Novels like The Corpse Bearer
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Corpse Bearer, best match first.
- 101 My Years in the Funeral Business 我干白事儿那些年 The funeral services provider Gouqie runs a one-stop funeral business on a shoestring. Uncle Yang is attacked, bringing the Chenxing List to light. A perfectly ordinary funeral services provider is drawn onto the path of spirit-mediumship. Gouqie has seen every side of the human world, yet is pulled into another supernatural realm. This isn't transmigration. Funeral shops, funeral homes: Gouqie's business keeps growing, and so does the number of enemies! Meng Qin, the Chenxing List, the Qia 793Reads7.6Score102Shelves
- 102 Twisted Dreams: A Ghost Emerged from My Split Personality 扭曲梦境：我人格分裂出一只鬼 [Infinite Flow] [Light Horror] [Light Despair] [No Female Lead] Have you ever wondered why people dream? Dreams have weavers, and they have finishers. But now, the one who weaves dreams has gone mad?! Overthinking, sensitivity, and anxiety never solve anything. I know that, yet I still go over everything in my head again and again, tormenting myself. Then, on the day I was diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder, a voice rang out in my mind. Was it an angel come to save me? No. Something u 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 103 Forbidden Horror: Don't Look in the Mirror at Night 禁忌怪谈：晚上不要照镜子 Taboo Horror: Don’t Look in the Mirror at Night —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 104 Horror Park: I Teach in the Ghost Realm, and the Boss Cries While Doing Homework 惊悚乐园：我在鬼域搞教育，BOSS哭着写作业 Horror Paradise: I Teach in the Ghost Realm, and the Boss Cries While Doing His Homework 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 105 Mysterious Curse 1 神秘诅咒1 [Supernatural Mystery + Urban Cultivation + Folk Taboos + A Passionate Coming-of-Age Story] Enter a sinister world concealed beneath the bustle of the modern city! I have no control over life or death. My name is Zhang Wen. I thought getting into college would let me escape that bleak village in the southwest. Then my grandfather died suddenly, with these words written in cinnabar on his palm: "Dig three feet down at the southeast corner of the wall." I unearthed a bloodstained notebook. Its fir 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 106 The Corpse Coffin's Ghostly Fragrance 尸棺鬼香 [The corpse sits in the coffin, the ghost eats incense] [Fate from a past life, continued in this one] A Maoshan Taoist’s path to raising ghosts... After his grandmother dies unexpectedly, Shen Lin happens upon the notes his grandfather left behind. From then on, he begins a ghost-hunting life in which he narrowly escapes death time and time again... 143Reads—Score—Shelves
- 107 Scorpion’s Tail 蝎尾针 [Contains blood, horror, suspense, mystery, and mind-bending twists. Read with caution.] At Binhai City’s May Day Hospital, Ji Xiao is the night watchman in the morgue. To help the Shen family bring a dead relative back to life, he enters the game as a yin-yang master, putting his own life on the line. An old woman visiting a corpse, the Seven Deadly Sins of Extreme Evil turning on one another, a great yin-yang master who has taken over someone’s body... As he investigates a grisly headless mu 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 108 My Sister Went on a Trip to Nanyang and Disappeared! 我妹妹去南洋旅游，就失踪了！ My Younger Sister Went on a Trip to Nanyang and Disappeared! 25Reads—Score—Shelves
- 109 A Single Dad’s Little Secret 单亲爸爸的小秘密 A Single Dad’s Little Secret 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 110 Rule-Based Survival: I Can Foresee Death 规则求生：我能预知死亡 [Infinite Flow, mild horror, terrifying dungeons, no romance, survival, not a saintly protagonist] One night, Chen Feng was walking through an abandoned park after finishing his shift at the crematorium when something strange happened. There was clearly no one behind him, yet he heard faint footsteps. At first, he thought he was imagining things, but when he listened closely, the footsteps were still there, gradually drawing nearer. They sounded as though they were deliberately mimicking his own 22.3kReads7.6Score2.2kShelves
