Evil clown

The image of the evil clown is a development in American popular culture, in which the playful trope of the clown is rendered as disturbing through the use of horror elements and dark humor. The concept of the evil clown is related to the fear of clowns, known as coulrophobia. The cultural critic Mark Dery has theorized the postmodern archetype of the Evil Clown in "Cotton Candy Autopsy: Deconstructing Psycho-Killer Clowns" (a chapter in his cult... more
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