Flight or Fright Author:Stephen King (Editor), Bev Vincent (Editor) Stephen King hates to fly. Now he and co-editor Bev Vincent would like to share this fear of flying with you, gentle reader. Welcome to Flight or Fright, an anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when you're suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up in a met... more »al tube (like gulp! a coffin) with hundreds of strangers. All the ways your trip into the friendly skies can turn into a nightmare, including some we'll bet you've never thought of before...but now you will the next time you walk down the jetway and place your fate in the hands of a total stranger.
Featuring brand new stories by Joe Hill and Stephen King, as well as fourteen classic tales, and one poem, from the likes of Richard Matheson, Ray Bradbury, Roald Dahl, Dan Simmons, and many others, Flight or Fright is, as King says, "ideal airplane reading, especially on stormy descents... Even if you are safe on the ground, you might want to buckle up nice and tight." Book a flight for this terrifying new anthology that will have you thinking twice about how you want to reach your final destination.
Contents:
Introduction (Flight or Fright) • essay by Stephen King
Cargo (2008) / short story by E. Michael Lewis
The Horror of the Heights (1913) / short story by Arthur Conan Doyle
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet [Nightmare at 20,000 Feet • 1] (1962) / short story by Richard Matheson
The Flying Machine [Fantastic Fables] / short story by Ambrose Bierce (variant of The Flying-Machine 1891)
Lucifer! (1969) / short story by E. C. Tubb
The Fifth Category (2014) / short story by Tom Bissell
Two Minutes Forty-Five Seconds (1988) / short story by Dan Simmons
Diablitos (2017) / short story by Cody Goodfellow
Air Raid (1977) / short story by John Varley
You Are Released / novelette by Joe Hill
Warbirds (2007) / short story by David J. Schow
The Flying Machine (1953) / short story by Ray Bradbury
Zombies on a Plane (2010) / short story by Bev Vincent
They Shall Not Grow Old (1944) / short story by Roald Dahl
Murder in the Air (2000) / short story by Peter Tremayne
The Turbulence Expert / short story by Stephen King
Falling (1967) • poem by James Dickey
Afterword: An Important Message from the Flight Deck • essay by Bev Vincent