Night of Light is a science fiction novel by American writer Philip José Farmer.

It has been cited as an influence on the Jimi Hendrix psychedelic rock song "Purple Haze" (1967).

[2] Once every seven years, a world in orbit around a binary star is bathed in a bizarre radiance that rearranges physical reality.

Only mystics, newcomers, and devotees to the planet's bizarre religion are willing to stay awake and endure the two weeks of brilliance, where things materialize out of thin air.

It is during those two weeks that the good are pitted against the bad, and it is also a time when their living god must face his successor.