Novels like The Midnight Funeral Shop
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Midnight Funeral Shop, best match first.
- 1 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. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 The Heavenly Pawnshop: Shopkeeper, I've Come to Redeem My Life 天字当铺：掌柜的，我来赎命 Legend has it that there is such a place in this world... Anyone who finds the Second Watch Pawnshop can bridge the worlds of the living and the dead. Whether it’s a dead person’s unfulfilled wish or a living person’s lingering regret, there’s nothing that can’t be done, as long as you pay a sufficient “price.” But few people ever manage to find the Second Watch Pawnshop, and whether it truly exists has long been a matter of debate. Zhan Qingfeng is the chief appraiser of the Second Watch Pawnsh 29Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 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... 831Reads6.6Score102Shelves
- 4 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! 10.6kReads—Score472Shelves
- 5 Life and Death Together: Redemption in a Century-Old Haunted Realm 浮生同生：百年诡域救赎录 In an instant, on an elevated highway on a rainy night, Lu Ye, a wage earner at the bottom of society, risked his life to save a stranger, Su Wan. The two of them plunged into a deadly crisis. An accident bound them to the only twin symbiosis System on the entire internet: [Shared Life]. Its rules were cruel and impossible to escape: they could not break the bond, survive alone, or clear a stage separately. If one lived, they both lived; if one died, they both died. From then on, two ordinary 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Live Restoration: Old Heraldic Treasures Hold Clues to My Parents 直播修复：纹章旧物藏爹娘 Two treasures are hidden inside Gu's Antique Restoration Shop in Qingguo Alley: a pearwood carving knife engraved with hibiscus flowers, and a copper thimble engraved with the character “Man” on its inner rim. Twenty-six-year-old Gu Ci has run the shop for three years, daring to restore only ordinary old objects. Ever since her parents vanished without a trace, taking the Gu family crest with them, she has made one rule: never touch anything bearing the crest. Then one day, an old man leaning on —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 The Pill Mirror: A Good-for-Nothing Apothecary's Reversal 丹镜：废柴药师逆袭记 Humiliated in front of everyone when his engagement is called off, Shen Yan, a cultivator with an incomplete four-element spiritual root, becomes the laughingstock of the entire town. Li Rong tramples the betrothal gifts and sneers, “A worthless loser could never measure up to a genius!” She has no idea that the bronze alchemy mirror hidden in Shen Yan’s sleeve can see through the very foundations of alchemy. A pharmacy apprentice armed with a fragmentary recipe, he will refine divine pills. Tho 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 The Hundred Arts of Qingyun 青云百艺录 The Record of a Hundred Arts in Qingyun: Lin Yan, a handyman disciple of the Qingyun Sect, is stuck at the third layer of Body Tempering and has become a laughingstock. His only companion is a small bronze cauldron. When the secrets of a hundred arts emerge from within it, he joins forces with a green-patterned fox spirit beast and allies skilled in alchemy, formations, beast taming, and more, using strange arts to thwart the schemes of evil cultivators. Thirty years east of the river, thirty ye —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 Sea Treasures 1 海藏1 In Shanghai, where the strong prey on the weak, the city is like a blood-soaked underworld: those who command vast fortunes can hit rock bottom overnight. Brilliant secret arts and ingenious mechanisms set the stage for battles of wit and nerve. During Shanghai’s isolated-island era, the world has been swallowed up by World War II. Horrific acts have become commonplace, and the city is riddled with haunted houses and plagued by strange events. When Chen Li arrives in Shanghai to seek his fortune 3.2kReads9.2Score222Shelves
