"The Frankenstein Monster, Dracula, The Wolf Man, Ming The Merciless, The Joker, Jason, Michael Myers, Freddy, Lon Chaney Sr., Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Vincent Price -- all of those special antagonists that we loved to hiss and jeer, have made us cower in our seats, look under the bed at night and carefully close our dark closets... They are all here in this definitive history of the movie villain."