The Lair
Les Daniels noted that while "The Lair of the White Worm" had "potential", it was undermined by the "clumsy style" of the writing. The horror critic R.S. Hadji placed "The Lair of the White Worm" at number twelve in his list of the worst horror novels ever written. Historian of the horror genre H.P. Lovecraft, in his essay Supernatural Horror in Literature, stated that Stoker "utterly ruins a magnificent idea by a development almost infantile."