Novels like The Walking Corpse Files
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Walking Corpse Files, best match first.
- 1 The Tang Dynasty Code 大唐密码 Along the way, I saw ancient beast spirits buried deep in the underground palace of an old temple, the legendary Weimolongren, and the sacred Kunlun Mountains hidden in myth. Along the way, I saw a Buddha who had attained nirvana in the snowy region, a sage who had transformed into a rainbow on a sacred mountain, and a Daoist master who had ascended from Kunlun. Along the way, I saw debts of gratitude left unpaid in a past life, karmic ties left unfinished, and promises that had never been fulfi 4Reads—Score114d adds
- 2 Tales from the Paper Effigy Shop 纸扎店怪谈 Every industry has a reason to exist. Life-for-life magic, wealth-attracting spells, zombies, blood corpses... My name is An Yi, and I run a paper effigy shop. At first, I simply offered a complete funeral service. But then I went through a series of events that will turn your worldview upside down. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 The Mysterious Corpse Herder 神秘的赶尸人 —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 Twilight at the Imperial Mausoleum: The Theft of Treasures from the Qingdongling Underground Palace 日暮皇陵：清东陵地宫珍宝被盗记 In July 1928, the warlord Sun Dianying led his troops into the underground tombs of the Qianlong Emperor and Empress Dowager Cixi. They smashed open coffins, scattered the remains, and looted priceless treasures, committing one of the most sensational crimes in the history of Chinese and world civilization. Looking back on this history, we cannot help but become deeply interested in the Eastern Qing tombs and seek to reconstruct the events of that time. Building on this, the book also carefully 312Reads9.4Score—14d adds
- 5 Above the Snowfields 雪域之上 In 1969, as preparations were made for a possible war with the Soviet Union, an engineering unit entered the Kunlun Mountains under secret orders. There, they stumbled upon an astonishing secret hidden in the mountains... —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 The Mystery of the Ancient Tomb 古墓迷踪 The Yellow Springs serpent demon in a mysterious ancient village; an evil-subduing mirror buried in endless yellow sands; an incorruptible ancient corpse entombed beneath a snowy mountain... What secrets lie hidden in those unknown ancient tombs? 51Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 Forbidden Code (Original Title: Ancient Tales of the Yellow River) 禁忌密码（原名：黄河古事） The great river flows ever eastward, nurturing China's most ancient and brilliant civilization. For thousands of years, countless people have tried to uncover its secrets, yet no one knows what truly lies hidden in its waters. Corpses embracing boats, ghosts sailing vessels, strange stone coffins sunk beneath the riverbed, nameless bodies rising from the dead... A river diver who grew up along the Yellow River takes you back thirty years, to an era brimming with bizarre mysteries and thrilling t 168Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 The Lamp Blower 吹灯者 Deep in a ravine on the Loess Plateau lie the secrets of a dynasty, sealed away when Cao Cao established the Gold-Touching Captains. Sixteen-year-old Qin Xiao accidentally awakens the yin-yang eyes inherited through the Qin bloodline when he touches a bronze compass in a collapsed Dragon King Temple. Those gray-white eyes can pierce the earth and glimpse the flow of qi meridians, revealing the ancient tomb complex known as the “Nine-Bend Linked Citadels,” formed when the Yellow River changed cou 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 The Dragon-Seeking Mystery 寻龙诡藏 It all began in 1999, when Chen Yuan traveled from Shaanxi to Beijing's Panjiayuan to trade antique bronze fragments and met Liu the Fatty. “Boss, how much for this thing?” a deep voice called from above. Chen Yuan looked up and saw a burly, fat man squatting across from him. The man wore a wrinkled white undershirt, a gold chain around his neck, and held a handful of melon seeds, crunching away with relish. A funny tomb-raiding adventure novel —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 Tomb Raiding: I Get Stronger by Touching Corpses After Burying the First Emperor Alive 盗墓，活埋始皇陵我摸尸就变强 Gao Yong was an ordinary tomb raider who only wanted to find riches in a mysterious ancient tomb. He never expected to be buried alive. But that was when the wheels of fate began to turn: at the brink of death, he unexpectedly activated the Corpse-Touching Power-Up System. Every time he touched an ancient corpse, his strength skyrocketed. Power, agility, swordsmanship, and all kinds of other formidable abilities came flooding in. Deep beneath the earth, the Mausoleum of the First Emperor was pac 22Reads—Score214d adds
