Novels like The Corpse Coffin's Ghostly Fragrance
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Corpse Coffin's Ghostly Fragrance, best match first.
- 1 Strange Happenings After Returning to the Village 回村后诡事 You’ve probably seen someone die with their eyes open, but have you ever seen a dead person standing in their own grave? What happened back then that wiped out the entire generation of my father and his brothers? Rats held a funeral for the dead, the blood moon hung overhead, and entire households were sealed off. One eerie event after another unfolded. Come and hear my story. 937Reads—Score10514d adds
- 2 The Folk Corpse Retriever 民间捞尸人 What rules govern the retrieval of corpses? Which bodies can be fished out, which must be left alone, and which are impossible to retrieve? Before I became a corpse retriever, I had no idea this trade had so many rules. Ever since I joined the profession, my peaceful life has been thrown into turmoil, and one reclusive sect after another has returned to the world. At the same time, a charming young bride, the cherished daughter of a hidden clan, and a beautiful corpse sealed beneath the sea for 228Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 The Corpse Stitcher 缝尸匠 I work at a crematorium. One day, a woman’s corpse arrived, and I stitched her body back together. Ever since then, I’ve dreamed about her every night… 851Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 4 The Night My Boyfriend Cheated, Five Ghosts Entered My Bedroom 男友出轨那晚，五只鬼魂进了我卧室 The night my boyfriend cheated, five ghosts entered my bedroom 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 The Thousand and First Story 第一千零一个故事 Each story stands on its own. In every story, there is someone named Chen Mo. He is never the same person, yet on different nights, he always finds himself caught up in different strange happenings. Old buildings, rainy nights, long-distance buses, funeral homes, elevators, schools, haunted houses... When the truth comes to light, the living are colder than ghosts, and the past runs deeper than death. Welcome to The Thousand-and-First Story. The next story may already have begun. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 The Grave of the Yin Dead 阴人墓 My cousin's wife had an affair and drove my cousin to his death. But the truth was... 6Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 7 The Paper Effigy Maker 扎纸匠 Why can the descendants of the legendary Lu Ban, once famous throughout the land, only make paper offerings for funerals? Why did the once-renowned Li family retreat into the mountains? As the power of his bloodline awakens once more within a young man, is it a curse, or the work of man? Can fate be defied? Li Shuisheng refuses to believe in destiny. He will defy the heavens, change his fate, and fight for a chance to survive... 279Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 Strange and Terrifying 34 诡恐34 Horror, suspense, and the supernatural. Please don't read alone late at night. If anything strange happens, we accept no responsibility. This collection of stories is entirely fictional. If anything seems familiar, hurry and pray… 1.6kReads—Score10314d adds
- 9 The Yellow River Corpse Retriever 黄河捞尸人 Twenty years ago, I was adopted into a family of Yellow River corpse retrievers. My adoptive parents passed away one after the other, leaving me as the family’s sole heir. With no way out, I was forced to learn how to retrieve corpses. Whether it was a decades-old corpse, a skeleton from the Republican era, or an ancient body, I had to carry it out from one of the twelve haunted caverns. I had no other choice. This was the only way I could cling to life! 1.4kReads—Score—14d adds
- 10 Yun Che: The Corpse Driver 云澈：赶尸人 Yun Che: The Corpse Driver 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 The Horror Stories I Tell on the Midnight Radio Come True 午夜电台我讲的恐怖故事都成真了 [Thriller + horror + wild imagination + plot twists] Zhang Mo, a transmigrator whose parents have both died, is forced to inherit the radio station his father left behind, which is on the verge of going under. Then a System suddenly activates, releasing a new horror story every seven days. To his shock, every story comes true in the real world. The radio station reaches its peak, but little by little, Zhang Mo is driven to despair... 785Reads6.6Score10214d adds
- 12 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 403Reads6.8Score11114d adds
- 13 The Funeral Specialist: Targeted Just Three Days After Posting 白事先生：发书三天，就被盯上了 (This book is entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental!) The market is sluggish, and funeral shops are no exception. With nothing better to do, I turned the manuscript Guichen Register, written by my grandfather and father together, into a digital edition. I’m addicted to typing, so I decided to write a novel to help make ends meet. But I never expected that just three days after I published it, someone would set their sights on me... 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 The Yin-Yang Businessman 阴阳生意人 [Ensemble cast]+ [Capable protagonist]+ [Plenty of twists]+ [Mystery] (Paper effigy makers, coffin makers, pallbearers, coroners, funeral wailers, funeral banquet chefs, straw effigy makers, executioners, antique dealers...) (Physiognomy, secret arts, feng shui, witchcraft, curse arts, black magic) When I was born, Granny Feng, who ran the paper effigy shop in town, discovered that I was burdened by a debt to the underworld. When I was twelve, my mother pledged two of my life lamps and her own b 740Reads8.1Score10114d adds
- 15 The Fear-Soothing Shop 收惊铺 Don’t open this novel in the middle of the night! The protagonist runs a shop in Nanjing that helps people ward off evil spirits and calm their fright. He thinks it’s just a way to make a living, until one rainy night, a woman rushes into his shop and says her husband vanished into thin air at the foot of Baohua Mountain. I went to investigate, and after a fishpond was drained, an ancient well over a thousand years old appeared beneath it, covered in talismans! Buried inside was none other than 359Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 The Yin-Yang Ghost Hunter 阴阳捉鬼人 Is everything in this world really as simple as people think? What secrets lie behind the things that seem so ordinary? The uncanny Miaojiang Gu sect, the mysterious Sacred Sect, the unfathomable Maoshan Taoist sect, and the ethereal Feng Shui sect… Watch as a boy from a mountain village unravels layer upon layer of mystery, sets out to find his missing parents, and searches for the ultimate Way. 92Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 Daoist Master, We're Really Not the Mob, Are We? 道爷，咱们真的不是黑社会吗？ The rating has just come in and may rise later. [Daoist prodigy + scheming mastermind + no female lead + no saintly do-gooder + decisive and ruthless] [One strike of the Thunder Seal banishes a hundred evil spirits; a star chart in hand reveals the workings of heaven and earth!] Born under the fate of the Lone Star of Calamity, he obtains the Supreme Daoist Scripture, carrying the highest Daoist arts within him. He ventures into the world of mysticism, battles every kind of evil, and faces droug 267Reads5.8Score10014d adds
- 18 Jiangshi World: From the Start, I’m a Paper Effigy Maker 僵尸世界：开局一个扎纸匠 On a deserted street in Changping City stood a shop that made paper offerings. The moon was bright and the stars were sparse. The night should have been peaceful and quiet, but now the air was thick with the stench of corpses. Every shop on the street was closed, and the nearby residents had gone to bed early. Only that paper-offering shop still had a faint light shining inside. The wreaths at the entrance looked especially unnerving. Inside, row upon row of paper figures and burial clothes were 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 The Soul-Caller at Midnight 夜半叫魂人 My grandfather was the last soul-caller in the village. Before he died, he warned me: no matter whose voice I heard calling my name in the middle of the night, I must never answer. Then, late one night, I heard my mother calling anxiously from outside the door. I was just about to respond when a cold hand clamped over my mouth from behind. When I turned around, I saw my grandfather, who had been buried three days earlier. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 The Taoist Master of the Funeral Home 殡仪馆的天师 A Celestial Master’s legacy? No thanks. Slaying demons and exorcising evil? Not interested. Lin Yue lands a government job at a funeral home, using the Three-Flavored True Fire to cremate bodies and Five Thunder Talismans to keep the place under control. His boss praises his efficiency, while evil spirits curse him for fighting dirty. The whole city is haunted? Don’t worry. Master Lin from the funeral home will come right to your door. Overtime costs extra. 22Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 The Haunted Campus: Who Says School Is the Safest Place? 惊魂校区谁说学校最安全 Shocking! A Qing-dynasty tomb has been unearthed behind the school, but the coffin inside is empty. And the four seemingly ordinary university students turn out to be Yin-Yang masters straight out of horror movies. A coffin slid down the hillside behind the school. A secret history of the Qing dynasty that was never recorded. Missing classmates. A sinister archive room. A hearse on Zhongshan Street. A weasel encountered while camping. Somehow, it all seems to be pointing toward something. Do you —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 Ghost Tattoo Seal, Forbidden Arts of the Yellow Springs 鬼纹印，黄泉禁术 From the start, he was bound in marriage to a ghost. After a series of twists and turns, he met a master. To stay alive, Yin Linchuan followed an old Taoist priest to catch ghosts