This week, dozens of clowns descended on Orlando, Florida for the 40th annual World Clown Association convention. But these aren't your scary clowns, the ones you might know from scary movies like "It ...

Maybe they watched "It" too many times? Dressing up as a clown was once prohibited on Halloween, as well as the entire month of November, in Vendargues, France. Anyone 13 and up required permission ...

If clowns are meant to bring us joy and make us laugh, then why do they appear in so many great horror movies as harbingers of fear and anguish? Whether these traditional symbols of comedy are used to ...

LYNNWOOD — At most jobs, people get in trouble for goofing around, but that’s how Bruce Johnson makes his living. For decades, he dazzled crowds at traveling circuses and amusement parks as “Charlie ...

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 ...

For a few years of my life, I had a flurrying, fleeting, strange fear of clowns. In retrospect, it really may have been a sort of psychosexual apprehension, a quivering alarm at the feet of an idol I ...