Novels like The Corpse Carrier
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Corpse Carrier, best match first.
- 101 I Treat Ghosts, and I Never Use Anesthesia 我给鬼看病，从不打麻药 I pull teeth for old ghosts, give female ghosts makeovers, deliver ghost babies, treat little ghosts for being short, get rid of dampness for water ghosts, treat burn injuries for fire ghosts, treat stiff necks for hanged ghosts, sew heads onto headless ghosts, whiten Black Impermanence, fit zombies with porcelain crowns, and help brothel ghosts put on airs. While treating ghosts, I've run into all sorts of problems. The question I hear most often is: “Excuse me, can I have anesthesia?” 161Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 102 My Little Dumpling's Livestream Exposes My Identity as a Corpse Driver 小呆呆直播，我赶尸人身份被曝光 After transmigrating to a parallel world, Zhang Wei inherits a yin-yang shop and settles into life as a laid-back shopkeeper. One night, he unexpectedly becomes a corpse driver. Viewers: The campus beauty is getting married. Want to come to the wedding? Zhang Wei: I’m an officially employed corpse driver for the Underworld. I’m happy to join the banquet, but count me out of the wedding. Viewers: What perks come with an official job? Zhang Wei: I stay at the five-star Delona Hotel, have Bai Wucha 31Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 103 A Bowl of Meng Po's Soup 一碗孟婆汤 Among strange spirits and monsters, dangers abound. Break bones to uncover secrets and seek the path to immortality. Lin Zemin’s grandmother was a famous village doctor throughout the surrounding countryside. She could not only cure illnesses, but also read the signs. The medicines she used were all folk remedies. They might not have seemed orthodox, but they always worked. Lin Zemin was born late in his parents’ lives, and after his birth, his grandmother declared that he was destined to bear a 115Reads9.0Score—Shelves
- 104 I’m a Renowned Corpse Handler, So How Did I Get Sold Back to Xiangxi as a Zombie? 我堂堂赶尸匠，竟被卖回湘西当僵尸 After I was brought back to the Jiang family, I rose to the top and became a best actress, finding success in both my career and love life. On the day of my engagement, my fiancé's childhood sweetheart went mad with jealousy and sold me off with a bowl of drugged soup, sending me deep into the mountains of western Hunan. Watching me bound to the sacrificial altar, she sneered. “You're always going on about being a lucky star. Let's see if your good fortune can save your own skin!” A corpse walke 118Reads—Score—Shelves
- 105 After Failing the Exams, I Took Up Corpse Driving and Got Exposed by Xiao Zhouzhou! 落榜后去赶尸，被小周周曝光了！ Li Chen fails the college entrance exam, and his family is buried in loan-shark debt. Just as he thinks he's done for, he suddenly awakens a corpse-driving System. Driving corpses makes him stronger and earns him generous rewards on the side. Just then, a call comes in about his class reunion. “Li Chen, you didn't get into college, did you? How about I get you a job hauling bricks at my family's construction site?” “Sure! You'd better pay the wages of a few people, then!” The call ends. Li Chen 104Reads—Score—Shelves
- 106 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
- 107 Yin-Yang Paper Effigy Maker 阴阳纸扎匠 The paper effigies my grandfather made could subdue spirits and drive away evil energy. He passed this craft down to me alone. Back in his day, my grandfather was a renowned master in the world of feng shui. I thought I could carry on his legend, but I was set up as soon as I struck out on my own. It turns out there’s another me in this world! (No System, no mindless protagonist, no stale tropes, no cultivation.) 422Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 108 Horror Revival: I Got a Guan Yu Tattoo, and It Opened Its Eyes to Kill 恐怖复苏：我纹个关公能睁眼杀人 [Mystery]+ [Folk supernatural] In most people’s eyes, I’m an utterly ordinary tattoo artist. But I actually carry on a little-known tradition: Yin-Yang Embroidery. “Yin-Yang Embroidery stitches yin and yang, bringing wealth and status in life, and safety wherever you go.” It can drive away ghosts and evil, turn bad luck around, increase fortune, and keep people safe. Before my master died, he forbade me from using this craft to make money. But after disaster struck, I had no choice but to defy h 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 109 Visitor from Hell 狱下来客 A modern supernatural mystery. Not wish fulfillment, not brainless, and no System. In this life, you pass countless people on the street. What makes you so sure they're all human? I never believed in this stuff either, until my landlord tricked me into moving to a place called Happy Community. The people around me didn't seem to be people at all. Footprints on the ceiling, dolls made of human skin, bloated drowned giants, people raising zombies, mother-and-child ghosts... Just how many secrets l 658Reads8.0Score100Shelves
- 110 I Asked You to Make Paper Effigies, Not Control the Yin Soldiers 让你做扎纸匠，没让你控制阴兵 Ye Xuan is a paper effigy maker who unexpectedly gets the strongest Paper Effigy System. The more effigies he makes, the stronger he becomes. Then one day, a popular celebrity on a film set draws eyes on one of his paper effigies. Who could have guessed it would come to life and snap the celebrity’s neck? Ye Xuan is accused of using someone else to do his dirty work. From then on, his name becomes a trending topic, and everyone learns he’s a paper effigy maker. A string of bizarre incidents foll 185Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 111 The Last Paper-Cutting Artist 最后一位剪纸人 My name is Song Xiaohan. I’m a living corpse with no heartbeat, and a paper-cutting artist of the underworld. On the surface, I cut paper decorations for a funeral shop, but behind closed doors, I trade with humans and ghosts. My master passed away two months ago and left me the family craft, along with this modest little shop and my tools of the trade: a pair of scissors and a carving knife. “You want to make a deal with me? But all I want is your shadow!” Song Xiaohan grinned. 210Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 112 Horror Livestream: I Craft a Sky Full of Gods from Paper 恐怖直播：我用纸扎出满天神佛 Sheng Feihong transmigrates into a world where horror is on the rise and becomes a paper effigy maker. Then he encounters a vengeful ghost, but fortunately awakens the Divine Paper Effigy Livestream System. He crafts a Celestial Master Zhong Kui to fight ghosts and exorcise evil, winning every battle... He crafts ghost soldiers and generals, bringing peace for thousands of miles and leaving no evil spirits alive... Watching Sheng Feihong command a host of ghost generals in the livestream, the vi 159Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 113 The Horror Taxi 恐怖出租车 There is a kind of vehicle meant for certain people. Its job is to take them to the world they belong in. That is the ghost bus. You may never have heard of a living person boarding one, but if you ever see a vehicle of unknown origin on the road, be careful... 2kReads6.8Score—Shelves
- 114 The Eerie Game: From the Start, I Picked Up a Top-Tier Star 诡异游戏：开局捡个顶流女星 [Horror game + dark tone + unscrupulous tactics + Infinite Flow + one female lead] Could the strange creature Gu Changqing brought out of a haunted villa really be a top-tier star and a high-level player in the horror game? And does she really need to form a "deep connection" with Gu Changqing and devour his "life essence" to maintain her human form...? 7Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 115 Nothing Is Forbidden: Keep Your Distance from the Living 百无禁忌之生人勿近 The year I graduated from college, I went on a road trip through Yunnan with a few of my dormmates. After we got lost, we stumbled upon a strange little village. The people there looked so bizarre that they didn’t seem human at all… After we returned from that village, one strange thing after another began to happen! 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 116 I Became a Corpse Driver to Lead Our Fallen Heroes Home 成为赶尸人来带领英烈回家 No romance, no female lead, no ambiguous relationships, and no harem. (This is a wild idea, so please don’t compare it to reality. I hadn’t planned to keep writing, but… I can’t let go 😭😭 I really hope someone can bring them back.) Nineteen-year-old Jiang Yan is watching a video of the remains of the Volunteer Army returning home when the lingering will of countless fallen souls who never made it back pierces his spirit. As the cold voice of the System rings out, he resolutely chooses to sacrifi 262Reads—Score—Shelves
