Stranglehold

Before there was Jack Ketchum there was Jerzy Livingston, a writer new at his craft but thoroughly jazzed to it, living in a very strange time in a very strange New York City, going straight to hell in a handbasket and loving every minute, writing stories for the likes of Swank, Cavalier, Genesis, Nugget, and High Society. Dark, black-comic stories mostly, the kind you might almost expect of the Ketchum who was waiting in the wings. The Sexual Revolution was lost by then -lost on all fronts- and only a few had noticed. He had. He was whistling in a graveyard.

Contents:

• The Hang Up
• The Heat
• Skin Game
• Bosom Buddies (aka The Burn Artist)
• The Rubdown
• Fixing Her Plumbing (aka Never Trust a Smart Cunt with Two First Names)
• Fish
• Dancing’ (aka Old Men Dancing)
• The Liar
• The French
• The Christmas Caller
• Head Games (aka East Side Story)
• Dead Heat
• The Making of a Religious Cult (lettered edition only)