Novels like The Corpse Collector
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Corpse Collector, best match first.
- 101 My Sister-Obsessed Guardian: Becoming a God in a World of the Uncanny 护妹狂魔我在诡异世界封神 [Gory violence + System + dungeons + no female lead + no saintly do-gooder + slow burn + global livestream + doting big brother] Chen Mo: The bizarre world is supposed to be hell for humanity, right? But I always feel like they’re friendlier than humans. They’re not scheming or plotting against each other, and they’re completely open with me. Every one of them calls me Little Boss and scurries along behind me. I have no idea why. All the Ghost Kings: (ಥ﹏ಥ) As long as you’re happy, Your Highness 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 102 Who Says This Evil Path Is Bad? It's Absolutely Wonderful! 谁说这邪魔歪道坏？这可太棒了！ [Folklore and the supernatural + decisive and ruthless + dark and scheming + one heroine] The gates of hell swing wide, plunging the human world into chaos. Cultivators conceal their deeds from Heaven. They eat from the underworld, yet drink the blood of the living. Warring factions of occult practitioners battle one another, while officials and outlaws clash and unorthodox sects wait to profit. Ghosts and gods run rampant, monsters wreak havoc, and even the wicked can ascend to Heaven. Ghost-an —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 103 Strange Tales: Once Upon a Time, There Was a Peach Blossom Spring 怪谈：从前有座桃花源 [Supernatural + One True Female Lead + Sequences + Sci-Fi Style + Not a Power Fantasy + Not Mindless + Games + Some Urban Legends] Urban legends are appearing all over the world. As spiritual qi revival begins, humanity is feeling its way toward an entirely different path to immortality. Have you ever memorized “The Peach Blossom Spring”? If so, do you really understand it? Why is the town surrounded by endless peach blossoms? Peach wood wards off evil. Look at those falling petals: don’t they r 3Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 104 I Tamed the Paranormal 我把诡异收服了 Born with ghostly eyes, I share a desk with the City Lord of the Underworld. A vengeful female ghost wants me to kiss her, I take in a powerful underworld enforcer, and a princess from a thousand years ago swears an oath with me. Onstage, they sing of sorrow and grief. Beneath the stage, I capture every kind of evil. My name is Zhang Qiang. Watch me run rampant through the Underworld! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 105 I Failed the Exams and Became a Corpse Driver, and Dai Xiaomei Livestreamed It 落榜赶尸的我，被呆小妹直播了 Xiao Zhang transmigrated to a parallel world, failed the college entrance exam, and unexpectedly awakened the strongest Corpse-Driving System. He had only wanted to quietly make a fortune as a corpse driver, but Dai Xiaomei accidentally livestreamed him, throwing the whole country into an uproar. Dai Xiaomei: “I honestly never thought corpse drivers were real.” From then on, the two began livestreaming their daily corpse-driving adventures. “The heroic spirits of our martyrs must not remain in a —Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 106 Heirloom Bones: Blood Sacrifice at Yinshan 嗣骨：荫山血祭 (Not recommended for the fainthearted or anyone alone late at night) Li Ming returns to his hometown for a funeral, but the moment he steps into Yinshan Village, everything feels uncanny. Strange noises echo from inside the coffin day and night, while dark red patterns appear beneath his skin and writhe like living things. The ancient well that sustains the village churns with ominous black sludge. Deep within the ancestral hall, inhuman drumbeats and indescribable ancient whispers resound day a 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 107 The Ghost Banquet 鬼禁食 A glutton's feast: can it really eat anything at all? Open wide, and nothing is off-limits? When you're indulging in wild game, have you ever felt a hint of murderous intent behind you... 29Reads—Score—Shelves
- 108 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 —Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 109 Lighting the Sky Lantern 点天灯 Just how terrifying is corpse-driving in western Hunan? After failing the college entrance exam, I stumbled into the corpse-driving trade. Who could have guessed that on my very first job, I would run into... 712Reads8.3Score103Shelves
