hellhound

Cerberus, the guard of the underworld, is featured with Hercules, a reference to the heroic demigod’s 12th and final labor which involved capturing the hellhound.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 10, 2023

Temperatures on the continent soared past 40C, with forecasters calling on Greek Mythology to coin one heatwave Cerberus, a three-headed hellhound that guards the gates of the underworld.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2023

In Aduba’s hilarious and scalding performance, Clyde, wearing a succession of skintight don’t-mess-with-me outfits by Jennifer Moeller, is a shape-shifting hellhound, all but breathing fire.

From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2021

Beneath it, one sharp-fanged, evil-looking hellhound opens its jaws.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 20, 2020

She wore the same expression she’d worn in the woods at camp, the moment she drew her sword against the hellhound.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan

We get no sense of the man’s haunted determination—no hints of those hellhounds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026

Wilson describes Herald in detail in the script: “A man driven not by the hellhounds that seemingly bay at his heels, but by his search for a world that speaks to something about himself.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026

In the process, these siblings come to embody a more harmonic vision for the country, a big two-hearted slipstream that may yet carry us away from “the hellhounds on the trail.”

From Washington Post ● Feb. 6, 2017

In the first couple hours of Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara I fought and killed goblins, skeletons, gnolls, kobolds, displacer beasts, hellhounds, and a manticore, among myriad other classic D&D beasties.

From Forbes ● Jun. 21, 2013

Jason, Piper, and Nico stood on the near side of the chasm, which was good, but they were surrounded by a ring of Cyclopes and hellhounds.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan