Clowns Gone Bad

Author: M. G. Anthony
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1682613488
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 64

Book Description
Don’t Be Scared… They’re Only CLOWNS! He’s not really a clown...he’s just your dentist! That’s not a clown...in the back seat of your car! Sleep well...there’s no clown under the bed! Don’t look behind you, don’t turn your head, don’t open your eyes… …or you’ll see nothing but 30 single-sided pages of clowns for you to color... ...WON'T THAT BE FUN?

Bad Clowns

Author: Benjamin Radford
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 0826356672
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 217

Book Description
Bad clowns—those malicious misfits of the midway who terrorize, haunt, and threaten us—have long been a cultural icon. This book describes the history of bad clowns, why clowns go bad, and why many people fear them. Going beyond familiar clowns such as the Joker, Krusty, John Wayne Gacy, and Stephen King’s Pennywise, it also features bizarre, lesser-known stories of weird clown antics including Bozo obscenity, Ronald McDonald haters, killer clowns, phantom-clown abductors, evil-clown panics, sex clowns, carnival clowns, troll clowns, and much more. Bad Clowns blends humor, investigation, and scholarship to reveal what is behind the clown’s dark smile.

Bad Clowns

Author: Benjamin Radford
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826356664
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216

Book Description
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

The Clown That Lost His Smile

Author: Alfred Herman
Publisher: Archway Publishing
ISBN: 1480826790
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 39

Book Description
Alfie the circus clown and his dog, Sherlock, make a perfect pair. When Alfie loses something, Sherlock is on the job sniffing it down. But one day, Alfie loses his smile, and its not that easy to find. Alfie and Sherlock make the rounds of the circus hoping to solve the mystery of the lost smile. They visit everyone from the ringmaster, to the tight-rope walker, to the elephant trainer, the strong man, the bareback rider, the juggler, the man on stilts, the lion tamer, the trapeze artists and even the roustabout. Where is Alfies smile? The delightful presentation of multiple new characters teaches children to sequence as they try to solve the mystery of the lost smile. A colorful picture book for children, The Clown That Lost His Smile tells a heartwarming story of friendship as a clown and his dog take a delightful romp through the circus. Youll never guess where Alfie finds his smile!

Sicko the Clown

Author: Ponk Vonsydow
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781482070057
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
Sicko the clown wasn't always “a clown gone bad.” He had a life. Growing up in a world populated with clowns, Sicko was at first confused with what to do with himself because he couldn't juggle nor ride a unicycle or be in the circus. He tried being a Hobo but it didn't suit him. And he didn't fit in with the Bumpkins in the hot chocolate houses. But he could play the bongos and found a new calling as a musician. At the peak of his success, he got drafted into the Clown Kingdom's Royal Fighting Fools, where he trained as a deadly Nincompoop before shipping off to Nam. But after his best friend, Buddy-Buddy, is captured and tortured by mimes, leaving him disfigured, Sicko can only think of revenge as mimes remain at the heart of Sicko's problems. All mimes must die!

Nothing's Worse Than a Clown Gone Bad

Author: Ponk Vonsydow
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781482068733
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 556

Book Description
After the second coming of Christ, the human race is extinct due to a genetic experiment that causes every man, woman and child to mutate into living, breathing, funny looking clowns. Now, 2000 years later, Satano, the devil clown, introduces hard candy, which when ingested by clowns, causes them to get serious. This results in a new development in clown civilization because clowns everywhere are starting to go bad. Sicko, the worst clown gone bad, starts the clown supremacy movement declaring that “All mimes must die!” The always hysterical World Circus is converted into the serious Carnival of Despair, where clowns are baptized in liquid Obvious, the most potent hard candy. Things just aren't funny anymore. Meanwhile God and Jesus find themselves in a galactic crisis, which causes them to go to the Greatest Extreme, in search of the All Knowing Owl in the hopes that the Owl can find a solution to their very serious problem. They eventually discover that everything hinges on the planet Earth. But the Earth is in peril as Satano and his minion Sicko are ushering in Armageddon. God, Jesus, Satano, Sicko and the clowns collide in the exciting climax of this great satire.

City of Clowns

Author: Daniel Alarcón
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0399184805
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 73

Book Description
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.

Creepy Clown

Author: Vance Mellen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781539759690
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156

Book Description
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.

When Clowns Go Bad

Author: Domenic Mico
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48

Book Description
A play for children in two acts.

The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium

Author: Mark Dery
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802196128
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 357

Book Description
A wide-ranging collection of essays on millennial American culture that “marshals a vast pop vocabulary with easy wit” (The New York Times Book Review). From the far left to the far right, on talk radio and the op-ed page, more and more Americans believe that the social fabric is unraveling. Celebrity worship and media frenzy, suicidal cultists and heavily armed secessionists: modern life seems to have become a “pyrotechnic insanitarium,” Mark Dery says, borrowing a turn-of-the-century name for Coney Island. Dery elucidates the meaning to our madness, deconstructing American culture from mainstream forces like Disney and Nike to fringe phenomena like the Unabomber and alien invaders. Our millennial angst, he argues, is a product of a pervasive cultural anxiety—a combination of the social and economic upheaval wrought by global capitalism and the paranoia fanned by media sensationalism. The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium is a theme-park ride through the extremes of American culture of which The Atlantic has written, “Mark Dery confirms once again what writers and thinkers as disparate as Nathanael West, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Sigmund Freud, and Oliver Sacks have already shown us: the best place to explore the human condition is at its outer margins, its pathological extremes.” “Dery is the kind of critic who just might give conspiracy theory a good name.” —Wired