The Magician
An autofictional horror novel: Christopher, a former adult-film performer whose life is unraveling, lurches through a fractured, hallucinatory California in a descent that pulls in sex work, addiction, family, Christianity, and the occult. Christopher Zeischegg's debut novel blurs memoir and fiction — its narrator shares the author's name and his years working in the adult industry — telling a brutal, visionary story of a man coming apart.
A fictionalized version of the author, a former adult-film performer whose life unravels across a hallucinatory descent into addiction, the occult, and family reckoning.