Stephen King is known as one of the greatest horror and gothic writers of our time. The reason for this is its ability to merge the gothic elements created by stories such as Dracula or Frankenstein and today's horror. King wrote hundreds of short stories, but two in particular "The Night Flier" and "Popsy" show his unique ability to combine gothic elements of ancient literature with realistic settings and characters of our time. One of his greatest talents is being able to take gothic elements like vampires and make us see them in a different light. King's unique way of writing, with his old Gothic ideals, his new ideas of horror, and his use of realistic settings, helps put a new spin on what we think of as a Gothic story. King owes his success to his ability to accept what he says are "real fears." » (The Stephen King Story, 47) and turn them into a horror story. When he talks about "real fears," these are things we've all thought about, like a monster under the bed or even a child abduction, and he makes them a reality in his story. King views “horror fiction…as a metaphor” (46) for everything that is wrong in our lives. His mind and his writings seem to inhabit the depths of the fears and nightmares of the American people and this is what makes his writings reach so many people and provoke the terror he writes about in his reader. The short story "The Night Flier" King uses gothic elements to convey his vampire story from what we all know about vampires and brings in his own elements, adding to the horror and terror. Instead of the Dark Castle traditional, King chooses a lonely and eerie airport, but still manages to include gothic elements such as "lightning bolts, some with lightning bolts that still sound inside like giant fireworks" (Nightmares and Dreamscapes, 113- 114).The main character is a man named Dees, he is a lonely journalist and photographer. This man's life goal is history and he was "hardened and proud of it" (131). , Dees searches for a murderer who appears to be a vampire-like creature. King gives details throughout the story to keep the suspense while allowing the reader to see that the vampire is real...