Introduction / Bev Vincent. Afterword: an important message from the flight deck / E. Michael Lewis -- The horror of the heights / Arthur Conan Doyle -- Nightmare at 20,000 feet / Richard Matheson -- The flying machine / Ambrose Bierce -- Lucifer! / E. C. Cobb -- The fifth category / Tom Bissell -- Two minutes forty-five seconds / Dan Simmons -- Diablitos / Cody Goodfellow -- 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 turbulence expert / Stephen King -- Falling / James L. Dickey -- Afterword: an important message from the flight deck / Bev Vincent.
Summary:
"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 metal tube (like a coffin?) with hundreds of strangers"--Page 4 of cover.
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