Bat eater

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Cora Zeng is a crime scene cleaner, washing away the remains of brutal murders and suicides in Chinatown. 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. Before fleeing the scene, the murderer whispered two words: bat eater. Months pass, the killer is never caught, and Cora can barely keep herself together. She pushes away all feelings, disregards the bite marks that appear on her coffee table, and won’t take her aunt’s advice to prepare for the Hungry Ghost Festival, when the gates of hell open. Cora tries to ignore the rising dread in her stomach, even when she and her co-workers begin finding bat carcasses at their crime scene clean-ups. But Cora can’t ignore the fact that all their recent clean-ups have been the bodies of East Asian women. Soon Cora will learn, you can’t just ignore hungry ghosts.

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‘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 horrorBOOKLIST ?????
‘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.

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PRAISE FOR BAT EATER

‘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

Additional information

Weight 0.5 kg
Dimensions 23.8 × 16 × 3.2 cm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Hardback

Pages

304

Language

English

Edition

Hardback original

Dewey

813.6 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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