The Langoliers:

Flight 29 from Los Angeles to Boston takes a bit of a wrong turning and ends up in a strange world between time. Those on the 'plane who fell asleep during the flight, wake up to find themselves the only ones alive. All that is left of the rest of the passengers and crew are empty places; only 10 passengers survive. But when they land their problems are only just beginning, as not only do they have a madman with psycopathic tendencies, they are only a short time away from being eaten by the Langoliers.

The Langoliers are, as Craig Toomy describes them; "My father said the langoliers were little creatures that lived in closets and sewers and other dark places. ...all they really were was hair and teeth and fast little legs - their little legs were fast, he said, so they could catch up with bad boys and girls no matter how quickly they scampered." But these langoliers are the creatures that live between time, that tidy up used time by eating anything they find. And as the survivors of Flight 29 are in the way, they are certain to be "tidied" as well. With the group is Dinah, a little blind girl who was en route to a hospital for an operation which may have saved her sight. Dinah is psychic, or at the very least, more aware of everything around her than her sighted fellows. In the end, the passengers have to work out a way of getting their plane back into the air and across the temporal divide safely.

I remember that I first read this story while I was in Aberystwyth for a few days. I started reading it, to the accompaniment of the waves outside the window, and I loved it. It has the elements of a great horror story: the unknown "thing" that is coming ever nearer; it reminded me of "The Mist", with that same sense of isolation and having nowhere to run to for help. It's a great story, and in my opinion, Stephen King's best story. It is all the more terrifying as one never actually "meets" the monsters. They merely exist, somewhere out of sight, but the sound of them munching their way through time grows louder and louder as they come nearer.