Novels like The Corpse Bearer
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Corpse Bearer, best match first.
- 1 Rule Horror: The Seventh in the Silent Classroom 规则怪谈：无声教室的第七 Rule Horror: The Seventh of the Silent Classroom 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Rule Horror: Please, Immortal Maiden, Grant Me a Sacred Body 规则怪谈：请仙姑赐我肉身成圣 Rule Horror: Please, Immortal Maiden, Grant Me a Saintly Body 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Shall We Escape School Together? 一起逃出学校吗 What wish would you like to come true? Would you be willing to pay a price to have it granted? What sins have you committed? You must atone before you can make a wish. Will you tell me what you’ve done… —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Thriller: I Slay Evil Spirits with the Nuo God 惊悚：我以傩神诛魍魉 Your name is Chen Nuo, and you were unexpectedly chosen to enter an instance. From the start, a weasel spirit demanded that you grant it a title. You thought you were done for, but through a strange twist of fate, you ended up in another multiplayer instance. But you never expected an even greater crisis to be on its way. When the Hu people ran amok, you and the others upheld justice and slew them. But you never imagined that those people weren't human at all… When cooking smoke rises, all is 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 The Thousand and First Story 第一千零一个故事 Each story stands on its own. In every story, there is someone named Chen Mo. He is never the same person, yet on different nights, he always finds himself caught up in different strange happenings. Old buildings, rainy nights, long-distance buses, funeral homes, elevators, schools, haunted houses... When the truth comes to light, the living are colder than ghosts, and the past runs deeper than death. Welcome to The Thousand-and-First Story. The next story may already have begun. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Rule Horror: The Deep Blue Aquarium 规则怪谈：深蓝海洋馆 Rule Horror: Deep Blue Aquarium —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Rule Horror: Jingzhou West Station 规则怪谈：京州西站 Rule Horror: Jingzhou West Station —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 Rule Horror: The Village Night Bus 规则怪谈：乡村夜班车 Rule Horror: The Rural Night Bus —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 Rule Horror: Observation Log 701: Rules of Confinement 规则怪谈：701观测日志：规则禁闭 Rule Horror: Observation Log 701: Rule-Based Confinement —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 Rule Horror: The General's Residence in the North 规则怪谈：镇北将军府 Rule Horror: The General Who Guards the North’s Residence —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 You Get Stronger by Hunting Ghosts and Slaying Demons, So Why Call Me a Corpse Collector? 捉鬼杀妖就变强，你叫我收尸佬？ [Urban Mysteries] [Folk Legends] [Supernatural] [Thriller] [Adventure] When Chen Sanqi woke up, he had been reborn in 2008, in a construction-site dormitory in Beijing. Time had turned back, and the world seemed to be the same one he knew, yet it had become almost unrecognizable. The good news: his good buddy, Fatty, was still alive. The bad news: ghosts really did exist in this world. Traditions had been lost, charlatans ran rampant, and the supernatural kept multiplying with the evil thoughts 22.9kReads6.3Score2.5kShelves
- 12 May Vengeful Ghosts Protect You 厉鬼保佑 [Horror + Supernatural + Mystery + Survival + No System + No Female Lead] In this deranged world overrun by vengeful ghosts, Xu Feng obtains the key to Shelter 21. Why not pray to the ghosts? Beg them for a quick, clean death!!! 14Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 13 A Record of Strange Tales, Past and Present 古今怪谈轶事录 Let's talk about the past and present, and share strange tales. Hello, readers! I'm the author of this book, Lao Zhou. A friendly warning: if you're easily scared, read with caution. I'll take you on a journey through haunted houses and strange tales from ancient and modern China. When I decided to write these stories, I was no longer sure I was a hundred-percent materialist. In fact, there really are so many phenomena and stories in this world that science simply can't explain. I believe magnet 449Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 The Pinnacle of Fear 恐惧之巅 Ye Zihui, an unemployed man in his twenties, unexpectedly receives a strange text from an unknown number. By accident, he embarks on a terrifying adventure in another world, collecting the code symbols of the Summit of Fear. In this world, you can