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

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

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 20, 2020

I knew that what I did as a 16-year-old in Virginia would forever be a hellhound on my trail, but I hoped that I had outpaced my scapegrace.

From New York Times ● Oct. 16, 2018

“Yeah, yeah, yeah. You won’t be grinning when you’re cleaning up all that hellhound poop,” Dad says.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

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

Although I zoned out for most of Dad’s hour-long lecture, I do remember that Giants’ hair is one of the few things that hellhounds can’t chew through.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas