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 Mask (1961)

"Hypnotism as a Defence; The Singular Murder Case Just Concluded in Kansas. DECISION OF THE SUPREME COURT Story of the Case in Which the Actual Murderer Was Acquitted and the Hypnotizer Convicted" (1895)

View New Yorker article.

"TOPEKA, Kan., April 7. -- The decision rendered by the Supreme Court yesterday, sustaining the ruling of the Cowley County District Court, which convicted Anderson Gray of the murder of Thomas Patton, although Thomas McDonald acknowledged to having committed the deed, closes one of the most extraordinary cases ever brought before a court of justice, and for the first time admits that hypnotism is a defense for murder."

Studies On Hysteria - Sigmund Freud and Josef Breuer

Source.

Cure - Kiyoshi Kurosawa (1997)

Article on Cure on strictly film school
An Interview with Kiyoshi Kurosawa (2003)
Cure: Confusion and Sophistication

Complete Hypnotism: Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism - Author: A. Alpheus (1903)

How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use.

In full.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

Script.

Images, Hysteria

 Source.

"In formulating the concept of grande hystérie, Charcot noted its three stages—lethargy, catalepsy, and finally somnambulism—and associated them with specific physical attitudes and gestures. His linking of illness and image became so firmly entrenched that many patients caught the suggestion and began to perform according to his expectations. As a reward, they were frequently photographed, elevated to a kind of star status, and thereby participated in an extraordinary way within the relationships of power in the closed world of the clinic.
" Source.