Definitions for "Lurid"
Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal.
pale, sallow ("luridus")
ghastly pale; "moonlight gave the statue a lurid luminence"
Vivid, sensational, or shocking; graphic or melodramatic; as, the lurid details of a murder.
glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism; "lurid details of the accident"
Keywords:  tinged, flame, unnatural, smoke, sunset
Having a brown color tinged with red, as of flame seen through smoke.
Of a color tinged with purple, yellow, and gray.
shining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through smoke; "a lurid sunset"; "lurid flames"
horrible in fierceness or savagery; "lurid crimes"; "a lurid life"