In the story “The Boogeyman” by Stephen King, King shows multiple elements of gothic literature such as supernatural beings, monsters or phantoms, intense emotions, gloomy setting and a damsel in distress. Supernatural beings/monsters is the main part of the story, as it is about the boogeyman which is some monster with big claws that hides in closets, waiting to slither out and take its next victim. “I could see something with awful slumped shoulders and a scarecrow head” is how Billings described it when he confronted it. The story is filled with intense emotions when billings recalls the killings of his kids. “Billings's voice had become a high treble, like a child's. His eyes seemed to fill his entire face; he almost