Амброз Бирс - Flight or Fright - 17 Turbulent Tales

“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.