Bat Eater : Sharp, witty, GORY: The addictive Sunday Times bestselling social horror-thriller

Author: Kylie Lee Baker

Crime & mystery

Published on 8 January 2026 by Hodder & Stoughton (Hodder Paperback) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 336 pages, N/A
197 x 130 x 27mm | 234g

PRE-ORDER KYLIE LEE BAKER'S NEXT ADDICTIVE HORROR JAPANESE GOTHIC'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 LAROCCACora 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.

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