Top 10 Literary Villains
By John DeNardo |
Tuesday, September 5th, 2006 at
3:40 pm
According to a Bloomsbury poll of 16,000 British schoolchildren.
- Lord Voldemort from Harry Potter series by JK Rowling.
- Sauron from The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by JRR Tolkien.
- Mrs. Coulter from His Dark Materials Sequence by Philip Pullman.
- Lex Luthor from Superman Graphic novels by DC Comics.
- The Joker from Batman Graphic novels by DC Comics.
- Count Olaf from A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket.
- The Other Mother from Coraline by Neil Gaiman.
- The White Witch from The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis.
- Dracula from Dracula by Bram Stoker.
- Artemis Fowl from Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer.
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Good list, but I would like to put in my vote for Baron Vladimir Harkonnen from Frank Herbert’s “Dune”. The Baron is one of the more despicable characters of any genre!
When I was a schoolkid, it was Ming the Merciless!