Novels like The Hilarious Ghost Catcher's Bizarre Casebook
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Hilarious Ghost Catcher's Bizarre Casebook, best match first.
- 1 Summoning Spirits 招灵 Summoning Spirits —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 The Coffin Maker 棺匠 I'm a coffin keeper. I entered this line of work after joining my master at the age of nine. At first, I didn't believe there were ghosts in this world. Then, after a series of strange encounters, I gradually discovered the other side of the world... 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 I Told You to Be a Ghost Officer, Not to Turn the Underworld Upside Down 让你当鬼差，没让你把地府闹翻天 [Ghost hunting + comedy + episodic short stories + two romance arcs] “Scare factor: 1. Comedy factor: 99! It has a vibe similar to Spirit Pendulum. Hope you enjoy it.” “Talking about ghosts, telling tales of human feelings.” Shen Zhe, a minor celebrity with no fame to speak of, suddenly dies. Was it suicide, or was there more to it...? His friend Han Min, who was already on borrowed time, seeks revenge for him and unexpectedly ends up in the underworld, but can’t find him anywhere... I can’t be 22Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Making Money in Both the Living and the Dead Worlds 阴阳两界通吃 [Multiple Heroines + Wacky Daily Life + Light Comedy + No System] I'm Guan Du, one of the top wage slaves between the worlds of the living and the dead. I take jobs and make money by day, then work for ghosts at night. Ghost Big Shot: Help me find my killer, and I'll give you a haunted house! Gluttonous Impermanence: You can mooch a meal, but pay protection money first! Tsundere Receptionist: Keep running your mouth, and I'll put you up for auction online! What? You don't scam people for money? 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 The Old Corpse: Strange Happenings in the Mountains 老尸：山中诡事 A thousand skeletons pillow the moonlit stele, their shadows sealed. Autumn tombs wear rosy clouds, blood soaking the steps. The boiling cauldron cooks souls, a thousand years of grievance. A grand feast for ghosts, with every skeleton withered. In the utter silence, corpse oil lights the candle. In a place shrouded from the world, a rotting hand pushes open the door. A lingering soul adorns the dressing table, a spider transformed into a hairpin. A name sinks beneath the mirror, maggots become 155Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 The Yin Marriage Thread 阴缘线 Murong thought she was probably just born unlucky. Her master used her to nurture his soul, while her senior brothers and sisters used her to fend off the fate of the Five Bane-and-Deficiency Afflictions. Sometimes, she felt it didn’t really matter whether she lived or died. Then she met her little crew: her sisters, friends, and apprentices. They showed her how wonderful warmth could be! And there was that devoted, puppy-like young man. He was brave, confident, warm, and bright. He seemed like 35Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 The Fortune-Telling Siblings Return from the Dead and Conquer the 1960s 神棍兄妹魂归，玩转60年代 Period setting + high martial arts + no romance + apocalypse + spatial powers + cultivation + ghost-catching + wild imagination The Jin family is an old and prestigious family of mystics. When the Jin family welcomes twins, a boy and a girl, they are born with twin destinies. This foretells the end of the Jin family's inheritance, and also that the twins will cultivate the true Way. It is both an ending and a new beginning. Jin Qingye and Jin Qingyao leave their bodies in spirit form and underg 30Reads9.3Score—Shelves
- 8 I Have a Book That Suppresses Ghosts 我有一本镇鬼书 [Wild imagination + ghost taming + fighting ghosts] [Punching Japanese Onmyoji in the face + kicking Satanist exorcists] During the Eastern Jin dynasty, the unorthodox Taoist Song Dingbo sealed more than a hundred evil ghosts that plagued the world inside a notebook. After his death, the notebook was buried with him in a grave on Yunwu Mountain. As the years passed, the grave was damaged one day in 2012, releasing all the ghosts. Li San, who happened to be on a mission nearby, was accidentally p 27Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 I’m Hu Sheng, and I Dare to Take on the Underworld Bailiff 我虎剩，敢干阴差 If you saw money lying on the ground outside a hospital, would you pick it up? Heh. But if you actually did, then congratulations: you've been caught! Once you pick up that money, bad luck will cling to you. At best, you'll come down with a fever or a cold. At worst, it might cost you your life. Don't ask how I know. After I picked up that money, I was plagued by bad luck and nearly lost my life... My name is Shen Yidong, and I'm a bona fide Northeastern guy. As my mom would say, I'm a bit of a 8.9kReads6.7Score208Shelves
- 10 I Picked Up a Calligraphy Brush and Ended Up as an Underworld Errand Boy 捡了一支毛笔，结果成了地府牛马 After unexpectedly finding a divine brush from the underworld, a mother and daughter are drawn into a strange world between yin and yang. With a stroke of the brush, they can draw talismans to suppress evil spirits in every direction. It can also forge a blade, creating a divine weapon that devours souls. Armed with their brushes, the mother and daughter embark on a unique supernatural adventure. 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 A Hot Girl Crawled Out of a Lonely Coffin 孤棺里爬出个辣妹子 “Damn it, who the hell dragged me to this godforsaken place?” Su Wan, a special forces soldier nicknamed the Guokui Beauty, wakes up one day to find herself climbing out of a coffin, reincarnated as a discarded empress who died five years ago and was banished to the Cold Palace. Her old nemesis, the former imperial consort, now rules the inner palace? She’ll take her down! The powerful minister who once framed her now has the court in his grip? She’ll slap him silly! She rolls up her sleeves, re —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Hearing Your Heart 听君心 One-sentence synopsis: A low-ranking palace maid who could die at any moment suddenly gains the ability to hear the tyrant's thoughts. By day, she plays the timid little bird; by night, she rants and roasts him in his mind, never realizing she has already become his one and only source of peace. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Paranormal Civil Servant 灵异公务员 Wang Xiaotian, a civil servant wielding the "Heaven-Measuring Ruler," transmigrates to a parallel world where the supernatural resurges in the 1990s. Zombies have to meet their KPIs, and ghosts who like people have to follow the proper procedures. Using the bureaucratic wisdom he's gained from writing reports and mediating disputes, he specializes in dealing with every kind of monster and demon that refuses to cooperate. When a red-clad vengeful ghost has to write a work summary, and a thousand- 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Years Against the Current: The Road Home 逆流之年之归途 This is a story about loss and rebuilding. It does not glorify smooth sailing or easy success. Instead, it portrays how, after countless failures, an ordinary person, shackled by emotional burdens and debt, stumbles onward in search of a way home that truly belongs to them. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 I Scared a Ghost to Death Again 我又把鬼吓死了 [No romance + Chinese-style horror + folk beliefs and the occult + first-person narration + ghost-catching prodigy] My great-grandfather, Zhang Tiansheng, was a taboo subject in the Zhang family. He had once been a highly respected exorcist throughout the surrounding villages, able to speak with ghosts and spirits and dispel evil influences. Then, for reasons no one knew, he suddenly went mad. Before he died, he even tried to kill his entire family. After my great-grandfather died, his body was 568Reads9.1Score—Shelves
- 16 Whispers by the Candlelit Ruins 幽庭烛烬语 In the dead of night, countless eerie secrets lurk in the dark folds of the city. The knocking in an old apartment, known as “Knocking at Midnight,” rings out like clockwork at three in the morning. When a woman living alone peers through the peephole, all she sees is a roiling cloud of scarlet blood mist in the hallway, while a damp scratching comes from the doorknob. In the basement of a century-old apothecary, “Whispers in the Medicine Crock” never cease, day or night. Every night at midnight 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 My Pale Life 我苍白的一生 My name is Zhang Yuan, though my childhood nickname was Ergou. I'm male, born in 1990. Everyone encounters all kinds of strange, inexplicable things in life. By the way, do you believe in ghosts? 491Reads8.4Score101Shelves
