Darkness Visible

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Darkness Visible has been used as a title on several occasions:

• Darkness Visible (novel), a 1979 novel by British writer Sir William Golding.
• Darkness Visible (Hannah book), a 1952 book about Freemasonry by English clergyman Walton Hannah.
• Darkness Visible (memoir), a 1989 memoir by U.S. writer William Styron.
• Darkness Visible (album), an album by U.S. power metal band Sacred Oath.
• Visible Darkness (Russian: Зримая тьма), a 1959 Russian story and later book by Dmitri Bilenkin about a person who could see in infra-red light.
• "Darkness Visible" (Hercules episode), a sixth season episode of the fantasy television series, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
• "Darkness Visible" (song), a song by American progressive rock band Altered State.

Source

The phrase "darkness visible" appears in John Milton's Paradise Lost, Book i, line 62:

A dungeon horrible, on all sides round,

As one great furnace flamed; yet from those flames

No light; but rather darkness visible

Served only to discover sights of woe,

Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace

And rest can never dwell, hope never comes

That comes to all, but torture without end

Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed

With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.