Novels like Ghost Corpse Refining, Bearer of a Deadly Fate
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- 101 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—14d adds
- 102 A Hundred-Year-Old Villager’s Tales of Ghosts and the Supernatural 农村百岁老人口述鬼怪奇谈 I grew up in the countryside, and whenever I had free time, I liked listening to centenarians in the village tell strange tales of ghosts and other uncanny events from days gone by. I have collected, recorded, and adapted these folk stories. There is no overarching plot. Each chapter is a standalone horror story. Not for the faint of heart!!! 32Reads—Score—14d adds
- 103 The God in the Cage 笼中之神 This is a requiem for prisoners, echoing between the abyss of reality and illusion. When the prison of consciousness is exposed, will you choose to sink into a sweet lie, or awaken to a cruel truth and be destroyed? The answer was already decided from the very start of the search. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 104 Tales of the Supernatural in Rural Northeast China 东北农村诡事录 A collection of eerie and terrifying folk tales. Zhang Liang was born in the 1970s and was forced onto the path of exorcism by a curse. Every tale is full of danger and excitement, with an ending no one can predict. If you have the nerve, come take a look and experience a different kind of ghost story. Mildly scary, read with caution. 84Reads—Score—14d adds
- 105 Someone New Appeared in the Footage 录像里多出一个人 The test shoot’s discarded footage was four seconds longer. Everyone in the frame held the same poses they had at the end of filming. No one moved. I counted three times. There were six people every time. But only five people had been there that day. On the hard drive my mother left behind, there was an empty folder with a four-character name: Do Not Fast-Forward. In the recycle bin was a deleted video, four minutes and twenty-five seconds long, which couldn’t be recovered. Our production crew w 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 106 The Coffin Bearer 抬棺者 I’m a coffin bearer. After carrying coffins for decades, I’ve seen all kinds of sinister coffins: mother-and-child coffins, coffins without mourners, coffins for those who died violent deaths… And behind these coffins, a shocking secret was hidden… 195Reads6.7Score10514d adds
- 107 My Ghostly Roommate 我的阴室友 [Paranormal mystery] [Updates daily, though not on a fixed schedule] [Thanks for your support ❤️] Over the summer after my college entrance exams, I kept having the same dream about my college dorm and roommates. Then I dragged my suitcase into Room 304 and saw those familiar yet unfamiliar faces, along with an empty bed. I was stunned. They were Yaoyao and Xinxin, the girls in the photo from my dream. Was the empty bed Qingqing’s? She hadn’t shown up for months after the school year began, so w 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 108 The Southeast Asian Medium 东南亚通灵先生 Under duress, I embedded a woman's corpse inside a Buddha statue in a temple. After I was framed, Master Dad taught me Southeast Asian spirit-medium arts. From that day on, the world I saw was no longer inhabited by the living alone... 3.5kReads8.4Score42414d adds
- 109 City Supernatural Shelter: I Balance the Books and Vanquish Ghosts Across the Land 都市收容所：我靠查账平了天下鬼 On the third day after passing the civil service exam and starting my new job, I finally learned that my department was a containment facility specializing in urban anomalies. The section chief slapped a stack of old case files onto my desk. "Xiao Shen, settle the mess this building left behind thirty years ago." I opened the first page. It read: "The last person who investigated these accounts is buried behind the hill." 7Reads6.4Score18514d adds
- 110 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—14d adds
- 111 An Unmarked Lonely Grave 无名孤坟 My grandfather buried my mother by our front door. Every night after that, a woman would stand outside our house... 1.2kReads8.8Score10114d adds
- 112 Dark Arts: The Ten Courts of Hell 邪术：十殿阎罗 (No System, no heroine, crooked and sinister methods, ruthless and decisive) In this world where good and evil have been turned upside down, is it really so wrong for me to use a little dark magic? And if I use dark magic without suffering heavenly punishment, is that really so wrong? Mount Mao offended me, so I’ll wipe out Mount Mao. China’s Special Affairs Department offended me, so I’ll wipe out your entire family. Japan offended me, so I’ll wipe out the whole country! If the world offends me 1.4kReads6.6Score10014d adds
