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The Many Lives of Scary Clowns

Ron Riekki
The Many Lives of Scary Clowns Book PDF

Author : Ron Riekki
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476680910

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The frightening yet comic clown is one of the best and most enduring characters in literature, theater, television, and film. Across the centuries, from Shakespeare's Porter in Macbeth to Edgar Allan Poe's "Hop-Frog," or Stephen King's Pennywise, horror and comedy have blended to create the perfect recipe for entertainment. This volume gives an in-depth analysis of the clown horror genre, including essays by revered horror scholars such as Kevin Wetmore, Dale Bailey, Kim Hester Williams, Jennifer K. Cox, and Joanna Parypinski. Their essays cover topics such as nostalgia, race, class, and new portrayals of the scary clown as zombies or phantoms. It also offers interviews with actors and directors working in the clown horror genre: Eoghan McQuinn (Stitches), Kevin Kangas (Fear of Clowns), and Jaysen Buterin (Kill Giggles). Some of fiction's most terrifying creations--like the Killer Klowns, Captain Spaulding, Art the Clown, Krusty, Frowny, the Joker, and Twisty--jig through these pages of analysis and deconstruction, asking what these many iterations of scary clowns have to say about our society and its fears.

The Many Lives of Scary Clowns

Ron Riekki
The Many Lives of Scary Clowns Book PDF

Author : Ron Riekki
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476644523

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The Many Lives of Scary Clowns by Ron Riekki Pdf

The frightening yet comic clown is one of the best and most enduring characters in literature, theater, television, and film. Across the centuries, from Shakespeare's Porter in Macbeth to Edgar Allan Poe's "Hop-Frog," or Stephen King's Pennywise, horror and comedy have blended to create the perfect recipe for entertainment. This volume gives an in-depth analysis of the clown horror genre, including essays by revered horror scholars such as Kevin Wetmore, Dale Bailey, Kim Hester Williams, Jennifer K. Cox, and Joanna Parypinski. Their essays cover topics such as nostalgia, race, class, and new portrayals of the scary clown as zombies or phantoms. It also offers interviews with actors and directors working in the clown horror genre: Eoghan McQuinn (Stitches), Kevin Kangas (Fear of Clowns), and Jaysen Buterin (Kill Giggles). Some of fiction's most terrifying creations--like the Killer Klowns, Captain Spaulding, Art the Clown, Krusty, Frowny, the Joker, and Twisty--jig through these pages of analysis and deconstruction, asking what these many iterations of scary clowns have to say about our society and its fears.

Scary Clowns

Essential Works
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Author : Essential Works
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006-03-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0740757350

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"So view, and get over it." And so begins the lighthearted attempt of Scary Clowns to relieve coulrophobes of their fear of "grotesquely made-up men wearing overly large trousers, huge shoes, and a red nose." This fear may seem as amusing as the characters that inspire it, but numerous support groups and hundreds of Web sites are dedicated to coulrophobia. Horror movies featuring killer clowns, as well as notorious clown/serial killer John Wayne Gacy, have only fed the fear. Over 80 full-color photographs-from the surreal to the grotesque-populate Scary Clowns, bringing readers face to face with their worst nightmares. A pop-up clown in the middle of the book forces the reader to confront his darkest fear in 3-D. It is all done in the name of good, clean fun, of course. Why are seemingly innocuous clowns so horrifying to so many people? The introduction in Scary Clowns attempts to demystify the strange phobia. By nature silent, a clown makes no noise or complaint as he falls over, throws things, plays with knives, walks on high wires, tumbles, turns, and collapses. Maybe it's the silence that makes him so scary.

Bad Clowns

Benjamin Radford
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Author : Benjamin Radford
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780826356666

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A short history of the earliest clowns -- The despicable rogue Mr. Punch -- The unnatural nature of the evil clown -- Coulrophobia: Fear of clowns -- Bad clowns of the Ink -- Bad clowns of the Screen -- Bad clowns of the Song -- The carnal carnival: Buffoon boffing and clown sex -- Creepy, criminal, and killer clowns -- Activist clowns -- Crazed caged carny clowns -- The phantom clowns -- Troll clowns and the future of bad clowns

Clowns Are Not Scary

Randi Berkowitz,Linda Bondy
Clowns Are Not Scary Book PDF

Author : Randi Berkowitz,Linda Bondy
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-11
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1490350497

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Clowns Are Not Scary by Randi Berkowitz,Linda Bondy Pdf

Help children face irrational fears with this uniquely creative, full-color children's book addressing fears of clowns and nightmares. This book helps children challenge their fears of clowns and nightmares, and can be applied more generally to any irrational fear that children may have. The book shows children that clowns are not scary, and that what we see in nightmares is not real. The book is in bright, brilliant full-color. Each of the pages of text are full-color as well. Children will love the story, the pictures, and the message it sends, which helps kids realize that what may first be thought of as scary, can be viewed in a different way.