take special items collected at the Summit of Fear back to reality and even trade them freely. You can also store them in your personal space and use them the next time you enter the Fear Realm. Every trial taker here is assigned a level. The only way 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 The Horror Never Ends 恐怖不断到来 Ghosts are real if you believe in them, and nonexistent if you don't! Unemployed, I stumbled into a fancy supermarket by chance. The beautiful owner offered me a high salary and great benefits, with just one requirement: I had to protect her around the clock! From then on, one eerie event followed another, and terror kept closing in. It turned out everything was because of... 1.3kReads5.0Score127Shelves
- 16 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
- 17 The Paper Effigy Shop: The Figures I Make Can Catch Ghosts 祖传纸扎铺：我扎的纸人会抓鬼 There were no ghosts in the world to begin with. The more people believe in them, the more real they become! In truth, human hearts are a hundred times more sinister than evil ghosts. Every ghost was driven into being by people. My family’s paper effigy shop is so poor it’s about to close. My ancestors passed down three ironclad rules: never make an effigy in the likeness of a living person, never make one in the likeness of the dead, and never make one of anyone named by a customer. To make end 231Reads—Score124Shelves
- 18 Ghostly Shadows in Memory 忆中诡影 [Supernatural Instance-Based Infinite Flow] A sudden natural disaster tore the world into pieces, leaving us stranded on one enormous island. Spatial rifts lead to one terrifying incident after another, as supernatural forces invade and try to drag people into a sea of death. Find the source of the fear and rescue those trapped inside. Those who seem to have nothing to do with saving the world. Those awakened by reincarnation. Survive a little longer. The Strange Mirror will find the heart of th 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 Death Train: I Just Want to Be the Boss of the Platform 死亡列车，我只是想当站台话事人 [Infinite Flow, Mild Horror, Mystery, Survival, Teamwork] One train after another carries blood and tears; One platform after another tells of love and hate. Should they bow to fate and sink into endless darkness, or overcome their fear and head toward an unknown future? Eighteen levels of hell, eighteen instances. The people on the platforms came and went, but Jiang Yu was the one who had the last laugh. Someone asked the young man beside him, “Do you know who’s in charge of this platform?” The 385Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 Death Sacrifice 死祭 True Experiences ✖️ Traditional Supernatural Tales ✖️ Horror Late one night, I got a call from an unknown number. A hoarse voice whispered, “There's someone under your bed.” I looked in terror, but there was nothing there. After that, the phone rang at the same time every night, repeating the same words. Then, on the third night, I found a trail of footprints under the bed that weren't mine. And from the other end of the phone, I heard my own voice... 224Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 The Strange Studio: Ten Thousand Tribulations of Reincarnation 异斋之万劫轮回 [Chinese-Style Supernatural Horror + No Romance] [Infinite-Flow Stories Set in the World of Strange Tales + Causal Loops Driven by Human Obsession] Have you read Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio? Do you think of it as folk tales of the supernatural from the late Ming dynasty, or as the heartwarming, romanticized “fox spirits and ghosts” seen in TV dramas and movies? The evil in human nature, the ferocity of spirits and monsters, and the poison of karma rebuild every Strange Tales story into a 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 Rule Horror: Mobius Mountain 规则怪谈：莫比乌斯山 Rule Horror: Möbius Mountain 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 Rule Horror: The Human-Flesh Barbecue Bun 规则怪谈：人肉叉烧包 Rule Horror: Human-Meat Barbecue Buns —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 Rule Horror: Grandpa's Last Letter: The Rules Must Not Be Broken 规则怪谈：爷爷的遗书：规则不可违背 Rule Horror: Grandpa’s Last Letter: The Rules Must Never Be Broken 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 Rule Horror: The Night Bus Driver and the Woman in Red 规则怪谈：夜行客车司机与红衣女人 Rule Horror: Night Bus Driver and the Woman in Red 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 Rule Horror: The Assembly Line That Never Stops 规则怪谈：永远不会停止的流水线车间 Rule Horror: The Never-Ending Assembly Line Workshop —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 Rule Horror: Train No. 404 规则怪谈：404号列车 Rule Horror: Train No. 404 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 Rule Horror: Mom's Note, Dad's Last Letter 规则怪谈：妈妈的纸条，爸爸的遗书 Rule Horror: Mom's Note, Dad's Suicide Note —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 Rule Horror: The Old Corpse of the Mountain Village: Huangshan Village 规则怪谈：山村老尸-黄山村 Rule Horror: The Old Corpse of the Mountain Village: Huangshan Village —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 The Water Stain That Never Dries 永远拧不干的水渍 The Water Stain That Never Dries 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 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
- 32 Strange Tales of Folk Feng Shui 民间风水奇谭 In 2013, hundreds of thousands of fish died in Liaozhong Reservoir; ghosts roamed the streets of Tawan; a sinister market appeared in Wenguantun; and a Qing princess rode in a sedan chair outside Shenyang Imperial Palace. But could these all be the work of nature? I am a feng shui master. Over the past ten years, I've saved many people, and harmed some as well. I wrote this book to warn the world: “Feng shui can nurture people, but it can also kill.” But the law itself is neither good nor evil. 524Reads5.3Score102Shelves
- 33 A Stranger's Path Through the Ghost World 鬼途陌路 Modern setting + horror + suspense + supernatural + strong female lead Hu Ying is a funeral makeup artist who just wants to earn a little money and lie flat. Who would have thought that after an accident, she’d be forced onto a one-way road where she’d have to live among ghosts? From then on, she uncovers conspiracies and fights evil cults, and somehow ends up at the very peak of life... 93Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 Infinite Horror: I Can Sense Ghosts 恐怖无限：我能感知到鬼 [Infinite Flow, Not a Power Fantasy] [Slight Horror] [No CP] [Survival] [Escape] [Deduction] [Mystery] "Shh..." "There are ghosts in this world!" Those contaminated by the aura of Another World can only keep clearing one instance after another. They say that after clearing 13 instances, you can make a wish? Lu Ming discovers that ghosts aren't the only things he can sense. There's also... In this game of pursuit between humans and ghosts, he is forced into Another World, a realm teeming with evi 11.5kReads6.9Score1.1kShelves
- 35 Shop No. 4 on Yellow Springs Street 黄泉街4号店 [No romance] My name is Su Jingze, and I run a peculiar shop on a street lined with funeral businesses. My biggest secret is that I can see things ordinary people can't. A fortune-teller said my fate was too fragile for me to survive, but my parents refused to believe in fate. I didn’t believe in it either, so I made a deal with them... 825Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 36 The Ultimate Horror 终极惊悚 [Infinite Flow] + [Mystery] + [Team] + [Plot] Liu Zheng, a first-year graduate student at the School of Mechanical Engineering, was broke and on the verge of becoming homeless when a mysterious app quietly appeared on his phone... [Beep. Host detected: broke as can be, with a powerful desire to make money. Accept this job?] [Yes/No] With three parts apprehension and seven parts anticipation, Liu Zheng tapped to confirm. The next second, a mechanical voice rang out, and an old mansion buried deep 23Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 Yin-Yang Paranormal Investigator 阴阳恐怖调查员 [Two male leads x supernatural horror x suspense x folklore] To stay alive, he signs a contract of servitude and becomes a paranormal investigator serving both the underworld and the human world. From a male corpse covered in white fungus, to paper figures coming back to life, a twin-soul evil spirit, ghostly shadows in the morgue, and vengeful spirits in an abandoned village... He never expected that it had all been a chess game arranged by Yan Fei, one that began tens of thousands of years ago 246Reads—Score100Shelves
- 38 The Crimson Flower Cup 血色花盏 Blood-Red Flower Cup —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 The Night Shift Clerk's Countdown 《夜班店员的倒计时》 The Night-Shift Clerk's Countdown 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 The Clammy Echoes of the Basement 地下室的黏腻回响 The Sticky Echoes of the Basement 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 Lucid Darkness 清醒的黑暗 Clear-Eyed Darkness 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 Horror Game: Hell Corporation 恐怖游戏：地狱公司 (The rating just came in, and it’ll rise over time!!!) [Infinite Flow + mild suspense + horror game + one female lead] "This is a company that can make any wish come true. Do you have a wish you'd like granted? Call our hotline to join our game. If you clear it, we'll make your wish come true." Wang Zhu looked at the ad on his phone and called the number. He didn't notice the pair of deathly pale eyes staring at him from outside the window. 14kReads7.7Score1.5kShelves