- 18 The Torment-Novel Heroine Is Busy Catching Ghosts 虐文女主忙抓鬼 [Comedy + transmigration + ghost hunting] Su Su opens her eyes to find herself in a hospital bed, with someone nearby trying to take her kidney. From the doctors' conversation, she realizes she's transmigrated? Into the very angst novel she had just complained about, and as the abused heroine, no less? Then Su Su discovers that the world of the book is actually supernatural. Isn't that her specialty? They dare abuse her? They have no idea what's coming. How about a female-ghost special, on the h 3.7kReads8.9Score491Shelves
- 19 My Girlfriend Is a Fox Spirit 我的女友是个狐狸精 Ever since the day Zhang Lang was born, the neighbors had called him a jinx. On the night of his birth, half of the tile-roofed house where his family had lived for three generations came crashing down. His parents sat with him in their arms amid the ruins, gazing up at the stars in despair. A fortune-teller had warned them long ago that the child was the reincarnation of a bringer of calamity, doomed to a life of misfortune with no way to escape it. Sure enough, he could get hit by a falling bi 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 Carrying the Living and the Dead 载人也载鬼 After losing his job, the protagonist plans to buy a car and drive for a rideshare service. Instead, he ends up buying a Soul-Ring Car and helps a female ghost solve the mystery of her death. He then becomes a rideshare driver who transports ghosts. 11.3kReads8.4Score767Shelves
- 21 I Became an Internet Celebrity in the Underworld 我在阴司当网红 Introduction I'm a Taoist priestess who livestreamed metaphysics theories in the living world and never encountered a real ghost. Then I got so excited over a 200,000-yuan tip that I keeled over on the spot. When I woke up, I was standing in the gloomy Hall of the King of Hell. The judge told me my allotted lifespan wasn't over, but that the way I died was too embarrassing. Since I was here anyway, I might as well get back to my old line of work in the underworld. Who could have guessed that the 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 I Get Stronger Whenever I Encounter a Ghost 我，遇鬼就变强 [Standalone Stories + Supernatural Horror + Thriller + Folk Customs + Comedy + Mind-Blowing Twists] Why was a finger missing from a corpse in a coffin, right before everyone’s eyes? Why were ghostly wails heard in the flower shop at midnight? Why did the figures in the shopping center elevator twist out of shape? The secret beneath the mandrake flowers, the bizarre death of a boy who livestreamed, a maze with no way out... Vengeful spirits are wreaking havoc. There’s no peace to be found! In the 145Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 She Became an Online Sensation Through Fortune-Telling 她靠算命爆红全网 [Taoist priest + ghost hunting + talisman drawing + face-slapping comeback + feng shui] Reborn on the night of her ghost wedding, Qin Youyou awakens on the spirit bed and discovers that she bears a special fate, drawing the covetous attention of evil Taoists and the hauntings of vengeful ghosts. To protect herself, she clears haunted houses, hunts ghosts, takes in monsters and ghosts as companions, and fights evil gods, gradually regaining her cultivation. At last, the man who has always protect 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 The Spirit Medium’s Here! A Weasel Demands a Title, So I Flick It on the Forehead 出马！黄皮子讨封，我弹它脑瓜崩 A mostly story-driven tale, slightly spooky and a million times hilarious. [Spirit Mediums] [Humorous and Hilarious] [One Thrilling Moment After Another] [Not a Dull Moment in the Whole Book] After a breakup, the brash young Zhang Shitou gets drunk and runs into a weasel asking him to grant it a title. He thinks it’s just a big yellow dog. “Damn it, a good dog doesn’t block the road.” He goes right up and flicks it hard on the head. “Kid, quit flicking me. Look carefully, I’m the Yellow Immortal 14.9kReads8.7Score1.3kShelves
- 25 The Mystical Art of Spirit Communication 玄之通灵 This is a novel made up of short stories about supernatural events. Some are true, some are false, and some are exaggerated, with humor, comedy, horror, and all manner of paranormal happenings... 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 Maoshan's Strange Immortal: The Ghost-Realm Yama 茅山异仙之鬼道阎罗 [Rural Maoshan Taoism] [Taoist Arts] [Cultivation] [Overwhelming Victories All the Way] [One Female Lead] I was born a stillborn. My grandfather borrowed my life for me. He said I was born from death, destined to become a king of the underworld. Taoists respectfully call me “Peng the Immortal,” while ghosts, demons, and monsters know me as the Ghostly Yama! Weasel: Do I look like a human or a god to you? Me: You look like the Celestial Worthy of Universal Transformation of Thunder of the Nine He 8.1kReads7.6Score653Shelves