and ward off evil, slaying demons and vanquishing monsters. From then on, he embarked on the path of catching ghosts and driving away evil... —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 23 I Failed the College Entrance Exam, So I Enrolled at a Paranormal Vocational College 高考落榜，我上灵异职业技术学院 After failing the college entrance exam, Su Xing gets a beating from both parents and, worked up, threatens to jump into a river. Ding! The System sets Su Xing up with a school: the Paranormal Vocational and Technical College. The school doesn't teach math, Chinese, or English. It only teaches ghost-catching, demon-subduing, spirit investigation, and more... Su Xing complains to the System, “Even with a System, you won't let me go to a proper university? Why a vocational college?” “Guaranteed to 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 24 The Coffin Bride 棺妻 My name is Li Guan. Li as in the character for plum, and Guan as in coffin. When I was fourteen, I dreamed of a purple coffin. A beautiful woman lay inside. She opened her eyes and told me she was my wife, and that she'd kill me if I married anyone else! She told me to wait for her. On my eighteenth birthday, she really came... When the purple coffin crossed my threshold, the world's shackles broke, revealing the first mysterious glimpse of an entirely new and fantastical world... 373Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 25 The Clay God Carver 泥神匠 My family has been making clay idols for generations. We sculpt statues of gods and invite spirits into them. Remember, you must never worship at the little mountain god or earth god temples hidden in the ravines. Those are wild temples, because you never know what it is you're worshipping... 17Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 26 Born of a Corpse, I Became a Spirit Medium 尸生子，我成了接阴婆 The day I was born, lightning flashed and thunder roared beneath a sky thick with dark clouds. Ninety-nine divine bolts of lightning struck all around our house. My mother cried out and died on the spot, while I was still trapped inside her womb... My grandmother immediately grabbed a kitchen knife, cut open my mother's belly, and lifted me out. From then on, a string of strange events began to unfold!!! 225Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 27 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 24.4kReads9.3Score1.9k14d adds
- 28 My Shrine Is Full of Jokers and Screw-Ups 我的堂口，全是逗比和坑货 Yang Erlang reincarnated + an ancient tragic love + a cast of screwups + face-slapping comeback The whole village laughs at me for being a useless spirit medium. The immortals at my altar are all lazy screwups, and my uncle, a Qingfeng spirit and master thief, is the most unreliable of them all. I smash the ancestral copper coin and single-handedly conquer the Nine Hells. The underworld's soldiers keep three paces away from me! One sentence from my little aunt, muttered in her sleep, reveals t 8Reads—Score114d adds
- 29 I'm a Professional Mage: Isn't Marrying a Demon Wife the Perfect Protection? 我职业法师：娶妖妻辟邪很正常吧 (One devoted male lead and one heroine + ensemble cast + passionate, funny, with a touch of angst) While other twenty-year-olds are partying and binge-watching shows, Shen Mobai is pretending to be a fortune-teller to scam people out of big money. He digs up a grave in the middle of the night for a 300,000-yuan ghost-marriage fee, only to wake the vengeful ghost buried inside! “Hey, lady! I was just following orders. I didn’t mean to dig up your grave!” “Take it up with the King of Hell.” “Help 22Reads—Score—14d adds
- 30 One True Ghost Story Every Night 每晚一个真实怪谈 This book features all kinds of short horror stories, from urban legends and rural hauntings to deadly folk customs. There are no drawn-out plotlines, just nonstop high-octane scares, with one bizarre incident after another. Open the book and step into the abyss. The faint of heart should stay away! 10.3kReads—Score46014d adds
- 31 The Celestial Master Descends the Mountain: He Kills, He Doesn’t Save 天师下山，只杀不渡 My name is Zhang Qingfeng. I was born with the bones of a Daoist, and every ghost wants a piece of me. At eight, I was bound by forty-nine debts to the underworld. I had seven days to live. The headmaster of Maoshan saved me and brought me up the mountain, where he taught me Daoist arts and freed me from my death sentence. At twenty, I descended the mountain and made myself a rule: When I encounter a wronged spirit, I ask what happened first. If they’ve been wronged, I’ll set things right. If th 3Reads—Score10814d adds
- 32 With a Spirit at My Waist, I Lure Evil Spirits 我腰悬灵，专引邪祟 (Mystery and the supernatural, ghosts and Taoist exorcists) I have a bell that hasn't rung in years. On the first day I set foot on campus, it rang. From then on, I understood the path I was meant to take. 1.1kReads6.3Score10014d adds
