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Horror Sky / Eldritch Sky
Trope for when the sky or atmosphere itself is the avenue for plot terror or threat.
Examples I have in mind are the SCP "When Day Breaks" where walking into daylight mutates you, and the Asimov story about people eventually taking a look at the unobstructed sky going insane. Other examples are "Naruto" having moonlight that traps people in a lotus eater machine, and Real Life with looking at the sun making people go blind.
Basically, do we have a trope for when the sky itself is portrayed as a (direct) source of horror. Most of the tropes I find are about specific things that happen to the sky, which are usually bad omens. Like Red Sky, Take Warning . Or about *Sentient* celestial objects like Sinister Sentient Sun.
Alien Sky could fit, but that seems to just be about the sky looking weird, not the sky *doing* weird.
Edited by IronAnimation