Jack Ketchum's Crippled on the Wheel of Sex: The Jerzy Livingston Years is the most comprehensive collection of Stroop stories ever collected together. Each story is also accompanied by the author's afterword. Written from 1976 to 1981 and published in various men's magazines and other publications, these stories offer Ketchum's readers a glimpse into this author's formative years. It was here that Jack Ketchum honed his writing skills, made famous by his novels The Girl Next Door, Crossroads, Off Season, and Lost. It contains his character known simply as Scab, as well as stories written under pseudonym Jerzy Livingston, which have become rare and difficult to find almost thirty years after they were originally published." I called them "The Jerzy Livingston Years" because more than half of them were written under that name, and the rest - under my real one, for some reason, Jerzy seems more suitable for this collection. The fact that I took this particular pseudonym was both a joke, a play on words and a tribute to the very good writer I hoped to someday become,” Jack Ketchum. , from the author's preface.