Wesley Crawford/The Crooked Man

Wesley Crawford, also known as The Crooked Man, The Serial-Killer, The Force, The Boogeyman, The Misantrophe, The Evil and many other names, is the titular main antagonist of the horror-novel ' Evil Speaks French' and of the horrorseries of same name.

 

The story is about two girls named Anna Brown and Lydia Shephard and Lydia's boyfriend, who's none other than Wesley himself, going to a summer camp somewhere in Bretagne,  France. At first, it's very cozy, the leaders of the summercamp named 'Vive Le France' are kind and the teenagers and children as well, but later on Lydia, Anna, all of the other people in the summer camp and supposedly Wesley, discover that there is a serial-killer in the immediate vicinity of the summer camp. This is because the summer camp owner and camp chief Walter Smith, terrified, tells everyone about the serial killer.

The name of the serial-killer is The Crooked Man. This is because the terrifying serial-killer have a crooked  appearance and shape. But only as a ghost, as a human, Wesley always walked very straight because he was very proud of himself. The Crooked Man wears a black cloak with a black hood that completely hides his true face and so you can't see the true form of The Crooked Man. His true form is a scary, bald man with black eyes and with a creepy red glow all over. As Wesley, he have blond hair with blue eyes and as Wesley he is very attractive. However, this isn't his true form: his true form is that of the bald man with the red glow.

Lydia, the main protagonist of the story, found out that The Crooked Man is actually an evil ghost and a haunted spirit from the past. Because in the Early Middle Ages, a deadly and evil witch named Natasha Skrullmore put a curse on the summer camp area in Brittany, because she was seeking revenge because, being a witch and living in the Middle Ages, Natasha was condemned to be burned at the stake and was burned alive. Thousands of years later, Natasha's horrific curse corrupted Wesley Crawford's father, Bram Crawford. Bram was a banker and actually a very kind man and a dear father to Wesley until Wesley was 8 years old, but after the curse hit Bram he became a violent, psychopathic and abusive father, and began, very sadistically, to love to to psychologically and physically abuse, threaten, beat and sexually abuse and harass his own son. This turned Wesley Crawford into a psychopath and a cold-blooded serial killer.

It should be noted, however, that Wesley is not exactly tragic and a scapegoat and you really shouldn't feel sorry for him, as Wesley was a sadist before his father became a dangerous psychopath. For example, Wesley usually bullied the children in his neighborhood and on school out of nowhere and out of sadism, tortured animals such as mice and cats, and raped a girl who rejected him after Wesley asked the unnamed girl if she loved him, because the girl thought Wesley was just a creep. He even murdered his own mother and younger brother. So, The Crooked Man is pure evil and not a scapegoat, not tragic and does not have even one single redeeming quality.

It's unknown when Lydia becomes the girlfriend of Wesley. But it's very clear that she didn't know that Wesley truly is a born liar, a master-manipulator, an arrogant sadist, and, above all, a cold-blooded killer with not even one redeeming quality. She also didn't know that he was cursed, abused by his own father and that is actually a vengeful ghost.

Wesley is cruel and evil out of free will, while his father is only evil because of the curse of the witch, which was extremely painful for Bram and impossible for Bram to not to become an evil and nasty person and an abusive parent. Even the witch, Natasha Skrullmore, have some redeeming qualities, as she truly cared for her children, her man and her family despite her cruelty. Wesley on the other hand cares for no one except himself. His father's wrath and utter ruthlessness may have helped Wesley become not only a figurative but also a literal monster and so has the evil witch's curse, but none of this is an excuse for Wesley because Wesley  was since birth  a cruel boy at heart and cared about no one but himself. Wesley only fell in love with Lydia because he saw her as an object, as easy prey for lies and manipulation and for his own repulsive perversion. Wesley was also willing to kill Lydia, and not only her but everyone near the camp and in the summer camp.

He is a ghost because Bram was forced by Natasha Skrullmore to kill Wesley, but Wesley rose from the dead as an evil spirit and gruesomely murdered his father, which was diametrically opposed to the witch's curse. Even the witch described Wesley as a hideous creature, as a demon, as a monster and as a dangerous madman. Wesley's father, unlike Wesley himself, never came back from the dead and was dead forever.

The Crooked Man haunted the summer camp and environs for a very long time until he was finally defeated in a fierce battle by Anna and Lydia and exposed as Wesley. However, he showed how he truly looks like, a bald, old man with a red glow and scary black holes instead of real eyes. Even after Wesley was defeated and even dissolved into nothing worse than death and could never return, he still had a psychological and traumatizing effect on Lydia and also on Anna.

Nightmares about Wesley keep visiting and tormenting Lydia when she is sleeping. So you could say that Wesley is never really and completely defeated. Lydia was mainly shocked to see that The Crooked Man, the most feared being in the world in the storyline, is actually no one lesser than her boyfriend.

The Crooked Man have some followers, such as Teddy Bundy, an evil and haunted teddybear and thus a soft toy named after the infamous real-life serial-killer and misogynist Ted Bundy and the secondary antagonist of the book and series, and Lolly The Clown, a major antagonist of the series and novel and a creepy killer-clown, but Wesley never cared for them. Wesley also never cared for all of his other followers. Just for no one, but he really cared for himself, which makes Wesley confident at best and an arrogant narcissist at worst.

The reason why Wesley's new and real appearance is that of a red old man, is because the curse hit him so hard, that he turned into a very old man.

Crimes:

.Serial-Murder. .Massive Psychological Torture.

.Hate-Crimes.

.Bullying.

.Stalking.

.Kidnappings.

.Malefic.

.Cannibalism.

.Mass Murder.

.Multiple Murders. .Rape.

.Pedophilia.

.Framing.

,Incrimination.

.Slander.

.Lying.

.Attempted Murders.

.Manipulation.

.Torment. .Child-Abuse.

.Abuse.

.Assault.

.Burglaries.

.Theft.

.Robberies.

.Patricide.

.Fratricide.

.Matricide.

.Adultery.

.Oppression.

.False Imprisonment.

.Animal Cruelty.

.Psychological Abuse.

.Breaking and Entering.

.Arson.

.Various Other Crimes.

Type of Villain:

Sadistic Serial-Killer.

Villains of the franchise:

Wesley Crawford/The Crooked Man- Teddy Bundy- Lolly The Clown- Natasha Skrullmore- Bram Crawford- Jonathan Rogue- Dollface The Doll- Killer-Clowns- Zombies- Evil Dolls-  Haunted Spirits- Demons- Maggie Vast

Pure Evil:

Wesley Crawford/The Crooked Man

Close To Pure Evil:

Lolly The Clown- Jonathan Rogue

Heroes:

Lydia Shephard- Anna Brown- Walter Smith- Campers- Dellman

Pure Good:

Lydia Shephard

Close To Pure Good:

Anna Brown