Editing Jack of Shadows (section)

==Related fiction==
Zelazny was pressured by fans to write a sequel but he declined, saying “I didn’t really intend to continue that one. I liked ending it with that sort of ambiguous ending.”<ref name="Roger Zelazny 2009"/> Instead, he wrote several prequels.

''[[The Illustrated Roger Zelazny]]'' includes a [[prequel]] short story, "Shadowjack", illustrated by [[Gray Morrow]]. Zelazny's collection ''[[The Last Defender of Camelot]]'' (1981, Underwood-Miller) reprints the tale "Shadowjack" but without the illustrations. This was in the Underwood-Miller edition of the collection, but not the Pocket Books version. It also appears in ''Last Exit to Babylon: Volume 4: The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny'', NESFA Press, 2009.

''Wizards'', edited by Bill Fawcett in 1983, contains the character biography entitled "Shadowjack", written by Roger Zelazny and including details aspects of the character's history that were not in the novel or in the short story of the same name.<ref name="Roger Zelazny 2009"/> It has also been reprinted in ''Last Exit to Babylon''.

"Shadowland" was another prequel, written by Zelazny as the outline for an unproduced animated movie.<ref name="Roger Zelazny 2009"/> It takes place prior to events of the novel and the short story, and describes how the strange half magic/half science world of Jack of Shadows came into existence. It was later developed and in production as a graphic novel before Zelazny died but the project was abandoned.<ref name="Roger Zelazny 2009"/> The story first appears in ''The Road to Amber: Volume 6: The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny'', NESFA Press, 2009.