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The Generous Gambler - Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1864)

Source.

"My dear brethren, do not ever forget, when you hear the progress of lights praised, that the loveliest trick of the Devil is to persuade you that he does not exist!"

Proto Super Villians

Hop-Frog - Edgar Allan Poe (1850)
Hop-Frog - Edgar Allan Poe

The Black Coats (1863+)

Les habits noirs - Paul Féval (French only)

Dr. Nikola (1895-1901)
Dr. Nikola's Experiment by Guy Boothby
Dr Nikola Omnibus



Fantômas (1911)
Fantômas
Being the Second of the Series of the "Fantômas" Detective Tales
Messengers of Evil
Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas

Fu Manchu (1913)
The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu by Sax Rohmer
Clones
The Mysterious Wu Fang: The Case of the Suicide Tomb - Robert J. Hogan
The Sinister Dr Wong

Les Vampires (1916)

The Black Star (1916)
The Black Star

The Spider (1918)
The Spider Strain

Belphegor (1927)

The First Chapter (in English)
Belphégor the phantom of the Louvre (1965 Film Adaption)
Belphegor info and backgrounder at Cool French Comics

The Man Who Laughs (1928)

The Scarlet Slamander (1930)
The Scarlet Salamander

The Scarlet Ace (1932)
The Scarlet Ace

Doctor Satan (1933)
Mask of Death
Weird Tales/Volume 28/Issue 2

The Lightning (1938)

The Octopus (1939)
The City Condemned to Hell

The Scorpion (1939)
Satan's Incubator by Randolph Craig


Mesmerists

Svengali (1899)
Trilby by George Du Maurier

The Last Question by Isaac Asimov (1956)

Source.

The Malleus Maleficarum

Source.

"The Malleus Maleficarum (Latin for 'The Hammer of Witches,' or 'Hexenhammer' in German) is one of the most famous medieval treatises on witches. It was written in 1486 by Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger, and was first published in Germany in 1487. Its main purpose was to challenge all arguments against the existence of witchcraft and to instruct magistrates on how to identify, interrogate and convict witches."

c/f The Dicoverie of Witchcraft - Scot, Reginald (1584)

The Mask of Sanity by Hervey Cleckley (1941)

Here. Subtitle: An Attempt to Clarify Some Issues About the So-Called Psychopathic Personality
Backgrounder on Wikipedia.

Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom

c/f A Mad Dream: Introduction and Annotations by Pasolini.
c/f A Film Maker's Life (doc on Pasolini).

Radical Evil as a Freudian Category - Slavoj Zizek (2007)

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On Evil: An Interview with Alain Badiou (2001)

Source.

Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection - Julia Kristeva

In full.

The Total Depravity of Man by A.W. Pink

In full.