nyctophobe

plural nyctophobes

1. Someone who is afraid of the night or darkness.

   The Brink has no sympathy for claustrophobes or nyctophobes, people who are afraid of the dark. People like me.

   2009, J. C. Hutchins [pseudonym; Chris Hutchins], Personal Effects, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN, page 14

   3 more examples

   Across the hall, Tad Gillespie, a genuine nyctophobe with the nyctophobe's morbid fear of the dark, lay wide awake, eyes peeled, armed with a collection of quartz-halogen flash-lights whose total candlepower could have lighted the Washington Monument.

   1989, David Michaelis, Boy, Girl, Boy, Girl, New York, N.Y.; […]: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 173

   Before returning to the surface, we shut off our lamps and experienced total darkness. A nyctophobe would have gone insane.

   1992, T. J. Burr, Rocky Mountain Adventure Collection: The Adventures of a Colorado Mountaineer, Santa Barbara, C.A.: Fithian Press, →ISBN, page 188

   She was a borderline nyctophobe; had insisted on sleeping with a night-light on the entire time they'd been married.

   2010, Bill Pronzini, The Hidden, New York, N.Y.: Walker & Company, →ISBN, page 35

   Antonyms: nyctophile