Novels like The Corpse Collector
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Corpse Collector, best match first.
- 51 I Failed the College Entrance Exam, and the Ice-Cold Campus Beauty Came Ghost-Hunting with Me 高考落榜，高冷校花陪我去赶尸 After failing the college entrance exam, he goes home to inherit the coffin shop. By chance, he runs into the campus belle from his school days. Then a livestream captures Zhang Heng driving corpses. “Let the spirits lead the way. The living, stand aside!” “Let the spirits return home. The living, stand aside!” When Zhang Heng appears with a crowd of corpses, the whole internet is stunned! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 52 I Awakened the Corpse-Driving Talent, and Dumb Little Sister Exposed Me 觉醒赶尸人天赋，被呆小妹曝光 This is an age of spiritual qi revival, and people with extraordinary abilities are awakening one after another. Shen Changsheng has a younger sister, a house, and parents who have gone missing. After binding to the [God-Tier Choice] System, he awakens the SSS-rank talent of Corpse Driving, but people mock him as a useless deadweight. “This is the age of science. Believe in science!” “Even with spiritual qi revival, demons and monsters don’t exist.” But when Shen Changsheng takes action, evil sp 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 53 I Was Livestreamed Driving Corpses, So I Took the Streamer as My Disciple! 赶尸被直播，我收主播为徒！ Beneath the moonlight, Xia Yu emerged from the mountains, shaking a soul-summoning bell as he drove seven corpses before him. The eerie ringing, the stiff corpses, the mysterious yellow talismans, the birds startled into flight. New streamer Hei Xiaopang happened to witness the scene. Excited, he stopped the corpse-driving procession. “You must be a professional livestreaming team! Look at those actors, look at those props! I want you to take me on as your apprentice!” Xia Yu looked with satisfa —Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 54 The Last Paper Effigy Maker 最后一个扎纸匠 Paper effigy crafting is a business of the yin world. Of the many trades, the seventh refers to making paper effigies. My master said our line of paper effigy makers suffers from the Five Banes and Three Deficiencies, and is steeped in bad luck. We can forget about marrying and having children. If a female ghost starts haunting us, that's practically a blessing from our ancestors! “So that's why you told me to marry a paper effigy?” I looked at the paper figure lying beside me and felt a chill r 146Reads—Score—Shelves
- 55 The Embroidered Shoes of Death 死亡绣花鞋 I have a friend who dreamed he was getting intimate with a beautiful woman. The next morning, he woke up in a mass grave with a female corpse beside him! My name is Luo Tianlin, and I’m an antiques dealer who specializes in collecting antiques that have “gained a spirit.” The drum used to take the dead as concubines; the bloodsucking jade bracelet; the Book of Life and Death that calls the roll, and more. I want them all! 89Reads—Score—Shelves
- 56 Tales of Strange Corpses 诡尸怪谈 Do you know where the bodies used for dissection in medical schools come from? Strange things keep happening at medical schools, and people die for no apparent reason. Before long, rumors give rise to all kinds of taboos. Out of ignorance, my roommates died one after another. And I’m the only one who knows what lies at the root of it all... 159Reads—Score—Shelves
- 57 The Corpse Walker: My Disciple Goes Viral 赶尸人,我的徒弟爆红全网 “When the yin spirits travel, the living must stand aside.” After failing the college entrance exam, Fan Wushe spent his days drinking away his sorrows. Then one night, he got drunk and slept in a cemetery, and somehow bound himself to a corpse-driving System. Before he knew it, he had become a corpse-driving master who walked the night. His utterly ordinary life driving corpses began. Until that night… Tuantuan: Master, Master, slow down! Old Lady: Um, Master, can I feel your abs? Zhou Jie: Umm 11Reads5.3Score—Shelves
