Novels like The Ghostly Deliveryman
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Ghostly Deliveryman, best match first.
- 1 Eerie: This School Is Haunted 诡异：这个学校闹诡 Yin Jiuyi, a student at Shibei Technical School, is forced into a supernatural game when an entity invades the campus. But as he continues to complete the supernatural games, Yin Jiuyi discovers that they conceal the truth behind the deaths of students who took part in the games the previous year. With fate and death tightly bound together, what will Yin Jiuyi choose? Will he keep playing the supernatural games and wait for death, or fight back against the supernatural? 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Afterlife Notes Bonus Story: Embroidering Souls 还魂笔记番外篇：绣魂 The Soul-Returning Notes: Embroidered Souls 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Don't Talk to the Comments 不要和弹幕说话 [Horror + Supernatural + Mystery + Mind-Bending + Anthology (first four volumes complete) + Dread That Gets Under Your Skin + Not for the Fainthearted + The Villain Is the Smartest Character in the Book + Growing Female Lead + No System, No Cheats, Plot-Driven] Have you ever replied to a historical comment on a video, even just for fun? Hu Jia accidentally comes across a web series from ten years ago. It depicts a real case from that same year, but its ending is completely different from what 19Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 4 Possessed by an Evil Spirit 撞邪 Grandpa spent his whole life doing good deeds. He never imagined that one night, he would ruin a young girl's life... 290Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 5 I’m Scared Too 我也很害怕 Do mushrooms grow on your body? Hehe~ Would you pull them off and eat them? What if you became a doctor and accidentally treated yourself to death? The amusement park is still under construction. As one of the people building it, what would you want it to look like? As a princess, how do you become a queen? When Song Wantang was starving, she pulled the mushrooms growing on her body off and ate them; She knew nothing about medicine, so after becoming a doctor, she got poisoned and decided to 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 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 310Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 7 Divine Brows, Ghostly Ways 神眉鬼道 [Horror, no saintly heroine, no dragging things out, decisive and ruthless, exceptionally vicious ghosts] My name is Shan Qing. I had given up on the world, but by a twist of fate, I stumbled upon secrets hidden on its other side. The man-eating statue that vanishes from the school in the dead of night, the inscrutable old monk in the temple, the terrifying figure roaming the city streets... Vicious ghosts slaughter the world, and red fog pollutes the soul. Hell isn’t confined to the underworld. 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 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
- 9 Strange Little Tales from the Folk 灵异民间小故事 These are folk tales of the strange and supernatural, some true, some not. Some are quite old and have grown more and more fantastical with each retelling, so don't overanalyze them or take them too seriously. Some may resemble stories you already know, but that's purely coincidental. 171Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 10 Afterlife Notes Bonus Story: Rouge Well 还魂笔记番外篇：胭脂井 Afterlife Notes: Bonus Story: The Rouge Well —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 I Swing My Brick of Morality Across the World of the Strange 小女子一手道德砖抡遍诡异界 Xiao Yunshuang had just gotten out of a psychiatric hospital when she suddenly realized the world had changed. A swarm of strange beings loomed in the sky, eyeing the human world hungrily. Terrified out of her wits, she fled home in a panic. The next second, her mortal enemy showed up to mock her. Xiao Yunshuang was about to slap them, but then she spotted a dead infant clinging to them. She quickly thought better of it and pulled her hand back. Never mind. Since they didn't have long to live, s 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Spirit-Sending Diary 送灵日记 She died with her eyes open, her body piled among countless corpses, her resentment reaching the heavens. She sings at night in the barren hills, waiting desperately for someone from her past, her devotion unchanged. They haunt an old mansion, their ghostly forms harming the living. There are no evil spirits in this world. They are all people who were hurt. I'm an unconventional spirit guide. I listen to the dead, resolve their lingering grievances, and lay their souls to rest. This is my work d 348Reads7.6Score—Shelves
- 13 Reincarnation Notes: An Extra Story, The Painted-Skin Debt 还魂笔记番外篇：画皮债 The Reincarnation Notebook: Extra Story: The Painted Skin Debt —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 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