- 110 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 891Reads6.3Score102Shelves
- 111 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 106Reads—Score—Shelves
- 112 Starting with Mr. Vampire: I Have a Pair of Yin-Yang Eyes 从僵尸先生开始：我有一双阴阳眼 Who says zombies can't have feelings? Who says ghosts and monsters are always evil? Who says fox spirits only seduce scholars? “No.” Lin Tiansheng waved a hand. “With my Yin-Yang Eyes, I judge no one. I only care about right and wrong, cause and effect!” Lin Tiansheng cried out in his heart: “I'm a virgin! You silly little ghost, what a joke... Uncle Jiu, save me!” “This fox demon is a real treat. Uncle Simu, why don't you just run it through with your sword!” 59Reads—Score—Shelves
- 113 Yin-Yang Embroidery: I’m the Last Tattoo Artist 阴阳绣：我是最后一个刺青师 My name is Zhou Yiyang. You probably won't believe this, but I make my living tattooing people, though what I do is nothing like ordinary tattooing. My tattoos come in two kinds: yin embroidery and yang patterns. They can change a person's fate and fortune, and help them avoid misfortune and find good luck. I'm a yin-yang tattoo artist, and I feed myself a bag of salt. 43Reads—Score—Shelves
- 114 Gain Lifespan by Collecting Corpses? I’ll Become Invincible and Immortal at the Funeral Parlor 收尸加寿命？从义庄开始长生无敌 [Burial complete. You have received 1,000 years of life and the recipe for the Tribulation-Deliverance Golden Pill.] [Spend 600 years of life to simplify the Tribulation-Deliverance Golden Pill.] [Tribulation-Deliverance Golden Pill → alchemy → refining → warming yourself by a fire] Zhang Yi transmigrates to a cultivation world and becomes the corpse keeper at a funeral home. Collecting, preparing, stitching, and burying corpses all earn him rewards. This rule applies to everyone, whether mortal 201Reads5.9Score—Shelves
- 115 The Dragon Coffin 龙棺 The day my mother gave birth to me, a dying giant snake frightened her so badly that she started bleeding. In a fit of rage, my father cut off the snake’s head. When I was born, birds and beasts took flight, and countless snakes gathered, surrounding our courtyard so tightly that nothing could get in or out. My grandfather asked a feng shui master to resolve the matter. He buried the giant snake’s remains in our ancestral graveyard, and only then did its resentment subside. Ever since I was old 315Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 116 Cultivating Righteousness in the Crematorium 我在焚尸堂养浩然正气 Burning corpses is considered inauspicious, but Jiang Heng loves doing it. After all, he awakened the Corpse-Burning Record, and burning corpses earns him rewards. Jiang Heng: “I cultivate the noble spirit of righteousness and fear no ill omens. Corpses, get into my furnace and become my rewards!” 671Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 117 The Strange Case Files 诡局录 [No System + No Cultivation + No Foolish Protagonist + Traditional Supernatural Horror + Mystery and Suspense] My name is Shang Tian, and I’m a man cursed by an evil spirit. It was a lottery ticket that should never have existed. Its dark, yellow-black background looked soaked in old blood and night; the glaring red lettering wasn’t a set of lucky numbers, but an invitation to hell. When I scratched it off, overjoyed and thinking I’d found a lifeline to a hundred-thousand-yuan jackpot, my finge 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 118 Man-Eating Python 噬人蟒 Man-Eating Python —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 119 The Gu of Ghosts: Reincarnation of Life and Death 鬼蛊之生死轮回 Using the mysterious art of corpse-driving in western Hunan as its thread, this tale unveils the history of a mysterious region through the struggle between uprisings by the Miao and Dong minorities and the Ming Empire’s brutal suppression. It features the supernatural powers of the three masters of ghosts, gu poison, and venom from the mysterious Guigu Valley, as well as the historical feuds of powerful martial-world factions such as the Wudou Rice Sect, the Five Poisons Cult, the Raft Gang, th —Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 120 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
