Showing results for "The-Passenger" in Literature & Fiction

Ruthann has lived through the loss of both a son and her husband. Now, after being forced into retirement, she sets off on a road trip to visit family down home. She takes the trip alone against the wishes of her family. What she doesn't tell them is she intends to end her life while she's away. During the drive, Ruthann becomes lost in the woods.

Amanda is a hardworking single mum, completely focused on her job and her daughter, Louise. She’s been saving for years, and now, finally, she can afford to give up work and chase her dream. But then, on her commute home from London to Brighton, she meets a charming stranger - who seems to know everything about her. He delivers an ultimatum. She needs to give him the code for the safe where she keeps her savings before the train reaches Brighton - or she’ll never see Louise again.

Forty-eight hours after leaving her husband's body at the base of the stairs, Tanya Dubois cashes in her credit cards, dyes her hair brown, demands a new name from a shadowy voice over the phone, and flees town. It's not the first time. She meets Blue, a female bartender who recognises the hunted look in a fugitive's eyes and offers her a place to stay. With dwindling choices, Tanya - now Amelia - accepts. An uneasy and dangerous alliance is born.

In taut and stylish prose, The Passenger Seat examines how men learn and perform masculinity. Rejecting easy answers, it keeps our eyes trained on the vanishing point where vulnerability edges into violence, alienation into aggression.

Sarah and Hannah are on a cruise from San Diego, California, to Sydney, Australia. Sarah, Hannah's grandmother, is returning to the country of her birth, a place she hasn't seen since boarding the USS Mariposa in 1945. Then she, along with countless other war brides, sailed across the Pacific to join the American servicemen they had married during World War II. Now Hannah is the same age Sarah was when she made her first journey and, in hearing Sarah tell the story of her life, realises the immensity of what her grandmother gave up.

When an aircraft piloted by Ben's former army comrade Nick Chapman crashed off the Cayman Islands killing everyone on board, the official line was that Chapman committed suicide. But things don't add up, and soon unfolding events point to something far more sinister going on. Following the trail of clues from the rugged Welsh borders to the Caribbean, Ben quickly discovers that some kinds of knowledge will get you killed - fast.

When Leah caught the train that day, it should have been the escape she longed for. A new start, away from the terrible things she had done. She had no idea how that jounrey would change her life forever... Because when the train is involved in a terrible crash, Leah is given a moment to reassess her life. Can she make amends for what she did? Can she start again?

Between October 2018 and March 2021, Will Ashon collected voices—people talking about their lives, needs, dreams, loves, hopes and fears—all of them with some connection to the British Isles. He used a range of methods including letters sent to random addresses, hitchhiking, referrals from strangers and so on. He conducted the interviews in person, on the phone, over the internet or asked people to record themselves. Interview techniques ranged from asking people to tell him a secret to choosing an arbitrary question from a list.

Atlantic Flight 702 has disappeared mid-flight between London and New York with 256 passengers on board. Kaitlin Le (Kelly Marie Tran), a college student whose twin brother vanished with the flight, is determined to uncover the truth. Passenger List is a mystery thriller podcast from PRX’s Radiotopia.

Colonel John Quinn was a young, ambitious Air Force pilot who loved to fly - until an Iraqi missile nearly ended his career and his life. Three surgeries and four years later, Quinn is functional, but not good enough to fly. Assigned to the Pentagon, he's prepared to spend the rest of his career in a series of boring staff jobs. Then a military Lear jet crashes shortly after takeoff in the rural farmlands outside Washington, and Quinn is called to lead the biggest investigation of his life.

Jammer Davis has spent most of his life investigating aircraft accidents. When a small regional jet disappears over the jungles of Colombia, it is a tragedy like dozens of others he has seen...but for one terrible detail, his young daughter, who was en route to a semester abroad in South America, is listed on the passenger manifest.

During the Outbreak, like billions of others, a man finds himself infected with the Phage. Desperate to spare his family from watching him become a walking nightmare, he flees. Soon after, he is dead. Two years later, he wakes up. Not in the afterlife, but in his own body. Trapped, unable to control the monster that carries him, and forced to witness the horror of its existence.

A grisly spirit turns travelling companion for an unwitting traveller on the top deck of a London bus one bleak winter’s night in this short story.

On a deserted road in the New Forest, a couple come across a man lying, apparently injured, in the road. They carry him to their car - but on the way to hospital, the driver hears knife blades clashing behind his head and things are not as they might have seemed... Pull on your headphones and Horror-fi yourself. 'Revolutionise' is an often overused word however this is what Horror-Fi achieve with there new recording technology/process for recording audio drama.

Acht Passagiere werden in ihren selbstfahrenden Autos eingeschlossen. Ihre Route wird neu berechnet. Ihr Ziel: der Tod. "Guten Morgen, Claire. Dir dürfte aufgefallen sein, dass du deinen Wagen nicht mehr unter Kontrolle hast. In zwei Stunden wirst du mit hoher Wahrscheinlichkeit tot sein." Als die hochschwangere Claire diese Worte aus dem Lautsprecher ihres selbstfahrenden Autos vernimmt, hält sie es für einen schlechten Scherz.

พลันที่ข้อความถูกส่งออกไป วินาทีนั่นเอง ปีกเครื่องบินระเบิดเสียงดังสนั่น เสียงหวีดร้องดังขึ้นตามด้วยเสียงสัญญาณเตือนภัยทันใดนั้น เหนือที่นั่งผู้โดยสาร หน้ากากออกซิเจนหลุดพ้นผลัวะลงมาทว่าไม่มีผู้โดยสารคนใดแม้แต่คนเดียวได้มีโอกาสสวมมัน สิ่งสุดท้ายในห้วงความคิดของ "จริม" ซึ่งพร่าไปด้วยแสงเจิดจ้าและเสียงระเบิดที่ลั่นเปรี๊ยะในแก้วหู ขณะมองผ่านหน้าต่างออกไปแล้วเห็นขอบฟ้าเมืองมรดกโลกเอียงลาดแผ่นดินพุ่งเข้าหาอย่างรวดเร็วเขาน่าจะได้มีโอกาสบอกรักภรรยา และกอดลูกชายก่อนตาย!!!

When an airline stewardess's infatuation with one passenger goes from fantasy to reality, she finds herself crossing the line and wondering more about just who the mysterious Spaniard is.

With a wide range of themes and styles, ranging from traditional ghost stories to contes cruels, black humor, tales of dark fantasy and surreal nightmare, and perhaps the best story about a ventriloquist and his dummy ever written, there are stories here to suit the tastes of any connoisseur of horror and weird fiction.

Mysterious man in first-class has a mystery he is carrying to the United States.

Bithia Mary Croker (1848-1920) was an Irish-born novelist and a notable writer of ghost stories; much of her work concerned life and society in British India. 'The Former Passengers' (1893) tells the story of Mr. Lawrence, who is on his way to Singapore to give his sister away at her wedding. As he finds he has missed the steamer he intended to catch, he persuades Captain Blane to take him in his cargo boat, the Wandering Star.