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Knight of Shadows
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Dust-jacket illustration from the first edition
AuthorRoger Zelazny
Cover artistLinda Burr
LanguageEnglish
SeriesThe Chronicles of Amber
GenreFantasy novel
PublisherWilliam Morrow and Company
Publication date
November 1989
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Hardcover)
Pages215 pp
ISBN0-688-08726-4
OCLC19845743
813/.54 20
LC ClassPS3576.E43 K6 1989
Preceded bySign of Chaos 
Followed byPrince of Chaos 

Knight of Shadows is the ninth book in the Amber saga by Roger Zelazny and published in November 1989.

Merlin continues to attempt to solve the mysteries in his life: Why did Julia turn against him? And how did she get involved with Jurt, who is raging against him a ruthless vendetta?

After being trapped in a strange world peopled with ghosts induced by the Pattern, Merlin discovers that he is involved in a superpower quarrel between Amber's Pattern and the Logrus of Chaos.

In this book, Merlin describes Corwin's voice as "the voice which had once told me a very long story containing multiple versions of an auto accident and a number of genealogical gaffes." The "genealogical gaffes" here refers to a number of inconsistencies in the first series (the Corwin Cycle) regarding the parentage of Corwin's various siblings.