- 111 The Vengeful Ghost Curse 怨诡咒 (Traditional supernatural horror + No System + Not a power fantasy + Deduction + Suspense) My coworker died. He died in his own bathtub. By the time the police arrived at his home, his corpse had already begun to rot and stink. His limbs had been gnawed down to the bone, and the coroner found undigested flesh in his stomach. That very night, I received a WeChat message from my dead coworker. It said I was next... 18.9kReads8.6Score1.5kShelves
- 112 Rule Horror: School of Life and Death 规则怪谈：生死学校 [Rule Horror] [Infinite Flow] [Battle Royale] On the day he got into college, Yang Han thought his hardships were finally over. It wasn't until he stepped through the campus gates that he learned the truth: At this university, there are no classes and no exams. You only have to risk your life. Break the school rules? Erased on the spot. The survival app's countdown hits zero? You disappear instantly. If you want to live one more day, you must fight to complete one bizarre mission after another a 5.9kReads8.9Score726Shelves
- 113 Rule Horror: Help! My AI Miracle Doctor Says I Have to Die 规则怪谈：救命！我的AI神医说我必须死 Rule Horror: Help! My AI Miracle Doctor Says I Have to Die —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 114 A Clown's Diary 一个小丑的日记 [First person] [Infinite Flow] [No female lead] [No brainless wish fulfillment] [Dual personality] [Hannibal] The clown in my mind writes a letter on Judgment Day: Dear Tianming, I stitched the sinners into the shadows, using their own bodies as thread. They all call me the perfect madman. After all, I can dissect bodies with a scalpel and souls with a deck of cards at the same time. When the curtain falls at the Eternal Night Theater, I always hear two kinds of laughter amid the applause: one c 32Reads—Score—Shelves
- 115 Classroom of Despair 绝望教室 What began as a prank voting game set off a string of tragedies. One classmate after another died, yet the voting continued. I knew that maybe I would be the next one to die… 671Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 116 Infinite Nightmares: An Eighty-Year-Old Man Rejuvenated from the Start 无限噩梦：开局八旬老汉返老还童 Infinite flow + rules-based horror + mild horror + no romance Qin Yi accidentally enters a nightmarish world. Here, there are rules that must never be broken, along with bizarre phenomena beyond ordinary people's understanding. By chance, Qin Yi discovers the rewards for surviving a nightmare. Wealth, health, youth, achievement… Terrified of the nightmares but coveting the rewards for surviving them, Qin Yi approaches one nightmare after another with mixed feelings… 8.6kReads8.1Score983Shelves
- 117 Mystery Revival: The World of Planes 神秘复苏：位面世界 [Eerie Revival] + [Entirely handmade, no AI] + [A huge cast of original evil ghosts] + [No female lead] + [Slow pacing] + [Multiple twists] The three laws of evil ghosts. First: Evil ghosts cannot be killed. Second: Every evil ghost has a rule that governs its killings. Find the rule, and even ordinary people can survive. Third: Only ghosts can fight ghosts. Fierce evil ghosts still haunt the worlds, and exorcists still exist, generation after generation, to fight them. The crumbling order, the 129Reads—Score—Shelves
- 118 Hell Manor 地狱庄园 [Horror and the Supernatural + Suspense and Mystery + Infinite Flow + No Female Lead] A group of strangers receive a blood letter and mysteriously find themselves inside a villa. Their only chance of survival is to uncover the ghost hiding among them. After Xu Yi completes the task by the skin of his teeth, he is relieved to have finally survived. But then he discovers that he has arrived at a place called Hell Manor. He must complete the tasks in eleven blood letters to leave the manor alive. A 10.1kReads8.0Score852Shelves
- 119 Close Your Eyes, and the Nightmare Begins 闭眼即梦魇 [Infinite-flow + no romance + mild horror + mystery-solving] A bizarre murder case dragged Yan Wei, a psychiatric patient, into a bloody game. As layer after layer of fog lifted, he discovered a grand conspiracy lurking behind it all... A mysteriously vanished psychiatric hospital, otherworldly powers worshipped by the masses, a boy whose face he could never remember from his dreams... Behind ideals that seemed so grand lay a tangled web of human and divine self-interest. 42Reads—Score—Shelves
