1972, B. S. Moshkov, G. A. Odumanova-Dunaeva, "Difference of light processes disturbing the dark phase of the actinorhythmic response of nyctophilic and nyctophobic plants", Doklady Akad. Nauk SSSR, 203, number 3, 714 (quoted in 1987, Soviet Plant Physiology, volume 34, issues 4-6, page 653)
In the case of nyctophobic plants, like the Abyssinian cabbage, darkness is not an essential factor for their reproductive development.
2009, Mirosław Bałka, Julian Heynen, László Krasznahorkai, Miroslaw Balka: How it is:
According to medical literature, the nyctophobic reaction to Balka’s piece for the Turbine Hall would include breathlessness, lack of control, heightened senses and panic attacks. For Balka, neither darkness nor art poses a threat commensurate with the fear of it.
“Lana, can you handle a night dive? If you’re claustrophobic or nyctophobic tell me now.” “Nyctophobic?” “It’s a fancy way of saying afraid of the dark.”
2013, Alan Donaldson, Scotophobia - Fear of the Dark: In These Caves, Darkness Is Not All There Is to Fear (→ISBN):
"Thirdly, she wouldn’t turn her light out because she’s nyctophobic and fourthly, ‘either’ can only mean one or other, not more than two options, jerk!"
year unknown, Sandeep Dahiya, Faceless Gods, Lulu.com (→ISBN), page 107
Sometimes at nights he recalled his grandma telling him fearful tales in the dark of night which sent down nyctophobic chill down his spine. But by now he’d started to believe in his religious toy powers to put those phantom figures in the doghouse, as each and every cell of his body jostled for a mystical power while he chanted a mantra or meditated, imagining a rip-roaring figure that tore apart the ghosts. In fact, he’d wept two or three times at the thoughts of his grandma. “ She may not ...
