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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 Vampires and Werewolves, can be outside. So the solution to 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 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.

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  • 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 Vampires and Werewolves, can be outside. So the solution to 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 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.
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  • 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 Vampires and Werewolves, can be outside. So the solution to 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 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. Possibly has Dramatic Thunder in some cases, possibly a Weird Moon in full phase constantly in the sky. Settings most likely to have this are Big Boo's Haunt, Mordor, Hell Hotel, the standard Haunted Castle, the Haunted House, Halloweentown and Bedlam House. A subtrope of Empathic Environment. The reasons why non night only monsters like zombies, mummies or ghosts actually need this is often never addressed. If they do come out during the day, they're examples of Daylight Horror. Examples of Always Night include:
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