Bat Eater

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**WINNER OF THE SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL 2025**

‘Haunted, absurd, terrifying, ridiculous . . . This book shook me in all the best ways’ **GRADY HENDRIX**

‘Gory’ **PAUL TREMBLAY**

**’***Bat Eater* will swoop in like a bat out of hell, swallow you whole and leave no crumbs’ **ALICE SLATER**

**’**Easily 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.

But 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 all, it can’t be real – can it?

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.**

***BAT EATER* WAS A NUMBER 4 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WEEK ENDING 09/02/2025**

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