The trick to crafting compelling villains is to make them just unique enough to be memorable and just understandable enough to be terrifying. Rena Barron (Kingdom of Souls), Alexandra Monir (The Life Below), K.M. Szpara (Docile) and S.L. Huang (Zero Sum Game) breakdown the secret behind their antagonists – whether it’s a terrifying demon, the fear of the unknown, or the extremes of society itself – and how they blend the ordinary and the extraordinary to create villains that are scarily real.