May All Your Days Be Circus Days, or: How I Started Worrying and Learned to Fear The Clown

I have no idea why I am doing this. I am sure it's going to lead to nightmares for most of you. I am not generally afraid of clowns but some of these make me question if the devil does exist. I was going to type the details of every photo but decided that it broke up the horror. Instead, all images link back to their flickr source.
Now, with out further ado, a bunch of pictures of clowns: