“The Fifth Category” by Thomas Carlisle Bissell first appeared in The Normal School © 2014. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“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 originally published in Over To You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying, Reynal & Hitchcock © The Roald Dahl Story Company Limited, 1946. ROALD DAHL is a registered trademark of The Roald Dahl Story Company Ltd.

“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.

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