Five books about awful, awful people

Richard Kadrey is the author of many stories and novels, including the Sandman Slim series. At Tor.com he tagged five books about awful, awful people, including:Judge Holden in Blood Meridian

I’ve saved the biggest, most awful character for last. If there’s a truer monster than Holden in modern American literature, I don’t know who it is. The judge isn’t the protagonist of Cormac McCarthy’s