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Dani
5.0 out of 5 stars An Excellent Anthology!!
Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2018
Never before published King story!!!

If you haven’t ordered Flight or Fright yet, please get in on this goodness!

This is a collection of 17 Tales of horror in the air. I have always been obsessed with flying and got my VFR license years ago. Of course, life got in the way and I never pursued my dream career, but it is what it is... just makes this anthology theme that much nearer and dearer to my heart. Doesn’t hurt that Stephen King wrote a great forward and Richard Chizmarpublishes only the best of the best! Did I mention that François Vaillancourt producer the stunning cover art!?!?

This book contains new, never published stories by both King and Joe Hill as well as works from Richard Matheson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Bev Vincent, Ray Bradbury, Roald Dahl and several others!

Kings ‘never published before’ story is so much like his old short stories that you have to believe that it came from a secret vault somewhere. Gives me hope that there is a treasure trove of good OLD pre-sobriety King stories that are pocketed away for his children to spoon feed to us long after his death. (Yes, I’m one of those freaks that believe truly fantastic horror comes from the depths of pain, suffering and mental angst that is rarely achieved by the lives of shiny happy people).
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Cheryl Stout
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3.0 out of 5 stars Some old, some new, some good, some not
Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2018
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I don't read a lot of short story collections because I find what I found in this book. Out of a group of stories I usually find a couple that I enjoy.

None of the stories (and one poem) in this book are terrible. I had read quite a few before. I enjoyed Joe Hill's contribution a lot. I bought the book because it was edited by (and had stories contributed by Stephen King and Bev Vincent) and, because of that, I expected more.

I think Stephen King is a master of writing short stories and if a book comes out with just his work in it I'll always buy it (e.g. Different Seasons and Night Shift).

Another writer (new to me) that I discovered fairly recently is Richard Chizmar and his short story collection A LONG DECEMBER is one of the best I've ever read.

So - if you want everything Stephen King has ever written, you might buy this book. But to me it's a middle of the road collection and none of the stories were scary enough to even make me pause in flying again.
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Loomis
1.0 out of 5 stars Skip Joe Hill
Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2018
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I'm a long time King fan, and i thought that some of Joe Hill's early work was promising. But he is now so consumed with hatred and intolerant rage that his current work is really hard to read. His story in this anthology is so bad, that it kind of ruined the bok for me. Joe, please go outside and scream at the sky.
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James Kirkland
5.0 out of 5 stars Like father like son.
Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2018
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I’ve been a King “constant reader” since 1981 snuck a copy of Carrie into my unsuspecting hands. I’ve been close to caught up with Sai King’s output since my sophomore year of college when the unexpurgated Stand probably cost me a few letter grades worth of skipped classes. As you can guess from this review my copy of Flight or Fright arrived today, and first down the hatch was the King story without a moment to waste. A fun little tale with a creepy edge, as expected from a master of the form. As Mister King has almost a quarter century on me, I suspect I’ll have to do without new tales from him for a few years, once he makes his exit(hopefully many a few decades away from now). Lucky for me he’s planned well, and based on “You are Released”, I’ll be in good hands. I know it’s not a competition, but Joe owned his dad on this one. Joe’s contribution made me want to hold hands with folks I’d normally despise and maybe I can remember that next time someone’s politics start to blind me to thier humanity. For almost four decades Stephen King has been a constant voice keeping me happily up at night, but for all the books, movies, tv miniseries and comics, I’d like to thank him the most for Joe Hill.
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Carol
4.0 out of 5 stars Good Variety - Solid Anthology
Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2018
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Welcome Aboard....or maybe not. It all begins with a scary as hell intro by KING. Yikes! What a horrific flying experience he had!

As for me, back in the olden days of 1969 on the way to Japan, we briefly stopped in Alaska and slid off the runway all the way to the fence. May not sound it, but it was indeed frightening (don't remember any warnings). And, once on a flight from Los Angeles to Detroit...also in the late 60's....I experienced flying in a horrendous thunderstorm with lightening that seemed to last forever. We rocked and bobbed up and down; at times it felt like an elevator, but that wasn't the scariest part. I was flying without a companion and the big jetliner was practically empty....truly practically empty. Really felt alone....ominous flight for me.

Anyway, FLIGHT OR FRIGHT is a variety of horror, sci-fi and murder-mystery....plus one poem. There are plenty of spooked passengers (for various reasons), zombies, aliens and some super weird and creepy monster stuff as you travel these skies.

My top six of seventeen favorites:

1) Joe Hill's - YOU ARE RELEASED. By far, the best. (for me) Real life fear.
2) Roald Dahl's - YOU SHALL NOT GROW OLD. Memorable time travel.
3) Arthur Conan Doyle's - THE HORROR OF THE HEIGHTS. Wait till you see what's way up there in the danger zone!
4) Richard Matheson's - NIGHTMARE AT 20,000 FEET. Remember the freakish Twilight Zone episode? Here you go.
5) E. Michael Lewis' - CARGO. Creepy sad.
6) Stephen King's - THE TURBULENCE EXPERT. Mortal fear of flying required!

Overall, a pretty fine anthology of old and new. Oh and....Would I fly again. Absolutely! Just hope I don't forget to pack FLIGHT OR FRIGHT!

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Asim Ghaffar
2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 16, 2019
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Flight Or Fright by multiple authors.

Firstly, this collection of short stories is NOT by Stephen King and Bev Vincent. It's simply EDITED by the two.

Here we have a collection of seventeen short horror stories - although a few of them aren't actually horror - and they all have to do with air travel.

The few that I liked (and believe me there weren't many) included:

Murder in the Air by Peter Tremaine
Lucifer! by E. C. Tubb
The Turbulence Expert by Stephen King

There were a few others but, honestly, this collection overall was below average. I even skipped some stories because I just couldn't get into them.

Do not recommend.
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Kim S
3.0 out of 5 stars Mediocre
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 2, 2018
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I bought this as it was Stephen King, its not really. Mediocre stories selected by him and his co-editor most of which have appeared in an anthologies elsewhere.
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Gary Robinson
3.0 out of 5 stars Average
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 21, 2018
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A collection of short stories some dating back 100 years. Mr. Kings story is outstanding, but some of the others are less so. Enjoyable but not the best
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4.0 out of 5 stars Short Stories
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 24, 2019
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A good series of short stories by some well known not so well know authors all on when flying goes wrong,
Arthur Coyle Doyle wrote his short story a scant 10 years after the first flight in 1908, and deals with the horrors that might dwell high in the sky over 40,000 feet, remember 20,000 was the limit in those days. Interesting and well writen. One word of warning not a book to read inflight.
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Jane Caruana
4.0 out of 5 stars Good holiday reading
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 21, 2018
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Great stories just a shame there were not more original ones
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