- 113 Medium's Notes: My Left Eye Can See Ghosts 灵媒笔记：我的左眼能见鬼 The Cangye lineage of the Southern Frontier unleashes chaos. The Cherry Blossom Curse, Yin Soil summoning, Ruin Spirits, and malevolent earth veins emerge one after another, leaving the seals protecting the land on the brink of collapse. In a desperate battle, pure Yang Heavenly Energy collides with the turbid qi of Yin Soil inside him, forming a yin-yang vortex whose blessings and dangers are impossible to predict. His old enemies flee into the Hundred Thousand Mountains, seeking a chance to p 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 114 You Fake Taoist, I Didn’t Know You Were the Real Deal! 骗子道士，没想到你是真会啊！ [Ghost stories + hilarious comedy + urban legends] As the supernatural resurges and the world descends into chaos, Lin Yu, a fake Taoist, awakens the Dao Ancestor System. He exorcises ghosts to earn merit, which he uses to draw character cards and take on the forms of Taoist disciples from across the myriad worlds. Faced with all kinds of vicious, uncanny, and sinister ghosts, he transforms into a holy master of myriad realms, the Thunder Lord... Wang Lingguan, the Three-Eyed Deity... becoming e 37.4kReads6.5Score5.8k14d adds
- 115 The Great Master of the Ma Yi School 麻衣大相师 I was born on the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month. My grandfather, a feng shui master, never let me go outside after dark when I was little. Then one day, he had to leave the house… 234Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 116 The Eight Immortals Bear a Coffin, While the Weasel Bows 八仙抬棺，黄皮子磕头 A filial son's head rolls through the streets. The living die, and their descendants bury them. Sons kneel; daughters become nuns. My dad is the only one in the village who can see and interpret omens. This is the story of the strange and wondrous things I witnessed after taking up his mantle! 243Reads6.4Score10814d adds
- 117 The Corpse Carrier 背尸匠 My name is Fang Youde, and I was born in 1990. I enlisted in 2009. After two years of mandatory service, I volunteered to stay in the army for another three years. During that time, I received two third-class merits and one second-class merit, so I had quite a record of service. In 2014, for some reason, I left the military. Under the regulations on resettling discharged soldiers, the local government assigned me a job at a funeral home. That was where my career as a corpse carrier began. Corpse 8.4kReads8.3Score46614d adds
- 118 The Eerie Coffin in Deep Waters 深水诡棺 When I was ten, I fell into a well. Deep in the water was a coffin. After I saw it, I was plagued by nightmares and fell ill. My grandfather gave me a piece of deadwood to protect my life, and I miraculously recovered! From then on, strange and supernatural events followed one after another, and all kinds of mythical beasts from the Classic of Mountains and Seas came after me! Even stranger, a mysterious neighbor moved in next door. He was fair-skinned, beautiful, and long-legged, with a mastery 191Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 119 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—14d adds
- 120 The Immortal Hall Beyond the Pass: A Yin-Yang Master Guards Changbai Mountain 关外仙堂：阴阳先生守长白 Have you ever witnessed a weasel asking to be granted a title? What causes people to get trapped in a ghostly maze while walking mountain trails, or suffer from strange ailments that leave them feeling awful but can’t be diagnosed at a hospital? Trained in ancient shamanic arts, versed in the theories of yin-yang masters, and accompanied by an immortal serpent cultivating beneath the streams of Changbai Mountain, become a spirit medium who roams the White Mountains. The rules of Northeast China’ 15Reads—Score—14d adds
- 121 The Mountain Ghost Laughs 山鬼笑兮 If there is someone on the mountain’s flank, wearing ivy and trailing creeping vines. Such beautiful words, so why is the truth so cruel? How much karma must be repaid in this lifetime? 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 122 One Horror a Day 一天一个惊悚 One terrifying tale every day, and a different world each time. Just because you haven't seen it from in front of your phone doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Enough chatter. See you in the book, everyone. 7Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 123 I'm a Bar Owner, Forced to Catch Ghosts 我，酒吧老板，被迫营业捉鬼 [Horror + supernatural + semi-invincible + no System + not brainless + ruthless decisiveness] I’m Heibai, an utterly ordinary bar owner. I only wanted to live a quiet life, but one commission and one problem after another keep landing on my doorstep. Curse magic, a drug-induced dreamless sleep, a yin-yang wedding, a deadly text message... As the Underworld descends, little Jiangcheng becomes a den of danger, and one strange incident after another unfolds. Well, looks like I can’t hide my abiliti 1.2kReads8.8Score11014d adds
- 124 Northern Horse Notes 北马笔记 The Five Immortals of the Northeast are chiefly the Hu, Huang, Chang, Mang, and Hui. After cultivating their powers and attaining the Dao, they descend the mountains to take disciples, borrowing their bodies to do good deeds among humans and earn their way to ascension. This story is told in the first person. 414Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 125 A Fading Lamp Shines on the Lonely Dead 残灯照孤冥 (Mystery + supernatural + no female lead) (Ghost case files + Taoist arts) (Tomato Original) The male lead is born under the fate of a lone star of calamity, destined to walk alone. A dying lamp lights the lonely darkness, and that darkness lights me in turn. 331Reads—Score—14d adds
- 126 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… 1.1kReads6.8Score10314d adds
- 127 Old Wei's Ghost Stories 老魏讲鬼故事 [Traditional Supernatural Tales] [Chinese-Style Horror] [Based on True Events] [Submitted by Readers] [Chilling on Reflection] [Bizarre Tales] [Beyond the Bounds of Science] The eerie Buddha statue seen when mountaineers are trapped in a ghostly loop, a face appearing on the wall in the middle of the night, a “person” using their own head as a ball during evening study at school... I have always believed that horror stories should be short, sometimes ending on a cliffhanger, sometimes becoming 1.5kReads—Score10814d adds
- 128 Supernatural Revival: I Get Stronger Every Time I Encounter a Ghost 灵异复苏：我撞鬼就变强 In this age of resurgent supernatural forces, ghosts and monsters emerge at night, while evil gods and demonic spirits lurk in the depths, waiting to strike. A wild dog wailing at a grave, a dead man cooking a meal, a ghost asking for directions: encountering any one of these spells disaster. But Zhang Sheng discovers that encountering ghosts and monsters makes him stronger. 463Reads5.1Score—14d adds
- 129 Ghost Master of the Yellow Springs 黄泉鬼师 A Master of Water Divination, also known among the people as a Ghost Master or Celestial Master, possesses powers that reach from heaven to earth and can speak with ghosts and gods. He treads the Yellow Springs, wields the Yin Lamp, glimpses fate, and cultivates the Great Dao. One day, my grandfather told me that I was actually dead... 159Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 130 Four-House Village 四户村 I live in Sihu Village, a place sheltered on all four sides. Just as its name suggests, Sihu Village has exactly four households, no more and no less. There is no life or death here, only reincarnation, once every twelve years. The rules of Sihu Village are simple: the master must not leave the village, and guests must not stay overnight. Then one day, I really did leave the village, breaking the rules... 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 131 Northeastern Tales: The Shaman’s Heir 东北往事之萨满传人 Heaven’s secrets are revealed, calamity cannot be escaped, fate is set, and fortune follows its course. Some things can’t be said out loud, but I can’t keep them to myself. Today, I’ll take a chance and tell you about the many things in this world that defy explanation, yet truly exist… 659Reads—Score—14d adds
