Why is it that some of the best characters
are also some of the creepiest?
Whether weird or just plain old cruel,
these folks are willing to do anything
to make sure things go their way.
And we mean anything.
Here's our list of the Top 11
Creepiest Characters from books.
Count Olaf from a series of
unfortunate events by Lemony Snicket.
Count Olaf is a criminal mastermind.
He adopts the three Baudelaire children
after their parents die in a fire,
which he may or
may not have been involved in.
He has a lot of evil plots, but one of the
creepiest ones is when he tried to marry
violent one of the children so
he can steal the family fortune.
The White Witch from The Chronicles
of Narnia by C.S Lewis.
Queen Jadis, otherwise known as
the White Witch steals the Narnia throne
from the original royal family.
She rules with an iron fist forcing
the world into eternal winter using
her spies to squash down any rebellion and
even cancels Christmas.
Wormtail from the Harry Potter
series by J.K Rowling.
Peter Pettigrew, also known as Wormtail
as the ability to transform into a rat,
a skill he uses for the Dark Arts.
He helps revive the evil Lord Voldemort
and isn't afraid to betray his friends or
kill people along the way.
Other Mother from Coraline by Neil Gaiman.
The Beldam also known as the Other Mother
lures kids into the Dark Other world by
shape-shifting into the child's mother.
There, she holds the kids captive and
steals their souls by sewing
buttons into their eyes.
Looks like she's not winning
mother of the year any time soon.
The Pale Lady from Scary Stories To Tell
in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz.
Lexie has a dream about a woman
with a pale face, black eyes,
and long black hair.
Who sneaks into her room and gives her
a warning to run away while she still can.
Lexie is spooked and
stays the next night in a different room.
But when she opened the door, it's
the same pale lady from her nightmare.
Better run while you still can.
Miss Root from Demon Dentist
by David Walliams.
The dentist office can be a nightmare and
Miss Root's office is especially
horrific her toothpaste burns like
acid and her toothbrush is so
tough that it scratches your teeth
away rather than cleans them.
Plus, she steals teeth away
from the tooth fairy and
leaves dead bugs under
the pillows instead of money.
Who knew that dentist
office could get any worse?
The Grand High Witch from
The Witches by Roald Dahl.
The Grand High Witch is the cruelest and
most feared which of them all?
She's plotting to wipe out
all the children in England.
Her plan is to turn all
the children into mice so
they can be exterminated
by their own parents.
Talk about cruel.
The Murdano from the Endling Series
by Katherine Applegate.
The land of Nadarrah is ruled by
the Murdano, who has soldiers roaming
the land, exterminating entire
species without any care.
Murdano hunts down the Derons,
but Dix survives,
which means she may be
the last of her kind.
The old life guard from Camp Murderface
by Josh Berk and Saundra Mitchell.
Corryn and Tez are ready to take their
summer at Camp Sweetwater by storm.
Only they have to deal
with an old lifeguard, and
we are talking old like
over 100 years old.
It seems like everywhere
they turn he follows.
Can't they catch a break?
Natasha The Witch from
Nightbooks by J.A.White.
The evil witch Natasha traps Alex in her
apartment with no opportunity for escape.
The only thing that's keeping him
alive is reading her scary stories,
ones about dead children, blood
sucking vampires and evil teddy bears.
Let's hope he doesn't start
running out of ideas or
else Natasha will turn him
into a porcelain doll.
Hawthorne The Evil Sorceress from
Estranged by Ethan M Aldridge.
Edmund, a fairy, has been living
in secret in the human world.
But when Hawthorne and Evil Sorceress
claims the throne in the world below,
he must return and
face her to claim his rightful place.
But Hawthorne is ruthless and
she's not afraid to use her magic
to hurt others to keep her power.
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