Lurid

a.
  1. Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal.
  2. (Bot.) Having a brown color tinged with red, as of flame seen through smoke.
  3. (Zoöl.) Of a color tinged with purple, yellow, and gray.
  4. Vivid, sensational, or shocking; graphic or melodramatic; as, the lurid details of a murder.