- 120 Mysterious Tales: Stop Crying! Smile, Damn It! 诡秘怪谈：别哭了！给老子笑！ Weird Tales of the Mysterious: Stop crying! Give me a damn smile! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 121 Death and Infinite Resets: Uncovering the Rules of Every Vengeful Ghost 死亡无限回档：洞察所有厉鬼规律 [Death Rewind] [Kill the do-gooders first] [Vicious ghosts return] [Dark story] As the paranormal world awakens and vicious ghosts reappear, all you need to do is call Su Yun's name. I'll lead you back through time to find the perfect timeline. Su Yun had just transmigrated into a world where the paranormal was returning when four vicious ghosts began interrogating him. First interrogation: "What do you mean, you killed me because you didn't know how I died?" He rewound to before his death and s 916Reads—Score104Shelves
- 122 The Teacher's Birthday Banquet 老师的生日宴 The Teacher’s Birthday Banquet 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 123 Rule Horror: Feeding Records from No. 7 Huaiyin Lane 规则怪谈：槐荫里7号进食记录 Rule Horror: Feeding Records from No. 7, Huaiyin Lane —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 124 Midnight Oracle 午夜神谕 Shh… It’s late. Turn out the lights. Once you step through this door, the world of lies behind you. Whatever you see there, don’t tell anyone. Don’t scream… Stay alive, and you’ll understand everything. As an “ordinary” residential community security guard, Chen You has endured one midnight after another: the church bells ring out twelve long echoes in succession; in an empty post office, the PA system switches on by itself and mutters ancient prophecies; an estate that sho 25Reads—Score—Shelves
- 125 The May Day Calamity 五一劫 The May Day Calamity —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 126 Rule Horror: All My Teammates Are Crazy 规则怪谈：我的队友全是神经病 [The main CP is a male-male couple] [Romance] [Supernatural horror] [Social satire] [Mystery and deduction] [CPs include both men and women] The God-Sealing Game has descended on this planet for the second time. No one knows who will succeed in becoming a god this time and become a legend for future generations. The mysterious Andrew Card seems like a divine gift, yet something about it feels sinister. Zzzzt A sudden burst of static swept through everyone's minds. [Humanity's God-Sealing Plan in 77Reads—Score—Shelves
- 127 Terrifying Supernatural Happenings 恐怖灵异怪事 A terrifying paranormal ghost story. There is a Zhao Family Village in the Funiu Mountains, where many terrifying supernatural incidents have taken place in the ravine west of the village. Several people have been frightened to death, and many nearby residents shudder at the very mention of the ravine. Even the villages around it have experienced many inexplicable events. I used to be afraid. I wanted to write about them but didn't dare. Whenever I thought about putting them into words, terror w 656Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 128 Conspiracy: The Amnesia Cage 诡计：失忆囚笼 The Scheme: A Cage of Lost Memories 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 129 Rule Horror: Mirror Image 规则怪谈：镜像 Rule Horror: Mirror Image 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 130 My Pale Life 我苍白的一生 My name is Zhang Yuan, though my childhood nickname was Ergou. I'm male, born in 1990. Everyone encounters all kinds of strange, inexplicable things in life. By the way, do you believe in ghosts? 473Reads8.4Score101Shelves
- 131 Learning to Slay Gods in an Infinite Game 我在无限游戏里学弑神 [Infinite Flow]➕ [No Female Lead]➕ [No Sanctimonious Protagonist]➕ [Plot Twists]. “A ten-day experiment in human nature. Remember, do not break the rules.” In an unattended shopping mall, six people who had volunteered to work sit in a circle. Chen Qige, the only one who was tricked into coming, sticks out like a sore thumb. A bizarre couple asks them one final question: “You all volunteered for this job, correct?” The six people, whose backgrounds are shrouded in mystery, all nod. Chen Qige: “I —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 132 Thriller: There's a Ghost in My Phone 惊悚：我的手机里有鬼 A month ago, my younger sister mysteriously disappeared in a subway station. A day ago, the police pulled a headless female corpse from the river. A DNA test confirmed it was my sister, Xu Yuan. A minute ago, my dead sister walked in carrying a cake decorated with a human head. A white ghost candle was stuck into the crown of the skull, and the longevity noodles were made from human organs. She had come to celebrate my birthday. A minute later, I was chosen by a supernatural app's blood contract 3.2kReads—Score450Shelves
