{"id":190,"date":"2008-11-05T07:00:58","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T11:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=190"},"modified":"2008-11-04T09:55:21","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T13:55:21","slug":"list-week-the-50-greatest-villains-in-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/05\/list-week-the-50-greatest-villains-in-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"List Week: The 50 Greatest Villains in Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/listweek.jpg\" alt=\"List Week\" width=\"165\" height=\"164\" \/>LIST WEEK continues here at ONCE UPON A GEEK!\u00a0 Today&#8217;s list comes from the <a title=\"Telegraph\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/\">Telegraph newspaper<\/a> and is &#8216;<a title=\"The 50 Greatest Villains in Literature\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/arts\/main.jhtml?xml=\/arts\/2008\/09\/20\/bovillains120.xml&amp;page=1\">The 50 Greatest Villains in Literature<\/a>&#8216;.\u00a0 My thanks to my buddy &#8216;lessthan12parsecs&#8217; for posting this list to <a title=\"The Unique Geek list serv\" href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/theuniquegeek\">THE UNIQUE GEEK<\/a>.\u00a0 These literary villains hail from a variety of places, but there are definitely some folks with geek-cred here:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Moriarty from Sherlock Holmes at #46<\/li>\n<li>The White Witch from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe at #45<\/li>\n<li>Cthulhu from The Call of Cthulhu at #26<\/li>\n<li>Sauron from The Lord of the Rings at #25<\/li>\n<li>Ernst Stavro Blofeld from James Bond at #22<\/li>\n<li>Count Dracula at #13<\/li>\n<li>Voldemort from the Harry Potter series at #5<\/li>\n<li>and be sure to check out #23.\u00a0 It&#8217;ll put a grin on your face.\u00a0 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