Novels like Supernatural: Starting Work at the Funeral Home
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- 1 The Crime Mark of the Wrong Time 错时罪纹 When criminal investigation captain Lin Xia returns to Zhenxi Residence, the moss-covered old mansion from the Republic of China era, she finds that the body behind the rotten carved door is no ordinary corpse. It is a sacrifice torn apart by time itself. The jade pendant clutched in the victim's palm is the very piece of evidence that mysteriously vanished from a serial murder case three years ago. The moment the pendant cracks, the microfilm that rolls out reveals not intelligence, but a deadl —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Treading the Tiangang Steps, I Only Kill, Never Save 脚踏天罡步，贫道只杀不渡 [No Frustrating Setbacks] [Reborn Celestial Master] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Urban Supernatural] Two hundred years ago, Xia Lin was the only Celestial Master guarding the dragon veins. At Kunlun, he faced thirteen great Yin-Yang masters alone. The bloody battle ended. The dragon veins survived, but the Celestial Master fell. Who could have guessed that Xia Lin's soul remained intact? When he opened his eyes again, he was in the modern world, two hundred years later. The Dao Alliance governs the 86Reads—Score482Shelves
- 3 Evil at Pawnshop No. 4! 肆号当铺邪！ Xi Fan, a pure-hearted person through three lifetimes, died while trying to save someone. As his soul arrived in the underworld to be reincarnated, the King of Hell, cherishing the purity he had maintained through three lifetimes, sent Xi Fan back to the mortal world to take charge of Pawnshop No. 4. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 The Yin-Fated Face Reader 阴女相师 On the day I was born, a Huang Xian came to worship the moon outside my home. She said I was born with the fate of an emperor, and that if I entered the Way, I would surely command the Four Divine Beasts and make all manner of spirits bow before me. Sadly, I was born into the wrong family and wouldn't live to see ten. My family's fortunes had been cut off, and our bloodline was destined to end after three generations. I just happened to be the third. I am a living person who walks the path of th 583Reads6.3Score103Shelves
- 5 Help! Since When Did the Translator Moonlight as a Ghost Hunter? 救命！翻译员什么时候兼职抓鬼了 Something extraordinary happened to Ye Luning when she turned twenty-four: she found she could see ghosts, and one of them even latched onto her. With no other choice, Ye Luning, a translator, was forced to take the ghost back to its homeland so it could be laid to rest. While searching for the ghost's family, she unexpectedly met a man. From then on, the two became a very odd pair. She catches ghosts, he lays them to rest. To the head of the Ji family: “Oh, did you pee yourself?” To the crippl 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Crossing Between Life and Death 死生渡 After forty years, Jiang Huaci returns from the dead, with bugs piling up! She’s lost her memory, her combat power is off the charts, and her hair turned white overnight. She remembers nothing except having her throat slit. She has to cut him down with her own hands! But just after waking, she ends up saving someone on the brink of death. The fierce dangers of the northwestern Gobi, the strange happenings in a desolate village in Qingling, the secrets of the caves in Yuzhou: a shocking conspir —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 The Last Bus on Route 23 23路末班车 The Last Bus on Route 23 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 The Lantern-Bearing Spirit Artisan 提灯灵匠 Beneath the seemingly peaceful surface of the modern city, there are "anomalies" that ordinary people cannot perceive. Chen Xu inherited his parents' secondhand shop, called Shiyi, along with a damaged ancient bronze lamp. By day, he is a highly skilled restoration craftsman. At midnight, he becomes a "restorer" who walks in the shadows, repairing objects tainted by anomalies, suffering, or obsession, and soothing spirits that wander at the edge of the rules. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 Livestream Fortune-Telling: Exorcisms and Face Reading, Guaranteed! 直播算命：驱邪看相妥妥的！ [System + supernatural + wild imagination] On the first day of his livestream, Du Jie gets a call from a popular female streamer. A feng shui problem? Easy! The cases that follow are much trickier, and each one is more bizarre than the last! A ghost baby? A paper effigy? The strange illness in Xiangyang Village, the Five Elements fortune-borrowing ritual... Are all these bizarre events testing my cultivation? Forget it. I'd better call on the Grandmaster! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 His Little Sweetheart, Sweetness Maxed Out 他的小软糖，甜度满格 His Little Sweetie, Sweetness Through the Roof 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 My Phone Can Predict My Bad Luck 我的手机能预知倒霉事 My Phone Can Predict When Bad Things Will Happen 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 The Red Wedding Dress Curse: The Corpse Wax Mystery 红嫁衣诅咒:尸蜡迷局 The Red Wedding Dress Curse: The Corpse Wax Mystery 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Qing Zheng: How Am I Supposed to Cultivate Immortality Without Spiritual Energy? 清正：没有灵气你叫我怎么修仙？ [Spiritual Qi Revival brings an apocalypse, and a young Taoist takes up the burden of humanity's survival!] [Spiritual Qi Revival] + [Near-Invincible Protagonist] + [Protector of Jiuzhou] + [Slow Burn] In the new calendar year 2010, the Age of the End of the Dharma came to an end, and spiritual qi had quietly revived long ago. Heaven and earth began to change. Ancient monsters awakened and wreaked havoc, while sinister spirits appeared in broad daylight and slaughtered the living. Ancient forest 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Who Is the Person Beside Me? 枕边人是谁 My name is Tan Zihan. I’ve been married to my husband, Ye Tianci, for eight years, and married life has been one mess after another. We still live under the same roof, but now we’re just friends. With the economy in a slump, Ye Tianci is looking for work. Then one day, I suddenly realized that he was different at night than he was during the day. Did he have multiple personalities, or was there someone else in the house? I was terrified. Later, Ye Tianci vanished without a trace, yet I kept seei 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 Six Relics to Banish Evil 六器渡邪 On a stormy night, the evil box passed down through my family shattered on its own, and I became a wanted fugitive accused of several murders. My only chance of survival was to recover the six cursed artifacts scattered across the Lin family. But they weren't treasures. They were instruments of torture, each one imprisoning the soul of someone our ancestors had tortured into becoming an artifact. Soul-harvesting rice from the Hungry Ghost Realm, a mending needle used to sew together a hundred —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 The Pure Yin Groom 极阴新郎 The Extremely Yin Groom —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 The Night Watcher: Don't Look at the Corpse on the Operating Table 《守夜人：别看手术台上的尸体》 Night Watchman: Don't Look at the Corpse on the Operating Table 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 The Tenant in Room 404 出租屋的404号房客 The Tenant in Room 404 —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 How I Discovered My Neighbor Had No Shadow in a Luxury Apartment Complex 关于我在高档小区发现邻居没有影子这件事 How I Found Out My Neighbor Had No Shadow in a Luxury Apartment Complex —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 Room 204 204号房 Room 204 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 Midnight Tales of Strange and Unusual Things 午夜奇谈异闻录 Lin Xia, an archaeology student, discovers a cracked bronze mirror in an abandoned ancient temple in Gansu. Engraved on its back are the words, “See the demons within your heart, and your soul shall return to the Yellow Springs.” That night, Lin Xia shines a phone light at the mirror in the dormitory, only to see the reflection of a younger brother who drowned in childhood. In reality, his brother’s portrait sits by the bedside... As bizarre events unfold one after another, an ordinary life is 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 The Thirteenth Friend 第十三个朋友 Su Rang, an investigator with the Folk Customs Affairs Bureau, and his team are caught in a cursed mystery spanning a century. When the ghost of “Gu Shisan” awakens once more, a house at 14 Fuxing Road in Bincheng becomes the scene of another inexplicable disappearance. The number of missing people always points to the eerie number “thirteen.” As the investigation deepens, Su Rang realizes this is only the tip of the iceberg. Beneath the world within the walls, dark currents are stirring. Doppel 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 Tales of the Strange 聊斋那些事 Have you ever heard of a plain-language version of Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio? A scholar spends the night in an abandoned house and is welcomed into a beautiful woman's arms, only to discover that her face is a painted skin. A poor young man finds a fox. The fox says, “I’ll marry you, but you must never look at my tail.” At the mass graves outside town, someone tells stories every night. Anyone who listens disappears the next day. Don’t be afraid. These are all stories passed down by ou 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 Run! My Family Aren't Human 快跑，我的家人不是人 [No System] [Not a saint] [Infinite Flow] [mild horror] Just like any other evening after study hall, I opened the front door! The lights were off. My parents were lurking in the dark, waiting to devour my flesh. A guillotine blade hung over my head, held by my younger sister. My older brother had prepared a pot of fresh soup to go with his wine! Run! Run for your life! My family aren’t human! Your goal is to survive in this twisted world of humanity. 280Reads5.5Score114Shelves
