Flight or Fright: 17 Turbulent Tales

Copyright

Flight or Fright Copyright © 2018

Edited by Stephen King and Bev Vincent

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review.

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The characters and events in this book are fictitious.

Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.

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Artwork © 2018 by Francois Vaillancourt

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Digital Design by Dan Hocker

Introduction and story notes © 2018, Stephen King.

“Cargo” by E. Michael Lewis first appeared in Shades of Darkness, Barbara and Christopher Roden (eds.), Ash-Tree Press © 2008. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Horror of the Heights” by Arthur Conan Doyle first appeared in The Strand Magazine © 1913.

“Nightmare at 20,000 Feet” by Richard Matheson first appeared in Alone by Night, Michael & Don Congdon (eds.) Ballantine Books © 1961. Reprinted by permission of the author’s estate and Don Congdon Associates, Inc.

“The Flying Machine” by Ambrose Bierce first appeared in Fantastic Fables, Putnam © 1899.

“Lucifer!” by E.C. Tubb first appeared in Vision of Tomorrow #3 © 1969. Reprinted by permission of Cosmos Literary Agency and the Author’s Estate.

“The Fifth Category” by Thomas Carlisle Bissell first appeared in The Normal School © 2014. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Two Minutes Forty-Five Seconds” by Dan Simmons first appeared in Omni Magazine © 1988. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Diablitos” by Cody Goodfellow first appeared in A Breath from the Sky: Unusual Stories of Possession, Scott R Jones (ed.), Martian Migraine Press © 2017. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Air Raid” by John Varley first appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction © 1977. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“You Are Released” © 2018, Joe Hill.

“Warbirds” by David J. Schow first appeared in A Dark and Deadly Valley, Mike Heffernan (ed.), Silverthought Press © 2007. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Flying Machine” by Ray Bradbury first appeared in The Golden Apples of the Sun, Doubleday & Company © 1953. Reprinted by permission of Don Congdon Associates, Inc.

“Zombies on a Plane” by Bev Vincent first appeared in Dead Set, 23 House Publishing © 2010. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“They Shall Not Grow Old” by Roald Dahl first appeared in book form in Over To You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying, Reynal & Hitchcock © 1946. Reprinted by permission of The Roald Dahl Story Company Limited.

“Murder in the Air” by Peter Tremayne first appeared in The Mammoth Book of Locked Room Mysteries and Impossible Crimes, Mike Ashley (ed.), Robinson © 2000. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Turbulence Expert” © 2018, Stephen King.

“Falling” © 1981 by James L. Dickey. Published in Falling, May Day Sermon, and Other Poems, Wesleyan University Press. This Poem originally appeared in The New Yorker. Reprinted by permission of the author’s estate and Raines & Raines.

Afterword © 2018, Bev Vincent.