- 43 The Haunted Gate: There's a Ghost Inside Me 恐怖鬼门：我的体内有只鬼 (The rating has just come out, and it's expected to rise...) [Infinite-flow + no female lead + fast-paced + battles of human nature] [An evolving protagonist. If it's not your thing, please don't flame me ´ᯅ`] [Don't Open the Door, There's Something Outside...] Arc complete. [Wedding] Arc complete. Read with confidence. [People Come to Kill] Arc complete. [The Missing Her] Ongoing... Rumor has it that anyone who has committed a crime will be dragged through a ghostly door. There, they are fo 87Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 44 Horror Cycle: The Ghost Gate Survival Game 恐怖轮回：诡门生存游戏 [Infinite Flow + Mild Horror + Survival Games + No CP] Lu Xun was already dead from the start. But then he came back to life. The price of staying alive was being dragged again and again by a mysterious force to a strange world crawling with ghosts and monsters, where he had to fight desperately to survive. To escape this life for good, he had two choices: die, or keep winning the games of death and become a legendary Peril-Class player... 34.7kReads8.2Score4.2kShelves
- 45 The Skinning Ghost 扒皮鬼 (Traditional supernatural horror + extreme horror + multiple twists + mystery + entirely handcrafted) Lately, I've been having nightmares every night. A fortune-teller said I might have a ghost clinging to me. He told me about a forbidden folk ritual: Put on a pair of worn underwear over your head, and it will block a ghost's sight. That night, I got home and followed his advice, half believing it. My girlfriend came back to the room after washing up and stared blankly at where I was. "Where... 64.7kReads8.3Score7.2kShelves
- 46 Nightmare Invitation 噩梦邀请 [Infinite flow, original instances, mild horror, no romance] An invitation sent from the Nightmare World drags a group of people into a haunted place, where they struggle desperately to survive. Those pulled into the Nightmare World have no idea what lies ahead. They only know they must do everything they can to stay alive. Fight the locals! Fight the ghosts! Fight the Nightmare World! Until... they escape the Nightmare World. 1.4kReads6.6Score104Shelves
- 47 Sweet Heartbeats: The School Heartthrob's Special Favor 甜系心动：校草的专属偏爱 A Sweet Spark of Romance: The School Heartthrob’s Special Favor —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 Old Wei's Ghost Stories 老魏讲鬼故事 [Traditional Supernatural Tales] [Chinese-Style Horror] [Based on True Events] [Submitted by Readers] [Chilling on Reflection] [Bizarre Tales] [Beyond the Bounds of Science] The eerie Buddha statue seen when mountaineers are trapped in a ghostly loop, a face appearing on the wall in the middle of the night, a “person” using their own head as a ball during evening study at school... I have always believed that horror stories should be short, sometimes ending on a cliffhanger, sometimes becoming 1.4kReads—Score102Shelves
- 49 I Deliver Takeout to the Underworld, From the Start I Earn Billions 我给阴间送外卖，开局奖励亿万 Humiliated in public by his ex-girlfriend while delivering takeout, with his seriously ill mother in the hospital and urgently needing money, Jiang Chen hits rock bottom. Just as he reaches the brink of despair, his phone chimes, and an app called Yin-Yang Delivery mysteriously installs itself! “Order from: a girl who drowned; item: a letter that was never sent; reward: underwater breathing (10 minutes).” “Order from: a chef who died in a car accident; item: a family recipe; reward: god-tier coo 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 I’m Out of Options! Five Lunatics Insist on Being My Dogs 没招了！五个疯批硬要当我的狗 “Infinite-Flow Male Lead Fragments | Spoiled | All Male Characters Are Loyal and Unattached | Top-Tier Romantic Rivalry | Flirtatious | Yandere Powerhouses | Everyone’s Favorite” Shui Sang has no idea that she has died in the real world. All she knows is that the System has repeatedly forced her into instances, sternly warning her to complete each mission! Otherwise, she’ll risk being trapped in an instance forever. [Zaoyuan Stockade: The Huo Family] From the start, Shui Sang is forced to become 12Reads—Score—Shelves
