16 Most Evil Psychopaths In Literature

9. John Wayne Cleaver - John Wayne Cleaver Trilogy By Dan Wells

Cleaver is teenager who is strongly self-aware of his own desire to kill, repeatedly. He is a known sociopath who lives above a mortuary and is content with death always offering help to his mother who works there; a corpse does not expect the empathy he is in no position to give so he feels at his most relaxed within this environment. Not wanting to spend his life giving into his serial killer instincts, he writes himself very rigid rules for a life of normalcy that he follows as if it is his own religion. The rules include €˜If I think about doing something violent to someone, I should smile and give them a compliment instead€™ and €˜if I find myself focusing on one person more than anyone else, I need to avoid them for a week.€™ Cleaver even became a vegetarian, as cutting meat would arouse his urges.