Novels like Supernatural: Starting Work at the Funeral Home
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- 51 The Paper Horse Shop: Messenger Between Yin and Yang 我有一间纸马铺之阴阳使者 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 52 I Tamed the Paranormal 我把诡异收服了 Born with ghostly eyes, I share a desk with the City Lord of the Underworld. A vengeful female ghost wants me to kiss her, I take in a powerful underworld enforcer, and a princess from a thousand years ago swears an oath with me. Onstage, they sing of sorrow and grief. Beneath the stage, I capture every kind of evil. My name is Zhang Qiang. Watch me run rampant through the Underworld! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 53 The System Told Me to Be a Guide 系统叫我接引人 The protagonist is a corpse makeup artist at a funeral home. An accident gives him a bizarre System, bringing him into contact with many supernatural cases. Instant spells, a lightning-fast peachwood sword, real paranormal events, plot twists, logical deduction, and genuine human emotions all feature in the story. The protagonist is not invincible. In the end, he becomes an underworld guide, takes charge of the Book of Life and Death, and resurrects those who sacrificed themselves for the love a —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 54 The Yin-Yang Hotel: Waiting for My Bride to Return 阴阳酒店之等我的新娘回来 This is a suspenseful supernatural mystery. Keep reading boldly, and surprises abound! “Where is this place? How did I get here?” Mu Jiuchi walked forward one step at a time. She had no idea what had happened to her or how she had ended up in this unfamiliar place. The darkness all around her made her walk in fear. Then a light appeared ahead, and she headed toward it. The distant light turned out to be coming from a hotel. Mu Jiuchi made her way to the hotel. At the entrance, she saw four 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 55 Peering into Immortality: The Eye That Sees Through Illusions 窥仙：破妄之眼 Gu Xian, a college student, never imagined that his closest roommate would vanish completely from everyone's memories overnight. His classmates don't remember him, he's missing from the photos, and even their social media history has been erased. Gu Xian is the only person in the world who remembers that he ever existed. At that moment, a pale blue-white light blazed in Gu Xian's eyes. He saw another face of the world: the hidden realm of cultivation, concealed beneath ordinary cities and foreve —Reads—Score182Shelves
- 56 Obsessive Spirit Master: Muxue 执念师暮雪 I am Mu Xue, a grudge exorcist who walks between the realms of yin and yang. An ancient mirror reveals the demons in people’s hearts; a bronze bell awakens old injustices and buried hatred. A red-clad female ghost combs her hair at midnight. A murderous driver picks up passengers late at night. A ghost in the mirror dies in your place... Every ghost who refuses to be reincarnated hides a life that has been crushed to pieces. I don’t guide the dead to the afterlife. I only help them get justice 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 57 The Campus Curse: A Register of Corpse-Subduing Spells 校园诡咒镇尸簿 (No romance + an unusual team-up to catch ghosts) On what seemed like an ordinary night, four girls in a dormitory started playing with a spirit board. But that very night, horror quietly descended... Was it a collapse of morality, or a distortion of human nature? Follow this unusual team as they solve the mystery. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 58 The Great Furnace Dao Lord 烘炉大道君 The Great Lord passed down his divine powers, and I became the Dao Ancestor in another world Li Yan transmigrates into a low-martial, small world and gradually raises it to the level of a vast mythic world through his own efforts. Low-martial world: Li Yan hangs in the air, emitting boundless light from behind him, visible to all living beings. His boundless voice rings out, audible to all. “I am Li Yan, a Daoist whose title is Qingwei. In this world, I shall create a new cultivation method and 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 59 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—Shelves