- 117 A Female Streamer Goes on an Outdoor Adventure and Is Scared Unconscious by Me, the Corpse Driver 女主播户外探险，被赶尸的我吓晕 [System + Corpse-Driving + Urban Suspense] Gu Liang transmigrates to a parallel world and, after failing the college entrance exams, binds himself to a God-Tier Corpse-Driving System! A female streamer goes exploring outdoors, only to be scared unconscious by me driving a corpse! The blood moon hangs overhead, and ghostly energy resurges! First, a drought demon emerges and wreaks havoc across the land! Then an unrotting corpse seeks the Dao and gathers the corpse demons of the world! The human w 1Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 118 Records of Strange Affairs Across the Heavens 诸天诡事录 My new work is out! You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 119 Corpse Driving in Western Hunan: The Soul-Calling Guide on the Night Road 湘西赶尸：夜行引魂人 A sudden disaster at a mass grave! Wu Liangzi is struck on the back of the head and wakes among rotting coffins and bones, clutching a bloodstained piece of yellow paper. It bears the name of the man he has spent three years tracking down for murdering his father! Seven corpses in black robes dance around him all night, their lifeless eyes seeming to “acknowledge their master.” A mysterious corpse driver tosses him a life-and-death contract. “Four of your seven souls have scattered. If you can’t 240Reads—Score—Shelves
- 120 The Ominous Coffin 凶棺 It all started with a coffin that floated up from the river... I thought it was a fortune dropped from the sky, but it turned out to be a disaster. After I pried open the coffin, I began to feel that something unclean had followed me home. My daughter grew stranger by the day. She was only three, yet she had already started developing! 120Reads—Score—Shelves
- 121 The Delivery Guy's Guide to Changing His Fate 外卖小哥改命指南 By day, he’s a lowly delivery rider. By night, he reads fortunes. Amid the everyday hustle and bustle of the city, he helps gods, monsters, and ordinary citizens defy fate and rewrite their destinies, all while turning himself into a legend. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 122 Master of Exorcism 镇邪先生 These days, there aren't many people with real skills left. I've been in this line of work for more than ten years, dealing with the dead every day. Carrying corpses, painting faces, stitching skin, keeping watch, probing the water, digging graves, performing rites, guiding spirits, and sealing coffins. My grandfather told me I could retire at thirty. But I cast a fortune for myself, and learned that I only have thirty years to live. With what little time I have left, I'll tell you all about my 20Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 123 White Terror 白色恐怖 [Wildly Imaginative Twists] + [Extensive Foreshadowing] + [Social Unrest] + [Mystery and the Supernatural] The campus, bustling by day, is eerily quiet at night... A group of girls playing with a spirit board in their dormitory happen upon the body of a woman who fell to her death. Rumors spread that a ghost is responsible. Then another girl is pushed down the stairs by an evil spirit in the teaching building! Panic grips the campus. Before long, a female teacher is killed by a ghost on camera a —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 124 The Underworld Decree 阴职令 A wedding invitation, a register of the dead, and a journey as a guide between worlds. Chen Du was an ordinary young man, until the yin-difference title inherited from his ancestors swept him into the conflicts between the worlds of the living and the dead. Old scores beneath the locust tree, lost souls in the paper city, every debt had to be settled by his own hand. This is not a story about becoming an immortal. It is a cycle of repaying debts. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 125 One Hundred Thousand and One Folk Horror Stories 十万零一个民间恐怖故事 A collection of short horror stories in an episodic format, with a new story every chapter. No dragging things out! Haunted houses in the countryside, mountain spirits, urban legends, old customs and taboos... Every kind of Chinese-style horror is covered, with nonstop thrills and no filler. Anti-superstition disclaimer: This story is entirely fictional. Believe in science and read rationally. Please don’t apply it to real life~ 304Reads—Score101Shelves
