KILLER CLOWN: The Real Pennywise
7 min readDec 6, 2020
A killer dressed as a clown? This can only be the warped imaginings of Stephen King surely? Or a new horror film about Killer Clowns from Outer Space? Or a Batman villain on the rampage?
The idea of a killer clown wasn’t solely the idea of Stephen King but a much darker reality. This is the true story of a children’s party clown called Pogo and a serial killer named John Wayne Gacy.