- 10 A Collection of Short Supernatural Stories 灵异故事短篇集 A series of three-person adventures beginning with Chapter 1245. Each chapter is a standalone story, blending folk customs, urban legends, horror, suspense, and comedy. The six protagonists each have distinct personalities, taking you between terrifying thrills and lighthearted fun. Hope you enjoy! 161Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Pawnshop No. 14 十四号当铺 I’m Chen Gui, a folklore graduate student who researches urban legends. It wasn’t until I inherited the Number Fourteen Pawnshop left behind by my missing uncle that I learned the truth: the shop doesn’t take gold or silver. It only accepts rule-based ghost stories that “eat people.” The third step from the bottom on the midnight staircase, the Mirror Immortal’s invitation to comb your hair, the ticket to an empty screening at the Blood-Red Cinema… All the taboos from urban legends have become —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 The Yellow Springs Pawnshop 黄泉当铺 Here, you can get anything you want, whether it’s power, money, or status. If you can imagine it, you can trade for it. But you must pay the appropriate price. That price might be your limbs, your emotions, your senses... or even your soul! 324Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 13 I Bury the Living and Carry Yin Coffins: The Sunlit World's Patrolman 葬活人，抬阴棺，我为阳间巡逻人 I am a ghost born among the living, bound by nine soul-piercing locks and fated to have my bones buried in ten graves. I have been buried alive, cursed by the dead, worn the bones of the living, challenged fate nine times, and entered ten deadly graves. Only then did I manage to change half my fate. Because I changed half my fate, the legendary Blood-Eyed Vengeful Woman, the Rotten Corpse Ghost Vine, the Human-Skin Constable, and others came looking for me. They thought I would become gentle aft 2kReads7.1Score167Shelves
- 14 Curse of the Desolate Village 荒村咒怨 [Horror + suspense + mystery] [Step-by-Step Terror Series: Parasites Among the Living] An isolated mountain village is inexplicably struck by a spreading plague. The infected bleed from all seven orifices, while their internal organs liquefy and pour out through openings in their bodies, leaving them to die in gruesome agony. Several medical workers from the nearby town venture into the deadly region to investigate, and one bizarre incident after another unfolds… Can they uncover the truth? Who 316Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 15 Shadows in the Daylight 白昼暗影 The criminal he hunts is himself. The shadow he cannot escape is his only protector. Lin Mo, the police department’s star profiler, cracks one extraordinary case after another with his precise criminal psychology analyses. But he doesn’t know that every night, another self awakens: Shen Ye, a “dark vigilante” who fights violence with violence, hunting down criminals who escaped justice through Lin Mo. The massacre that destroyed his family when he was a child split ten-year-old Lin Mo’s mind, cr —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 Chenyu Midnight Teahouse: A Collection of Strange Tales 宸宇午夜茶馆：短篇志怪故事集 Midnight. The tea boils. The lamps dim. When the city falls silent, stories from another world are just beginning. The Midnight Teahouse of Chenyu gathers dozens of Chinese-style tales of the strange and supernatural, told with the easygoing voice of a storyteller in an old teahouse. They unfold strange local happenings, the secrets of old houses, and eerie tales from the streets and alleys. Written in modern vernacular while carrying on the spirit of classical anecdotal tales, these stories wea 8.1kReads—Score419Shelves
- 17 Midnight Terror: Tales of the Supernatural 午夜惊魂：民间鬼事录 [Folk Taboos + Rural Ghost Stories + Episodic Tales + Chilling on Second Thought] The village elders say that some things are better believed than dismissed. Liu Er, a bachelor, picked up a red wedding dress. That very night, he heard the sound of a suona, and a faceless bride knocked on his door and said, “Liu Er, I’ve come to marry you.” Before a dead person is buried, the guiding candle at the head of the coffin must never go out. Old Liu Guang died, the candle went out, and a crack appeared 4kReads—Score174Shelves
