The Dark World influenced The chronicles of Amber

Roger Zelazny named Henry Kuttner's The Dark World as a direct influence on Amber, and the resemblance he was acknowledging is specific. Shared:

• A narrator who wakes in our world with no memory, is told he is someone else, and turns out to be a prince of another world with powers he does not yet remember having
• That other world as the real one, with ours a lesser place adjacent to it
• A family of immortal, quarrelling, half-divine siblings who are the story's real antagonists
• Amnesia used as the device that lets an insider be explained to

Filed MEDIUM. Zelazny took a starting position from Kuttner and then built the thing Amber is actually known for, the Pattern and the shadow worlds, which has no equivalent in The Dark World.