- 126 I’m Going to Lure 100 Lost Souls 我要勾满100个亡魂 Sequel to I Guide Souls at Wangxiang Terrace Lin Jiaojiao, 24, an overworked office worker, suddenly dies on the Nth night in a row of staying up all night revising proposals. When she opens her eyes again, she has already completed every step of the underworld’s procedures. But just as she reaches Wangxiang Terrace, the guide Zhou Yi stops her. “Your attachment remains unresolved. You can’t be reincarnated.” Judge Li Muzi offers her a way forward: work as a soul reaper under him, and she can be 9.7kReads—Score3kShelves
- 127 Apocalypse Tattoo Awakening: From the Start, Covered in Heavenly Court and Underworld Tattoos 末世纹身觉醒：开局刻满天庭地府 The blood moon hangs overhead, the supernatural descends, and the whole world falls into chaos. Vegetation grows out of control, beasts run wild, and ghosts roam the night as demons and monsters wreak havoc. In a single night, humanity falls to the bottom of the food chain. Yet whenever all hope seems lost, there is always someone blessed by great fortune who rises to save a collapsing world and turn the tide. Divine Tattoo Masters! The last guardians of humanity, they gain formidable power from 2.2kReads7.3Score208Shelves
- 128 The Corpse Driver of the Yellow Springs 黄泉赶尸人 My name is Zhang Yijiu, and I’m a corpse walker. When I got my first job, I didn’t dare say a word the whole way. That road had only two living people on it: me and Fatty Fan... 564Reads—Score—Shelves
- 129 Spirit Eyes 灵瞳 My mother wasn’t human. She carried me for fifteen years before giving birth to me... From the moment I was born, I was destined to be no ordinary woman. I was buried alive, beaten, looked down on, and ostracized. But all I want to say is: Thank you for treating me with such coldness. Because of you, I became an extraordinary woman, one step at a time! This world is home to more than just ghosts. There are demons, gods, and even several parallel dimensions. You can witness every kind of unbeli 71Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 130 After the School Belle Humiliated Me, I Became a Corpse Driver and Now I'm Invincible! 被校花侮辱后成了赶尸人，我无敌了！ At the dinner where he plans to confess to the campus belle, Zhang Bufan, a student who failed his exams, is pranked by his classmates and unexpectedly obtains a god-tier Corpse-Driving System! Classmate: Zhang Bufan, come clean the toilets at my dad's company. I'll give you the friends-and-family rate: 1,000 yuan a month! Zhang Bufan: For 100 yuan, I'll help your dad find his way back to his ancestors. “When the dead are on the move, the living must keep away...” At midnight, the bells ring and 393Reads5.4Score102Shelves
- 131 I Test-Sleep in Haunted Houses: My True Accounts of Ghostly Encounters! 我做凶宅试睡员，口述撞鬼实录！ [As long as you’re not afraid of ghosts, you can make money even while you sleep.] My name is Ma Jun. Two friends and I run a real estate agency. We make plenty of money, but we keep running into ghosts because all the properties we sell are haunted houses... 468Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 132 I Took Leave to Go Home and Exorcise Corpses, and Got Exposed on Livestream! 请假回家赶尸，被直播曝光！ Chen He, who came from Miaojiang, is relaxing in a beautiful streamer’s apartment when he receives a message from his master: “The corpse-driving competition is in a few days. I’m warning you, if you don’t come back, I’ll kick you out of the sect!” Chen He immediately submits a leave request, only to be exposed on Su Wanning’s livestream: “Sister Su, my sect’s been bullied by those stinking old bastards next door lately. I need a month off to go back and compete in the corpse-driving contest, or 178Reads—Score—Shelves
- 133 A Fading Lamp Shines on the Lonely Dead 残灯照孤冥 (Mystery + supernatural + no female lead) (Ghost case files + Taoist arts) (Tomato Original) The male lead is born under the fate of a lone star of calamity, destined to walk alone. A dying lamp lights the lonely darkness, and that darkness lights me in turn. 321Reads—Score—Shelves