- 133 You Were Supposed to Handle Rule Contamination, So Why Are You Going, “For Real?” 让你处理规则污染，你搁这“尊嘟假嘟”？ You were supposed to handle the rule contamination, so why are you over here going, “For real, though?” 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 134 Eerie Revival: Obstetrician to an S-Rank Haunted Hospital 诡异复苏：给S级鬼楼当产科医生 Eerie Revival: Obstetrician to an S-Rank Haunted Building 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 135 The Corpse Keeper 守尸人 The morgue is where life and death meet. At this boundary, there are many taboos to heed. I grew up beside a hospital morgue, and I'll tell you about the hospital's taboos from a different perspective. Taboo 1: If you see a patient being resuscitated, don't gather around to watch. Taboo 2: If a patient's family throws away something the deceased used while alive, don't toss your own trash on top of it. Taboo 3: If you hear a cat meowing at night, don't go outside to look, whether you're a patien 917Reads6.3Score100Shelves
- 136 The Strange Book 诡书 [Supernatural + Protagonist’s Growth + Single Female Lead + Ensemble Cast + Mild Horror] What would you do if you could see ghosts? Would you explore out of curiosity, or keep your distance? What if I told you that ghosts are impossible to resist, and that an ordinary person would lose the ability to move just from seeing one? All you could do is watch yourself die with your mind perfectly clear. What would you do? Would you charge into one last desperate attack, no matter the cost? Or would you 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 137 My 99 Ghostly Roommates 我的99位死诡房客 Blood is seeping from the mirrors in the lobby. A pair of transparent toes dangle beneath the magnificent chandelier. The refrigerator is always stocked with fresh meat. The elevator travels to nonexistent floors after midnight. The hotel windows are covered in countless handprints. The garden statues spy on every passerby. “Please, esteemed guests, don’t be alarmed. This is just the latest interior design style at the Xi Wang Grand Hotel.” “What? You just saw one of our employees’ heads fall of 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 138 12:17 A.M., Please Confirm Your Name 零点十七分，请确认你的姓名 In Qiheng City, people don’t simply disappear. First, the city erases their names, then convinces everyone they never existed. At 12:17 a.m., a fire alarm suddenly went off in a residential building in Qiheng City that had only sixteen floors: “Someone is trapped on the seventeenth floor.” Zhou Jiming, an engineer who inspected fire safety systems, checked the building plans, stairwell height, elevator programming, and exterior facade. Every piece of evidence proved that the seventeenth floor di 17Reads—Score170Shelves
- 139 Reincarnation's Eerie Station 轮回诡站 A cursed ticket leading to one horrifying incident site after another... A city shrouded in dense fog, obsessed with eradicating the very existence of "horror"... Passengers who vanish one after another, or are cursed for all eternity... Inside a dilapidated train, an amnesiac burdened by three curses awakens in the dim light, as a voice calling out "curse" sounds in his ears... "Welcome to Reincarnation Station! Passengers aboard the train, please pay attention... The next stop is... Corpse Pai 167.9kReads8.8Score17.9kShelves
- 140 Another World: Horror Game 异世界：恐怖游戏 [When a horror game descends, a yandere BOSS targets her from the start] Dropped into a disastrous situation right away? Sorry, someone has already talked himself into falling for her. Yu Xinlan was accidentally swept into another world, where she encountered a village of inverted red and white, a “perfect” yet eerie school, a temple where every wish came true... Each dungeon concealed a bloody past and its own rules. She proceeded cautiously, yet the same man kept maliciously raising the diffi 807Reads—Score149Shelves
- 141 Part-Time Underworld Constable: A Taoist Priest Investigates Murders in the City 阴差兼职：贫道在都市查凶 A lazy, penny-pinching, down-and-out Taoist is forced to work off his debts as a part-time underworld officer! A reclusive old man dies mysteriously, ghostly passengers haunt the midnight subway, and vengeful spirits from cold cases return. The entire city turns out to be a giant formation for a fiend to refine evil spirits! Police captain: There are no ghosts or gods in this world! → I take it all back! Master Chen, save me! Black Impermanence: Slacking off costs you underworld merit; shirking 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 142 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... 646Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 143 The Bell Pavilion 铃铛阁 An operation unexpectedly opened my yin-yang eyes. The string of uncanny encounters that followed completely overturned everything I thought I knew. The Four Yin Marshals of the Underworld, Zhong Kui, and the Ten Yama Kings all made their appearances. In the end, I uncovered the mystery of my own origins. I never imagined that in my previous life, I had been... 61Reads—Score—Shelves
