lurid

Adjective

• ghastly pale
  • moonlight gave the statue a lurid luminence
    

• shining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through smoke
  • a lurid sunset
    
  • lurid flames
    

• glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism
  • lurid details of the accident
    

• horrible in fierceness or savagery
  • lurid crimes
    
  • a lurid life