- 121 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 277Reads—Score—Shelves
- 122 The Last Corpse Driver 最后一个赶尸人 The dead march on; the living must keep their distance. If they don't, disaster is sure to follow! I'm a corpse driver, and this is my story! 725Reads8.0Score101Shelves
- 123 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... 612Reads—Score—Shelves
- 124 I Became a Pallbearer After Graduation, and Dai Xiaomei Exposed Me 毕业做抬棺匠，被呆小妹曝光了 Graduation day. Parents, relatives, classmates, and teachers ask Feng Chuqi: “Have you found a job?” Feng Chuqi: “I have. No 996, and I work when I want. When I don't, I take the day off.” Parents, relatives, classmates, and teachers: “What?” “Thump, thump.” Feng Chuqi taps the coffin behind him. “Ghosts are carrying a coffin. Living people, stand aside.” Parents, relatives, classmates, and teachers: “Holy crap, coffin bearers really exist?” Feng Chuqi: “Of course not. Believe in science, everyo 162Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 125 Strange Tales from the Teaching Mission 支教诡事 I'm an ordinary teacher at a key secondary school, but after I talked back to the principal, I was “volunteered” for a long-term teaching assignment at a middle school in the countryside. I was furious, but to keep my job, I had no choice but to accept being “volunteered.” What I never expected was that this school would be anything but ordinary. (Note: This book is set in a parallel world. Any resemblance between its place names, characters, or events and those in real life is purely coincident 3.6kReads8.2Score373Shelves
- 126 Walking Between Yin and Yang: Evil-Breaker 行走阴阳：破邪 There is a group of extraordinary people who walk between yin and yang, slaying demons and breaking evil curses to maintain the balance between the two worlds! Devoted to the Dao, they battle evil men, seal away vengeful ghosts, and uphold the path of righteousness. They are all nobodies, with just one mysterious connection: the Dragon Group! 181Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 127 Is This the Funeral Parlor? 是那间丧葬店吗？ A funeral goods shop that looks completely out of place has suddenly opened on a bustling shopping street. It keeps its doors shut during the day and opens for business by night. Qi Shiwu, born at an hour of yin, accidentally becomes a shop assistant. What connection could she have to this place? Follow Shiwu as she opens the shop’s doors! “Shh! A customer’s here!” 102Reads—Score—Shelves
- 128 Multiple Fears 多重恐惧 An invitation to a party brings together nine writers, each with a very different style. At the party, the novelist who invited them traps everyone inside and demands that each guest tell a story. With no other choice, they comply. One story after another unfolds at the party: will they reveal the clash of human nature or unleash ghostly terrors? Everything will come to light here. "This is my debut work. I hope you'll show it plenty of support." 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 129 Heir to Mount Longhu: Zhang the Celestial Master of the Streets 龙虎山传人：市井张天师 He looks like a rough-and-tumble man, with a sharp tongue, a soft heart, and a penchant for snark. He's also an heir to profound Taoist arts. His peachwood sword slays evil spirits, and his Heavenly Master's seal suppresses dark forces. A vivid and engaging supernatural novel. 111Reads—Score—Shelves
- 130 Global Gatefall: I Became a God by Delivering Takeout 全球门化：我靠送外卖成神 Horror + suspense + Cthulhu + supernatural powers + wild imagination On a stormy night, my food delivery order reads: “Deliver to 77 Huangquan Road.” I’m forced to become a courier between the worlds of the living and the dead. Every five-star review extracts a customer’s soul, while a bad review gets me hunted by creatures from the Gate Realm. When I discover that my father’s last order before he disappeared was sent to the Bermuda Triangle, and that my mother has turned into a faceless being i —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 131 I'm a Little Spirit Medium 我是小神婆 [Mysticism + supernatural + crime-solving + powerful protagonist + resolving mysteries + hidden origins + folk customs] I'm an abandoned baby, picked up from a trash can by my shaman grandmother. Growing up under her influence, I always wanted to become an even more powerful shaman than she was. Because of my unusual fate, strange and bizarre things, sometimes terrifyingly uncanny, are always happening around me... What happened to the female ghost who fell in love with someone else's body? Did 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 132 Escape from the Bear’s Jaws 熊口逃生 Escape from the Bear’s Jaws 949Reads—Score—Shelves
- 133 The Strange Taoist 怪道士 My name is Niu Dabao, and I’m the only college graduate in Niu Village. I thought that after graduating, I’d get promoted, earn a higher salary, marry a beautiful, wealthy woman, and reach the pinnacle of life. Who could have guessed the company would go bankrupt and the boss would kill himself? I didn’t get a single cent of my wages, and I couldn’t even afford rent, so I slept at the train station every day! A shabbily dressed Taoist priest told me I was plagued by bad luck and haunted by a hun 1.9kReads8.4Score136Shelves
- 134 The Boy in the Hemp Robe 麻衣少年 [Ma Yi Divine Physiognomist, Young Feng Shui Master, Defying Fate] The year I was born, torrential rain fell from the heavens, and hordes of weasels swarmed into my home. To save me, my father leapt into the flood. When I was seven, my grandfather took in five female disciples, and they all became my senior fellow disciples. My bizarre story begins with these five senior sisters. 2.5kReads8.6Score237Shelves
- 135 The Cunning Yin-Yang Doctor 阴人诡医 [Supernatural + Feng Shui + Fortune-Telling + Doctor + Witchcraft + Ghosts + Mystery + Wild Imagination + Qimen Bagua + Professions] To repay a debt of gratitude, I went against my grandfather’s dying wish. From then on, there was a strange doctor in the world, and I encountered countless extraordinary people. A human face that appears on your back at night, man-eating Gu insects, evil spirits with human faces and snake bodies. The wandering knife peddlers who sell their wares on credit, and the 169Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 136 Route 44 Ticket Seller 44路售票员 In 2005, an 18-year-old bus conductor mysteriously dropped dead on the bus. The cause of death was unknown. In 2009, a last bus hit and killed a pregnant woman at an intersection, even though its brakes had not failed. In 2014, a woman suddenly pulled out a sanitary pad on the bus and slapped the driver in the face with it, despite showing no signs of mental illness. On the last Route 44 bus, I've seen far too many strange and bizarre things, and heard all kinds of spine-chilling rumors. Unless 56Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 137 Ghost Stories by Night 鬼话夜谈 The story follows Chen Xingchen and Jiang Chuyan, who grew up together in a village. They hear tales of the supernatural from the village elders and experience a number of eerie events themselves. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 138 Grandpa Started the Trouble, Three Generations Must Pay 爷爷闯下的祸，三代来还 The trouble Grandpa caused will take three generations to repay. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 139 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
- 140 The Bizarre Case Investigator 诡案惊探 [Mystery]+ [Supernatural]+ [Deduction]+ [Crime Solving]+ [Male lead versed in both Yin and Yang] After his girlfriend vanishes under bizarre circumstances and every effort to find her comes to nothing for two years, Qin Zhong loses heart and takes a job as a police officer at a remote township station. One day, he suddenly receives a bizarre case. The entire village of Niewa has vanished. As the investigation deepens, one strange Supernatural incident after another unfolds. Along the way, his pa 1.6kReads8.4Score187Shelves
