Sounds interesting. I think the weird fiction part would most interest me - I always considered Lovecraft "weird fiction" and contend that people who think it was meant to be horror are missing the point.

As for the Procopius, it's sort of...stilted in feeling. He tries to be classical and yet the result is closer to what might happen if we tried to write in Shakespearean English. And I don't care what they say about his vocabulary (i.e., he tried to keep it to proper Attic words), there are plenty of Byzantine forms and words that you would never see in Classical authors, and I am well aware of that because several of the words that I looked up are ONLY attested in Procopius, according to the Liddell & Scott.