Mr. Lu Xun said in A Brief History of Chinese Novels that Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio is "the most famous one in the picture book"; Mr. Guo Moruo wrote an inscription for Pu's former residence, praising Pu's book "writing ghosts and writing demons is superior, stabbing greed and stabbing abuse into the wood"; Lao She also commented on Pu's "Ghost foxes have personality, which makes them laugh and scold".