Happy Halloween!Just in time for the scariest night of the year, Abebooks.com polled visitors on the 10 scariest characters in literature.
The results:
1. Big Brother from 1984 by George Orwell
2. Hannibal Lecter from the novels by Thomas Harris
3. Pennywise the clown from It by Stephen King
4. Nurse Ratched from One Flew Over a Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
5. Count Dracula from Bram Stoker's novel
6. Annie Wilkes from Misery by Stephen King
7. The demon from The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
8. Patrick Bateman from American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
9. Bill Sykes from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
10. Voldemort from the Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling
I'd add these characters from books I read this year:
Anton Chigurh from No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Mr. Whittier from Haunted: a Novel of Stories by Chuck Palahniuk
Who would YOU add?
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One of the most scariest characters in literature for me is: Wilbur Whateley from the Dunwich Horror by J.P. Lovecraft. If you want to get really scared you can read the short story tonight: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Dunwich_Horror
To think about Wilbur and the story gives me goosebumps!!
Happy scary reading!
personally, i find that
george and martha from edward albee's play, "who's afraid of virginia woolf?" take the cake!
(also perfectly cast in the film version with liz taylor and richard burton)-shiver me timbers!
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