- 25 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. 23Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 Supernatural Revival: There's a Ghost Inside My Body 灵异复苏：我的身体里有一只鬼 Supernatural phenomena return, and ghosts roam the night. Darkness descends, and the world falls. Vicious ghosts ravage the human world, wandering every corner. Some lurk in the shadows; some haunt abandoned buildings; and others wear human skin and blend in among the survivors… Humanity struggles to survive in fear. Some hide in dark basements; some band together in groups; and some choose madness in their despair, using forbidden means to fight the ghosts, only to ultimately become monsters 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 A Century of Housebound Echoes, Filled with the Wails of Kin 百年宅响，尽是至亲泣 For a century, the old mansion has echoed with the weeping of kin. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 She Worshipped Her as a Goddess, Then Imprisoned Her Soul 敬她为神，困她为魂 She is revered as a god, yet imprisoned as a soul. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 The Forgotten River Pawnshop Records 忘川典当录 On nights when the waters of the River of Forgetfulness spilled over the bluestone slabs, a lone lamp always shone in the pawnshop hidden at a fork in the road to the Underworld. The vermilion doors had long since worn away, yet the five gold characters above them, “Yellow Springs Pawnshop,” still gleamed with a cold light. Sandalwood incense drifted from behind the curtain, mingling with the faintest trace of ghostly aura. The customers who came here were never alive. One was a female ghost who —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 On Tomb-Sweeping Day, I Opened a Viral Paper Effigy Shop on the Road to the Underworld 清明节，我在黄泉路开网红纸扎铺 Unemployed young man Lin Xiaoman is forced to return to his hometown and take over the family’s traditional paper effigy shop. But he discovers that the paper money, luxury cars, and phones he makes turn into real goods in the underworld when burned! From then on, his customers are no longer just the living... The King of Hell commissions a “paper aircraft carrier.” A vengeful spirit asks him to repair a “torn marriage contract.” Even the Underworld’s Bureau of Industry and Commerce comes knocki 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 After the Founding of the Nation, I Became a Spirit: Catching Ghosts Is My Duty, and I’m Good at It 建国后成精，抓鬼没有不强的义务 Strong female lead, no romance, ghost hunting, with a mildly supernatural variety show. Please don’t take it as reality. The heroine doesn’t grow stronger over time: she inherits the memories of the demon clan, giving her a cheat, and is powerful from beginning to end. There’s no angst. As one of the demons who slipped through the cracks of the rule that no one could become a spirit after the founding of the country, newborn demon Shi Jia leapt into Qiongqi’s pocket with a thunderous force. “Bos 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 The Ghost Fan's Grave: Crossing the Yin-Yang Divide 鬼扇坟之阴阳渡 I saw a ghost for the first time when I was five. Using a ghost fan and a pair of eyes that could see through evil, my grandfather led me into the crack between the worlds of yin and yang. From then on, I became someone who mended fissures, patching up secrets that the living should never see and the dead could never tell. This is a story about eyes that see through evil and a ghost fan, two souls sharing one body and the Six Fiends, sacrifice and protection. From the first ghostly wail in Yinsh 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 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—Shelves
- 34 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
- 35 Watch Out, There's a Ghost 小心有鬼 If you’ve just started this book and aren’t sure whether it’s worth reading, try chapters 32 and 33 first. If you enjoy them, you can dive into the whole story with confidence. This is the first book in the series. It isn’t very long, but it consists of many entertaining standalone stories and is well worth a read. The author’s subtle, in-depth writing draws readers right into the world of the book. Every character’s personality and every event’s distinct details come vividly to life between the 44Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 I Was Born Without a Breath, and the One Who Saved Me Was a Nine-Tailed Fox 出生断气，救我的竟是九尾狐 [Traditional Supernatural Horror + Urban Legends + Ghost Stories] I had no breath when I was born. I should have been a stillborn baby. Just as my family fell into despair, a woman in white opened the door and saved my life... The one who rescued me wasn’t an enlightened master, but a nine-tailed fox who had lived for over a thousand years. 30Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 The Way of Ghosts, in Full Bloom 鬼道尽欢 [Strong female lead + supernatural + fantasy + lighthearted comedy + romance] [An unorthodox female Daoist + a sinister, unhinged, perverted physician] While everyone else cultivates immortality, I cultivate ghosts. The Great Dao is sure to sweep all before it. Born with a yin meridian, Jin Huan has no choice but to cultivate using yin energy. With the Ma family’s exorcism and demon-subduing arts in her left hand, And wicked sorcery for raising vicious spirits in her right. Her soul is linked to 128Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 A Taoist Priest’s Guide to Exorcising Evil in the City 道士之都市驱邪 29Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 Welcome to Wenshi Hall 欢迎光临问世堂 [Traditional supernatural tales + eerie legends and heretical lore + mysteries of the past + the many sides of life + heartwarming healing] One female lead, no System, no harem, one-on-one romance. A satisfying story that isn't mindless, with plenty of comeuppance. The male lead has lived for a thousand years. The female lead is powerful and keeps growing stronger, and the main cast never holds