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Novels, short stories, and comics

  • "Nightfall" (Asimov short story), an influential 1941 science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov, later adapted into a radio program (c. 1950), novel (1990), and two low-budget films (1988 and 2000) of the same name
  • "Nightfall", a 1947 short story by Arthur C. Clarke, published in The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
    The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
    The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke, , first published in 2001, is a collection of almost every science fiction story shorter than novel length that Arthur C. Clarke has ever published: more than 100 in all arranged in order of publication, from "Travel by Wire!" in 1937 through to "Improving...

  • "Nightfall", a 2003 short story from Accelerando (novel)
    Accelerando (novel)
    Accelerando is a 2005 science fiction novel consisting of a series of interconnected short stories by British author Charles Stross. As well as normal hardback and paperback editions, it was released as a free ebook under the Creative Commons attribution-noncommercial-no derivatives license...

     by Charles Stross, set in his Manfred Macx series
  • Nightfall, the title and lead character in two fantasy books (1993 and 2005) by Mickey Zucker Reichert
    Mickey Zucker Reichert
    Mickey Zucker Reichert is an American fantasy fiction author of several best selling novels. Perhaps her most famous work is the epic Renshai series, which offers an intriguing perspective on traditional Norse mythology.-Renshai Trilogy:...

  • Night Fall
    Night Fall
    Night Fall is a 2004 novel by American author Nelson DeMille.The story begins with the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800 off Long Island, New York...

    , a 2004 novel by Nelson DeMille
  • Nightfall (comics)
    Nightfall (comics)
    Nightfall is a DC Comics supervillain.-History:A former college student who was armed by the Overmaster and joined his original Cadre. Nightfall's wristbands can create a null-field of pure darkness, absorbing all light and kinetic energy in a given area...

    , a DC Comics supervillain
  • Nightfall, a comic by Scott O. Brown
    Scott O. Brown
    Scott O. Brown is an American writer, publisher, and production artist. Scott counts Ghost Rider and Devil Dinosaur among his influences...

  • Batman: Knightfall
    Batman: Knightfall
    Batman: Knightfall is the title given to a major Batman story arc published by DC Comics that dominated Batman-related serial comic books in the spring and summer of 1993. Knightfall is also the umbrella title to the trilogy of storylines that ran from 1993 to 1994...

    , a Batman story arc from 1993-94
  • "Nightfall" a 2006 novel by William Hardman.

Music

  • Nightfall (band)
    Nightfall (band)
    Nightfall was a melodic death/gothic metal band from Greece, formed by vocalist/bassist Efthimis Karadimas in 1991.- History :In 2005, Drummer George Kollias left to join American death metal band Nile and guitarist George Bokos would be recruited to fill in as guitarist for Rotting Christ.-...

    , a Greek melodic death metal band
  • Nightfall (album)
    Nightfall (album)
    Nightfall is the second album by Swedish doom metal band Candlemass released in 1987. It was the first album to feature Messiah Marcolin on vocals....

    , a 1987 album by Candlemass
  • "Nightfall", a song by Blind Guardian from their 1998 album Nightfall in Middle-Earth
    Nightfall in Middle-Earth
    Nightfall in Middle-Earth is a concept album by Blind Guardian, released in 1998. It is also Blind Guardian's sixth studio album.The album is based upon J. R. R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion, a book of tales from the First Age of Middle-earth, recounting the War of the Jewels...

  • "Nightfall", a song by Stratovarius from the 1995 album Fourth Dimension
    Fourth Dimension (album)
    Fourth Dimension is an album by the Finnish power metal band Stratovarius. This is the first album with new vocalist Timo Kotipelto, and the last with drummer Tuomo Lassila and keyboardist Antti Ikonen...

  • "Nightfall", a song by Amorphis from their 1999 album Tuonela
    Tuonela (album)
    Tuonela is the fourth full-length album by Finnish band Amorphis. It is named for Tuonela, the realm of the dead in Finnish mythology.This album shares inspiration with many of the band's productions in the text and themes of the Kalevala, or Finnish Epic...


Video games

  • Nightfall (video game), the first real-time 3D adventure game, released in 1998
  • Guild Wars Nightfall
    Guild Wars Nightfall
    Guild Wars Nightfall is a fantasy Action RPG and the third stand-alone campaign in the Guild Wars computer game series developed by Seattle-based game developer studio ArenaNet, a subsidiary of NCSoft corporation...

    (2006), the third chapter of the computer game series, Guild Wars
  • Nightfall Games
    Nightfall Games
    Nightfall Games is a United Kingdom based role-playing game publishing company notable for publishing SLA Industries-History:Nightfall Games was founded by Dave Allsop, Anne Boylan and in April 1993 in Glasgow, Scotland...

    , creators of SLA Industries
  • Nightfall, a German-based LPMud
    LPMud
    LPMud is a MUD variant developed in 1989 by Lars Pensjö that separates the MUD environment functionality between a virtual machine and world-building components in the LPC programming language .- Motivation :Pensjö had been an avid player of TinyMUD and...

     that has been running since 1990

Other media

  • Nightfall (CBC)
    Nightfall (CBC)
    Nightfall is the title of a radio drama series produced and aired by CBC Radio from July 1980 to June 1983. While primarily a supernatural/horror series, Nightfall featured some episodes in other genres, such as science fiction, mystery, fantasy, and human drama. One episode was even adapted from...

    , a supernatural/horror radio series produced and aired by CBC Radio from 1980 to 1983
  • Nightfall
    Nightfall (1957 film)
    Nightfall is a black-and-white film noir directed by Jacques Tourneur. The film features Aldo Ray, Brian Keith, Anne Bancroft, among others. The low-budget film is remembered today for camera work by cinematographer Burnett Guffey...

    , a 1957 movie directed by Jacques Tourneur
  • Nightfall, a 1988 adaptation of the Asimov short story.
  • Operation Nightfall, a fictional operation in the television series 24
    24 (TV series)
    24 is an American serial action/drama television series. Broadcast by Fox in the United States and syndicated worldwide, the show first aired on November 6, 2001, with an initial 13 episodes...


Companies (US)

  • NightFall Industries, a small self defense and personal protection supply company based in Louisiana, in operation since 1999