Solution to Sometime After Midnight

Answer: BEDTIME STORIES
by Maree Cassidy
Art by Justin Ladia

Solvers are presented with 28 book covers (in four rows of 7) with the author and title removed, and an additional object superimposed over each image. This is followed by 14 strings of characters in which the letters are in alphabet order.

Upon identifying the book titles, solvers will notice they are in alphabetic order, and the superimposed items are various fairy tale characters and items which can be paired together. Additionally, each title either directly or indirectly references a color.

The titles, items and colors are:

	Book Title	Fairytale Element	Color
1	A Clockwork Orange	Golden Egg	Orange
2	Brown Lord of the Mountains	Gingerbread House	Brown
3	Brown Owl's Guide to Life	The Beast	Brown
4	Chocolate Girls	Spinning Wheel and hay	Brown
5	Get a Life, Chloe Brown	Wolf	Brown
6	Ghostgirl	Belle (Beauty)	White
7	Gold	Princess	Yellow
8	Gus was a Friendly Ghost	Snow White	White
9	How Green was my valley	Beanstalk	Green
10	I am Brown	3 Bears	Brown
11	Nighty Night, Little Green Monster	Pea	Green
12	On a Pale Horse	Goose	White
13	On the Golden Porch	Pussycat	Yellow
14	Rose Cottage	Hansel & Gretel	Red
15	Spinning Silver	Glass Slipper	Slate
16	The Black Dahlia	Cow	Black
17	The Goldfinch	Rapunzel	Yellow
18	The Picture of Dorian Gray	Owl	Slate
19	The Scarlet Pimpernel	Red Riding Hood	Red
20	The Silver Bough	Magic Mirror	Slate
21	The Silver Chair	Seven Dwarfs	Slate
22	The Silvered Serpents	Tower	Slate
23	The Tin Flute	Knight (St George)	Slate
24	The Witch of Blackbird Pond	Evil Step-mother	Black
25	The Yellow Room	Gold	Yellow
26	Vampires in the Lemon Grove	Goldilocks	Yellow
27	White Chrysanthemum	Cinderella	White
28	White Truffles in Winter	Dragon	White

Pairing the book titles together based on the fairy tale items, and arranging the letters each pair of book titles in alphabetical order will match one of the 14 strings. This gives a pair of colors.

String	Fairy Tale item 1	Fairy Tale item 2	Title 1	Title2	Color& Wire combo	Letter
AAAACCEEEGHKKLLNNOOOOOPRRRSW	Goose	Golden Egg	On a Pale Horse	A Clockwork Orange	White/Orange	B
AAACDEEEFGGHHHIIILLNORRRSSSSTTUVWY	Snow White	Seven Dwarfs	Gus was a Friendly Ghost	The Silver Chair	White/Slate	E
BDEEFGGGHIIILLLNOOOORRSSTTUWW	Belle (Beauty)	The Beast	Ghostgirl	Brown Owl's Guide to Life	White/Brown	D
AACCDDEEEEFGGHHHIILNNNOOOOOPPRRRRTTTUY	Pussycat	Owl	On the Golden Porch	The Picture of Dorian Gray	Yellow/Slate	T
AABCCEEEEEEEFGHHIILLLLMNNOOPPRRRSTTTW	Red Riding Hood	Wolf	The Scarlet Pimpernel	Get a Life, Chloe Brown	Red/Brown	I
AAAAABCDEEEEGHHHIKLLLLMNORSTVWWYY	Jack and Cow	Beanstalk	The Black Dahlia	How Green was my valley	Black/Green	M
EEEEEFFFHHIIIILLNNNRRSTTTTTTUUWW	Knight(St George)	Dragon	White Truffles in Winter	The Tin Flute	White/Slate	E
AABEEEEGHIIILMMMNNNOOOPRRRSTVVW	Goldilocks	3 Bears	Vampires in the Lemon Grove	I am Brown	Yellow/Brown	S
CDDEEEEEEFGHHHIILLNNOPRRSSSTTTV	Rapunzel	Tower	The Goldfinch	The Silvered Serpents	Yellow/Slate	T
ABBBCCDDEEEFGHHHHIIIKLLNOOOPRRSTTTUVW	Pinnochio	Jiminy Cricket	The Witch of Blackbird Pond	The Silver Bough	Black/Slate	O
DEEEEGGGGHHIIILLLMNNNNOORRSTTTTTY	Princess (on mattresses)	Pea	Gold	Nighty Night, Little Green Monster	Yellow/Green	R
AABCDEEEFGHILMNNNOOOOOORRRSSTTTTUW	Hansel & Gretel	Gingerbread House	Rose Cottage	Brown Lord of the Mountains	Red/Brown	I
ACEEEGHHHIIIILMMNNNNPRRSSSTTUVWY	Cinderella	Glass Slipper	White Chrysanthemum	Spinning Silver	White/Slate	E
ACCEEEGHHILLLLMOOOOORRSTTWY	Gold	Spinning Wheel and hay	The Yellow Room	Chocolate Girls	Yellow/Brown	S

The flavor text references twisted wires and the pairs match a code that uses the colors to identify 25 combinations of pairs of twisted wires: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/25-pair_color_code

Using this code with the color pairs spells out the final answer BEDTIME STORIES.