Abraham Van Helsing is the Dutch doctor and vampire hunter who leads the group that battles Dracula.

Norman Bates is the motel owner and murderer who kills Marion Crane and several other guests at his motel.

The Overlook Hotel is the isolated hotel where the Torrance family takes up residence as caretakers and where Jack Torrance becomes possessed by the hotel's evil spirits.

Hannibal Lecter is the cannibalistic serial killer who helps FBI agent Clarice Starling catch another serial killer, Buffalo Bill.

Patrick Bateman is the Wall Street investment banker who is also a serial killer and the protagonist of the novel (American Psycho).

The Babadook is the supernatural entity that haunts a widowed mother and her son in the film (The Babadook).

Regan MacNeil is the young girl who is possessed by a demonic entity in the novel (The Exorcist).

The Graham family is the family that is haunted by a sinister presence in the film (Hereditary).

Hill House is the old mansion that is haunted by a variety of ghosts in the novel (The Haunting of Hill House).

The Perron family is the family that is terrorized by a malevolent spirit in the film (The Conjuring).

The Governess is the unnamed protagonist of the novel (The Turn of the Screw) who is hired to care for two children at a remote country estate.

The Walker family is the family that is banished from their Puritan community and must face the forces of evil in the woods in the film (The Witch).

Dorian Gray is the young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty in the novel (The Picture of Dorian Gray).

Chris Washington is the young black man who visits his white girlfriend's family for the first time and discovers their sinister secret in the film (Get Out).

The Narrator is the unnamed protagonist of the novel (The Tell-Tale Heart) who murders an old man and then tries to hide the body.