Score213Shelves
- 48 Paper Effigies: My Ghost Domain Is the Underworld 纸扎人：我的鬼域是阴曹地府 Jiang Han transmigrates to a parallel world under a terrifying invasion. From the start, he’s a sacrifice, a white paper effigy placed in front of a coffin! But as long as he feeds on fear, he can grow stronger without end! “Ding! You successfully scared a mischievous child to tears. Fear points +100.” “Ding! You successfully scared a monster to death. Fear points +500.” “Ding! You successfully plunged the Demon Capital into an age of fear. Fear points +10,000...” To survive and become an even m 680Reads8.6Score104Shelves
- 49 The Ghost King Is Sealed Inside Me, Yet I’m a Good-for-Nothing 体内封印鬼王，我却是个废柴 A rainy night in a cemetery, a man-eating black cat, a man searching for his late daughter, a school guard hanged on the stairs, a wedding coffin sealed with red paper, a grotesque face hiding in a mirror... What secrets lie behind it all? What other mysterious events will Wang Shier, the gravekeeper, have to face? As terror and dread slowly close in, those secrets seem to be steering his fate. (The stories in this book are all adapted from real events. If anything sounds familiar, it is pure co 7Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 50 Haunted Taoist Temple: I Only Hunt the Most Ominous Things 恐怖道观：我只抓大凶之物 “My good apprentice, you've completed your training. You may leave the mountain now.” “Rest assured, Master. Once I descend the mountain, I will vanquish demons and exorcise evil, restoring the glory of our Daoist tradition!” “To temper your character, I have a small test for you.” “I won't let you down, Master!” “Excellent. There's a young woman down the mountain. Go marry her!” “What?!” … 3.3kReads8.9Score354Shelves
