Jackals é um romance de terror e um romance de suspense de Charles L. Grant. Foi publicado pela primeira vez em 1994 pela Forge Books nos Estados Unidos e no Reino Unido pela New English Library. Jackals é o último romance independente do autor antes de sua morte em 2006. Grant continuou a escrever romances em várias séries - e gêneros - e contos para antologias. Stephen King disse sobre Jackals: "[o] principal escritor de terror de sua ou de qualquer geração".
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“Be you the Lyon, to devour the Prey; I am your Jack-Call, to provide it for you: There will be a Bone for me to pick.”
“... the jackal seems to be placed between [the wolf and the dog]; to the savage fierceness of the wolf, it adds the impudent familiarity of the dog... It is more noisy in its pursuits even than the dog, and more voracious than the wolf.”
“We were the Leopards, the Lions; those who'll take our place will be little jackals, hyenas; and the whole lot of us, Leopards, jackals, and sheep, we'll all go on thinking ourselves the salt of the earth.”
“Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.”
“If the jackal gains the mastery, he will demand two sheep from every flock”
“The jackal is a [quadruped] thief, the shepherd is a biped thief.”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.