Novels like Northeastern Folk Taboos
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Northeastern Folk Taboos, best match first.
- 1 The Last Shaman of Northeast China 东北最后的出马仙 Under siege by the Nine Wraiths and the Spirit-Devouring Ten Thousand Wraiths Formation, the barbarian wasteland's evil cultivators strike at the border again and again. Huang Dun wields a peachwood sword as his blade and his resolve to protect the people as his armor, leading immortal disciples, government forces, and border residents to build an ironclad defense. From tempering spirits and refining techniques to fortifying the area with the Sunbright Spirit-Gathering Formation, from passing on 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 Repaying Evil with Evil: The Evil Spirit Quells a Hundred Ghosts 以恶制恶【邪灵镇百鬼 My name is Ni Daye. My father gave me that name! He hoped that when I grew up, I would make a fortune, build a great enterprise, and achieve great things! But things didn't go as he wished. I hadn't learned any real skills, and on my very first ghost hunt, I ran into something terrifying... 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 Northeastern Paranormal Tales: My Life as a Spirit Medium 东北诡事：我的出马仙生涯 Style: First-person narration, with self-deprecation, dark humor, and down-to-earth Northeastern Chinese dialect, blending the supernatural, suspense, folk customs, and the ways of human society. Core premise: An ordinary young man from Northeast China who never believed in ghosts or gods is forced by an accident to "become a spirit medium," serving as a disciple of the spirit mediums and forming a bond with the "immortals," animal spirits. He is drawn into a bizarre supernatural world, and as h 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 The Ninth-Generation Coffin Warden 九代镇棺师 [Horror, supernatural, mystery, two female leads, no cultivation!] An ordinary funeral procession carrying a coffin, and inside it, a female corpse sealed shut and held down by talismans! Her mother, a female ghost, knelt and begged. At last, she won back the tiny life trapped inside the corpse’s womb. A corpse-born child enters the world, cursed from birth! After her adoptive father marries the female ghost, the story of the ninth-generation coffin guardian officially begins… 2.8kReads6.6Score15914d adds
- 5 A Collection of Folk Mystery Stories 民间悬疑故事集合 A collection of folk mystery stories. On a stormy night, rows of lanterns swayed and glimmered along the mountain road outside Gujia Village, while villagers clutching torches wore worry plainly on their faces. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 Have You Played These Childhood Nightmare Games? 童年噩梦级游戏，你玩过吗？ Have you ever played one of those games that gave you nightmares as a kid? —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 Death Loop: Who Killed My Dad? 死亡循环：谁杀死了我爸？ Death Loop: Who Killed My Dad? 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 The Northern School Yin-Yang Master 北派阴阳师 I'm a corpse carrier and a second-rate Taoist. My father refined my mother into a Yin child to bring him wealth, and now he wants to make me disappear for good. The only person I've ever truly been at odds with is my father, the old fraud known as Chen Banxian... 157Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 My Days Working at a Funeral Home 我在殡仪馆工作的那些事儿 My name is Ling Yu. I work at a funeral home with Big Fatty. One day, a beautiful corpse wearing Chanel arrived at the funeral home. I stole the Chanel outfit and gave it to my girlfriend. Then a string of sinister things began to happen... Deaths kept piling up, closing in on Big Fatty and me step by step. How can we escape Death's pursuit? 2kReads5.9Score10614d adds
- 10 I Work as a Mortuary Makeup Artist 我在殡仪馆做化妆师 I used to be a stylist on film and television sets. After reality put me through the wringer, I stumbled into a job as a mortuary makeup artist. Every day, I face all kinds of bizarre corpses, and they have shown me another world... 717Reads8.2Score10014d adds