- 11 Tomb Raiding: Strange Encounters in the Tomb 盗墓风云之墓室奇遇 —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 Legend of the Gold-Touching Captain 摸金校尉传奇 Li Yi, an antiques shop owner and heir to a line of Mojin Captains, embarks on a thrilling adventure after discovering a mysterious ancient scroll. He forms a team with an archaeologist, an adventurer, and a computer hacker, then ventures into a mysterious ancient tomb, where they face peril after peril. After breaking an ancient seal, confronting guardian spirits, and escaping a collapsing tomb, they follow a new lead into a mysterious valley, where they uncover more astonishing secrets and hid —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 Tomb Raider's Notes 盗墓手札 In 2013, I unexpectedly went bankrupt, and my girlfriend left me. With no other options, I took this path, and a strange, uncanny world opened before my eyes. Deep beneath mysterious tombs that have stood for millennia, half the people are tomb raiders, and the other half are... 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 The Dragon Vein of Cangshan 苍山龙脉 A bronze coffin unearthed beneath the Qinling Mountains reveals a secret buried for a thousand years. Shen Ling, a retired soldier and heir to a line of tomb raiders, is forced back into the trade after finding half of a dragon-patterned jade pendant left behind by his uncle before he disappeared. He turns to his childhood friend Jiang Kui, who made his fortune dealing in grave goods at Babaoshan, and meets Gu Qingyan, an archaeologist willing to do anything to find her father. More terrifying s —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 15 I Stride Between Yin and Yang, Wiping Out Every Monster in the World 我！脚踏阴阳，除尽世间魍魉 [Ghosts in the Story + Mystery and Deduction + Unheard-of Bizarre Events] A food delivery order at midnight, a high heel piercing through the back of someone’s head... After his wife becomes pregnant, the shadow of a man walks out of their bedroom in the middle of the night. Is it a ghost fetus, or...? A forest ranger in a primeval forest catches a monster that can take human form... Three security guards die in a row at a construction site, yet someone still wants to take the job. What could be 29Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 16 The Secret Forbidden Lands 幽秘禁地 College student Liu Minghui has recently been dreaming again and again of an ancient, mysterious altar. In his dreams, he is trapped deep in the Ailao Mountains, where he encounters extinct creatures, eerie rituals, and piles of corpses in armor. Each time he wakes, the terror lingers... He was going to dismiss it as a mere hallucination, but then Liu Hui happened to learn that ruins had been discovered in the primeval forest of the Ailao Mountains, and that they eerily matched the scenes in his 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 Agent of the Supernatural 诡怪代理人 Comic artist Lin You suddenly gets a phone call informing him that he’s inherited an estate. In the blink of an eye, he becomes a rich second-generation heir. Grateful, he burns paper offerings and prays to the gods, never expecting to summon a ferocious ghost... 82Reads9.1Score—14d adds
- 18 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—14d adds
- 19 Tomb Raiding Prophecy: Secrets of a Parallel World 盗墓预言：平行世界的秘密 Lin Feng, an online writer with dreams of striking it rich, plagiarized tomb-raiding novels to make ends meet. But he unexpectedly transmigrated to a parallel world much like Earth. To his delight, he discovered that none of the novels he'd plagiarized existed there. Armed with the “Tomb-Raiding Compendium” in his mind, he set off a tomb-raiding craze in the online fiction world. The ancient tombs he wrote about, from the mysterious Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang to the perilous City of Jings jue, w —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 Jiangcheng General Store 江城杂货铺 Rules of the Jiangcheng General Store: 1. The store opens at the hour of the Rat and closes at the hour of the Rabbit. We serve no customers at any other time! 2. Every visitor is a customer. Anyone who enters must follow the store’s rules, or bear the consequences! 3. All transactions must be honest. Payment is due upon delivery. Break the deal, and bear the consequences! 4. No pets allowed! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 The Ghost Is Right Beside You 鬼就在你身边 [Traditional Supernatural Horror + Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry + Daoism] Science and Daoism have never been opposites… At the corners of city streets in the middle of the night, in subway stations, psychiatric hospitals, haunted houses, cinemas, luxury hotels, bathhouses, soccer fields, and other locations, there are special energy fields. These are places where ghosts exist. No romance, no melodrama, no power fantasy. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 A Taoist's Travels 游方日事 [Heir to the Wandering Ones × Curse Bestowal × Travel Between Two Worlds] [Small-Town Mystery × Folk Horror × Apocalypse Survival] After leaving a psychiatric hospital, I become the owner of a little inn beside the train station. All I want is a quiet life, yet people keep forcing me to remember a secret: I can use curses to make the guilty pay for their crimes in blood. Then a young woman named Si Yuping comes to see me, calling me “senior brother” every other breath. She says there is another 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 23 The Secret Records of Evil Spirits 邪灵秘录 A healer saves lives, but medicine is divided into “living medicine” and “dead medicine.” A group of young people journey through remote mountain valleys, deserts, and snowy wilderness. They venture along the boundary between life and death, exploring lost techniques. This is a shocking mystery hidden among mountains, rivers, and vast wilderness... 690Reads8.6Score10214d adds
- 24 Forbidden Ground for the Living 活人禁地 Seek out the world's rare treasures, and plunder its hidden relics. The living should stay away from these places... 1.5kReads7.2Score13114d adds
- 25 Northeastern Coffin Bearer 东北抬棺匠 Wang Chuyi learned the Book of Changes and the Eight Trigrams, Maoshan magic, swordsmanship, and boxing from his grandfather from an early age. He met Ma Hongmei, a disciple of the Ma family from Northeast China, and became her godson. Before she died, Ma Hongmei passed on to him her shrine, where she had enshrined a hundred immortals. Practicing both the immortal and Daoist paths, Wang Chuyi slays evil ghosts, subdues wicked demons, battles zombies, and guides benevolent spirits onward. He even 404Reads6.8Score11114d adds
- 26 The Funeral Clothing Shop 有家寿衣店 In a small city in Northeast China, at the entrance to Tie Gong Street, there’s a funeral-clothes shop with an unremarkable, old-fashioned name: Benefiting the People. The two male leads go through all kinds of thrilling and dangerous adventures together. Tell me how much you want to read, and I’ll write as much as you like… 44Reads—Score—14d adds
- 27 My Tomb-Raiding Life 我的倒斗生涯 Tomb raiding is said to have originated during the Cao Wei dynasty and continued for a thousand years. It has both official recognition and civilian organizations. A thousand years have made this illicit trade a fully developed profession, with an astonishing number of tricks and secrets. Literary works have told and retold its tales. But what is tomb raiding really like? I entered the trade at fifteen and led my first expedition into a tomb at sixteen. I saw its dangers with my own eyes... 102Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 28 Tomb King: From Rookie to Tomb-Raiding Expert 盗王：从小白到倒斗高手 The pressures of life and an unexpected opportunity led me into the tomb-raiding business. In this line of work, I met the best boss I could ask for, the Fatty who trusted me most, and the person I loved most, Xiao Ya. Together, we went on countless tomb-raiding adventures, and in the end I became a famous figure in the trade: Master Cheng... 240Reads—Score—14d adds
- 29 Life in the Burial Ground 葬地生 When a fragment of the Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon surfaces, a deadly game spanning a thousand years quietly begins! The life-and-death secrets of ancient tombs, a companion's betrayal, and the human choices people make when offering sacrifices to survive. With the ultimate secret pointing toward... can they make it out of the tomb alive? Will they become the next immortals, or remain trapped forever in an underground world riddled with mechanisms? 60Reads—Score—14d adds
- 30 Strange Tales from the Countryside 民间山野奇谈 An ancient tomb, an unknown creature, and an expedition that reveals a world utterly unlike our own. People like to explain supernatural events with talk of ghosts and spirits, but the wonders of certain things cannot be made clear in a few words. This is the story of an unknown nobody, a piece of history long since forgotten… 22Reads6.9Score414d adds
