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- Jerkass Woobie: "Dwight", the eponymous Night Flier. He's a vampire who brutally murders people for their blood and seems to enjoy it to some extent, but he has no real choice in the matter, and it's implied that he despises the monster that he's become and mourns his lost humanity.
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The killer is a mysterious pilot who appears to believe he is a vampire and is registered under the name of Dwight Renfield. Dees initially refuses the story, and Morrison assigns it novice reporter Katherine Blair.
His current subject of investigation is the Night Flier, an apparent serial killer who travels between small airports in a Cessna Skymaster, gruesomely killing people in a way that leads Dees to think the man is a lunatic who believes himself to be a vampire.
Dwight Renfield is a vampiric serial killer and the main antagonist in Stephen King's horror short story The Night Flier and its subsequent film adaption. In the 1997 film, he was played by Michael H. Moss.
Feb 6, 1998 · Two investigative reporters for a tabloid magazine track down across country "The Night Flier", a serial killer who travels by private plane stalking victims in rural airports. One of the reporters, Richard Dees, begins to suspect that "the Night Flier could perhaps be a vampire". — Humberto Amador.
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- Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
- Mark Pavia
- 1998-02-06
Aug 20, 2018 · Vampires aren’t the most common monsters in Stephen King’s oeuvre. His most well-known and solely vampire-devoted Salem’s Lot also happens to be a really great one with other vampires...
Apr 20, 2022 · First appearing in the horror anthology Prime Evil and later included in King’s short fiction collection Nightmares & Dreamscapes, “The Night Flier” manages to be both a ripper of a vampire tale...
Two investigative reporters for a tabloid magazine track down across country "The Night Flier", a serial killer who travels by private plane stalking victims in rural airports. One of the reporters, Richard Dees, begins to suspect that "the Night Flier could perhaps be a vampire". — Humberto Amador.