- 18 Horror Tales: I Can Talk to the Supernatural 恐怖怪谈：我能与诡异对话 “Welcome to the Yin-Yang General Store. Here you’ll find one-of-a-kind goods and enjoy extraordinary service…” I run an yin-yang general store and work as a full-time spirit walker. Spirits come and go, and in the pitch-black night, I deal in things I can’t talk about. Then one day, a strange customer dressed head to toe in red showed up, and that was when the truly terrifying things began… 180Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 19 The Qingqiu Royal Clan Abandoned and Humiliated Me. With the Mystic Stone, I Connected the Three Realms and Made Them All Regret It 青丘王族弃我辱我，我凭玄石连通三界，让全族追悔莫及 The Qingqiu royal clan cast me aside and humiliated me. With the Mystic Stone, I connected the Three Realms and made my entire clan regret it beyond measure. 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 Supernatural: Starting Work at the Funeral Home 灵异：从殡仪馆上班开始 A person who received nine years of compulsory education finds themself caught up in a series of utterly bizarre events because of a job posting and a job... The synopsis doesn't do it justice. Read the story and see for yourself. 640Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 Strange Tales from the Countryside 乡村诡故事 Before you start this book, a warning: if you scare easily, don't read it. If you live alone, be careful. Every short ghost story here is based on an ordinary person's real-life experience. Not a single word is made up. From the damp old alleyways of the south to the frozen, deserted villages of the north; from late-night overtime in office buildings to lights-out in university dorms; the taboos our elders forbade us to talk about, and the moments you dare not dwell on in the middle of the night 120Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 One Chilling Story Every Night 每晚一个惊魂故事 [One story per chapter] [Chinese-style horror] [Folk tales] [Urban vengeful spirits] [Haunted houses] [No main plot] Collected and adapted fictional tales of terror from all over, one story per chapter, each one different. No grand lectures, just bone-chilling tales rooted in everyday life. All adapted from strange folk tales passed down for years. They sound true, and the more you think about them, the more unsettling they get. Great for unwinding, but don't try to “unwind” alone in the dead of 1.1kReads—Score103Shelves
- 23 Tales of the Strange from Yutai 渔台志异 Some things are better believed than dismissed. Some people are better left unoffended. Some roads are better avoided, even if it means taking the long way around. That's what the old folks tell you. And that's what this book wants to tell you, too. 22Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 The Pawnshop of Obsessions 执念当铺 [Mystery and the supernatural + urban legends + all beings of the three realms + pawning obsessions] I took over my grandfather’s midnight pawnshop. This pawnshop has no boundaries, and accepts anything. The living must stay away; we only take obsessions. In some corner of the city lies an unremarkable shop called the Obsession Pawnshop. It takes no gold or silver, only the obsessions people cannot let go of deep in their hearts: a memory of regret, a false mask, an unrequited longing. All can b 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 What Do You Mean the Corpses I Sew Together Are All Cursed? 什么叫我缝的尸体都是大凶之物？ [Chinese folk customs] [Corpse seamster] [Traditional supernatural horror] [A clever protagonist who isn’t an idiot] My name is Chen Yang. I’m a mortician, or rather... a corpse seamster. I can sew up corpses no one else can. I can take jobs no one else dares to accept. I’ve handled all sorts of bizarre cases: people who jumped from buildings in red clothes, corpses missing arms and legs, and even one person who was holding their own head... Everyone says the corpses I sew up are all terribly un 215.9kReads9.1Score28.8kShelves
- 26 I Livestream Through My Eyes 我用眼睛来直播 Through my own eyes, I'll show you viewers the most authentic scenes of horror. No complicated streaming equipment, no carefully arranged sets. Everything I see is exactly what the viewers in the livestream can see. Have you ever seen a livestream quite like this? As long as my eyes remain open, this terrifying livestream, which will only end with my death, will never go off the air. 158Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 Night Watcher: The Last Lamp in the Eternal Night 守夜人：永夜残灯 [Doomsday Survival] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Ensemble Cast] [Eerie] Every night, a single light comes on at Qingyugang, right on schedule. It is the only light within a thirty-mile radius. It is also the last hope of all the refugees. Lu Chen has kept watch for three years and saved more than a thousand people. Until one day, he brings back an unconscious boy from the edge of a rift. When the boy wakes, he stares at Lu Chen for a long time before saying: “Lu Chen, your wife might still be alive. 