- 60 Hong Kong Hauntings: Seeing the Dead 港诡：见魂 [Mystery and suspense] + [Paranormal tales] + [No cultivation] + [No romance] An original story Chen Xiaomeng is a middle school teacher in Yau Ma Tei, born with Yin-Yang Eyes that open promptly at seven every evening. There’s no cultivation arc in the later stages. To break the curse that women with Yin-Yang Eyes never live past thirty, the protagonist struggles to survive between the supernatural and the gritty streets. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 61 New Tales from the Strange Studio 新聊斋奇谈 The author has collected strange tales of ghosts and monsters from elderly people around them and various folk sources. The stories are fresh, with surprising twists, and have the feel of a modern-day Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio. Not for the faint of heart! 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 62 A Hundred-Year-Old Villager’s Tales of Ghosts and the Supernatural 农村百岁老人口述鬼怪奇谈 I grew up in the countryside, and whenever I had free time, I liked listening to centenarians in the village tell strange tales of ghosts and other uncanny events from days gone by. I have collected, recorded, and adapted these folk stories. There is no overarching plot. Each chapter is a standalone horror story. Not for the faint of heart!!! 32Reads—Score—Shelves
- 63 Multiple Fears 多重恐惧 An invitation to a party brings together nine writers, each with a very different style. At the party, the novelist who invited them traps everyone inside and demands that each guest tell a story. With no other choice, they comply. One story after another unfolds at the party: will they reveal the clash of human nature or unleash ghostly terrors? Everything will come to light here. "This is my debut work. I hope you'll show it plenty of support." 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 64 Underworld: This Identity Is Perfect for a Ghost Officer 地府：这身份当鬼差很合理吧 Synopsis: [Underworld + Ghost Constable + Romance + Suspense + Horror + Supernatural + Alternate Setting] Do you know about the Bridge of Helplessness? It has three levels: red above, dark yellow in the middle, and black below. Those who did good deeds in life walk across the top level; those whose good and evil deeds were evenly balanced take the middle; and evildoers walk the bottom. So, do you still dare to do evil? As you can see, I am a ghost constable. But you couldn't imagine the backing —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 65 He Hid in a Book and Ate My Secrets 他藏在书里，吃掉了我的秘密 He was hiding in a book, eating my secrets. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 66 At Twenty, My Sister Sent Me a Photo of a Coffin: Don’t Worry, You’re Next 二十岁，姐姐寄来棺材照：别急，很快就轮到你了 At twenty, a photo of a coffin arrived from my sister: “Don't worry, you'll be next soon.” —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 67 The Midnight Photo Studio: I Take Portraits of the Dead 丑时照相馆：我拍亡魂照 [Use the living soul as a lure, and capture the lingering image of the dead] Hidden in the shadows of the city, the photo studio opens only during the Yin hours. Its owner wields a Republic-era camera, taking portraits of the dead’s fading silhouettes, but the price is a sliver of a living person’s soul. Every photograph is a prison for a departed soul’s obsession: if the obsession remains, the soul is trapped in the photo; if it is resolved, the lamp of rebirth is lit. When a young girl enters —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 68 The Uncanny Cinema: I Can't Even Die, So What Do I Have to Fear? 诡异影院：我都死不了，还怕什么 Wu Xu entered the Curtain Prison World expecting to tread carefully, as if walking on thin ice. He was terrified he might lose his life at any moment. But then, suddenly, he discovered that he was, damn it, actually immortal! And he could even devour the abilities of the uncanny. Friend: Wait, why are you so hard to kill? Colleague: Brother Xu, are you free tonight? No one's home, and I'd like to ask you how to survive in the Curtain Prison. Actress: Wu Xu, where are you? I want to give you my p 51Reads—Score—Shelves
- 69 The Great Yong's Number One Thief Catcher 大雍第一贼捕 In the Great Yong Dynasty, he had the most valuable pair of hands. There was nothing he couldn't steal: secret palace artifacts, masterpieces by renowned artists, even sealed chambers. That is, until a female constable caught him red-handed at a crime scene one night. The day after the shackles went on, the authorities offered him a way out: solve cases to atone for his crimes. The merit-and-penalty ring on his wrist recorded each case he solved. Every time he used his borrowed authority, anothe 33Reads—Score—Shelves
- 70 The Judge’s Brush: I Use Daoist Arts to Subdue Yin and Yang 判官执笔：我以道法镇阴阳 One case, one solution. Episodic stories, fast pacing, easy to get into. Wang Zhen was born with a fate tied to the Underworld, and holds the Judge’s Brush in his hand. He can see through the boundary between yin and yang, judge wicked spirits, and draw talismans with a fingertip. His strokes make them come alive. Curses that steal lives, girls in red at school, ghostly shadows in hospitals... One eerie, bizarre case after another, one vengeful spirit after another claiming lives. While others g 422Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 71 Grandpa Started the Trouble, Three Generations Must Pay 爷爷闯下的祸，三代来还 The trouble Grandpa caused will take three generations to repay. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 72 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... 8.2kReads8.1Score498Shelves
- 73 The Yin Corpse Ghost Physiognomist 阴尸鬼相 I never imagined that simply returning to my village to attend a strange funeral would somehow get me stuffed into a coffin... From then on, my life changed completely, and I became what people call a “yin corpse ghost visage”! 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 74 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—Shelves
- 75 The Last City God: Turning the Taboo on Its Head in Mountain City 末代城隍：我在山城逆转禁忌 Three years after his grandfather went missing, Shen Shu, who films videos about intangible cultural heritage, found a sheet of yellow paper in an old trunk. It bore just one sentence: Don’t go to the Old Stone Bridge. But his camera had already captured a white figure beneath the bridge. From that night on, the old rules of the mountain city, torn down, forgotten, and exploited for profit, came looking for him one by one. Shen Shu could see taboos others couldn’t, and even reverse them. But eve 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 76 I Reached Immortality by Fortune-Telling on Livestream 我靠直播算命登仙途 [No CP + Livestreaming + Fortune-Telling + Feng Shui + Ghost-Hunting + System] Bai Qiaoling died during the lightning tribulation of her ascension. Instead, she was mistaken for a witch and sacrificed into the body of a miserable modern girl who shared her name, Bai Qiaoling, at Qingfeng Temple. The original Bai Qiaoling was the biological daughter of a wealthy family, reclaimed a year ago. No one knew what had happened to her, only that she had used a forbidden ritual that prevented reincarnati 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 77 In the Age of Declining Dharma, I Become a God Through My Fans 末法时代，我靠粉丝成神 [One-on-One Romance, Entertainment Industry, Fantasy, Sweet Romance, Patriotism] Wuyou, whose true form is a feifei, makes a living in the entertainment industry by healing people's hearts. A rich young master gets a makeover into a little assistant, while a top-tier star instantly turns into a devoted fanboy. Haters mock her as illiterate. She admits she never got an education, so what? People curse her when she livestreams scripture readings, but monks and Taoist priests come to listen. Then o —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 78 Ghost: This Vital Energy Packs a Punch 鬼：这真气有力气 Awakening in the middle of the night, Qiu Zhen discovered that he was sharing a bed with a blood-faced ghost, while his roommates had already been slaughtered. In desperation, he threw a punch and shattered the vengeful spirit. This is written in third person. The tags can't be changed after the contract is signed. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 79 I Command the Ghost King and Become the Mastermind Pulling the Strings 我驾驭鬼王，化身幕后执棋者 [Slow-paced + ghost control + satisfying read + invincible protagonist + daily life] This story follows Mo Bai, who accidentally falls into a supernatural realm while out in the suburbs. After meeting a teammate, he successfully gains control of the Ghost King and returns to the real world. He gradually grows stronger through one supernatural incident after another, eventually becoming the mastermind pulling the strings. This is an invincible-protagonist type of novel, so please don't nitpick th 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 80 Old Tales of Strange Happenings 民间旧诡事 The woman in red who knocks on doors late at night, the soul-binding bones beneath the locust tree, the copper-bell curse in an old house in an abandoned village... These old tales of the uncanny, scattered across the countryside, are the idle chatter of old folks and stories sealed away by time... 42Reads—Score—Shelves
- 81 Come Listen to a Ghost Story! 来听诡故事！ The chime of midnight is the switch that starts each story. Hidden here are 365 eerie legends from every corner of the world. Maybe it's the strange sobbing in the night-shift office during overtime, a stranger's long hair beside your pillow in an old residential complex, or a passenger in a white dress who vanishes in front of a cemetery. One short ghost story every night, tearing through the everyday facade to reveal the chilling truth beneath. Do you dare open this collection of midnight tale 34Reads—Score—Shelves
