chariah used his demonic sorcery to make eye contact with several of the scavengers at once , from all sides and every angle , from the bats hovering near the ceiling to the maggots , leeches and assorted larvae squirming on the floor , and the jackal-headed harpies and gnarled shrunken demons in-between , turning every creature that gazed into the hellfire which roiled in the infernal sockets of his black skull to ebony ashes .