Bat Eater

WINNER OF THE SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL 2025

‘WOW. This book is now burned into my brain for so many reasons! I don’t recommend you read right before you go to sleep . . .’ 🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇

🦇 ‘Haunted, absurd, terrifying, ridiculous, and full of hungry ghosts. This book shook me in all the best ways’ GRADY HENDRIX 🦇
🦇 ‘Essential reading from a new voice in horror*’ BOOKLIST* 🦇
🦇 ‘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.

🦇 ‘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