Caligula, the schizophrenic emperor
Nero, fifth emperor of Rome
Attila the Hun, the "storm from the east"
King John, a callous, cold-hearted monarch
Torquemada, the Spanish inquisitor
Prince Vlad Dracula, "the impaler"
Francisco Pizarro, conqueror of the Incas
"Bloody" Mary I, "a Catholic queen in a Protestant country"
Ivan IV, 'The terrible", tsar of all the Russias
Elizabeth, Countess Bathory, "Countess Dracula"
Rasputin, the "mad monk" who brought down a dynasty
Josef Stalin, a twentieth-century tyrant
Adolf Hitler, father of the final solution
Ilse Koch, the "bitch of Buchenwald"
Pol Pot, architect of genocide
Idi Amin, the butcher of East Africa.