Often referred to as ‘Countess Dracula’, Elizabeth Bathory was one of the inspirational figures that lead to the creation of Dracula himself. This monster of a women believed that the blood of young girls was the secret to keeping her skin looking vibrant and youthful… She managed to obtain her “skin care” system by torturing and killing over 650 girls! There are also rumors are that she had cannibalistic tendencies and that she would eat her servants and then bathe in their blood.

Talat Pasha was the Grand Vizier, or Prime Minister, to the Sultan of the Ottoman empire through the late 1910’s. As Grand Vizier he was responsible for the rape, torture, and genocide of around 1.5 million Armenian people…

The name Josef Mengele has become synonymous with the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz, which he was charged with running throughout WWII. Asides from sending more than 400,000 innocent Jews to the gas chambers, he was also responsible for over seeing the horrific human experiments program and ordering other barbaric atrocities on his prisoners.

Described as “the man with the iron heart” by Adolf Hitler himself, historians regard Reinhard Heydrich as the darkest figure within the Nazi elite. Heydrich was one of the main authorities charged with “relocating” 60,000 Jews from Germany to Poland, where they were forced to settle in Ghettos and eventually shipped off to the death camps.

As the founder of the Islamic extremist group Al-Qaeda, bin Laden was ultimately responsible for the worst terror attack carried out on United States soil since the bombing of Pearl Harbor during WWII. His attack on the World Trade Centre left 3,000 people dead with a further 6,000 injured.

As the president of Iraq, Saddam Hussein was responsible for the genocide killings of approximately 2 million of his own citizens. It is said that he would record these executions and watch them at his house for amusement.

Himmler was one of the most powerful members of the Nazi party and was responsible for the deaths of between 6-7 million Jewish Poles, Russians, and communists. This sick man had furniture and books made from the bones and the skins of his Jewish victims.

As another major organizer of the holocaust, Adolf Eichmanng facilitated and managed mass deportation of Jews to ghettos and extermination camps. He was responsible for up to 5 to 6 million Jewish deaths and had claimed himself that he would happily kill his own father if he was ordered to do so.

As one of the leading figures of the French Revolution, Maximilien Robespierre created a reign of terror that took place over a 10-month period where he carried out innumerable horrid executions. After coming into power he began killing people indiscriminately, including some of his closest friends, and believed that rather than forgiving people, it was best to just kill them.

As the “creator” of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea), Kim II Sung was responsible for invading South Korea in 1950 and starting the Korean War, which resulted in 3 million casualties.

Ayatollah Ruhollah Komeini led a religious coupe in Iran that lead to the murder of both his religious and political rivals. Once in power, the Ayatollah imposed hard religious laws on the Iranian people, which has led to the imprisonment and torture of dissenting citizens.

As the ruler of the Japanese Empire, Emperor Hirohito was responsible for atrocious crimes against humanity and genocide of millions of Chinese, Indonesian, Korean, Filipino and Indochinese citizens. In particular, he ordered all Chinese war prisoners to be killed in favor of capture, he forced husbands to rape their wives and daughters and he allowed his soldiers to sexually assault over 200,000 women during WWII.

Nero was one of the truly cruel leaders of the Roman Empire. Renowned for his anti Christian sentiments he would poison, stab, burn, boil and crucify Christians for their beliefs and he ultimately blamed the Roman Christians for the Great Fire of Rome, for which he was responsible for himself.

Caligula was a member of the house of rulers conventionally known as the Julio-Claudian dynasty and was truly mad! With delusions of grandeur, and believing himself to be a god, he would murder and torture for fun. He ended up murdering some of his most important allies and family members that ultimately led to his demise.

Attila the Hun was the most feared enemy of the Western and Eastern Roman empires. A battle hungry and barbaric leader, his best known atrocity was the murder of the virgin Saint Ursula and 11,000 of her companions after she refused to marry him…

In his conquest of the Mongol Empire, Genghis Khan was responsible for the massacre of between 20 – 60 million people, which equated to between 10% – 30% of the entire world’s population at the time! In his worst single massacre, more that 700,000 people were said to have been killed.

As the king of Belgium, Leopold II founded the African nation Congo Free State and, whilst representing to the rest of world that he was helping the local Congolese population, the reality was that Leopold was committing heinous crimes against humanity. Under Leopold’s orders, his men tortured, maimed and slaughtered close to 50% of Congo Free State’s population…

Tomas de Torquemada was a Spanish Dominican friar and was the first Grand Inquisitor in Spain’s Inquisition movement to restore Christianity from 1483 to 1498. Under Torquemada’s rule, he helped create an internal climate of fear that lead to many innocent people being tortured and burned alive.

As the dictator of China, Mao’s implemented policies he theorized would lead his country becoming a superpower nation. In the process, Moa instigated the biggest famine and genocide in known history and in total Mao killed, both directly and indirectly, around 70 million people.

After acquiring his position as the Grand Prince Of Moscow in 1533 Ivan the Terrible became very paranoid… In his quest to protect his power he forced thousands of people to move from their homes and ordered un-told cruelty upon them, including beheading, strangling, burning, blinding, impaling and frying his victims.

As president of Uganda Idi Amin can be described as possibly one of the most brutal dictators of all time. He is responsible for the execution of hundreds of thousands of his own people, many of which were broadcast on television, and his men’s signature method to kill and torture people was to use sledge hammers. In total he killed and tortured between 300,000 to 500,000 Ugandans.

Pol Pot came to power in the late 1970’s as the leader of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge party. His desire to bring Cambodia back to its agricultural roots led his party to commit one of the worst genocides in recorded history. The now famous Killing Fields and S21 display the skulls of millions of Cambodia citizens, many of whom were beaten to death with sticks to save on bullets. In total, Pol Pot killed close to 3 million Cambodians, which was around 33% of the countries population…

Adolf Hitler was the Austrian-born politician and the leader of the Nazi Party. Hitler was at the center of Nazi Germany war policy, including creating and overseeing the Holocaust. In total, Hitler was directly responsible for the death of up to 11 million people but, due to his actions, he caused the death of over 50 million people during WWII.

As the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid 1920s to 1953, Joseph Stalin once said “one death is a tragedy, a million deaths is simply a statistic”. Under Stalin’s rule, his communist regime was ultimately responsible for the deaths of up to 40 million people.

Also known as Vlad the Impaler, Vlad Dracula was renowned for the numerous methods in which he used to torture and kill people. Impalement was his most common method of killing people and it was possibly the most horrible and painful methods of execution ever devised. Victims were often impaled through bodily orifices or through the abdomen or chest and Vlad was known to leave his stakes a little dull to ensure impalement was slow and painful… He was also known to roast children of the poor and weak and forced their own parents to eat them! As one of the most deranged and sadistic humans to ever live, Vlad Dracula has been named as the most evil person history has ever seen.