Scholar Jan B. W. Pedersen’s site has a cover and a table-of-contents for his new 170-page book H.P. Lovecraft: Midnight Studies published by Peter Lang. And I see it’s now on Amazon in ebook and paper, and appears to be shipping.
Foreword by S. T. Joshi.
Introduction.
Chapter 1: On Lovecraft’s Lifelong Relationship With Wonder.
Chapter 2: Howard Phillips Lovecraft: Romantic on the Nightside.
Chapter 3: ‘Now Will You Be Good?’: Lovecraft, Teetotalism and Philosophy.
Chapter 4: Lovecraft’s Garden: Heart’s Blood at the Root.
Chapter 5: Weird Fiction: A Catalyst for Wonder.
Chapter 6: H. P. Lovecraft and the Dunsanian Conjuration.
Afterword.
I recall that one or even two of these have been in The Lovecraft Annual.
Also, in the left-leaning Times Literary Supplement this week ($ paywall), a review of the academic book Horror as Racism in H.P. Lovecraft by another author. Rather amusingly, the reviewer implies that the book’s author has not read “The Horror at Red Hook”, which one might think would be the vital ur-text for such a study. He also notes that several of the biographical details are off…
[his explanations] can seem heavy-handed and his belabouring of the author unconvincing. […] why call Thomas F. Malone the “privileged, white, Anglo-Saxon protagonist” of “The Horror at Red Hook”, when he is an Irish-American policeman, described as “the sensitive Celt”? […] Steadman’s Lovecraft, meanwhile, can do nothing right (his mother’s mental state is blamed on the fourteen-year-old Lovecraft’s inability to get a job)…
For that matter, Wikipedia says “Malone” is an Irish surname, so you don’t even have to read the story to know the quoted text is wrong.
Though at a deeper level it shows that anti-Irish sentiment (which has been rife over the past couple of centuries in both the US and Britain) has declined in the US (the underlying author is John L. Steadman, whose bio https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/author/john-l-steadman/ looks US) to the point that Steadman doesn’t reflexively identify Irish surnames (as Lovecraft and his readers likely did).
Yes, anyone from the British Isles (and I guess parts of the US) would recognised Malone as an Irish name. Also, Malone’s having poetry published in ‘The Dublin Review’ further marks him out as a Catholic, to those aware that it was a Catholic journal.