Life Expectancy

Dean Koontz
Life Expectancy Book PDF

Author : Dean Koontz
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307414298

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With his bestselling blend of nail-biting intensity, daring artistry, and storytelling magic, Dean Koontz returns with an emotional roller coaster of a tale filled with enough twists, turns, shocks, and surprises for ten ordinary novels. Here is the story of five days in the life of an ordinary man born to an extraordinary legacy—a story that will challenge the way you look at good and evil, life and death, and everything in between. Jimmy Tock comes into the world on the very night his grandfather leaves it. As a violent storm rages outside the hospital, Rudy Tock spends long hours walking the corridors between the expectant fathers' waiting room and his dying father's bedside. It's a strange vigil made all the stranger when, at the very height of the storm's fury, Josef Tock suddenly sits up in bed and speaks coherently for the frist and last time since his stroke. What he says before he dies is that there will be five dark days in the life of his grandson—five dates whose terrible events Jimmy will have to prepare himself to face. The first is to occur in his twentieth year; the second in his twent-third year; the third in his twenty-eighth; the fourth in his twenty-ninth; the fifth in his thirtieth. Rudy is all too ready to discount his father's last words as a dying man's delusional rambling. But then he discovers that Josef also predicted the time of his grandson's birth to the minute, as well as his exact height and weight, and the fact that Jimmy would be born with syndactyly—the unexplained anomal of fused digits—on his left foot. Suddenly the old man's predictions take on a chilling significance. What terrifying events await Jimmy on these five dark days? What nightmares will he face? What challenges must he survive? As the novel unfolds, picking up Jimmy's story at each of these crisis points, the path he must follow will defy every expectation. And with each crisis he faces, he will move closer to a fate he could never have imagined. For who Jimmy Tock is and what he must accomplish on the five days when his world turns is a mystery as dangerous as it is wondrous—a struggle against an evil so dark and pervasive, only the most extraordinary of human spirits can shine through. This ebook edition contains an excerpt of Dean Koontz’s The Silent Corner.

Clown in a Cornfield

Adam Cesare
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Author : Adam Cesare
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780062854612

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Bram Stoker Award Winner for Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel In Adam Cesare’s terrifying young adult debut, Quinn Maybrook finds herself caught in a battle between old and new, tradition and progress—that just may cost her life. Quinn Maybrook and her father have moved to tiny, boring Kettle Springs, to find a fresh start. But what they don’t know is that ever since the Baypen Corn Syrup Factory shut down, Kettle Springs has cracked in half. On one side are the adults, who are desperate to make Kettle Springs great again, and on the other are the kids, who want to have fun, make prank videos, and get out of Kettle Springs as quick as they can. Kettle Springs is caught in a battle between old and new, tradition and progress. It’s a fight that looks like it will destroy the town. Until Frendo, the Baypen mascot, a creepy clown in a pork-pie hat, goes homicidal and decides that the only way for Kettle Springs to grow back is to cull the rotten crop of kids who live there now. YALSA’s Best Fiction for Young Adults Nominee

Creepy Clown

Vance Mellen
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Author : Vance Mellen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1539759695

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Creepy clowns are everywhere, sighted all over the world. They are watching YOUR children. Why?Put your best face on... The circus is coming to town!A creepy clown stares at a young boy from the woods next to his grade school. The boy tells his father. The father wants to get to the bottom of it. Who are they? What do they want? Questions he never should have asked... The answers are here. This is the terrifying story of a desperate father, a simple medicated "beauty lotion," a secret clinical study at a big Pharmaceutical company north of Chicago, and how SERIOUS COMPLICATIONS changed MY life forever. Nothing will be the same again, for me OR for you. Creepy Clowns: Who are they? What do they want? The answer is as clear as the big red nose on your face.

A Nightmare on Clown Street (Goosebumps Most Wanted #7)

R. L. Stine
A Nightmare on Clown Street Goosebumps Most Wanted 7 Book PDF

Author : R. L. Stine
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545630948

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A Nightmare on Clown Street (Goosebumps Most Wanted #7) by R. L. Stine Pdf

Goosebumps now on Disney+! Ray Gordon really likes the circus. His uncle, Theo, is a performer in Koko's Klown Academy and he invites Ray to come join him for the summer. At first, Ray's parents are reluctant-they know their son has a habit of getting himself into strange situations. But Ray manages to convince them that he'll be on his best behavior. The circus itself is very cool. The clowns stay in their makeup all day and only go by their clown names. Ray becomes a clown-in-training named Mr. Belly-Bounce. But the longer he's there, the scarier things become. There are whisperings about a place called Clown Street and nobody, including Murder the Clown, wants to go there. Will Ray be able to survive the dark secrets of the circus?

