Novels like The Corpse Collector
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Corpse Collector, best match first.
- 1 The Ghost Hunter 捉鬼术师 Xia Yiyun is an ordinary office worker stuck in the 996 grind. One day, she works overtime as usual, never expecting a series of terrifying events to unfold after she gets home. Who is the white shadow outside her window? Was what she saw in the office bathroom just a hallucination? (I’m not good at writing blurbs, so this will have to do for now. The System will show up later. I don’t think there’s a male lead.) (The System appears in Chapters 3 and 4. The heroine is an ordinary person who can’ —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 The Fate Script Murder Mystery 命运剧本杀 [Mild Horror + Livestreaming + Comedy] When comedian Jiang Ming pushed open that blood-red door, he accidentally signed a contract with death. Playing horror games and getting flamed by viewers until he trended online? Livestreaming real cases and being chased down by a psychopathic killer? It was all part of Jiang Ming’s carefully planned script! If you haven’t had enough yet, welcome to my murder mystery game shop! A mysterious ghost ship, a university rumored to be forbidden, secrets beyond t 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 All My Furniture Has Mutated... 我的家具都变异了…… All my furniture has mutated... 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Yin-Yang Master 阴阳大师， There is a group of people who travel among the common folk, helping them catch ghosts and ward off evil, arrange funerals, locate auspicious burial sites, and read the feng shui. Some among them are good, others evil. The good bring blessings to the people, while the wicked use dark arts to harm them. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 The Ghost Tree 鬼树 He thinks he was born into an ordinary family, yet every corner of the household gives off an eerie feeling. As the eldest grandson of a reclusive, powerful Daoist clan, what terrifying supernatural experiences await him, born with a sinister fate? What lies behind his uniquely strange destiny? What horrifying truth will the shocking mystery in this small village reveal? 16Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 6 The Corpse Driver 赶尸匠 Who in western Hunan hasn't heard of corpse-driving? But how many people know about the corpse drivers themselves? They hide by day and travel by night, keeping company with corpses. Using this strange art, they can make the dead walk, guiding them home to be laid to rest. What terrors and hardships do novices face as they learn to drive corpses? How do they grow, step by step, into capable corpse drivers? Come along with my protagonist and embark on a mysterious journey into the art of corpse-d 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 The Paper Effigy Maker 扎纸匠 I was born unlucky. My father didn’t care for me, my mother didn’t love me, and even my grandfather, who had been closest to me when I was little, wanted nothing to do with me. Then one day, I accidentally drank some “mineral water” my cousin had made for an experiment, and my life changed completely. I thought my life was about to end, but my grandfather, who had spent his whole life making funeral wreaths and paper effigies, suddenly came looking for me. He took me to a place only the dead cou 33Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 The Corpse Stitcher 缝尸匠 When I was born, torrential rain fell for forty-nine days straight. Rivers overflowed their banks, and mudslides swept through the land. My master cut me out of my mother's womb. The moment I came into the world, ghost soldiers marched across the land and countless ghosts paid homage to their king. When I was a little older, my master told me that my Seven Killings fate had no restraint, and that I might incur Heaven's punishment in the future. He then taught me the art of corpse stitching, so I 162Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 The Eerie Craftsman 诡匠 My grandfather and great-grandfather both died at the hands of stone carvings, so a saying took hold in our village: stone carving is a forbidden trade, and anyone who practices it is doomed to an untimely end. When I was sixteen, Wang Mazi from the village bought himself a wife, and my father died as a result. To find out what caused his death, I ignored the consequences and picked up the family carving knife... 25Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 The Corpse Retriever 捞尸匠 I was born under an ominous sign. After my grandfather died, I took up the trade of retrieving corpses from the water. There were walking corpses, blood corpses, mother-and-child corpses... and a mysterious civilization buried beneath the Yellow River for thousands of years. 92Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 The Fated Corpse Stitcher 天命缝尸人 My grandfather was a corpse seamster. He stitched together the broken remains of the dead, so they could rest in peace and the living could find comfort. But when I was fourteen, he died a sudden, gruesome death. I hadn't even completed my apprenticeship, yet I had no choice but to stitch his corpse back together with my own hands... —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 I Turned a Horror City into a Life-Simulation Game 我把惊悚城市玩成养成游戏 [Supernatural + Horror Game + Beauty + Urban + No Brain-Dead Plot] After applying for a high-paying job, Lin Fei was tricked into entering the Horror City game. Whenever the clock strikes midnight, he is pulled into the game. Complete the missions, and you will receive generous rewards. Fail, and the game will erase you forever. With his “Berserk Talent,” Lin Fei escapes death time and again. As he gradually builds a “home” of his own in the terrifying city, he discovers that a sinister conspira —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 A Blind Date Turns into a Ghost Marriage: I Turn the Tables and Livestream the Corpse-Carrying Groom 相亲变冥婚：我反手直播赶尸新郎 [Metaphysics + horror + juicy gossip + comedy + complete] Lin Qingjiu, the disowned daughter of a wealthy family, is schemed against by her relatives and forced into a ghost marriage. Lying in the coffin beside her ghost groom, whose face is deathly pale yet stunningly beautiful, she smiles. Thanks, buddy, for the fresh corpse! She immediately turns around and livestreams herself escorting the groom’s corpse, bringing the whole internet along to feast on the juicy gossip. She exposes the weal 32Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 14 Corpse Driver: I Dug Up an Undercover Cop from the Start 赶尸人，开局挖出警方卧底 Synopsis: Li Chengchuan is so busy driving corpses that he accidentally stands up his blind date, enraging his older sister! “I’ll go plead your case again, but you’d better behave this time, or I’ll beat you to death!” “I hope you can give me a reasonable explanation.” “Sorry, I had to go on a last-minute business trip and forgot to tell you.” “So what do you do for work?” “If I say I drive corpses, would you believe me?” “I believe you!” Song Qianqian didn’t take him too seriously, because her 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 Who Moved My Corpse? 谁动了我的尸体 My name is Minnie, and I’m a mortician. To put it plainly, I do makeup for the dead. But some people just can’t stand me, and they actually transferred me to the Non-Natural Death Department. From then on, my life was filled with countless mutilated corpses. 144Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 The Corpse Investigator 探尸人 In the 1980s, a feng shui master was attacked by a zombie in a land of five evils. He lost a leg and an arm, but miraculously survived. Twenty years later, a mysterious woman surnamed Qin sought out the grandson of that master, Sun. She gathered a group of people and went exploring everywhere, capturing zombies to use as ingredients for medicine. Every member of the group was stranger than the last. What secrets were they hiding...? 420Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 The Last Corpse Herder 最后一个赶尸人 Many years ago, a Japanese army unit mysteriously vanished in the Taihang Mountains, leading to a secret about corpse driving. The Skinning Temple, mountain spirits, a sinister carriage, a thousand corpses rising from their graves: the last old corpse driver of the corpse-driving family in Shizui Gou, Taihang Mountains, tells you the mysterious tale of what happened all those years ago. When people drive corpses, are they really driving corpses? The truth behind corpse driving is bone-chilling, 152Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 The Forbidden Land of Death 死亡禁地 I was never superstitious, and I never believed in ghosts or monsters, until these strange things started happening to me. 44Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 The Corpse Burner 烧尸人 Liu Gen is a designer who complains about life every day. By chance, he gets a job as a cremator, only to discover that the work involves more than simply burning the dead. They aren't demons who burn corpses, but Buddhas who deliver souls. Behind each seemingly eerie incident lies a heartwarming story. Most ghosts are good. People, on the other hand, aren't necessarily good. Want to know what goes on behind the scenes at a crematorium? Come on in and read on. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 The Strange Art of Raising the Dead in Western Hunan 湘西赶尸诡事之造畜 Corpse-driving in western Hunan, livestock creation in northern Jiangsu, gu poison in the southwest, curse-casting in the South Seas, spirit journeys to the underworld, and the art of spirit projection... Have you ever heard their names and wondered how they work? Could the five evil arts of divination, tribute, insects, corpses, and livestock, passed down among the people, be right beside you? The sun-drying needle, the killing blade, the Seven Fiends Soul-Locking Device, the Hundred-Bird Robe, 20Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 21 Laying Low in the Desperate Haunted Night, Cultivating Immortality with Caution 苟在绝望诡夜，稳健修仙 [Eerie Apocalypse + Industrialized Cultivation + Farming and Survival. Not an overpowered wish-fulfillment story, with a focus on gradual progress. The protagonist's soul transmigrates into a child, so readers who mind should proceed with caution.] Shen Yuan arrives in an eerie world with rune technology seven thousand years ahead of its time. By day, it is the human world. By night, it is the netherworld. The survivors can only cling to life and pray for dawn. With rune technology that can turn 4Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 22 Haunted House No. 444 444号凶宅 When people hear about a haunted house, most think of evil spirits, restless ghosts, and hauntings. But few know that the spirits in these houses can actually be cleansed. At a chance gathering, I was led into Room 444. Only afterward did I learn that it was the crime scene of the infamous Bloody Rose case. The people I had met inside were all spirits haunting the house... Take a deep dive into the haunted-house culture hidden among ordinary people! 62Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 23 The Urban Yin-Yang Master: Starting with Corpse Driving 都市阴阳先生：从赶尸开始 He was supposed to attend the birthday banquet of a distant relative, but ended up encountering a ghost! 99Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 After Graduation, I Became a Corpse Retriever, and Zhou Jie Exposed Me 毕业后当捞尸人，被周姐曝光了 With graduation just around the corner, Lin Yu's girlfriend breaks up with him over the harsh realities of life. Just then, Lin Yu activates the Corpse Retriever System and prepares to start recovering bodies. Some expert: No boat can sail on the River of the Dead. Some authority: No one can identify the corpses in the River of the Dead. Some veteran corpse retriever: Anyone who retrieves corpses from the River of the Dead dies within a year. Yet Lin Yu rows his little boat along the River o 36Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 The Corpse Retriever: I Started Out by Recovering My Blind Date's Body 捞尸人，从打捞相亲对象出师 A woman in red floated in the middle of the river. She turned out to be my blind date… I'm a corpse retriever. I never imagined that my first lesson on the job would be retrieving the body of my blind date, or that it would lead me straight into a carefully woven trap. An invisible hand was driving me forward. I couldn't stop… 23Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 The Nine-Lived Corpse Herder 九命赶尸人 I’m an orphan. My grandpa said my Five Elements element is Yin, and that I was born under an unlucky sign, destined to do the work of a Yin person. To survive, I had to endure three calamities and six hardships, so my grandpa raised a black cat and gave me nine extra lives. He taught me to keep to the shadows by day and roam by night, to send off ghosts and drive corpses. I can summon clear skies, pray for rain, exorcise ghosts, dispel evil, and summon souls. I have abilities beyond anything an 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 The Soul of a Corpse 尸魂落魄 A mysterious, beautiful woman came to our village, but anyone who married her would die. After my mother passed away, my father became bewitched and married her. Then one terrifying thing after another began to happen. 62Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 Corpse Driving: I Drive Corpses Across the Myriad Worlds 赶尸：我在诸天万界当赶尸人 [No female lead + corpse-driving and ghost-hunting + System + paranormal invasion + travel to other worlds later] Lin Xuan was an ordinary high school student on Blue Star. After failing the college entrance exam, he unexpectedly obtained the Myriad Worlds Corpse-Driving System and began traveling daily through the Myriad Worlds as a corpse driver. Blue Star: The God of the Paranormal arrives from across the ocean with an army of the uncanny. “Ding-a-ling…” Lin Xuan sees what is happening and ri 33Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 29 The Seven-Night Spirit Coffin Corpse 七夜灵棺尸 In my dream, I mistakenly believed that Li the Lame, seeking revenge for having his wife stolen, had made a door for my family out of the coffin wood of a girl who had been dead for seven days. Its yin energy clung to us, causing the pillars of our family to leave one after another. I couldn’t get over it. My future father-in-law, Old Yu, saw what was going on and brought over Zhang Baifa, who I would later take as my master. My master dispelled the evil yin force. Once I learned what had happen 229Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 Moonlit Schemes in the Coffin 棺中月策 “After the century-old Blood Coffin upheaval, the Yin-Yang Token, fought over by both the living and the dead, is actually inside the bronze coffin carried by a woman? As the Nine Houses surrounded Su Tan, she laughed like a madwoman. They wanted rules? Then she would become the rules! The sword of a cultivator in the Profound Mansion Realm could not pierce her coffin, and the soul-binding chains of the Hall of Yama could not restrain her. Only when she climbed to the heart of the game over the —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 The Super Corpse Walker Gets Stronger Through Livestreaming 超级赶尸匠，直播就变强 A groveling corporate wage slave is looking for work, but keeps getting rejected… He interviews for a job transporting corpses, only to unexpectedly awaken a livestream corpse-driving System… (Forget about being a female streamer and all that. I’ll put myself in the