Killer Clowns
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Children of the Corn by Stephen King
The idea of something that is perpetually smiling while also trying to murder is just like the incongruity makes it that much scarier. We're so naturally afraid of things that can't feel empathy. I think what Stephen King really nailed in this was that the clown morphed into like a personalized worst fear of each child. The book features protagonists who start out at 11 years old when we first meet them. And then we return and they're like 36, 37.
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