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2018, ISBN: 9780870213465
Cemetery Dance Publications. New. Cemetery Dance Publications, 2018, Hardcover Flight or Fright, edited by Stephen King and Bev Vincent Fasten your seatbelts for an anthology of turbulent… Mehr…
Cemetery Dance Publications. New. Cemetery Dance Publications, 2018, Hardcover Flight or Fright, edited by Stephen King and Bev Vincent 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. Table of Contents: Introduction by Stephen King, Cargo by E. Michael Lewis, The Horror of the Heights by Sir 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? . 2018. HARDCOVER., Cemetery Dance Publications, 2018, New York, NY: Basic Books, 2007. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Glued binding. Paper over boards. xiv, 482 p. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. From an on-line posting: "Ed Offley has been a military reporting specialist for 25 years. The author has written about aspects of the Scorpion story for leading military journals and is the acknowledged expert on the topic. Offley has covered military operations and exercises in 18 countries. He served in the U.S. Navy in Vietnam and lives in Panama City Beach, Florida." From Wikipedia: "USS Scorpion (SSN-589) was a Skipjack-class nuclear submarine of the United States Navy and the sixth vessel of the US Navy to carry that name. Scorpion was lost on 22 May 1968, with 99 crewmen lost. The USS Scorpion is one of two nuclear submarines the US Navy has lost, the other being USS Thresher. It was one of four mysterious submarine disappearances in 1968; including the Israeli submarine INS Dakar, the French submarine Minerve (S647) and the Soviet submarine K-129." The last thing they heard was the faint scree-scree of a high-speed propeller. Then the torpedo hit, the warhead detonated, the ocean thundered in, and 99 men died. On May 22, 1968, an American submarine was sunk by the Soviets as reprisal for the sinking of a Soviet sub just 10 weeks before. The tragic loss of the USS Scorpion and its crew is still described by the U.S. Navy as an "inexplicable accident." In fact, it was a secret buried by both the U.S. and the Soviet governments to prevent the Cold War from turning into World War III. For nearly 40 years, researchers, journalists, and family members of the lost crew have tried to learn the truth while the Navy and U.S. intelligence communities have covered up the facts. Based on a quarter-century of research, an extraordinary array of new resources, and hundreds of interviews with military personnel with direct connections to the disaster, Scorpion Down is the first to reveal that the official Scorpion story-the sub s failure to make port, the frantic open-ocean hunt, the search that ultimately "found" the wreckage, and the Court of Inquiry's carefully crafted conclusions-was all a lie., Basic Books, 2007, Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1983. Reprint. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good in very good dust jacket. DJ has some wear and soiling.. xvi, 279, [1] p. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. From Wikipedia: "Dudley Bernard Egerton Pope (29 December 1925 25 April 1997) was a British writer of both nautical fiction and history, most notable for his Lord Ramage series of historical novels. Greatly inspired by C.S. Forester, Pope was one of the most successful authors to explore the genre of nautical fiction, often compared to Patrick O'Brian....Dudley Pope was born in Ashford, Kent. By concealing his age he joined the Home Guard aged 14 and at age 16 joined the merchant navy as a cadet. His ship was torpedoed the next year (1942). Afterwards, he spent two weeks in a lifeboat with the few other survivors. After he was invalided out the only obvious sign of the injuries he had suffered was a joint missing from one finger due to gangrene. Pope then went to work for a Kentish newspaper, then in 1944 moved to The Evening News in London, where he was the naval and defence correspondent. From there he turned to reading and writing naval history. His first book, Flag 4, was published in 1954, followed by several other historical accounts. C. S. Forester, the creator of the famed Horatio Hornblower novels, encouraged Pope to add fiction to his repertoire. In 1965, Ramage appeared, the first of what was to become an 18-novel series. He took to living on boats from 1953 on; when he married Kay Pope in 1954, they lived on a William Fife 8-meter named Concerto, then at Porto Santo Stefano, Italy in 1959 with a 42-foot ketch Tokay. In 1963 he and Kay moved to a 53-foot cutter Golden Dragon, on which they moved to Barbados in 1965. In 1968 they moved onto a 54-foot wooden yacht named Ramage, aboard which he wrote all of his stories until 1985. Pope died 25 April 1997 in Marigot, St. Martin.", Naval Institute Press, 1983<
