"He stands absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories...Nobody sets the scene better than he, nobody touches in the effective detail more deftly."
-M. R. James
"[Le Fanu's] best work is of the first rank, while as a 'flesh-creeper' he is unrivalled. No one else has so sure a touch in mixing the mysterious atmosphere in which horror darkly breeds."
-E. F. Benson