This week, dozens of clowns descended on Orlando, Florida for the 40th annual World Clown Association convention. But these aren't your scary clowns, the ones you might know from scary movies like "It ...

This next story falls under the category of funny-not-funny. If there are school-age children at your house, you've probably gotten wind of stories involving creepy clowns. In some two dozen states, ...

Clowns are theoretically supposed to be fun and whimsical, but somewhere along the way, they also became scary as hell—just like Pennywise from It. Where did it all go wrong? As it turns out, they’ve ...

As a horror filmmaker, Eli Roth admits to being into really strange stuff, but seeing himself dressed up as a scary clown in the movie Clown was legitimately weird. “You look at yourself in the mirror ...

For a few years of my life, I had a flurrying, fleeting, strange fear of clowns. In retrospect, it really may have been a sort of psychosexual apprehension, a quivering alarm at the feet of an idol I ...

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