- 58 Rejected When I Proposed, I Can No Longer Hide That I’m a Corpse Retriever 提亲被拒，捞尸人身份藏不住了 My family has made its living retrieving corpses for generations. I was born with a rare boy's fate said to come once in a hundred years, and I wouldn't live past six. To save me, my grandfather arranged an engagement to extend my life. Sixteen years later, I went to ask for my bride's hand, but they refused. They thought the matter would be over once my grandfather died, but they had no idea that retribution was just around the corner... 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 59 Tales of the Countryside: My Grandma Was a Midwife 乡野怪谈之我的姥姥是稳婆 At the foot of Mount Maqi, midwife Zhang Guilan spent her life delivering babies on nighttime roads. Other midwives delivered human babies. The ones she delivered were ghosts, demons, and wronged spirits from the wilderness. Road-blocking skin-sellers, water ghosts demanding souls, Pixihuzi repaying a debt of gratitude, and Li the Bald-Tailed Dragon making his presence known. She didn't believe in the supernatural when she was young. Only after surviving countless dangers did she understand t 147Reads—Score—Shelves
- 60 The Train I Drive Leads to the Abyss 我开的火车通往深渊 My name is Lin Muhai. I'm twenty-one and a trainee train driver at the Ancheng Locomotive Depot. Before my first run, I heard a woman's voice in the crew waiting room. "One sleeper, two sleepers, three sleepers..." She counted to six, then paused. "Lin Muhai, it's your turn to count." 29Reads—Score—Shelves
- 61 Fengdu Affairs Office 酆都事务所 [First-person manhunt and mystery-solving + no System + no transmigration + traditional supernatural fantasy] The King of Hell, ruler of the Fifth Hall of the underworld, opened an agency in the human world to hunt down evil ghosts, wicked beasts, and demons that had escaped into the land of the living. My name is Fu Ming, an orphan born with the Five Deficiencies and Three Shortcomings. By a twist of fate, I interviewed at a company called the Fengdu Agency. Who would have thought that I would 4Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 62 I Transmigrated into the Horror Novel I Wrote in Middle School 我穿进初中写的恐怖小说 I Was Transported Into the Horror Novel I Wrote in Middle School —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 63 Infinite Horror Game: Who Am I? 无限诡异游戏：我是谁 [Survival games in all kinds of eerie worlds, focused purely on exploration and story. So satisfying! Wait, by the end, you discover they’re all part of the same world?] From the start, I got a little sister, punched my sleazy uncle, and set foot in the pitch-black fog. By the end of day one, I was already at the police station. On day two at the station, ghosts were haunting a nursing home? Turns out the entire nursing home had become a ghost. On day three, a middle school girl mysteriously jum 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 64 The Village Yin Ferrywoman 乡村渡阴人 Paranormal + Episodic Stories + Rural Folklore and Strange Tales + Folk Ghost Stories + Chinese-Style Horror + Yin-Yang Eyes + Heartwarming Paranormal Fiction Chen Jiujin, a farmer with a fate that attracts evil spirits, takes his little daughter, who can see ghosts, from village to village to settle the unfinished affairs of wronged souls and wandering ghosts in the world of the living. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 65 I Graduated on a Whim, Secretly Became a Corpse Driver, and Got Livestreamed 任性毕业，偷摸做了赶尸匠还被人直播了 Lin Xu unexpectedly awakens the Corpse-Driving System. A terrible student, he decides to head to western Hunan and drive corpses. On the train, Lin Xu gets a call from his homeroom teacher: “Lin Xu, we're taking graduation photos today! Hurry over and make yourself a nice memory from your senior year!” Lin Xu: “Teacher, I'm on a train to western Hunan right now! I'll have to miss the graduation photos.” Homeroom teacher: “Western Hunan? What are you going there for?” Lin Xu: “To drive corpses, o 141Reads—Score—Shelves
