History Main / GlowingEyelightsofUndeath

** The Hero's Shade in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'' is a skeletal one-eyed variation.

** Stallord from ''Twilight Princess'' has glowing pale-pink eyes.

* The Greater Dead in Creator/GarthNix's ''Literature/OldKingdom'' trilogy have fiery pits for eyes. Necromancers have a lesser version of this (physical eyes are still there, but they're described as burning), depending on how long they've been using Free Magic.

* Stephen King's ''Literature/{{It}}''. Don't look into the deadlights!

* The Ringwraiths in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' have ambiguously glowing eyelights of some sort, in some versions, apparently.

* Bob the Skull in ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles''. More precisely, Bob ''is'' the glowing eyelignts -- he's an air spirit that looks like a cloud of glimmering motes that happens to live in a skull, rather than an undead being.

* {{Justified|Trope}} in ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'' by explaining [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Duane's]] eyes are enchanted pyramics and will occasionally glow when he's exceptionally overwhelmed, or generally too distracted to ensure their proper functionality at the moment.

* In ''Literature/TheLaundrySeries'' by Creator/CharlesStross, infection by one of the gibbering extradimensional horrors the Laundry fights against is marked by eyes full of what appear to be glowing, seething worms.

** And as former members of the Scourge, Death Knights of all races. If the regular members of the race already have glowing eyes (such as night elves), then it's more visibly pronounced for death knights. Also the color will change, as the night elves normal yellow and blood elves normal green will be switched to the same blue as all others.

Compare GlowingEyesOfDoom and GhostLights. Compare too with GhostlyGape, with which this may be paired to create pinprick eyelights in gaping black hollows.

* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'': Danny Fenton/Phantom's eyes glow when he goes ghost.
** Many other ghosts in the series also have eyes that glow, sometimes only when they use their powers.

* ''QuestForGloryI'': The gatekeeper for Baba Yaga's hut is a talking skull who complains that he ''lacks'' these. The other skulls on the fence were given glowing gems, and he was left out. The hero must find a gem for him before the gate will open. Despite not having any particular powers mentioned other than glowing, the gem does allow the skull to see.

* ''VideoGame/NarutoShippudenUltimateNinjaStorm3'': when Kabuto Yakushi summons the reincarnated Kakuzu, Itachi and Deidara, their eyes are glowing. [[https://youtu.be/EK3k73LpjXA?t=3m40s]]

[[caption-width-right:185:[-You find yourself staring into the glowing eyes of a Helghast.-] ]]

** Kingfin in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'', although surprisingly not the standard undead enemies. Said boss also has an even more extreme case of this, because the eyes seem to shoot light beams in the direction it's looking or [[http://www.mariowiki.com/Image:Kingfin.jpg something]].

* The hollow men in ''VideoGame/{{Fable}} 2'' have them. They're corpses animated by glowing sprites called wisps that dive into the ground and pull up the corpses.

* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}.'': Both the Skull Knight and his ghastly horse are creatures of the undead, with dark, cavernous eye sockets lit by glowing eyes. The skeletons animated by the evil spirits attracted to Guts' Brand in volume 1 are the same way.

* The Skull Knight from ''Manga/{{Berserk}}.'' [[AsYouKnow As you might have already guessed]], he's a skeleton, soooo....

* The [[http://danielscreations.com/ola/comics/ep0126.html farmstead wights]] and the [[http://danielscreations.com/ola/comics/ep0275.html wraith in the forest]] from ''Webcomic/OurLittleAdventure''.

* Raziel in ''VideoGame/LegacyofKain'', in cutscenes. It's not properly rendered ingame until Defiance.