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Acheron is a river in the Epirus region of Greece, believed in ancient Greek mythology to branch into the underworld.

Acheron may also refer to:

Places

• Acheron, Victoria, a town in Australia
• Acheron (Elis), a river in the Peloponnese, Greece
• Acheron Island, an island off Queensland, Australia
• Acheron River (Victoria), Australia
• Acheron River (Marlborough), New Zealand
• Acheron River (Canterbury), New Zealand

Fiction

• Acheron (Dungeons & Dragons), one of the Outer Planes in Dungeons & Dragons cosmology
• Acheron Hades, a diabolical villain in Jasper Fforde's book The Eyre Affair
• A main character of the webcomic Inverloch
• The Acheron, a fictional 19th-century French warship in the motion picture Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
• Acheron (LV-426), the planet-like moon where the film Alien and its sequel (as well as numerous other events in the Alien franchise storyline) are primarily set
• Acheron Parthenopaeus, a character in the Dark-Hunter series of romance books
• "Acheron: Part 1" and "Acheron: Part 2", a two-part episode from the television series The Walking Dead
• "Acheron" is the name of a Stack-virus Quellcrist Falconer wants to use to end immortality in Altered Carbon.

Other uses

• Acheron (band), a Florida death metal band
• HMS Acheron, the name of several ships of the Royal Navy
• Acheron-class torpedo boat, a torpedo boat of the New South Wales Naval Brigade
• French submarine Achéron (Q150), a French Navy submarine commissioned in 1932 and scuttled in 1942
• Acheron language, a language of Sudan
• The earlier name for Abramelin, a Melbourne death metal band
• "Acheron/Unearthing the Orb", a song by the Sword from the album Warp Riders

See also

• Charon, ferryman of Hades in Greek mythology
• Hades, Greek god of the dead
• Styx, river between the world and the underworld in Greek mythology
• The Grim Reaper, a personification of death