- 31 A Tomb Raider's Life 盗墓生涯 In 2013, I unexpectedly went bankrupt, and my girlfriend left me. With no other options, I took this path, and a strange, eerie world opened up before my eyes. Beneath a mysterious thousand-year-old tomb, half were tomb raiders, and the other half were... 558Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 32 The Secret Record of Tomb Robbing 摸金秘记 [A premium, exclusive Tomb Raiding novel] [Zhang Jia Sishu's latest masterpiece of 2016, set to become the ultimate Tomb Raiding novel!] The appearance of an exceptionally beautiful female corpse shattered my ordinary life. Armed with a family-inherited secret art of Tomb Raiding, I opened an ancient imperial mausoleum sealed for a thousand years, seeking rare treasures buried underground and unraveling a mystery beyond anyone's reach. 184Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 33 Dragon Seeking 寻龙 Forty years ago, a great flood unearthed an ancient Warring States tomb. Forty years later, a mysterious will from my grandfather leads me back into the tomb. Carve corridors through mountains and hollow them out for tombs! How many secrets lie hidden in the tombs of ancient kings? To find a dragon, seek the mountain's winding folds. Each winding ridge marks another pass; If a gate has a thousand locks, a prince or lord must surely lie within. Only when I opened the coffin did I realize that som 930Reads6.6Score10414d adds
- 34 Grave Feng Shui Master 葬地师 My grandfather buried me alive. It was only after that day that I discovered a huge secret hidden within me... 1.1kReads8.7Score11014d adds
- 35 30 Degrees North: The Curse of Jielingchong 北纬30度：界岭冲之咒 Paranormal mystery + exploration + survival + wild imagination + no romance Near 30 degrees north latitude on Earth, there are many mysterious places that humans have yet to fully explore. The Jielingchong Primeval Forest is one of them. Surrounded by towering mountains, the forest is shrouded in dense fog all year round. Its terrain is complex and ever-changing, and it is full of unknown dangers. The forest holds the remains of ancient and extraterrestrial civilizations. These ruins may contain 376Reads—Score—14d adds
- 36 After Graduation, I Became a Corpse Driver, and the Campus Belle Exposed Me 毕业后当赶尸人被校花曝光了 Qin Yu had just graduated from university when, by a twist of fate, he became a mysterious corpse driver. As he went about his work, he accidentally turned himself into a zombie who feared neither humans, gods, demons, nor monsters, and was beyond the cycle of reincarnation. One day, he suddenly caught a “bat demon” and uncovered a world-shaking secret: more than three hundred biological laboratories were working to create mutants and rule the world... This is Huaxia. All crooked arts and evil w 2Reads7.6Score—14d adds
- 37 The Hidden Treasure 密藏 On the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth month of 1998, Qiu Ming receives a mysterious phone call telling him to pick up a file from a specified location the next day. The file comes from the distant Kunlun Mountains and records some of the Qiu family’s past, including part of the truth about his grandfather’s death. One passage in the file catches Qiu Ming’s attention. It concerns a hidden treasure kept secret by an ancient Western Regions kingdom. For generations, members of the Qiu family have 844Reads—Score18014d adds
- 38 Yin-Yang Paper Effigy Maker 阴阳纸扎匠 The paper effigies my grandfather made could subdue spirits and drive away evil energy. He passed this craft down to me alone. Back in his day, my grandfather was a renowned master in the world of feng shui. I thought I could carry on his legend, but I was set up as soon as I struck out on my own. It turns out there’s another me in this world! (No System, no mindless protagonist, no stale tropes, no cultivation.) 428Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 39 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—14d adds
- 40 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—14d adds
- 41 Apocalypse Descends: So I’m the Leader of the Mutants 末世降临：原来我是异种老大 In 2056, a solar storm swept across the globe, plunging the world into darkness for seven days and seven nights. Earth's ozone layer was destroyed, and solar radiation reached the ground. After that, the whole world changed. Then the crisis arrived, officially ushering in the Age of Death. A hundred years later, Fang Duonan, a boy from an ordinary border city, was supposed to go out and complete a task as required. But someone tried to kill him. When he woke up, he had a strange ghost hand attac 148Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 42 The Hidden Dragon's Secret Tomb 藏龙秘葬 (No System, no transmigration, no different people, no harem.) This world is full of unsolved mysteries. The fox-shaped shadow in a pit along the Qinling dragon vein, the mysterious disappearance of the Twin Fish Jade Pendant, the mystery of eternal life surrounding Loulan’s ancient kingdom and its left ear, the eerie mirage at the Gate of Hell in Kunlun… Can you believe it? A stunning beauty drops two sacks of cash on me and says she wants to uncover the truth behind this world and search for t 391Reads—Score—14d adds
- 43 A Red Coffin for the Funeral, a White Sedan for the Wedding 红棺送葬，白轿迎亲 Yin-Yang Eyes + Supernatural Beings + Protectors + Four Divine Beasts + No Romance From the start, he awakens Yin-Yang Eyes, and the Red-and-White Fiends come to claim his soul! That was when I discovered that my grandfather had another identity: he was a Yin-Yang Master and the head of the sect guarding the mountain gate. My peaceful life was turned upside down. The black dog at home began speaking, and the neighbor who had looked after me since childhood was facing death. But the conspiracy be 18Reads—Score—14d adds
- 44 Ghost Bro Is Ferocious 鬼哥凶猛 There was a strange sentence in the diary: “You must kill your younger sister. Don't show her the slightest mercy!” I couldn't make sense of it. My sister was disabled, and I couldn't bear to see her suffer. How could I have written something so cruel as wanting to kill her? Not long afterward, fully aware of what I was doing, I picked up a knife and hacked at my sister… —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 You Were Told to Drive Corpses, Not Scare People 让你去赶尸，不是让你去吓唬人 ♦️A serious, imaginative story about corpse-driving, with tightly interwoven plotlines that only get better as it goes! ⛺️A streamer was broadcasting live from a mass grave, dancing on the graves. He danced Su Fan right out of his tomb and fainted on the spot! The viewers in the livestream: Time to prepare the feast! When a guest came to the corpse inn with a beautiful ancient corpse in tow, the tourists who had come out to sightsee nearly got scared out of their wits! Guest: This young guy's co 28Reads—Score—14d adds
- 46 Secret Records of Northern Tomb Raiders 北派盗墓秘录 [Hardcore Tomb Raiding]+ [Suspense at Full Throttle]+ [Utter Terror] Before my master disappeared, he sent me only a stone shard carved with a black dragon coiling around a coffin, along with a bloodstained prophecy: “When the Dragon-Suppressing Coffin stirs, the nine lineages return to their source; when the black dragon opens its eyes, the secret map will emerge.” To find my master, I set out with the black dragon shard and my childhood friend Wu Nianjiu for a suspected Liao-dynasty tomb benea 79Reads—Score—14d adds
- 47 The Years I Spent Raiding Tombs 我盗墓的那几年 I'm a mountain ranger roaming the Greater Khingan Range. The old forests have everything: the Donglin dogs of Soul-Drifting Ridge, the Cat-Faced Granny of Turning-Back Gully, the Faceless Yellow-Skinned Immortal, and the longworms, mountain sprites, and wolves that ride on people's shoulders. Close your eyes and listen to Uncle Ghost tell the terrifying stories of years gone by... 657Reads—Score—14d adds
- 48 The Eye Beneath the Earth 入地眼 I was just seven when I crawled out of the tomb. Much later, when I looked back on it, it seemed as if everything had been arranged by fate. Perhaps from that very moment, it was predestined that I, who had crawled out of that tomb, would embark on an adventurous, mysterious, and utterly bizarre legendary journey. The dragon stirs, and the land is shaken! 1.3kReads8.6Score13614d adds
- 49 The Ghost Tomb's Gate 鬼墓之门 People have human tombs, and ghosts have ghost tombs. The realms of the living and the dead are opposite in order, and only their tombs connect, forming a passage between two worlds. People turn into ghosts through tombs, while ghosts use tombs to ensnare the living. Ghost tombs have no physical form. They can be opened only at midnight, when day gives way to night and yin and yang are in balance. When roosters crow backward and all things are reversed, yin and yang become one, and the ghost tom 225Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 50 The Campus Belle Exposes Me Catching Ghosts at the Funeral Home 校花曝光我在殡仪馆抓鬼现场 Ghost King: This guy is a complete freak. Demon King: H-he can actually make lightning with his bare hands? Devil King: He’s way too freakish. I can’t afford to mess with him!!!!!! 625Reads6.2Score—14d adds
