The forthcoming academic collection New Directions in Supernatural Horror Literature (Nov 2018), on Lovecraft’s famous essay Supernatural Horror, now has free chapter abstracts and page previews of chapters.

“Lovecraft’s Debt to Dandyism” may be an interesting chapter to some, in terms of the life — though I’ve now seen it and the author is clearly rather too dependent on Joshi’s I am Providence while failing to really connect a general discussion of the history of dandyism with Lovecraft himself. Key bits of evidence are not mentioned, such as Lovecraft’s Clinton St. Sunday-morning ‘dandy walks’ with his circle, in which he sported an ancestral cane.

The book also has two surveys of how Supernatural Horror was received by later critics.