Although I made it through only the first 35-40 pages of the book, I thought Lord Foul of *Lord Foul's Bane* (the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, by Stephen R. Donaldson) was self identified as evil or at least foul. Also, I read an interesting collection of fantasy short stories, *Deals with the Devil,* edited by Basil Davenport; this was out in the early 1960s, and there is one short story in which the lead character is definitely self-described as evil, but you might have to read the whole book and then discuss it with me to identify him. (This is the one where the lead character kills both of his parents to become a demon working for Satan, and Satan says, "The one thing I did not tell you is that you wouldn't enjoy it." Sometime after that, the character (who is not allowed to sleep for fear that other demons would tear him apart and Satan would have to put him back together again) does self-identify as evil, and nothing but.) Few, if any, of these were written by people you and I might know as top fantasy writers.

Nate