Jackals is a horror novel and thriller novel by Charles L. Grant

Charles L. Grant

Charles Lewis Grant was a novelist and short story writer specializing in what he called "dark fantasy" and "quiet horror." He also wrote under the pseudonyms of Geoffrey Marsh, Lionel Fenn, Simon Lake, Felicia Andrews, and Deborah Lewis.Grant won a World Fantasy Award for his novella collection...

. It was first published in 1994

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 by Forge Books in the United States

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 and in the UK by New English Library

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. Jackals is the author's final stand-alone

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 novel before his death in 2006. Grant continued to write novel

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s in various series - and genres - and short stories

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 for anthologies. Stephen King

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said of Jackals: '[t]he premier horror writer of his or any generation'.