- 141 Weeping Evil 哭邪 People watch over a temple for ten years; the temple watches over them for a lifetime. 107Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 142 I Expose My Corpse-Driving Skills at School 开学赶尸，被校花曝光了 He was just passing by while escorting a corpse, but the campus belle exposed him! They even thought he was playing dress-up! “Bro, your makeup looks so real!” “Miss, these are real zombies! They're not pretending!” 2.7kReads6.9Score134Shelves
- 143 No Responsibility for Scaring You to Tears 吓哭不负责 [Traditional supernatural tales] [Ghost stories] [Chinese-style horror] [Based on true events] [Reader submissions] [Chilling when you think about it] [Bizarre tales] [Beyond the realm of science] [Plainspoken prose, no literary flourishes] [Just stories] Not for the faint of heart! Don’t read late at night! Folklore, haunted houses, eerie village incidents, urban vengeful spirits, supernatural curses, and even non-supernatural stories that are chilling when you think about them... A collection 24.3kReads9.3Score1.9kShelves
- 144 The Haunted Old Mansion 恐怖老宅 The living guard the yang, while ghosts hold the yin in check. Yin and yang are inseparable, and nothing is forbidden. In this world, everyone is either human or ghost, yin or yang. But there are people who walk between the two realms all year round, neither human nor ghost. They are the Yin-Yang House Guardians! 53Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 145 The Corpse Collector's Diary 收尸人日志 Fog Harbor City is a futuristic metropolis governed by the central System of Deep Blue Life Group. Lu Chen, a forensic data analyst, has one job: to write the final digital epitaphs for the unidentified dead. That is, until he discovers the same unusual fluctuations in the data for a series of “natural deaths.” In the last three months of their lives, every victim’s biological indicators followed an exactly identical decline curve, as if they had been given a preset countdown. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 146 Dumped from the Start and Left to Drive Corpses, Now I'm Invincible 开局被甩成为赶尸人，我无敌了 At a dinner where he was supposed to confess to the campus belle, Zhang Bufan, a college entrance exam failure, is pranked and teased by his classmates. By sheer chance, he obtains a god-tier Corpse-Driving System! Classmate: “Zhang Bufan, come sweep the toilets at my dad’s company. I’ll give you the friends-and-family rate of 1,000 yuan a month!” Zhang Bufan: “For 100 yuan, I’ll help your dad find his roots.” “When the dead travel, the living must keep their distance…” At midnight, bells ring t —Reads5.3Score—Shelves
- 147 Report! This Online Funeral Director Is Livestreaming a Mysterious Funeral 举报！这个网葬师在直播神秘葬礼 Cloudside Online Funeral Livestream, 8K HD, god's-eye view: An old man with white hair and one arm stands proudly on an icy lake, saluting 129 ice statues frozen in battle poses. Then he raises his gun and shouts: “Defend our home and country! Charge!” Suddenly, dark clouds gather, thunder cracks, a streak of white soars through the sky, and ink flies across the air. “Blood seals the battle-scarred mountains, while tears fall for the land; loyal bones in ice endure through the ages.” The cold wi —Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 148 The Ultimate Ghost-Raising Master 极品养鬼师 [Adult] + [Adorable Pets] + [Sharp Tongue] + [Making Money] + [Secret Arts] Do you know how to raise ghosts? No worries, I do! Do you know how to catch ghosts? No worries, I do that too! Do you know where to find ghosts? No worries, I’ll take you there! Watch your step. Get in! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 149 Horror Revival: From the Start, I Chose to Become a Corpse Stitcher 恐怖复苏，开局选择成为缝尸人 Zhao Han transmigrates to the Blue Star for no apparent reason, and from the start is recruited by the Spirit Suppression Bureau, an organization devoted to handling supernatural incidents. Thanks to his outstanding talent, he is assigned to the team with the best benefits. But then a System appears, and he has to join the corpse-stitching team to activate it. To activate the System, Zhao Han says, “I don’t want to join Team One. I want to join the corpse-stitching team.” Much later, when people 1Reads7.6Score—Shelves
- 150 Case Seven: From a Ghost's Last Wish to a Cult Mystery 第七单：从亡魂心愿到邪教迷案 Case Seven: From a Dead Soul's Wish to a Cult Mystery —Reads—Score—Shelves