- 15 Shadows in the Daylight 白昼暗影 The criminal he hunts is himself. The shadow he cannot escape is his only protector. Lin Mo, the police department’s star profiler, cracks one extraordinary case after another with his precise criminal psychology analyses. But he doesn’t know that every night, another self awakens: Shen Ye, a “dark vigilante” who fights violence with violence, hunting down criminals who escaped justice through Lin Mo. The massacre that destroyed his family when he was a child split ten-year-old Lin Mo’s mind, cr —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 I Earn KPIs in the Underworld 我在阴间赚KPI I woke up after death and found myself working a job in the underworld. Other people’s KPIs are about sales. Mine is about doing evil. Driving people to despair, creating betrayal, harvesting fear: that’s the real currency of the underworld. Rank at the bottom? Your soul gets obliterated. Then I discovered that the reward for becoming the top salesperson is taking the King of Hell’s place. Looking at the evil ghost coworkers around me, willing to do anything for their performance reviews, I smil —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 Curse of the Sinful Shadow: The Sinner's End 孽影咒怨之罪者的末路 In the shadowy corners of a bustling city, evil grows unchecked like a cancer. Driven by greed, some resort to the most despicable means to line their pockets, while others lose themselves in an abyss of desire, unable to climb out. Little do they know that retribution is already drawing near. Each sin has finally awakened a curse lurking in the unseen world. This is a horror story about evil and retribution. Every sinner pays a terrible price for their misdeeds, while the resentment hidden in t —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 Chronicles of Strange Events 异事簿 When I was eight, I accidentally drowned. The village's mad Taoist came to my house and told my parents to give me a grand seven-day funeral with gongs and drums. After seven days, I would return to life. During the funeral, lightning flashed every day and the rain poured without stopping. Everyone in the village said it was a bad omen. On the seventh day, strange phenomena suddenly appeared in the sky. The mad Taoist returned to my house, told me to take the moon in the sky as my godmother, and 32Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 Pawnshop No. 7 第7当铺 In the darkest corner of the city stands the Number Seven Pawnshop, which never closes. It doesn’t take physical objects as collateral, but rather the “sinful traits” buried deep in human nature. The owner offers unimaginable wealth, success, or wishes, but the price is your greed, arrogance, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth. The rules here are cold but fair: the more “sin” you pawn, the richer the reward. But without your “sins,” are you still truly whole? 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 The Ghostly Side of Humanity: Mad Stories You Never Knew, Volume 1 鬼味人间：你不知道的疯人故事1 Believe me, this world has another face. What seems insane to you may be perfectly normal to someone else. The eerie, unsettling stories of human life, the sinister and unfathomable depths of the human heart, and tales of madness you’ve never heard before are all hidden in this book, Ghostly Flavors of the Human World. 3kReads9.2Score269Shelves
- 21 Strange Tales of the World 世奇怪谈 [One Thousand and One Nights of Terror] A deranged pregnant woman, abnormal growth, a horrifying circus, money paid to buy a life, a bizarre matchmaking gathering, an endless staircase, a rule-based horror story at a nursing school, a haunted snow mountain, a human-faced badger, strange happenings in a rented apartment, dog-headed men... Bizarre tales you’ve never heard before, wildly imaginative premises, plot twists layered upon plot twists, and endings you’ll never guess. A cup of tea, a cig 2.4kReads8.5Score361Shelves
- 22 Rule Horror: Teacher Su Has a Lesson for Everyone 规则怪谈：苏老师给大家上一课 “Next question: On a blood-red midnight, you’re chased by a painted-skin demon at an old house in a deserted village. Four escape routes appear before you. Which do you choose?” [A: Rush under the offering table in the ancestral hall] [B: Leap into the ancient well in the back courtyard] [C: Tear down the Door God print and stick it to your chest] [D: Climb onto the beams of the west wing] “Thirty-two students in this class actually picked C for this freebie!” Su Bai slammed the lesson plan down 181Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 23 Afterlife Notes: Blood Silkworms Raised on Babies 还魂笔记之血蚕饲婴 The Soul-Returning Notes: Blood Silkworms Feeding a Baby —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 Afterlife Notes Bonus Story: The Hundred Ghosts' Night Parade 还魂笔记番外篇：百鬼夜行 The Soul-Returning Notes: A Hundred Ghosts Roaming by Night —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 Ghost Stories at Three in the Morning 三更讲鬼 This book recounts some strange events from the 1980s. One place holds far more than a hundred stories. Perhaps it would be more fitting for me to be a bystander, or a listener. I have written down the stories I heard to remember the past. You can simply take the people and events in these pages as a joke, if you like. Or you can read them as stories that invite self-reflection. Who knows... the characters in them might bear a resemblance to you. Or perhaps they reflect someone close to you. Wit 154Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 26 Slaying Demons and Ghosts Since High School 斩妖灭鬼，从高中开始 [Traditional Supernatural Horror] + [School Life] + [Ensemble Cast] + [Coming of Age] + [Not Overpowered] + [Passionate] It all begins with a student jumping from a school building. Liu Tianyu had expected to spend his student years in peace, but from that day on, his life was never quiet again. Peril at a haunted temple, a school turned into a sacrificial altar, a ghost city beneath the water: one challenge after another awaits. Watch as a group of students turn the tables amid the schemes of g —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 A Collection of Folk Tales 民间故事会合集 Open this book, and you’ll find that its folk legends and tales are unlike any you’ve read before. These stories are full of fantasy: some are terrifying, some suspenseful, some explore the ugliness of human nature, and others deal with karmic retribution. In this vast world, what hidden folk tales and legends do you know? Step into an ancient, mysterious world and join the author in discovering and experiencing these extraordinary folk stories! 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 Afterlife Notes: The Eyeless Locust Tree Maiden Bonus Story: Blood Silkworm Thread 还魂笔记之无眼槐娘番外：血蚕丝 Afterlife Notes: The Eyeless Locust Tree Maiden Bonus Story: Blood Cocoon Silk 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 Afterlife Notes Bonus Story: The Corpse Stitcher 还魂笔记番外篇：缝尸匠 Afterlife Notes: Bonus Story: The Corpse Stitcher 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 Qingchuan Ghost School 青川鬼校 Ordinary high school student Su Bei takes shelter from the rain one day and discovers he is trapped in the abandoned grounds of Qingchuan Middle School, a place rumored to be haunted. It is no longer an empty ruin, but a living hell where time is warped, space behaves strangely, and real, terrifying ghosts lurk everywhere. There are no superpowers, no talismans or magical artifacts, and no apocalyptic technology. The only things Su Bei can rely on are his cool head, keen powers of observation, a 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 Notes on Returning Souls: The Eyeless Huai Tree Maiden 还魂笔记之无眼槐娘 The plum rains have swollen every brick in Green Tile Alley. When Lin Yan grips her grandmother’s death notice and opens the door to the old house, the sixty-year-old locust tree in the courtyard seems to be watching her through its cracked bark. The year her great-great-grandmother planted it, three children went missing from the alley. During all the years her grandmother kept watch over it, she would bury bloodstained silver locks beneath its roots in the dead of night. The last page of her g 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 The Eerie Immortal’s Box 诡仙魔盒 [Mystery] + [Eerie] + [Xuanhuan] + [Thriller] + [Mind-Bending] + [One Female Lead] Chen Tong, a young man struggling to make a living in the city, returns to his hometown to attend his grandfather's funeral... But he unexpectedly discovers that his grandfather's death was shrouded in mystery. He comes into possession of a mysterious golden-thread nanmu box, and everything begins to turn Eerie... The grandfather of a female classmate from his village also dies. The monks and Taoist priests hired —Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 33 You Were Told to Guard a Village, So Why Did You Make the City God Cry? 让你守个村儿，你把城隍打哭了？ After the old madman died, I always thought I was the only person left in the village. Then one year, two men showed up carrying a camera and said they wanted to film a documentary about walking marriages... 458Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 34 Subdue All Spirits, Slay the Netherworld, and Quit Slacking Already 镇万灵，斩幽冥，别摸鱼了行不行 [Ensemble cast + no romance + strong female lead + intelligent antagonists + wish fulfillment] Mountain spirits, monsters, and supernatural legends have never been mere stories on a page. At a funeral on a rainy day, a corner of the quiet, peaceful veil was pulled aside, revealing another world no one had ever seen. There are two kinds of ghosts. We call those with a strong urge to attack “the supernatural.” For countless years, a war between humans and the supernatural has raged in the depths o 9Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 35 The Prison of Sin 罪狱无间 My new work is out! Come read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 Horror: Death Comes at Midnight 恐怖：夜半索命 I lived a routine life until the death of Old Chen changed everything. Beside his body lay a pile of handmade paper figures. One had been painted blood red and clutched in his stiff, dead hand. Blood-red words began appearing in the mirror: “Get out.” “He’s still in the building.” Then I received an ultimatum: his daughter needed a living substitute. Paper figures weren’t enough. Neither were his belongings. She wanted a living person in the building, someone warm and breathing. Tomorrow, at mid 17Reads—Score110Shelves
- 37 White Russian Cemetery 白俄公墓 [Supernatural + Mystery + Horror + Forbidden Sites and Zone Exploration + Dark] While traveling, I passed through a small town called Beima and accidentally entered a strange internet cafe. The terrifying legend of a woman ghost hanging upside down, messages from an online friend dating back to 2001, an old school campus regarded as forbidden ground, a mysterious ghost village behind the school, and a cemetery that exists only in people's memories. Somehow, all of it seems connected to me. This 49Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 38 Girls’ Dorm Rule Horror: Survive! 女寝规则怪谈：请活下去！ The Dormitory Girls’ Rules of the Strange: Survive! 116Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 The Nightmare Apartment [Dark Comedy] 恶梦公寓【黑色幽默】 [Horror, paranormal, infinite flow, pure horror with no humor] [Realistic instances with richly developed backstories] My name is Chen Lin. The story begins one night when I get a distress call from my younger sister. It isn't until I enter an ancient castle with four people of unknown origins that I realize what a terrifying, desperate world lies hidden beneath our own... “There's no such thing as undeserved good fortune. The source of the light is the true essence of evil.” “When you read this —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 Visitor from Hell 狱下来客 A modern supernatural mystery. Not wish fulfillment, not brainless, and no System. In this life, you pass countless people on the street. What makes you so sure they're all human? I never believed in this stuff either, until my landlord tricked me into moving to a place called Happy Community. The people around me didn't seem to be people at all. Footprints on the ceiling, dolls made of human skin, bloated drowned giants, people raising zombies, mother-and-child ghosts... Just how many secrets l 596Reads8.0Score100Shelves