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 Following the Scent 循着气味而来 Following the scent —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 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 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 A Thousand-Year-Old Corpse Immortal Opens His Eyes, and the World Is Free of Ghosts 千年尸仙，睁眼后人间无诡 He lay in his coffin for a thousand years. At dusk, when an archaeological team pried open the lid, Chen Xuan opened his eyes. A sealing formation from the Demon Suppression Division instantly descended. Eighteen golden chains coiled around his limbs, the old professor collapsed in terror, and everyone in the warehouse screamed. But Chen Xuan rose to his feet and shattered the formation with one palm. “When a thousand-year-old corpse opens its eyes, no more monsters will run rampant in the morta 239Reads—Score125Shelves
- 31 The Strange Rural Tales My Aunt Told Me 姑姑给我讲的农村怪事 When I was little, I was timid, but I still loved listening to my aunt tell stories. Today, I'm sharing with you the stories she told me. I'll do my best to keep writing, and I hope you'll support me. 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 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—Shelves
- 33 Run! It's the Concubine Who's Calm and Unruffled 快跑，是人淡如菊的娘娘 Run! The consort is as indifferent as a chrysanthemum. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 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—Shelves
- 35 Strange Tales, Volume 1 奇闻诡事录1 This is a collection of folk tales about the uncanny, strange accounts from across the land. Each chapter is a complete story, each tale a separate supernatural mystery, revealing the mysteries of yin and yang, folk taboos, and the obsessions of the dead. You never know when a casual remark might draw the attention of spirits lurking in the wilderness; when an old object you pick up might hold the memory of a tragic death; or when an everyday habit might already have crossed a forbidden boundary 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 The Rebirth Shop: I Handle Paranormal Cases at the Funeral Home 往生铺：我在殡仪馆处理灵异事件 My name is Chen Yang, and I run a funeral shop called Passing On in the outskirts of the city. By day, I sell wreaths and make paper effigies. My business is with the dead. At midnight, I burn incense and light candles, dealing with the “unclean things” that the living would rather avoid. 350Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 The Corpse Coffin's Ghostly Fragrance 尸棺鬼香 [The corpse sits in the coffin, the ghost eats incense] [Fate from a past life, continued in this one] A Maoshan Taoist’s path to raising ghosts... After his grandmother dies unexpectedly, Shen Lin happens upon the notes his grandfather left behind. From then on, he begins a ghost-hunting life in which he narrowly escapes death time and time again... 143Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 I Inherited a Funeral Shop During the Hundred Ghosts' Night Parade 百鬼夜行时，我继承了一家冥铺 Lu Ci thought all his grandfather had left him was an old shop on the verge of closing. Then, one rainy night, the first customer walked through the door and bought a stack of spirit money. The next day, that very “ghost currency” appeared in someone else’s account. From then on, the shop, open only at night, began receiving one unusual customer after another: some sought wealth, some wanted to buy a life, and some only wished to exchange something for a long-overdue truth. At the end of the lon 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 The Celestial Tribulation Inspection Bureau 天劫巡检司 Whenever a cultivator in Linchuan City undergoes tribulation, the Heavenly Tribulation Inspection Bureau must survey the area in advance and verify the tribulation order to prevent stray lightning from harming innocent people. On his first solo night patrol, trainee inspector Shen Yan encounters a tribulation that should never have happened. The order calls for three bolts of lightning, but the scene bears seven scorch marks and eight corpses. The dead have no names, the order lists no target, a —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 The Maoshan Secret Arts Passed Down in My Family Changed My Life 祖传的茅山秘术改变了我的一生 He grew up with his grandfather. When his grandfather died in the boy's seventh year, a twist of fate led him to discover a book his grandfather had left behind: The Secret Arts of Maoshan. From then on, the course of his life changed... 982Reads—Score105Shelves
