Looking for a new book and need help

[Senior2315]

So... what i am looking for a book that has a super amazing villain. Like, i want the villain to be completely nasty, and so devilishly clever and evil you can hardly stand it

I am currently reading The Pawn by Steven James... The villain in that book is called the Illusionist... not sure why yet or if he is even a good villain lol...

oh yes... i do like fantasy books as well as thrillers and supposedly "scary" books.

By the way... no Harry Potter or Dan Brown books as i have read them lol.

Thanks for any answers

[Travis_R]

Humbert Humbert from Lolita is a pretty dastardly guy.

[Scheherazade]

So... what i am looking for a book that has a super amazing villain. Like, i want the villain to be completely nasty, and so devilishly clever and evil you can hardly stand it Why don't you visit our elite selection of villains here (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=55308)?

The villains listed there might inspire you!

[dfloyd]

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

[Alexander III]

Blood Meridian

[breathtest]

the eyes of the dragon by stephen king. Randall Flagg is the king's magician and is as evil as they come.

[stlukesguild]

I'll second Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian with the horrific Judge Holden, and Humbert Humbert from Nabokov's Lolita... who is so insidious that like Milton's Satan he seduces the reader into empathizing with him. Beyond these two (and Milton's Paradise Lost) I think immediately of Shakespeare's Othello, King Lear, and MacBeth... all with some of the greatest villains ever.

[minstrelbard]

Gone With The Wind. Scarlett O'Hara is pretty noxious and manipulative.

[Abras]

Well, I'm reading David Copperfield right now and that Uriah Heep guy is a real creep. He doesn't sneak into anyone's bed chambers and suck their blood, but he is definitely a villain in the classic sense. In my sense, too: though I'm only about 2/3 through with the book, already I want to send that guy through the meat grinder! "I'm so very umble, Master Copperfield..." His name is Mister Copperfield, punk! :D

[dfloyd]

I think Humbert is more of a bumbling oaf than a villain. And Uriah Heep is a toad. A villain in the classic sense of the word must hide his true self to all and strive for his own ends cleverly, without revealing his true nature. Some examples are: Black Michael from The Prisoner of Zenda, Long John Silver from Treasure Island, Mrs Danvers from Rebecca .... and many, many more.

[asdpok]

The book with no name - the villain is a serial killer that sometimes kills with no reason, but when you read the book you start to like him. If you like Tarantino's movies you will probably like it. The author is anonymous.

[IceM]

I second Othello.

[Night_Lamp]

If you're willing to stomach 18th C. literature, Lovelace in Clarissa is about the biggest slime-ball I've yet encountered in my studies. he makes Willowby look like a sweetheart.