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 ...

Even if you don't count the one currently sitting in the White House (ba-dum TSSSSS!), the season premiere of American Horror Story: Cult was a veritable smorgasbord of horror clowns. Male and female, ...

The cartoonist Lars Kenseth describes how he turns his deepest fears into cartoons. So here we have a classic campfire scene. It's a bunch of cans around a campfire and the dad who's taking them on ...

I tend to cry when I’m scared. The first time I saw “The Sixth Sense” (the first time being infinitely scarier than all subsequent times, for obvious reasons), I was at a friend’s house and started ...

The horror film “Clown in a Cornfield” has a title that certainly delivers on its promise to ticket buyers: Yes, there is scary clown action in a cornfield. But as fans of Adam Cesare’s hit 2020 YA ...

Despite being known for its form as Pennywise the Dancing Clown, the creature from Stephen King’s IT has many forms. But ...