- 33 Livestreaming Corpse-Herding, Hunted by My Blind Date 直播赶尸，被相亲对象追捕 Liu Mang is unexpectedly reborn with a live-streaming corpse-driving System, only for his aunt to call and tell him to go on a blind date! The female ghost Jin Yuanyuan: “Master, big brother, stick with you and I’ll get to eat my fill!” Ye Xueli: “I’m a police officer, and I’m hunting down the person live-streaming corpse driving. Hey, why are you running?!” Junior schoolmate Zhong Feifei: “Senior, could you be the dark horse prince Heaven sent me?” The thousand-year-old zombie Queen of Loul 22Reads5.4Score—14d adds
- 34 Feng Shui Master by Fate: Commanding Yin and Yang with the Five Thunder Palm 天命风水师：五雷掌阴阳 [Supernatural Ghost-Hunting | Feng Shui and Taoist Arts | Five-Thunder Righteous Technique | Hardcore Talisman Drawing | The Protagonist Won't Take Things Lying Down] The Lin family was once the world's foremost feng shui clan, able to alter fate and determine fortune, with kings and nobles vying for its favor. As the years passed, the family dwindled. Lin Tiancheng, the last heir of the Lin family, learned the clan's secrets from his grandfather at the age of six. Evil spirits emerge and strang 1.8kReads—Score10814d adds
- 35 Tales of Western Hunan 湘西往事录 Strike the gong to announce the spirits, ring the bell to summon their souls. Dressed in Taoist robes, the corpse driver of western Hunan. The dead are on the move. The living, stand aside. A crescent moon shines on blue robes, a river of stars stretches across the low sky. The mournful gong clears the way, ghostly shadows speak of western Hunan. Silver bells softly summon souls, coins pave the road and drive the spirits away. Every household shuts its doors tight, the living keep away as deathl 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 36 Heir to the Spirit Medium 通灵师传人 Supernatural + ghost marriage + strong female lead power fantasy + horror stories + mystery. There are ghosts in every heart. Have you ever seen anything more terrifying than a ghost? It's not about walking a dark road too often and running into an evil spirit. The deadliest thing isn't knowing that it's a ghost. It's the utterly dark heart hidden beneath that perfect face. Shh... Don't make a sound. She's right behind you. Run. Don't look back. The story is even more terrifying than you ca 22Reads—Score—14d adds
- 37 The Final Celestial Master in the Age of Declining Magic 末法时代，最后一位天师 The Maoshan Sect Leader, impeached and driven down the mountain; a wet-behind-the-ears young upstart; a frost-cold ghost bride; an evil cultivation sect that stops at nothing; a master of Gu poison from Miaojiang; and the Shen family, Asia's richest. The Daoist sects of the realm are in turmoil. Watch as Ye Chen takes up his sword and roams the world! 13.5kReads7.4Score1.1k14d adds
- 38 The Paper Effigy Shop: The Figures I Make Can Catch Ghosts 祖传纸扎铺：我扎的纸人会抓鬼 There were no ghosts in the world to begin with. The more people believe in them, the more real they become! In truth, human hearts are a hundred times more sinister than evil ghosts. Every ghost was driven into being by people. My family’s paper effigy shop is so poor it’s about to close. My ancestors passed down three ironclad rules: never make an effigy in the likeness of a living person, never make one in the likeness of the dead, and never make one of anyone named by a customer. To make end 244Reads—Score12414d adds
- 39 Old Lu's Lone Edge 老箓孤锋 The family has fallen into ruin, and its legacy lies in disgrace. As a descendant of Celestial Master Xu Xun, Xu Xuan has spent half his life in grief and partings. His father and elder brother died, his relatives and friends passed away, and the world mocked him as dull-witted and unworthy of carrying on the family tradition. Yet no one knows that an ancient power lies sealed in his blood. When the enemy of old comes to his door in the twilight of life, kneeling to beg forgiveness, is it genu 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 40 My Ghostly Wife Rules the Roost 阴妻当道 On the seventh day after Grandma’s death, she came back, and even arranged a new bride for me... 152Reads5.4Score—14d adds
- 41 The Mysterious Origami Master: Rising to Power from the Underworld! 诡秘折纸匠：从阴间开始成大佬！ (The protagonist is calm and self-focused, and refuses to be swept along by outside forces. Please understand if that's not to your taste.) After a family upheaval, he awakens as a bizarre paper-folding craftsman. After a paper mansion is burned down, it transforms into a haunted apartment building in the underworld. One paper figure after another becomes a battle-hardened general! With a wave of paper, he summons a river of stars across the heavens. With a drop of paper, the Yellow Springs surg 692Reads6.7Score15214d adds