- 82 A Horror Survival Loop? But I'm a Taoist Priest 恐怖轮回？可我是道士啊 A strange talisman, a group of chosen people, and a series of familiar horror movies. Chu Renmei from The House. The Black Bodhisattva from Incantation. The summoning ritual in Room 402 of Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum. The endlessly multiplying Tomie Kawakami from Tomie. No one knew who had brought the terrifying worlds from those movies into reality. And no one knew when this horrifying cycle would end. But when you’re forced to stand before them, how will you find a way out? Will you pray for p 3.7kReads8.1Score652Shelves
- 83 One Ghost Story a Chapter: I Warned You, So Don't Blame Me 一章一个鬼故事，吓到你，别怪我 [Traditional Chinese paranormal + Chinese-style horror] [Folktales + eerie rural happenings] Collected from all over and adapted into fiction, these stories include all kinds of folktales and urban legends. They're like the scary stories sold at street stalls, told in plain, simple language, with details that become more terrifying the longer you think about them. Great for unwinding. Each chapter features a different cast of characters. Note: Believe in science and reject superstition. Don't ta 7.5kReads7.3Score393Shelves
- 84 I Became a Heavenly Master of the Dao 我成了道门天师 My name is Li Changqing. When my mother gave birth to me, ghosts roamed the night, and a wandering Daoist saved my life. He said my fate was far too harsh, bringing calamity to my closest relatives. My parents might not die peacefully… and I still had three disasters to survive. My only chance of survival was to join the Daoist sect. 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 85 They Call Me the Great Master 他们叫我大先生 You surely know about the shamanic horsemen beyond the passes, but have you heard of the Four Great Houses within the passes? In the 1990s, Yang Wanli was born in a village in northern China. A fortune-teller said he was the reincarnation of an evil ghost and was destined to stir up trouble. By a twist of fate, he became a disciple of the Daoist school and got entangled with the Four Great Houses. Strange and sinister things kept happening around him. A fallen dragon, an immortal who has shed th 756Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 86 Southern Mao, Northern Ma 南茅北马 With one sweep of my staff, I’ll wipe out every demon under heaven! I take life and death in stride, and if you won’t submit, I’ll fight! I’ll prove my Dao through killing, endless yet never extinguished! Yang Wujin is a man with no past life, only this one! The day he was born, the Azure Dragon offered a sacrifice, and a hundred ghosts were put to rout! 147Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 87 After Years of Playing the Charlatan, I Specialize in Treating Beautiful Female Ghosts 做神棍这些年，我专治漂亮女鬼 On the day I was born, my mother had a difficult labor. To save his eldest grandson, my grandfather tore down the family’s front door and found a bloodstained kitchen knife hidden in the doorframe! As the knife came down with a clang, I was born… P.S. This is no run-of-the-mill supernatural story. Expect all kinds of mystery and twists, with a lighthearted, funny take on catching ghosts! 38Reads—Score—Shelves
- 88 Horror Revival: I’m a Maoshan Celestial Master 恐怖复苏，我是茅山天师 In 2035, the “blood moon” appeared in many places around the world, and yin energy that had lain dormant for a thousand years began to spread. At midnight, the neon lights in cities would turn an eerie dark green. Bluish-gray mist rose from ancient burial mounds in the suburbs. More and more videos that defied scientific explanation spread online. Someone filmed a “hair-combing woman” with fingernails as long as blades combing her hair in an office elevator. During a livestream, someone was drag 60Reads—Score—Shelves
- 89 The Heavenly Official's Edict 天官敕令 When Chen Qi awakens the long-lost “Word Spirit Edict” during a haunted-house livestream, he thinks it’s just a way to earn money to save his father. But when fragments of an antique bronze mirror reveal a thousand-year-old formation, and the technology group “Entropy” uses algorithms to optimize feng shui and kill, he realizes he’s been dragged into an ultimate war between traditional occult arts and modern technology. From malignant spirits in haunted houses to ghost soldiers on the march, and 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 90 The House Immortal Affairs Office 家仙办事处 Chen Ping'an, a graduate student in folklore, has never believed in ghosts or gods. That is, until he inherited his old family home and caught a fox spirit sitting on his sofa in the middle of the night, playing Honor of Kings. Then it tossed him an employment contract from the “Household Spirits Affairs Office.” From then on, his materialist worldview completely fell apart: Huang Xian works as a delivery driver, gathering intelligence. Bai Xian runs a traditional Chinese medicine clinic and sec 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 91 Yin-Yang Paper Effigy Maker 阴阳纸扎匠 The paper effigies my grandfather made could subdue spirits and drive away evil energy. He passed this craft down to me alone. Back in his day, my grandfather was a renowned master in the world of feng shui. I thought I could carry on his legend, but I was set up as soon as I struck out on my own. It turns out there’s another me in this world! (No System, no mindless protagonist, no stale tropes, no cultivation.) 422Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 92 Eerie Revival: From the Start, I Commanded a Substitute Ghost 诡异复苏：开局驾驭替死鬼 [Supernatural Revival + eerie powers + cultivation through ghost arts + paranormal incidents] An abandoned century-old opera house. A bizarre corpse of a woman in red. Thirty-two lives lost in a single night. Chen Yan, the sole survivor, can never be an ordinary person again. A vengeful ghost inhabits his body, granting him eerie powers. Recruited by a mysterious organization, he becomes a “Ghost Envoy” who steals supernatural powers. From then on, an unwelcome visitor walks through the shadows 3.7kReads8.2Score365Shelves
- 93 The Golden Snake Appears, and the Path to Immortality Is Proven 金蛇现，证道路 [Supernatural][Cultivation][Plot][Single Female Lead][Vast Worldbuilding] Bullied and humiliated throughout his early years, he was fortunate enough to encounter a sliver of opportunity and join the Shenxiao Sect. But the sect has fallen into decline, its halls in ruins. His old grudge remains unsettled, and revenge still lies far off, as distant as a thousand cloud-wreathed mountains. The road ahead is long, and demons and monsters lurk and run rampant along the way. What awaits him is a strang 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 94 The Five Turbidities Ravage the World? My Time-Bending Eye Awakens from the Start, and Reincarnation Subdues the Mortal Realm 五浊乱世？时瞳开局，轮回镇人间 In the twilight of the age of horrors, the Five Turbidities deepen. The human world becomes a living hell, star systems warp, and the universe turns into an abyss. Humanity? Ghost nature? The fate of pawns? A world thrown into disorder? None of it matters. One man walks in secret, holding a lone lamp, while the lights of ten thousand homes go out without cause. One man imposes order and transforms the cycle of rebirth, leaving the world’s children weeping tears of blood. My name is Nan Yin. I’m 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 95 There Are No Evil Dogs on Evil Dog Ridge 恶狗岭没有恶狗 There Are No Vicious Dogs on Evil Dog Ridge 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 96 A Ghost Lurks in My Right Eye: A Decade-Old Murder Hidden in the Old Building's Brick Wall 右眼栖鬼：老楼砖墙藏十年命案 A Ghost Dwells in Her Right Eye: A Decade-Old Murder Hidden in the Bricks of an Old Building 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 97 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. 359Reads—Score—Shelves
- 98 The Daoist in Blue 青衣道人 "A Feel-Good Taoist Power Fantasy + Unstoppable Domination of the City! + No Female Lead" "Building a Taoist Temple Alone + Holding Court in the Golden Triangle of Northern Myanmar + Looking Down on All Under Heaven!" Dressed in blue, with a black sword in hand, he slays gods when gods appear and vanquishes Buddhas when Buddhas come! The Thirty-Six Heavenly Powers and the Seventy-Two Earthly Arts! The Twin-Fish Jade Pendant, mummies, pyramids, lizardmen beneath the earth, A world unlike any othe 49Reads—Score—Shelves
- 99 From the Start, a Tycoon System: Eerie Games Descend Across the Globe 开局神豪系统，全球诡异游戏降临 [Bound to a Tycoon System from the start, and it gives me ghost money? Thanks, I guess!] On the first day Chen Lang transmigrated into a horror game, he was forced to bind himself to a “tycoon” System. While everyone else struggled to stay alive in the dungeons, he had so much ghost money that he could clear them however he pleased. Then, on his second sign-in, he got the “Banner of Ten Thousand Ghosts”... Countless eerie beings bowed and pledged allegiance, and he went on a wild rampage all the 885Reads8.0Score103Shelves
- 100 Chronicles of the Ashen Earth 烬土录 You can try it, but I wouldn’t recommend it. The book was signed too early, so I can’t change the title anymore. It can only be called Records of the Ashen Earth now. I originally wanted to change it to The Mountain Keeper: I Slay Demons with My Sharp Tongue. Synopsis Deep in the Qinling Mountains lies a town called Ashen Earth, where generations have served as mountain keepers. I, Chen Nian, had kept watch for seventeen years, but on the day the peachwood tablet shattered, my entire clan tre 1Reads—Score—Shelves