- 27 The Villainess Awakens! The Fallen Princess Joins the Paranormal Investigation Unit 恶女觉醒！亡国公主在灵异调查组 No romance + revenge + mysticism + ghost hunting + an overwhelmingly powerful female lead Meng Zhi, the fallen princess of the Dazhao Kingdom, is dug up two thousand years later along with her cat. Literally dug up. Still inside her coffin. Meng Zhi still remembers the day she woke up: the archaeological team’s earth-shattering screams nearly made her go deaf the moment she opened her eyes. Archaeologist: “Can you believe it? The TV show came true. This thing can come back to life?! Fine, then 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 The Eccentric Daily Life of a Mystic Arts College Girl 玄门女大的奇葩日常 [No CP + Occult + Comedy + Horror] At first: Bai Ling: I'm coming clean! I'm actually a Taoist master! Gu Xue: What's the school clinic's psychology department number again? Which department handles dissociative identity disorder? Wang Mumu: Save the daydreaming. Tell me what you think of this new shroud design. Later: The female ghost's rotting face twists in terror. “Are you a demonic cultivator?” Bai Ling grins, wearing a picture-perfect villain's smile. “You've found me out~ Guess I'l 53Reads7.9Score—Shelves
- 29 Your Majesty, Hear Me Out! 娘娘，请听我狡辩！ After transmigrating into the body of a fake eunuch, Shen Yan is exhausted. Palace intrigue? No, he just wants to keep his head down, survive in the harem, and admire the beauties along the way. But every consort is a natural-born schemer: the empress is obsessive beneath her dignified facade, the noble consort hides murderous intent behind her charms, and even the sweet, innocent consort has a thousand tricks up her sleeve. Shen Yan sighs and pulls out his little notebook to write: “The noble c —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 I Am Not a Paper Spirit 我不是纸仙 A paper effigy is made by folding paper into the shape of a person, so it can take on another's sins, endure their punishment, and bear the consequences of their karma. I was an orphan from a young age, adopted by my master. He was a paper effigy maker, and when I was nineteen, I learned his craft. That set me on a road of no return and turned me into a jinx. Before long, I brought about my master's death. Through one mistake, I turned a “Lovers' Fold” into a “Life-Damaging Fold,” creating a pap 43Reads7.6Score—Shelves
- 31 I Became a Ghost's Lackey 我给猛鬼当狗腿 Lin You, a struggling comic artist who grew up in an orphanage, suddenly received a phone call about an inheritance. It turned out he had a wealthy father, making him a rich second-generation heir with money in the bank and a huge mansion. Lin You was moved to tears. At the mansion, he burned a pile of joss paper for the mother he had never met, only to summon a vicious ghost... The past and present lives of a mortal and a ghostly big shot, in a funny yet terrifying supernatural murder mystery. 381Reads8.8Score100Shelves
- 32 When a Ghost Meets a Dog: What Are You Looking At? 当鬼遇上狗：你瞅啥？ My life has been full of misfortune, so I’ve never believed in fate. It was all thanks to toxic feel-good slogans that I found the courage to keep living. As I struggled against fate, I discovered that the only way to protect myself was to do things even I couldn’t understand. As long as fate is left utterly baffled, I have a chance to survive. If fate won’t let me be human, fine. I can always become a ghost. If fate won’t let me be a ghost, fine. I can always become a dog. If I’m human, I’m bol 617Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 33 The Lord of the Underworld Doesn't Want to Work Today Either 冥主今天也不想上班 [Female-Dominated World + Strong Female Lead + Infinite-Flow + Fantasy + Wild Imagination + Historical Romance + Apocalypse: Cultivation] Doctor: Miss Man, do you ever hear strange voices? Man Tong: Does the Great Emperor of Fengdu constantly nagging in my ear count? The doctor nodded and checked a box on the paper: “Auditory hallucinations!” Doctor: And what do you think makes you different from