Richard Dees

Can I do something for you?” “Well, maybe we can do something for each other.” The stranger mounted the porch steps and offered his hand. Johnny shook it. “My name is Richard Dees. Inside View magazine.” His hair was cut in a fashionable ear-length style, and it was mostly gray.

Dees introduces himself to Johnny Smith by full name and the same publication for which he reports in The Night Flier.

In the combined light of dusk and the instrument panel, Richard Dees looked quite a little bit like a vampire himself. 3 There were many things Inside View was not—literate, for one, overconcerned with such minor matters as accuracy and ethics, for another—but one thing was undeniable: it was exquisitely attuned to horrors.

The same full name and Inside View journalism connect this reporter to his self-introduction to Johnny Smith in The Dead Zone.