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

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

Nobody mentioned the hellhound, but I got the feeling they were all talking about it behind my back.

From "The Lightning Thief" 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

For the Greeks, the Black Sea was the edge of the known world, inhabited by, as he writes in the book, “cannibals, hellhounds, man-slaughtering Amazons, dwarves mounted on flying cranes, Cyclopes, lice-eaters, and werewolves.”

From Washington Post ● Jul. 29, 2022

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