It became a cult success and was later turned into a marathon-length stage show put on at the British National Theatre and elsewhere.

with Wilson, Shea wrote several historical action novels, including Shike (1981), a two-volume novel set in Ancient Japan about the warrior monk Jebu and his love Lady Shima Taniko, All Things Are Lights (1986), and The Saracen, a novel published in two volumes in 1989 depicting the struggle between a blond Muslim warrior called Daoud ibn Abdullah and his French crusader adversary, Simon de Gobignon.

All Things Are Lights and the outline for the unfinished novel Children of Earthmaker have been released under a Creative Commons license and are available to read and copy at Robert Shea's website.

Lady Yang was finished but never published; a Creative Commons online version is in the works by Shea's son Michael.

[2] Three of his lectures and two panel discussions he participated in were recorded when he was a featured speaker at both the Starwood Festival[3] and the WinterStar Symposium (both with and without Robert Anton Wilson) and produced by the Association for Consciousness Exploration.