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 ...

Horror movies about clowns are their own specific breed of awesome. Some of the best horror movies out there center around the diabolical sweetness -- or lack thereof -- of clowns, so there's no ...

Behind their face paint, creepy clowns reveal our deepest fears about who we can trust. When did clowns—the characters who filled our childhoods with juggling and balloons—become so creepy? For ...

The clown scare also hasn’t hurt business at either haunted attraction. Last weekend, groups waited for more than two hours to tour the haunted house, Rodefer said. In Johnson City, Celebrate Costume ...

Horror master Stephen King can understand the panic caused by a recent rash of reported clown sightings in the Carolinas better than most. King penned the 1986 horror classic "It," about a demonic ...