Sunday afternoon and a couple of books...

This was a good afternoon to sit and read, so I indulged in a little non-work-related reading, picking at a my perennial pair of voluminous tomes: Wise and Fraser's Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural and Michael Shea's The Autopsy and Other Tales. These are heavy books, 2 lbs, 1.8 oz for Wise and Fraser and 3lbs, 13.3 oz for Shea; a thousand brittle, crackling pages in Wise and Fraser compared to Shea's six hundred heavy stock pages sandwiched between thick, textured, leather-covered ...