Severe childhood abuse made the clowns the killers they became. This excerpt is about that.
"It wasn’t easy. Of the three, Happy was the most disfigured. His face displayed a roadmap of his horrendous childhood and young adulthood. It told the story of brutality and unimaginable violence.
Happy’s
real name was Arthur Mundt—not that it mattered. The happy clown face he wore
gave him his name. But was he happy? Nah. How could he be? He used to say the
best he could do was try not to kill people.
Yes,
his life had been too hard.
The
clowns met in the Storeyville Orphanage in Georgia. The place was infamous for
brutality.The
cigarette burns had long since healed as they had on the others, but the
scarring from razors and broken bottles was particularly bad. There was copious
scar tissue which had turned deep purple. Jagged lines of it covered his face
and ears, too. Poor fucker.
What
Fred had pieced together about Happy was, he’d been living with hoboes after
running away from home. Cops raided the shithole they were all holed up in and
he got dumped at the orphanage as he was under twelve.
Noble
and Danny had been turned over to the orphanage shortly after being born. No
one told them where they came from. Their names were given to them by a doctor
who liked to read. That was why they’d been called Noble Dickens and Danny
Shakespeare, respectively."
"Riveting. Imaginative.
Chilling. Fantastical."
"Wonderful horror with a
side order of ribs."
"Never going to the circus
again!"
"True horror!"
"The circus you really
don't want to join."
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