Dennis Cooper did a primer on him
Oddly, I think the first Lane text I read was his essay on Ligotti in
This Spectacular Darkness. Then I moved to his fiction;
The Earth Wire.
The comparison with Priest
"Lane displays a stylistic kinship with Robert Aickman, yet often taking that writer’s type of trademark ambiguous strangeness to an even higher plateau. I was also reminded of Christopher Priest’s authorial voice, yet Lane is more oriented toward human relationships than Priest, and more successfully probes at their nuances."
Cooper makes rings right, certainly in the sense that Lane reads more empathically, he does have a knack for tenderness, albeit devoid of cliché, joy, hope - but
not love.... which is where he's most interesting, for me, in this sense.
The comparison with Priest also rings true when comparing with Ligotti, the latter more coldly Kafkian and isolated whereas in Lane there is more humanity, a sort of collective loneliness - which is a round about way of agreeing with Cooper that Lane is more attuned to human relationships.