“We lost two people over a clown mask. One is dead. And one is alive but dead.” Many constants in the horror genre have become evergreen totems of terror. Clowns ...

Many people have had the experience of feeling their bodies tense up rather than smile when seeing a clown in a circus or an ...

They appear in most cultures—Pygmy clowns made Egyptian pharaohs laugh in 2500 BCE; in ancient imperial China, a court clown called YuSze was, according to the lore, the only guy who could poke holes ...

Evil, armed clowns sow terror as part of an eerie trend that spreads from city to city: while this may sound like Hollywood’s latest horror blockbuster, it’s real ...

There’s a word— albeit one not recognized by the Oxford English Dictionary or any psychology manual— for the excessive fear of clowns: Coulrophobia. Not a lot of people actually suffer from a ...