His body was that of a man, but he had a spiked tail and the head of a jackal.

Then it turned, and hooked its spiked tail into the carcass.

He crawled away from the door, getting another wall in between himself and that big sonofabitch with the spiked tail.

They are blue and move their spiked tails up and down.

Finally, it turned and faced the larger beast, its spiked tail raised a little from the ground almost, like a scorpion's.

A spiked tail swung, and one of the lights smashed out.

Her eyes followed the twitching of the spiked tails.

He shoved her again, and followed the others into the dark with his spiked tail thrashing.

It lay less than ten feet from him, but he dared not let go of the spiked tail.

"They're not far away," said Saturday, his long spiked tail lashing slowly behind him.