Top Ten Stephen King Villains

[adrianmarley]

Found this link in one of SK's EW columns:

http://www.examiner.com/x-4886-Steph...-King-Villains

It's the top ten Stephen King villains.

Agree/Disagree? Who would be in your top ten (and why)?

[sam peebles]

I was actually surprised to find myself agreeing with the list (for the most part). Before the page loaded, I thought Pennywise should be first and Flagg second. I would have liked to have seen some other choices, like maybe the mangler, or Barlow, but overall its a pretty good list (not sure I agree with the Crimson King being on it, as he turned out to be a big joke).

[Srbo]

I would put on that list a few "real" people, with no supernatural powers, but are evil just like people in the real world can be...

Anne Wilkes
Jack Torrance
Patrick Hockstetter...

to name a few...

[JRLauer]

I think the top three would look like this:

1. The Crimson King
2. Randall Flagg
3. Pennywise

[BRUMMIEYID]

Hi,
Pretty good list IMO.....only

The Overlook !!!! can a hotel really be classed as a villian? Not if we class the villians as characters I suppose.
Cujo I didn't see cujo as a villian, more as an unfortunate victim transformed by a disease. I felt a little sorry for the critter!

I personally would have liked to see George Stark on the list.

[sam peebles]

I would put on that list a few "real" people, with no supernatural powers, but are evil just like people in the real world can be...

Anne Wilkes
Jack Torrance
Patrick Hockstetter...

to name a few...

Annie Wilkes is number four on the list.

[kisun]

I would put on that list a few "real" people, with no supernatural powers, but are evil just like people in the real world can be...

Anne Wilkes
Jack Torrance
Patrick Hockstetter...

to name a few...

Completely agree. They're more scary because you know there actually are people like that.

And Sai King's response: http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20268412_2,00.html

[Jax]

I would put on that list a few "real" people, with no supernatural powers, but are evil just like people in the real world can be...

Anne Wilkes
Jack Torrance
Patrick Hockstetter...

to name a few...

Ooooh yeah, I forgot all about Patrick Hockstetter! Don't know how I could have forgotten that creepy little kiddo. Thanks for the refresher Srbo! Maybe I should join in on the reread of It after all.

[Roseasharn]

I think Perse should be in the top 10. Scared me more than pennywise.
Or the townspeople in Bag of Bones.

[Sweet One]

Here are mine:

1. Gasher
2. The Ticktock man
3. Christine Hargenson--she's far worse than Christine the car
4. Margeret White
5. Tak
6. Bernie the Fisherman
7. Sunlight Gardner/Osmond
8.Rhea of Coos
9. Munshun
10 Barlow

Notice I didn't put Flagg or Crimson King. They would have been higher, excpet that they both were kind of letdowns when each met his end. Plus, some of these more obscure ones are interesting.

The Overlook !!!! can a hotel really be classed as a villian? Not if we class the villians as characters I suppose.
Cujo I didn't see cujo as a villian, more as an unfortunate victim transformed by a disease. I felt a little sorry for the critter!

I agree with the previous poster who said Cujo didn't really belong here. Wouldn't the ghost of frank Dodd--or whatevere vil enitity possed Dod and then Cujo--be the REAL villian?

The Overlook better qualitifies as the villain than Jack Torrence does. I recently saw a list of borror movie villians in entertainment weekly, and Torrence was on the list. I seriously doubt SK would approve. That was the main point of the Shining remake. Then again, it was refering to the Kubrick film, not the novel, and both are really different stories set in different universes.

If you read any of Bentley Littles satiric horror novels, universities, prep schools, resorts, and even store chains qualify as villains. Yes, these institutions are not just haunted--they are living entities, not just infected with evil.