Waking, Sandwalker goes out to hunt, where he meets the Shadow Children, an ethereal, nocturnal race, and they make an alliance by sharing food and learning each other's songs.

The stiyaha or kwi-kwiyai were a nocturnal race that children were told not to say the names of lest the monsters hear and come to carry off a person-sometimes to be killed.

A King's College man himself, he read the obituaries in the college newsletter for lines such as these: "In College, he organized nocturnal races, naked except for gowns, on the older Fellows' tricycles."

Strange, I thought, because with their wide eyes and lithe bearing, I would have suspected them to be a nocturnal race.

Even though he came of a nocturnal race, the night was beginning to wear on him.

Also, since they are a nocturnal race, the trollish equivalent of the "Dawn of Time" is the "Sunset of Time."

The Tadigeans were a nocturnal race of amphibious bipeds.

In the fiction of H. P. Lovecraft, a ghoul is a member of a nocturnal race that lives underground.

Something about natural sunshine and fresh air..." "I be happy if not too much sunshine," said Tusk-anini, who came from a nocturnal race.

Cuddy, belonging to a race that worked underground for preference, and Detritus, a member of a race notoriously nocturnal, had excellent vision in the dark.