spotlight!) “Jingle, jingle!” Three rings of the soul-summoning bell, and ten thousand corpses bow! “The dead are on the move. The living, stay clear.” “If you don’t, the consequences are on you!” Veterans from border battlefields, d —Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 32 Marching Against the Yellow Springs: The Book of the Impermanent 黄泉逆行：无常簿 Have you ever narrowly escaped death? A car crash, a fire, or even a sudden slip beneath your feet... In that moment, you were grateful to be alive. But you don't know that from the instant you "accidentally" survived, your name was written in an invisible Book of Impermanence. It is no ghost or curse. It is a rule, the coldest correction program in the universe. From then on, the everyday things you rely on will become your tomb. The floor beneath your feet, the chandelier overhead, the cup in —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 The Borrowed-Life Formation in the Wilds 山野借命局 While working away from home, I get the news that my grandfather has passed away, so I return to the mountain village I left many years ago. I thought I was just coming back to clean out the ancestral home and take care of the funeral. But the moment I stepped into the village, I realized that something strange was going on everywhere. Footsteps circle endlessly outside the wall in the middle of the night. Gray-white hems quietly peek through cracks in the earthen walls. Behind the window pape —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 The Yellow River Corpse Collector 黄河捞尸人 [Supernatural + Suspense + Folk Tales + Urban] The older generation always says there are things beneath the Yellow River that must never be disturbed, or something terrible will happen. I didn't believe them, not until the day I took a crew underwater to hunt for treasure... 539Reads6.5Score102Shelves
- 35 Strange Tales of the Corpse Retrievers 捞尸诡闻 My grandfather was a corpse retriever. When he died, the waters of the river churned all night. In a single night, every chicken in the village died... 17Reads5.3Score—Shelves
- 36 The Corpse Stitcher 缝尸匠 Soul-binding nails, threads of karma, green lamps and white candles, a bone-carving knife. When the dead person’s lamp goes out, bury them intact. The living must keep away! 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 Eerie Corpse Retrieval: Beating Up a Thousand-Year-Old Water Ghost from the Start 诡异捞尸：开局暴打千年水鬼 As everyone knows, corpse retrieval has three rules: 1. Don’t retrieve bodies during thunderstorms. 2. Don’t retrieve bodies floating upright. 3. If you can’t retrieve a body after three tries, give up! No matter how much the client offers, corpse retrievers refuse to enter the water if any of these three situations arise! Before retrieving a body, they also perform all kinds of warding-off rituals and offerings. If anything seems amiss, they won’t enter the water either! These are precious less 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 Subduing Evil 镇邪 There are always mysterious things in this world, yet people dismiss them as nonsense. Miaojiang gu poison, corpse-driving in western Hunan, Nanyang curses, the Flowerfall Cave Maiden, shamanic sorcery, and yin-yang demons are all forbidden taboos. You don't have to believe in them, but you must remain in awe. Above all, never profane them! When the taboo soul bell rings out in the sky and ancient horrors quietly awaken, the world teeters on the brink of disaster. Will there still be someone who 637Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 39 The Haunting of the New Home 搬家诡事 [Mystery + Thriller + Supernatural + Horror + No Female Lead + Smart Protagonist] His name was Yi Jibo. After he was wrongfully imprisoned, his mother fell ill and died. To pay off his gambling debts, his father sold her ashes to the Japanese through a crematorium driver. To get his mother's ashes back, Yi Jibo went to work at a Japanese funeral home. And so he burned Japanese corpses while searching for his mother's ashes… 19Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 A Collection of Bizarre Horror Stories 怪诞恐怖故事集 My stories have magic, blood and tears, the evil side of human nature, and the horror you’re looking for. 1. Mother’s Bottles and Jars: A single drop of blood can turn one grain of rice into a whole pot of rice. A hundred drops can conjure a bicycle... What kind of magic is hidden in the bottles and jars Mother prepared for him? 2. The Toilets in Dreams: If you fall asleep while desperate to pee, you’ve surely dreamed of all kinds of toilets. If you write down the toilets you see in your dreams, 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 Dai Xiaomei Faints in Terror During Her Haunted House Livestream, Scared by Me Driving Corpses 呆小妹古宅直播，被赶尸的我吓晕 In the first year after graduation, Ding Hao became a corpse driver. He led a group of ancient corpses brought out of deep-mountain tombs through the empty streets and alleys at midnight. Watching a few people nearby look around nervously, he knew they were searching for their ancestors. “Your ancestors are all right here. Come over and pick one out.” A little streamer named Xiaodaidai filmed the whole thing. She thought to herself, This is it! My follower count is going to skyrocket! 22Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 The Super Spooky Classroom 超级惊悚教室 At a certain high school, an ordinary afternoon was supposed to mean nothing more than a routine chemistry lesson. No one could have imagined that a terrifying disaster would begin there, and that our lives would never be peaceful again. 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 The Mysterious Origami Master: Rising to Power from the Underworld! 诡秘折纸匠：从阴间开始成大佬！ (The protagonist is calm and self-focused, and refuses to be swept along by outside forces. Please understand if that's not to your taste.) After a family upheaval, he awakens as a bizarre paper-folding craftsman. After a paper mansion is burned down, it transforms into a haunted apartment building in the underworld. One paper figure after another becomes a battle-hardened general! With a wave of paper, he summons a river of stars across the heavens. With a drop of paper, the Yellow Springs surg 825Reads6.7Score152Shelves
- 44 I Raise Her in the Morgue 我在停尸间养她 After my girlfriend died, her reflection became trapped in a sink at the funeral home. For three years, I fed the writhing patch of black shadow with my blood every night, until my flirtatious coworker slapped a wedding invitation against my face. “You should’ve forgotten that dead girlfriend of yours long ago!” The instant I tore the invitation to shreds, a rotten hand shot out of the pool of blood and grabbed for her. A strawberry hair tie I’d given my girlfriend was caught beneath its fingern 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 Transmigrating into the Jiangshi World to Attain Immortality 穿越僵尸世界证长生 After transmigrating to a zombie-infested world, all I want is to develop at a steady pace. I took in the master of a Laoshan palace as my disciple, raised a bunch of magnificent spirit beasts to run errands, drank tea with Uncle Jiu, and toured the world with heroes. What? The Chrysanthemum Sect from the island nation wants to seize our national fortune, and werewolves and vampires want to perform blood sacrifices? People like us must raise our green steel swords and cut down every evil spirit! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 Boss, I Need a Day Off to Compete in a Hopping Corpse Contest Back Home 老板请个假，回乡参加赶尸比赛 [Leave Request:] [Dear Manager,] [There will be a corpse-driving and Gu-worm competition in western Hunan in the second half of December. I need to request leave so I can go home and train my Gu worms. Without me, our village will lose.] In his twenties, Chu Yan has already become the undisputed master of corpse-driving. Tired of the dull life, he joined a Fortune 500 company and settled into a leisurely office job. Until one day, the village chief sent him a text: "When are you coming back to c 55Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 47 Make Me a Ghost, and the Three Realms Shall Know No Gods or Buddhas! 让我做鬼，三界至此无神佛！ The Heavenly Dao had its designs. After Tang Yu died, he became a ghost, doomed to never be reincarnated. But he transformed into a ghost constable, capturing souls across the Three Realms. The gods of heaven and the Buddhas of the West trembled at the sight of him! White Bone Demon: “Grandpa Sun, please smash my soul to pieces too! That ghost constable is terrifying. I don’t want him to come for me!” Golden-Winged Great Peng: “The Buddha betrayed me! Why did I become a prisoner in the Underworl 5Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 48 Cultivating the Dao Amid the Strange: Starting with Corpse Driving 诡异修道：从赶尸开始 Ye Bai woke up one morning to find himself a corpse-driver. The dead should return to their roots. Those who die far from home must be escorted back to their hometown by a corpse-driver, or trouble may follow. In this chaotic dynasty, wars break out constantly, and there are plenty of corpses. However, Ye Bai discovers that he can earn rewards simply by driving corpses. Corpse-Controlling Arts, the Yellow Skin Drum, divine-mask Nuo opera, paper figures brought to life, the Rebirth Eye, Earthly F 43Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 After Failing the Exams, I Became a Corpse Driver, and Dai Xiaomei Exposed Me 落榜后当赶尸人，被呆小妹曝光 After failing the college entrance exam, Yun Tianming felt his future was bleak. Then he unexpectedly got a Corpse-Driving System. “What? I can become the richest person in the world by driving corpses? And I can get supernatural powers, too!” Yun Tianming was absent from the class reunion. The class monitor called him: “If things aren't working out, come to me. I can get you a security guard job.” Yun Tianming: “I'll be right there.” With that, the Soul-Summoning Bell rang, and Yun Tianming dro —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 Jiangcheng Archives 江城档案 The day my grandfather disappeared, he left me a notebook. I’m Jiang Cheng, born during the yin hour, a discharged soldier. I’ve never opened my Third Eye and can’t draw talismans. My only skill is running a little faster than everyone else when ghosts come after me. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
