Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng

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Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng – A Haunting Horror Debut Set in NYC's Chinatown

💀 Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng is a chilling, genre-bending adult debut from Kylie Lee Baker, blending psychological horror, supernatural folklore, and razor-sharp social commentary. Perfect for fans of Parasite and The Only Good Indians, this unsettling thriller explores grief, identity, and trauma through the eyes of a woman haunted by both the dead—and the past.

A Crime Scene Cleaner. A Sister’s Death. A City Full of Ghosts.

In the early days of 2020, Cora Zeng witnesses her sister Delilah’s violent death in NYC’s Chinatown. The killer whispers “bat eater” before vanishing, triggering Cora’s downward spiral into paranoia, trauma, and the supernatural.

Now a crime scene cleaner, Cora scrubs away blood and death—but it’s the things she can’t clean up that haunt her:
🦇 Mysterious bat carcasses left at crime scenes
👻 Ghostly disturbances and food vanishing from her apartment
🔥 Warnings from her aunt about the Hungry Ghost Festival
⚠️ A disturbing pattern—Asian women turning up dead at every scene

As Cora descends deeper into the mystery, she must confront hungry ghosts, cultural erasure, and the terrifying reality that some horrors can't be buried.

📖 Bat Eater is a gripping supernatural horror novel about grief, generational trauma, and the monsters we carry inside—and around us.