In 2020, horror novelist Adam Cesare published Clown in a Cornfield, a Midwestern Gothic tale of small-town terror, murderous clowns, naive, big-city interlopers and a lot of butchered teenagers. The ...

On May 10, 1994, John Wayne Gacy was executed in prison Jordana Comiter is an Associate Editor on the Evergreen team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024. Her work has previously ...

Killer clowns are a longstanding part of the horror villain pantheon, but we’re in a particularly ripe moment right now. Clown in a Cornfield was an indie hit earlier this year, Art the Clown’s ...

Otherwise known as the Killer Clown, Gacy was convicted of murdering at least 33 teen boys and young men in the 1970s The serial killer's last words after sitting on death row for 14 years became ...