Once humans developed the technology (leashes, harnesses, etc.) to domesticate and train animals, it wasn’t long before these animals were weaponized and used directly, or in supportive roles, as intermedial instruments of human-inflicted violence. Hellhound on My Tail emerges from investigations into the use of bloodhounds by plantation mercenaries, and—under a more recent carceral order—the training and use of "attack dogs" by policemen, to terrorize people trying to liberate themselves. Working from mid-19th Century historical illustrations and photographs from the Civil Rights era, these images remove the canine and the Black body but leave behind fragments of, what continues to be, the human center of command connected to the real beast.