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Bat Eater

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

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Bat Eater

By: Kylie Lee Baker
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
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 PRE-ORDER KYLIE LEE BAKER'S NEXT ADDICTIVE HORROR JAPANESE GOTHIC
🦇 '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
©2025 Kylie Lee Baker Crime Crime Fiction Fantasy Ghosts Horror Supernatural Thriller & Suspense Murder Scary Fiction

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Critic reviews

Ingenious mash-up of surreal folklore horror, sly buddy comedy and painfully timely social commentary
This is what it felt like to live in New York City during lockdown: haunted, absurd, terrifying, ridiculous, and full of hungry ghosts. This book shook me in all the best ways (GRADY HENDRIX)
Baker successfully uses fear, both supernatural and human, to shine a spotlight on anti-Asian hate. Fans of creepy ghost stories and social horror will want to snap this up
Bat Eater is a compelling, gory, ghostly romp, and it's a righteous battle cry aimed into the racist heart of the pandemic hellscape. You won't be able to stop turning pages while rooting for Cora (PAUL TREMBLAY)
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)
Kylie Lee Baker's blood-soaked, Chinese folklore-inspired adult debut deftly explores weighty themes of grief, mental illness, collective memory, and Sinophobia (particularly its rise during the COVID-19 pandemic), building as she does to a pulse-pounding finale that will linger long after readers have turned the final page. Essential reading from a new voice in horror!
Bat Eater 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)
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)
There's a lovely touch of humour intricately woven throughout this otherwise brutal, tense, and daring story. I found myself totally enraptured with these characters, horrified at times and unable to pry my eyes away from the page. Bat Eater has everything I look for in a compelling horror novel-strangeness, sensitivity, and empathy. This is easily one of the most exciting and unique books I've read in years (ERIC LAROCCA)
A poignant, searing portrait of the hostility and violence that plagued pandemic-era NYC. This story of hungry ghosts demanding redemption is in a word... magnificent (VERONICA G. HENRY)
Viscerally haunting. Bat Eater is a profound reminder of the true horrors that lurk in the world, the ones that cannot be dispelled by turning on a light or flipping the page. (TORI BOVALINO)
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I had to slow the narrator down as far as I could as she read too fast

anxiety induced speed read

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Probably the best audiobook ive listened to in a long while... Graphic but not distasteful, spooky yet not horror. The author portrays an eye opening account of how fear breeds hate. Plausible, probable and I fear sadly accurate.
I look forward to her publishing more literature aimed at adults.

Excellent story paired with the perfect narrator

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What an incredibly written and performed book. Couldn’t stop listening and the story kept going in a direction I didn’t expect. A must listen. Harrowing and important.

Utterly Fantastic

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There was so much I really loved about this novel. Supernatural horror is truly my bag; throw in a little murder, and you’ll have a hard time keeping me away. I also loved the perspective of Asian American characters dealing with a supernatural threat specific to their culture, alongside a very real threat from racism. Where this lost me was that I felt the payoff to both the supernatural and murder story threads—and how they tied together—was just a bit lacklustre. There was a great spine-tingling twist towards the end, but overall, the story didn’t quite stick the landing. That said, even with a not-so-great ending, I had a blast getting there.

A Thrill, with Hiccups

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What is there to say!! Until you’ve read it! Brilliant narration and remarkably layered writing and story. I look forward to more. Twists and turns and things you’d never have thought! Within all that, a powerful story 🙏🏽

Highly recommend

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