by Stephen King
First published 2019
You settle into your airplane seat thirty thousand feet above the earth. The metal tube around you hurtles through space at five hundred miles per hour. Hundreds of strangers surround you in this airborne coffin. Your fate rests in the hands of people you have never met. Stephen King understands this fear. He hates flying and wants to share that terror with readers. King teams with co-editor Bev Vincent to gather seventeen stories and one poem about aviation nightmares. The collection features new work by King himself and his son Joe Hill. Classic contributors include Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Roald Dahl, Dan Simmons, and Arthur Conan Doyle. Each tale explores the ways air travel can transform into horror. King introduces every story personally. These writers imagine disasters you have never considered but will remember during your next flight. The anthology reveals how quickly routine travel becomes deadly when you are trapped miles above solid ground with no escape route.
Genres: short-stories, adventure, horror, thriller, aviation
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, suspenseful
Tropes: anthology, trapped
352 pages · ebook · Scribner
Content warnings: anxiety, death, graphic-violence