- 66 Forbidden Strange Tales: The Taboos of the Folk 禁忌聊斋：民间禁忌的那些事 What you’re reading isn’t just an ordinary supernatural story. It may be a set of rural survival rules that can keep you safe. The taboos of the countryside aren’t just old people’s nagging. Every “don’t touch that” carries the weight of lives lost long ago. When dusk seeps into an abandoned village, the names on the road markers glisten with a deathly aura in the rain; white crows on the eaves of a birthing room beckon a newborn’s soul; copper coins in an old mansion rust into blood scabs; an 670Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 67 The Xiangxi Corpse Drivers 湘西赶尸人 The exorcists of the south and corpse drivers of the north: once they cross the threshold, death is sure to follow. After disappearing for thirty years while driving corpses, Grandpa returns to his hometown and unleashes calamity upon the world. Grandma, who spent her life doing good by others, is struck by heavenly lightning. My honest, down-to-earth second uncle is burned by underworld fire, trapped in an ominous willow-wood coffin, with his three souls and seven spirits unable to find peace. 246Reads—Score—Shelves
- 68 I Took Leave to Go Home and Deal with a Corpse, but My Beautiful Boss Insisted on Coming Along 请假回家赶尸，美女上司非要一起 Fu Long, who had left Raojiang, was eating braised chicken rice in the Magic City CBD when he suddenly got a call from the head of his village: "The corpse-driving contest starts soon. Last year, you didn't come back, and we lost to the neighboring village by five cows, two pigs, and more than a dozen chickens. If you dare not come back this year, I'll livestream myself tearing down your house!" 86Reads—Score—Shelves
- 69 I Was a Ghost Officer, but Now I Only Want a Promotion 身为鬼差的我，后来只想升官 I wield the Register of the Underworld as a ghost officer, commanding the power to seize souls. Everyone says the King of Hell is the supreme ruler of the netherworld, but to me, he is merely a stepping stone. The underworld is vast, and the Nine Hells are deep. Is that really the limit of my ambition? I want to break the Nine Hells’ shackles, shatter the chains between yin and yang, ascend to the realm of the Great Emperor, and rule the netherworlds of all realms. Only then will my lifelong wis 33Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 70 Haunted 撞邪 Can you guarantee that the people around you are really human? A lowly office worker had always kept his head down and worked in silence, until one day he accidentally discovered that his coworkers weren’t human at all… To stay alive, he has to pretend everything is normal, struggling to survive in the narrow cracks of this place day after day… 4.2kReads8.4Score304Shelves
- 71 Forbidden Tales of the Desolate Village: A Midnight Whistle, and a Shrouded Corpse Spirit at the Door 荒村禁忌：夜半吹哨，白布尸魂找上门 Taboos of the Abandoned Village: A Whistle in the Dead of Night, and a White-Cloth Corpse Spirit Comes Calling —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 72 The Yellow River Corpse Collector 黄河捞尸人 My name is Zhao ?, and I’m a corpse retriever on the banks of the Yellow River. In our line of work, there are rules that must never be broken. Cross the line, and you won’t even find peace in death. The rules of the Zhao family are: First, never retrieve the corpse of the River Dragon King. Second, if you see a Bodhisattva, don’t look back. Third, avoid the corpses of young women. Fourth, stay away from ghost ships on the riverbed. I’ve always strictly observed these four ironclad taboos. Unfor 459Reads—Score—Shelves
- 73 Grandma's Yin-Yang Eyes 奶奶的阴阳眼 When I was little, I didn’t understand anything. I just thought it was fun. I remember when Second Grandma died, even Second Grandpa, who slept beside her, didn’t know. But Grandma woke Dad up and told him to go pay his respects... 672Reads7.8Score103Shelves
- 74 Gravekeeper, I Have Lived for Eternity 收尸人，我长生万古 Chen Yu transmigrates to the Great Yu dynasty and becomes a corpse collector feared by all. Collecting corpses lets him pick up not only extra years of life, but also cultivation techniques and secret arts. Every year he lives also earns him an attribute point! And so Chen Yu begins his work collecting corpses everywhere, from the Great Yu dynasty to the Myriad Worlds... One day, Chen Yu looks back in amazement and realizes that he has already lived for countless ages! 228Reads5.6Score—Shelves
