Coulrophobia is a fear of clowns.   Oddly, this fear wasn’t really given a title until the 1980s, and even now it’s hardly an officially recognized condition. But for whatever reason (I blame those dream sequences in PEE WEE’S BIG ADVENTURE), people started to voice their fear of clowns en masse in the 80s, and it manifested itself in the zeitgeist – led by the murderous Pennywise the Clown in Stephen King’s novel IT (which was later terrifyingly given voice by Tim Curry in a TV adaptation) and The Chiodo Brothers’ memorable horror-comedy KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE.   And
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