ordinary people? Man Tong: I am the ruler of the Underworld. The doctor checked another box: “Delusi 343Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 34 Call Me the Corpse Ancestor: It All Began with Refining My Fated Female Corpse 请叫我尸祖，从炼化本命女尸开始 Prologue · The Family Rules My family has three ancestral rules: First, never do business with anyone wearing a black suit and a silver-gray tie. Second, after midnight, if you hear someone knocking in a pattern of three short knocks followed by two long ones, hold your breath until the knocking stops. Third, and most important: every man in the Chen family must find a way to "marry" a thousand-year-old corpse once he turns twenty-two. For a hundred years, my family observed the first two rules, 156Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 Special Affairs Bureau, Division Nine: The Nanhai Monster Uprising 特殊事物处理九科之南海妖乱 Do you really know the friends around you? The coworkers around you? Your own family? Do you~ know this world? Maybe the people you know, the ones you've met and fallen in love with, aren't human at all~~~ They're demons~! If it weren't for one extraordinary mission, none of this would ever have come to light. And if it weren't for the people who silently stood guard, the Jiuying Sect might already have severed the dragon veins and destroyed our nation's fortune of ten thousand years... 143Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 The Decline of the Mystic Arts in 1999 1999年玄门末路 July 15, 1999. Ancestral home in a walled village in the New Territories, Hong Kong. The shadow of a century-old locust tree swayed wildly in the torrential rain. Lin Qingya held a peachwood sword before the incense altar. The Big Dipper carved into its blade shone with dazzling blue light. He looked down at the month-old baby girl in his arms. Seven cinnabar moles on her left shoulder formed the shape of a ladle, mirroring the constellation carved on the sword. “Master, the Array of a Hundred G 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 A Required Course in Growing Up with a Middle Schooler 与初中生共同成长的必修课 Introduction: “What’s wrong with my child?” This book explores the challenges of transitioning from primary to middle school and the early parent-child conflicts of adolescence. What this book promises: This is more than a book about solving “problems.” It’s a roadmap to help you anticipate “growth” and enjoy the journey of being there for your child. To readers: How to use this book: record your questions and growth, and move forward in step with your child. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 The Ghost-Dreaded Girl’s KPI Crisis 鬼见愁少女的KPI危机 Midnight, at the mass graveyard south of the city. Su Xiaocan held up her phone stand and flashed the camera a professionally fake smile. “Come on, guys, send those gifts! The streamer’s about to give you a performance: dancing on a grave!” She hit play on the speaker. The blaring strains of “The Most Dazzling Folk Style” instantly shattered the cemetery’s silence. As she danced, she stole glances at her phone screen. [User 7438: The streamer’s badass! I think the third grave on the left just mo 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 The Star-Eyed Era: Ruling the Nine Heavens with My Eyes 星瞳纪元之瞳御九天 During a family crisis, Yun Che accidentally awakens the Star Eyes while protecting his loved ones, catching his first glimpse of the wonders of ocular arts: “See Through All Things” and “Predict Trajectories.” This section focuses on the profound physical and mental changes he undergoes upon awakening, as well as his shock and confusion. The Path of Cultivation, First Display of Brilliance: Yun Che joins the Tianshu Sect and meets Feng Buyu, who guides him on his path. Under the sect’s tutelag 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 Apocalypse Descends: From the Start, I Have an Orphanage 末世降临：开局一座孤儿院 Apocalypse Descends: From the Start, I Have an Orphanage, and Brother Jin Goes on a Rampage Cold raindrops pelted the rusted iron gate of Sunshine Welfare Home like bullets, rattling against it. Dirty floodwater had already risen past the ankles in the courtyard. The branches of several old trees swayed helplessly in the gale, as if foreshadowing some impending disaster. Brother Jin stood at the far end of the second-floor corridor, a cheap cigarette between his lips. Through the swirling smoke, 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 Above the Undercurrent: Ding Yi's Political Career 潜流之上：丁一官场记 Through Ding Yi's ups and downs in the political arena and the intertwined fates of several women, this novel explores how individuals can hold on to their ideals, conscience, and principles amid the tide of power's unspoken rules, and ultimately achieve redemption and reshape their sense of purpose. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 My Useless Spiritual Root: Reforming the Cultivation World With Toxic Advice 废灵根的我，靠毒鸡汤整顿修仙界 I transmigrated into the world of cultivation, but my spiritual root was so useless that the spirit-testing stone shattered on the spot. With no other choice, I became a rogue cultivator, and everyone mocked me as “the lowest of the low in the cultivation world, walking around on two legs.” That was until I offered the Sword Venerable some advice: “Fellow Daoist, your heart of the Dao is unsteady.” The Sword Venerable achieved enlightenment right there and then, dropped to his knees, and begged 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 From the Start, I Had My Brother Try It First to See If There Were Any Side Effects 开局让兄弟先试下有没有副作用 [Try Not to Laugh] [High-Martial-Arts Setting] [System] [Transmigration] [Not Invincible] Jiang Xi... where is this? Where's my System? System, get out here, quick! I can't take this anymore! [Ding! Binding failed...] “Li Hao, be good and take this medicine.” Li Hao, who was as furious as if he'd been fitted with an engine, roared: “Jiang Xi, I treated you like a brother, and you treat me like some guy living the good life?” Meanwhile, Jiang Xi was circling around the pond like a little submarin 127Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 When the Funeral Dance Begins, the Living Must Flee 丧舞起，活人避 The Red Luan chapter of The Book of a Thousand Autumns, also known as Red Luan Ferry [Folk Professions + Southern Yunnan Mysticism + Paranormal Folklore + Strange Tales] I was supposed to die when I was six, but I joined a sect to prolong my life. A folk sect in southern Yunnan: warding off evil spirits and guiding the dead. There are countless rules and taboos in our line of work. “When the funeral dance begins, the living must stay away.” When the funeral dance is performed, the living must tu 200Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 The Underworld: I've Got a Little Background 地府我有亿点背景 Cultivation? Doesn’t exist! I rode in on a stroke of great fortune, bearing the sun and moon on my shoulders and striding across ten thousand miles of mountains and rivers! When I woke up, I was astonished to discover I was the real deal! … The big shots of the underworld? They’re my ancestors! As the underworld’s number-one rich playboy, I’m completely unfazed. Because spoiling the youngsters runs in my family. The underworld’s ghost officers? They’re my underlings! They can drive me around an 1.5kReads8.9Score138Shelves
- 46 The Wife’s Coffin Smoke 妻棺烟 The Wife's Coffin Smoke 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 Tales of the Supernatural: Ghost-Hunting Venerable 怪谈之捉鬼天尊 Eight severed-head mountains form a Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Formation, imprisoning Song An’s first eight incarnations. To ensure that Song An can grow up safely in his ninth life, a mysterious eminent monk comes to the mortal world. Unfortunately, this time Song An is born on the night of the Ghost Festival, and is also a child of extreme yin, with all eight characters of his birth chart belonging to yin. Even stranger, nine days and nine nights of blood rain fall before Song An’s birth. For —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 Reunite the Five Elements, Create the Five-Spirit King Anew 重聚五行，再创五灵王 So what if I became Pig Hero, stripped of my powers and mocked as selfish? I am still the only one who can summon the Five-Spirit King. I will reunite the Five Spirits and create a new incarnation. I will become the strongest ruler in the Fairy Tale Kingdom, and I will protect the world of fairy tales. 137Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 A Record of Supernatural Events in the Countryside 乡村灵异事件薄 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 475Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 Married Off While Driving Corpses 赶尸上嫁 Marrying into a Corpse-Chasing Family 8Reads—Score—Shelves
