Today, countless movies and TV adaptations keep these blood-sucking Halloween monsters in our modern midst. Zombies ...

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While playing the class clown to deflect homophobia requires emotional labor and the constant burden of “being the bigger ...

Delve into the world of creepy dolls in cinema, featuring iconic figures like Chucky and the technologically advanced M3GAN.

Justin Moritz, a professionally trained clown, weighs in on the clown horror subgenre and why these figures are so terrifying to the public.

At this point, as with so many enduring childhood fears, it’s too deeply rooted to explain away.

Why do our brains draw the line at clowns? Interestingly, until last year, there hadn’t been a lot of research on the fear of ...

Learn about coulrophobia, or the fear of clowns, including symptoms, causes, and treatment.

Clowns are (seemingly) everywhere, luring us (and our children) into vans, wielding weapons and being generally sinister lurkers. Fear of clowns is by no means new, but the latest iteration of ...

Fears and phobias can seemingly be hardwired into us as a protective mechanism, from flinching at fire to backing away from a snake. But coulrophobia, or a fear of clowns, is different. Why be ...