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 dont 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 waysGRADY HENDRIX 🦇
🦇Essential reading from a new voice in horrorBOOKLIST 🦇
🦇GoryPAUL TREMBLAY 🦇
🦇Bat Eater will swoop in like a bat out of hell, swallow you whole and leave no crumbsALICE SLATER 🦇
🦇Easily one of the most exciting and unique books Ive read in yearsERIC LAROCCA 🦇

Cora Zeng is a crime scene cleaner. But the bloody messes dont bother her, not when shes 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 cant 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 cant just ignore hungry ghosts.

🦇A profound reminder of the true horrors that lurk in the worldTORI BOVALINO 🦇
🦇A serial killer mystery and a heartbreaking portrayal of griefKIRSTY LOGAN 🦇
🦇This book dug its claws into me and would not let goLING LING HUANG 🦇
🦇Body horror and female rage fiction combine in a powerful novel that will leave you quakingALMA KATSU 🦇
🦇A poignant, searing portrait of the hostility and violence that plagued pandemic-era NYCVERONICA G. HENRY 🦇

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