Hardly a surprise that Jordan Peele got involved in adapting this for television, because the basic premise is right up the sort of politically-conscious horror (or thriller) that he's become known for in his directorial efforts.
Lovecraft Country the novel actually began life as a TV pitch, which explains its episodic structure (as the author notes in his afterword), with several segments, each one taking a particular aspect of Jim Crow/1950s era American race relations and building a genre tale around it -- so we open with the Green Book/sundown towns, another focuses on "passing", there's a particularly interesting one about restrictive covenants, blockbusting, and the general hostility of all-white neighbourhoods, and so on. Not meant as a criticism, but at times I was thinking that segments of this book could easily be used as a teaching tool in schools.
All that said, I did come away from the book feeling somewhat underwhelmed. Some of the episodes are, as you would expect, more interesting than others, and the initial and most obviously Lovecraftian segment (a few black characters go to investigate a weird cult in a remote, mysterious town in rural New England) is such a success that I was left with a lingering sense of disappointment when it ended. The ending is also a bit too pat, in comparison with the beginning. But I enjoyed reading it, and one can easily see that this would make for an interesting TV series.