- 75 Tales of the Monstrous 怪形异传 In the forbidden zone of the Taklamakan Desert, the Cradle Project’s experimental base has become a living hell after its vacuum energy spiraled out of control. An unknown flying-saucer-shaped creature, covered in transparent, wet streaks, breaks through the barrier. It devours researcher Chen Ming in an instant and escapes into the ventilation ducts, leaving behind only a few drops of blood to announce the coming disaster. Three hours later, Chen Ming returns “unharmed.” His face is pale, his g 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 76 Don't Be Afraid, She's the Person Closest to Me 别怕，她是我最亲密的人 [Handcrafted from Scratch] [Flesh-and-Blood Vengeful Ghosts] [Chinese Horror] [Character Growth] [Not Mindless Wish Fulfillment] [Tightly Plotted] [Absolutely Ruthless] [50,000-Word Outline] If you were given the chance to change your fate, would you rather keep working hard as a delivery driver, or suddenly become a 182-centimeter-tall, golden-haired older man who never has to worry about food or clothing? Yu Fa had no choice. He was forced to transmigrate into the latter. But before he could e —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 77 Devour: From the Start, I Became the Corpse King 吞噬：开局我成了尸王 Qin Hao, an ordinary university student from Huaxia, accidentally transmigrates to another world and obtains the Zombie King System. But he has no desire to fight for supremacy and only wants to live an ordinary life. Unfortunately, fate has other plans. He doesn’t want to kill, but others keep pushing him into it. He doesn’t want to set foot on the path of cultivation, but after a devastating fire, he enters that brutal world in a fury. From then on, he devours everything in his path, growing i 164Reads—Score—Shelves
- 78 The Yin-Fated Green Coffin 阴命青棺 [Horror novel with a bound System + one heroine + satisfying action + wild imagination] Enter at your own risk When calamity struck, no one in the village was spared. At his grandfather's request, a feng shui master saved me. From then on, I apprenticed myself to him and learned his arts. To save the person I love, I traveled the world, possessed by ghosts, corpses, and evil spirits, killing ghost kings, storming the underworld, and standing firm against the will of Heaven... I changed my fate, —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 79 From the Start, I Took My Colleagues Back to Town 开局带着同事回镇 I grew up in Luoyin Town, but when I was six, I fled the ancient town overnight with my family. The town's baleful energy sealed away all my memories of it, leaving only scattered fragments of terrifying nightmares. My parents vanished mysteriously many years ago, leaving behind just one final warning: Never return to the mountains, and never touch anything red. To uncover the truth behind their disappearance, I follow the clues in a fragmentary ancient text and return to Luoyin Town. I am the o —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 80 The Funeral Home Host's Path to Immortality 殡仪馆司仪修仙记 A fortune-teller said Mo Wen was fated to be haunted by five ghosts, and that a disastrous curse would befall his family that very day. Mo Wen didn't believe him. Then his father fell off the roof that same day and broke his leg. To keep his family out of danger, Mo Wen went far away, but the spirits continued to hound him. In a fit of anger, he walked into a funeral home and took a job as an unofficial funeral host, only to attract even more vicious ghosts... A love affair spanning three thousa —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 81 Five Horror Stories That Will Keep You Up at Night 五个让你不敢熬夜的恐怖故事 Five Horror Stories That Will Make You Afraid to Stay Up Late 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 82 Invincible After Coming Down the Mountain, Yet My Uncle Master Says to Stay Away from Women 下山无敌，师叔却让我离女人远点 Pei Zhaoye spent twenty years on Burial Star Mountain. His martial aunt was beautiful, and had quite a temper. Before his master went missing, he left him only three things: an old token, a broken sword, and a single instruction. "Go down the mountain." So Pei Zhaoye stepped into the Nine Wastes for the first time. But as soon as he came down the mountain, he realized something was off. A demoness, a saintess, a princess, a princess of the Dragon Clan... They all came looking for him one after a 19Reads—Score228Shelves
- 83 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! 125Reads—Score—Shelves
- 84 I Hosted a Show, and My Identity as a Corpse-Driving Taoist Was Exposed 主持节目，我赶尸人身份被曝光了 A campus interview show. Host Zhou Xiaoyi asked, “Have you ever seen a ghost?” “Heh. What era are we living in? We should believe in science. Of course I've never seen a ghost!” Ye An replied. Beep! Beep! Beep! The lie detector went off like crazy! “Then what did you do after you encountered a ghost?” “Obviously, I ran! It was a ghost. Wouldn't I have to be an idiot not to run?” Beep! Beep! Beep! The lie detector went off like crazy! From that day on, Ye An's identity as a corpse-drivin 33Reads5.9Score—Shelves
- 85 Opening the Sparrow Gate 开雀门 While my mother was carrying me, I was sitting upright in her womb. The doctors all said the birth would be difficult, but my grandmother traded my life to a spirit messenger. My Xuanwu even went so far as to strip off his skin and bones for me! My relatives sought out one master after another to protect me, but sadly, they all said the good fortune I was born with was nowhere near enough to keep me alive. If I wanted to survive, I had no choice but to embark on the path of cultivation. From Sha 34Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 86 Don’t Mess With Him, This Taoist Is a Little Wild 别惹他，这个道士有点野 Daoist arts + feng shui + folk customs + witchcraft + folk secrets + corpse walking + suspense + the supernatural Have you ever seen a person with no shadow? A corpse that can walk? A living person covered in corpse spots? Paper that cannot be burned? An ancient zither that plays by itself? Someone stepping out of a portrait...? Tang Yao has seen them all, and has spent his entire life dealing with such things. “Conceived in the yin year, month, day, and hour, and born in the yin year, month, da —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 87 Corpse Driver: From the Start, I Wore a Taoist Robe to Military Training 赶尸人：开局穿道袍参加军训 After finally getting into a decent university, I got bound to a System on the very first day of term! It wants me to drive a corpse at the dead of night, and if I refuse, it’ll take years off my life?! The worst part is, the first corpse I have to drive is my academic adviser’s father... 33Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 88 Rift in the Abyss: We Awakened the Old Ones 深渊裂隙：我们唤醒旧日支配者 In 1992, U.S. Army Major Austin takes charge of the top-secret project "Abyss Watch." One hundred and thirty meters beneath the desert, a strange fissure spreads madness into the world above. Five elite soldiers are ordered into the abyss, with Austin directing their investigation remotely. A videotape that appears out of nowhere exposes a horrific secret from the past: To spy on the secrets underground, the military sacrificed living people. A thousand meters below ground, an ancient stone gate —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 89 Call Me the Great Emperor of Fengdu 请叫我，酆都大帝 An underworld bailiff and a ghostly merchant, with the humor of an underworld bailiff at the heart of it. The protagonist was an ordinary high school student, but on his eighteenth birthday, he uncovered the mystery of his origins and was forced to become a City God’s underworld bailiff. He runs himself ragged to save his girlfriend. Even when the underworld rebels, he has to lend a hand. Have you ever seen Ox-Head and Horse-Face with an arm around a woman each at a business club? Have you ever 453Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 90 Longevity: I Guard Corpses at the Corpse-Warding Hall for 100,000 Years 长生：我在镇尸坊看守尸体十万年 Jiang Yi transmigrates as a corpse-quelling guard at the Corpse Suppression Office in the imperial city of Great Xia. From the start, he checks in and receives the reward of eternal life. Corpse-quelling guards suppress reanimated corpses. The job is not only incredibly dangerous, but also risks backlash from corpse energy, leading to an early death. A hundred thousand years later, everyone looks at Jiang Yi in bewilderment, wondering why he still hasn't died young. By then, Jiang Yi has watched 120Reads5.6Score—Shelves
