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Announcing: Flight or Fright, edited by Stephen King and Bev Vincent

edited March 2018 in Flight or Fright
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  • edited June 2018
    FLIGHT OR FRIGHT
    edited by Stephen King and Bev Vincent
    An Original Cemetery Dance Trade Hardcover
    Coming This September!
    Also Available As An Audiobook From Simon & Schuster Audio!
    Also To Be Published by Hodder & Stoughton In the UK!

    Page Count: 400
    Pub. Date: September 4, 2018
    Hardcover from Cemetery Dance Publications;
    Audio from Simon & Schuster Audio
    ISBN: 978-1-58767-679-6

    Fasten your seatbelts for an anthology of turbulent tales curated by Stephen King and Bev Vincent. This exciting new anthology, perfect for airport or airplane reading, includes an original introduction and story notes for each story by Stephen King, along with brand new stories from Stephen King and Joe Hill.

    About the Book:

    Stephen King hates to fly.

    Now he and co-editor Bev Vincent would like to share this fear of flying with you.
    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—gulp!—a coffin) with hundreds of strangers. All the ways your trip into the friendly skies can turn into a nightmare, including some we’ll bet you’ve never thought of before… but now you will the next time you walk down the jetway and place your fate in the hands of a total stranger.

    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, Dan Simmons, and many others, Flight or Fright is, as King says, “ideal airplane reading, especially on stormy descents… Even if you are safe on the ground, you might want to buckle up nice and tight.”
    Book a flight with Cemetery Dance Publications for this terrifying new anthology that will have you thinking twice about how you want to reach your final destination.

    Please Note:
    Flight or Fright will also be available as an eBook from Cemetery Dance Publications, as an audiobook from Simon & Schuster Audio, and in the UK and related markets by Hodder & Stoughton!

    Table of Contents:
    Introduction by Stephen King
    Cargo by E. Michael Lewis
    The Horror of the Heights by Arthur Conan Doyle
    Nightmare at 20,000 Feet by Richard Matheson
    The Flying Machine by Ambrose Bierce
    Lucifer! by E.C. Tubb
    The Fifth Category by Tom Bissell
    Two Minutes Forty-Five Seconds by Dan Simmons
    Diablitos by Cody Goodfellow
    Air Raid by John Varley
    You Are Released by Joe Hill
    Warbirds by David J. Schow
    The Flying Machine by Ray Bradbury
    Zombies on a Plane by Bev Vincent
    They Shall Not Grow Old by Roald Dahl
    Murder in the Air by Peter Tremayne
    The Turbulence Expert by Stephen King
    Falling by James Dickey
    Afterword by Bev Vincent
  • A Note from Stephen King on the origins of Flight or Fright:
    Well, we were sitting around at dinner before a screening of The Dark Tower in Bangor, and there were a lot of people who’d flown in for the big night. I mentioned that I hated flying, and the conversation turned to various airplane stories, some scary and some funny. I said there had never been a collection of flight-based horror stories, although I could think of several (including the Matheson and the Conan Doyle, which are in the book) about the terrors of flight. I said someone ought to do the book. Rich Chizmar said, “I would, in a heartbeat.” It took more than one heartbeat, but Flight or Fright is now a book. Bev Vincent, that incredible polymath, agreed to team with me as co-editor, and now the book—including several new stories, one by me and one by my son, Joe Hill—is an actual fact. Bev and I think it would make ideal airplane reading, especially on stormy descents.

    A Note from Bev Vincent on the origins of Flight or Fright:
    I was sitting next to Rich Chizmar in a Bangor restaurant when Steve came up to us with this idea for an anthology of horror stories involving flying. The fact that we were across the street from Bangor International Airport was especially apropos. Steve and I dug deep to come up with this collection of stories—some of them I’d read before but many of them I hadn’t. It was a delight to find tales by some of my favorite authors that fit the loose theme and also to be introduced to several new-to-me writers who had published some chilling tales. Then there’s the new stories by Steve and Joe Hill, both of which are terrific and disturbing contributions to this sub-genre. I spent 24 hours total on two flights to and from Japan while working on this project and I spent a lot of time…a LOT of time…thinking about all the things that might go wrong when I was 35,000 feet up hurtling through space at 500 mph in a torpedo with wings. Is it a little twisted that we hope this anthology makes a lot of other people equally nervous the next time they board a flight?

  • Pretty sweet. Look forward to interviewing about the book and your experiences this weekend for the podcast.
  • Here's the Hodder/UK page for Flight or Fright -- cover reveal to come.
  • The Oversized Slipcased Artist Edition of FLIGHT OR FRIGHT is now more than 95% sold out
  • edited July 2018
    I hear the trade edition is heading for a second printing, and we're still well over a month pre-publication.

    Also, Cemetery Dance will begin shipping all direct preorders of the trade hardcover edition we have as of July 18 in *mid-August,* two weeks before the official pub date. That means you’ll be able to read this book before any other readers in the world!
  • edited July 2018
    #1 Bestseller!

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    At Barnes & Noble, we're #2 in the category of Aviation Fiction (behind Around the World in 80 Days).
  • eBook is now available from Amazon: (ASIN: B07FY184X4)  ; Barnes & Noble ; iTunes ;
  • Amazon #1 Bestseller. Over 30,000 copies advance ordered. Coming soon from Cemetery Dance. @StephenKing @BevVincent pic.twitter.com/JvpnD0WwOn

    — Richard Chizmar (@RichardChizmar) July 27, 2018
  • Sept 4th can't get here fast enough.


  • As posted by the good folk at Cemetery Dance:

    A first look at the hardcover 1st editions of FLIGHT OR FRIGHT, co-edited by Stephen King and Bev Vincent. Unpacking an insane amount of these today, as we begin the process of preparing for shipment. More to come!
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  • And the first copy is in my hands!

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  • Looking awesome!
  • “When I’m at 30,000 feet and the PA comes on and I hear those words—”this is your Captain speaking”—I immediately imagine he’s about to complete his sentence by adding, “and we’re all about to die.” He’ll laugh maniacally, the PA will shriek with feedback, and the 777 will tilt forward into a sickening nosedive. This is diseased, I know…but maybe you have a touch of the same illness, and if you do, Flight or Fright is the book for you.” —Joe Hill
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  • Audio, eBook, hardcover in #1, 2, 3 in Horror Anthologies at Amazon

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  • Steve's anecdote from his intro to Flight or Fright is reprinted in the September 2021 issue of Air & Space Smithsonian magazine.
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  • Steve's anecdote from his intro to Flight or Fright is reprinted in the September 2021 issue of Air & Space Smithsonian magazine.

    Stephen King: Horror Story

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