NEW YORK-Sightings across the United States of creepy clowns with red lips and fixed smiles are have become anything but a laughing matter and have cast a menacing tone as Halloween approaches. Since ...

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 ...

Harmless or horrifying, much like Halloween itself, clowns can be both depending on your perspective. Across the nation, creepy clown sightings crowded the news and social media earlier this month.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...