"Howard Hordinary - convinced he is the bastard grandchild of a rumored liaison between Houdini and Charmain London (Jack London's wife) - schemes to restore his status (as electrocutioner, as Houdini grandchild), while Houdini himself travels a world populated by freaks, carnies, scientists, con men, and lunatics, in pursuit of *SZUSZU*, the enigmatic "Electric Girl," with whom he shared billing early in his career. Combining the paranoid historical sweep of Pynchon and Vollman, and the linguistic experiments of Ben Marcus, Shelley Jackson, and Matthew Derby, Electric Flesh runs an alternating current of language through the body of America."--BOOK JACKET.

Claro is a French writer and translator.

Brian Evenson is the author of a dozen books of fiction, including the story collection A Collapse of Horses and the novella The Warren. He has also published Windeye and Immobility, both of which were finalists for a Shirley Jackson Award. His novel Last Days won the American Library Association’s award for Best Horror Novel of 2009. His novel The Open Curtain was a finalist for an Edgar Award and an International Horror Guild Award. Other books include The Wavering Knife (which won the IHG Award for best story collection), Dark Property, and Altmann’s Tongue. He has translated work by Christian Gailly, Jean Frémon, Claro, Jacques Jouet, Eric Chevillard, Antoine Volodine, Manuela Draeger, and David B. He is the recipient of three O. Henry Prizes as well as an NEA fellowship. His work has been translated into French, Italian, Greek Spanish, Japanese, Persian, and Slovenian. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches in the Critical Studies Program at CalArts.