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Jackals is a horror novel and thriller novel by Charles L. Grant. It was first published in 1994 by Forge Books in the United States and in the UK by New English Library. Jackals is the author's final stand-alone novel before his death in 2006. Grant continued to write novels in various series - and genres - and short stories for anthologies. Stephen King said of Jackals: '[t]he premier horror writer of his or any generation'.
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There was a twinkle of hungry eyes all about the limits of the area, the shine of green points of envious fire that circled round in decreasing orbits, as the little foxes and jackals came crowding in.
The faster of the two jackals skidded to a halt inches from where Prost stood.
At this picture of the cattle inside the wagon, and the jackals supping on cold Hottentot alongside, Phoebe, who had no more humor than a cat, but a heart of gold, shut up, and turned red with confusion at her false estimate of the recent transaction in fur.
Meantime approached, on tiptoe, jackals and hyenas, but dared not come too near.
The hyenas, and jackals, and vultures formed a circle ludicrous to behold, and that circle kept narrowing as the lion tore away at his prey.
Still no sound but the screaming of the vultures, and snarling of the hyenas and jackals over the eland.
Bent low to the ground, sniffing the sand as they came on, the jackals advanced cautiously to the center of the arena.
The crowd shrieked as one of the jackals ripped the intestines out of its victim and gulped them down like slimy red sausages.
The jackals looked up from their meal as the three men entered the arena.
Then Burson would bring his jackals and they would hunt again, crisscrossing every room, spraying pheromone additives across the floors and following her neon tracks to her hidey-hole.
The group reached the camp without any interruption, detouring only a few times to avoid some packs of jackals that refused to flee from their approach.
In the darkness between the two forces, jackals growled and fought over the carrion.
Would-be businessmen, and existing businesses seeking to expand, fight for the tiny supply of available capital like starving jackals around a zebra leg.
And if they wished to do away with her, they would come in the middle of the night like the jackals they were.
We talked and laughed till the very jackals yapped in sympathy outside.