- 132 At Midnight, Don't Stay in Room 404 午夜十二点，别住404 After transferring schools, Lin Xiaoman is assigned to the strangest dormitory of all: Room 404. On the first night, she sees a pair of soaking-wet slippers beneath her bed, but no one admits they belong to her. On the second night, the shared clock turns counterclockwise and stops at the moment Senior Chu fell from the building three years ago. On the third night, her reflection in the bathroom mirror moves three seconds behind her, and unfamiliar bloody marks appear on her wrist. Her roommates 23Reads—Score—14d adds
- 133 Bureau of Anomalous Biology Investigations 异常生物调查局 The day after my grandpa died, everyone in town showed up… 528Reads8.2Score10214d adds
- 134 Old Village Stories 山村旧事 A strange mountain village. Bizarre events sparked by natural and man-made disasters. And, it turns out, a secret lies hidden behind it all... 33.6kReads9.1Score2.3k14d adds
- 135 The Yin-Walking Incense Master 走阴女香师 Ever since I can remember, there has been a paper doll on my bed every night. With straight bangs and a bob, a pale face with rosy cheeks, a round face and almond-shaped eyes, it was clearly made to look just like me. As I slowly grew up, the paper doll “grew up” too… 316Reads9.0Score10514d adds
- 136 Folktales of the Northeast: The Household Guardian Immortal 民间故事之东北保家仙 In folk tradition in Northeast China, people believe in household guardian spirits. Those who worship them receive blessings, and my job is to help people invite these spirits into their homes… 339Reads8.2Score10014d adds
- 137 Paper Cutting to Prolong Life 剪纸续命 Three days after his master's death, Chen Zhi's name was pressed into a paper-cut figure. Someone cut paper outside his door late at night. A paper figure bearing his name appeared at the doorstep, and from then on, the blue-black mark on his hand began to seep inward along his veins. Paper can ward off evil and bind souls. And the darkest art of the Paper-Cutting Sect is called Name Binding. To stay alive, Chen Zhi can only follow the torn pages his master left behind, the black sand beneath t 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 138 Those Years I Served as a Spirit Medium 顶香出马的那些年 I was born at midnight on July 16. A white fox and a black snake blocked the door when I was born. My second aunt, a shaman, read my fate: I was never meant to be born, but was a little ghost who escaped from the Underworld. I was born with an evil bone, possessed yin-yang eyes, had all seven apertures open, and was fated to have my life claimed by the King of Hell. To survive, I eventually chose to become a shaman. After experiencing many paranormal events, I encountered an evil organization ca 144Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 139 Awakening the Heavenly Eye: Summoning a God to Face the Great Black Buddha Mother 天眼眸启：请神硬刚大黑佛母 (Supernatural + not a self-sacrificing saint + funny + almost invincible) Li Yang was born on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month in the lunar calendar. He never expected to be born with a third eye and a strange destiny, drawing him into a mysterious conflict beyond imagination. The Great Black Buddha Mother, far away in Yun Province, even came in person to seize him... Fox spirits, zombies, Miaojiang gu, Kuman Thong, Yellow River corpse collectors... When Li Yang arrived in Yun Province w 66Reads—Score—14d adds
- 140 The Unrivaled Heavenly Master 天师无双 The nine stars align, and good and evil are turned upside down. A great war between the Underworld and the Nether Capital is imminent. The Corpse Clan is rising, the Heavenly Ghosts seek to invade, the Heavenly Demons circle overhead, and great monsters descend. The Demon Buddha Sect, the Corpse Immortal Cult, and the Immortal Alliance are all stirring. Ghosts roam by day, demons hide among humanity, little ghosts are hard to deal with, corpse-driving and zombie-exorcising arts abound, the Five 29Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 141 The Yin Fourth Gate 阴四门 [One heroine + traditional supernatural folklore + spirit medium] (Adapted into an audio IP) Prequel to "A One-Stop Funeral Service, with Cyber Immortals by My Side" (It’s perfectly normal for a funeral officiant like me to summon immortals, right?). The Yin Four Trades: an occupation that lives entirely off the dead. What would happen if the strongest spirit medium within thousands of miles joined one of the Yin Four Trades… 849Reads8.6Score15214d adds
