Hounds of Tindalos - Other Appearances

Other Appearances

• In the story Tindalos by John Ajvide Lindqvist, the main character is haunted by a being named Tindalos. It shares many attributes with the creatures in "The Hounds of Tindalos", and the main character reads the Frank Belknap Long story in-story, as a way of gaining an understanding of the chewing sound that haunts her.

• The Hounds are minor Final Fantasy X-2 lupine spirit-creatures, named Tindalos in the game.

• The Hounds chase the time-travelers "Titus Crow" in Brian Lumley's "The Transition of Titus Crow" (book II of the Mythos Omnibus or Cthulhu Cycle Deities saga), and Henri-Laurent de Marigny in "Elysia" (book VI of the same series).

• Shadow Hearts uses a very loose interpretation of one of the creatures as a boss. Tindalos, as it is referred to, is depicted as resembling the rotting corpse of a giant, skinned dog, and is of a very different origin from the Hounds.

• Macho Women with Guns is a comedy role-playing game that parodies many subjects, including the Cthulhu Mythos. Its list of "critters" includes the Puppies of Tindalos.

• In The Unspeakable Vault (Of Doom), a webcomic satirizing the Cthulhu Mythos beings, there is a lean, dog-like being known as "Tindaloo" which is capable of passing through other dimensions and sometimes acts as the "family dog" to the deities.

• The hounds also appear in the Roger Zelazny novel The Changing Lands, attacking the main characters as the house they are in travels through time.

• A hound of Tindalos appears in Michael Cisco's short story, The Firebrands of Torment in such a way as to suggest that the protagonist might actually be the offspring of one.

• James Hetfield of Metallica has said that the song "All Nightmare Long" draws inspiration from the Hounds of Tindalos.

• The hounds also appear in The Emerald Tablets of Thoth, attacking by following Thoth through time. Thoth explains how to hide from them.

• In the game Arkham Horror, based on the Cthulhu Mythos, The Hound of Tindalos jumps directly from location to location, while most other monsters wander the streets.

• The Lovecraft-inspired band The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets has a song called "Sounds of Tindalos" on their album Spaceship Zero.

• The story of the Hounds is retold in brief by William S. Burroughs in his novel The Place of Dead Roads.

• In the short story "Mongoose", by Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear, the Hounds are described as the apex predators of an extra-dimensional food chain that also includes the bug-like Toves and large-mouthed, eyeless Raths. The Hounds are referred to by the scientific name Pseudocanis tindalosi, which literally means "the false dog of Tindalos", but most of the characters call them "Bandersnatches" after a creature in Lewis Carroll's poem "Jabberwocky".