Bat Eater

WINNER OF THE SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL 2025 🦇 'Haunted, absurd, terrifying, ridiculous' GRADY HENDRIX 🦇 🦇 'Essential reading from a new voice in horror ' BOOKLIST 🦇 🦇 'Gory' PAUL TREMBLAY 🦇 🦇 ' Swallows you whole and leaves no crumbs' ALICE SLATER 🦇 🦇 ' One of the most exciting and unique books I've read in years' ERIC LAROCCA 🦇 Cora Zeng is a crime scene cleaner. But the bloody messes don't bother her, not when she's already witnessed the most horrific thing possible: her sister being pushed in front of a train. The killer was never caught, and Cora is still haunted by his last words: bat eater . These days, nobody can reach Cora: not her aunt who wants her to prepare for the Hungry Ghost Festival, not her weird colleagues, and especially not the slack-jawed shadow lurking around her doorframe. After a series of unexplained killings in Chinatown, Cora believes that someone might be targeting East Asian women, and something might be targeting Cora herself. Soon, she will learn . . . you can't just ignore hungry ghosts. 🦇 'A profound reminder of the true horrors that lurk in the world' TORI BOVALINO 🦇 🦇 'A serial killer mystery and a heartbreaking portrayal of grief' KIRSTY LOGAN 🦇 🦇 'This book dug its claws into me and would not let go' LING LING HUANG 🦇 🦇 'Body horror and female rage fiction combine in a powerful novel that will leave you quaking' ALMA KATSU 🦇 🦇 'A poignant, searing portrait of the hostility and violence that plagued pandemic-era NYC' VERONICA G. HENRY 🦇 BAT EATER WAS A NUMBER 4 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WEEK ENDING 09/02/2025