Pranksters posing as creepy ‘killer clowns’ need to cool it, professional clown Malcolm Singleton, aka Tommy Bungle, tells Stuart Arnold MALCOLM Singleton’s full-time job is making children and adults ...

For 15 years, psychology professor Philip John Tyson has been teaching classes on phobias. At the start of every semester, he asks his students the same question: What are you afraid of? Students ...

Coulrophobia, the fear of clowns, is considered to be one of the most common phobias. Approximately 10% of surveyed individuals report having severe coulrophobia, while an estimated 50% report some ...

“If we don’t educate, we’re a dying breed,” says a panelist at a Dallas convention for the World Clown Association, which skews toward an older generation. More than 100 clowns gathered at Renaissance ...

A juvenile suspect has been arrested. — -- It's like a scene from a horror film. Residents of a California city are being terrorized by people dressed as clowns, some reportedly wielding machetes ...

I told the BBC that clowns tend to be scary because of their exaggerated looks and evil representation in films. Obviously, the vast majority of individuals are not scared of clowns in a day-to-day ...

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 ...