"The Langoliers" is a novella, one of four works published in the Stephen King book Four Past Midnight in 1990.

On a cross-country red-eye flight from Los Angeles to Boston, ten passengers awaken to find that the crew and most of their fellow passengers have disappeared, leaving the Boeing 767 airliner under the control of the autopilot (a Lockheed L-1011 is substituted in the TV adaptation).