- 41 The Weird Domain: Escape from Skinless Village from the Start! 诡异领域：开局逃离无皮村！ [Infinite Flow + Mild Horror + Survival + Supernatural Instances + No Female Lead] Resentment that cannot be dispelled in the real world gathers to form new eerie domains. After being chosen, people are dragged into an eerie domain when they die unexpectedly. They can return to reality only by successfully completing the tasks inside. Only after escaping one terrifying eerie domain after another by the skin of his teeth does Lu Lin discover that the real world is also being infiltrated and taint 7.7kReads7.1Score554Shelves
- 42 The Yin Walker: The Last Stick of Incense 走阴人：最后一炷香 Xu Zhaolin makes a living with his ears. He is a sound documentary field recorder, traveling through the countryside with a recorder on his back to document folk crafts on the verge of disappearing and the oral histories of the elderly. Three years ago, his twin brother, Xu Zhaochuan, vanished near the reservoir in Baishi Town. No one had seen him alive, and no body was ever found. Three years later, Xu Zhaolin returns to Baishi Town to record the final oral history of an old man. A stretch of b 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 Sewing Yin Corpses, Suppressing Ghostly Calamities 缝阴尸，镇鬼祸 [Six Lines and Eight Trigrams, Soul Banners and Sacrificial Rites] Humans have three souls and seven spirits; ghosts have obsessions from the Nine Hells and the karmic flames of the Five Aggregates. But ever since I was born, I have been missing my [Earth Soul]. I’ve dealt with corpses since I was little. Other children played with colorful building blocks, fluffy stuffed animals, and little tin cars that could run. My toys were one battered corpse after another. Qimen Dunjia, puppetry that mani 823Reads6.7Score101Shelves
- 44 I Sat at the Wrong Table on a Blind Date, and My Date Was the Demon Lord Who Would Destroy the World 相亲走错桌，我的相亲对象是灭世魔主 I Sat at the Wrong Table on a Blind Date, and My Date Was the Demon Lord Who Would Destroy the World 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 Strange Tales of Yanyun: Every Night, Singing Emerges from the Soul-Snatching Well 燕云诡事：那口落魂井里，每晚都会传出唱戏声 Strange Happenings in Yanyun: Every night, the abandoned well echoes with the sound of opera singing 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 Born with Eyes That See Sin, I Can Discern Murderers. The Bones in the Unfinished Building Mark the Start of a Ten-Year Showdown 天生罪眸能辨凶，烂尾楼白骨案，是十年对局的开场 Born with eyes that can spot a criminal, he investigates the bones in an abandoned building. This case marks the opening move in a ten-year game 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 Yin and Yang: The Book of Life and Death 阴阳：生死簿 Lin Zhao spent ten years as an outer disciple Taoist at Longhu Mountain and learned only one spell: the Soul Summoning Art. > Until one night, the voice of Heaven rang out in his mind: “Ten zhang ahead, a wronged spirit seeks help.” > Following the voice, he found an old woman clutching a black cat and sobbing that her son had gone missing. > He formed a hand seal to investigate and discovered that the cat's eyes reflected the scene of her son's death: the neighbor butcher's hideous face. > When —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 Mountain Village Tales: The Book of Taboos 山村怪谈：禁忌录 For ten days, Mo Yuan endured the sinister opera at Suolong Town and survived, gritting his teeth. Three years later, a crack appeared in the mirror of his rented apartment. A clown in a red-and-white opera costume clutched a copper bell and crawled out. “Follow the taboos, and you’ll live.” He believed it. But old souls lurk in the eye sockets you must never look into; human fingernails are wrapped in candy wrappers; and even the words “haunted house” can turn a person into bloody mush in the c 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 The Rosewood Clock Stopped for Ten Years. Only Then Did I Discover the Secret Grandma Hid Inside 那架红木古钟停摆十年，我才知道外婆藏在钟里的秘密 That redwood grandfather clock had been stopped for ten years. Only then did I learn the secret my grandmother had hidden inside it. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 The Night I Rented a Tenement Room, a Disconnected Phone Rang All Night 租筒子楼那晚，断线电话响了整夜 The night I rented a room in a tenement block, the disconnected phone rang all night. —Reads—Score—Shelves