Bloody Red Nose

Dave Higgins
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Author : Dave Higgins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1912674092

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The world is full of images of scary clowns: packs of grinning figures with knives plaguing towns; pom-pom clad serial killers; loners who like children in the wrong way. What if, rather than being childhood-spoiling serial killers, clowns were the victims or heroes? An anthologies of fifteen stories about clowns facing humanity's baser natures.

Circus Mirandus

Cassie Beasley
Circus Mirandus Book PDF

Author : Cassie Beasley
Publisher : Scholastic UK
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781910002582

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Circus Mirandus by Cassie Beasley Pdf

Micah's grandfather is gravely ill. He tells his grandson about a mysterious magic circus he visited as a boy, where he was promised a miracle by a man who can bend light. Micah is determined to find out the truth of the Circus Mirandus before it's too late, but he'll have to wrestle with giant white tigers - and his wicked aunt - along the way.

City of Clowns

Daniel Alarcón
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Author : Daniel Alarcón
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9780399184802

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A gorgeously rendered graphic novel of Daniel Alarcón’s story City of Clowns. From the author of The King Is Always Above the People, which was longlisted for the 2017 National Book Award for Fiction. Oscar “Chino” Uribe is a young Peruvian journalist for a local tabloid paper. After the recent death of his philandering father, he must confront the idea of his father’s other family, and how much of his own identity has been shaped by his father’s murky morals. At the same time, he begins to chronicle the life of street clowns, sad characters who populate the violent and corrupt city streets of Lima, and is drawn into their haunting, fantastical world. This remarkably affecting story by Daniel Alarcón was included in his acclaimed first book, War by Candlelight, and now, in collaboration with artist Sheila Alvarado, it takes on a new, thrilling form. This graphic novel, with its short punches of action and images, its stark contrasts between light and dark, truth and fiction, perfectly corresponds to the tone of Chino’s story. With the city of Lima as a character, and the bold visual language from the story, City of Clowns is moving, menacing, and brilliantly vivid.

IT Chapters One and Two

Alissa Burger
IT Chapters One and Two Book PDF

Author : Alissa Burger
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781802078978

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IT Chapters One and Two by Alissa Burger Pdf

Drawing on critical analysis of film, the horror genre, the Gothic, and Stephen King scholarship, this book considers Andy Muschietti’s IT Chapter One (2017) and IT Chapter Two (2019) on multiple levels: as film (both as individual films and through their interconnected narrative), as adaptation, and as a barometer of the horror film’s popularity among fans. Key points of consideration include the significance of the fictional town of Derry as a traditionally Gothic “bad place,” the role of 1980s nostalgia in these two films, the complex navigation of memory and trauma, gender representation, queer representation, and the return of the repressed. The terrifying figure of Pennywise the clown is central to this analysis, including consideration of performance, costuming, and significance within the larger landscape of the “scary clown” popular culture trope, and through comparison to Tim Curry’s iconic performance in Tommy Lee Wallace’s 1990 miniseries. This Devil's Advocate contextualizes Muschietti’s films within the larger landscape of King’s literary and popular culture influence, as well as the debate surrounding “elevated” horror and the “horror boom” of the late 2010s.

The Most Excellent Book of how to be a Clown

Catherine Perkins
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Author : Catherine Perkins
Publisher : Copper Beach Books
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0761304991

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Provides information on such topics as: designing costumes and makeup, preparing a routine, performing stunts, and interacting with the audience.

The Pilo Family Circus

Will Elliott
The Pilo Family Circus Book PDF

Author : Will Elliott
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780730496526

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Jamie's tyres squealed to a halt. Standing in the glare of the headlights was an apparition dressed in a puffy shirt with a garish flower pattern It wore oversized red shoes, striped pants and white face paint. It stared at him with ungodly boggling eyes, then turned away...this seemingly random incident triggers a nightmarish chain of events as Jamie finds he is being stalked by a trio of gleefully sadistic clowns who deliver a terrifying ultimatum: you have two days to pass your audition. You better pass it, feller. You're joining the circus. Ain't that the best news you ever got? Jamie is plunged into the horrific alternate universe that is the centuries-old Pilo Family Circus, a borderline world between hell and earth from which humankind's greatest tragedies have been perpetrated. Yet in this place peopled by the gruesome, grotesque and monstrous, where violence and savagery are the norm, Jamie finds that his worst enemy is himself - for when he applies the white face paint, he is transformed into JJ, the most vicious clown of all. And JJ wants Jamie dead.