midnight vs pitch dark

midnight

noun
  • Twelve o'clock at night exactly. 

  • Synonym of boxcars (“a pair of sixes”) 

  • The middle of the night: the sixth temporal hour, equidistant between sunset and sunrise. 

adj
  • Utterly dark or black. 

pitch dark

How often have the words midnight and pitch dark occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )