Social media has helped fan the fire of America's clown hysteria, experts say. — -- A creepy clown craze has taken America by storm in recent months, but it’s not the first time a wave of clown ...

When I was a kid, I never had a clown puppet or a stuffed animal. It makes me think these were an idea manufactured in the 70s or 80s. I think it probably came from John Wayne Gacy being a serial ...

Clowns occupy an unsettling space in the collective subconscious by effectively bridging the gap between innocent childhood entertainment and visceral adult terror ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some say that Stephen King's "It" made kids afraid of clowns, but they were terrifying people long before Pennywise came along.

The new season of the FX series American Horror Story: Freak Show adds the homicidal Twisty to the canon of terrifying clowns. Professional clowns are not happy about it. We hear about the long ...

Stott is the author of several articles on scary clowns and comedy, as well as The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi, a much-lauded 2009 biography of the famous comic pantomime player on the Regency ...

Some say that Stephen King's "It" made kids afraid of clowns, but they were terrifying people long before Pennywise came along. From the sadistic Art the Clown to Death himself, here are some of the ...

Stott is the author of several articles on scary clowns and comedy, as well as The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi, a much-lauded 2009 biography of the famous comic pantomime player on the Regency ...