Today's creepy clown is a Halloween favorite—and a return to the subversive figure clowns represented in the past.

The 2025 horror movie Weapons, which became a global sensation, introduced us to Aunt Gladys. The character didn’t reveal ...

Thanks to a rash of creepy clowns terrorizing random civilians, Target has stopped selling clown masks for the time being. Two weeks before Halloween, the company quietly decided to take generic clown ...

A spokesperson for Target said the store “had a few masks in stores, which we began to pull last week.” Josh McGinn Flickr Target told ABC News that it is removing clown masks from its stores out of ...