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{{quote|''"I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction."''|'''Calvin''', ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]''}}

As most people will tell you, night is the time of the day in which a setting in fiction will generally be creepier, and the only time various monsters who are [[Weakened by the Light]], such as [[Vampire|Vampires]]s and [[Our Werewolves Are Different|Werewolves]], can be outside. So the solution to [[Horror Tropes|Horror movies]], [[Survival Horror]] games and [[Big Boo's Haunt]] settings, where the undead are a necessary part of the setting and creepy, quiet atmosphere of night is needed constantly? Simple, it's [['''Always Night]]''', and if the sun ever rises, it'll [[Cue the Sun|appear just when all the danger is gone and the evil has been destroyed]]. See [[Grave Clouds]] for the variant where the weather is simply miserable at graveyards and other creepy areas, and which is possibly a sister trope to this. See also [[Evil Is Not Well Lit]].

== Anime and Manga ==

* ''[[The Abyss]]'' looks like night because it's underwater -- theunderwater—the above-water scenes are daylit.

** In both cases, save for the very last scene, the real world scenes all take place at night.<ref> Otherwise, we couldn't see the ENCOM helicopter's [[Tron Lines]] in the first movie</ref>.

* ''[[Pitch Black]]'' plays with this. Due to the triple sun, it is always daytime on the planet - except once every 22 years, when there is a triple eclipse, during which time it is [[Always Night]].

* The sequel to the original ''[[Battlestar Galactica Classic(1978 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]'', ''[[Galactica 1980]]'', had several episodes filmed completely at night for no apparent reason. The real reason is probably scheduling difficulties related to [[Executive Meddling]].

* Played with in Cormac McCarthy's ''[[The Road]]''. Though not so much [[Always Night]] as Never Day; the huge amounts of ash in the air (presumably from nuclear winter) make even noonday fairly dim. McCarthy mentions multiple times that the boy has never actually seen the sun. This is exacerbated by the time of year the story takes place in, mentioning that [[No Name Given|the man]] thinks it's November toward the start of the book.

* The ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'' story 'Hell Night' by Nick Kyme has a planet where the titular night lasts for weeks... And it always rains. And angry ghosts rise from the mud and drag soldiers down, if they don't kill them outright.

* ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons]]'' module Q1 ''Queen of the Demonweb Pits''. One of the alternate worlds accessible from Lolth's Web was the Nightworld of Vlad Tolenkov, a land of perpetual night. Its heat and plant life were sustained by ancient magic, with undead roaming the land.

* Referenced a few times in ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'', especially where Chaos magic is prevalent and ''especially'' on some worlds in [[I Don't Like the Sound of That Place|the Eye of Terror]]. Out in the physical universe there is/was Nostramo, a world caught in eternal darkness. The people there evolved to [[Eye Scream|not have irises]], only pupils, and it was so demoralizing to the populace that the major source of population control wasn't disease, war or neglect, but [[Driven to Suicide|SUICIDE.]] That is until it was subject to [[Earthshattering Kaboom|Exterminatus]].

** The ghost house levels in both ''[[New Super Mario Bros.]]'' and ''[[New Super Mario Bros. Wii]]'' feature this. Even if you only get to see that it's night for about five seconds in the outdoors parts at the very end of the levels.

** It's [[Always Night]] in [[Fatal Frame]] 4 too.

* ''[[System Shock]]'' and ''[[BioShock (series)]]'' justified the [[Always Night]] ambiance by being set in deep space and deep underwater respectively.

* The ''Shutokou Battle'' series of [[Driving Game|Driving Games]]s always takes place at night, since (illegal) street racing is done mostly at night to avoid heavy traffic and to reduce chances of police encounters. What makes this a little odd is that the games have in-game clocks that typically correspond to your system's internal clock and is used in requirements for two [[Guide Dang It|Wanderers]], so the in-game clock could read 2 PM, yet the streets look like it's 2 AM.

* In ''[[Arthur (animation)|Arthur]]'', the [[In-Universe]] ''Dark Bunny'' is set "in a city "where it's, like, always nighttime" -- parodying—parodying the tendency for ''[[Batman]]'' media to be set at night.