Bat Eater : Sharp, witty, GORY: The addictive social horror-thriller of 2025 from bestselling author of THE SCARLET ALCHEMIST - Kylie Lee Baker

Bat Eater

Sharp, witty, GORY: The addictive social horror-thriller of 2025 from bestselling author of THE SCARLET ALCHEMIST

By: Kylie Lee Baker

Paperback | 14 January 2025 | Edition Number 1

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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.

About the Author

Kylie Lee Baker is an author of dark YA fantasy series such as The Keeper of Night duology and The Scarlet Alchemist duology. She grew up in Boston and has since lived in Atlanta, Salamanca, and Seoul. Her work is informed by her heritage (Chinese, Japanese, & Irish) as well as her experiences living abroad as both a student and teacher. She has a BA in creative writing and Spanish from Emory University and M.S. in library and information science from Simmons University. In her free time, she plays the cello, watches horror movies, and bakes too many cookies.
Industry Reviews
'I smashed through Bat Eater - shocking, visceral and haunted by more than ghosts: trauma, rage, grief, racism, crime scene clean ups and COVID paranoia. Bat Eater will swoop in like a bat out of hell, swallow you whole and leave no crumbs' - Alice Slater, Sunday Times bestselling author of Death of a Bookseller

Bat Eater and Other Names For Cora Zeng possessed me from the first page and haunted me for long after the last. The visceral emotionality of Baker's writing and the specificity of New York through the Asian American experience makes for a powerful exploration of loneliness, community, and belonging in the face of hatred. Singular in every way, this book dug its claws into me and would not let go - Ling Ling Huang, author of Natural Beauty

Unless you are Asian, you cannot know the terror and anger we felt during covid times - but Bat Eater will get you pretty close. Body horror and female rage fiction combine in a powerful novel that will leave you quaking. There has never been a hungry ghost like the one in Bat Eater - Alma Katsu, author of The Fervor

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