It’s a fact that’s existed long before IT’s 1986 publication, and it’s not something that’s going to go away anytime soon.
Leave it to Stephen King to back the clowns of the world, despite helping contribute to the popular held belief that clowns are creepy.
So who can blame King for using that fear to turn in a story that still resonates as a hell of a read thirty years later?
While not all of them are the gothic torture bringers that authors like King have embedded in the literary lexicon, there’s certainly quite a number of them that are disconcerting looking, at least.