- 134 Yin-Yang Ghost Arts Master 阴阳鬼术师 Some bargains are too tempting to take; accepting them might cost you your life. After Old Wang downstairs died, people around me kept inexplicably trying to give me money, and these offers of money were often followed by death. To stay alive, I had no choice but to learn the secret arts Old Wang left behind, stepping into a mysterious underworld... 502Reads7.9Score102Shelves
- 135 Four-House Village 四户村 I live in Sihu Village, a place sheltered on all four sides. Just as its name suggests, Sihu Village has exactly four households, no more and no less. There is no life or death here, only reincarnation, once every twelve years. The rules of Sihu Village are simple: the master must not leave the village, and guests must not stay overnight. Then one day, I really did leave the village, breaking the rules... 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 136 The Unorthodox Paper Effigy Maker 旁门扎纸匠 The Heavenly Demons invaded, the immortals died, the Buddhas fell, and the Heavenly Dao collapsed. The Divine Tune Sect, the Soul-Seizing Sect, the Red Handkerchief, the Orchid Sect... The eight heterodox lineages protect the human world. Paper Effigy Makers, Night Watchmen, Seven-Emotion Immortal Officials, Six-Desire Bodhisattvas... This is a legend of the unorthodox arts. 192Reads—Score—Shelves
- 137 Recruit the Iron Triangle from the Start and Open a Corpse-Driving Inn 开局招募铁三角，成立赶尸客栈 Su Xiao transmigrates into a tomb-raiding world and, from the start, recruits the Iron Triangle and establishes a corpse-driving inn. Xiao Ge, Wu Xie, Pangzi, and Su Xiao learn Maoshan corpse-driving arts. Gradually, they also master corpse retrieval, spirit communication, and demon exorcism... Su Xiao, meanwhile, stays behind the scenes, with knowledge of the gods above and the underworld below. 21Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 138 Tales of Spirit-Binding and Ghost-Fighting 扎灵斗阴传 My name is Yun Bo, and I make paper offerings. My master said there was one taboo every paper-offering maker had to observe: never paint the eyes on a paper figure. Because once you do, it might come to life. That year, during a deadly night at a haunted house, I broke the taboo. I thought I had only brought a pair of guides to life, never dreaming they would become weapons of murder. It was only when the government’s shackles closed around my wrists that I understood: I had never been the one c 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 139 Rejected at a Job Interview, I Turned to Corpse Driving: Scaring Dai Xiaomei to Tears from the Start 面试被拒去赶尸：开局吓哭呆小妹 Autumn has arrived, and graduation season is here once again. Lin Yuan gets rejected from a job interview, then learns he has a terminal illness. In the class group chat, his classmates laugh: “You're the only one in the whole class who still hasn't found an internship, Lin Yuan. Are you planning to live off your parents forever?” Class monitor: “Wang Tianzong has already started his own company!” Wang Tianzong: “I'm short a cleaner for the office bathrooms. Want to give it a try? If you do well 120Reads7.7Score—Shelves
- 140 The Yin Tattooist 纹阴师 Tattoos are said to be mysterious totems carried on one’s back. I’m a traditional tattoo artist. Over the years, strange things have happened while I tattooed my clients. The terrifying secrets weighing on my heart have kept me tossing and turning, unable to sleep. Now I’ll tell you, bit by bit, what I experienced firsthand. Some tattoo designs inked on the body might actually be living things that can move. 536Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 141 Feng Shui Yin-Yang Master 风水阴阳师 "Born under the Emperor Ziwei's fate, with yin-yang eyes from birth." An extraordinary life is his destiny. He inherits his ancestors' feng shui arts. In the world of the mystic arts, yin flourishes while yang declines. A thousand-year plan awaits just one person. 1.2kReads7.1Score114Shelves
