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Bat Eater by Kylie Lee Baker (Evernight January 2025 Exclusive)

Featured book: Bat Eater by Kylie Lee Baker

A fully redesigned cover (artwork by @rovinacai, design by @perrycuffdesign)

A full colour case with foil (artwork by @alicecaoillustration)

A digital fore-edge (by @rovinacai) with plain top and bottom

Endpaper artwork (by @gracezhuart, different and front back)

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About the product

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.

Our Evernight Exclusive edition is a Royal hardback and features:

  • An exclusive redesigned cover (by @rovinacai; design by @perrycuffdesigns)
  • Reverse dust jacket featuring trade cover with exclusive colour variant
  • Full colour printing and foil on the hardback (by @alicecaoillustration)
  • Digitally printed fore-edge (by @rovinacai); block-sprayed top and bottom
  • Illustrated endpapers (by @gracezhuart); different front and back
  • Signed by the author
  • Standalone adult horror
  • Chinese-American MC, Diverse cast

If you like city-based horror and Chinese folklore, we think you’ll enjoy this one!

Photos by @bookwormgram

"Ingenious mash-up of surreal folklore horror, sly buddy comedy and painfully timely social commentary." ― New York Times

"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." ― Publisher's Weekly

About the Author

Kylie Lee Baker is the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Keeper of Night duology, The Scarlet Alchemist duology, and the forthcoming adult horror Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng. She grew up in Boston and has since lived in Atlanta, Salamanca, and Seoul. Her writing is informed by her heritage (Japanese, Chinese, and 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 a MS in library and information science degree from Simmons University.

Content warnings for Bat Eater

  • Content Warning

    • Violence/Violent Events
      Blood
      Body horror
      Car accident
      Death
      Gore (graphic descriptions of dismemberment)
      Graphic injury or graphic depiction of injury
      Murder
      Past death of a loved one
      Animal abuse
      Fire (no injury mentioned
      Gun violence
    • Self-Harm
      Suicidal ideation
      Skin abrasion (as unintended consequence of compulsive cleaning)
    • Abuse
      Child abuse
    • Discrimination
      Corrupt state and justice system
      Racism
      Sexism
      Sexual harassment (catcalling, threatened sexual extortion)
      Xenophobia
      Explicit hate crime
      Police brutality
    • Health & Mental Health
      Depression & anxiety
      Epidemic/Pandemic (COVID-19)
      Grief and depictions of grief
      Hallucinations
      Mental illness
      Panic attacks
      Trauma/PTSD
      Vomiting
      Forced institutionalization (past, off page)
    • Alcohol/Drugs/Addiction
      Alcohol/alcohol consumption
      Drinking & alcohol abuse