The thing that struck me most about Midnight's Delight is the inordinately long
time it took for me to read it. It is not a difficult book to read, the stories are fun
and sometimes thought provoking, but it took me over a week to read its 12 features and
less than 300 pages, one story at a time.
One of the stories compares personal essence, aura or space to music. We all have our
own personal music be it hymn, rap, dirge, or western swing, but what if somebody else
could hear it? One step more, what if somebody could introduce their own harmony or descant
to your day? Jason decides to go to the bank at the mall and jams a duet with a sultry
saxophonist on an astral level, then life goes on.
The stories are focused on the senses and by extension, the arts. Music, taste, painting,
drunkenness, love, fear, and the subconscious effect these stimuli have on our external
responses, making us the people we are, or want to be. My evenings with Jason were quality
time. Maybe I should have stretched it out a little bit longer.
Jason Midnight is not a spooky character; in fact he's a nerd in a Kolchak /Night Stalker
sort of way. If it is weird, it will come to Jason's office or Jason will notice it. Sometimes
only he notices the irregularity, sometimes it isn't really weird at all, and sometimes
it is deadly. But once it is off the streets life goes on and nobody else knows the world
was nearly sucked through a wormhole behind the Hidey Hole - again.