Flight or Fright
17 Turbulent Tales
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2019.
Format: Large Print
Edition: Large print edition.
Description: 485 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
An anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up in a metal tube with hundreds of strangers. All the ways a trip into the friendly skies can turn into a nightmare, including some never thought of before. 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, and Dan Simmons.
Series: Thorndike Press large print basic
Contents:
Introduction / Stephen King -- Cargo / E. Michael Lewis -- Horror of the heights / Arthur Conan Doyle -- Nightmare at 20,000 feet / Richard Matheson -- Flying machine / Ambrose Bierce -- Lucifer! / E.C. Tubb -- Fifth category / Tom Bissell -- Two minutes forty-five seconds / Dan Simmons -- Diablitos / Cody Goodfellow, Cody -- Air raid / John Varley -- You are released / Joe Hill -- Warbirds / David J. Schow -- The flying machine / Ray Bradbury -- Zombies on a plane / Bev Vincent -- They shall not grow old / Roald Dahl -- Murder in the air / Peter Tremayne -- The turbulance expert / Stephen King -- Falling / James Dickey -- Afterword: an important message from the flight deck / Bev Vincent.
Subjects:
Air travel -- Fiction.
Airplane occupants -- Fiction.
Transcontinental flights -- Fiction.
Airplanes -- Fiction.
Flight -- Fiction.
Horror tales, American.
Horror tales, English.
Short stories, American.
Short stories, English.
Authors, American -- Maine.
Editors -- Maine.
Suspense fiction.
Large type books.
Air travel -- Fiction.
Airplane occupants -- Fiction.
Transcontinental flights -- Fiction.
Airplanes -- Fiction.
Flight -- Fiction.
Horror tales, American.
Horror tales, English.
Short stories, American.
Short stories, English.
Authors, American -- Maine.
Editors -- Maine.
Suspense fiction.
Large type books.
ISBN:
9781432866662
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| LPF Flight | Ballentine Indoors | Large Print Fiction | In |
