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

With its large-thighed satyr named Torgo and its oddly chipper-looking hellhound, this 1966 howler has long been a favorite of the cinematic cutups of “Mystery Science Theater 3000” and other devotees of bad movies.

From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2015

Plugged into a high-wattage amplifier, it produces the sound of the mythical hellhound on proto-bluesman Robert Johnson's trail.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 2, 2011

He was wearing his white bathrobe, now covered in hellhound fur, and his salt-and-pepper hair was sticking up in every direction.

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan

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

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

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

Thalia Grace stood behind them, holding back an army of hellhounds with her terror-invoking shield, Aegis.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan