Frankly speaking, clowns aren't really that funny. Their special talent to border on the extremely creepy is something we probably try to ignore on a daily basis. However, horror movies with scary ...

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

Coulrophobia: a fear of clowns. But is coulrophobia a real fear? And, for that matter, what is fear? Fear: a primer A woman—known simply in the neuroscience world as S.M.—walked through a park alone ...

More recently, a spate of malevolent clowns appeared in films, sometimes comically, as in the 1988 feature Killer Klowns from Outer Space, but more often for horror’s sake, as in the 2012 feature A ...

Even the people who are supposed to like clowns—children—supposedly don’t. In 2008, a widely reported University of Sheffield, England, survey of 250 children between the ages of four and 16 found ...