Bat Eater
The Sunday Times bestselling WINNER of the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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Publisher Description
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
Customer Reviews
A raw tale of grief
I went in expecting a ghost story. I got that, sure — but what I didn’t expect was how visceral, grief-soaked, and culturally rich it would be.
Baker writes with this unflinching honesty that hits hard, especially the way she brings Chinese folklore and superstition to life. It never feels like background flavor — it’s part of the story’s bones.
The pandemic setting adds a layer that’s honestly genius. It makes everything more intimate, more claustrophobic, more real. That creeping sense of isolation? The weight of unprocessed grief? It’s all there — but wrapped in a beautifully eerie, slow-burning supernatural narrative.