- 42 The Master Is Down from the Mountain: Master, Your Disciple Doesn't Want to Go on Blind Dates Anymore 高手下山：师傅，徒儿不要相亲了 [Master comes down the mountain + Celestial Master + being pursued + invincible + comedy + the arrival of the Classic of Mountains and Seas] Unhappy with his master's repeated matchmaking arrangements, Liu Mang runs away from his wedding and heads down the mountain. Danger and prospective brides soon come one after another! What, you're a great demon who lays waste to the people? I'll capture you and turn you into barbecue! What, you're a rich second-generation heir who acts like you own the wor 975Reads7.3Score10014d adds
- 43 I Know a Few Ghost Tricks 我会点鬼术 A hundred years a ghost, ten years a good man. My name is Bai Yaoyao. In this world overrun by vengeful ghosts and monsters, all I want is to tend my little paper funerary shop and live in peace. But my meager ghostcraft seems to keep getting me into enormous trouble. With no other choice, if I want to survive, I’ll have to hone this little bit of ghostcraft to perfection! 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 44 The Midnight Funeral Shop 午夜白事铺 A secluded funeral shop, where a single stick of incense can sell for over a thousand yuan. It opens for only three hours a day, yet people still crowd its doorstep. Today, the funeral shop welcomed its first customer. A woman in a red dress, her face deathly pale. As the candlelight flickered, she cast two shadows... 8.2kReads8.1Score49814d adds
- 45 Maoshan's Handsome Face, Catching Ghosts Without Playing Fair 茅山颜值担当，捉鬼不讲武德 When a thousand-year-old, woman-loving patriarch transmigrates into the body of a useless young Maoshan priest in modern times, he uses his handsome face and his family's creed, “Let your fellow cultivators die, not you,” to carve out a hilarious, unstoppable path through the city's supernatural world and its harem-like battlefield. Highlights: · A character full of contrasts: He looks like a handsome, lazy young Taoist, but inside he's a thousand-year-old fox. With the most laid-back expressi —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 46 The Engineer's Strange Case Files 工程诡录 Please note: This story has no harem, no brainless characters, no overpowered cheat, and uses science instead of mysticism. If that's not your thing, please don't read. A staunch atheist with a PhD in control engineering is unexpectedly sent as a technical consultant to a new factory plagued by strange incidents. One bizarre equipment failure follows another, yet every scientific method he knows proves useless. With only three days left to finish the project, Dr. Qi decides to use scientific ins 1Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 47 Listening to Strange Tales at Night 夜听诡事 Whenever you're bored in your spare time, you can open my book and let it take you into a different world. This book is made up of a collection of short tales of horror, the supernatural, and ghosts and monsters. They will show you the warmth and coldness of the world, and reveal the selfishness and greed of human nature. Perhaps you'll find yourself in the stories and feel what the characters feel. As you read, set aside the weariness of body and mind for a while and immerse yourself completely 612Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 48 Yin-Yang Eyes: Ghostly Tales from a Mountain Village 阴阳眼之山村鬼事 On the night I was born, dark clouds covered the sky, fierce winds and torrential rain raged, and thunder boomed until dawn. Countless ghost soldiers and underworld bailiffs waited outside our home, intent on dragging me back to the underworld. If my grandfather hadn't fought to protect me, I wouldn't have lived to see morning. Dogs barked all night throughout the village. The elders called me a cursed, ill-fated child and an evil omen, and wanted to beat me to death to put an end to the calami 18Reads—Score—14d adds
- 49 Exorcism Records: The Supreme Judge of Yin and Yang 镇鬼实录：阴阳第一执宰人 [Traditional supernatural horror + ghost hunting + no romance] The city is full of tricks. I want to go back to the countryside. After losing his job, Jiang Bai returns to his rural hometown, only to find that a wicked spirit has begun tearing out people’s hearts. More and more villagers are being killed, and the whole village is helpless. Ignoring his late grandfather’s prohibition, he inherits his grandfather’s legacy and enters the world of the mystic arts. In a once-quiet town, accidents kee 79Reads—Score—14d adds
- 50 The Evil Dead Pursue: My Master Tried to Possess Me, but I Turned the Tables 猛鬼追魂：师父夺舍被我反噬 After a ghost blinded me, I accidentally knocked over a vase in a porcelain shop. The heartless old boss demanded an outrageous sum, so I had no choice but to agree to work as his shop assistant for three months to pay off the debt. I figured he'd make my life miserable, but the old geezer did a complete about-face. He said we were destined to meet, and not only wanted to take me as his apprentice, but also offered me his ravishing, graceful, one-in-a-million goddaughter as a wife. Could anythin 13Reads—Score—14d adds