her back. The grandfather doesn't die at the start. The first arc moves quickly. Its lingering mysteri 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 Tales of Feng Shui 说说风水那些事 A Few Words About Feng Shui 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 The Paranormal Investigator 探诡达人 My name is Qi Yue. I was born in the seventh lunar month, so that’s how I got my name. I’m a restaurant reviewer, and I’ve been doing this for five years. I made a little money in the first few years, but after the pandemic, the jobs became fewer and fewer. I wanted to switch to another line of work, but I didn’t know how to do anything else, so I had no choice but to keep struggling. With my pockets nearly empty, I desperately searched online for similar jobs. At last, I found a well-paid posit 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 The Secondhand Goods I Collect Come with Ghosts 我收的旧货里住着鬼 [Urban supernatural horror · Hunting ghosts and growing stronger · Folklore and strange tales · Golden finger stat upgrades · No System] Also known as: Don't Go Out at Night People know how terrifying ghosts are, but ghosts know how poisonous human hearts can be. Jiang Ye is an ordinary man who was just fired from his job. All he can do is ride a beat-up motorcycle and listen to people who burn paper money tell ghost stories. Then, beneath the cabinet in his rented room, he found a scroll of Sou 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 Midnight Inn: Taking Ghost Calls in the CBD 子时客栈，CBD圈内接鬼 [Mystery + Wild Imagination + Supernatural + Alternate Dimension + A Whole New World] "I sell tea by day and receive guests at midnight. Dear customer, are you human or ghost?" - A city blending classical charm with a futuristic feel. A mistake by the underworld made her the only "bug" between the worlds of yin and yang. Rule Three of the inn: No business from the dead. But the very first customer she takes is a ghost. A copper coin engraved with "Ling," a male lead with amnesia, and code she wr 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 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
- 45 The Chinese Streamer 华夏女主播 A slow-paced story. If you like fast-paced novels, you may want to think twice~ My name is Ye Qingruan. I was born in a mountain village that favored sons over daughters, and my biological father abandoned me on the mountain behind our home as soon as I was born. A passerby who became my adoptive father found me and took me in. But when I was seventeen, someone broke his hand, and my whole world came crashing down. Desperate to scrape together money for his medical bills, I gritted my teeth and 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 The Taoist of Rural Legends 乡村神话道士 Wencai calls down lightning as casually as if it were child's play and treats danger as nothing. Now, as if nothing had happened, he sets out once more. The Taoist Wencai carries a family heirloom, a leather-bound book densely filled with the names of unclaimed souls. This time, he will lead his fellow disciples in tracking down and bringing 25,000 unclaimed spirits to justice. Wencai calls down lightning as casually as if it were child's play and treats danger as nothing. Now, as if nothing had 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 Seven Days of the Dead 七日亡魂 My grandfather used to say that whoever a hanged person sees last is the one they’ll come back to claim. When I was twelve, the village hired a troupe to perform ghost opera. I went to play backstage, never realizing that the troupe’s leading performer was hanging from the beam behind me. 1.1kReads8.2Score105Shelves
- 48 I Hunt Ghosts at the Funeral Home: The Supernatural Descends 我在殡仪馆斩鬼：诡异降临 Two souls in one body. I'm an undertaker, so it's only natural I know a few tricks! A female ghost clings to me from the start! But I never expected it to lift the veil on a mysterious supernatural world... [System + transmigrate + Supernatural Awakening + High-Martial Urban Fantasy + Unhinged + Satisfying + Lighthearted Humor + Passion + Invincible + Ascension to Godhood + No Romance + Supernatural Invasion] The collapse of the Underworld's order has unleashed supernatural horrors upon the huma 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 Heavenly Master of a Haunted World 诡世天师 Lin Jiu, an ordinary young man from the modern era, unexpectedly transmigrates to the twelfth year of the Republic of China, his soul inhabiting the body of a young Taoist priest who shares his name and has just been claimed by a vengeful ghost. As the last heir of the Maoshan Sect, he inherits his master’s legacy and final words: “The Taoist tradition must not die out, and the human world must not fall.” There is no System, no shortcut, only a timeworn copy of the Sacred Register of Shangqing a 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 Strange Happenings on a Country Road at Night 乡间夜路诡事 As you walk along a country road at night, have you ever heard strange footsteps? This book collects a series of rural supernatural tales set in deserted villages and old houses, telling of eerie incidents passed down by word of mouth that no one dares investigate too closely. With no reliance on exaggerated descriptions, it uses details drawn from everyday life to send a bone-deep chill through you. —Reads—Score—Shelves
