Reviewing "The Incomplete Nifft", Elizabeth Hand declared that "not even Bosch could capture the sheer, obsessive teemingness of Shea's world. . . . In their picaresque and unrelenting strangeness, Shea's tales evoke Jack Vance and Lord Dunsany, Clark Ashton Smith's "Zothique" tales, as well as "The Worm Ouroboros"; but what his work most reminds me of is David Lindsay's "A Voyage to Arcturus", a book which had always struck me as being sui generis. Having read and delighted in "The Incompleat Nifft", I must create a new category for this beautiful, terrifying work, part sword-and-sorcery, part season in hell. Call it Shea generis."