- 142 Fallen Phoenix 落凤 [Pure feel-good fun! The heroine is a total psycho who'll fight anyone! She never takes a loss!] My sworn sister sent me a message: "We'll never be separated." Then she disappeared. My big brother and I packed our suitcases and went to her hometown, Ancient Phoenix City, to look for her. But I kept feeling as if a pair of eyes were watching me from somewhere unseen. Those eyes, however, didn't belong to the "Golden Dragon" I'd known since childhood... 561Reads8.8Score10514d adds
- 143 My Neighbor Knocks on the Wall at 3 A.M. Every Day 我的邻居每天准时在凌晨3点敲墙 My neighbor knocks on the wall at exactly 3 a.m. every day 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 144 The Northeast Ma Family 东北“马”家 Do you know what a spirit horse is? Do you know what a spirit hall is? Do you know who the guardian spirits of the Northeast are? Do you know the Four Beams and Eight Pillars? Do you know the Qingfeng spirits? Whether you do or not, this book will lead you through a strange doorway and introduce you to the world of spirit mediums in Northeast China. For the first twenty-five years of my life, I thought I was just an utterly ordinary speck of dust in this little county town. I never imagined that 51Reads9.1Score—14d adds
- 145 Feng Shui Yin-Yang Master 风水阴阳师 "Born under the Emperor Ziwei's fate, with yin-yang eyes from birth." An extraordinary life is his destiny. He inherits his ancestors' feng shui arts. In the world of the mystic arts, yin flourishes while yang declines. A thousand-year plan awaits just one person. 1.2kReads7.1Score11614d adds
- 146 Ghost Incense 鬼上香 People eat food, while ghosts catch its scent! Every trade has its own rules and fate, and mine is downright horrifying. My name is Han Yiding. I was born from the belly of a corpse, a corpse-born infant. I also have a master who looks like a con artist. Whenever I think of that old man, he hardly seems like some great master. You ask who founded our sect? Ever heard of Lü Dongbin? A renowned master who cultivated both Buddhism and Taoism. But enough explaining. This child born from a corpse is 391Reads8.1Score4214d adds
- 147 Coming for My Life on the Seventh Night? I Can Command the Most Ominous Creatures 头七索命？我能御大凶之物 Anyone who makes money from the dead knows there are three kinds of corpses you must never handle. First, don’t take the bodies of people who died violently or are missing limbs. Such corpses carry baleful energy, damage your fortune, and bind you to karmic debts. Second, don’t take a corpse that has been left unattended for seven days after death. After seven days, the flesh has begun to decay and the soul has nowhere to settle. Disturb it, and you may find yourself haunted by evil things. Thir 243Reads—Score—14d adds
- 148 The Ghost Bone-Reading 鬼称骨 Where I'm from, we call our great-grandfather “Laodie.” In Meihua Village, everyone gives a thumbs-up when they talk about my Laodie, saying he was an extraordinary man. Even the children have surely heard the adults tell stories about how my Laodie dealt with ghosts, monsters, and spirits. In the late Qing dynasty, Laodie passed the xiucai examination at the age of twelve. He was supposed to go on to take the provincial and metropolitan examinations, but an unexpected accident changed everythin 417Reads8.7Score10514d adds
- 149 The Yin-Yang Affairs Office 阴阳事务所 The Yin-Yang Affairs Office is closed during the day and open at night. We don't take cases from the living, only from ghosts. I'm a man of principles. What? A pretty young lady wants to come visit? Yo, I might consider it! A bewitchingly beautiful, sultry red-robed female ghost; a headless ghost whose head was chopped off with an axe; the Black and White Impermanence from the underworld... They're all regulars here. To tell you the truth, even the King of Hell was raised by me! 355Reads7.8Score10114d adds
- 150 Tales from the Folkways of Northeast China 东北民间轶事录 [The new book, The Northeast Folk Tales: An Account of Zhong Kui, is now being serialized] [Ensemble cast + folk legends + the customs and character of Northeast China] The land and skies of the Northeast; its folk customs and its people Set in the rural Northeast of the 1990s, this book is adapted from remarkable folk legends and true events widely told across the vast lands of Northeast China. It recounts the hardships protagonist Xu Liang faced in his youth, along with the many legendary expe 3.4kReads8.8Score40314d adds
