There is something wrong with Joey un-cut

by S. Lee Glick

Back Cover Blurb
There is Something Wrong with Joey

Children are missing in Union County, Illinois. Where are these missing boys? What dark force could be behind this?
The unpopular and odd boy from the Midwest, Joey, finds himself the main target of the town bullies. In order to rise above them and dish out his payback, Joey confides in his deepest fears to mask his insecurities and take on a new persona. This leads Joey down a dark and murderous path. Joey’s revenge is not only gory it also hits on a stroke of evil brilliance. Is anyone in Union County safe?

254 pages, Paperback

First published April 6, 2022

About the author

Stephen born in Illinois and lived many years on a cattle farm. His mother Mae and father Floyd Were supportive and down to earth. Stephen has one sister Jonnie who lives on the east coast. Steve has a love of fast cars still today. He and his wife Pam have two children both adults now. He became a writer after suffering a stroke in 2016. He has published two fiction books. Six Haunting tales and Stephens breakout novel. The testament.

Reviews

[Katherine Black · Rating 5 out of 5]

The first thing I want to say about this book is that the author is a stroke victim.  Writing a book is a huge achievement for anybody, but it has been an added challenge for this author. At the beginning of all of his books, I love that he adds a stroke warning to all of his readers and a symptoms checklist. It’s a beautiful and public-spirited thing to do for others.

So, the story. It’s written from our teenager Simon’s POV but largely focuses on the decline of his cousin Joey.

The family exhibit their animals at the County fair, and it’s the event of the year. After a run of unpleasant incidents, it's here that they first notice the change in Joey—he’s different.

When they get home, things only escalate. His dad buys him a mask, and Joey fixates on it—but by this point, the rot has already set in.

As we are pulled into a spiralling vortex of murder and unimaginable horror, the rest of the family is drawn in and implicated in the atrocities and mayhem.




The story is fast, and one incident leads to the next until the chaos abounds, and at the heart of it—is Joey. The odd child.

Seeped in 1970s nostalgia, the description of life in those halcyon days is sublime. Glick takes you back in time to small-town rural American easy-street—but then there’s Joey.




One not to be missed out on.

He is the author of three books:

There’s Something Wrong with Joey

The Testament

Six Haunting Tales

Joey is his latest offering, and it’s one of the best horror stories mixed with seventies nostalgia that you’ll ever read.

[Ann · Rating 5 out of 5]

Didnt think I would read this one because of the cover. I dont like horror stories . But I took a chance. I dont know how to describe the story with out saying to much and giving it away. Joey had sisters and brothers and lot of cousins to. They pretty much hung together as one big family . Joeys dad build log houses and had his lots of land and kept expanding in business. Always working and made lots of money. He had million dollars insurance policies for his wife and kids. The kids run some of the farmland while dad was away. Something happened at the farm one day. They decided not to tell dad what happened . Weird things started going on. To many funerals, people going missing and animals too. What was happening ? I cant say anymore. This writer sure knows how to tell a story tho.

[S. Glick · Rating 5 out of 5]

A mix of stand by me and the eyes of darkness. A good combination of youth and being young and the horrible atrocities that happened on the school bus purgatory they call the bus. I would recommend the book to anyone who likes things that go bump in the night and make that whistling sound outside your window.

[Laura · Rating 5 out of 5]

Set in small-town America of the 1970s and told from the first-person perspective of Joey’s 13-year-old cousin Simon, this story revolves around the large Luchks family and how the ‘tender-hearted and honest’ Joey turns into a monster after the boys and their friend Willie are bullied and set-upon by the older Vinnie, Terry and their crowd on a day out at the County Fair. Forced to defend himself, 10-year-old Joey tastes the flesh and blood of the enemy in the ensuing fight, which seems to awaken something dark inside him, as evinced by the horror story he tells afterwards and which he claims to have been real in his head and more than just a dream. That’s just the beginning, and life in the Luchks family will never be the same.

Author S Lee Glick builds a well-paced narrative set in well-painted scenery of provincial country life peopled with believable characters who speak and act as might be expected, initially. Against such an everyday background, the horror is intensified through the cold and almost matter-of-fact manner in which atrocious actions are carried out by seemingly ordinary folks. When and where will it end?