- 11 My Years as a Yin-Yang Master 我当阴阳先生那些年 In my line of work, I’ve run into all kinds of things: the underworld and its officials, sinister spirits on campus, Taoist priests from Laoshan, bloodsucking vampires... You name it. I’ve also crossed paths with plenty of beautiful fox spirits, seductive female ghosts, and wicked temptresses from demonic cults. A friend once asked me, “You know how to hunt demons, so why not marry one?” One word: broke. Do you really think dating a monster is free? 232Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 12 The Midnight Taxi 午夜出租车 People in certain lines of work often encounter strange and inexplicable things, especially drivers of midnight taxis. Because sometimes, the people they pick up might not be human. 219Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 13 The Midnight Chef 午夜厨师 I wanted to become a master chef, but by accident I ended up at a restaurant as the exclusive chef for the basement level. The eerie atmosphere, the strange rules, the extra pair of black leather shoes, the missing underground parking garage… One terrifying incident after another left me with no choice but to believe that the people dining here weren’t human! 25Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 One Ghost Story Per Chapter 单章一个鬼故事 A Collection of Short Ghost Stories [Not for the Fainthearted] An abandoned haystack, bloodstained pottery, a blood-soaked bridal gown... How many terrifying truths, buried by time, are hidden in these old folk artifacts? Every old object conceals a bone-chilling tale. Over 600 terrifying tales of folk horror. Please leave a review! Thank you, dear readers! 693Reads—Score10514d adds
- 15 True Paranormal Encounters 真实灵异事件收录 [True Paranormal Events + Paranormal Events and Legends from Around the World + Not for the Easily Frightened] This book records true paranormal events I've heard about and experienced firsthand over the years, along with paranormal events and legends from around the world, and my own analysis of them. For convenience, some stories are told in the first person. 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 Ghost Stories at the Third Watch 三更说鬼 This book, Tales of Ghosts at Three in the Morning, is part of a series with another book, Five in the Morning. Five in the Morning tells of strange events from my grandfather’s time, while Three in the Morning recounts things I’ve experienced in my own era. I hope you’ll give them a read. These are all short stories, but I hope you can experience the unease I felt, too… I’m from the countryside, born in 1989. I’m not highly educated, and my writing isn’t especially sophisticated. I’m the second 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 The Forensic Files' Forbidden Cases 法医禁忌档案 That morning, Brother Liu, the forensic pathologist, burst out of the autopsy room, wildly waving his scalpel at everyone he met. He had gone mad! That same day, a woman's body lay quietly on the autopsy table. The bones of both arms were starkly exposed, and all the evidence told me she had eaten herself before she died! I'm just a forensic pathologist, a technical police officer who works behind the scenes. But now trouble has come knocking at my door. The sound of grinding teeth at night, 15Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 18 The Terrifying Hospital 恐怖的医院 The Terrifying Hospital 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 The Immortality Project: I’m Frantically Gaining Extra Lives on the Other Side of the World 永生计划，我在世界对面疯狂加命 Every Easter, a massive ship docks, packed with people hoping to gain eternal life as it sails toward the far shore of the Fog Ocean. But everyone who boards disappears without a trace... Tomorrow is Easter, and Lu Xi boards the ship too, longing for eternal life. The moment he steps aboard, he notices how strangely soft the deck feels. Then he sees tray after tray of eerie sandalwood incense. Everyone who lights a stick dies... leaving no body behind! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 Secrets of the Underworld 阴间秘事 Are you afraid of death? As the saying goes, when a person dies, their light goes out. But in truth, many people fear death because it is unknown. Li Damin and I were both intensely curious. One day, we went out of our way to visit a man who had traveled to the underworld. Afterward, Li Damin continued investigating to uncover the truth, but then he disappeared... A man surrounded by the aura of death, a mysterious spirit-caller, and the disappearance of my friend. In the end, I too set out on a 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 No. 47, Chang’an District 长安区47号 [Pure thriller and suspense + psychological horror + no romance + dark fairy tales + a hodgepodge of rule-based horror] When people’s obsessions go unresolved, they turn into vengeful spirits and disrupt the balance between yin and yang. The trio from No. 47 Chang’an District, Zhong Kui, Meng Qiyue, and Song Yuebai, must either guide each spirit into the cycle of reincarnation or