- 142 The Temple That Eats People 吃人的庙 The Man-Eating Temple 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 143 Paper Effigy Celestial Master: I Use Paper Dolls to Guard the Nine Hells 纸扎天师：我以纸人镇九幽 “Other people burn paper offerings for the dead. The paper figures I make... all came to life!” Yun Sheng, a poor young man working on Funeral Street, one day discovers that the paper figures he folds can move on their own. ✔ Delivering takeout to the underworld? Paper-figure delivery, guaranteed arrival! ✔ Helping vengeful ghosts pass on? Merit earned, unlocking super-evolution for paper figures! ✔ Taking the underworld civil service exam? The King of Hell personally sends you an offer! But whe 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 144 Strange Tales from the Countryside 乡村诡故事 Before you start this book, a warning: if you scare easily, don't read it. If you live alone, be careful. Every short ghost story here is based on an ordinary person's real-life experience. Not a single word is made up. From the damp old alleyways of the south to the frozen, deserted villages of the north; from late-night overtime in office buildings to lights-out in university dorms; the taboos our elders forbade us to talk about, and the moments you dare not dwell on in the middle of the night 120Reads—Score—Shelves
- 145 After the College Entrance Exams, I Became a Corpse Herder, Exposed by the Campus Goddess 高考后当赶尸人，被校花女神曝光 After the college entrance exams, the campus belle suggested that everyone take a trip to western Hunan and visit her childhood sweetheart. When they arrived at a village in western Hunan, they found a gloomy, mysterious old mansion standing there. The locals stayed well away from it. Campus Belle: Village chief, this old mansion has been abandoned for so long. Why doesn't anyone live there? Village Chief: Miss, don't ask so many questions. Hurry up and leave, or someone might die! Campus Belle: 2Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 146 The Poor Corpse Driver, Whose Sister at the Public Security Bureau Begs to Become His Disciple 穷鬼赶尸匠，市局妹妹跪求拜师 Chen Mu is a university student majoring in traditional Chinese medicine. His father raised him on a shoestring, so tight that he has to work part-time just to pay his tuition. While gathering medicinal herbs, he stumbles upon a woman's corpse. After calling the police, he shows off his corpse-driving skills, making the body open its eyes and point out the killer. The cops who mocked him for watching too many movies are scared out of their wits. He uses corpses as “living maps” and smashes crimi 812Reads7.1Score104Shelves
- 147 The Corpse Retriever 捞尸人 Twenty-three years ago, his father died under mysterious circumstances. His skin was hung from the old locust tree at the entrance to the village. Twenty-three years later, the eldest brother who had been given away as a child returned. His banner read: Corpse Retriever. 3.3kReads8.3Score484Shelves
- 148 The Coffin Bearer 抬棺匠 My family has dealt with the dead for generations. Following in my father’s footsteps, I became a coffin bearer. Before carrying a coffin, I always offer the deceased five incense sticks. When offering incense to the living, three long sticks and two short ones are taboo. When offering incense to the dead, three short sticks and two long ones are taboo. That day, I carried a coffin, and the dead pregnant woman inside gave birth to a pair of twins, a boy and a girl! [Shh, keep quiet! We’re settin 2.9kReads8.3Score194Shelves
- 149 The Taboos of Moving a Grave: I’m Forced to Be a Dead Man’s Best Man 迁坟禁忌，我被迫给死人当伴郎 Inside a brightly decorated hall, I was serving as best man to a corpse. After that, I went through all kinds of bizarre events... The dead kept sending me gifts I couldn't get rid of. A dried corpse murder case that claimed three lives in a single day. The undead patrolling a wilderness graveyard. A pale child who nailed himself inside a coffin. And the thatched hut that stole people's lifespans. To understand what started this endless string of events, we have to go back to the part-time job I 35Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 150 The Underworld Longevity Bureau 黄泉长生局 [Mystery + Tomb Raiding + Adventure + Ghost Hunting] They say the Yellow Springs are crawling with ghosts and demons. Once I raise my yellow talisman and form a hand seal, I'll wipe them all out. From three-eyed ghost lice and the Fish Kingdom tomb to the Ten-Thousand-Pearl Snake Woman... Li Que, a little nobody of the Daoist sect, and Fatty get caught up in a vast scheme for immortality. As the saying goes: “In paper shoes, I tread into the Yellow Springs; through the gloom of life and death, I 215Reads7.1Score—Shelves
