I turned toward the forest, but its darkness frightened me.

A crescent moon hung low in the sky, too slim to cast a shadow, but the darkness didn't frighten him.

The darkness frightened her.

The darkness, the tension in him frightened her.

Ali went first, biting his lips, for the darkness and the dank smell of the place frightened him.

His darkness frightened her.

It is the speech that begins, "Sometimes at night the darkness and silence frightens me.

The darkness frightened him and he turned away.

Its darkness didn't frighten her.

This darkness particularly frightened Byron, as Gray led him to believe that the house was haunted at Gray's prompting.