- 144 Studying Neutrinos at the Funeral Home 我在殡仪馆研究中微子 ❎ Not for the faint of heart! Five-star horror rating. I’m a college student. To ease the burden on my family, I decided to find a part-time job near campus. By chance, I spotted a faded advertisement on a utility pole nearby. The job was keeping night watch at a funeral home, and the pay was great, so I took it. On my first day, the manager told me three bizarre rules for the funeral home’s night shift: I’d be the only one working overnight; never open the door for strangers; and never get invo 16.7kReads7.2Score2.4kShelves
- 145 Night Tales from the Haunted House: 1,000 Folk Ghost Stories 诡舍夜话：1000个民间鬼故事 [Changting 9.0 Rating] [A Must-Read for Women Late at Night] [Urban Horror] Don't read this late at night! A thousand standalone tales of the eerie, guaranteed to make you afraid to walk alone after dark! This collection features sinister events passed down through generations in rural lanes and villages, as well as bizarre tales widely shared online. Each chapter is a story of its own, so there's no need to wait for updates. Just open it and start reading! The faint sobbing from a corner of an 4.7kReads—Score169Shelves
- 146 Terror in the Forbidden Zone of Hoh Xil 可可西里之禁地惊魂 The Hoh Xil region on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is as beautiful as it is cruel! A team of seven adventure enthusiasts will transmigrate into the mysterious, uninhabited region of Hoh Xil to explore it. Along the way, a series of bizarre, terrifying supernatural events unfold. Will they make it out of the wilderness? And yet... the ending turns out to be... utterly unimaginable... 1.8kReads—Score139Shelves
- 147 Welcome to the Supernatural Game! 欢迎来到超凡游戏！ [Decisive and Ruthless + Infinite Flow + Supernatural Game] "Welcome to the Supernatural Game. Players, please get ready!" A cold System prompt rang out. "Mission type" "[Scenario Mission]: Midnight Bus!" "Mission hint: At exactly midnight, a long-abandoned bus appears at Bus Stop 444. Everyone who boards it has never returned alive..." An old, deep-red bus stopped in front of Su Bai, and he got on. Not long afterward, the bus pulled over, but no one dared get off. Countless evil ghosts waited 5.8kReads6.7Score442Shelves
- 148 The Mystic Arts Face Reader 玄门相师 A young master of metaphysics, he knows every secret of heaven's design. In everything, he turns danger into fortune, and in every crisis, he finds a way through. He reads people, ghosts, and fate itself! The ways of humans and ghosts are unfathomable, and heaven's secrets must not be revealed! 8.8kReads8.7Score867Shelves
- 149 The Solar Eclipse Apocalypse 日蚀启示录 [Rules Horror + Mind Games + Terror + The Supernatural] Strange regulations, an eerie head of security You must follow the rules on the night shift, or you'll die Visitors must not ask anyone's name Do not look in mirrors without a reason If a child cries, give them candy At first, Wu Ming thought the old man was just playing a prank on the newcomers Until one day, he saw a dark figure standing behind him in the mirror Even more terrifying, the candy in his pocket kept multiplying every day And —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 150 Mystery Revival: Speedrunning Evil Ghosts, Starting with the Starving Ghost 神秘复苏：从饿死鬼开始速通厉鬼 Ghosts cannot be killed. The only thing that can deal with a ghost is another ghost. The transmigrator Zhou Yuan awakens in the Knocking Ghost's domain at Linchang No. 11 High School. He is neither an ordinary person nor a ghost handler: he has directly become the consciousness of the Starving Ghost. A ghost infant writhes in his abdomen, and the instinct to devour everything surges like a tide. Outside the door, an A-class calamity-level evil ghost is hunting him down. He has read the original 597Reads6.6Score431Shelves