- 41 Don't Wake Him in the Middle of the Night 别在深夜惊醒他 [Modern Romance with a Twist] + [Modern Romance] + [Ghost Hunting] This story explores whether love means possession or protection, how memory and identity define who “I” am, and how to face mistakes committed in the name of love. A museum intern on the night shift accidentally gets blood on an ancient god's specimen. Mistaken for the god's reincarnated Daoist partner, she is forced into a relationship with him. Only when the true partner returns does she discover that she herself is the primord 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 Grudge-Locked Patterns 怨气锁纹 Dai Xiaochao, the protagonist, is a college graduate in architecture from the 1990s. Under heavy financial pressure, he moves into a tenement building where a locked-room murder took place two years earlier. Surveillance was scarce in those days, so the police had to investigate door to door, and the case made little progress. Then the ancient Taotie jade pendant inherited by Dai Xiaochao’s family, along with its Taotie patterns, begins to react... And that is where the story begins. 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 The Seventh Night After Death 头七 My grandfather said that whoever a hanged person sees last is the one they’ll come back to haunt. When I was twelve, the village hired a troupe to perform ghost plays. I went to play with them, never imagining that the troupe’s leading performer was hanging from the beam right behind me. 22Reads7.7Score—Shelves
- 44 My Hopeless Life Became Even More Desperate 我无望的人生更加绝望 After something happened to her family, Mu Xia could never move on from that day. She went through life in a daze. Until one day, she accidentally entered a world of horror. And so began a fantastical journey. She made new friends, faced all kinds of events, and lived a new life. 1Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 45 The Weird Realm II: Room 414 Hospital 诡界II：414医院 [Infinite Flow + Supernatural Horror + Mystery + Paranormal + Survival + Dungeons] A hospital said to be impossible to escape, and a group of survivors who've narrowly escaped death time and again. What bizarre and uncanny tales await them as they open the doors to one patient room after another? Dear readers, follow the protagonist Lu Bai as he uncovers one hidden truth after another. Welcome to Hospital 414... 65Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 46 The Delusion of the Final Sequence 终序之妄 [Dual heroines + mental illness + supernatural] Mo Shanshan has a pair of unusual crimson eyes. She can see ghosts, yet she’s been sent to a psychiatric hospital and diagnosed with delusional disorder. Ringing in your ears? That’s because people can’t understand what ghosts are saying! The Heavenly God Path, the Water Corpse Curse, corpse infants, a haunted lake, the collapse of the Six Paths of Reincarnation: is it all the plot of the Entropy God? No. This time, Luo Shisan absolutely will not d 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 Terrifying Tales 惊魂诡事 Deep, silent alleyways, eerie, terrifying deserted villages, reed marshes choked with weeds... Every scene holds some of my most unforgettable memories! Everything that happens in this book is something I saw or heard myself. You can also read it as a story. Curious about the supernatural tales that have taken place in rural villages and mountain hamlets? Have you ever heard of or seen something that made your hair stand on end? If you find yourself sleepless in the dead of night, put on your he 308Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 48 In My Next Life... 下辈子…… In the next life... 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 I’m Going to Lure 100 Lost Souls 我要勾满100个亡魂 Sequel to I Guide Souls at Wangxiang Terrace Lin Jiaojiao, 24, an overworked office worker, suddenly dies on the Nth night in a row of staying up all night revising proposals. When she opens her eyes again, she has already completed every step of the underworld’s procedures. But just as she reaches Wangxiang Terrace, the guide Zhou Yi stops her. “Your attachment remains unresolved. You can’t be reincarnated.” Judge Li Muzi offers her a way forward: work as a soul reaper under him, and she can be 9.7kReads—Score3kShelves
- 50 Death on Delivery 死亡外卖 Never try to save money when ordering takeout! After ordering a meal that wasn't clean, strange events keep happening, and his coworkers begin dying one by one. Some takeout costs you money. Some takeout costs you your life. My other completed novel, The Hell Company, is over a million words long. Come check it out, dear readers~~ 2.4kReads8.7Score226Shelves
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