Nightfall

Nightfall or night fall may refer to:

Time of day

• Sunset or sundown, the daily disappearance of the Sun below the western half of the horizon
• Twilight, a time of day when the Sun is just below the horizon and the Earth is illuminated indirectly by sunlight scattering in the upper atmosphere
• Dusk, the darkest stage of twilight in the evening

Film

• Nightfall (1957 film), an American film noir by Jacques Tourneur
• Nightfall (1988 film), a film starring David Birney
• Nightfall (1999 film), a film starring Jeff Rector
• Nightfall (2000 film), a film starring Ashish Vidyarthi
• Nightfall (2012 film), a Hong Kong crime thriller by Chow Hin-yeung

Gaming

• Nightfall (video game), the first real-time 3D adventure game, released in 1998
• Nightfall Games, a UK role-playing game publishing company
• Guild Wars Nightfall, a 2006 computer game in the Guild Wars series
• Nightfall, a deck-building card game by Alderac Entertainment Group

Literature

Stories and novels

• Nightfall (Asimov short story and novel), a 1941 science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov, and later adaptations:
  • Nightfall and Other Stories, a 1969 collection of short stories by Asimov
• Night Fall (novel), a 2004 novel by Nelson DeMille
• Nightfall, a novel by Will Elliott
• Nightfall, a two-novel fantasy series by Mickey Zucker Reichert
• The Return: Nightfall, a 2009 novel by L.J. Smith
• "Nightfall", a 1947 short story by Arthur C. Clarke included in The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (2001)
• "Nightfall", a 2003 short story incorporated into the 2005 Manfred Macx novel Accelerando by Charles Stross

Comics

• Nightfall (comics), a DC Comics supervillain
• Nightfall: The Black Chronicles, a 1999-2000 comic book mini-series published by Wildstorm/Homage Comics
• Nightfall, a graphic novel by Scott O. Brown

Music

• Nightfall (band), a Greek heavy metal band
• Nightfall (album), a 1987 album by Candlemass
• "Nightfall", a song by Amorphis from Tuonela
• "Nightfall", a song by Blind Guardian from Nightfall in Middle-Earth
• "Nightfall", a song by Stratovarius from Fourth Dimension
• "Nightfall (Interlude)", a song by Tinashe from Aquarius

Radio and television

• Nightfall (radio series), a 1980-1983 Canadian supernatural/horror series
• "Night Fall" (Yin-Yang-Yo!), an episode of the TV series Yin-Yang-Yo!
• "Nightfall", an episode of the radio program Dimension X, based on the Isaac Asimov story (see above)
• Operation Nightfall, a fictional operation in the first season of the TV series 24
• Halo: Nightfall, a 2014 series set in the Halo universe

See also

• Batman: "Knightfall", a 1993–1994 Batman story arc