The name of Azkaban, the main wizarding prison in the Harry Potter world, is a mixture of the name of Alkatraz, an island prison in the real world, and Abaddon.
It was translated as The Angel of Darkness in English.
Abaddón el Exterminador is the title of Argentine writer Ernesto Sabato's third and last novel, published in 1974.
Abaddon appears as Abadonna (Russian: Абадонна), the angel of death in Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita.
Abaddon is mentioned by his Greek name, Apollyon, in Robert Browning's " Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came".
In Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock's epic poem Der Messias ( The Messiah, composed 1748–73), Abbadona is an angel drawn into Satan's rebellion half-unwillingly, who reproves Satan for his blasphemous pride.
John Milton uses Abaddon as the name of the bottomless pit in Paradise Regained (IV, 264).
Thompson entitled the second chapter of Part I, "Christian and Apollyon."
In The Making of the English Working Class, E.P.
Louisa May Alcott subsequently references The Pilgrim's Progress in her novel Little Women, wherein Apollyon is used as a metaphor to represent main character Jo March's temper, a trait she seeks to overcome.
He rules over the city of Destruction, and attacks Christian when he refuses to return.
In John Bunyan's allegory The Pilgrim's Progress, Abaddon (as Apollyon) appears as the "foul fiend" who assaulted Christian on his pilgrimage through the Valley of Humiliation.