purify it on the spot before it runs wild, while also exposing the evil of the living world. The trio from No. 47 Cha 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 Twenty Years of Recovering Bodies from the Yellow River 黄河捞尸二十年 When it comes to the forbidden legends of the Yellow River, you’d be better off never asking. The corpse mane of the Yellow River, the ghost millstone, the Dragon Bone Temple, the stairway to the underworld… The old river workers of the Yellow River are the most mysterious people along its ancient course. Their families have guarded the river for generations, but what are they protecting it from? And what earth-shattering secrets lie beneath the ancient river, where hidden currents churn? 11Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 23 The Wheel of the Sun and Moon 日月之轮 (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless writing, not a power fantasy. Read with caution if these bother you.) When I thought it was an ordinary day, a stone gate thrust me into a strange world where truth itself was distorted. As I sought a sliver of hope amid the cycle of the sun and moon, dreaming of escaping this place, divine radiance fell upon everyone. Just as I thought this was my last chance to step onto the path of godhood, an enormous lie surfaced... 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 24 The Previous Tenant Who Often Came Knocking with a Cat 经常带着猫来敲门的上一任租户 The previous tenant who often knocks on the door with a cat —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 Strange Tales from a Cloud Wanderer 云游录异 Since ancient times, people have spoken of the demon lands of the southwest and the Horse Immortal shrines of the northeast. Now, in this age of widespread internet access, many things and ideas that were once known to few are gradually becoming familiar to the public. Anyone with even a passing interest in the occult will have heard of the Ten Thousand Mountains in the southwest and Tiesha Mountain in the northeast. Let's set aside the question of whether any of this is true. I'll artistically 2.5kReads—Score23214d adds
- 26 Professional Funeral Watcher 职业守灵人 At funerals, there is a ritual called “keeping vigil.” I am a professional vigil keeper. People pay me to keep watch over their dead. Over the course of my career, I have witnessed far too many touching stories and tragic circumstances. But most of all, I have encountered strange and terrifying events. And it all began the first time I saw a ghost while keeping vigil... 194Reads6.9Score13714d adds
- 27 Strange Tales of the Northeast 东北鬼事异闻 A collection of strange tales about ghosts and supernatural happenings in Northeast China. Some are hearsay, while others are terrifying paranormal events that happened right before the storyteller's eyes. A weasel spirit gaining human form, a fox stealing an elixir, a corpse crushed beneath a millstone... 1.9kReads—Score10614d adds
- 28 The Ghost Stories I Heard Back Then 那些年听过的鬼故事 Now that I'm middle-aged, I look back on the ghost stories I heard as a child: tales of the bizarre and the uncanny, strange mysteries, and supernatural stories involving folk customs and taboos. I've brought them together to share with everyone. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 29 Afraid of Ghosts? I Just Scare Them Instead! What About It? 怕鬼！我直接吓鬼！如何呢？ Su Zhen transmigrated to a parallel world overrun by ghosts and awakened a Fear Points System. As long as he made ghosts afraid, he could earn Fear Points and exchange them for magical artifacts and skills. And so, the whole style of things changed. Others ran when they saw ghosts. He smiled. Others risked their lives to exorcise ghosts. He killed them for points. Wandering spirits? Scare them to tears before sending them on their way, for five times the reward. Evil ghosts? Break their lim 17Reads—Score12214d adds
- 30 Strange Records from the Wilderness: The Fatal Curse Following Hikers 荒山诡录：徒步者背后的索命诅咒 Also known as: Ghosts in the Deep Mountains: The Reaper Has Called Out Every Teammate In the summer of 2012, I joined a hiking club, only to encounter horrors in the wild mountains that shattered everything I thought I knew. When our guide took a detour to avoid a locust tree, a black-clad child beneath it grinned eerily at me. A frail old man who had been walking ahead suddenly appeared behind us, his rotting black teeth stretching almost to his ears. When I caught up with the group, the “team 69Reads—Score—14d adds
- 31 Do I Look Human or Like a Ghost? 你看我是人还是鬼？ After graduating from high school, I was guarding watermelons in a melon field. One night, a thief came to steal them. I rushed over and fought him, driving him off, but then I came down with a high fever that wouldn't break. The next day, my family went to check the field. All they found were my own chaotic footprints and the watermelons trampled into mush... —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 32 The Blood Mill 血磨坊 Mom is a zombie. Dad has a pure Yang constitution. And I was born as a walking delicacy for monsters. Demons run wild across Changbai Mountain. To summon heavenly thunder and subdue the demons, the entire village became living dead. 42Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 33 Tales of Strange Campus Happenings 校园诡事叙 Reader's guide: No romance. This isn't a wish-fulfillment story. It's more like a journal than a novel, with few dramatic twists. The story is told for the sake of telling it and follows the timeline. The supernatural elements are adapted from stories recounted by people the author once knew. Yuan Ruoying, a talented student in Class 16 of her second year of high school, attends a top school in the city. Her days are spent studying, following the same three-point routine. Life is busy but peacef 16Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 34 Forensic Secret Files: Human-Skin Wine 法医密档之人皮酒 “You have to remember: under no circumstances let that man seduce you,” Xibei said gravely, swinging her short legs. “Don’t worry. I can’t stand him,” Yan Yi replied confidently. Xibei heard this and collapsed to the floor in fright. “Oh no. I said exactly the same thing once.” After an inexplicable murder case, Xibei transmigrates back in time to save the victim of a wrongful conviction. Now in a child’s body, she must help her former self find the real culprit. But has she come to the right ti 56Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 35 Horrifying Stories Happening Near You 发生你身边的恐怖故事 The place you live is growing onto you. A collection of independent short stories, each with a different kind of horror grown out of everyday life. The dampness in your rental that never goes away, takeout so delicious you can't stop eating, always check the back when you rent a place, do you know why people like eating pork...? Look back at your own room, and suddenly something feels wrong. Every story begins with a scene you're familiar with: family, friends, renting a place, ordering takeou 414Reads—Score10014d adds
- 36 After the College Entrance Exam, I Received an Acceptance Letter from the Underworld 高考结束，我收到阴间录取通知 Opening… I went back to my hometown, and when I returned, I found that my ID card had somehow become demagnetized. My household registration had no record of me, and my contacts were slowly disappearing. The game account I used every day showed “not registered.” Even my college entrance exam results said “no record found,” as if the world were erasing me bit by bit. I never received a college admission notice, but I did receive an acceptance letter from the underworld. Even the fortune-teller sa 34Reads—Score—14d adds
- 37 The Woman at the End of the Road (Original Title: Living Sacrifice) 末路女司机（原名：活人祭） The year I graduated from college, I returned from school to my hometown county. It was summer, and I was feeling restless and bored, so I went out front to chat for a while with a woman who drove a bus. The driver was named Zhou Manman. She was quite pretty, in her twenties. She wore no makeup at all, yet her skin was smooth and clear, giving her a naturally beautiful look... 1kReads6.9Score18914d adds
- 38 The Night My Boyfriend Cheated, Five Ghosts Entered My Bedroom 男友出轨那晚，五只鬼魂进了我卧室 The night my boyfriend cheated, five ghosts entered my bedroom 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 Let Me Tell You a Little Story, It's Not Scary at All (Six-Volume Set) 我讲个小故事，一点儿都不吓人（全六册） Fear should remain hidden in the subconscious and fade away without a trace, yet it always leaves clues in everyday life. In an alley where the sunset has slipped out of sight, in a corner turned away from the neon lights, an elegant lady sits outside a café, casting ill-intentioned sidelong glances at passersby. These signs show that when people find themselves in darkness beyond the reach of sunlight, fear swells in an instant like a shadow and closes in around them. Come, step into my stories —Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 40 Grandma Says She Loves Eating Women's... 奶奶说，她最爱吃女人的…… Grandma says her favorite thing to eat is women’s... —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 41 Night Talks in the Wine City: The Yin-Yang Person 酒城夜话之阴阳人 The sequel to A Collection of Strange Tales from Republican-Era Sanjiang and Old Tales of Jiangyang: The Wicked Dragon of Sanjiang. After the demon-hunting at Golden Dragon Temple, the liquor city of Luzhou enjoyed a brief period of peace. The reincarnated Dragon Kings of the Three Rivers finally reunited, joining forces to protect Luzhou. But just as they thought the danger had passed, Perfected Shi Miao, who had taken the lives of countless children in the liquor city, escaped from prison. He 27Reads—Score—14d adds
