[Beave Meister]

Yikes...

[Bidimus1]

nihilistic drivel.

as far as nightmares not even close.

[rarestia]

As someone with a mild case of coulrophobia, these are nowhere near “spine chilling.”

[JoeProBono]

[Rusty0604]

Isn’t this insulting to the clowns of the world?

[Bratch]

It's been done before.

[IronJack]

I thought at least one of them looked like Bruce Jenner.

[Gamecock]

Bah! Are you a man?
You are a clown!

[Organic Panic]

You summoned me???

[paterfamilias]

[T-Bone Texan]

This is not art.

If it was art they would not have blocked out that lady clowns’ boobs.

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

A clown that gives people nightmares.

[Last Dakotan]

[arthurus]

The male ones just look like homosexuals dressing up and acting out.

[greene66]

More icky than nightmarish.

A couple of the female clown photos are pretty well done, but overall... eh. A sort of self-conscious theatricality amongst the dude clowns dissipates any horror potential.

[Codeflier]

Never understood clown fear. Never had it and can’t see why people wearing makeup is scary in any way. These pictures don’t even register on the “nightmare” scale.

[KosmicKitty]

[Drumbo]

I'm offended!

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[Grateful2God]

An insult to Keaton and Chaplin, who actually had talent-without the shock factor. And let's not forget the beloved Emmett Kelly:

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Emmet Kelly

...Emmett Kelly who began his career as a trapese artist and created the memorable clown figure “Weary Willie”. Emmett was originally a member of the Knickerbocker Circus and helped rescue several children when the circus tent caught fire, killing a number of people. The event was known forever after as “the day when the clowns cried.”