- 91 In This Life, I Shall Suppress Yin and Yang 这一世，镇压阴阳 [Urban high-martial arts, reincarnation and rebirth, one heroine, a touch of the supernatural, lighthearted and passionate.] In their previous lives, he was an orphan, and she was a ghost. An orphan and a ghost, from meeting and understanding each other to relying on and keeping one another company. Then, their feelings quietly blossomed, and they became lovers... after overcoming countless hardships. But what happy ending has there ever been for a human and a ghost in love? Every union between 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 92 Possession 上身 Ghosts: ethereal, elusive beings! Ghosts: a certainty that exists for those who believe, and not for those who don't! Are ghosts really only around at night? What do they actually look like? The truth is, they're right beside you! 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 93 Old Lu's Lone Edge 老箓孤锋 The family has fallen into ruin, and its legacy lies in disgrace. As a descendant of Celestial Master Xu Xun, Xu Xuan has spent half his life in grief and partings. His father and elder brother died, his relatives and friends passed away, and the world mocked him as dull-witted and unworthy of carrying on the family tradition. Yet no one knows that an ancient power lies sealed in his blood. When the enemy of old comes to his door in the twilight of life, kneeling to beg forgiveness, is it genu 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 94 Terrifying Supernatural Encounters I've Experienced (2) 亲身经历的恐怖灵异事件（二） True Stories of Terrifying Supernatural Encounters (2) —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 95 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 116Reads9.0Score—Shelves
- 96 The Bride from the Underworld 来自阴间的新娘 On the night my neighbor got married, the bride died because of me… 1.1kReads6.8Score103Shelves
- 97 I Became Haunted by Evil Spirits After Starting Out as a Corpse Burner 从当烧尸匠开始恶鬼缠身 To escape an arranged marriage, I took a job burning corpses at a funeral home. Old Li, who handled the bodies, actually brought a prostitute to the funeral home. That woman later died, leaving a red high heel at the entrance... The next day, Old Li died. A red high heel had pierced through the center of his forehead... With my father's help, I learned that before she died, the woman had been pregnant. Someone had cut the baby out of her and turned them into a Mother-Child Demon. After that, t 5.5kReads8.3Score442Shelves
- 98 The Corpse Walker: Exposed by Buer Bu Jiao Zhou Jie 赶尸人：被不二不叫周姐曝光 Shen Yun, who was doing manual labor to earn his tuition, accidentally bound himself to a corpse-driving System. But he was so handsome that even the System couldn’t stand it, so it changed his face into that of white-haired Zhang Fei! Shen Yun: “Damn it! Where did my handsome face go?!” The first time his face changed, he scared Zhou Jie unconscious on the spot. Viewer 1: “Holy crap! That extra’s acting is incredible!” Viewer 2: “The set and special effects are amazing! Zhou Jie’s going all out —Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 99 I Came Down the Mountain as a Corpse Driver and Scared My Online Girlfriend Silly 赶尸下山，我把网恋对象吓傻了 His shima told Zhang Hao to take his marriage contract and go down the mountain to meet his beautiful fiancée. Then the woman he'd been dating online for seven years sent him a message. Liu Shishi: "Let's break up. I don't want to keep staring at my phone." Zhang Hao: "I'm coming down the mountain." "Then... let's meet in person." "Let's meet in person tomorrow night. Don't keep me waiting." Liu Shishi brought her twin sister and showed up at the designated spot as promised. A young man 1Reads7.8Score—Shelves
- 100 How Did Saiyan Physique Get Mistaken for a Useless One? 赛亚人体质居然被认为是废材体质 After Zhang Feng transmigrated to another world, he somehow obtained a strange orb of light. It transformed his original body into one with the same traits as a Saiyan’s, but everyone believed it was an uncontrollable, useless physique. Zhang Feng wasn’t angry. Instead, he used the misunderstanding to develop in secret. He snatched opportunities, fought for resources, battled the insect race, and slowly explored and grew on the stellar battlefield, constantly increasing his strength. Amid the co 150Reads—Score—Shelves