- 42 Subduing Evil 镇邪 There are always mysterious things in this world, yet people dismiss them as nonsense. Miaojiang gu poison, corpse-driving in western Hunan, Nanyang curses, the Flowerfall Cave Maiden, shamanic sorcery, and yin-yang demons are all forbidden taboos. You don't have to believe in them, but you must remain in awe. Above all, never profane them! When the taboo soul bell rings out in the sky and ancient horrors quietly awaken, the world teeters on the brink of disaster. Will there still be someone who 637Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 43 A Call from Three Lives, A Call Three Times 三生来电，三声来电 The heroine's family fortune is seized through the schemes of three utterly evil forces: bandits, the military, and merchants. Her parents are wrongly accused and die in prison, while she is repeatedly violated by bandits beside their funeral altar, until she takes her own life before her parents' spirits. In a time of chaos, human lives are worth no more than weeds. The heroine can only become a vengeful ghost, embarking on a century-long revenge spanning three lifetimes. She calls the three f 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 44 The Terrifying Asylum 恐怖疯人院 [Traditional supernatural fiction] + [Traditional mystery] + [Twists] + [Deduction] A tribute to The Last Bus on Route 13. My girlfriend, Tian Wenjing, was an intern doctor at a psychiatric hospital, but she died mysteriously while working there. To investigate what happened, I somehow ended up at the same hospital. After experiencing all kinds of bizarre events, I discovered a tremendous conspiracy lurking behind it. And somehow, this conspiracy was closely connected to me... 656Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 45 The First Strange Tale of the Countryside 乡野第一怪谈 Funeral Mound Village is an ancient, remote place surrounded by burial hills. Corpses roam everywhere, and the yin energy is overwhelming. There are walking corpses, weasels as fat as pigs, malevolent gods that wreak havoc, bizarre Gu witches, Xi spirits, evil Jian ghosts... One paranormal incident after another... 117Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 46 I Sell Haunted Cars and Keep a Hundred Evil Spirits at Bay 我！卖凶车，镇百煞！ A cursed car is a car in which someone has died. I'm a used-car dealer, and I only buy cursed cars! My journey in this line of work began with a cursed car I bought, one that nearly cost me my life... 305Reads6.1Score11214d adds
- 47 The Seven-Night Spirit Coffin Corpse 七夜灵棺尸 In my dream, I mistakenly believed that Li the Lame, seeking revenge for having his wife stolen, had made a door for my family out of the coffin wood of a girl who had been dead for seven days. Its yin energy clung to us, causing the pillars of our family to leave one after another. I couldn’t get over it. My future father-in-law, Old Yu, saw what was going on and brought over Zhang Baifa, who I would later take as my master. My master dispelled the evil yin force. Once I learned what had happen 228Reads—Score—14d adds
- 48 I Forget I'm Dead Every Day, but My Boss Still Pays Me 我每天忘记自己死了，老板照常给我发工资 I Forget I’m Dead Every Day, but My Boss Still Pays Me 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 49 The Corpse Language: The Resurrection of Ling Jiang 三尸语外传之凌绛复活 After reading Three Corpse Tales, I couldn't get over Ling Jiang's death, so I wanted to truly bring her back to life. I hope Miss Ling Jiang can really live again in my story, overturning "Ling Jiang dies, Polu goes blind, Xiaoyang survives" and giving her a brand-new happy ending. 109Reads—Score1114d adds
- 50 Tales of Old Sichuan University 川大旧事 In 1999, I was lucky enough to get into Sichuan University as the last-ranked student. Over the next few years, I went through the strangest period of my life. Even now, thinking back on it still sends a shiver down my spine... 5Reads—Score—14d adds
